Russian missiles have hit a power plant near Svetlovodsk, according to authorities in the Krivoy Rog region, while the hydroelectric power plant in the city of Novodnestrovsk has also been hit.

In addition, an attack was recorded on an electrical substation near the dam of the Dnieper hydroelectric station, in the part of the Russian Zaporozhye region currently controlled by Ukrainian forces. Likewise, the Kremenchug hydroelectric power plant, in the Kirovograd region, was also affected, leaving the area without electricity or water service.

According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal, 18 installations in 10 regions were damaged, most of them electrical. He added that hundreds of settlements in seven provinces are without power.

Russia sends 87,000 mobilized to southeastern Ukraine

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Photo: Diario As.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Tuesday that 87,000 troops out of the 300,000 recruited in the context of partial mobilization were sent to destination areas in southeastern Ukraine.

The Minister of Defense indicated that some 3,000 instructors, who had received combat experience during the hostilities around Ukraine, trained the mobilized men, according to the Rossiya 24 channel.

During its preparation, the main efforts were focused on field training, the ability to use communication, navigation and reconnaissance equipment, the minister noted.

Likewise, the minister pointed out that combat vehicle and tank crews, artillerymen, snipers, drone specialists, electronic warfare and others are trained in the training centers.

Shoigu once again drew the attention of the commanders of the country’s military regions and the Northern Fleet to the need to use the units formed in conjunction with the troops already participating in the special military operation.

The head assured that exhaustive measures are being taken to avoid the death of Ukrainian citizens, concluded Shoigú.

Flight restriction extended at Russian airports

The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) reported that the flight restriction regime at 11 airports in southern and central Russia is being extended.

In a statement published this Tuesday on the website of the Russian Ministry of Transport, it is added that the limitation extends until next November 9.

Flights to Anapa, Belgorod, Briansk, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov-on-Don, Simferopol and Elista airports are temporarily restricted.

Russia has closed part of its airspace in the south and center of the country to civil aircraft from February 24, 2022, in the context of the special military operation in Ukraine.

(With information from RT and Prensa Latina)

Citing reliable sources from several countries, including Ukraine, the RIA Novosti agency assures that, under the direction of Western supervisors, work began on the production of these artifacts, which are already in their final phase and would be in charge of the Research Institute kyiv nuclear and uranium enrichment plant in the city of Zhióltye Vody, Dnepropetrovsk region.

According to the information provided by the media, Ukraine’s purpose in resorting to these practices is to blame Russia for the use of weapons of mass destruction in the framework of its special operation in that territory.

That situation would further undermine confidence in Moscow and sharpen the anti-Russian campaign from the West, where they raise the possibility of depriving Russia of the status of a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow will raise the issue of Ukraine’s preparations to create a dirty bomb at the UN.
“We have concrete information about those scientific institutes that have technologies that allow the creation of this dirty bomb. We have information, which we have re-examined through the appropriate channels, that it is not an empty suspicion, that there are serious reasons to believe that this kind of thing may be planned,” Lavrov said during a press conference in Moscow.

The head of Russian diplomacy affirmed that Moscow has already taken “the necessary steps” to address the matter in international organizations, after the telephone conversations that the Russian Defense Minister held on Sunday with his counterparts from France, the United Kingdom, Turkey and USA

He also maintained that Russia expects an “interested” and “professional” debate about this threat.

The Russian Defense Ministry warned of the possible consequences of a provocation with a dirty bomb explosion. If that scenario were to materialize, thousands of square kilometers would be contaminated by radioactive substances.

According to the Russian military body, the Ukrainian authorities would plan to sow fear in the civilian population, causing new flows of migrants to Europe and presenting Russia as a “nuclear errorist”. The head of the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Igor Kirillov, assured on Monday that kyiv has both the potential and the motives to use a dirty bomb. He stressed that two entities in Ukraine are in charge of manufacturing the explosive and that the work is in its final phase.

Kirillov specified that Moscow has information regarding contacts between the Ukrainian presidential office and representatives of the United Kingdom on the possibility of obtaining technologies to create nuclear weapons. Kirillov stressed that kyiv has the production capacity and scientific potential in this field.

Specifically, he mentioned three nuclear power plants under the control of kyiv with nine pools with spent nuclear fuel. Likewise, he referred to the nuclear waste that is preserved in the Chernobyl plant. Meanwhile, more than 50,000 cubic meters of nuclear waste may be moved to the Pridniprovskiy chemical plant in the Dnepropetrovsk region for possible use in a dirty bomb.

