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'''Ukraine''' is an [[Eastern Europe]]an country that was part of [[Russia]] and [[Austria-Hungary]] and became a founding member of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1922.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080418030322/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30078/Ukraine Interwar Soviet Ukraine], ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref>  It was previously independent from 1917 to 1918, a German puppet state in 1918, again independent from 1918 to 1920, a Soviet Republic from 1922 to 1941, again a German puppet state from 1941 to 1944, and again a Soviet Republic from 1944 to 1991.  Despite constant foreign threats of invasion, [[liberal]]s limited Ukrainian civilian gun ownership to only 84th in the world.<ref>https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/cp/ukraine</ref> [[Leftist]] [[gun control]] generally prohibited handgun ownership in Ukraine, leaving the citizenry defenseless against invasion.

Unlike [[Russia]], Ukraine advances the [[Soros]]-backed [[homosexual agenda]] with gay pride parades.<ref>[https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/keep-spirit-maidan-alive George Soros Ukrainian youths sit near a fire late into the night in Kyiv's Maidan on February 25,]</ref>  Also in contrast with Russia, Ukraine's leadership is [[liberal]] under the influence of western [[Leftist]]s.

[[File:Self proppelled canon.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Captured Pion (“peony”) ultraheavy self-propelled cannon that was previously aimed at Donetsk in the Donbas war. Note the Ukrainian trident symbol inside of an [[Imperial German]] “[[Iron Cross]]” painted on the side. This is very similar to the emblem of the [[Ukraine Security Service]], the local successor to the Soviet [[KGB]]. Modern Ukraine loves its German/Nordic-inspired symbols and imagery, in line with the post-2014 Maidan coup trend towards a forced and artificial but nonetheless complete break with all Russian/Soviet history, symbolism, and nomenclature, as if Ukraine has more in common with [[Germany]] than with Russia.]]

Ukraine, whose name literally means "borderlands", has always possessed much ethnic [[diversity]]. It had a significant Russian population in its eastern provinces, and many of these Russians have declared independence to become self-governing or wish to ultimately re-join Russia. Ukraine has less significant but still notable Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, and Rusyn populations in its southern and western provinces. Throughout history Ukraine has been the site of some of the worst [[human rights]] atrocities on the planet. The former territory of Crimea was once populated by Crimean Tatars, but their presence was drastically reduced by the de-population policies of [[Joseph Stalin]].

To the north and east Ukraine shares a border with [[Russia]]; it shares a border with [[Belarus]] to the north and [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]] and [[Hungary]] to the west.  The counties of [[Romania]] and [[Moldova]] are to the southwest.  The [[Black Sea]] is to the south, offering access to the [[Mediterranean]]. The capital city is [[Kyiv]] and the main religion is [[Eastern Orthodox]] Christianity.  Ukrainians pronounce Kyiv different from how Russians do (Ki-yeev, not the Russian KEY-ev).<ref>https://www.polygraph.info/a/hey-daily-mail-it-s-ky--yeev-not-keev-/30281142.html</ref>  

Ukraine is frequently in the news in the [[United States]] due to politicians, most notably [[Joe Biden]]'s family, personally profitting from the country.  President [[Donald Trump]] was criticized by [[liberal]]s for asking Ukrainian leaders to investigate the potential corruption, which Ukrainian leaders failed to do.  The United States Department of Defense has funded 11 biological research laboratories in Ukraine.  According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the [[North Korean]] ballistic missile capable of a [[nuclear bomb]] attack on [[Seattle]] and [[Los Angeles]] is based upon a design that came from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html</ref>  The [[Biden regime]] has argued that each nation is free to build military alliances with whatever nation is chooses.  In 2022, Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky suggested Ukraine should acquire or base nuclear weapons there.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550057-zelensky-dangerous-nuclear-ukraine/</ref>

Ukraine is run by an oligarchy, with a small group of people amassing enormous fortunes as most of the nation labors in poverty. In 2014, the Pro-EU bloc with outside interference from the [[Western alliance]] overthrew the internal domestic pro-Russian bloc to seize power, resulting in massive chaos, the [[Crimean Annexation]], the ongoing [[Donbas conflict]] and a lingering economic crisis. This is in addition to how:

* The worldwide [[Recession of 2008]] hit Ukraine hard and it is seeking international aid.

* Politics has been chaotic recently.

* Russia has used its oil and gas exports to influence Ukrainian politics and economics.

* A strong (20%) Russian minority (mostly in the south and east) is campaigning for partition.

* The legal and economic systems are still controlled by powerful and secretive oligarchs.

*Ukraine is neutral in its alliances, but has some limited military links to European Union.

The Ukrainian government which was installed in a [[coup]] in 2014 by the [[Obama administration]] worked with the [[Democratic National Committee]] to gin up the [[Russia Collusion hoax]], demonize [[Vladimir Putin]], interfere in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]], and turn American public opinion against [[Russia]] for [[propaganda]] purposes.  Since the 2014 [[Maidan coup]], euphemistically referred to as the "revolution of dignity" by globalists and leftists, Ukrainian operatives working in the [[Democratic party]] of the United States and the U.S. [[intelligence community]] have sought to drive the United States to war with Russia to prevent the breakaway republics of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk from seceding from the globalist-backed Kyiv regime and joining the [[Russian Federation]].

[[File:OUN swastika.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Foreground: Ukrainian Coat of Arms. Background: Nazi swastikas.]]

The total area of Ukraine is 603,700 km² (233,090 sq. mi), making it, after Russia, the second largest country in [[Europe]].  Its coastline is 2,782&nbsp;km.

The land of Ukraine is mostly [[steppe]]s and plateaus.  There are mountains in the west of the country, the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathians]], and in the Crimean peninsula in the south. The main rivers in Ukraine are the [[Dnieper]] and the [[Dniester]].   

The Ukrainian climate is considered temperate continental, but in the Crimea it is [[Mediterranean]]. The levels of precipitation are highest in the west and north, and lower in east and southeast. The winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland, and the summers are warm across the greater part of the country, and hot in the south.

[[File:Ukro-nazis.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The so-called "[[Ukrainian crisis|Revolution of Dignity]]" which the [[Obama administration]] supported.  Written on the wall: “Ukraine for Ukrainians.”<ref>https://futuristrendcast.wordpress.com/tag/upass-bandera-crimes/</ref>]]

Ukraine's population is about 46.5 million and falling, with a population density of about 80 per square kilometer (200 people per square mile).

The population is 73% Ukrainian and 22% Russian (with under 1% each of Poles, Jews, Bulgarians and others). Historically the countryside was heavily Ukrainian, while Russians dominated the cities, but in recent decades many Ukrainians have moved to the cities.

