Communism with Canadian Characteristics: Trudeau regime continues crackdown on COVID dissenters after nine of 10 provinces, dozens of countries lift pandemic restrictions, charge independent Ontario lawmaker, anti-lockdown activist Randy Hillier with nine Freedom Convoy-related infractions; Hillier turns self into police on Mar. 28, released next day on bail but terms violate Hillier’s constitutional rights by prohibiting him from posting on social media about Freedom Convoy, mask or vaccine mandates; Hillier second politician in Canada to be detained for COVID dissent, comments: “Differing and dissenting views are now apparently criminal, so that is a disturbing trend”; People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier arrested last June for attending small outdoor rally in Manitoba; Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich initially held without bail after Feb. 17 arrest in Ottawa, later appeals uncon- stitutional bail conditions identical to those imposed on Hillier, attended bail hearing in leg shackles, unwar- ranted precaution for non-violent defendant; Edmonton pastor, fellow COVID dissenter James Coates treated in like reprehensible fashion by judicial system in Feb. 2021; fearless freedom activist, Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski wins bail appeal after 50 days in jail, but charges related to criminal contempt of court, trespassing still prevent release

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Canada’s “January 6” martyrs . . .

WW4 File: Day 31 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Kremlin shifts troops from occupied regions of Georgia to invasion front in Ukraine, Russia seized control of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008, separa- tist regimes also sending forces to support Putin’s war, self-proclaimed leader of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov parrots Moscow’s neo-Soviet line about so-called dangers of “fascism” in Ukraine: “Our guys are going to fulfill their military duty with a proudly raised banner. Because if fascism is not crushed at the distant fron- tiers, tomorrow it will again manifest itself here”; Russian invaders launch another missile attack against Lviv oblast, three powerful blasts reported near village of Kryvchytsia, itself close to city of Lviv; mayor of Chernihiv in NE UKraine reports city mostly destroyed, facing siege much like Mariupol: “The city authorities are in place, everyone is working, supporting our army. No one is going to surrender the city. Unfortunately the city is surrounded by Russians”; Operational Command South of Ukrainian Ground Forces reports Russian motorboats repelled along Odesa oblast coastline, invaders attempted to insert recon and sabotage parties, presumably to prepare for full-scale attack against port of Odesa, which has remained mostly unscathed since Putin started invasion on Feb. 24

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Communism with Canadian Characteristics: Justin Trudeau addresses largely empty European Parliament chamber as international credibility of Canada’s “Soy Boy Wonder” PM totally evaporates, endures lambast- ing from Croatian MEP who lived under communism, Mislav Kolakusic calls Trudeau “dictator,” references trampling of Native protester Candy Sero by mounted police in Ottawa: “Canada, once a symbol of the modern world, has become a symbol of civil rights violation under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months. We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block the bank accounts of single parents so that they can’t even pay their children’s education and medicine, that they can’t pay utilities for mortgages and their homes. To you, these may be liberal methods, for many citizens of the world, it is a dictatorship of the worst kind”; Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes made similar criticism of Trudeau on Feb. 19: “He’s exactly like a tyrant, a dictator. He’s like Ceaușescu in Romania”; Western Standard publishes story of family’s escape from Trudeau’s COVID dictatorship, unvaxxed father uses “government connections” to obtain fraudulent pass, skirt airport vax mandate and reunite with family in Costa Rica

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Ranks of Canadian expats in Mexico and Costa Rica swelling in recent months. Includes your resident blogger . . .

WW4 File: Day 29 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Kremlin media “finds” Sergei Shoigu after intense speculation over whereabouts of Putin’s DM, Shoigu reportedly attended meeting of Russian Security Council on Mar. 23; Mariupol City Council alleges invaders have forcibly deported 15,000 survivors of brutal siege to Russian Federation, preventing city residents from evacuating to unoccupied parts of Ukraine; Ukraine FM spokesman Oleg Nikolenko, possibly referencing older info, says 6,000 survivors deported: “6,000 Ukrainians already now in Russian camps where they may be used as hostages. Humanitar- ian convoys fleeing to non-occupied parts of Ukraine still being shelled”; meanwhile Ukrainian Naval Forces claims to have sunk Russian landing ship Orsk, unload- ing military supplies at occupied port of Berdyansk, video shows huge explosion engulfing Orsk as two other landing ships (possibly Caesar Kunikov and Novocherkassk) evade attack by heading to sea, no details provided on how Orsk sunk; Russian forces cap- tured Berdyansk on Feb. 27, Ukrainian navy responded to invasion by scuttling flagship Hetman Sahaidachny around same time, pic shows frigate partly sunk at port of Mykolaiv

