by Oui
Fri Feb 21st, 2025 at 09:47:30 AM EST
General Kellogg called off press briefing after Kyiv visit with Zelensky
Gonzalo Lira, who was murdered by Zelensky, predicted the death of the Ukrainian nation
Murdered in detention by fascist regime.
Who Is Gonzalo Lira? Pro-Putin American Expat Dies Murdered in Ukrainian Jail | Newsweek |
Lira was arrested by Ukraine's internal security agency, the SBU, on May 1 before being released on bail. Lira subsequently released a video saying he was going to try to leave the country, before being rearrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.
Speaking about Lira's arrest, the Ukrainian government's Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security, also known as SPRAVDI, said the YouTube poster had been charged with "justifying Russian aggression against Ukraine," in violation of Article 463-2 of the country's criminal code.
Specifically, SPRAVDI said that Lira had justified the Russian attack by falsely claiming the Ukrainian government was a neo-Nazi regime and denied "massacres of civilian Ukrainians by Russian invaders in Bucha and other cities." SPRAVDI added that Lira filmed himself insulting Ukrainian soldiers before publishing the footage on social media.
On April 3, 2022, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said the bodies of 410 civilians had been recovered from Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv, and neighboring settlements following the retreat of Russian troops. Taras Shapravskyi, speaker of the Bucha City Council, told Newsweek: "We have official data confirming the deaths of 422 civilians at the hands of the Russian occupiers."
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, in July, Lira said he was "arrested for my YouTube videos," adding: "My crime was making videos critical of the West and their proxy regime in Kiev--and how they are destroying Ukraine."
h/t MofA
Gonzalo Lira was a national of both the US and Chile but these countries preferred to leave him without attention and support from the moment of his arrest by the Security Service of Ukraine. They essentially consigned this "inconvenient" journalist to execution. Santiago has done all it could to hush up this issue even when his tragic death became public.
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Russian parliament leader demands NATO stop supplying arms, mercenaries to Ukraine | 19 March 2022 |
Boris Johnson and Joe Biden shot down the peace talks between Zelensky and Putin | March 2022 |
Ukraine war: Zelensky admits slow progress but says offensive is not a movie | BBC News - June 2023 |
After a long stalemate the slow demise of Ukraine on the battlefield. Moving back to square one ... not quite. Reality on the ground can and will not be erased. Too much bloodshed on both sides in Biden's war against Putin.
Zelensky Still in the Trenches of the Battle Field
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Musk becomes latest Trump attack dog to slur Zelensky in cruel X rant | The Independent |
Tensions between the US and Ukraine over ending the war with Russia continued to grow as Elon Musk launched a blistering attack on Volodymyr Zelensky.
Claiming that Ukrainians "despised" their leader, Mr Musk said US president Donald Trump was right to leave him out of talks with Russia aimed at ending the war.
No moaning and complaining ... Zelensky gambled and lost ... Trump was an open book.
NATO's Rutte says Kyiv must be involved in everything about Ukraine | Reuters - 13 Feb 2025 |
NATO boss lauds Trump's leadership on Ukraine, tells Europe: `Get your act together' | NY Post - 17 Feb.2025 |
The head of NATO praised President Trump for taking the initiative to pursue an end to the Ukraine war -- and knocked Europe for "complaining" instead of getting its "act together."
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, 58, who has been dubbed the "Trump whisperer", emphasized the importance of American leadership to ending Russia's war on Ukraine and suggested that European countries are beginning to step up because of it.
"I have great trust in the American team conducting those talks. Ukraine will be part of those talks, no doubt," Rutte told Fox News' "The Story."
"Europe wants to have a place at the table. Well, I told them, fight yourself a way to the table by coming up with concrete proposals. That is now happening," he said.
"I absolutely reject that criticism of President Trump's initiative. I think it is only right that he tries to end this war, and we need American leadership here."
For 14 long years Mark Rutte has been at the front alongside NATO partners and leading shouter of Russophobia in The Netherlands. STFU now! You are so disingenuous. Peace has not crossed your lips during those 14 years ... damn divisive at home and joining Xenophobe/Islamophobe Geert Wilders at every turn. Wilders the great Patriot in the nationalist cult of Hungary's Orbán.
The World turned upside down in a fortnight ... destiny of Planet Earth well forgotten.
Germans in fear for their economic future ready to vote in Sunday's general election ... one single certainty from the polls ... Scholz will end his political career as Chancellor, leading the Ampel coalition ... the FDP will end below the 5% threshold ... breaking-up the fragile coalition in time of conflict did not lay golden eggs.
Return of a surging Die Linke will push BSW and Wagenknecht below the 5% hreshold.
