Since its unprovoked army aggression towards Ukraine, Russia has inundated the world with misinformation and disinformation in efforts to justify its army operations and to assert its strict observance of the foundations of warfare. Unsurprisingly, many of those efforts have typically been penetrated as a result of poor and blatant development uncovered by the mainstream Western mass media that maybe work together carefully with the intelligence circles.
However this hardly signifies that Western governments and the mass media are bona fide disseminators of conflict info that’s free from distortion and manipulation. It’s because, within the trendy and up to date historical past of conflict, authorities propaganda is a commonplace. It’s instrumental to mobilize, maintain and strengthen home and worldwide assist for conflict efforts, significantly when magnified by mass media. An underdog nation can use such propaganda to reinforce worldwide assist, particularly by way of provision of weapons, ammunition, logistics and, if possible, reinforcements, to enrich its inferior conflict functionality, in addition to financial sanction towards the highest canine nation. Alternatively, the latter can make use of such a propaganda to reinforce standard morale and complement useful resource mobilization capability.
In actual fact, Western authorities conflict propaganda and the mainstream mass media stories have established a predominant worldwide opinion that sides sympathetically with Ukraine because the harmless underdog[i]. That is significantly as a result of quite a few video footage has vigorous coated huge exoduses of Ukrainian ladies and kids to neighboring international locations, missile bombardment and different types of shelling towards city residential areas, and vivid pictures of killed and injured noncombatants in addition to combatants, amongst others. Sadly, well timed open-source info on evolving operational and tactical realities is restricted, partial, unbalanced and/or, biased, probably with intentional distortions and manipulations. But, the stories appear to show atrocities dedicated by the Russian invasion forces, demonizing these forces and President Vladimir Putin on the ranges of jus advert bellum and jus in bello.
But, conflict propaganda turns into unplausible and ineffective, particularly when indifferent from evolving battlefield realities. Till then, conflict propaganda certainly hampers coolheaded evaluation and acceptable coverage prescription on the best way to finish a conflict, whereas unnecessarily protracting warfare involving a considerably greater loss of life toll and additional destruction.
On this mild, this research will forged some totally different mild on the tenability of the predominant factual recognition and discourse in mainstream Western mass media. The primary jus in bello circumstances are about Western allegation of atrocities dedicated by the Russian facet towards Ukrainian non-combatants, significantly below the situation of extraordinarily fierce city warfare within the cities of Mariupol and Bucha. The second jus advert bellum case is about Russian allegation of U.S.-assisted organic weapon R&D in Ukraine. These circumstances are significantly essential as a result of most of Western information and stories have flatly turned down Russian counterparts as misinformation and disinformation, with none critical examination. Definitely, the present writer of this piece doesn’t get pleasure from any privileged entry to categorised info however solely to open sources. But, cautious examination of open-source supplies, together with Russian and different media sources, might make it attainable to establish blind assumptions and invalid judgements within the present dominant Western discourse, if to not current appropriate info and cogent judgements.
1. The Mariupol Case
1) The Context
Ukrainian President Zelensky acknowledged in his on-line speech of March 23 to the Japanese Weight loss plan that a number of thousand Ukrainian civilians, together with 121 kids, had been killed, along with 9 hundreds of thousands refugees and internally displaced civilians[ii]. This unexpectedly low stage of loss of life toll might point out that Russian invasion forces exercised sure self-restraint in attacking civilians, besides collateral harm.
In actual fact, Douglas Macgregor[iii], a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a Senior Advisor to Appearing Secretary of Protection Christopher Miller, acknowledged that, regardless of the sturdy impression generated by the repeated publicity to video footage, President Putin strictly ordered from the outset of the conflict to keep away from killing civilians and destroying city areas as a lot as attainable[iv]. That is constant along with his historic outlook on the triune Russian nationwide id – White, Little and Nice Russians (respectively, Belarussians, Ukrainians and Russians), characterised by sturdy historic unity and brotherhood[v]. Naturally ,it begs the query of why the Russian forces killed many Ukrainian civilians and severely destroyed city residential areas in Ukraine, involving an inscrutable disjunction between Putin’s personal creed and apply.
