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tamdun:
When was the last time a terrorist attack US? They(US) are doing the killings themselve

there’s no need to attack em, USA will implode eventually……

Ukraine still Dey claim say dem don kill over 29k Russian soldiers, I wonder who crossed to the other side to count the dead bodies, also 8000 Ukrainian POWs Dey inside Donbass prison.

This thing na common sense, it’s obvious Ukraine is winning. I like this kind of winning….

Savage8563:
guy leave that guy .. no day follow am argue. Na mumu boy way day beg him uncle for money

The level of his ignorance and bias is appalling. Ontop matter wey no affect am directly…. No be juju be that….

Around 8,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war are being held in the Russian-backed separatist Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, it is claimed.

Luhansk official Rodion Miroshnik was quoted by TASS news agency as saying: "There are a lot of prisoners. Of course, there are more of them on the territory of Donetsk People's Republic, but we also have enough, and now the total number is somewhere in the region of 8,000.

"That's a lot, and literally hundreds are being added every day".

Source: Skynews

Like say e go win if dem give am tickets….

VictorUSA1:
They seriously need gun reform in the US especially Republican-control states, they advocates for rights to own weapons and are against strict gun control law.

lmao, the Buffalo groceries store shootings, wey be like video games, no happen in a republican state, you carry bias enter American matter too….just had to point that out….do your research wella before you comment on American issues, unlike Russia/Ukraine saga, proofs too plenty wey blind man no fit deny…. We Dey talk about Gun control in USA, you quickly turn am to Republicans v Democrat… Victor stay away from cnn , it’s bad for your IQ

ocelot2006:
What are the stages of grief again...?

*denial
*anger
*bargaining
* depression
* acceptance

The presidential adviser called Westerners urging concessions in the name of peace ‘dumb f**ks’

Ukrainian presidential adviser Alexey Arestovich resorted to obscene language to criticize those in the West urging Kiev to cede part of the country’s territory to Russia for the sake of peace.

“Go f**k yourselves with such proposals, you dumb f**ks, to trade Ukrainian territory a little bit! Are you f**king crazy? Our children are dying, soldiers are stopping shells with their own bodies, and they are telling us how to sacrifice our territories. This will never happen,” Arestovich said in an interview on Wednesday.

Arestovich criticized the logic of “bleating” voices encouraging Ukraine “to curb its appetite” and to give Russia the territories it supposedly wants, as this would allow Kiev to “establish a comprehensive peace and to return to business as usual.”

Another adviser of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mikhail Podoliak, took to Telegram on Wednesday to address the “pro-Russian lobbyists in Europe.”

“We do not sell our citizens, territories or sovereignty. This is a clear red line. Ukrainian society has paid a terrible price and will not allow anyone to even take a step in this direction – no government and no country,” Podoliak said.


While no one wants a long military action or a food crisis, “the shortest way to end the war is with weapons, sanctions and financial assistance to Ukraine,” he argued.

“The Ukrainians defended Kiev, liberated three regions and are completing the liberation of the fourth. Today, the same people offer us to give Russia the east and the south. Thanks for the advice, but we'll probably take up arms,” the adviser said.

The statements from Arestovich and Podoliak come after former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday. Kissinger urged Ukraine to make peace quickly and seek a return to the way things were before February.

Ukraine has insisted that it would not agree to any peace proposals that do not respect its pre-2014 borders.

Moscow has made it clear that the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the status of Crimea as a Russian region, are not up for discussion.


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Appleyard:
Period. I would rather remain in my poverty stricken naija and still keep my life than to migrate to America where that life can be taken away gruesomely.

no be the gruesome Dey scary sef, nah the fear of the unknown in a supposed safe place, I remember the grocery store shooting I saw the other day, the young white woman just Dey waka jeje on her own, I think she Dey wear earphones, she Dey look down, the next face wey she go lift up na heaven, imagine if she no Dey face down, she might run and maybe survived with minor injury. This is scary asf…..

Kiev asks West to send multiple rocket launchers “as soon as possible”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has told Kiev’s foreign backers at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos that they should curb optimism about the situation on the ground in the east of the country.

“I don't want anyone to get the feeling that the war is more or less OK. The situation in Donbass is extremely bad,” Kuleba insisted.

And things are going to get even worse if “we don't get MLRS ASAP,” he added, referring to the US-made M270 MLRS system that can be used as both a multiple rocket launcher and a tactical missile launcher.