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WW4 File: Day 28 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Media-savvy Russian DM Sergei Shoigu not seen in public since March 11, Western MSM reports while independent Russian journalists speculate Shoigu “in poor health,” “experiencing heart problems,” “fired from his post,” “under house arrest” over stalled ground offensives in Ukraine; NATO estimates between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian combat deaths, inc. following high-ranking officers, in heavy blow to Putin’s invasion plans: Lt Col Yuri Agarkov, Maj Gen Vitaly Gerasimov, Lt Col Denis Glebov, Capt Alexey Glushchak, Maj Gen Andrei Kolesnikov, Maj Viktor Maksimchuk, Maj Gen Oleg Mityaev, Lt Gen Andrei Mordvichev, Col Nikolay Ovcharenko, Capt Andrey Paliy, Col Sergei Porokhyna, Lt Col Dmitry Safronov, Col Alexei Sharov, Col Sergei Sukharev, Maj Gen Andrei Sukhovetsky, Gen Magomed Tushaev, Col Andrei Zakharov, and Col Konstantin Zizevsky; meanwhile Poland, in solidarity with Ukraine, expels 45 Russian diplomats on charge of espionage, Moscow threatens “retaliatory measures”

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WW4 File: Day 28 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Lukashenko regime expels 12 Ukrainian diplomats accused by Belarusian KGB of espionage, only ambassador Igor Kizim and four staff remain, also orders closure of Ukrainian consulate in Brest; Belarus- ian foreign ministry: “This measure is aimed at ending non-diplomatic activities of a number of staff members of Ukrainian diplomatic institutions”; follows three weeks of conflicting reports of Belarusian army’s boots-on-ground participation in invasion, withdrawal of Belarusian ambassador Ihar Sokol from Ukraine on March 18, senior European official observes: “So, it is very well possible that their embassy or diplomats moving out may mean that they are close to joining the war overtly on the side of Russia”; in similar fashion Russia closed its embassy in Kiev hours before launch- ing full-scale invasion on Feb. 24; Belarusian “rebel forces” sabotage rail lines into Ukraine in wake of March 11 plea from chief of Ukrainian Railways: “Do everything in your power to stop your troops”; Russian and Belarusian military hardware once again building up along Ukraine’s NW border

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Communism with Canadian Characteristics: Davos-backed COVID dictator Justin Trudeau announces “supply and confidence” pact with socialist NDP chief, Khalistan terrorist sympathizer Jagmeet Singh that will ensure hopelessly corrupt, minority Liberal govern- ment continues to ru(i)n Canada until 2025, no NDP MPs to be appointed to cabinet but Trudeau will push ahead with radical left economic and social destruction of Canada, i.e., universal basic income, Internet censor- ship, etc.; interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen, who briefly supported Freedom Convoy 2022 before turning against truckers, states obvious: “This is nothing more than a Justin Trudeau power grab. He is desperately clinging to power”; populist/libertarian contender for Tory leadership Pierre Poilievere denies rumors of association with communist front org World Economic Forum, tells True North News: “No, I’ve never been to Davos. I’ve never been part of the organiz- ation and I don’t agree with its . . . publicly stated policy objectives . . . I obviously support small government, more freedom and individual independence . . . you can look at my track record that I’ve said that on the floor of the House of Commons”

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A little detour from our heavy focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine over the past four weeks . . .

WW4 File: Day 27 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Summary of targets of Russian missile attacks in Western Ukraine: 1) three bombs dropped on village of Mylyach, Rivne oblast, Mar. 11; 2) TV tower and admin bldg. near city of Rivne, nine killed and nine wounded, Mar. 14; 3) military facility near town of Sarny, Rivne oblast, Mar. 16; 4) military proving grounds in Rivne oblast, no info on casualties, Mar. 21; 5) barrage of missiles strike Yavoriv military base near Polish border in Lviv oblast, 35 killed and 134 wounded, Mar. 13; 6) six missiles hit airport near city of Lviv, no casualties reported in first such bombardment of inva- sion, Mar. 18; 7) first-ever use of hypersonic Kinzhal missiles to destroy large weapons depot in Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, Mar. 19; 8) Iskander missile shot down over Vinnytsia, Mar. 22, oblast sometimes considered part of central Ukraine; meanwhile, as ground offensives along invasion front grind along, Russia’s two tank-production/maintenance factories suspend ops due to sanctions-imposed shortage of components

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WW4 File: Day 24 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Russia’s “ex”-communist dictator, Vladimir Putin, lifts script from personal hero Stalin, orders invasion force to deport thousands of Mariupol resi- dents to “remote cities” in Russia, city council’s press service: “The occupiers illegally drove away people from the Livoberezhny district and a bomb shelter in a sports club building, where more than a thousand people (mostly women and children) were hiding from con- stant bombing. To save the lives of Mariupol residents, the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated from crowded places, and the aggressor used this”; mayor’s office says captured residents of Mariupol first taken to “filtration camps” in occupied zone of Donetsk oblast, phones and documents confiscated; Russia’s top brass reacts to loss of 14,400 troops during Ukraine invasion, shifts person- nel from Eastern Military District to occupied Belarus, soldiers stationed at 102nd Military Base in Armenia also redeployed to invasion front; meanwhile COVID dictator Justin Trudeau rebounds from crackdown on trucker revolt, lavishes weapons on Ukraine, leaves Canadian arsenal depleted over short term, DM Anita Anand admits: “We have exhausted inventory from the Canadian Armed Forces. There are capacity issues”

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Trudeau is a loathsome commie $%#@&*! His treason knows no bounds.