Extraordinarily fierce city warfare, particularly within the Metropolis of Mariupol, is a pure consequence of the stark disparity of Russian and Ukrainian army energy, to which either side have even launched international volunteer fighters and mercenaries[vi]. With its overwhelming superiority, the Russian invasion forces neutralized a good portion of foremost high-end platforms, belongings and on-ground amenities of the Ukrainian armed forces on the preliminary stage of the present conflict, together with air superiority fighters, main battle tanks and the command & management programs[vii]. That is in line with quite a few video footage obtainable in public area that primarily captures Ukrainian infantry operations with moveable anti-tank missiles for shut fight and low-altitude anti-air missiles, whereas few high-end platforms are seen. In actual fact, the Russian Protection Ministry stated that, quickly after the beginning of the conflict, the Russian forces completely destroyed Ukrainian Air Power fight plane whereas a few of them escaped to Poland and Romania[viii]. Reportedly, the Russia forces destroyed 974 Ukrainian tanks and different armored autos only for the primary three weeks[ix]. No marvel, MacGregor judged that the Ukrainian models nonetheless lively “(had been) fully surrounded, reduce off and remoted in numerous city and cities”, with provides doubtless operating out quickly[x]. Ukrainian infantry and particular operation forces in Mariupol had been cornered at bay with out reinforcement nor air cowl. An Azov Battalion commander there vainly urged the U.S.-led NATO to make armed intervention towards Russia, particularly to set an efficient no-fly zone over Ukraine, whereas attributing a grave humanitarian disaster within the making to Russia。[xi]
2) Who attacked the maternity hospital and the drama theater?
The Ukrainian authorities strongly condemned Russia for its army assault towards a maternity hospital in Mariupol on March 17[xii], which injured 17 individuals together with ladies, kids and medical doctors, with a minimum of 5 of them lifeless thereafter[xiii]. However Russian International Minister Lavrov justified the assault as a result of an Azov Battalion unit turned the hospital to a fight base[xiv], claiming the victims as unavoidable and lawful collateral harm. Surprisingly, the pregnant lady on highlight within the stories later disclosed that Ukrainian troopers used the hospital as base whereas holding these civilians as human protect towards Russian forces, suggesting that the incident was an act of self-destruct and a false flag operation by the Ukraine’s facet[xv]. That is suitable with different fragmentary video footage that seize how Ukrainian civilians in Mariupol have been used as human protect[xvi] and prevented from leaving town[xvii].
Additionally, the Ukrainian authorities alleged, echoed aloud by main Western mass media, that, on March 16, a Russian airstrike dropped a strong bomb on the Mariupol Drama Theater sheltering some 1,300 native residents, together with ladies and kids, and regardless of giant indicators of “kids” that had been clearly seen from plane. Reportedly, the loss of life toll reached a minimum of to 300[xviii]. The Russian authorities flatly denied the allegation and as a substitute accused the Azov Battalion, a far-right Ukrainian militia, of blowing up the theater constructing. That is suitable with the interview of a 17- year-old feminine survivor of the incident with the Abkhazian Community News Company, who eye-witnessed Azov troopers hiding themselves behind civilian hostages within the constructing[xix].
Extra particularly, a Russian army spokesman acknowledged that Azov Battalion models held civilian hostages within the theater constructing as human protect, utilizing the higher ground as firing factors. Because of this the Russian assault geared toward these models, involving important civilian casualties as collateral harm throughout the engagement[xx]. It is a believable account on what occurred, significantly given the very comparable circumstances of the above hospital case.
It’s now crucially essential to inquire what the Azov Battalion is all about and if the troop has the established notoriety of committing such atrocities.