Without the MLRS systems, the Kiev government won’t be able to retake Kherson, and control of the strategic city would allow Russia to threaten both central Ukraine and the south-western regions, where the port of Odessa is situated, he pointed out


However, Kuleba said that “the situation with the deliveries of weapons [to Ukraine] is much better now, compared to a month ago.” He added that Washington “deserves respect” because of this.

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topcatking:
This your catchphrase cracks me up every time!

lol bro, yesterday dey want to collect money from Norway, today na Germany owe em weapons, tomorrow na another country….. if dem Dey do this for PR na bullshit

topcatking:
Trouble in paradise?

Poland is always gallivanting upandan like a teenage girl on heat

Prime Minister Viktor Orban cites the conflict in Ukraine to invoke extraordinary powers


Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, citing the conflict in Ukraine, just hours after parliament approved the measure as a way for Budapest to respond to crisis situations.

Orban announced the emergency in a video address on his Facebook page. The emergency regime takes effect at midnight, and the first measures will be revealed on Wednesday.

“To safeguard Hungary’s national security interests, to make sure we stay out of the war and to protect Hungarian families, the government needs room to maneuver and the ability to act immediately,” Orban said in the announcement.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Hungarian parliament passed a constitutional amendment giving the prime minister authority to declare an emergency if there is a war or humanitarian disaster in a neighboring country, in addition to the existing crisis categories. Orban’s critics claim this would allow him to “rule by decree” and bypass parliament.

Similar criticism was levelled against Orban in March 2020, when parliament granted him sweeping emergency powers to deal with Covid-19. He insisted the emergency would be limited in duration, and it was eventually revoked in June that year.

Source: Rt news

Mynd44 Seun lalasticlala mukina2

Tit for Tat, same way nato was running war games close to Russia’s border, so if USA Dey do am, not bad but China and Russia do am na bad thing. Nah only mor0n go believe say China fit turned against Russia, hahaha, I thought the abstinence votes was clear enough.

Well, it’s a bipolar world now. Make every super power countries flex their muscle. BRICS should expand further abeg…

Poles na scavenger, their entitlements mentality is out of this world…. Thieves!!!!

The conflict with Russia must end in two months or it will spiral out of control, the realpolitik veteran warned


There is a small window of opportunity to wind down the armed conflict in Ukraine and find a peace settlement, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has told a gathering of Western elites in Davos, Switzerland. Beyond that, Russia may break from Europe for good and become a permanent ally of China, he said on Monday during a speech at the World Economic Forum.

“Negotiations on peace need to begin in the next two months or so, [before the war] creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome,” the 98-year-old veteran diplomat said of the crisis. The outcome will determine Europe’s relationships with Russia and Ukraine alike, he said. “Ideally, the dividing line should return to the status quo ante,” he said.

“I believe pursuing the war beyond that point would turn it not into a war about the freedom of Ukraine, which had been undertaken with great cohesion by NATO, but into a war against Russia itself,” he added.

Kissinger is a prominent practitioner of the realpolitik approach to international relations – which puts the practical interests of nations before their ideological stances. He recalled that, eight years ago, when the Ukrainian crisis was launched with an armed coup in Kiev, he advocated for Ukraine to become a neutral state and a “bridge between Russia and Europe rather than… a frontline of groupings within Europe.”

Kiev instead pursued membership of NATO as a strategic goal, paving the way for the current hostilities. The opportunity that he promoted then no longer exists, Kissinger said, but “it could still be conceived as an ultimate objective.”

European nations should keep in mind the bigger picture and remember that “Russia has for 400 years been an essential part of Europe,” the diplomat said. He warned that the continent should be careful “so that Russia is not driven into a permanent alliance with China.”

Kissinger addressed the escalating confrontation between China and the US, saying the two nations now perceive each other as the only viable strategic competitor on the world stage. He said an arms race between the two countries was a particularly worrisome scenario for the entire world.

“A conflict with modern technology conducted in the absence of any preceding arms control negotiations, so that there are no established criteria of limitations, will be a catastrophe for humankind,” he said.


The gathering in Davos this week was the latest international forum that invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make a case on behalf of his country. In his speech, he asked for more weapons for Kiev and more sanctions against Russia. He claimed Moscow was not interested in negotiating peace.

Russia has repeatedly said it was Ukraine that stalled the peace talks since some progress was made in Istanbul in late March.

