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and also this, this operation baltic century that's well needed. but those are things that are below the political level, right? those, you know, some of those decisions are made the political level, but we need to also have the, the coordinated statements from may know itself at the highest levels at the ambassador level, or the head of state level that they are aware that russia is behind it. least some of these, i mean, and we've seen there have been attribution of some of these incidents, especially the onshore ones related to energy and critical infrastructure. and yet we still haven't seen middle article for all and, and that is something that is missing and needs to happen right away. well, between what would you say to anyone who is not convinced that russia is behind these acts and sabotage that we've seen to what brand? i have been working for the past 2 years. in addition to the work that i've done for years before this on nato's eastern flank, repelling russian energy line influence, and hybrid threats. and i will say i am going to be r

told us more about nato's operation in the baltic sea. yeah, so this mission was launched mid january by secretary general of nato and the nato allies that look onto the baltic sea, so from germany to sweden and finland to landfill, sonia and lithuania, poland, sweden, and these are all countries that have a direct involvement in the baltic sea because they are so close to it, and they are countries that committed to putting forward their own resources to contribute to the surveillance and deterrence. a mission we've best, that's why the german worship that we were on is, is part of this mission. and the other countries are also contributing at different kinds of, of ships and in airplanes to, to monitor the baltic sea. and this mission is going to be coordinated by a also a relatively new task force that is based in the cost stuck in northern germany from the city from which we set sail on the worship month to book. and the important aim of this mission is to gather, to gather and share among allies, a big amount of data concerning c rou

they hope to find out more about what has been taking place in the baltic sea. and they believe showing a stronger presence in the region can help prevent further incidents from happening . judas identity, who finds that to apologize on the line. now do not tell us more about this need to imagine that germany is a part of which other countries are involved for instance, or yeah, so this mission was launched mid january by secretary general of nato, and of the nato allies that look onto the baltic sea so from germany to sweden and finland to last few estonia and lithuania, poland, sweden, and these are all countries that have a direct involvement in the baltic sea because they are so close with. and they are countries that committed to putting forward their own resources to contribute to the surveillance and deterrence. a mission we've best, that's why the german worship that we were on is, is part of this mission. and the other countries are also contributing different kinds of, of ships and in airplanes to, to monitor the baltic sea. and this mission is going t

the baltic nations are three baltic nations are operating in mode, three baltic nations are operati about ceremony held, and up to now it's been running smoothly, no blackouts, some smoothly. no blackouts. some board generators in people board generators in case. ,., . ~ people board generators in case. . ~ ., case. we will come back to it thank case. we will come back to it _ thank you - case. we will come back to it l _ thank you i much. we re were watching bbc hello. for most of the uk the weather's just but you have to go up pretty high. this part of blaenau gwent is over 300m above sea level. for the most part though, it's rain and drizzle that's showing actually breaking the cloud up nicely for west scotland. or two for the east coast. further southwards, a weak area of low pressure is bringing and that's making it feel particularly chilly with temperatures today for most about four to six celsius. now, overnight, ourweak area of low pressure continues to feed cloud in across much of the uk, with rain it stays misty as well. temperatures down to about minus seven in the coldest area

they hope to find out more about what has been taking place in the baltic sea. and they believe showing a stronger presence in the region can help prevent further incidents from happening . from all of this, this spring in elizabeth broad, she's with the atlantic council. enjoys us from washington. elizabeth, how fall? do you think the nato a mission both essential, can actually go to secure, critical and underwater infrastructure? it was certainly better having as the vessels, the picture of the baltic sea than this, but not having them. and as they, they are visible sign that nature is taking these suspicious cable cat seriously. but nature is also making it a big gamble. nature is dorothy expeditionary force, which is the group of the door ditch april and take congress and the checks and with the similar initiative, they are essentially committing themselves to a significant gamble because they are hoping that monitoring showing that presence in the volt dc realty to whoever it is that is up to nothing good. but the question is what happens if, if the, the, t

full rece out is era in the baltic sea. it's day 2 of the g. 24 and ministers meeting a south africa, where top diplomats from the world's largest economies have been meeting the summit as being overshadowed by the absence of us secretary of state, amid dispute to south africa over several policy issues present through around the post head, marco rubio, his absence is not the end of the world and does not amount to a boy constance. the us is represented where leaders have been divided on how to respond to the policy shifts from washington. since president donald trump returned to office, my cannon joins us from johannesburg. and mike, it's day 2 of these talks, tell us what's been happening. well, basically they've now wrapped the south african foreign ministers just held the news conference outlining what was the chief during these discussions. but they all have discussions that this was a starting point, not the end point. they will continue in coming month to month. a number of working committees and a formal declaration