3）The Azov Battalion[xxi]
The Azov Battalion is now part of the Ukrainian Nationwide Guard, which is the nation’s gendarmerie below the Ministry of Inner Affairs. Its identify originates from the truth that it has been primarily based in Mariupol within the Azov Sea costal area since 2014, first as a volunteer militia that fought towards Russian separatist forces within the Donbas Struggle and later in the identical 12 months integrated into the Nationwide Guard whereas expanded in scale right into a regiment. As Russia labels it as neo-Nazis, it actually makes use of controversial symbols resembling the Nazis SS Wolfsangel, although it denies any reference to Nazism[xxii]. But, in 2015, an Azov spokesman disclosed 10-20% of models consisted of neo-Nazis members[xxiii]. The priority over the Azov is critical sufficient to the extent that the U.S. Congress enacted a legislative measure, Consolidated Appropriation Invoice of 2018, to ban army aids to the paramilitary on account of its white supremacist ideology and neo-Nazism[xxiv].
The Azov has confronted critical allegations of committing torture and conflict crimes, together with the grossly underinvestigated case of the 2014 Odessa Clashes during which some 50 pro-Russia separatists had been killed[xxv]. In actual fact, the U.N. Human Rights Workplace of Excessive Commissioner printed stories that join the Azov Battalion to conflict crimes similar to mass looting, illegal detention, and torture[xxvi]. Clearly. Russia’s counter-allegations on the above atrocities in Mariupol are a minimum of suitable with a longtime understanding on Azov’s behavioral sample linked to conflict crimes.
Really, Russia’s emphasis and Western de-emphasis on the Azov Battalion is obscurely central to their intensified exchanges of conflict propaganda and counter-propaganda, on the bottom that the paramilitary has constituted a significant U.S instrument of covert army intervention in Russia-Ukraine armed battle. Extra particularly, the CIA had a secret advisory and coaching program for Ukrainian paramilitaries and militias, most likely together with the Azov, for eight years till shortly earlier than the beginning of the present conflict, regardless of the aforementioned legislative ban. The CIA has had coaching facilities within the U.S. and japanese Ukraine for sniper methods[xxvii], anti-tank missile dealing with, covert communications, and different ways crucial for insurgency and counter-insurgency[xxviii]. Thus, the problem of the Azov Battalion can not merely be lowered to the query of conflict crimes, however can solely be absolutely comprehended within the context of a U.S.-Russia proxy conflict over the Donbas area that’s central to NATO enlargement to Ukraine and dedication of their spheres of curiosity.
2. The Bucha Case
An analogous suspicion of conflict propaganda just isn’t simply excludable, with a concentrate on the atrocities allegedly dedicated by the Russian armed forces towards native Ukrainian civilians within the metropolis of Bucha. Main Western governments and the mainstream mass media are condemning, with strongest phrases, the unspeakable atrocities towards native Ukrainian civilians on the way in which of retreat after onerous battles to vainly seize Kiev. Nevertheless, on March 31 when the Russian forces left town, its mayor did by no means point out of the atrocities in an interview with a Ukrainian on-line information website[xxix] which is suitable along with his vibrant expression in a selfie video taken on the identical day[xxx]. On April 2, when Ukrainian military forces entered town to ensure of an entire retreat of the Russian forces, the video footage by a neighborhood information media captured no corpse on roads and no signal of emotional misery among the many native inhabitants. On April 1, Azov Battalion troops entered town[xxxi], and on April 3, the Ukrainian Ministry of Protection launched video footage as proof of the atrocities dedicated by the Russian forces, which neither the New York Instances nor the Pentagon are independently capable of confirm the assertion of the Ministry[xxxii]. As well as, within the U.N. Safety Council, the U.S. and the U.Ok. blocked Russia’s proposal to ship an impartial fact-finding mission to Ukraine[xxxiii].
Thus, there’s a good risk that the Azov Battalion may need fabricated or purposefully dedicated a minimum of some components of the “atrocities” by itself[xxxiv]. (Extra particularly, to distinguish which camp they belong, pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian civilians put on blue or white armbands respectively. Many corpses in Bucha wore white armbands as in video footage obtainable. The Azov and/or different ultra-right militia models might have dedicated the atrocities out of emotional impulse, whereas the mass media and propaganda part of the Ukrainian Ministry of Inner Affairs might have made up the scene to impute obligations of conflict crime to the Russian invasion forces[xxxv]. It ought to be reminded that the present conflict has the dimension of ethnic battle in addition to that of inter-state conflict.)