The country has been in demographic crisis since the 1980s. The population is shrinking 150,000 a year because of the lowest birth rate in Europe combined with one of the highest death rates in Europe. Life expectancy is falling. The nation suffers high mortality from environmental pollution, poor diets, widespread smoking, extensive alcoholism, and deteriorating medical care.<ref>Hanna H. Starostenko, "Economic and Ecological Factors of Transformations in Demographic Process in Ukraine" ''Uktraine Magazine'' #2 1998 online at [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/2_98/economic.htm]</ref>

The phenomenon of lowest-low fertility, defined as total fertility below 1.3, is emerging throughout Europe and is attributed by many to postponement of the initiation of childbearing. Ukraine, where total fertility (a very low 1.1 in 2001), is one of the world's lowest, shows that there is more than one pathway to lowest-low fertility. Although Ukraine has undergone immense political and economic transformations during 1991-2004, it has maintained a young age at first birth and nearly universal childbearing. Analysis of official national statistics and the Ukrainian Reproductive Health Survey show that fertility declined to very low levels without a transition to a later pattern of childbearing. Findings from focus group interviews suggest explanations of the early fertility pattern. These findings include the persistence of traditional norms for childbearing and the roles of men and women, concerns about medical complications and infertility at a later age, and the link between early fertility and early marriage.<ref>Brienna Perelli-Harris, "The Path to Lowest-low Fertility in Ukraine" ''Population Studies'' 2005 59(1): 55-70. Issn: 0032-4728; not online</ref>

The government-imposed famines of the 1930s, followed by the devastation of World War II, comprised a demographic disaster. Life expectancy at birth fell to a level as low as ten years for females and seven for males in 1933 and plateaued around 25 for females and 15 for males in the period 1941-44.<ref>Jacques Vallin; Meslé, France; Adamets, Serguei; and Pyrozhkov, Serhii. "A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses During the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s." ''Population Studies'' (2002) 56(3): 249-264. Issn: 0032-4728 Fulltext in [[Jstor]]</ref>

==Language, Religion, Culture==

[[File:Ukrainian collaborators worldwartwo.filminspector.com 3.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Ukrainians welcome Nazi liberators from Soviet oppression.<ref>http://worldwartwo.filminspector.com/2016/03/ukrainian-collaborator-girls.html</ref>]]

Languages spoken in Ukraine include [[Ukrainian]] (70%), [[Russian language|Russian]] (20%), plus 10% miscellaneous, such as Crimean Tartar and also Surzhyk in the southeast (a blend of Russian vocabulary with Ukrainian grammar and pronunciation).

The religion is predominately [[Eastern Orthodox]]. In 1992 the Ukrainian Orthodox Church split into two rival denominations. About 10%, primarily in the west, belong to Uniate churches with eastern rites but affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church of Rome. Poles are Roman Catholics of the Latin rite. The Tatars are Muslims. About 4% are atheists.  

Ukraine is widely known for its lively Cossack-style dancing ("hopak") and elaborately batiked Easter eggs ("pysanky")

There are not only clear regional differences on questions of identity but historical cleavages remain evident at the level of individual social identification. Attitudes toward the most important political issue, relations with Russia, differed strongly between L'viv, identifying more with Ukrainian nationalism and the Greek Orthodox religion, and Donetsk, predominantly Russian and favorable to the Soviet era, while in central and southern regions, as well as Kiev, such divisions were less important and there was less antipathy toward people from other regions. However, all were united by an overarching Ukrainian identity based on shared economic difficulties, showing that other attitudes are determined more by culture and politics than by demographic differences.<ref>Oksana Malanchuk, "Social Identification Versus Regionalism in Contemporary Ukraine." ''Nationalities Papers'' 2005 33(3): 345-368. Issn: 0090-5992 Fulltext in [[Ebsco]]</ref>

Important Ukrainian literary figures include Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, and Lesia Ukrainka.

[[File:Ukrainians greet Nazis 1941.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Ukrainians welcome Nazis, 1941 with banners saying "Heil Hitler".]]

Ukraine has a parliamentary-presidential system of government with separate executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The president nominates the defense and foreign ministers, and the Prosecutor General and Chief of the State Security Service ([[SBU]]), each of whom must be confirmed by the parliament. Beginning in 2006, the 450-member unicameral parliament (Supreme Rada) names the prime minister, who in turn nominates other ministers. The Supreme Rada initiates legislation, ratifies international agreements, and approves the budget. Its members are elected to five-year terms. Following free elections held on December 1, 1991, Leonid M. Kravchuk, former chairman of the Ukrainian Rada, was elected to a five-year term, and became Ukraine's first president. At the same time, a referendum on independence was approved by more than 90% of the voters.

Shortly after becoming independent, Ukraine named a parliamentary commission to prepare a new constitution, adopted a multi-party system, and adopted legislative guarantees of civil and political rights for national minorities. A new, democratic constitution was adopted on June 28, 1996, which mandates a pluralistic political system with protection of basic human rights and liberties. Amendments that took effect January 1, 2006, shifted significant powers from the president to the prime minister and Supreme Rada.  

Freedom of religion is guaranteed by law, although religious organizations are required to register with local authorities and with the central government. Minority rights are respected in accordance with a 1991 law guaranteeing ethnic minorities the right to schools and cultural facilities and the use of national languages in conducting personal business. According to the constitution, Ukrainian is the only official state language.

Freedom of speech and press are guaranteed by law and by the constitution, and authorities generally respect these rights. Prior to the "Orange Revolution," however, authorities sometimes interfered with the news media through intimidation and other forms of pressure. In particular, the failure of the government to conduct a thorough, credible, and transparent investigation into the 2000 disappearance and murder of independent journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, in which then-government officials have been credibly implicated, negatively affected Ukraine's international image. Freedom of the media and respect for citizens’ rights have increased markedly since the government of President Yushchenko took office in January 2005.

[[File:Russian language in Ukraine.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Russian language spoken in Ukraine]]

Ethnic tensions in [[Crimea]] during 1992 prompted a number of pro-Russian political organizations to advocate secession of Crimea and reincorporation to Russia. (Crimea was ceded by the RFSSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954, in recognition of historic links and for economic convenience, to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's union with Russia.) In July 1992, the Crimean and Ukrainian parliaments determined that Crimea would remain under Ukrainian jurisdiction while retaining significant cultural and economic autonomy.  

Since the U.S.-backed coup in 2014 and the bringing to power "moderate rebel" neo-Nazis, extrajudicial killings, harassment, arbitrary detentions by men in camouflaged uniforms, beatings and disappearances have taken place on a regular basis.  Most of the detentions and disappearances are often carried out by the Ukrainian Security service, (SBU), under a sweeping repression. The Ukrainian authorities and associated ultra-nationalist groups seek out people who were not only critical of the former but also the current Ukrainian government.  Threats, harassment and calls for violence has been and continue to be made against those who:

*publicly supported the [[Minsk Agreements]],

*are against “de-communization”,

*advocated for a settlement of the conflict in Donbass,

*are deemed to be “pro-Russian”.

Add into this maelstrom another layer of extra-judicial repression, in the form of impromptu justice being meted out to civilians, bound up, tied to posts,<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlCFEDxkZz3T/</ref> beaten, humiliated and some killed as a result.<ref>https://youtu.be/OAyWmOcj0q8</ref> There are simply hundreds and hundreds of video clips and photos showing these events.  People are not only being tied up to street possts as suspected looters, but people are being bound up or arrested for being pro-Russian, for not being able to say the word ''Palyanytsya'' in Ukrainian.  Not every ethnic Russian speaker in Ukraine can speak good Ukrainian, and some have trouble pronouncing certain words in Ukrainian.  People have been reportedly killed for not pronouncing the shibboleth word correctly and thus assumed to be part of subversive Russian reconnaissance groups.

The so called” international community” has expressed no interest or desire to take a closer look at this disturbing situation in Ukraine. A highly repressive with systematic serious human rights abuses committed against civilians, by members of the military and police, has not been an impediment to being part of the European and NATO family.