“It was not our initiative to freeze the talks,” Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told journalists on Monday, reiterating this position. “We are ready to come back to negotiations as soon as Ukraine demonstrates a constrictive position and at the minimum reacts to the suggestions we sent to it.


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Denmark will give Kiev US-made Harpoon missiles, the Pentagon has confirmed


Denmark will provide an unspecified number of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and launchers to Ukraine, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Monday. Last week’s rumors about the transaction prompted Kiev to declare the US would help Ukraine “destroy” the Russian fleet, which the outgoing Pentagon spokesman denied.

Officially, the missiles are intended to help “defend the Ukrainian coastline,” according to Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley, who spoke with reporters after Monday’s virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

The panel – composed of 47 countries willing to supply Kiev with weapons – had a “highly constructive” meeting and got “a sharper sense” of Ukrainian needs from Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov and other Kiev officials, Austin said.

In addition to the Danish missiles, Czechia has pledged attack helicopters, tanks, and multiple rocket launcher systems (MLRS). Kiev has been asking for long-range artillery, tanks and armored vehicles, as well as drones, according to Austin.


Boeing’s A/U/RGM-84 Harpoon is the US Navy’s standard anti-ship missile, with an estimated range of about 300 kilometers. It has active radar guidance and skims the surface until it reaches the target, at which point it can execute a “pop-up” maneuver and strike from above. Harpoons are normally launched from either surface vessels or attack aircraft, but launchers can be removed from ships for use ashore – which appears to be what Denmark intends to do.

Last week, Reuters reported that the Pentagon was considering sending Ukraine either Harpoons or Naval Strike Missiles (NSM), directly or through a “European ally.” The agency cited “three US officials and two congressional sources,” all of them anonymous. They expressed hope that once the first country commits to sending Harpoons, others would follow.

According to Reuters, the NSM was regarded as “less logistically difficult” because NATO countries could send Ukraine the launchers and it only took 14 days to train operators how to use them – but it had a somewhat shorter range of 250 kilometers.

The story generated some controversy, however, when Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko tweeted that the US was “preparing a plan to destroy the Black Sea Fleet,” referring to Russia’s naval force currently off the Ukrainian coast. Asked about this, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters he could “tell you definitively that that’s not true.” However, he did not deny that the US was considering sending Harpoons to Kiev.

Source: Rt news

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paafin:
You think I'm here for jokes or propaganda shits??

ignore him

Kingpin1000:
Poroshenko that said He will fight against Russians will soon be cooling off in a Ukrainian prison.. lmfao
Is this the American democracy championed by Zelensky?

that guy na joke…. Oyo na his case

SmartPolician:
That's the point: Don't joke around in God's name. That's why Muslims slit your throats!

who are you to tell me wetin I fit use joke? Check your phone na nairaland you Dey no be your church WhatsApp group. How old are you? Shey na today you dey see ppl do humor with Jesus and God, did he complain give you? Make I stop b4 I type something wey go make me chop ban. Stay off my mention

SmartPolician:
How did Jesus try to satisfy everybody?

you obviously didn’t get the humor…

Pidginwhisper:
Foden kid resemble Kyle Walker. Make i no talk.

lemao…..

Viktor Medvedchuk has outlined alleged corruption schemes perpetrated by former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has published a video in which captured Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk testifies against former president Petro Poroshenko, accusing him of privatizing a fuel pipeline and conducting business with the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk during his time in office.

Medvedchuk, a lawmaker and leader of Ukraine’s second-largest party, ‘Opposition Platform – For Life’, was detained by the SBU on April 12 after being charged with treason, as his party, along with all opposition parties in Ukraine, have been banned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for “collaborating with Russia” and engaging in “anti-Ukrainian” activities, such as opposing Kiev’s policies on Western integration.

In the video, published by the SBU on Monday, Medvedchuk states that he was personally asked by Poroshenko to establish a backchannel to the Russian leadership, which was required to push decisions through various institutions and agencies in order to privatize the Ukrainian section of the Samara-Western Direction fuel pipeline, which stretches from Russia and Belarus to Ukraine and westward to the EU. It was at one point dubbed the ‘Medvedchuk pipeline’.

“ I started to work on the pipeline at the request of Poroshenko. If someone had said this was ‘Poroshenko’s pipeline’, that would have been more suitable. And it’s not because I now want to justify myself. In 2016, then-president Poroshenko turned to me with a request, taking into account my contacts and relationship with the leadership of the Russian Federation, asking to assist in the purchase of the pipeline or its owner PrykarpatZapadTrans,” Medvedchuk said.