WW4 File: Day 24 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Zelensky government yet to acknowledge fall of Mariupol as Russian invaders, with help of Chechen fighters and DPR separatists, push into city center and exchange fire with heroic Ukrainian defenders, Moscow demands surrender for their lives even as Ukraine’s General Staff admitted late on March 18 country has “temporarily lost access” to Sea of Azov; Russian defence ministry denies bombing Mariupol theater, potentially killing more than 1,000 sheltering civilians, accuses Ukrainian National Guard’s Azov Battalion of holding occupants hostage, then killing them, dangers of government-backed “neo-Nazi” militia overblown in both Kremlin and Western mass media; Oleh Nikolen- ko, spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry, reminds Russia that non-compliance with International Court of Justice’s ruling to terminate invasion could lead to loss of all rights and immunity under UN Charter, esp. veto on Security Council; “ex”-communist warmonger Putin addresses fervent, overflow crowd of 200,000 during rally at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, Kremlin-organized event celebrates 8th anniversary of annexation of Crimea, Putin praises troops in Ukraine in spite of stalled offensives, high combat death toll, low morale, desertions

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WW4 File: Day 23 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Mariupol on verge of falling to Putin’s forces after invaders reduce 40% of strategic port city to rubble, push into downtown core where Armed Forces of Ukraine maintain heroic resistance, nearest AFU units that could relieve Mariupol defenders themselves fighting invaders at Volnovakha, Russian shelling pre- vents new humanitarian escape routes; “ex”-communist warmonger Putin close to obtaining long-sought-after land corridor between Russian Federation’s Rostov oblast and occupied Crimea; Putin’s forces poised to strike Mykolaiv from NE, then thrust west and, likely in coordination with amphibious landings, seize Odesa, thereby subjugating Ukraine’s entire Black Sea coast; meanwhile AFU bolsters defenses around Kiev, Dep. Army Chief Oleksandr Hruzevych: “Two defensive perimeters were previously established, and enemy forces have abandoned attempts to advance from the directions of Brovary and Boryspil; Ukraine’s Armed Forces are currently fortifying a third outer defensive perimeter”

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WW4 File: Day 22 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Russian invaders seize control of Izium, located in Kharkiv oblast, 120 km SE of regional capital of same name; first city to fall to Russian military’s Northeastern Ukraine offensive, subjected to constant bombardment since March 3, residents cut off from electricity, gas, and mobile comms, deputy mayor Volodymyr Matsokin in March 15 FB post: “There is no one to bury the deceased. The situation is not better than in Mariupol”; Rubizhne in Lugansk oblast falls to Russian troops and separatists, LPR flag raised over government bldg., Donbas militants seized city in April 2014, Kiev reasserted control three months later; thus far Putin’s forces have only managed to subjugate cities as part of Southern Ukraine offensive, PRC citizen Lu Yuguang only foreign reporter embedded with Russian invasion force besieging Mariupol, Shenzhen-based Phoenix TV front for CCP; meanwhile Russian troops controlling Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia NPPs prevent- ing personnel from doing their work, Ukrainian defense official describes occupiers’ behavior as “unpredictable”

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WW4 File: Day 22 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Russian invaders poised to seize Mariupol but deputy mayor Serhiy Orlov reports at least 40 percent of strategic port city “totally destroyed” after two week bombardment, death toll likely greatly exceeds confirmed 2,300; latest atrocities by Putin’s forces inc. shelling of theatre where 1,200 civilians sheltering, destruction of Azovstal iron and steel works, occupation of hospital, staff and patients held hostage; Mariupol’s 350,000 to 400,000 residents have endured two-week Russian blockade, primitive conditions without power, natural gas, reliable sources of food and water, last convoy of 20,000 refugees fled by car along “humani- tarian corridor” to city of Zaporizhzhia on March 15, total exodus of Ukrainians from their homeland since Feb. 24 exceeds three million; meanwhile, in nod toward resurrecting Soviet Union, Union State of Russia and Belarus lifts all restrictions on movement of citizens between both countries, Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin: “I am convinced that strengthening integration in the Union State will be the best response to the sanctions pressure against Russia and Belarus”

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WW4 File: Day 21 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: East-West relations hit nadir not seen since Cold War as “China Joe” Biden, US Senate resolution both denounce Putin as “war criminal,” Kremlin mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov calls White House’s condemnation of Russian president “unacceptable and unforgivable rhetoric on the part of the head of a state whose bombs have killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world”; meanwhile UK DM analyzes Russian military’s slow progress in occupying Ukraine, which is slightly smaller than Texas; invaders: 1) “struggling” to overcome challenges posed by late-winter terrain, 2) largely restricted to road network, 3) thwarted by defenders’ destruction of bridges, and 4) reeling from loss of 13,800 troops over three weeks; Kremlin reportedly planning to augment invasion force by hiring and deploying up to 40,000 Syrian mercs from Assad’s armed forces and pro-regime militias, Kremlin-linked PMC Wagner Group to screen Syrian recruits as Ba’athist regime denies Russian recruitment drive; mutinous Russian troops incarcer- ated in special detention camp near Belgorod