Kirillov stressed that, according to kyiv’s plans, the explosion of such an explosive could be “masked as an abnormal detonation of a low-power Russian nuclear warhead using highly enriched uranium as a charge.”
He added that the presence of radioactive isotopes would be registered by the trackers of the international monitoring system installed in Europe, which would allow Moscow to be accused of resorting to its tactical nuclear arsenal.
Ukraine denied Russia’s accusations in talks with the United States and France.

“The fact that there is distrust of the information provided by the Russian side does not mean that the threat of the use of a dirty bomb does not exist. The threat is real”, said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov.

Information war based on the experience of the White Helmets

From the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Russian Armed Forces they recalled that “similar information warfare technologies” had already been used by the West in Syria through the controversial organization of the White Helmets, which filmed stagings on alleged uses of chemical weapons by the country’s army.

Kirillov alluded to the provocation perpetrated by this group on April 4, 2017 in the city of Khan Sheikhun. The military official drew attention to the photos taken at the site, in which the White Helmets are seen taking soil samples without wearing any protection. “But that doesn’t seem to confuse anyone,” he said.

Turkey and Russia start bilateral trade in their national currencies
Trade between Russia and Turkey using their respective national currencies has started “at full speed”, said the head of the Turkish Patriotic Party’s Economic Policies office, Hakan Topkurulu.
All trade between the two countries is conducted in Russian rubles, and the system works “smoothly through the established network,” Topkurulu wrote in an article published in the Aydinlik daily on Saturday.

According to the author of the text, the US dollar has been expelled from Russian-Turkish bilateral trade and the US “has no chance to intervene” in the system. In addition, he considered that, with its sanctions policy, Washington is “cutting the branch on which it is sitting.”

“The dollar, accepted as the world reserve currency, no longer exists in trade between Turkey and Russia,” he added.

The politician emphasized that Ankara will promote a “liraization” policy to strengthen the Turkish lira and “deactivate the dollar, which has established itself in Turkey’s economy like the tentacles of an octopus.”
Other countries like China and Iran also use their respective currencies in trade with Russia and other nations.

(With information from RT in Spanish, AP and EFE)

State Duma Chairman Viacheslav Volodin noted that the number of Russian territorial subjects amounted to 89.

The politician commented on his Telegram channel that “the entry of the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhie and Kherson people’s republics into the Russian Federation is the only way to save the lives of millions of people from the criminal regime in kyiv. Stop the bombing of the civilian population, the elderly, women and children. Protect the right to one’s mother tongue, culture, history and one’s faith.”

Both chambers of the Russian parliament must ratify the accession of the new territories. The upper house, the Federation Council, will vote on the incorporation documents on Tuesday.

According to the ratified documents, two republics and two regions or oblasts will be formed, which will retain their current names and whose leaders will hold the rank of governors.

The Russian Constitutional Court confirmed on October 2, in four court rulings, that the incorporation documents meet the requirements of the constitution.

(With information from RT in Spanish)

“To guarantee the security of our people and of the people in the liberated territories, I consider it necessary to support the proposal of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to carry out a partial mobilization,” the president said in a message to the nation.

He explained that in this military service only those who are part of the reserve, have served in the Armed Forces and have relevant skills and experience will be recruited.

The partial mobilization, whose decree was already published by the Kremlin, would begin this Wednesday, September 21.

Putin communicated this decree hours after the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as the Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporozhie, announced that they will hold referendums with the purpose of joining Russia.

The Russian head of state reiterated that the main objectives of the special operation in Ukraine, which began on February 24, remain the same: “to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, to the genocide of the kyiv regime for eight years”.

“Their main objectives, the liberation of the entire territory of Donbas, have been and will be the same,” he said.

He detailed that the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk was almost completely liberated from neo-Nazis, while fighting continues in Donetsk, regions that comprise the Donbas area.

Ukraine has lost half its army
After Putin’s message, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu offered statements in which he revealed that “Ukraine has already lost half the army, with 61,207 dead and 49,368 wounded, against Russia’s 5,937.”

The official stressed that his country “is fighting not only with Ukraine, but with the Western collective,” adding that in this partial mobilization, some 300,000 reservists will be called up.

(Taken from Telesur)

The day before, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it provided the Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC) based in Geneva, Switzerland, material evidence proving that the United States developed biomilitary programs in Ukraine.

“Between September 5 and 9, a summit was held in your country, convened after the US and Ukraine violated two articles of the CABT, and only representatives of 89 nations attended, of the 184 signatories, who received copies of the documents that demonstrate the execution of such acts”, explained the head of the Russian Radiological, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, Igor Kirillov.

