Prisoners Accused Of Murder Released In Ukraine To Fight Russia

River Declared “Ecologically Dead” After 2,200 Hours Of Sewage Spills.
The River Lim, in Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK, was once a booming wildlife haven for countless species but has now been declared ‘ecologically dead’.
Thanks to human waste and sewage leaking into the scenic river, it has caused a harmful impact on the river’s ecosystem and caused a “brown layer” within the river.
River Lim Action Group say this is a direct result of 2,200 hours of sewage spills discharged into the river by South West Water in 2022 as well as illegal discharges from leaking pipes and misconnections.
Tests carried out by campaigners have discovered “high levels” of E.coli within the water and has effectively ruined the river’s once thriving ecosystem.
( Mike Taylor and Kieren Williams, 18.05.2023 )  ..  mirror.co.uk

Prisoners Accused Of Murder Released In Ukraine To Fight Russia.
When Zelensky took office in May 2019, the Azov Battalion maintained de facto control of the strategic southeastern port city of Mariupol and its surrounding villages.
As Open Democracy noted, “Azov has certainly established political control of the streets in Mariupol. To maintain this control, they have to react violently, even if not officially, to any public event which diverges sufficiently from their political agenda.”

Attacks by Azov in Mariupol have included assaults on “feminists and liberals” marching on International Women’s Day among other incidents.
As war with Russia drew closer, Zelensky awarded Right Sector commander Dmytro Kotsyubaylo the “Hero of Ukraine” commendation.
Known as “Da Vinci,” Kosyubaylo keeps a pet wolf in his frontline base, and likes to joke to visiting reporters that his fighters “feed it the bones of Russian-speaking children.”

When Russian forces entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022, encircling the Ukrainian military in the east and driving towards Kiev, President Zelensky announced a national mobilisation that included the release of criminals from prison, among them accused murderers wanted in Russia.
He also blessed the distribution of arms to average citizens, and their training by battle-hardened paramilitaries.

With fighting underway, Azov’s National Corps gathered hundreds of ordinary civilians, including grandmothers and children, to train in public squares and warehouses from Kharviv to Kiev to Lviv.
On March 1, 2022, Zelensky replaced the regional administrator of Odessa with Maksym Marchenko, a former commander of the extreme right Aidar Battalion, which has been accused of an array of war crimes in the Donbas region.

A 2016 report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHA) has accused the Azov regiment of violating international humanitarian law.
The report detailed incidents over a period from November 2015 to February 2016 where Azov had embedded their weapons and forces in used civilian buildings, and displaced residents after looting civilian properties.
The report also accused the battalion of raping and torturing detainees in the Donbas region.
( Bishnu Rathi, 12.02.2023 )  ..  tfiglobalnews.com

The West Changed From Condemning To Praising A Neo-Nazi Organisation.
In June 2015, both Canada and the United States announced that their own forces will not support or train the Ukrainian Azov regiment, citing its neo-Nazi connections.
In October 2019, 40 members of the U.S. Congress led by Representative Max Rose signed a letter unsuccessfully calling for the U.S. State Department to designate Azov as a “foreign terrorist organisation”.

In April 2022, Representative Elissa Slotkin repeated the request, which included other white supremacist groups, to the Biden administration.
In 2016, Facebook first designated the Azov regiment a “dangerous organisation”.
Under the company’s Dangerous Individuals and Organisations policy, Azov was banned from its platforms in 2019.

The group was placed under Facebook’s Tier 1 designation, which includes groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and ISIL (ISIS).
Users engaging in praise, support or representation of Tier 1 groups are also banned.
However, on February 24, 2022, the day Russia launched its invasion, Facebook reversed its ban, saying it would allow praise for Azov.
( Bishnu Rathi, 12.02.2023 )  ..  tfiglobalnews.com

Tory Donor Whose Mum Put Up Boris Johnson Rent Free Is Handed A £12.7Million Government Contract.
Tory donor Jo Bamford, whose mum has been putting ex-PM Boris Johnson up rent-free for months has been handed a Government contract worth £12.7million.
Jo Bamford, son of JCB mogul Lord Bamford and Lady Bamford, bought ailing coach manufacturer Wrightbus in 2021.

It will receive £6.4million of taxpayers’ cash, plus £6.3million from auto industry bodies, to develop batteries for electric buses.
Bamford has personally given £88,000 to the Tories, while his family and their businesses have handed more than £14million in cash and gifts to the party since 2001.
In October 2021, months after Bamford took over, Wrightbus received an £11.2million grant to develop hydrogen technology.

Another of Bamford’s firms, Hygen, previously known as Ryze Hydrogen, is involved in projects funded by the Government’s Net Zero Hydrogen Fund.
Julian Smith, former Tory chief whip, is an ex-employee, earning £60,000 a year for development advice.