On January 16, 2022 Ukraine mandated that all print media are to switch to the Ukrainian language. State Language Protection Commissioner Taras Kremin said in a [[Facebook]] post, "In accordance with the law, print mass media can be produced in other languages, on the condition that the number of copies issued in a foreign language is equal to the number of copies issued in the state language [Ukrainian].  All language versions must be issued under the same name and be equal to each other in terms of content, volume, printing techniques. They must enter circulation under the same number and on the same day."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1388729</ref>

===Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas===

{{See also|Ethnic cleansing in the Donbas}}

The [[Donbas war]] began in 2014 when the [[Obama administration]]-backed [[Maidan coup]] overthrew the [[democracy|democratically]] elected president of Ukraine.<ref>https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/03/how-why-us-government-perpetrated-2014-coup-ukraine/</ref>  [[President Viktor Yanukovych]]'s election had been certified by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).  He was the first democratically elected official overthrown in a violent revolution in recent memory.  The U.S.-backed [[coup]] was accomplished with the aid of anti-Russian [[neo-Nazi]]s in Ukraine. It was an unconstitutional [[regime change]].

[[File:Alley of Angels.PNG|right|300px|thumb|The Alley of Angels commemorates children killed by Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk during the 8 years of the [[Donbas war]].]]

[[Crimea]] held a referendum and rejoined Russia rather than live under an illegal government.  However, Russia did not accept the results of the [[Donetsk]] and [[Lugansk]] referendums in the Don River Basin, collectively known as Donbas.  [[Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk]] declared independence from [[Kyiv]] and became known as the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

Hromadske TV media is one of the most-watched networks in Ukraine.  Hromadske is funded by the [[Dutch]] and US Embassies in Kyiv, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the European Endowment for Democracy, and Free Press Unlimited. [[Silicon Valley]] [[oligarch]] Pierre Omidary was also involved in creating the outlet.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/ukraine-propaganda-war-international-pr-firms-dc-lobbyists-cia-cutouts/280012/</ref>  Hromadske hosted Ukrainian Nazi journalist Bogdan Boutkevitch<ref>https://beyondhighbrow.com/2014/08/03/us-supported-ukrainian-nazi-calls-for-killing-1-5-novorussians/</ref> during the Maidan coup demanding [[genocide]] of ethnic Russians saying Donbas,

{{quotebox-float|"is severely overpopulated with people nobody has any use for. Trust me I know what I am saying. If we take, for example, just Donetsk oblast, there are approximately 4 million inhabitants, at least 1.5 million of them are superfluous. We don't need to "understand" Donbass, we need to understand Ukrainian national interests. Donbass must be exploited as a resource, which it is. I don't claim to have a quick solution recipe, but the most important thing that must be done - no matter how cruel it may sound, there is a certain category of people that MUST BE EXTERMINATED.<ref>https://youtu.be/S9SOVarOFJk</ref>}}

A truce was negotiated between the two separatist Republics and the Kyiv regime in 2015 in the [[Belarus]]ian capital of [[Minsk]] and known as the Minsk Agreements.  The Agreements were negotiated with the help of [[France]] and [[Germany]].  [[Moscow]] backed the Minsk Agreements which Kyiv also agreed to, and the [[United Nations Security Council]] endorsed the agreements as well. The Minsk Agreements would give autonomy to the two provinces while remaining part of Ukraine.  However the Ukraine regime did nothing to further implement the agreements after 2015, and only a ceasefire for the use of heavy weapons (tanks and artillery) remained in place.

As of 2021, 13,000 people have been killed in the conflict.<ref>https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/29thReportUkraine_EN.pdf</ref>

[[File:You are trash that must be wiped off the face of the earth.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukrainian TV host calls for the extermination of Russian families and children.<ref>https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/ukrainian-tv-show-host-fakhruddin-sharafmal-calls-for-genocide-of-russians-including-children/</ref>]]

While the Soviet Union was successful in denazifying the German population of [[East Germany]] in the post-World War II period, armed resistance by Ukrainian fascists continued until 1954.<ref>https://www.academia.edu/6387532/War_against_the_UPA_1944_1954_Soviet_Counterinsurgency_Challenge_in_Western_Ukraine</ref>  The Soviet Union never was completely successful in denazifying the Ukrainian population as it had the German.  This was due to a resistance insurgency spread out over a much greater expanse. Schools, the [[civil service system]], and the military were de-nazified, and the armed fascist resistance went underground. Some moved abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora.  Display of Nazi flags, insignia, and [[holocaust denial]] were made illegal in Soviet times as it had been in [[West Germany]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[Austria]], [[Denmark]] and much of Western Europe. Since 1991 however the freedom of expression has allowed the children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators to move above ground again and express a lingering [[xenophobic]] hatred for anything Russian after the experiences of the [[holodomor]] and the unjust persecution of the families of Nazi collaborators in the [[Cold War]] period by the Soviet communist regime.

Many of these children and grandchildren of Nazi collaborators moved back into the Ukrainian civil service after 1991, or became active leaders of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian resistance abroad in the Ukrainian diaspora, in the United States, in the [[UK]], in the Atlantic alliance, in NATO, and in Western Europe. Ex-patriot Ukranian nationalists were instrumental in organizing the 2014 [[Euromaidan coup]], and beginning in late 2015, the [[Trump-Russia collusion]] hoax in an effort to solidify the [[regime change]] in a Clinton administration.

[[File:Safari.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who  accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]]

Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha. This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page.  The translated post accompanying the video says:

{{quotebox-float|“March 31 – the day of the liberation of Bucha. This was announced by Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers."<ref>https://youtu.be/BL8R6K5VdtI?t=519</ref>}}

There was no mention of a massacre of hundreds of civilians littering the streets. Evidence of crimes appeared only on the fourth day after the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/04/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/</ref>

[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym killing civilians in the Bucha massacre, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]

''The New York Times'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022 and did not report a massacre.  Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.”  The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said.  In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings:

{{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:

:''‘Special forces have begun a clearing operation in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region, which has been liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city is being cleared from saboteurs and accomplices of Russian forces.’''<ref>https://en.lb.ua/news/2022/04/02/12441_special_forces_regiment_safari.html</ref>

The Russian military has by now completely left the city, so this sounds for all the world like reprisals. The state authorities would be going through the city searching for ‘saboteurs’ and ‘accomplices of Russian forces.’ Only the day before [Friday], Ekaterina Ukraintsiva, representing the town council authority, appeared on an information video on the Bucha Live Telegram page wearing military fatigues and seated in front of a Ukrainian flag to announce ‘the cleansing of the city.’ She informed residents that the arrival of the Azov battalion did not mean that liberation was complete (but it was, the Russians had fully withdrawn), and that a ‘complete sweep’ had to be performed.”}}

{{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}}

Former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, Ilya Kiva said that the story in Bucha was planned and prepared in advance by the [[counterintelligence]] of Ukraine, with the assistance of the British [[MI6]]. Kiva said,  

{{quotebox-float|"The whole story in Bucha was prepared and planned in advance by the SBU and [[MI6]]. They arrived early in the morning, cordoned off the area, scattered the corpses and then sent [[journalist]]s there. That's why that clown Zelensky even came back. To raise the interest of the international press in the alleged tragedy, but it's all a pure fake. Why didn't such a situation take place in other areas? Don`t you understand that it was staged in advance, which was supposed to arouse the aggression and hatred in you first of all. But it didn't happen."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ot894JsANM</ref>}}

All the corpses wore white arm bands which were distributed by the Russian military to identify civilian non-combatants, who then became the victims of Ukrainian security forces as collaborators in reprisal actions.  Some alleged corpses sat up after television cameras filmed them.<ref>https://rumble.com/vzl3qf-evidence-of-bucha-false-flag.html</ref><ref>https://southfront.org/leaked-recording-allegedly-confirms-massacre-in-bucha-was-staged-by-ukrainian-militants/</ref> Ukrainian television showed footage of Ukrainian security forces dragging corpses into place for the TV cameras.