pull, reese out, is there in the baltic sea. the u. s. has imposed sanctions on over a wanton government in minnesota and a leader of the m 23 rebels for their alleged role in the conflicts in the democratic republic of congo regional integration minutes to james cabot. a base a choose to focus tracing for wanda military support for the rep of the alliance. and coordinating the export of convoluted minerals to rolanda. it also impose restrictions on a senior member of the congo river alliance. they've a wanda backed m 23 levels. we've had, as allies are advancing in middle rich north and south, keep your provinces which whatever wanda, since taking because you on sunday they've moved around a 100 kilometers south and a background for control of the town of vida. and i'm like connie reports from because that would have been gaining under also they have advantage on the ground are due to the diesel beneficial and am on with the d r. c. i mean, which is leaving the 80 or even before the arrival of them trying to feel like it distorts rita. t

they hope to find out more about what has been taking place in the baltic sea. and they believe showing a stronger presence in the region can help prevent further incidents from happening . and you have some more stories making the news right now. your pain and russia has slipped prisoners of war. each side exchanged a 150 captives. these filters proportionately shows the ukrainian prisoners off to their release at an undisclosed location. russia says it's built on those odd and below those where they are receiving psychological and medical assistance. from my knowledge and government to survive, to low confidence votes in parliament, paving the way for the adoption of a budget for 2025 fall left low, make us call the votes of the prime minister francois by ado used special constitutions low as default to the united spending plans on monday pronto senate is expected to sign off on the budget on thursday. the leaders of china and fox hassan have both to maintain and sustain the friendship between the 2 nations. as a meeting in beijing, china as president of regio

basically, baltic states, they said bye—bye to russia so, today, baltic states can celebrate. which concern to well, arguably, at the moment when it comes to lukashenko, he is very much in the palm of putin. like he would never use energy to blackmail neighbouring nations or other nations that use russian energy supplies, thinking of gas as well, do you believe him? dependent on russian energy, on gas, oil, electrical energy. and this was the tool basically to put pressure on political leaders. and they do it especially with baltic states. they were doing this with ukraine and of course with belarus. but in belarus, they basically established control over energy system. and i think this is the first thing an independent nation has to do to establish independence, energy independence from russia, because this is the main presidential and national assembly elections. of a bloody drug war, economic contraction and an acute energy crisis. fifteen months in office. popular with younger voters, he has given the security and lawyer luisa gonzalez, who's aiming to become the country's first female

for the next 8 weeks, the vessel with its crew of around 60 will petrol, the baltic sea. their aim is with her and confront any threats to critical underwater infrastructure, such as data cables and gas pipelines. are you putting a 300 outside into the deployment zone? i barely able to contribute to the terrans by monitoring the sea area without a sense, as like a radar of optical sense of such as cameras and of cause by dr. laws which are still important. you will observe the merchant ships passed by. we will take a look at other warship sense, uh, setting around and we will paint a picture of the situation and shed with our allies of phone defendants. if i've been to, the entire mission comes after a series of incidents and recent months, where under c cables were ruptured often after ships such as this one, which we are traveling to or from russia drug there, anchors on the sea bed, some in the region feared the damage could have been caused deliberately, although it has yet to be established, whether these were acts of sabotaged by russia or the result of negligence.

full rece out is there in the baltic sea. the rolanda bang $723.00 rebels are advancing on another city in eastern democratic republic of congo of the country launch areas of territory. in recent weeks, tom is returning to because of where 20 people were killed as the rebels took the city on sunday. i don't know why connie is that and has this report those who died didn't because it is we can live with a local symmetry. all of them including children with shot dead. so you end up use this one, them, buck them 22 levels of big was possible. the global, known as commodity as blooms, the government soldiers were fleeing from the city of the fighters were approaching 4, shooting 10 from i'll fight off to what happened during the city. we collected several bodies in different areas. we want to give the victims a dignified central city. i am plenty to cover on sunday stuff. ask those will, is he a to get back to work tirelessly desanto because when the people are getting back to their identity life supposedly to spend the morning c

