,1,Lithuania will allow sanctioned Russian goods to transit its territory on their way to Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, its Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, reversing its policy after new European Commission guidelines were announced.
The new guidelines followed weeks of tension among Moscow, Lithuania and the European Union that tested Europe's resolve to enforce sanctions on Russia. The sanctions were designed to bar entry into the EU of certain Russian products, such as vodka and steel.
Moscow had earlier said that restricting overland transit of goods from Russia to Kaliningrad amounted to an illegal blockade; Lithuania said it had no choice but to enforce rules imposed by Brussels leading to a rise in tensions.
,1,According to the UK Daily Mail, Russia is warning that new tests of its deadly hypersonic Satan-2 missile are imminent and on the brink of going into 'serial production.'.
“The world's most powerful global-range nuclear-tipped missile is being prepared for new tests and serial production,' said the Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin.
The first and so far only test launch of a silo-based Satan-2 was on 20 April from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The Sarmat hypersonic weighs 208-tons and can travel at 15,880mph. Quite remarkable given that the missile is about the size of a 14-storey tower block - far ahead of anything the West has.
“As for technical performance, what they have in their arsenal certainly lags behind what we have,” Rogozin said. “They lag especially far behind in terms of the designed capabilities of our Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missile, which have been confirmed in the first test launch,” he added.
The space chief also claimed that when he was at the production facility of the missile, which he called the 'Doomsday Plant', he was at the 'safest place in the world'.
“We are standing under the cover of the formidable Sarmat, created with great love and respect by our military factories and assembled at Krasmash to continue its flight design tests. This is the safest place on Earth,” he stressed.
Putin has said the missile would ensure Russia's security and make 'those fierce people who are trying to threaten it' think twice.
Source: Daily Mail
,1,From ‘Elensky to
‘Ursula Van Der Crazy’
‘Bidenopulous’
‘Medvedev the Hawk’
The Kagans, the Newlands, the Blinkens & the Jake Sullivans, Alexander Christoforou has created some memorable nicknames for the most known belligerents in the Russia ??-Ukraine ?? conflict.
Rollins France goes over his very best one.
,1,The United States ?? have supplied eight M142 Himars of medium-range capacity to Ukraine ??. HIMARS work both as a multiple rocket launch system as well as a mechanism for launching medium-to-long range tactical missiles.
It is precisely such medium-range missiles that are causing problems for the Russians, whilst giving the Ukrainian Armed Forces a zest of life. With the Ukrainians set to receive four more Himars as part of a recently announced $400million military aid package, how influential will they prove to be?
,1,The Commander of the Azov Battalion Denys Prokopenko was amongst the most prominent of figures arrested by Russia at the Azovstal Steel Plant.
The heavily fortified Steel Plant in Mariupol had been the last stronghold of the fabled Azov Battalion, with many of its members taking refuge there as the Donetsk People’s Republic forces as well as the Luhansk Militia (alongside Russian forces) took the Southern city of Mariupol.