Given the main function of BBC stories on this matter with the evaluation of a satellite tv for pc picture, this begs the query of if the U.Ok. intelligence circles are engaged in elaborate conflict propaganda towards Russia to mislead and manipulate different main Western governments and mass media[xxxvi].
3. The Case of Organic Weapon R&D
Possession of weapon of mass destruction by a revisionist energy might represent a casus belli of a establishment energy, significantly when the latter sees the previous’s transfer as its existential menace or critical menace towards its very important nationwide pursuits. But, legitimatizing a conflict has to fulfill some procedural necessities in keeping with worldwide legislation with presentation of stable proof to the worldwide society.
On this mild, Russia’s allegation on Ukraine’s nuclear weapon packages just isn’t tenable in any respect, a minimum of at this level, on account of its abrupt aggression towards Ukraine with out presenting any substantial proof[xxxvii]. Additionally, there are little important associated info in public area, although Ukraine has lively nuclear energy vegetation with some substantial potential to develop nuclear weapons because the nation was a part of the Soviet Union.
However Russia’s accusation of U.S.-assisted organic weapon R&D in Ukraine, as articulated with a trove of authentic documentation by Lieutenant-Common Igor Kirillov, Commander of Nuclear, Organic and Chemical Safety Troop of the Russian Army[xxxviii], just isn’t completely deniable however appears believable with open-source info[xxxix]. Most remarkably, Victoria Nuland, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, admitted the existence of biolaboratories in Ukraine below the bilateral cooperative packages of the U.S. Protection Risk Discount Company throughout a listening to earlier than the U.S. Senate Committee on International Relations[xl], whereas the White Home, the Pentagon and the State Division unequivocally denied U.S.-funded organic weapon laboratories in Ukraine[xli]. As well as, an official letter from an official in cost on the Ukrainian Ministry of Protection to a venture supervisor of Black & Veatch, a DTRA contractor, attests to their important collaborative analysis relationship, whereas one other official letter from an official in cost on the DTRA workplace in Kiev to an official in cost on the Ukraine Ministry Protection signifies their clear consciousness of the potential usefulness of their analysis collaboration for organic weapon improvement[xlii].
Definitely, the Company’s Organic Risk Discount Packages might serve bona fide statutory functions, not designed to contribute to virus and different organic weapon R&D. But, suspicion stays, provided that the offense and protection of organic warfare is usually the pinnacle and tail of comparable organic weapon applied sciences whereas there isn’t a clear demarcation line between army and civil analysis in most superior virus and different organic R&D that includes genetic manipulation. The insecurity within the sectoral tradition has not too long ago develop into worse as a result of Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President Biden, hid the very fact earlier than a Senate listening to that the EcoHealth Alliance, New York Metropolis-based nonprofit group, funneled U.S. public funds to gain-of-function analysis on bat coronaviruses at China’s Wuhan lab, making it possible to bypass stringent home rules and strict public eyes. The experiment is suspected probably helpful for organic weapon R&D, and a virus leak from the lab may need been a major trigger of the present COVIT-19 pandemic[xliii].
4. Reflection
Hitherto, this investigative inquiry has forged important doubt and suspicion on the established Western discourse that sided uncritically with Ukraine in its conflict towards hyper-demonized Russia, virtually solely on the idea of Western authorities conflict info and mass media stories, and with out rigorously checking Russian stories.
After all, Russia’s unprovoked aggression towards Ukraine is completely indeniable, and a large number of harmless Ukrainian civilians have been killed within the present conflict, both in atrocity or collateral harm. However who killed what number of civilians and in what methods just isn’t self-evident as reported within the Western media, particularly within the context of ethnic battle and concrete warfare because the world learnt from gross info manipulation within the former Yugoslavia ethnic battle[xliv]. It’s more and more essential to examine Western stories rigorously towards Russian ones, whereas verifying the authenticity of allegedly “authentic” U.S. paperwork introduced by the Russian authorities and mass media. The U.S. authorities can be accountable, if verified.