that's to the for me to believe that obviously there is something happening in the baltic. i've been at sea for a very long time now, and i've never direct my eyes. and there isn't a reason to do so. incidents of also involve the cycle shop i sleep old, fully maintained vessels that russia allegedly uses the bypass functions imposed over its war ukraine. the show defeat this event of a confirmed but what we have seen is that ships going to improve from russian ports, having less quality now contacted before because that limited number of ship, all the stuff that you've tested and facing that kind of part of that means that they're more likely future safety instead of investigations of seized vessels have cited weather conditions and poor semen shipped as reasons for cables damage. but the nato officers integrating sweden into their operations. the argument isn't holding much water. full rece out is era in the politics. the united states has imposed sanctions on a rwandan government administer, and the leader of the n 23 rebels for the let's role in the conflict in the democ

pull, reese out, is there in the baltic sea. united states has impose sanctions on a real london government administer and a leader of the m. 23 rebels for the ledge. roland, the conflict in the democratic republic of congo regional integration minister james a about a, b is accused of orchestrating or one to military support for the regular lines, coordinating the export of companies, minerals 2 or one to those to impose restrictions on a senior member of the congo river alliance, or the run the back to m $23.00 rebel group in its allies, are advancing in the mineral rich north and south cube provinces, which, by border london since taking because on sunday they've moved around a 100 columbia south. and the last name for control of a ton of computer. what connie reports now from blue cross, it would have been gaining unknown, so they have advantage on the ground to do to the diesel beneficial and am on with the data. see, i mean, which is leaving the area even before the arrival of the enter the 3 like this. stone, rita, this i

they hope to find out more about what has been taking place in the baltic sea. and they believe showing a stronger presence in the region can help prevent further incidents from happening . so i've got this done now which has been facing decades of economic crisis, which has been compounded by the tale bonds. we tend to part one of the ways the country has been trying to increase revenues has been mining, is gemstones, and other minerals. we have a report now from one mine and gushed up in eastern. i've got a stump where j the extraction is helping the local economy ask on this done. it's one of the buddhist countries and the word for the resources bed across it's rocky landscape. i'd estimated to be we're actually in dollars. resources like these blocks of gte, of the workers and machines deployed at this mine in the eastern gosh, that district had been extract, especially if jim stone, the biggest customer of this minus china with drop shade is exported. hold the successfully kick us out around the no technicians capable of processing j to the international ma

they hope to find out more about what has been taking place in the baltic sea. and they believe showing a stronger presence in the region can help prevent further incidents from happening to the democratic republic of congo. now where rebels have seized another town in the east, despite having to try to see slot the when says m. $23.00 fighters on now only 50 kilometers north of cover. that's the capital of south keeble. proverbs and surgeons, backed by the one that have been advancing since capturing go my last week. the red cross has been very and victims of the fight to the when says movies 3000 have been killed at hundreds of thousands. forced to sleep. the gentlest patricia who are in goma told us more about the rebel advance on a couple to. yes, so just to the, the run them back and 23 year of continued the advancing substitute that despite the the si fi are they the care the monday around sources confirmed that they have no control of the way, which is the mining tone in the social people putting them in the mine sofa and yet we could use gone content on

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left behind in the context that is rapidly re shaping the world. patasha butler ultra 0 paris, now 3 baltic nations, estonia, lot via lithuania, have successfully connected to the european power grid at a certain many in the lithuanian capital 3 meters alongside european commission president, a self funded lie and celebrated both the energy independence, the move 7 soviet buildings with the rushes network which is controlled by moscow and has long been seen as a vulnerability for the 3 of the states assessment pronunciation of the baltic states electricity system. the continental european system has been successfully completed. this is starting moment marking the end of the long journey for lives the lot, fia and the sonya for all not home. the shaft that shift for energy independence, the pdf of political pressure and blackmail is finally over. history is made. we connect the baltic states to our continental european electricity, great electricity lines with russians that are lucid, being dismantled, these chains of power lines linking you to how style neighbors will be a thing of the past

baltic countries to move away from the russian supplier. from the soviet union.tem. and it is important for practical, concrete security and it has played fast and loose, using the energy let's flip this on its head. well, first of all, it's the image issue. because let's not forget that, you know, at the beginning on russian energy. and all this has been brought up by the crazy aggressive this synchronisation on its own, because it will no longer have the luxury of being connected to mother russia, so to speak. and, mr pszczel, just briefly, if you can, does this really bolster european security then? well, it does, because dependence on russia is bad for security. their connections — is an understanding internationally that this is the right way to go, about as long as russia remains polls have no closed in the ecuadorian presidential incumbent is election. the incumbentqisq q qq q q, q o election, and election. the incumbentqisq q qq ..q q- q o election, and his seeking election, and his opponent, the left—wing leader oooonent. the left—wing leader . lawyer, w

