Olegek comments

He was also quoted as saying he was dissatisfied with Abe and planned to kill him. 

??? Very strange. To be dissatisfied - it is one thing. To kill someone... totally different.

I can be strongly dissatisfied with my boss, wife, colleagues... very strange...

Bye! Come back once you have learned to play well with others!

By the way - Bulgaria received independence from Ottoman empire as a result of Russian Army victories.

May be it was a mistake.

Rodney - I remember 2014. That was such an obvious land grab by Russia. 

Please find me maps with "old good Ukraine" including Donbass and Crimea before Ukraine come in Russian empire.

Russian forces have been trying to encircle Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, the only two cities in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province

By the way - cities with Russian population, regarded by Kiev gov like a second sort citizens of Ukraine.

> Russia will cut off natural gas to Finland after the Nordic country that applied for NATO membership this week refused President Vladimir Putin's demand to pay in rubles, 

I can't understand - what a problem to pay it in roubles?

much ado about nothing

On Monday more than 260 fighters were evacuated through humanitarian corridors to areas under Russian and Moscow-backed separatists' control,

In short, they have surrendered.

Olegek - right now, for right or wrong, smaller countries near Russia are afraid of Russian aggression. This is a case where perception is reality, and Sweden and Finland 

OK Georgia (not US state!) also want some security, as a result they got a disaster.

Leaders of Ukraine (biggest state in Europe) also want "some security" they received... full disaster.

The conflict un Ukraine not come to an end yet. And all the things are possible. Lot of NATO officers are involved in this conflict. Some of them already dead. Yes - it's correct info. Some US/UK officers. Not mercenary, but active Army/NAVY officers.

An American marine corps lieutenant-colonel, as well as an English major from the commando brigade of the marine corps, landed on Snake Island along with Ukrainian fighters. They coordinated the work of NATO intelligence assets and the Ukrainian landing forces. Both officers landed in the first wave. Both die on this special island near Odessa (Ukraine). 

We have a lot of problems without Sweden and Finland.

Olegek, russia because of its illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine is now perceived in both Sweden and Finland

1 Czech Republic Hungary Poland Romania Slovakia Slovenia Estonia Latvia Lithuania Bulgaria Albania Croatia

also joining NATO because of "Invasion in Ukraine"?

Or may be everything is just the opposite - Russia start op in Ukraine because of NATO going east?

2 Literate people write the name of the country with a capital letter

Finnish PM says joining NATO will strengthen security

Mr Zelenskiy can prove it.

They have today too much security.

The Russians retreat after their pontoon bridges are destroyed, the tug used to place the is sunk and battalion's worth of armored vehicles destroyed. If their objective was to lose hundreds of their soldiers, dozens of armored vehicles

You should receive info from both sides.

but it will be shock for you.

Japan, EU agree to step up sanctions against Russia,

So, I'm really glad that in EU&Japan there are no other problems.

Russia is a really great country, I'm serious - it last years nobody talking about anything except more sanctions against Russia. No more other problems at all.

Vladimir Putin like supermen resolve all the questions on this little planet - and only one question rest.

V. Putin himself.

I'm really glad and happy.

Finland’s leaders said Thursday they’re in favor of rapidly applying for NATO membership, paving the way for a historic expansion of the alliance that could deal a serious blow to Russia

Sorry - i think it's about Finland security?? No?

serious blow to Russia

May be it will be much more simpler to declare a war?

The Japanese government has frozen assets of Russia's largest financial institution, 

in Russia they call it theft (officially)

wrong once - no more credibility.

Ukraine to hold first war crimes trial of captured Russian

Interesting, but much more interesting that Ukraine totally refused to comply with the Geneva Convention in relation to Russian prisoners of war.

Second: Ukraine has absolutely no interest in fate of Ukrainian POW

Third: Ukraine fundamentally does not take the bodies of its dead soldiers. Use and forget

Forth: Ukrainian forces use land to land missles not against Russian Army (very small loses in last month)

but against big cities in Ukraine in Russian zone (relly big loses)

War crimes trial?