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandara (OUNb) worked hard to start a war between the US and Russia for the last 50 years. According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'' in a rare open statement of their existence in 2011, “Other statements were issued in the Ukrainian language by the leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (B) and the International Conference in Support of Ukraine. The [[OUN|OUN (Bandera wing)]] called for." OUNb follow the same political policy and platform that was developed in the 1930s by '''[[Stepan Bandera]]'''. When these people go to a '''[[Holocaust]]  memorial they are celebrating both the dead and the OUNb [[SS]] that killed.'''<ref>http://www.infoukes.com/galiciadivision/</ref> The OUNb have no concept of democratic values and want an [[authoritarian]] [[fascism]].

[[Alexandra Chalupa]] (Ali Chalupa) is a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the [[Democratic National Committee]].  According to the ''Ukrainian Weekly'',<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/2014-ukrainians-in-the-u-s-advocates-for-ukraine/</ref>

{{quotebox-float|… “The effort, known as Digital Miadan, gained momentum following the initial Twitter storms. Leading the effort were: Lara Chelak, Andrea Chalupa, Alexandra Chalupa, Constatin Kostenko and others.” The Digital Maidan was also how they raised money for the coup. This was how the Ukrainian emigres bought the bullets that were used on Euromaidan. Ukraine’s chubby nazi, Dima Yarosh stated openly he was taking money from the Ukrainian emigres during Euromaidan and Pravy Sektor still fundraises openly in North America. The “Sniper Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine by Dr. Ivan Katchanovski, University of Ottowa shows clearly detailed evidence how the massacre happened. It has Pravy Sektor confessions that show who created the “heavenly hundred. Their admitted involvement as leaders of Digital Maidan by both Chalupas is a clear violation of the Neutrality Act and has up to a 25 year prison sentence attached to it because it ended in a coup.}}

Andrea Chalupa-2014, in a ''Huff Post'' article Sept. 1 2016, Andrea Chalupa described Sviatoslav Yurash as one of Ukraine's important “dreamers.” He is a young activist that founded Euromaidan Press. Beyond the gushing glow what she doesn't say is who he actually is. Sviatoslav Yurash was Dmitri Yarosh's spokesman just after Maidan. He is a hardcore Ukrainian nationalist and was rewarded with the Deputy Director position for the UWC (Ukrainian World Congress) in Kiev.

[[File:Azov-bn.gif|left|350px|thumb|The Obama State Department colluded with the fascist Azov Battalion to overthrow the democratically elected government of Ukraine in the [[Euromaidan Rebellion]] and install a corrupt regime that was sympathetic to, and included, fascists.]]

In January, 2014 when he showed up at the Maidan protests he was 17 years old. He became the foreign language media representative for Vitali Klitschko, Arseni Yatsenyuk, and Oleh Tyahnybok. All press enquiries went through Yurash. To meet Dimitri Yurash you had to go through Sviatoslav Yurash as a ''Macleans'' reporter found out.

At 18 years old, Sviatoslav Yurash became the spokesman for Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under Andrei Paruby. He was Dimitri Yarosh's spokesman and can be seen either behind Yarosh on videos at press conferences or speaking ahead of him to reporters. From January 2014 onward, to speak to Dimitri Yarosh, you set up an appointment with Yurash.

Andrea Chalupa has worked with Yurash's Euromaidan Press which is associated with Informnapalm.org and supplies the state level hackers for Ukraine.

From her bi, Irena Chalupa is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center. She is also a senior correspondent at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), where she has worked for more than twenty years. Irene Chalupa previously served as an editor for the [[Atlantic Council]], where she covered Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Irena Chalupa is also the news anchor for Ukraine's propaganda channel org She is also a Ukrainian emigre leader.

According to Robert Parry's article,<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2016/10/22/washingtons-new-lock-step-march-of-folly/</ref>  "At the forefront of people that would have taken senior positions in a Clinton administration and especially in foreign policy are the Atlantic Council. Their main goal is still a major confrontation with nuclear-armed Russia."

The [[Atlantic Council]] is the think tank associated and supported by the CEEC (Central and Eastern European Coalition).  The CEEC has only one goal which is war with Russia. Their question to candidates looking for their support in the election was “Are you willing to go to war with Russia?” Hillary Clinton has received their unqualified support throughout the 2016 campaign. Since the Atlantic Council would have taken senior cabinet and policy positions in a [[Hillary Clinton]] administration, Dimitri Alperovitch own fellowship status at the Atlantic Council and relationship with Irene Chalupa creates a definite [[conflict of interest]] for [[Crowdstrike]]'s investigation on May 2014 [[DNC]] hack which Crowdstrike blamed on Russia and the [[Comey]] [[FBI]] unquestionably accepted without investigating. Donald's Trump's campaign was gaining ground and Clinton needed a boost.

===Euromaidan coup===

[[File:Nuland-in-ukraine.jpg|left|3O0px|thumb|Maidan coup conspirators [[Oleh Tyahnybok]] (left), U.S. Asst. Sec. of State Victoria Nuland (center), Yarsenyi Yatsenyuk, and (right) Vitali Klitschko (rear).<ref>https://youtu.be/vtKgW2DSIb0</ref>]]

The National Endowment for Democracy was set up in 1983 after a series of scandals undermined both the credibility and the public image of the [[CIA]]. The organization was established as a cutout doing much of the agency’s dirtiest work. “It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA,” Gershman himself said, explaining its creation. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” NED cofounder Allen Weinstein told ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in 1991.

NED is almost entirely funded by Congress and is staffed largely by ex-national security state leaders. Its president as of 2022 is Damon Wilson.  The NED published a video of Wilson at a rally outside the [[White House]], declaring "Glory to Ukraine" – the salute used by Nazi collaborator [[Stephan Bandera]]'s [[OUN-B]], which carried out [[mass murder]] of [[Jews]] and [[Polish|Poles]] during [[World War II]].<ref>https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1500899917300129795</ref>  Other top officials pepper NED’s board of directors, including [[Biden regime]] CIA Director [[William Burns]], Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and 2014 Ukrainian Maidan revolution mastermind [[Victoria Nuland]], as well as veteran national security official Elliott Abrams.  Its private non-profit status means that its affairs do not fall under the same legal scrutiny as those of government organizations like the CIA.  It has no congressional oversight. It is harder to acquire documents under the [[Freedom of Information Act]] (FOIA), meaning that the group’s actions remain shrouded in secrecy.