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WW4 File: Day 21 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: UN’s International Court of Justice rules in response to Ukrainian lawsuit, orders Russia to end invasion; “China Joe” Biden signs US$13.6 billion aid package for Ukraine as Pres. Zelensky in virtual address to joint session of US Congress requests NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine, or more fighter jets: “Today the Ukrainian people are defending not only Ukraine. We are fighting for the values of Europe and the world, sacrificing our lives in the name of the future”; mean- while Polish, Czech and Slovenian PMs travel to Kiev, meet with Zelensky and Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal in display of solidarity, Polish Vice PM Jaro- slaw Kaczynski urges deployment of “armed NATO peace mission” to Ukraine; DMs to discuss NATO’s defensive posture during March 16 conference in Brussels, Sec.-Gen. Jens Stoltenberg: “On land, this could include substantially more forces in the eastern part of the alliance, at higher readiness and with more pre-positioned equipment”; current US troop deploy- ment in Europe: 38,500 in Germany, 12,000 in Italy, 10,000 in Poland and 2,500 across three Baltic states

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WW4 File: Day 20 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Kremlin slaps financial and travel sanctions on US leadership, inc. “China Joe” Biden, Hunter Biden, CJCS Gen. Mark Milley, NSA Jake Sullivan, CIA chief Bill Burns, WH press sec. Jen Psaki, and former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton; Putin also targets Canada’s leadership, inc. PM Justin Trudeau and 300 federal law- makers; meanwhile, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet resumes bombardment of Odesa, missiles and shells fired at port city, head of regional military admin Maksym Marchen- ko: “The enemy’s land forces are not succeeding in any directions in other regions. Therefore, in the morning, one of our localities was hit by missile strikes from enemy aircraft and ships. We have two wounded”; Russian Ground Forces push west toward Odesa from occupied Kherson oblast, repulsed at Mykolaiv, head of regional state admin Vitaly Kim predicts bridges will be blown to thwart Russian invaders: “Over the past 24 hours there have been 80 wounded [from shelling]. Two of them are children. There are more fatalities after a school was hit by aerial bombs”; Ukrainian flag lowered at Melitopol’s Victory Square, puppet mayor orders broadcasting of Russian TV channels, Ukraine’s prosecutor general opens treason probe into Galina Danilchenko even as city’s elected mayor transported to Lugansk oblast, Russian kidnappers accuse Ivan Fedorov of “terrorism”

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WW4 File: Day 19 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine

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WW4 File: Day 18 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Putin sends warning to NATO by way of air strike against Ukrainian military base mere 25 km from Polish border, 35 killed and 134 injured in March 13 morning attack; Russia launches about 30 missiles from Black Sea area, most destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses but eight reach intended target, damage facilities of Hetman Sahaidachny National Academy of Ground Forces in Yavoriv district of Lviv oblast; Yakoriv base, in cooperation with NATO, has hosted International Center for Peacekeeping and Security since 2007, currently training ground for Territorial Defense Force’s International Legion; US Sec. of State Antony Blinken denounced air strike: “We condemn the Russian Federation’s missile attack on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Yavoriv, close to Ukraine’s border with Poland. The brutality must stop”; meanwhile Russian occupiers in Zaporizhzhia oblast abduct mayor of Dniprorudne and install new, collaborationist mayor in Melitopol after kidnapping Ivan Fedorov, who was reportedly tortured when he refused to cooperate with Putin’s forces

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Red Dawn Alert: Day 18 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: UNCONFIRMED REPORT: Kiev accuses Moscow of deploying chemical weapons against pro-Ukrainian towns in Lugansk oblast on March 12; Oleksi Biloshytsky, chief of police in Popasna, around 100 km west of Lugansk city, claimed Russian forces used internationally banned white phosphorus shells in his area: “It’s what the Nazis called a ‘flaming onion’ and that’s what the Russcists (i.e., Russian fascists) are dropping on our towns. Indescribable suffering and fires”; Biden regime maintains Beijing helping Moscow spread disinfo relative to Kiev’s alleged bioweapons program to justify chemical attacks against Ukrainians, also maintains Russia seeking military equipment from Red China to support invasion, NSA Jake Sullivan to CNN: “But what I will tell you is we are communicating directly and privately to Beijing that there absolutely will be consequences”; Ukrainian General Staff says Russia seeking to fill ranks of its army with fighters from Balkans, Caucasus, Syria and Siberia; Ukraine’s International Legion attracts 1000s of volunteers from USA, Canada, dozens of countries worldwide; Chechens and Belarusians fighting on both sides of war

