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2022-05-03 11:16:49 Events around Ukraine and Donbas to date:

Nazi forces opened fire from Azovstal' steelworks, breaking ceasefire;
DPR will pay pensions in liberated cities;
Pentagon: US transferred Kyiv 80% of designated howitzers and trained over 170 Ukrainian personnel;
Russian flag raised in liberated Chornobaivka (Kherson Airport);
Ukrainian State Investigation Bureau claimed arrest of trustees of exiled member of Rada Ill'ya Kiva;
Prime minister of Hungary was added to Mirotvorets database;
Russia and Turkey MOD discussed current events in Ukraine;
Over 200 civilians evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymenne (DPR).

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2022-05-03 10:11:32 Pope Francis admitted that NATO plays a negative role in the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-03 10:08:56 As the planting season approaches, the U.S. is experiencing an increasingly acute food crisis.

U.S. corn prices have jumped 37% this year and soybean prices have jumped 26%. The cost of oats, wheat and vegetable oils are already at highs. The Ukrainian crisis could lead to a rise in food prices of at least 23% - after an already significant increase of 31% a year earlier.

The White House has begun "food diplomacy - trying to convince other countries not to stockpile large quantities of food. But this is rather more of an incentive to stockpile, leading to shortages of goods.

Washington expects Ukraine's grain exports to fall by at least 30 percent this year. The situation is aggravated by the record drought in Brazil and India, which threatens to lead to a poor harvest. The United States also promises drought this summer - although so far the weather favors American farmers.

Their main problem is the shortage of fertilizer that used to come from Russia. Fertilizer prices in the U.S. jumped 2.3 times over the year - and by 43% just since the start of the Ukrainian crisis. Prices for other farm commodities - diesel, tractors, animal feed, herbicides and seeds - have also risen sharply.

By the end of April, only 7 percent of the U.S. crop area had been seeded. Last year by this point, 16% of the crops had been planted. U.S. farmers are having to plant fields en masse with soybeans (they require almost no fertilizer). But they are behind schedule with soybeans, too. For the first time since 1983, soybeans are ahead of grain crops.

Polls show that already 35% of Americans skimp on food - and 10-13% are undernourished. The longer the sanctions wars go on, the more uncomfortable questions voters will start asking politicians in Washington - how much longer do we have to put up with your desire to go to war with Russia?

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2022-05-03 09:46:31 U.S. authorities consider it premature to talk about any security guarantees for Sweden and Finland - Pentagon.

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2022-05-03 09:35:28 Russian military arrests Canadian general in Mariupol


Canadian general Trevor Cadier was arrested while trying to escape from Azovstal in Mariupol, media and bloggers reported.

According to reports, the general was in charge of biolaboratory No. 1, where 18 people were working with deadly viruses.

Earlier, it was reported that there was a mercenary general at Azovstal who was in touch with Zelensky. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-02 18:48:24 Germany wants to persuade India to impose sanctions against Russia

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a special guest to the G7 leaders' summit. This is reported by the Bloomberg agency, citing its sources.

According to media reports, the Indian leader will try to persuade him to impose sanctions against Russia at the event. Germany, which is chairing the summit, may announce a decision as early as this week.

According to Bloomberg, Scholz initially doubted whether India should be invited because of its neutral attitude toward Russia. But in the end, the German leader decided to engage Modi in a dialogue. Scholz also sees an opportunity to cooperate in other areas, such as climate change and defense. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-02 18:43:06 Odessa. Black anniversary

Alexander Eliseev

On May 2, 2014, supporters and opponents of Euromaidan clashed in Odessa, Ucraine. As a result, the House of Trade Unions burned down and 48 people were killed.

Here we should remember that the confrontation in Odessa began back in November 2013. And for a while there was practically no violence. Both sides took to the streets, but did not touch each other.

The situation sharply escalated in mid-January 2014. And it happened in the context of an escalation of the conflict throughout Ukraine. The "Maidanists" in Western Ukraine added a great deal of oil to the fire.

In the second half of January, they seized the Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Ivano-Frankivsk administrations. The seizure of the administration also took place in Kiev, where many residents of the "Western Ukraine" had gathered.