Studying the NED grants database reveals that the organization has approved 334 separate grants to Ukraine, a country the group’s 2019 annual report identified as its “top priority,” owing to “its size and importance for the Europe region.” The report notes that NED is focused on “counter[ing] foreign [i.e., Russian] malign influence, particularly disinformation and corrosive capital.” Of the European nations, only Russia itself has been the target of more NED money ($37.7 million to Ukraine’s $22.4 million).  NED is rather hazy about where its money is going, yet scrutinizing the vague project outlines, it becomes clear that NED has two major objectives in Ukraine:

[[File:Oleh Tyanhbok.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Tyahnybok: "[[Moscow]]-[[Jewish]] mafia" is running Ukraine.<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/05/corporate-medias-about-face-on-ukraines-neo-nazis/</ref>]]

:Building up political parties that will represent elite U.S. interests.

Of the $22.4 million, over $2.9 million has been awarded to the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an offshoot of the [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]].  One NED grant to the CIPE — worth $500,000 described the project’s goal as “enhanc[ing] the role of leading business associations and the private sector in public policy decision-making, and improv[ing] the capacity of the private sector and officials to cooperate to develop and implement economic reforms.” In other words, to hand over government decision-making to big business, something many might argue is the antithesis of [[democracy]].<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>

The post-2014 government, installed after the Maidan Revolution, has already implemented a course of economic shock therapy, selling off many of the country’s state-owned assets, in the process turning Ukraine into, by quite some margin, the poorest nation in Europe (although it has also helped create many new billionaires). Nevertheless, the U.S. wants to see further privatizations, along the lines of what it helped implement in Russia in the 1990s.

NED has also been key in building up pro-U.S. political forces in Ukraine, notably awarding the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) nearly $2.2 million towards this endeavor. Congress established NDI in tandem with NED; and NDI, like its sister organization, claims to be a non-governmental organization, despite being affiliated with the [[Democratic Party]]. Its chairperson is [[Madeline Albright]], secretary of state under the [[Clinton administration]].

One $595,000 grant describes how NDI will “help political parties develop into inclusive, national movements,” and will “assist parties in the development of inclusive, internal communication and decision making procedures” and “conduct public opinion research and trainings to help parties better understand and respond to citizens, including those outside of their traditional geographical bases of support.” A less charitable interpretation of the grant would be that the U.S. government is taking over the political direction and organization of Ukrainian political parties, molding them as they see fit.

[[File:Biden and neo-nazis.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Biden shaking hands with [[Oleh Tyanhbok]].<ref>https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1112498132489814017</ref>  Following the 2011 conviction of Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk as an accessory to murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp, Tyahnybok met with Demjanjuk’s lawyer, presenting Demjanjuk as a Ukranian national hero, a victim of persecution ‘’who is fighting for truth."<ref>https://thesaker.is/ukraine-fascisms-toe-hold-in-europe/</ref>]]

In tandem with the support of political blocs also comes the grooming of young political and social activists who NED hopes will become the leaders of tomorrow. To this end, it has given at least $385,000 to the European Institute for Democracy in Warsaw, in order to, in its words, “support a new generation of political leaders in Ukraine,” by conducting training courses for their handpicked proteges, flying them out of the country to provide lessons in “election campaigning, women empowerment, effective governing, and crisis management,” among other skills.

|colspan="3"|<hr/>'''Left''' Ukrainian girls mixing [[Molotov cocktail]]s<br>'''Right''' Ukrainian girls carrying Molotov cocktails to the Odessa Trade Unions House in Ukrainian flag.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref>

Another key focus for NED is to establish and support pro-Western media outlets and [[NGO]]s that backed both the 2014 overthrow of Yanukovych and the new government’s privatization agenda. This is all couched as “promoting independent media.” But in reality, it is creating a network largely dependent on and answerable to Washington.  One example of this is the Ukraine Crisis Media Center, which consistently publishes studies about “Russia’s efforts to distort facts” and scare stories about an impending Russian invasion, while inviting the British ambassador to give talks at its headquarters. Ukraine Crisis describes its vision of Ukraine as an “outpost of freedom and democratic development in Eastern Europe,” and an “integral part of the West.” Ukraine Crisis is directly funded by a number of different U.S. governmental organizations, as well as by NATO and the governments of Germany, [[Canada]], the United Kingdom, [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Poland]], [[Finland]] and the [[Netherlands]].

Most of the media organizations NED funds also maintain English-language versions of their websites. This is because many of these groups are used to influence Western audiences as well as individuals inside the target country, Ukraine. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), for example, has been supported financially since 2016 and has received at least $204,000 from NED. It plays an important role in injecting U.S. government narratives into American media reporting, having been presented simply as a “human rights group” in a wide range of outlets, including ''The Washington Post'', ''[[USA Today]]'' and ''[[The New York Post]]''. None of these articles inform readers that CCL is directly in the pay of a CIA front group, precisely because it would undermine their credibility.

Media networks directly owned and operated by the U.S. state, including [[Radio Free Europe]]/Radio Liberty and [[Voice of America]], also frequently use CCL as an expert source. This gives the impression that there is a sizable groundswell of individuals all focusing on the same issue when, in reality, it is simply operatives from the same source (the U.S. government) all interacting with each other.

[[File:Revolution of Dignity.PNG|right300px|thumb|Burnt victims of the "[[Revolution of Dignity]]."<ref>https://archive.fo/1XFO5</ref>]]

On April 16, 3014 ''[[Forbes]]'' reported  Obama CIA Dir. [[John Brennan]]'s visited the new undemocratically elected [[Obama administration]]-backed regime in Kyiv.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref>  Two weeks later on May 2, 2014 Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 42 Russians, most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building.<ref>https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html</ref> 

According to eyewitnesses the Maidan fascists outnumbered the anti-Kyiv protesters 10 to 1.  First the Maidan activists burnt down the tents of anti-Kiev regime protesters outside the building. The anti-Kiev protesters retreated into the building and tried to blockade the door.  A group of Maidan girls filled up Molotov cocktails.<ref>https://archive.fo/29yFk</ref> The Maidan protesters began throwing Molotov cocktails. Soon the building was engulfed in flames.  A Maidan activist was shooting at people trying to escape from the windows.<ref>https://youtu.be/s-bpkx0d1fM</ref>  The Maidan fascist crowd began cheering as they set the building ablaze and beat those who tried to escape.  A fire station less than a kilometer away couldn't respond.  The Maidan activists blocked the lone fire truck and wouldn't let the firefighters operate.