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WW4 File: Day 17 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Russian commanders assume control over Belarusian military, quell mutinous troops refusing to support invasion of Ukraine, follows Lukashenko’s March 11 trek to Moscow and Kiev’s allegations of provocative Russian air strike against Belarusian town, confirms comments by exiled opposition leader that her homeland “under Russian occupation”; Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security: “In some parts of the Brest region, riots are taking place – servicemen, including officers, express their unwillingness to take part in the war against Ukraine. To stabilise the situation, lower-ranking and senior officers appointed to positions in the Belarusian Armed Forces have begun arriving from Russia”; Oleksiy Arestovich, adviser to head of Office of President of Ukraine: “The [Belarusian] 103rd Vitsebsk airborne brigade is the most combat-ready. It is located on the borders with Ukraine, and no one there wants to take part in the war”; meanwhile Pres. Zelensky reports 1,300 Ukrainian combat deaths, 500-600 Russian POWs, United Nations estimates 2.6 million Ukrainians have fled their homeland since Feb. 24

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WW4 File: Day 17 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: United Nations scoffs at Russian claims of Ukrainian bioweapons program, Moscow calls meeting of 15-member UN Security Council to reassert, through envoy Vassily Nebenzia, that Ukraine ran biological warfare labs with US DoD support, no evidence offered; US envoy to UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, retorts: “We believe Russia could use chemical or biological agents for assassinations, as part of a staged or false flag incident, or to support tactical military operations”; ominous shadow of global nuclear war hovers over NATO-Russia tensions as Vice FM Sergei Rybakov remarks: “A convoy with foreign weapons which is thoughtlessly being delivered to Ukraine, will become a legal target for the armed forces of the RF”; mean- while Russian forces in occupied Kherson oblast pre- pare for “referendum” to legitimize establishment of DPR/LPR-style “Kherson People’s Republic,” nomencla- ture hat tip to Cold War-era Marxist-Leninist dictator- ships, even as 75% of CPRF cadres reportedly support invasion of Ukraine

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WW4 File: Day 16 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Minsk labels reports by Ukraine’s air force and border guard service of Russian missile strike against Belarusian village of Kopani as “delusional,” even as dictator Lukashenko hosts Russian invasion force, obediently scurries to Moscow for face-to-face briefing from Putin, reportedly informs Russian overlord: “Ukraine was preparing to attack the joint forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on Belarussian territory”; wire service: “An adviser to Ukraine’s president [Zelensky] said on Friday Belarus- ian leader Alexander Lukashenko was meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as Russian jets carried out what Ukraine said was a false-flag attack on Belarusian villages”; meanwhile Russian occupiers kid- nap mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov; city of 150,000 in Zaporizhzhia oblast one of several seized by Putin’s forces as part of Southern Ukraine offensive, other sub- jugated cities inc. Kherson, Nova Kakhovka, Oleshky, Berdyansk and Enerhodar, as well as two power plants, one thermal, other nuclear; Kiev claims 12,000 Russian combat deaths since Feb. 24 as besieged city of Mariupol grapples with nearly 1,600 civilian deaths during 12-day blockade and bombardment

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Red Dawn Alert: Day 16 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Kremlin stages provocation to justify Belarusian military’s overt involvement in war by 21:00 (local time) on March 11, plans to stage second provocation at Chernobyl NPP; Russian warplanes took off from Belarusian air base today, entered Ukrainian airspace, turned around over towns of Horodychi and Tumeni, then fired on Belarusian settlements of Kopani, Bukhlichi and Verkhnii Terebezho; Ukrainian Air Force: “Today at 14:30, the State Border Service received information that Russian aircraft took off from Dubrovytsia airfield, entered the territory of Ukraine, turned over our populated areas of Horodychi and Tumen, and then launched an air strike on the popu- lated area of Kopani. Currently, the 9th Border Detach- ment is watching the occupation of this settlement by the enemy! This is a provocation! The goal is to involve the armed forces of the Republic of Belarus in the war with Ukraine!”; meanwhile Ukraine Defense Ministry alleges: “The available intelligence says Putin has ordered that his troops prepare a terror attack . . . at the Russian-controlled Chernobyl NPP . . . for which the Russian invaders will try to blame Ukraine”

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WW4 File: Day 15 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Belarusian blogger reports extensive Russian military movements in his occupied homeland, no doubt in preparation for further offensives toward Kiev, Anton Motolko spots Tochka-U TBMs, Iksander SRBMs and Strela-10 SAMs, Russian military columns seen moving through Gomel, travelling along highway towards Zhlobin; dictator Lukashenko informs defense ministry that Belarusian army must counter any assault on Russian forces from rear, even as NATO Sec.-Gen. Jens Stoltenberg warns Moscow against attacking Ukraine-bound supply lines: “If there is any attack against any NATO country . . . that will trigger Article 5”; Kremlin reports Belarusian specialists have restored electrical power to Chernobyl NPP, 100 Ukrainian personnel held hostage since Russian troops seized facility on Feb. 24, Putin’s forces also control Zaporizhzhia NPP in S. part of country; meanwhile city workers in Mariupol dig mass grave for 1,170 civilians killed during nine-day Russian bombardment, maternity hospital bombed, besieged port city without gas or electricity for last eight days; deputy mayor: “Vladimir Putin means to capture Mariupol whatever the human cost”

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Below: Drone footage shows Ukrainian defenders ambushing Russian tank column in Brovary, in the eastern outskirts of Kiev, on March 9, 2022. Throughout much of its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has not effectively deployed its air force to provide cover for ground assaults. This seems to be the case here. Source: Charter ’97.

