From The Grayzone: The US House has approved another $40 billion for the proxy war in Ukraine, all while the realities on the ground are being concealed. Seth Harp, an investigative journalist, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and US Army veteran who recently reported from Ukraine, on the hidden realities of the dangerous conflict.
WATCH: Donbass: I'm Alive! Mariupol survivors of Ukrainian attacks find shelter
New RT documentary “It’s the Azov battalion. They forced people out of their houses and into basements. Then tanks started shooting from here, from there,” a Mariupol resident shared her story with the film crew. Over 400,000 people in Mariupol had to go underground because they couldn’t leave the city. The film tracks stories of people who had to survive in Mariupol under Ukrainian shelling. Sheltering in cellars and watching Ukrainian tanks firing at residential buildings. They have all gone through hell and back. Now they’re happy to be alive and hope for a new beginning. (Apr 26, 2022, 50 mins,)
New RT documentary examining what happened in Ukraine before Russia invaded in February, and how what's happening today is a result of consistent & systematic planning to form an ideology to dehumanize Russians. Ukrainian nationalists have been taught how to lead a war on social media, eventually launching a guided communication battle against the Russian people. The film examines the 2014 coup and actions of Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups like Azov, Aidar and Pravy Sektor and their continued glorification of Stepan Bandera who was a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator. Yet, in 2010, Bandera was pronounced a national hero, with torch-lit marches in his honor ever since. (Apr. 29, 2022, 27 mins,)
- “The US and NATO have always seen Ukraine as an instrument of containing Russia,” foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
- “It was the West that first instigated and then supported an anti-constitutional coup d’état in Kiev in 2014”
- “They [the US and its allies] de facto encourage Kiev to fight [Russia] to the last man by pumping [Ukraine] full of arms and sending their mercenaries” to its territory.
- What is happening right now is not a “new Cold War” but continued attempts by Washington and its allies to impose a “US-centric model of the world” on other nations.
- Now, the US is also seeking to pursue an “expressly anti-Chinese policy” in the Asia-Pacific region, the minister warned.
- Russia’s operation in Ukraine contributes to the process of “liberating the world from this neocolonialist yoke of the West, which is heavily based on racism and [American] exceptionalism”.
According to the White House, the massive request includes $20.4 billion in military aid, $8.5 billion in economic aid, and $3 billion in humanitarian assistance. The funds are meant to last through the 2022 fiscal year, which ends on September 30. (One week ago, the total amount the U.S had given to Ukraine was $3.8 billion).