Inundated with propaganda and counter-propaganda each by the West and Russia day after day, each political leaders and the general public within the West will undergo self-poisoning impact of the hyper-demonized picture of Russia on making coolheaded coverage evaluation. It’s excessive time that the Western governments and mainstream mass media recalibrate conflict propaganda and counter-propaganda, in view of the necessity to consider the best way to finish the present conflict and to maintain diplomatic channels open with Russia that will very unlikely capitulate, provided that it’s a nuclear energy coequal to the US.
[i] Regardless of the present picture of an harmless sufferer, Ukraine has regularly performed a disturbing function to Asian and worldwide safety, significantly as a result of it bought an ex-Soviet plane profession, Varyag, as scrap to China, that has been already repaired and commissioned because the nation’s first plane profession, Liaoning; and since Ukraine has not successfully banned outflows of ballistic missile applied sciences to North Korea that has considerably contributed to the event of its nuclear weapon packages. William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, “North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say”, New York Instances, August 14, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html.
[ii] Ukrainian President Zelensky ‘s speech to the Japanese Weight loss plan, Japan Ahead, March 24, 2022, https://japan-forward.com/read-the-full-speech-by-president-of-ukraine-volodymyr- zelenskyy-to-japans-national-diet/.
[iii] Steve Benen, “Why a former Trump appointee’s pro-Russia rhetoric issues”, MSNBC, March 1, 2022, https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/former-trump-appointees-russia-rhetoric-matters-rcna17957.
[iv] Tyler Stone, “Macgregor: Washington Desires Struggle To Proceed As Lengthy As Doable In Hopes To Overthrow Putin”, Actual Clear Politics, March 16, 2022, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/03/16/macgregor_washington_wants_war_to_continue_as_long_as_possible_in_hopes_to_overthrown_putin.html. “Former high Pentagon advisor Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine conflict”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFngc_8RiVc. His assertion is faithfully recorded in: “American army professional explains ‘gradual’ Russian advance in Ukraine”, RT, March 16, 2022, https://www.rt.com/russia/552098-ukraine-speed-operations-civilians/.
[v] Vladimir Putin, “On the Historic Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”, July 12,2021, http://en.kremlin.ru/occasions/president/information/66181.
[vi] Will Fyfe , “Ukraine: Personal militias recruiting former troopers”, BBC News, March 10, 2022, https://www.bbc.com/information/uk-wales-60676720; “Russia claims to kill ‘180 international mercenaries’ in strike on western Ukraine”, Time of Israel, March 13, 2022, https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-claims-missile-strike-in-western-ukraine-killed-180-foreign-mercenaries/; Mari Saito and Elaine Lies, “Dozens volunteer to struggle for Ukraine in pacifist Japan”, Japan Instances, March 2, 2022, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/information/2022/03/02/nationwide/japan-volunteers-ukraine/; and, Jack Losh, “Putin Resorts to Syrian Mercenaries in Ukraine. It’s Not the First Time.”, International Coverage, https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/25/russia-war-syrian-mercenaries-car-ukraine/
[vii] Luke MacGee, “How lengthy can Ukraine maintain out within the conflict for the skies?”, CNN, March 18, 2022, https://version.cnn.com/2022/03/17/europe/air-superiority-ukraine-russia-intl-cmd/index.html.
[viii] Joseph P Chacko, “Ukrainian Airforce fight plane completely destroyed, some escaped to Poland and Romania, says Russia,” Frontier India, March 7, 2022, https://frontierindia.com/ukrainian-airforce-combat-aircraft-totally-destroyed-some-escaped-to-poland-and-romania-says-russia/.
[ix] “Russia says it destroyed 974 Ukrainian tanks and armoured autos -TASS”, Reuters, March 9, 2022, https://jp.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-russia-tanks/russia-says-it-destroyed-974-ukrainian-tanks-and-armoured-vehicles-tass-idUSP4N2HB01U.