WW4 File: Day 15 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Russian invaders launch two assaults on Kiev yesterday, one thrust via W. satellite city of Irpin, second via E. suburb of Brovary in which defenders ambush tank regiment, kill Russian Ground Forces Col. Andrei Zakharov, intercepted battlefield radio chatter suggest Russians suffered heavy losses; Armed Forces of Ukraine holds back advance of invaders into NE cities of Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkiv; as well as Kryvyi Rih, largest city in central Ukraine; Voznesensk, Mykolaiv oblast, and Novovorontsivka, Kherson oblast; defenders of Odesa down two Russian Su-25 warplanes and two helos, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet retreats to Cape Tarkhankut and Lake Donuzlav in occupied Crimea; Pres. Zelensky still in Kiev, says seven humanitarian corridors organized to evacuate civilians; SBU detains Russian spies in Kiev, Zakarpatska, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions; Putin introduces National Guard (consolidated MVD Internal Troops, SOBR and OMON) for policing duty in occupied Kherson oblast, 400 Ukrainians detained

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WW4/Cyber-Leninism Files: Day 14 of Russian/ Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba cautions threat of boots-on-ground involvement of Belarusian troops in Ukraine has not entirely receded: “We are in a situation where we must take into account every risk, even the smallest one, and not only from the point of view of Belarus, but also from poinf view of Transnistria”; lethal and non-lethal aid “flooding” into Ukraine via Polish air bases, cargo then shipped across border via truck; meanwhile Kremlin counters moves by West to hobble war economy with ban on Russian oil imports, responds to prediction by US credit rating agency that Russia will shortly default on sovereign debt by: 1) prohibiting sale of foreign currencies to citizens until Sep. 9, 2) restrict- ing export of strategic materials and products essential for Russia’s “security” until Dec. 31; reacts to cyber-attacks, withdrawal of ISPs Cogent and Lumen by disconnecting from world wide web on March 11, activation of “sovereign Internet” est. in 2019

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Russia about to retreat behind Digital Iron Curtain . . .

WW4 File: Day 13 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Poland to transfer ownership of 28 MiG-29 fighter jets to USA, fly aircraft to Ramstein air base in Germany, Americans will then place MiGs at disposal of Ukrainian Air Force; Warsaw urges other EU states with Soviet-built warplanes to follow its lead; Biden regime joins UK, Canada in banning Russian oil imports, “China” Joe admits Americans will feel pain at gas pump: “Defending freedom is going to cost. We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war”; meanwhile two million Ukrainians flee homeland as army holds Russian invaders at bay outside Kiev, Kharkiv, Sumy and Mariupol, Kyiv Post on devastation in Kharkiv: “Grad multiple rocket artillery has already ruined about a third of Kharkiv . . . The central Svobody Square, one of the largest in Europe, resembles WWII footage after being targeted by a rocket attack”; Kremlin cynically establishes humanitarian corridors to herd fleeing Ukrainians toward Russia and Belarus; exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanou skaya says homeland under Russian occupation: “It seems to us that Lukashenko is not controlling our military any more, the only thing he is controlling is repression against the Belarusian people”

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WW4 File: Ukraine arrests two communist youth leaders in Kiev, brothers Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich charged with spying for Russia and Belarus, publishing propaganda on behalf of Moscow and Minsk with intent of “destabilizing” Ukraine; Mikhail first secretary of Leninist Communist Youth Union of Ukraine (Komsomol), branch of outlawed Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU); Kononovich brothers most recently known to have participated in demo at US embassy in Kiev, demanding that Washington stop its “military expansionism” via NATO; arrests originally reported by World Federation of Democratic Youth, long-time communist front org active before and after collapse of Soviet Bloc, WFDY frets brothers will be “murdered” or “executed” by “neo-fascist” Zelensky government; People’s World interviewed Mikhail Kononovich in Nov. 2019, discussed Komsomol mobilizations against privatizing state-run farmlands under Pres. Zelensky, lauds CPU’s role in opposing privatization: “It often stood as a roadblock to multiple governments’ attempts to sell off more of the public property and resources inherited from Soviet socialism”

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The Kononovich brothers are small fry but once against the far left in Ukraine is exposed as an instrument of neo-Soviet Russia.