so i put money on the americans withdrawing from the baltic states above. and i wish that they would withdraw from poland and romania romania itself. having sought to ring the elections there because the president would have been elected did not want war with russia, did not want romania to be on our camp for natal. uh, these country is uh, really have to get on better with the rush and russia, i'm sure is more than happy to get on better with that. now, if natal falls, there will be some kind of european security architecture and our support bar. but rush, i should be in it of put in proposed a 25 years ago. and then 18 years ago who was looking for a common european security architecture of the guaranteed the security. busy of everyone, and a stop prepared to the end security on a show. why not try that? why not bring the russian federation into a security architecture with germany and fraud cents on russian doesn't want to invade these people. and these people are not capable of inventing rough on, on financial. it's just generally briefly, i mean, a bon

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over the i communist period from uh, 1947 through to 1989 which many in the eastern europe in the baltic states. and in poland, do come simply rehashing that will the grievances about the communism hungry is elected to put that behind it and to cultivate good relations with the washer because it's do hunger is advantage to do so. that's been the case with on the victor are right. you know, who knows what would have happened had other political leaders the much? well, what is the reason you think uh why the west and some post soviet states are rejecting outright or even re whiting a history and outcome the of the fight against nazi occupation during world war 2. why would they do this as well? because they believe that's ultimately well, you know, whatever, you know, the, you know, the foibles of hibler in the nazi's and the, yeah, but ultimately it was a good fight because it was a fight against the terrible russians. and so, if you subtract from that all the ugly, unacceptable facets of nots isn't the, the fundamental goal was a noble one which was to flight russia. and therefore, what

john, thanks so much. 3 baltic nations, estonia, lafayette and lithuania, have successfully connected to the european power grid. at a ceremony in the list of indian capital, the 3 leaders alongside european commission, president, 1st of of bundle lions, celebrated baltic energy independent states. the move severed soviet era links with the rushes network which is controlled by moscow, and has long been seen as an owner ability for the free baltic states. a tribute to port in for it. and it may be as founding father, samuel joe man who has died at the age of 95 may be as president non gold, a new boy announced the former leaders, death calling him a revered freedom fighter. and revolutionary leader, joe mcglenn, a 3 decade long fight for maybe is independence from apartheid era. south africa, south africa's presidents, through around the oppose accredited new drama as an inspiration for his country struggle against white minority rule and drama. died late saturday after battling an illness in the hospital for 3 weeks. all right, that's it for me and how much of room sort of height are

but if america pulls the troops out of essentially nato bases in the baltic states, then you think your opinions are going to want to pay more to maintain these bases . i mean, somebody saying it wouldn't bode well for nato know this, and i'm not going to ask you that now because i know we've run out of time but can for me to you. so it could to get you on this program during such big things happening in the middle east right now. a kind of can, i saw the form of 4 minutes to austria and kindly the head of the go key center in st. petersburg university. an absolute pleasure. thank you very much for your time . thanks so much, marie, for your invitation. really over suppose the for me, a pleasure to have such a vivid conversation with um a wedding form since kinds a personality like yours is always a pleasure. thank you very much, carmen caesar well as the ukraine and conflict does carry on overnight sunday, key of carried out in the tackle and one of russia's largest oil pumping stations. rushers, deputy security council traveling to highlighted at the latest you are the striking infras

the baltic states in scandinavia, although crossing loc now to alter, will correspond to thomas. so rough uh, um, told us good to get. you will take on this obviously, because you've seen so much. you'll solve the russian intelligence out this morning about is terror attacks on your pin soil? apparently it says in order to disrupt peace negotiations, do you think that this is a modus operandi that you associate with t f? is it possible? well, everything is possible happening in mind that the group instead themselves, i'm not very happy about the negotiations which are going on. um, well, it's quite up is that if there will be some kind of a tear of tech in europe against the russian diplomatic, whatever consulate, or i'm to see. and then to, however, blame russia. but we have seen to which extent that can be absorbed into western media. and when we look at the integration of an option too. so i don't exclude anything in this at this point. um, keith is quite desperate and they can try whatever they want. so i think everything is possible, or, you know, we saw recently, obviously