Some eyewitnesses claim the real number is over a hundred.  The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>https://archive.fo/Gt4UV</ref> The Western-backed Kyiv regime covered up the atrocities, most victims being ethnic Russian citizens of Ukraine.  Sixteen months later after conducting in independent outside investigation, the United Nation's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights condemned the Kyiv regime's [[cover-up]] of the [[mass murder]] at the Odessa Trade Unions Building.<ref>http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E</ref>

In February 2014, Russian soldiers landed in Crimea.<ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/crimea-a-gift-to-ukraine-becomes-a-political-flash-point</ref>  Because some of the people currently living in Crimea are ethinic Russians, there was a dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to Russia.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref>  On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref>  The Crimean Peninsula—82% of whose households speak Russian, and only 2% mainly Ukrainian—held a plebiscite on March  16, 2014 on whether or not they should join Russia, or remain under the new Ukrainian government. The Pro-Russia camp won with 95% of the vote. The UN General Assembly, led by the US, voted to ignore the referendum results on the grounds that it was contrary to Ukraine’s constitution. This same constitution had been set aside to oust [[President Yanukovych]] a month earlier.<ref>https://fair.org/home/what-you-should-really-know-about-ukraine/</ref> 

In response to the annexation, Sen. [[John McCain]] introduced the [[Magnitsky Act]] granting the president power to impose sanctions against persons anywhere in the world at his discretion.  On March 6, 2015 the German government expressed concern over Washington warhawks aggressive stance toward resolving crisis in Ukraine, and accused Obama's NATO commander of using false data to inflate and exaggerate size of "Russian threat".<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/germany-concerned-about-aggressive-nato-stance-on-ukraine-a-1022193.html</ref>

===Obama/Biden collusion with neo-Nazis===

[[File:Azov Battalion.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Members of the [[Azov Battalion]] with the NATO flag (left) Azov mascot (center) and [[Swastika]] (right). The NATO flag represents [[globalism]]; the ''[[Cyrillic]]'' A3OB in the center spells AZOV; and the swastika represents the NATO and globalists' [[Russophobic]] allies in Ukraine. A Ukrainian court found elements in the Ukrainian government [[collude]]d with the [[DNC]] to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 12, 2018. National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director '''[[Artem Sytnyk]]''' and legislator '''[[Serhiy Leshchenko]]''' broke the law by revealing [[Manafort]]'s name. The disclosure “led to interference in the electoral processes of the [[United States]] in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state,” the court said. https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html<br>In October 2019, an audiotape of Sytnyk was release discussing his efforts to help Hillary during the 2016 election. He and Leschenko were responsible for publishing the Black Ledger which forced Paul Manafort to resign from Trump’s campaign.<br>https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-audio-email-evidence-shows-dnc-colluded-with-ukraine-to-boost-hillary-by-harming-trump-report-says</ref>]]

In January 2016 the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington.<ref>[https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost].</ref>  The meeting brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with [[Eric Ciaramella]]<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> and members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).  Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one involving Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and one involving Paul Manafort's lobbying firm, linked closely to then-candidate Trump.

U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said [[Andrii Telizhenko]], then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting.  Telizhenko said U.S. officials said that they had an interest in reviving a closed 2014 investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions.  That 2014 investigation was focused on Manafort.  The FBI closed the case without charging Manafort.  DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) if they could help find new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans.  “It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” Telizhenko said.

 

Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the NABU, after Manafort was named Trump’s campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.”  Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media.  “I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort. For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial.”

[[File:Burisma Board Dir Hunter Biden.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Burisma Board Director Hunter Biden, appointed April 14, 2014 at $163,000 per month.<ref>https//archive.fo/aNhttps://archive.fo/wip/aNyOqyOq</ref>  Biden spoke no Ukrainian nor had any knowledge or experience in the oil and gas field.]]

Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case.  “Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public.”  Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel [[Gregory Craig]], also received money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”

Manafort joined Trump’s campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016.  NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016.

A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU’s release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine’s parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Hillary Clinton.

The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden and [[Devon Archer]]'s firm in 2014-15, bank records show.

U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire [[Victor Shokin]], Ukraine’s chief prosecutor in March 2016.  The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions. "Unfortunately, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., was not invited to join the DOJ and other law enforcement-sector meetings."

Telizhenko’s claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ’s own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]], his wife, [[Nellie Ohr]], and ex-British spy [[Christopher Steele]].  Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for [[Fusion GPS]], that was hired by Clinton’s campaign and DNC to find dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband Bruce during the election.

DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband Bruce and two DOJ prosecutors to the discovery of the “Black Ledger” files that led to Manafort’s prosecution.  “Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.

Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele.  The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.

''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.

{{quotebox-float|"On 21 July 2016, Amnesty International had issued ''“Torture and secret detention in Ukraine – new report”''. It said, for example: “The Ukrainian authorities and pro-Kiev paramilitary groups have detained civilians suspected of involvement with or supporting Russian-backed separatists, while the separatist forces have detained civilians suspected of supporting or spying for the Ukrainian government, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch found. In one case, ‘Vadim,’ 39, was detained and tortured first by one side, then the other. In April last year, armed men seized him at a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces, pulled a bag over his head, and questioned him about his alleged connections with Russia-backed separatists. Vadim spent more than six weeks in captivity, most of the time in a facility apparently run by Ukraine’s Security Service ([[SBU]]) personnel. His interrogators tortured him with electric shocks, burned him with cigarettes, and beat him, demanding that he confess to working for Russia-backed separatists. After they finally released him, Vadim returned to [[Donetsk]] and was immediately detained by the local de facto authorities, who suspected him of having been recruited by Ukraine’s Security Service during his time in captivity. He spent more than two months in incommunicado detention in an unofficial prison in central Donetsk, where his captors also beat and ill-treated him.”

The entire report is 42 pages, and Vadim’s case is summarized on its page 6, at the start of the Report’s “Summary.” Nowhere in the Report is that term “ill-treated” defined. However, that same page also employs the phrase “torture and other forms of ill-treatment.” Consequently, one may reasonably infer that “torture” relates to only the worst forms of “ill-treatment.” Though “torture” was alleged regarding Vadim’s allegations against Ukraine’s government, the term “ill-treatment” was alleged regarding his allegations against the breakaway republics.  

There is every indication that Ukraine’s present Government is nazi-controlled, but neither in the breakaway republics nor in Crimea is the Government [[racist]]-[[fascist]] (or “[[nazi]]”): they are the exact opposite — intensely anti-nazi — and so, too, is Russia’s Federal Government. Whereas America and its [[CIA]] brought in and protected many thousands of Nazis after [[WW II]], the [[Soviet Union]] did the opposite: searched for them and killed them. Today’s Russia is continuing that aspect of its predecessor’s policies.  Allegations in [[The West]] to the contrary are not merely [[lie]]s: they are [[obscene]], vicious, anti-historical, lies, which come from the true heirs of (in fact, the modernized versions of) [[Hitler]], Gehlen, and [[Goebbels]]."}}

[[File:Ukrainian Nazi pig fat.PNG|right|300px|thumb|A Ukrainian National Guardsman dips bullets in lard saying "Muslim friends, you won’t be allowed into heaven in our country.” The threat was aimed at Chechen fighters in the Russian Army. Twitter labeled it hateful content in the public interest.<ref>https://www.rt.com/russia/550815-pork-bullets-muslims-ukraine/</ref> Azov nationalist Artyom Bonov, who threatened the Chechen army and promised to play football with their heads, fled to Poland.<ref>https://fr.news-front.info/2022/03/21/le-nationaliste-dazov-artyom-bonov-se-cache-en-pologne-video/</ref> ]]

In early December 2021 it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops against the Donbas against 15,000 separatist forces.<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref>  Trump-Russia hoaxer and Biden [[DNI]] [[Avril Haines]]<ref>https://the-war-economy.medium.com/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6</ref> alleged that Russia had massed 100,000 troops at the border with Ukraine and was planning an invasion.  By April 2022, Western analysts began saying the earlier estimates of Russian forces were exaggerated.<ref>https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-3/</ref>  In late December 2021 [[Jake Sullivan]] said a four-week window was left to prevent such an invasion and that if it were to happen the sanctions against Russia "would be overwhelming, immediate and inflict significant cost on the Russian economy and their financial system."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/politics/joe-biden-russia-ukraine-obama-2014/index.html</ref>  Germany had called upon the US not to impose sanctions, insisting that doing so will "damage transatlantic unity", ''Axios'' reported,<ref>[https://www.axios.com/germany-nord-stream-sanctions-congress-ukraine-4d28940b-dc3b-4b19-9d16-c122da6d113c.html Scoop: Germany urges Congress not to sanction Putin’s pipeline], Zachary Basu, ''Axios'', Nov 28, 2021.</ref> citing newly obtained German documents dated November 19, 2021 and marked as "classified":