He also stated that none of those present doubted the authenticity of the documents provided, with data on the accumulation of pathogens in Ukrainian laboratories, including the Mechnikov Epidemic Research Institute, where dangerous biomaterials were housed in the cracks of the stairs and no control system had detected them.

“The Ukrainian side completely ignored questions about the unjustified storage of dangerous biological agents at the facility and the revealed serious violations of the conditions of their accumulation,” Kirilov said in this regard.

Likewise, the Russian side determined that despite the fact that the United States declared that its program in Ukraine sought to monitor infectious diseases by employing citizens belonging to the lower strata of society and patients with psychiatric pathologies, it was actually seeking to accumulate biological potential with military purposes.

“The explanations of the US and Ukraine were not at all convincing when it comes to the extraction of strains and biomaterials from Ukrainian citizens, as well as compliance with ethical standards when conducting studies on military, poor civilians, as well as one of the strata of most vulnerable population: patients in psychiatric clinics,” Kirillov stressed.

The Russian high command also reported that both the US and Ukraine refused to give explanations related to the urgent destruction of documents on biomilitary activities in Ukraine, and were also unable to prove that their collaboration in this area in the last 15 years improved the situation. healthcare of Ukraine.

The Russian side also referred to the pressure exerted by the US on the member countries of the BTWC, who were required to sign a joint declaration on the alleged peaceful nature of the program, aimed at reducing challenges of biological origin.

Russian proposals to strengthen the BTWC
The Russian soldier also said that his country has proposed three actions to strengthen the CABT, first of all a verification mechanism, the establishment of a scientific committee and the presentation of reports on foreign biological activities.

Likewise, Russia proposes to establish a collective scientific committee with geographical representation and equal rights for the participants, obeying the “principle of 10″, according to which agreements must respect alternative points of view, even if they are expressed by a single State.

Kirilov assured that Russia will take measures to closely monitor the situation, noting that the US builds laboratories on the borders of its opponents, collects strains of dangerous microorganisms in some regions and tests harmful substances on humans.

(With information from TeleSur)

The island was one of the first nations to respond to the tragedy and offer help in the form of rehabilitation treatment to those affected, the majority children. Cuban doctor Julio Medina, coordinator of the program, reported that to date the Cuban government has provided treatment to some 24,000 children.

According to Telesur, treatments last around 45 days for the majority of patients, however some stay up to a year at the Tarará health resort – a facility which was modified into a semi-hospital for victims of the nuclear accident and is located 20 kilometers east of Havana.
Many children from the Chernobyl disaster suffer from thyroid cancer, leukemia, muscular atrophy, physiological and neurological disorders and alopecia.

On April 26, the United Nations General Assembly held a special session in honor of the anniversary of the disaster which occurred in the then Soviet Union, now Ukrainian territory, during which the international community recalled the suffering of the victims and courage of those who responded to the emergency.

In addition to the Fukushima crisis in Japan, theChernobyl accident, which occurred at the Vladímir Ilich Lenin nuclear power plant, is rated as the worst nuclear disaster on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, according to Prensa Latina

(Con información de Prensa Latina)

Shoigu asserted that with the purpose of making that former Soviet republic yield to their interests, Washington went too far and as a result of the breaking off of the constitutional order, the country was plunged into a civil war.

The Army General referred to the Conference in 2012, in which Russia’s representatives warned about the dangers of the expansion of these kind of coups in a “velvet disguise” around the world.

He also said the attempts to carry out the so-called Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong and the violent street protests in Venezuela are similar actions.

In reference to the Western sanctions against Russia for its rejection of the coup in Ukraine and its independent stance, Shoigu clarified that despite the attempts of isolate Moscow, the country will remain open to the world.

He highlighted the willingness of the Eurasian State to cooperate with countries of the whole world, which may be in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Americas, he stated.

The Army General referred to the Conference in 2012, in which Russia’s representatives warned about the dangers of the expansion of these kind of coups in a “velvet disguise” around the world.

He also said the attempts to carry out the so-called Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong and the violent street protests in Venezuela are similar actions.

In reference to the Western sanctions against Russia for its rejection of the coup in Ukraine and its independent stance, Shoigu clarified that despite the attempts of isolate Moscow, the country will remain open to the world.

He highlighted the willingness of the Eurasian State to cooperate with countries of the whole world, which may be in Europe, Asia, Africa or the Americas, he stated.

(Prensa Latina)

A rioter throws a rock at riot police in Clarence Road in Hackney on August 8, 2011 in London, England. Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images.

It all depends on who gets to name them.

Between November and December 2010 more than 50,000 students protested in London. Many were arrested and they denounced police brutality and repression.

Less than one year later, in August 2011, protests and riots broke all around London.