[x] “Former high Pentagon advisor Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine conflict”, op.cit.
[xi] “Official enchantment of Azov commander, the most important Denis Prokopenko, to the world group”, March 7, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ8KFqQWRbY.
[xii] “Mariupol hospital assault: Pregnant lady harm in bombing provides beginning “, BBC, March 11, 2022, https://www.bbc.com/information/world-europe-60715492.
[xiii] Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Livvy Doherty, “Anatomy of the Mariupol hospital assault”, CNN Particular Report, March 17, 2022, https://version.cnn.com/interactive/2022/03/europe/mariupol-maternity-hospital-attack/index.html.
[xiv] Ibid.
[xv] An interview with Marianna Vyshemirskaya, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWn6I8cCAug.
[xvi] https://cellular.twitter.com/j_sato/standing/1507201492326838273.
[xvii] https://twitter.com/stillgray/standing/1504758870635597831.
[xviii] “Historic Theater Sheltering Mariupol Civilians Hit By Air Strike, Quantity Of Casualties Unknown”, Radio Free Europe, March 16, 2022, https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-mariupol-thearer-destroyed-strike/31756641.html. Tim Stelloh, “Satellite tv for pc pictures present obvious devastation, starvation in Mariupol”, NBC News, March 30, 2022, https://www.nbcnews.com/information/world/satellite-images-show-apparent-devastation-hunger-mariupol-rcna22119.
[xix] Max Blumenthal, “Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to set off NATO intervention?”, Month-to-month Evaluate On-line, March 22, 2022, https://mronline.org/2022/03/22/was-bombing-of-mariupol-theater-staged-by-ukrainian-azov-extremists-to-trigger-nato-intervention.
[xx] “Ukraine backtracks on Mariupol theater claims”, RT, March 18, 2022, https://www.rt.com/russia/552266-mariupol-theater-civilians-survived/.
[xxi] There are a minimum of a number of main pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian militias, together with these just like the Azov Battalion. This research focuses totally on the Azov as atypical instance due the restricted analytical goal. Mitch Ruhl, “Paramilitary Forces in Ukraine: Matches to a Powder Keg”, Small Wars Journal, February 21, 2022, https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/artwork/paramilitary-forces-ukraine-matches-powder-keg.
[xxii] “Azov Battalion”, Stanford Heart for Worldwide Safety and Cooperation, https://stanford.app.field.com/s/7ocm1tlvp2uydbki04qiuph4oa5j8tg9.
[xxiii] Oren Dorell, “Volunteer Ukrainian unit contains Nazis”, USA In the present day, March 01, 2015, https://www.usatoday.com/story/information/world/2015/03/10/ukraine-azov-brigade-nazis-abuses-separatists/24664937/.
[xxiv] Rebecca Kheel, “Congress bans arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazism”, Hill, March 27, 2018, https://thehill.com/coverage/protection/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis/.
[xxv] Roman Goncharenko, “The Odessa file: What occurred on Might 2, 2014?”, Deutsche Welle, Might 2, 2015, https://www.dw.com/en/the-odessa-file-what-happened-on-may-2-2014/a-18425200.
[xxvi] “Report on the human rights state of affairs in Ukraine 16 November 2015 to fifteen February 2016″, Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, February 2016, https://www.ohchr.org/websites/default/information/Paperwork/Nations/UA/Ukraine_13th_HRMMU_Report_3March2016.pdf; and, “Report on the human rights state of affairs in Ukraine 16 February to fifteen Might 2016″, Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, Might 2016, https://www.ohchr.org/websites/default/information/Paperwork/Nations/UA/Ukraine_14th_HRMMU_Report.pdf.
[xxvii] Ben Tobias, “Struggle in Ukraine: Fourth Russian basic killed – Zelensky”, BBC News, March 16, 2022, https://www.bbc.com/information/world-europe-60767664.
[xxviii] Zach Dorfman, “CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries might take central function if Russia invade”, Yahoo News, January 14, 2022, https://www.yahoo.com/information/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008.html.