{{quotebox-float|"US Sanctions targeting [[Nord Stream 2]] would undermine the commitment given to [[Germany]] in the Joint Statement, weaken the credibility of the US government, and endanger the achievements of the Joint Statement, including the provisions supporting Ukraine."<ref>https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21118732-germany-non-paper</ref>}}

The ongoing reality was a massive buildup and activity of [[NATO]] forces inside Ukraine, which Putin had warned about crossing Russia's red line days before Haines panicked statements.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/putin-accuses-nato-of-ignoring-russian-warnings-about-red-lines</ref>  [[CIA]] leaker [[David Ignatius]] told the ''Washington Post'' that the US was supporting an anti-Russian military insurgency in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/19/biden-ukraine-insurgents-russia/</ref>  Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref>

[[File:Ukrainian ambush in civilian neighborhood.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Armed Forces of Ukraine ambush point (purple circle} set up in a civilian residential neighborhood.<ref> https://rumble.com/vx17yd-jason-goodman-and-i-discuss-ukrainian-bioweapon-labs.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2</ref> The Ukrainian flag is visible in this photo before Russian forces arrived.]]

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reported that ten thousand NATO soldiers, including four thousand Americans, were already stationed and active in Ukraine. Drones and Stingers have been provided and used in eastern Ukraine.<ref>https://tass.com/world/1376191</ref> In light of all the threatening activity on its border, on December 17, 2021 President Putin presented two treaties to be signed, one with the US<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en</ref> the other with NATO,<ref>https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790803/?lang=en&clear_cache=Y</ref> the essence of which is that [[the West]] pledges not to threaten Russia's borders by offering membership to Ukraine or by arming and basing missiles in Ukraine.  Putin stated, "You are on our doorstep. We cannot back down."  Putin promised a response if the

Former U.S. ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock wrote in ''Krasno Analysis'' on December 14, 2021 that interference by the U.S. and its NATO allies in Ukraine's civil struggle has exacerbated the crisis within NATO and raised the specter a possible conflict between the nuclear powers. Russia is extremely sensitive about foreign military activity adjacent to its borders, as any other country would be, and as the United States has always been.  Russia has signaled repeatedly that it will stop at nothing to prevent NATO membership for Ukraine.  Ukraine's friends in Europe and America should help them understand, rather than Ukraine is pursuing what could

easily turn out to be a suicidal course.  He concluded, "back in October 1962 it was the U.S. southern border that was being approached closely by [[Soviet]] soldiers and missiles in [[Cuba]] which threatened the devastating first strike.  Today it is the relentless march of NATO, closer and closer to Russia's borders.  60 years ago [[president John F. Kennedy]] said. "within the past week unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island," and he said that "this is in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country."  President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove

and never again try to place nuclear-capable missiles and aircraft virtually on the U.S. border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to the U.S.<ref>https://ccisf.org/ambassador-jack-matlock-ukraine-tragedy-of-a-nation-divided/</ref>

President Putin's agreement proposed to Biden on December 7, 2021 was that the United States ensure that Ukraine would not join NATO and thereby have U.S. and NATO forces and missiles of various types placed right on Russia's border and in an area with a special and historical relationship to Russia.

Since April 15, 2022, [[Gonzalo Lira]], a Chilean-American Citizen Journalist, that criticized Western Media and the Zelenski Regime, is missing.

According to [[CNN]],<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/</ref> the US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it sent into Ukraine.  US officials and defense analysts say some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm.  Privately, officials recognize that Ukraine has an incentive to give only information that will bolster their case for more aid, "everything they do and say publicly is designed to help them win the war. Every public statement is an information operation, every interview, every Zelensky appearance broadcast is an information operation."

The Biden regime and NATO countries say they are providing weapons to Ukraine based on what the Ukrainian forces say they need, whether it's portable systems like Javelin or Stinger missiles.  Javelin and Stinger missiles and rifles and ammunition are harder to track than larger systems shipped by rail. Although Javelins have serial numbers, there is little way to track their transfer and use in real time. "I couldn't tell you where they are in Ukraine and whether the Ukrainians are using them at this point," a senior defense official told reporters. "They're not telling us every round of ammunition they're firing and who and at when."  Trucks loaded with pallets of arms provided by the US Defense Department are picked up by Ukrainian armed forces -- primarily in Poland -- and then driven into Ukraine.  The weapons then are transported back across the border in civilian vehicles. Some weapons ended up on the black market including anti-aircraft Stinger missiles, the same kind that shot down [[TWA Flight 800]].

Other weapons have ended up arming US adversaries. Much of what the US left behind to help Afghan forces became part of the Taliban arsenal after the collapse of the Afghan government and military. In 2020, the Defense Department inspector general released a report raising concerns about the end-use monitoring of weapons being sent to Ukraine.

====Digital ID====

The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits.  In Ukranian, the word “Diia” means “action,” but it’s also an acronym in that language, standing for “The State and Me.”  Digital passports and other official documents are now considered legally equivalent to their paper versions, making Ukraine the first country to accomplish this.  Some of the documents available via the app include citizens’ national identification card, a biometric passport, drivers’ licenses, vehicle registration certificates and insurance policies, voter ID, tax documents, birth certificates and [[COVID vaccine]] passport.<ref>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ukraine-government-converting-digital-id-system-wartime-tool/</ref>

''Wired'' magazine described Ukraine’s digital ministry, which operates the Diia app, as a “formidable war machine.”  The Diia app includes the following war-related features:

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, was praised by the [[World Economic Forum]] (WEF) for his work, in establishing the the Diia app.<ref>https://www.weforum.org/people/mykhailo-fedorov</ref>  Fedorov called for a crew of developers, designers, marketers and “security specialists” to join a volunteer “IT Army” — with 300,000 volunteers having been attracted.  The online army’s tasks include sharing the IP addresses of Russian websites and companies, in order for them to be targeted by [[DDoS]] (directed denial of service) attacks in an effort to knock them offline.