According to the BBC, by August 15th, 2011, about 3,100 people had been arrested, of whom more than 1,000 had been charged. There were accounted a total 3,443 crimes across London linked to the disorder. Emergency calls on Monday night saw a 300% increase, from 5,400 normally to 20,800. There were some deaths, and many more injured as a direct result of related violent acts. An estimated £200 million worth of property damage was incurred, and local economic activity was significantly compromised.

In both cases the rapid and violent social movement was lit and promoted through social media. Civil unrest finds efficient contagion and mass movement dynamics thanks to the enabling technologies.

The general way in which these whole episodes were described by the British government, along with most western media was about ‘terrorists, hooligans, people clearly overstepping their right to protest’. The Daily Telegraph, a mainstream British newspaper, even described Twitter as being an outlet for promoting gang violence…

The repressive action by the state was swift, and certainly the numbers of arrests attest to a zero tolerance approach to reestablishing order in the City. Why let a minority of 50 thousand people take over London and paralyze everyone else?

According to the Western press, those who attempt against the local patrimony of Venezuela are “peaceful demonstrators”. Photo: ACN.

Cut to Caracas, Venezuela, 2014.

Violent protests take on the streets for several consecutive days. The number of violent protesters surely does not even reach 50,000. They build trash and fire barricades to block streets stopping the free transit of the 6 million inhabitants of the city. They even install barbed wire above the streets between trees. They go as far as to tweet that it should be done at the right height to ‘stop’ motorcycles. A few motorcycle drivers, oblivious to the almost invisible guillotine, drive into a horrible beheading.

These violent protests seem to have no aim, and no demands. Some opposition leaders and especially radical groups piggy back on them and start to request president Maduro to resign, and to step down for violating Human Rights.

In this case, most western governments and most western media side with the group of rioters (demonstrators?). In western media, it is widely assumed that the Government in Venezuela is indeed violating human rights, and that the “oppressed majority” has just spilled out in the streets to demand freedom and regime change. This is not only fair, it is a sort of ‘Venezuelan Spring’.

Nothing is further from the truth. The narrative in western media is a fantasy.

It is true that Venezuela is a politically polarized environment where certainly there is a sizable and relevant portion of the population that opposes the government of Maduro. There is also a relevant and sizeable portion of the population that supports the government of Maduro. An election just a few months ago, gave the government more than 56% of the popular vote nationwide. Historically, since Maduro won the presidency in April 2013 all pollsters have measured his approval ratings between 45% and 60%. So even if he was right now at the lowest level ever, he would be significantly above say, Obama’s current approval rating.

Shall we then condone if a little group representing a minority (or even if it represented a majority) of people go out in the streets of Washington DC and demand regime change? “Obama go home?”

Of course not.

So how come we, the progressive world, condone it for other countries?

What would Washington do if the hypothetical DC riots, not only demanded Obama to step down, with say 50 thousand violent demonstrators, plus the “moral authority” of Obama’s approval being currently below 42%? What if in addition the NSA had intercepted communications from a foreign government and some foreign multinational that was funding the rioters… (as Venezuela claims the riots are being funded)?

The answer is obvious, and it should be obvious for any government around the world, be it Turkey or the United states, be it Ukraine or the UK, be it Venezuela or China. It should also be obvious to the self-righteous western media that has self-appointed itself as the guardians of democracy. They shall defend constitutionally elected governments, and should definitely support regime change in the only way that democracy permits it: through constitutional methods, like in the next general election.

Why is it that we don’t think about ousting unpopular governments via violent protests in the G8? This seems, after all, to be the method of choice for the rest of the world; especially if the leader in question is not one of the ‘good guys’ as per the mainstream media characterization?

Who is calling for regime change in Saudi Arabia, in spite of the fact that that is a clear dictatorship of many decades? No one -because they are with the ‘good guys’.

But if it is president Viktor Yanukovich of Ukraine, then, lets kick him out of power. Democracy can go to hell there. He is pro-Russian and worst, a friend of Putin, a very clear and unforgivable crime. So let’s support a coup and get him out of power.

The difference between rioters and peaceful demonstrators seems to be in the eye of the beholder. But we all knew that already. What we in the West seem to forget is that we should apply the same standards to all countries. Invading Iraq, supporting a coup in Egypt, or pushing for regime change of a constitutionally elected Government is not an act of democracy. It will not contribute to peace, and it will only tarnish the reputation of Europe, the US and their media in the rest of the world. This, in turn, could be used by extremists to justify new 9/11 style attacks on the west, and the vicious circle will start to roll again.

* Josh R. Nelson, Irish, is a freelance journalist based in Caracas.