DIRECTOR OF CIA EXPLAINS WHY CHINA IS STUDYING UKRAINE CONFLICT PAGE 47

 May 8 , 2022

 CIA director explains why China is ‘carefully’ studying Ukraine

Chinese President Xi Jinping is “unsettled” by the West’s reaction to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and is looking “carefully at what lessons [he] should draw” and apply to a potential invasion of Taiwan, CIA Director William Burns told a conference on Saturday.

Speaking at a Financial Times conference in Washington DC on Saturday, Burns told his audience that his agency figures that Russia’s advance through Eastern Ukraine and the scale of the West’s response may be influencing Beijing’s plans for Taiwan.

https://www.rt.com/news/555133-cia-china-ukraine-taiwan/

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 Canadian sniper ‘terribly disappointed’ with military reality in Ukraine

Once lauded by the international media, a Canadian sniper known as ‘Wali’ has returned from Ukraine to Quebec, telling local media that his experience there was a “terrible disappointment.” He claimed there was inadequate weaponry, poor training and heavy losses, as well as profiteering and desertion in the ranks.

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 CIA director weighs possibility of Russian nuke in Ukraine

CIA Director William Burns told a Financial Times conference on Saturday that the US’ intelligence agencies haven’t seen any “practical evidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously claimed that Putin could use such weapons.

“We don't see, as an intelligence community, practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for the deployment or even potential use of tactical nuclear weapons,” Burns said at the conference in Washington DC, repeating a similar assessment he made at the beginning of April.

https://www.rt.com/russia/555132-cia-tactical-nuclear-ukraine/

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 Russia defies predictions of collapse – media

The Russian economy has largely shrugged off “unprecedented sanctions” from the West, The Economist noted, crediting the sharp rise in revenues from oil and gas exports. Russian consumer spending is up again, interest rates are going down, and the ruble is stronger than before the conflict in Ukraine escalated.

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 Aircraft take to Moscow sky in V-Day parade rehearsal - WATCH

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 Firefighters extinguish flames after missile hits Odessa - State’s Emergency Service

Ukrainian firefighters managed to extinguish flames reportedly caused by missile attacks in Odessa on Saturday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.

According to the department, fire crews extinguished flames spread over an area of 900 square metres, and no one was injured as a result of the incident. 

On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Russian side "launched a missile attack on Odessa".

Russian Defence Ministry, in turn, announced on Saturday, that Ukrainian aircraft equipment was destroyed at military airfields in Odessa, near Artsiz in Odessa Oblast, and Voznesensk in Mykolaiv Oblast.

 World risks ‘worst famine since WWII’ – German minister

The world is about to face an acute food crisis due to skyrocketing food prices, German Economic Cooperation and Development Minister Svenja Schulze told Bild newspaper on Saturday, warning about a looming famine not seen since World War II. The minister has named Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine as its causes.

“The situation is highly dramatic,” the minister told the German tabloid in a late Saturday interview, adding that, according to the UN World Food Program, “more than 300 million people” are already suffering from acute hunger and the UN has to “constantly revise” this data upwards.

https://www.rt.com/news/555162-german-minister-world-worst-famine/

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