====Western propaganda apparatus====

 

The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.”  The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref>  This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>

 

====Treatment of Russian POWs====

[[File:Ukrainian nazis castrate Russians.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Former Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers instructed doctors to castrate Russian POWs "because they are cockroaches, not human."<ref>https://youtu.be/15UjP-H2CMA</ref>]]

Gennadiy Druzenko, a Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute and fellow at the Wilson Center in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/gennadiy-druzenko</ref> head of the Center for Constitutional Design,<ref>https://ccd.group/en/team/gennadiy-druzenko/</ref> a former researcher at the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University, and served as the Government Commissioner for Ethno-National Policy in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine<ref>https://independent.academia.edu/GennadiyDruzenko/CurriculumVitae</ref> who now operates a war-zone mobile hospital in eastern Ukraine told a Ukrainian Channel 24 TV interviewer that he had instructed his doctors to castrate captured Russian POWs.  Druzenko said:

{{quotebox-float|"I have always been a great humanist and said that if a man is wounded, he is no longer an enemy but a patient.  But now [I gave] very strict orders to castrate all [captured Russian] men, because they are cockroaches, not people."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10636597/Ukrainian-doctor-tells-TV-interviewer-ordered-staff-CASTRATE-Russian-soldiers.html</ref>}}

 

On March 27, 2022 very disturbing videos emerged of mistreatment of Russian POWs by Armed Forces of Ukraine. One video shows Russian soldiers with canvas bags over their heads and then beaten in the face with rifle butts.  The prisoners are shot in the kneecaps and genitals, and they are left on the ground to bleed to death.  Several vans then arrive at the Ukraine military compound in Kharkiv, and as each POW is removed from the van they are shot in the knees.  A second video shows Russian POW’s lying face down in a paved courtyard, or compound, and then being shot in the knees from the rear.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/27/zelenskyy-worried-about-western-financial-support-after-video-surfaces-showing-ukraine-military-torturing-russian-pows/</ref>

 

The country’s IT Army, a force of hackers and [[activist]]s that takes its direction from the Ukrainian government, says it has used those identifications to inform the families of the deaths of 582 Russians, including by sending them photos of the abandoned corpses.

Clearview AI’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told ''The Washington Post'' that more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge.  Clearview employees held weekly, sometimes daily, training calls over Zoom with new police and military officials looking to gain access. Ton-That recounted several “‘oh, wow’ moments” as the Ukrainians witnessed how much data — including family photos, social media posts and relationship details — they could gather from a single cadaver scan.  Some of tghe Ukraininas used Clearview’s mobile app to scan faces while on the battlefield.

 

 

U.S. Speaker of the House, [[Democrat]] [[Nancy Pelosi]] claimed U.S. support for Ukraine was to defend [[democracy]].  Vladimir Putin stated the invasion was to denazify Ukraine.

In Poland, [[Kamala Harris]] responded with her signature cackling laughter at the plight of refugees. The former press secretary for Volodymyr Zelensky posted on Twitter “It would be a tragedy if this woman won the presidency."<ref>https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/03/11/zelenskys-former-press-sec-levels-kamala-over-cackling-on-refugee-question-n534536</ref>

In a case of [[racial profiling]], Ukrainian fascist border guards murdered a refugee who was an [[Israel]]i citizen, with the Kyiv regime claiming the victim was mistaken for a Chechen.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-shot-dead-as-convoy-escaping-kyiv-comes-under-ukrainian-fire/</ref>

[[Christian]] refugees from Ukraine were turned away from the [[Biden border crisis|U.S. Southern border]] by the Biden regime.<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323842</ref>

Reports indicate 30 per cent of ‘Ukrainian refugees’ arriving in [[Western Europe]] claiming asylum status actually were from other countries, mostly from [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/15/30-per-cent-of-ukrainian-refugees-are-actually-from-other-countries/</ref>

 

=====Racist Western media reporting=====

{{See also|Systemic racism}}

Western journalists were criticized for their [[racism]] while reporting on the refugee migration from Ukraine. While Arab refugees were villainized and arrested, Ukrainians were welcomed with lavish benefits.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ministers-historical-deal-protect-ukraine-refugees/</ref>  Western reporters said they are "Europeans with blue eyes and blonde hair" and from a "civilized" country.<ref>https://youtu.be/KBRwmTVVKQk</ref>  The [[European Union]] was also criticized for welcoming displaced Ukrainians but holding back [[Syria]]ns and other refugees since 2015. The Ukrainians were being offered [[visa]]s and benefits, while Syrian refugees were still sleeping in tents. Critics called it a blatant [[double standard]].<ref>https://youtu.be/i1I1mhnJ-MQ</ref>

 

=====Ukrainian refugees refuse to go to Sweden=====

Ukrainian refugees refused to go to the [[rape]] capital of [[Europe]], Sweden.<ref>[http://conservative-headlines.com/2011/02/immigration-turns-sweden-into-rape-capitol-of-europe/ Immigration turns Sweden into rape capitol of Europe.]. conservative-headlines.com</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/uS7FqFuHYt8</ref>  In 2021 the German newspaper ''Bild'' ran a headline, "Sweden is the most dangerous country in Europe."<ref>https://rmx.news/article/sweden-is-the-most-dangerous-country-in-europe-writes-germanys-top-selling-newspaper/</ref>  Female refugees who were housed in a hostel in Sweden revealed how they were stalked, sexually harassed and intimidated by groups of [[Somali]] migrant men.  After the experience, some of those involved said they’d prefer to take their chances and return home to war-torn Ukraine.  “When there are bombs, I know at least that I can go down to the basement and hide there,” one woman told Swedish news outlet Samnytt.<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/25/ukrainian-refugees-dont-want-to-go-to-sweden-over-fears-for-their-safety/</ref>

Ukrainian mothers also heard rumors that in the so-called 'Western democracy' of Sweden, their children could be taken away by a corrupt liberal regime.

[[File:Ukraine 2022.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|]]

On March 6, 2022, during ceasefire negotiations to arrange humanitarian corridors for civilian safe passage out of urban areas, a Ukrainian negotiator was shot dead by the Ukrainian intelligence agency.  The Ukrainian government then hailed him as a hero.<ref>https://www.the-sun.com/news/4831656/ukraine-peace-negotiator-spy-shot-russia-kireev/</ref>

On March 29, 2022, ''Tass'' reported<ref>https://tass.com/world/1429119</ref> negotiations in [[Istanbul]] with the Kyiv regime included:

*permanent neutrality and non-aligned status

*guarantees of security

*restoration of the status of Russian language and rights of Russian-speakers

=====Referendums=====

The Zelensky regime threatened to end peace negotiations if referendums were held in the territories liberated from the Maidan regime and the people were allowed to exercise their democratic rights.<ref>https://ukranews.com/en/news/851974-ukraine-will-withdraw-from-negotiations-with-russia-if-invaders-hold-referendum-in-kherson-media</ref>

[[File:Ukrainian Nazis.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Ukrainian nazi flag.<ref>https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraine-uses-pig-fat-bullets-to-counter-russian-aggression/</ref>]]

Security forces are controlled by the president, although they are subject to investigation by a permanent parliamentary commission. Surveillance is permitted for reasons of national security.  

After 1991, Ukraine established its own military forces of about 780,000 from the troops and equipment inherited from the Soviet Union. Under defense reform legislation passed in 2004, Ukraine is strengthening civilian control of the military, professionalizing its non-commissioned officer (NCO) corps, adding neo-Nazi paramilitary groups to the national guard, modernizing force structure to improve interoperability with NATO, all with an eye toward achieving NATO standards. Current force levels are approximately 225,000 (plus 90,000 civilian workers in the Ministry of Defense). The Ministry of Defense plans to continue force reductions by approximately 20,000 personnel per year to reach a final end state of 143,000 by 2011. Ukraine's stated national policy is Euro-Atlantic integration, including with both NATO and the European Union. NATO offered Ukraine an "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Issues" in April 2005. Ukraine had previously signed an agreement with NATO on using Ukraine's strategic airlift capabilities and has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace exercises, in Balkans peacekeepi