Current Affairs Ukraine

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The UK media obfuscation of the withholding of $6Bn news should be ringing alarm bells for all those who still believe in a free press. Looks like some are coming around, slowly.

House rejects Ukraine aid in spending bill, despite Pentagon lobbying​

New government spending bill dramatically raises prospect Congress will reject Biden funding request for Ukraine.​



The House of Representatives approved a government spending deal Saturday on a bipartisan basis that left out aid to Ukraine, rejecting warnings from Pentagon officials who made a last-minute push for the assistance...

...“If you're telling the American people with a straight face you will shut down the American government over Ukraine, then shame on you,Lawler said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/30/ukraine-aid-government-shutdown/

Yeah, I read last night Biden was privately contacting the Ukrainian Government telling them that they won't forget them and that funds will again start flowing.

I think the conference in Kyiv on Friday with all the arms manufacturers and tech companies was a display put on with a U.S. political audience in mind: basically "we're going to be as self suffice as we can in the near future, so please don't turn off the taps."

I've said all along that the U.S. political cycle will dramatically affect the progress of this war, and the primaries aren;t even in motion yet.

On the EU: they have a real headache now. Hungary, Slovakia and possibly Poland all taking - to degrees - an alternative line on Ukraine. And that goes for Nato too.
 
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I see the slugs of the IMF are back in town again keeping an eye on their money.

The £15B loan deal they did back in March is going to be used as leverage to discipline Ukraine to maintain it's commitments to its creditor nations and a 6% interest payment on the IMF loans. Other stuff like 'restructuring' state industries, taxation and banking sector reforms are in the pipeline.
 

Deputy Speaker Tolstoy called for annexing four Ukrainian regions to Russia​

Vedomosti

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy said that Russia should annex four Ukrainian regions - Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions. According to the politician, this must be done because “Russian people live there.”

“Russia must return the rest of its lands: Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov regions - all the lands where our Russian people live, who were betrayed and abandoned 30 years ago, having invented an independent Ukraine, not caring about the interests of the inhabitants of these regions,” Tolstoy wrote in your Telegram channel.

On September 30, 2022, the President of Russia and the leaders of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions signed agreements on the regions’ inclusion in Russia. By presidential decree, this day is considered a holiday in the country.

 
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