WW4 File: Belarusian dictator Lukashenko reportedly facing mutiny in armed forces over participation in Ukraine invasion; revolt inc. Belarusian military column stalled in Ukrainian village of Mikhailo-Kotsyubynske, Chernihiv oblast, NE of Kiev, consists of several hundred vehicles, inc. tanks, Smerch MLRS, Pion self-propelled artillery, BMPs, APCs and fuel trucks but soldiers mutinied against their officers, refuse to push deeper into Ukraine; spokesman for Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Force confirmed on March 1 that Belarusian troops had entered Chernihiv oblast; independent Belarusian news explains why bulk of Lukashenko’s troops still do not participate in military actions against Ukraine, despite “orders from above”: “Most of the rank and file of the Belarusian units, which have been prepared to be sent to Ukraine, are against taking part in the war. The officers report . . . that if they cross the border, the officers’ lives will be in great danger because the soldiers will raise arms against them. Mass surrender of Belarusian soldiers is also expected; revelation comports well with low morale among many Russian POWs captured by Ukraine

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Regime crisis in both Moscow and Minsk. Subjugating Ukraine could be suicidal for either. Lukashenko probably knows this. Putin is a different story.

WW4 File: Putin possibly planning to reinforce Russian invasion force in Ukraine with Central Asian troops from Collective Security Treaty Org; Ukraine security chief Oleksiy Danilov, alluding to low morale among Russian conscripts: “Our intelligence provides the following data. Now Putin has a great desire to involve the CSTO – Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, other nationalities . . . Moreover, we have information that they are going to gather people from the Far East, which is home to Udmurts and Yakuts. They are gathering people there, because there are not so many people willing to fight”; follows Lukashenko’s denial of boots-on-ground involvement in war, even though Belarus undeniably providing staging ground for Russian offensive against Kiev; as well as suspiciously timed international meetings and policy decisions amid Russia’s unprovoked attack on neighbor: 1) reps of security and special services of Commonwealth of Independent States converge in Moscow on March 2, discuss “anti-terrorism measures,” delegations from CSTO and Shanghai Cooperation Org also present; 2) Putin submits to State Duma for ratification protocol on amending CSTO ops carried out in conjunction with UN, briefly disguised first hours of full-scale invasion of Ukraine as peacekeeping mission in Donbas

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Below: Putin chokes on Ukraine. German expression more or less suggests this.

WW4 File: Day 9 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Lukashenko denies presence of Belarusian troops in Ukraine even as Russsia continues to use his country as staging ground for siege of Kiev, but likely fears NATO counter-attack, orders “strengthening” of air defenses along borders after requesting additional S-400 anti-missile batteries from Kremlin, two units currently defending Minsk; meanwhile Russian invaders capture second nuclear power plant in Ukraine after shelling Zaporizhzhia facility, follows early seizure of crippled Chernobyl NPP on Feb. 24, US embassy to Ukraine based out of Poland, denounces bombardment of NPP: “It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. Putin’s shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further”; IAEA dir. gen. Rafael Mariano Grossi frets: “This is an unprecedented situation. Unfortunately, here we are in completely uncharted waters”; NATO rejects request from beleaguered Zelensky government, rules out imposing “no-fly zone” over Ukraine, thereby obligating alliance to shoot down Russian warplanes; Moscow Stock Exchange closed for fifth day as ruble trades at record lows, during planning stage of Ukraine invasion Putin regime clearly expected punitive international sanctions, holds world’s fifth largest foreign currency and gold reserves

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Kiev/Borodyanka.
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#Zelenskyy

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WW4 File: Day 8 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Bill Roggio at Foundation for Defense of Democracies cautions against gloating over setbacks experienced by Russian forces, inc. high combat death count, as least as reported by Ukrainian sources, urges correct perspective following failed decapitation strike against Ukrainian political-military leadership on Feb. 24: “Sympathy for the outnumbered and outgunned defenders of Kyiv has led to the exaggeration of Russian setbacks, misunderstand- ing of Russian strategy, and even baseless claims . . . that Putin has lost his mind. A more sober analysis shows that Russia may have sought a knockout blow, but always had well-laid plans for follow-on assaults if its initial moves proved insufficient”; reminds readers: “A look at the Russian military offensive demonstrates there was a plan for a full-scale invasion, which Russia is now executing”; “Conventional, mechanized warfare is a time and resource consuming enterprise, and an operation of this scope isn’t cobbled together in days”; meanwhile Biden regime joins European Union in closing airspace to Russian aircraft in latest move by Washington to punish Moscow

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WW4 File: Images emerge of Belarusian dictator Lukashenko standing in front of battle map that appears to show planned invasion of both Ukraine AND Moldova, Ukrainians seize planning docs from battalion tactical group of 810th Separate Marines Brigade of Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, docs suggest invasion of Ukraine approved as early as Jan. 18, time frame for subjugation of country to last from Feb. 20 to March 6; DM Oleksii Reznikov alleges Kremlin intends to disrupt Ukraine’s comms and disseminate fake news claiming Kiev has agreed to capitulate, rebuts on FB: “This is false”; Ukraine’s beleaguered government also believes Russia will impose martial law on Mar. 4 to bolster war effort, “totally disconnect from outside world,” ban rallies, restrict food distribution and financial transactions; meanwhile Kremlin still motivated by Marxist ideology more than 30 years after fall of Soviet Union, brands Ukrainian leadership “neo-Nazi,” announces Moscow will host First Int’l Antifascist Congress in Aug., “unite efforts of the int’l community in the fight against the ideology of Nazism, neo-Nazism”

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Hmm, let’s see: Russia attacks Ukraine, hurls the epithet “Nazi” at its victim, prepares to host an “anti-fascist” conference in Moscow later this year, presumably after it has subjugated Ukraine. In commiespeak a Nazi is pretty much anyone who is opposed to communism. Sure sounds like the Putin regime is motivated by the same ideology that motivated the Soviet Union. It’s called Marxism-Leninism, in case you’re too young to remember. Viva Golitsyn!