the baltic states were beeke the bettie etetee wee , so lucky. eeehe the bettie etetee wee , so luckyff ~ ~ ~ ~ right up to which goes right up to russia, where vladimir putin has said that he has 7 retaking the retaking the town designs on retaking the town we were in right on the border, novo, theyjoined nato good novo, theyjoined nato in good faith, they were looking and they are towards europe and they are towards europe and they are towards the united looking towards the united states. and am not so sure are feeling as confident -,% ee .they 5 they did a month or so today as they did a month or so ago with the reverberations coming out of the white house. kevin, do people you have kevin, do the people you have spoken to, do believe speken terdetheybetieve that does actually want a russia does actually want a peace deal? even if they a l eace a -eace deal, did the have get’e eeete izetet; eti'ei’they here that getfie eeeee eeet; ei'eifithey heee that will last? gete eeeee eeetg etith'efifi that will last? faith that will last? well, there is a _ faith that will last? well, there is a

and so the nature troops in the baltic states of the in the is 0. because if you remember the history, talk to you as i go back to promise and the united states pro is that they will be not touching boots on the ground for late the fall, just close to the bought us of russia. now we have different story. so that's why i would like to say the most one to the right. any bates of troops which really closer to the borders of russia to the rich. okay. folks, i'm very sorry we're completely out of time, but thanks to all august, the platinum is certainly called to to raise a filing of loading the malenko on. thank you to for watching. you can see the program again at a time by visiting our website address their adult calm. as a further discussion, go to our facebook page. facebook dot com forward slash a j inside story. you can also draw on the conversation on x. we all got a j inside story from me. bonus smith on the hosting here by the february on as jersey to 3 years on from the outbreak of the war and you cream out of view. it explores the human cost

on, on the actual weight, and that will be launch the invasion into your crating on may be in the baltic states. and this will be, of course, the problem for the whole you repeat union. and so the whole nature, unless we uh and, and ukrainian partners help her to basically to achieve long term fees and sustainable. because this is the key objective here. the sustainable piece. and the sustainable piece means that there is protection of your printer. so we're going to independence and look if the capture of cherry trees but you create interpreters is legalized, then it means that you can violate, since the initial lower you can, you can violate boulders. so expect i am more than worse in, in, in the cold planet expect worse in other, in other countries as well. and that would be very, very words on the bar to be conscious. another continues to be good because it basically opens the way of the, from the books. okay. lot in it, it must go about is an issue, isn't it? can russia be trusted in any piece? still kind of rush would be to be trusted to keep the pace to maintain that these. i woul

i mean, finland was attacked by the soviets in the baltic states weren't so lucky.ch butts right up to russia, right on the border, theyjoined nato in good faith, as they did a month or so ago, with the reverberations coming out of the white house. do they believe that and even if they get a peace deal, do they have faith that that will last? well, that's a very interesting point because there the atlantic, and that is they do not trust vladimir putin, at all. this point—blank to us — that the peace deal that they are looking at, or that they want, has to include the people of ukraine. they are saying, for example, that ukraine is fighting this war on their behalf. ukraine is fighting the war for the greater europe. nato has to show its support. attacked, then the rest of the membersjoin in. well, one of those members is the united states of america. and all of a sudden, the united states is making with putin without ukraine at the table. and picking up on that point, joel, i want to ask you about that relationship with the us. that he started the war, which is untr

defense secretary, all of which have serious implications for the baltics.tonight from the estonian defense minister. also on the program, we are in the count on a poodle weekend for gaza, we will get a reaction to that. and can we trust what mi5 tells us? in court today that intelligence agency issued a reserved apology to bbc and the courts for false evidence it had given it in a trial involving one of its agents. a very warm welcome. donald trump said he and vladimir putin will take a commonsense approach to the war in ukraine. the two men had a lengthy and productive phone call today, the russian president extended an invitation to donald trump to visit moscow. president trump thanked him for the time and effort he is extending. from this white house, there is zero condemnation of russia's invasion of ukraine, no reflection today on a tsunami of ballistic missiles russia had fired at ukraine overnight. only an eagerness to escape the cost of this war and as quickly and humanly possible. we have agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immed

but their wider worries within the baltic nations, i mean, the system up to now is working fine.rs. so they're watching out for potential physical sabotage operations or cyber attacks or disinformation campaigns. to date, none of those have happened. million at auction in new york. ever sold, though it still fell short of its estimate. sotheby�*s auctioneers said the proceeds from the violin sale would go to establish a scholarship in support it was purchased by an anonymous buyer. i wonder if they are going to play it. thanks for watching. this bbc news. play it. thanks for watching. this is bbc news. hello, saturday has been a cloudy day for the bulk of the uk with around. we have uk with drizzle around. we have seen some with chewiness over seen some with chewinessover last 24 hours. this part of the last 24 hours. this part of county durham is over 200 metres above sea and at metres sleeve sea levelamjgt ., ., ,, ., , ., ., kind reetres ebeye see levelamjgt ., ., ,, ,, , ., ., kind of rnetres ebeye see levelandet ~ ~ ~ ~ , ~ ~ kind of height, there have a few flurries here 7