Obviously, there was a violent seizure of power, which culminated in a coup d'état "beautifully" called the "ukrainian revolution". This radicalized the situation in Odessa as well. It ended in a pogrom.

To this day, there are still attempts to blame everything on the prorussian "Maidan" opponents. They attacked a peaceful march of soccer fans and other far-right activists.

Meanwhile, there are many photos and videos showing "peaceful" participants in the march, who were just gathering for their march. They are armed with truncheons, bats and sticks, and carry bottles with Molotov cocktails.

In the "civilized" West, the tragedy has been all but silenced. A member of the European Parliament (EP), Jiri Mashtalka, admitted to that. He said that someone does not want to raise this issue. The politician admitted: "There was no balanced attention to these crimes on the part of the European Union. However, there were attempts to investigate what happened. Thus, the EP deputy from the fraction of "the Greens" Tatiana Zhdanok reported that she 17 times (!) proposed to include the situation with the investigation into the agenda of the meeting. However, the European MPs refused to investigate.

Now the Ukrainian regime is simply trying to erase the memory of the victims. Previously, memorial events were held every year - without any political slogans. This year, however, they have been virtually banned. A long curfew was announced in Odessa, which began at 10 p.m. on May 1 and ends at 5 a.m. on May 3. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-02 18:26:34 Most Japanese companies suffered because of anti-Russian sanctions.

Five of Japan's ten largest energy companies reported consolidated net losses for the fiscal year. According to Japan's price regulation system, fuel cost increases are reflected in electricity tariffs not immediately, but with a delay of months.

According to the Japanese research center Teikoku Databank, more than 66% of companies in Japan feel the negative effects, including the increase in prices. At the same time, about 46.9% of companies surveyed plan to "transfer the increase in the price of materials and raw materials on the cost of the final product." while 20.4% plan to seek alternatives.

More than 40% of Japanese companies are going to raise prices for their products during the year. Some 43.2% of companies said they will raise prices this month or plan to do so by the end of March 2023. ओपन / कमेंट

2022-05-02 11:30:53 "Ukraine as a state, well, it's dead to me," and other top news on May 1, 2022

Thanks to President Putin's initiative, 80 civilians, including women and children, held there by Ukrainian nationalists were rescued from a factory in Mariupol.

One of the women, once free, stated that "the Ukrainian state is dead to her."

The freed civilians were evacuated to a populated area of the Donetsk People's Republic. There they were provided with lodging, food, and offered medical assistance.

Civilians who wished to leave for Kiev-controlled areas were handed over to representatives of the UN and ICRC.

President Zelensky of the "dead state" Ukraine, who has done exactly nothing to evacuate civilians from Azovstal, said that tomorrow he would meet about 100 civilians in Zaporizhia.

That is, Zelensky doesn't even have a rough idea of what is going on: less than 100 people came out, and even fewer are going to Ukraine.

While Western societies live for a day, in Russia history has always been treated with special reverence.

Ukraine occupies an intermediate position between these two poles: lacking the memory of its own history, Ukraine is willing to steal someone else's.

In this connection it is remarkable that President Zelensky awarded US politician Nancy Pelosi the Order of Princess Olga "for her significant personal contribution to strengthening Ukrainian-American cooperation".

Princess Olga was a Varangian priestess of a noble family and was born in the Russian city of Pskov. While visiting Byzantium as a Russian princess, she characterized herself and her companions as follows: "Call us Russia, for we came in the same boat. In Finnish routsi means "Russians" or "rowers".

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2022-05-02 11:26:56 Olaf Scholz: Many countries will face the problem of hunger

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that the protracted conflict in Ukraine will lead to starvation in third countries around the world.

According to the head of the German government, "We already have to worry about the fact that there are people who will go hungry, that there are countries that can no longer afford grain. This whole military situation is leading to a global famine."

"We already have to worry that there will be those who will go hungry, that there are countries that can no longer afford to buy grain for their people. This whole war situation is leading to global hunger. We will not abandon these poor countries, we will support them," Deutsche Welle quoted Scholz as saying. ओपन / कमेंट