WW4 File: United Nations General Assembly calls on Russia to immediately withdraw its forces from Ukraine, three countries join Russia and Belarus in voting against resolution: North Korea, Eritrea and Syria; Ukrainian FM Dmytro Kuleba demands review of Russia’s permanent seat, inherited from Soviet Union, on UN Security Council: “We are confident that after a legal analysis it will turn out that Russia is illegitimately in the UN Security Council”; Kiev officially files lawsuit against Russian Federation in The Hague, presses charge of “genocide”; UN reports 870,000 Ukrainians have fled their homeland ahead of advancing Russian troops; Ukrainian officials say 2,000 civilians killed by invaders in seven days, more than 7,000 Russian combat deaths, however Kremlin publishes first such figures, admits only 498 war dead, 1,597 injured; Kiev condemns Moscow for targeting residential areas: “Yesterday, on February 28, the Tu-22m3 strategic bomber-missile carrier, as if in an exercise, without crossing the state border line, attacked the peaceful residential areas of Kharkiv with high-precision weapons, air-to-surface missiles”; key port city of Mariupol endures 15-hour artillery barrage, 100s feared dead, distraught mayor: “The situation is awful, we are near to a humanitarian catastrophe”

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Red Dawn Alert: Ukraine General Staff, citing data from Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, reports: “Russia is preparing a provocation to justify the deployment of Belarusian troops along the Pinsk-Ivanava-Drahichyn route”; thereby bolstering Russian forces besieging Kiev; “[T]here are currently about 300 units of Belarusian tanks near the Belarusian-Ukrainian border”; Ukraine claims to have decimated Russian military column con- sisting of 800 vehicles rolling through Mykolaiv oblast, air and ground forces and territorial defense units praised: “Our defenders reacted immediately, preventing the enemy from entering Dnipropetrovsk Region. The column was attacked from the air; the occupiers were hit hard”; meanwhile US military experts “stumped” by Russian Air Force’s “risk-adverse” role in invasion, by contrast Ukraine’s vastly outnumbered air force surprisingly effective, “carrying out low-level, defensive counter-air and ground-attack sorties”; point out “evidence of a lack of Russian air force coordination with ground troop formations, with multiple Russian columns of troops sent forward beyond the reach of their own air defence cover”

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WW4 File: Day 6 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Minsk’s bit role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine expands as 300 Belarusian tanks reportedly poised to attack beleaguered neighbor, Belarusian troops spotted in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, east of Kiev oblast; Ukraine General Staff: “Given that the enemy does not abandon the aspirations to achieve its goal, and its own offensive potential is almost run out, it plans to involve the most trained military units of the Republic of Belarus, which are completing their amassing along the state border of Ukraine”; West extends sanctions to Belarusian brass, UK Foreign Secretary Li Truss: “The Lukashenko regime actively aids and abets Russia’s illegal invasion and will be made to feel the economic consequences for its support for Putin”; Belarus’ chief of general staff, Maj.-Gen. Victor Gulevich, and three deputy defense ministers declared persona non grata, UK-based financial assets of same, along with those of two military-run corporations, frozen; Ukraine General Staff posts latest tally of Russian combat deaths: 5,710; UN tallies number of Ukrainian refugees: 675,000

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WW4 File: Day 6 of Russian/Belarusian invasion of Ukraine: Putin and Lukashenko amass ground and aerial forces in Belarus and Kiev oblast, prepare to storm and seize Ukraine’s capital; vanguard of 64-km convoy of tanks and armored vehicles reaches Hostomel, 24 km from Kiev, up to 150 helicopters based out of S. Belarus (at possibly two or more staging sites); Russian invaders fire rockets at 1,263-foot-high Kiev TV Tower in bid to knock out Ukrainian programming, 5 killed, Ukraine accuses Russia of lobbing thermobaric bomb at capital on Feb. 28; initial blitzkrieg of Kiev on Feb. 24 failed after Ukrainian defenders recaptured Hostomel airport from airborne Spetsnaz attack group; three E. European members of NATO–Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria–to re-supply “depleted” Ukrainian Air Force with 70 Soviet/Russian-built fighter planes, inc. 56 MiG-29 fighter jets and 14 Su-25 aircraft; however, strong potential for military confrontation between Russia and NATO since Ukrainian pilots will fly combat missions from Polish air bases

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