ms von der leyen was speaking in vilnius, baltic leaders.ids has been discussed for decades but gained momentum after russia's full—scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. ursula von der leyen emphasised the historical let's have a listen. today, history is made. european electricity grid. are being dismantled. this is freedom. freedom from blackmails. it's truly a big, big deal. and the soviet past because this connection, dependent on russia. for cyber attacks in many countries and in many regions. the only thing belarus appeared on the other side, and i hope one day belarus will do the same step and will connect to people have been marching in spain to protest housing the sa investors are in. they sayainvestors are prioritised amid those a 77 a place 77 aplace live. 77 declared housing 7 declared housing to be banners declared housing to be a right and privilege. it's the biggest annual sporting event the american football superbowl will kick off later 0ur sports correspondent, nesta mcgregor, is there too — cheering and applause. let's go, go

and then there's uh, 1st of of underlying the, you commission president all smiles in the baltics talking about how is sonya with wayne. yeah. and not the are now free from rushes, blackmail, things to do in be used electrical grid. but hey, if ross has blackmail was such a big concern, it's kind of a little strange and these countries have been absolutely non stop touring shade at russia along with the leadership in here. she is sounding like a b. the u. s. is despite trump bouncing off about tariff constantly, that may or may not know why a problem for, for your, um, sounds like everything is hunky dory. a long time allies the united states has set a new agenda. europe is prepared for robust, but constructive dialogue with the united states, amongst growing uncertainties. we are recognizing potential challenges, but we are ready for that. and europe is firmly staying the course on it's global engagements and partnerships, potential challenges, but they're still b f. s, right. i'm sure she's reading a sigh of relief that these baltic countries are now totally dependent on an energy syste

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when they put about 60 percent, you need the baltic savings sales for that wallace loosely and for the team is not i don't know anybody's close. i get them line. yeah. with them and just go see if the quote is not form, which is my side. so can you share some of the rest of the community involved? school? assign it to your uh this, this was what i share at the swap order with delta adults. they cannot go, don't know if it's by go to some of the what exactly happened in boucher is rush. you're really responsible for massacring these people will you can be banned from social media. you'll be accused of all kinds of horrible things. these questions are never raised, we're just basically fed lies and, and told to accept them. and that's been the model that we've seen over and over and over again. and it's never been more powerful than it is now. the of the course, it nearby slots us down. there's a way out of the key at the fortune of us. now suddenness portions here goes and it was, it was you the story and pushing a or a studio to see or should option that this be so for ship off we star

and nazi germany cinema that depicted a lunch to atrocities committed by red army soldiers in the baltic states. later in the footage of shows, intelligent civilians had been staged. administrative propaganda of the royce that ordered the scenes to be shown. would you wish to discuss the phones thing, change the scales, would you do? you have to, you put the oklahoma city or the little boys nice to not originally a computer when they bought a present, you need the baltic savings sale. so that was a little slim for that. the damage done. i don't know anybody's clothes. i get a mine. yeah. with a just go see if the coordinates not form, which is by side. so we can share some of the rest of the community if it was cool . assign it to your uh this, this was what i share at the swap order with delta adults. they cannot roll. don't know if it's by go to some of the what exactly happened in boucher is rush. you're really responsible for massacring these people where you can be banned from social media. you'll be accused of all kinds of horrible things. these questions are never raised. we're ju

intelligence services has warranty ukraine is planning a terror act against a foreign vessel in the baltic sea using russian made naval mines to implicate moscow in the attack. it also says the west end zalinski is regime are assuming the action would prompt in a leadership to cut off russian access to the baltic sea. the head of f, as b is also accused k of increasing acts of terror and sabotage in order to damage moscow's economy. it keeps getting a zooms deal of stuff going to general. the key of regime relying on terror is increasing the intensity of its acts of sabotage and terror attacks, primarily in relation to fuel and energy facilities, transport military industrial complexes and mass residential areas. for this purpose, unmanned aerial vehicles and weapons supplied by the west are widely used, allowing strikes deep into our territory to the ship. but the main task of the enemy is to cause maximum economic damage and intimidate the population. in order to implement terrorist plans increase in special services and neo nazi structures, actively recruit and draw individual russian c