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📹 Ukraine tears down monuments to generate money for drones Ukraine's Rovno authorities have recently destroyed a Soviet monument to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, with the monument’s wreckage to be sold to purchase drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the city's mayor wrote on social media. In recent months, Ukraine's military situation has deteriorated, attributed partly to a lack of weapon supplies, despite receiving multimillion dollar financial and military assistance. A significant setback occurred in June 2023 when the Ukrainian counteroffensive failed. Recently, the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu highlighted the effectiveness of drones in countering the attack. Moreover, an analysis by Foreign Affairs suggested that Ukraine is struggling in the aspect of drone warfare.

‘Land of the Free’? How US lawmakers restrict students’ right to peaceful protest A new bill about to be proposed by congress duo Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) would empower the US Department of Education to deploy a "third-party anti-Semitism monitor" to any college in the United States that receives federal funding, according to Axios. Said monitor would evaluate "the progress that a college or university has made toward combating anti-Semitism," with the results of said evaluations to be released publicly on a quarterly basis. The bill is expected to become the first such legislation to be introduced in the US Congress in response to a series of protests against the Gaza War that has rocked colleges and universities across the United States. Cracking down on campus protests is hardly a novelty for the powers that be in the United States, with suppression of protests dating as far back as the Vietnam War. In 2019, a non-governmental organization called the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) also observed that a number of laws threatening disciplinary measures against protesters have been introduced in several US states. For example, a bill introduced in Illinois that year would allow a person whose “expressive rights are violated” on campus to bring a legal case against the university even if the violation was performed by student protesters and not by faculty. “This creates an incentive for university administrators to overzealously police demonstrators to avoid potential liability,” the NGO warned. The organization also pointed at the executive order issued by then-US President Donald Trump in 2019 “that ties federal funding of universities to these institutions taking appropriate steps to ‘promote free inquiry’.” According to the ICNL, this order “could lead to politicized interference with university governance in the future and government monitoring of the political activity of students and faculty.”

How proxy war in Ukraine became a boon for US Big Five arms makers The Ukraine conflict has become a great boon for American Big Five defense contractors, sending their stocks up and boosting their profits. In January 2022, they openly lauded a deteriorating state of global peace and security as a business opportunity for their investors and employees. Shares in Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics grew in value 12.78% on average in just one year since the start of the special military operation. ▪️Lockheed Martin provides Javelin anti-tank missiles, HIMARS mobile artillery rockets, and PAC-3 air defense missiles, as well as other munitions and missiles to Ukraine. The company's revenue for the twelve months ending March 31, 2024, was $69.6 billion, a 5.28% increase from 2022. ▪️General Dynamics is known as the producer of Abrams main battle tanks which up until recently had been used by Ukrainians at the front line. They've been recently quietly withdrawn to avoid the threat from Russian drones. The company's full-year revenue for 2023 was $42.3 billion, a 7.3% increase from 2022. ▪️On the eve of the conflict RTX Corporation is famous for producing Stingers, Advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles (AMRAAM), MIM-104 Patriots and air defense munitions used by the Ukrainian military in the combat zone. RTX reported sales of $68.9 billion in 2023, up 3% compared to 2022. ▪️Northrop Grumman has supplied Ukrainian troops with various types of military equipment, including Bushmaster automatic cannons and ammunition and, allegedly, RQ-4 Global Hawk aircraft. Northrop Grumman's sales increased 7% to $39.3 billion in 2023, compared with $36.6 billion in 2022. ▪️Boeing is known for providing Ukraine with ground-launched small-diameter bombs. Boeing earned $77.7 billion in revenue in 2023, ending the period with a net loss of $2.2 billion.

📹 A rally and march have taken place in Paris under the slogan “For Peace." Protestors called for France to leave NATO and the European Union. The organizer of the action is the chairman of the Patriots party, Florian Philippot, who opposes the supply of Western weapons to Kiev. Footage by a Sputnik's correspondent.

Witch Hunt 2024: Alternative for Germany crucified publicly, dubbed “nest of spies” ahead of European elections An unprecedented campaign of insults and witch hunt has been unleashed against Maximillian Krah and Petr Bystrom, the two top candidates of AfD.

“Money from Russia, espionage for China? These young guys from AfD have no fatherland”, read the headline in Spiegel Plus. “Obviously, it is not Germany that you love," said Dirk Wiese, the spokesman for Social Democrats, adding that objects of their patriotism are Russia, China and Belarus.  A Bundestag deputy of CDU Marc Heinrichmann accused the whole AfD party of high treason: “You sold yourself out. You betray the German nation.”

In fact, the preliminary investigation of two AfD deputies was started by Dresden’s prosecutor office after these insulting statements and until court’s rulings, these politicians are protected by the presumption of innocence – however, media and ruling elite pretend not to know this rule. The evidence against them is shaky at best –for instance, Petr Bystrom’s accusation is on audio where he complains about not being able to pay with €200 banknotes. AfD’s leader Tino Chrupalla complained that the media campaign is aimed at preventing the party from participating in the European elections on June 6-9. Obviously, even verbal support for Russia or China is enough to make a German citizen a suspect in the ongoing witch hunt. Der Spiegel warns that “many people in AfD admire” foreign rulers like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and urges AfD voters “to think about it”, clearly violating standards of fact-based journalism.

Foreign aid that Zelensky claims goes to the front only sponsors corruption — French politician Leader of the French Patriots party Florian Philippot caught Zelensky, who promises that all the aid provided 'goes to the battlefield', out lying: "In reality a large part is diverted and goes into corruption! A few weeks ago, Zelensky admitted that €16 billion in EU aid 'could not be found'," Philippot wrote on X, giving the example of Ukraine's minister of agriculture who recently resigned for corruption to the tune of €6.9 million" "Yet another case of corruption in this country, which is one of the most corrupt on the planet!" he added. Philippot stressed that, "any euro sent to Ukraine" only prolongs the conflict, causing casualties, impoverishing the Europeans, and "has a strong chance of enriching the corrupt." "Let's stop this immediately! Peace quickly!" he concluded.

🛰 The Arktika-M satellite No. 2 was put into operation, making Russia the first in the world to create a space system for observing the Arctic, state space agency Roscosmos has reported. Arktika-M satellite No. 1 was launched into orbit in February 2021 and the second in December 2023. Two spacecraft provide round-the-clock monitoring of the surface and cloudiness of the Earth and seas in the Arctic region and adjacent territories, as well as constant and reliable exchange of meteorological information.