Really intresting.

Considering the Russians invaded Poland with their Nazi partners, agreeing to divide up Poland before the invasion began.

by the way heroic Poland with thier Nazi partners invaded Czechoslovakia. May be you forget?

Poland owes Russia nothing.

Of course - you forget - but German Nazi have plans totally destroyed Polish people.

they killed about 6 million Polish people, but today Germany - it's a EU leader - so it's OK?

And Nazi troops in Poland were destroyed by Red Army. Yes, it's an uncomfortable truth.

oh please,

22,000 polish were murdered by Russian ’liberators’ at Katyn Forest alone

Yeah, I knew - and the very first time this story was used by Joseph Goebbels and the Propaganda Ministry of Nazi Germany just after Stalingrad - they suddenly found... after 2 years off war in Russia

Of course you can believe the Nazis but not one hundred percent.

600 thousand Russian soldiers and officers died during the liberation of Poland from Nazi

this is the gratitude of the Polish people

Thank you sooo much

The complex -- the final pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the devastated port city -- has taken on a symbolic value in the war

By the way - this city was build by Russians not Ukrainians.

Mariupol is a part of Donbass - Russian populated area in a state Ukraine.

This conflict has a strong inner reasons - interethnic.

North Korea's per capita GDP (PPP adjusted) is 185, one of the worst in the world. South Korea, compares 

But North Korea is not US colony my friend.

Such a sweetie word - independence...

It is not much of a signal to the Japanese Government.

Before the invasion of Ukraine Russia made many demands that any sane government would have refused, as Ukraine did.

So now they have a real war. They lost about 50 000 soldiers.

You don't see any contradiction?

Peter1

Is that supposed to be a punishment or a reward? Nobody in their right mind would WANT to travel to Russia 

It' is a some political signal to Japanese gov.

before spec op in Ukraine this country received a lot of political signal, but ignores them.

They should stop pretending to play nice with Russia and posture the JSDF to retake those islands.

JSDF have some experience in real war?

Real war my friend - it's not a computer game.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday affirmed respect for the sovereignty of states ...as the war in Ukraine continues.

Japanese and Vietnamese leaders have no other problems?

Or Japan today has only one theme to discuss?

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on Sunday indirectly urged his Mongolian counterpart Batmunkh Battsetseg to join international pressure on Russia

So Japan has no it's own political interests?

Such perseverance can give certain results, but not the ones expected in Tokyo.

One more example that Putin's Ukraine invasion was even worse than Bush's 2003 Iraq fiasco...

Germany shutting down Nordstream 2 

Nordstream 2 was build but EU refused to put it in action long time before.

Sweden and Norway joining NATO...

Sorry, Norway was NATO member since 1949

Sweden and Finland gonna join NATO.

They have this intention for many years and they have a close cooperation with alliance

So - nothing new.

So they have 3 options: surrender and get killed on the spot, surrender and be deported to some Gulag with no chance to survive, option number 3: keep your arms and try to escape. Now, which option would you choose?

Sorry - there mainly good guys from Azov regiment.

They have no great choice it's truth.

As many as 100,000 people are believed to still be in blockaded Mariupol

No, Matriupol is no more blocaded

2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the Soviet-era steel plant

It is so

Rich Russians used to move all their wealth outside of Russia.

Now they'll have to move it back in.

A little bit too late.

I don’t weep for billionaires.

Not so much weeping in Russia about oligarch assets, but all the same - it's very strange manner of behaving.

Looks like Robin Hood stepped onto the political stage.

It’s insane that they allowed themselves to be put in that position

It's a real life, and not a political theory.

Merkel, especially bears deep responsibility. 

First responsibility - before it's own people.

Report: Germany top buyer of Russian energy since war began

And it's quite normal. Germany is a biggest EU economy. They need a lot of energy.

> Dave

Governments like to put everything on the Ukraine War

very very noble

don't worry about your problems

you need to think about Ukraine