[xxix] “Bucha liberated from Russian invaders – mayor”, UKRINFORM, April 1, 2022, https://www.ukrinform.internet/rubric-ato/3445989-bucha-liberated-from-russian-invaders-mayor.html.
[xxx] https://twitter.com/j_sato/standing/1510943234129682432.
[xxxi] “Scenes of desperation and loss of life because the Russians retreat from suburbs outdoors Kyiv”, New York Instances, April 2, 2022, 10:27 p.m. ET, https://www.nytimes.com/reside/2022/04/03/world/ukraine-russia-war.
[xxxii] Anushka Patil, April 3, 2022, 7:03 pm ET, Ibid. “Pentagon can’t independently verify atrocities in Ukraine’s Bucha, official say”, Reuters, April 5, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-cant-independently-confirm-atrocities-ukraines-bucha-official-says-2022-04-04/?fbclid=IwAR1rCp3Z1FlmsyaJhHP3L8roWIyS8OrFiOoDW2pVIwVzqoNPMblxw7THUDg.
[xxxiii] “Russia calls Safety Council assembly over Bacha”, RT, April 3, 2022, https://www.rt.com/russia/553242-bucha-un-security-council/.
[xxxiv] “Russia and Ukraine commerce accusations over Bucha civilian deaths (TIMELINE)”, RT, April 4, 2022, https://www.rt.com/russia/553274-bucha-war-crimes-allegations/.
[xxxv] “If you’re dwelling in Bucha, please use blue arm band. don’t use white arm band like Russian”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFZar6DXD1Y. Nick Griffin, “MSM’s Bucha Tall Story”, Sputnik Worldwide, April 5, 2022, https://sputniknews.com/20220405/msms-bucha-tall-tale-1094504500.html.
[xxxvi] “Bucha killings: Satellite tv for pc picture of our bodies website contradicts Russian claims”, BBC News, April 6, 2022, https://www.bbc.com/information/60981238.
[xxxvii] “Russia, with out proof, says Ukraine making nuclear ‘soiled bomb’”, Reuters, March 6, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-without-evidence-says-ukraine-making-nuclear-dirty-bomb-2022-03-06/.
[xxxviii] “US organic amenities in #ukraine #russia #conflict”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzmIIYfx4g.
[xxxix] Greater than a dozen of DTRA paperwork on biolabs in Ukraine are archived although they’d been faraway from the official web site of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. For the hyperlinks to them, see, Silviu Costinescu, “US ran ugly bioweapon analysis in over 25 international locations. Wuhan, tip of an iceberg”, June 3, 2021, https://silview.media/2021/06/03/us-ran-grewsome-bioweapon-research-in-over-25-countries-wuhan-tip-of-an-iceberg-ecohealth-alliance-implicated-again/.
[xl] “What Victoria Nuland actually stated about biolaboratories in Ukraine”, EURORADIO, March 13, 2022, https://euroradio.fm/en/what-victoria-nuland-really-said-about-biolaboratories-ukraine.
[xli] Ling Qiu “Concept about U.S.-funded bioweapons labs in Ukraine is unfounded”, New York Time, March 12, 2022, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/information/2022/03/12/world/ukraine-biolabs-media-claims/.
[xlii] Ilya Tsukanov, “Russian MoD Names Curator of Pentagon-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine, Releases Authentic Docs”, Sputnik Worldwide, March 17, 2022, https://sputniknews.com/20220317/russia-believes-components-of-biological-weapons-were-created-in-ukraine—mod-1093960475.html.
[xliii] Emily Crane, “NIH admits US funded gain-of-function in Wuhan — regardless of Fauci’s denials”, New York Submit, October 21, 2021, https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/nih-admits-us-funded-gain-of-function-in-wuhan-despite-faucis-repeated-denials/#.
[xliv] Shinya Watanabe, “The Affect of the Nation-State on Artwork : The Case of the Former Yugoslavian Nations”,2004, http://www.shinyawatanabe.internet/nationstate/thesis3.htm.