And Government Science Minister George Freeman signed a contract to provide “strategic advice” to the firm, to be worth £20,000 a year.
But he cancelled the contract and returned £10,000 after being rapped by second jobs watchdog ACOBA for failing to inform them before taking up the role.
( Mikey Smith, 13.05.2023 )  ..  mirror.co.uk

ISIS Fighter In Ukraine Received British Weapons And SAS Training.
A Belarusian criminal who was reported dead last month (April) in Ukraine claimed to have received training from Britain’s Special Air Service.
He was also filmed in possession of UK-supplied rocket launchers.
The man, Daniil Lyashuk, came from a far-right hooligan background until he converted to Islam and expressed support for jihadist groups like Islamic State, earning the nickname Mujahid (‘holy warrior’).

He led a pro-Ukraine militia despite a conviction from a Kyiv court for torturing detainees in the Donbas.
Lyashuk made the claim about receiving SAS training on his official telegram channel on March 27, 2023.
The post has been viewed over 100,000 times.
His death on the frontline near Bakhmut was reported five days later.
( Phil Miller, 04.05.2023 )  ..  declassifieduk.org

Has Zelensky Officially Declared Himself The Dictator Of Ukraine?
Democracy in Ukraine is in peril as President Vladimir Zelensky is taking steps to consolidate power and limit democratic processes.
While he has not explicitly declared himself a dictator, his recent actions and statements suggest that he is willing to use any means necessary to stay in power.

One of Zelensky’s most concerning moves has been to delay elections while martial law is in place in Ukraine.
This effectively denies the people of Ukraine the right to choose their leaders through democratic processes.
The delay of elections in Ukraine has been criticised by opposition leaders and citizens alike, who see it as an attempt to consolidate power and prevent political opposition from challenging Zelensky’s rule.

Another concerning move by Zelensky has been his call for Ukrainian migrants not to return to Ukraine.
Zelensky had asked Ukrainian migrants who had traveled to the rest of Europe not to return to Ukraine because he had the fear that the migrants would spread truth about Ukrainian corrupt leadership and Zelensky would lose his seat.
The call for migrants not to return was seen as an attempt to silence dissent and maintain power.

Zelensky’s actions clearly suggest that he is willing to use any means necessary to maintain power, even if it means spreading fear and intolerance.
Since the beginning of hostilities in February 2022, Kiev has enacted laws criminalising political dissent, banned multiple opposition political parties and imposed strict censorship on the media and internet alike.

The country’s authorities have even persecuted the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church over its alleged ties with Russia, despite the church having severed its formal ties with Moscow early in the ongoing conflict.
These actions by the Ukrainian authorities are deeply concerning and suggest a continued slide towards authoritarianism.
( Abhijeet Sen, 15.05.2023 )  ..  tfiglobalnews.com

Two French Neo-Nazis Arrested After Returning From Ukraine.
The arrest of two heavily armed French neo-Nazis returning from Ukraine highlights a looming problem for NATO states sponsoring the proxy war, and their conspiracy of silence on the nature of the threat.
On April 24, 2023, two French neo-Nazis were jailed for 15 months, nine of which were suspended, for possessing assault rifle ammunition.

The pair had returned to Paris from Ukraine two days earlier, and were arrested at customs.
Both were on the radar of French domestic spying agency DGSI, which held files on them for endangering state security.
According to the French outlet Mediapart, one was a veteran of Chasseurs Alpins (Alpine Hunters), France’s elite mountain infantry force.

He was thrown out of the military after his neo-Nazi sympathies were exposed online.
The other is a notorious local far-right activist.
As in many other Western countries, hundreds of French citizens have traveled to Kiev to take up arms against Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
According to the DGSI, at least 30 of the French foreign fighters are known fascists.
( Kit Klarenberg, 09.05.2023 )  ..  thegrayzone.com

Zelensky Is No Longer Ashamed To Broadcast His Jewishness.
In its bid to deflect from the influence of Nazism in contemporary Ukraine, U.S. media has found its most effective PR tool in the figure of Zelensky, a former TV star and comedian from a Jewish background.
It is a role the actor-turned-politician has eagerly assumed.

Zelensky has not only ceded ground to the neo-Nazis in his midst, he has entrusted them with a front-line role in his country’s war against pro-Russian Ukrainians and Russian forces.
Raised in a non-religious Jewish family in the Soviet Union during the 1980’s, Zelensky has downplayed his heritage in the past.

“The fact that I am Jewish barely makes 20 in my long list of faults,” he joked during a 2019 interview in which he declined to go into further detail about his religious background.
Zelensky is no longer ashamed to broadcast his Jewishness.
“How could I be a Nazi?” he said aloud during a public address.

For a U.S. media engaged in an all-out information war against Russia, the president’s Jewish background has become an essential public relations tool.
Behind the corporate media spin is a complex and increasingly close relationship between Zelensky’s administration and the neo-Nazi forces invested with key military and political positions by the Ukrainian state, as well as the power these open fascists have enjoyed since Washington installed a Western-aligned regime through a coup in 2014.

Indeed, Zelensky’s main financial backer, Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, has been a major supporter of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and other extremist militias.
The Azov Battalion, which is now a part of the Ukrainian National Guard, is regarded as the most ideologically passionate and militarily driven unit fighting pro-Russian Ukrainians in the eastern Donbas region.
( Bishnu Rathi, 12.02.2023 )  ..  tfiglobalnews.com