He explained that, in order to privatize the pipeline and essentially make it Poroshenko’s property, a number of steps had to be taken.

“Courts, prosecutors, the Antitrust Committee, State property Funds – all these ruled in favor of president Poroshenko’s private interests,” stated the opposition leader, adding that the deal allegedly cost the former president $23 million, which he paid through fictitious contracts, but earned its owners twice that amount in one year, as much as $42 million.

As one piece of evidence that the pipeline actually belonged to Poroshenko, Medvedchuk points to the fact that all diesel transfers through the pipeline ceased in May 2019, right after Poroshenko’s term ended.

Medvedchuk also told the SBU that, in the period between 2014 and 2015, essentially all of Ukraine’s top leadership was involved in a scheme to supply Ukraine with coal purchased from the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR), which authorities in Kiev now consider to have been state treason, the defrauding of the state and financing of terrorism.

“The entire senior leadership of the state was involved in this (scheme): from the president and cabinet ministers, to law enforcement and the people, who were directly involved in making it all work,” the arrested MP said.

According to the SBU, Medvedchuk provided all the names of senior officials who were involved in the scheme and the list reportedly includes former bureaucrats, central bankers, MPs, and law enforcement officials.

Poroshenko’s lawyers have responded to these accusations by stating that the testimony of Medvedchuk has nothing in common with reality and accused the SBU of engaging in PR.

“In our opinion, in general, what the SBU does is exclusively PR. Firstly, this is not their business, this should be done by the SBI (State Bureau of Investigations). And the fact that this is being reported by the SBU confirms that there is nothing here to do with truth or law,” Poroshenko’s attorney stressed.

Authorities in Kiev charged Poroshenko with treason back in December 2021 for allegedly illegally buying coal from the Donbass and thus funding terrorism. After having previously left the country, the former president returned to Ukraine in January to face the treason charges, which he claimed were politically motivated, and accused Zelensky of using them to distract the country from his administration’s failing policies.

Source Rt news

Why you go stop, something wey me Dey enjoy wella… this life you can’t satisfy everyone. Jesus try am In the Bible, dem still nail am for cross laslas….:


In another news… Champions mood… Foden got a cute kid.

ja2ken:
God bless you bro.. Congratulations in your future endeavors brother man.. It's not easy being a Nigerian at this point in our history walahi...Thank you & Stay safe bro... Beyond the sky is your limit...

Thanks brother. I wish you the same. Whatever situation nah just phase bro, e go surely pass and will definitely turn out good. Stay strong , trust me you go use am tell stories later ni

Make I book space incase e get to FP

ja2ken:
I guess this "there’s no saint, wake up to reality and stop being one-sided with your thinking." was a fair compliment from your judgement... You should learn to "swallow your words before you give it out to the public".. Bear in mind, I'm empathetic to those being bullied all over the world, even in our home country... I'm also not the insulting type, neither am I going to accept any kind of derogatory phrase thrown at me or being bullied for no reason.... Forcing people to see things your way is also part of bullying..Try de know say everybody de vex for this country..Apologies!! Furthermore, I de charge less for plagiarism work (3K for 5000words)

it’s ok boss, I noticed you’re a reasonable person, that’s why I take my time to point out that it wasn’t my intention. I don’t go around insulting people here. I’m really SORRY. It was never my intention. God bless your hustle ooo. I’m not gonna need your service bro, but whenever I come across anyone who does here, I will surely recommend you.
I understand the situation of the country, I know how overwhelming and crazy it can get,
Stay safe bro
I’m sorry once again !!!
God bless

Cubalabloo:
When the devil want to use you, you better say never!

dem no Dey telli person

Nancy2020:
I thought they use to say only Russia military men are dying so what changed now lol.

lol, propaganda no Dey win war, im sorry for two mentions at a time lol, cos you happened to comment on my threads na why I Dey reply oooo

Cubalabloo:
I wonder what he has gained from the war so far.

if you ask me bro, I don’t know. I think na those western leaders still Dey push am, cos that dude based on my assessment from afar, e no resemble person wey like trouble, but when your masters talk say fire on, at the expense of his citizens….. he should ask for a change of location if they really want to defeat Russia, make he use the $40b rebuilt what’s left of Ukraine …