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The Wall Street Journal publishes the "punishing peace terms" of Russia for Ukraine at the draft peace negotiations in 2022.

Key points of the deal include:

➡️ Ukraine potentially joining the EU but not military alliances like NATO

➡️Crimea remaining under unconditional Russian control. The future of the "LNR/DNR" to be determined in personal negotiations between Zelensky and Putin.

➡️Other occupied territories by Russia after February 24, 2022, were not mentioned in the article, but it was stated that Russian troops agreed to withdraw from them.

➡️Foreign weapons and troops cannot be sent to Ukraine, and the Ukrainian army was to be reduced to certain levels.

➡️The Russian language was to be used alongside Ukrainian in official spheres, but Ukraine did not agree to this. Ukraine rejected the proposal to exclude all mutual sanctions.

➡️Security for Ukraine in the agreement would be guaranteed by the P5.

➡️International security guarantees would not apply to Crimea and Sevastopol. Russia wanted Belarus to be added as a guarantor, while Ukraine wanted Turkey. In the event of an attack on Ukraine, Russia proposed that all guarantor states agree on a response, but Kyiv opposed this, wanting its airspace to be closed and requiring the guarantor states to establish a no-fly zone and provide weapons. Russia disagreed with this.

➡️The WSJ comments that this document "appears to be largely based on the 1990 treaty that created unified Germany." Negotiations continued until June 2022, including via Zoom, but ultimately, they ceased at Ukraine's initiative. "Ultimately, no deal was reached. The scale of Russian military crimes in Ukraine became apparent, Ukraine's military successes improved, and the West provided weapons to support Kyiv." It was previously stated by Arakhamia that Ukraine refused to sign a peace agreement in 2022, partly due to Boris Johnson's position.

🐻 "Punishing?" the deal looks absolutely sweetheart for Ukraine

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😳 ICYMI: “If Ukraine Falls, NATO Will Fight Against Russia” – Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin

"If Ukraine loses, Putin will not stop, he will continue to attack and seize the sovereign territory of his neighbors," Austin claimed during a House Armed Services Committee hearing.

Adding, "And if you're a Baltic country, you're very worried about being next. And that's why they know Putin, they know what he's capable of. And frankly, if Ukraine loses, I really believe that NATO will go to war with Russia."

Washington continues to ramp up the war rhetoric - could it be because the US’ military-industrial complex rakes in billions in profits during conflicts?

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🔴 Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for ‘Betrayal of Non-Profit Values’

Musk has initiated legal action against OpenAI, along with its CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, accusing them of breaching their founding principles. 

The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, alleges that OpenAI’s transition from a non-profit organization to a for-profit entity, particularly its affiliation with tech giant Microsoft – which jeopardizes the pursuit of artificial general intelligence for the betterment of humanity.

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❗️IDF Spox Blames Israeli Aid Massacre on “Mob” at Food Convoy – UK Channel 4 News Anchor Interrupts the Lies and Asks:

“When you say mob, do you mean starving people who have been deprived of food because you haven’t let the aid in?”

Earlier this week, Al Jazeera reported that some 2,000 aid trucks are stuck at the Rafah border crossing awaiting IDF approval to enter Gaza.

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🔴 NEW: Palestinian resistance fighters engage in urban warfare with IDF troops in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood

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🔥 JUST IN: “Israel Has No Ethical or Legal Limits” – Brazil Foreign Ministry

The killing of over 100 people seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza shows that Israel’s military action in Gaza has no “ethical or legal limits,” Brasilia said Friday – before once again calling for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict.

“Humanity is failing the civilians of Gaza. And it’s time to prevent further massacres,” Brazil’s foreign ministry noted in a statement.

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⚠️Hackers Steal “Sensitive” Data from Taiwan Telecom Giant

The "sensitive information" includes military and govt documents from Taiwan's largest telecom company – which was then sold on the dark web, the island's ministry of national defence has said.

Reports by local news included screenshots of a post by the hackers announcing they were "selling Chunghwa Telecom 1.7 TeraBytes of data" that included govt contracts.

Neither the ministry statement nor the TVBS report identified the hackers or said where they were located.

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❌ NEW: “What’s happening in Gaza is an attempt at genocide” - Erdogan

“A barbarism that condemns babies in their mothers' arms to hunger and thirst, bombs ambulances, and treacherously and dishonorably targets civilians waiting in line to receive food.”

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⚠️ Ukrainian Poison Seller Sends UK ‘Five Death Kits a Week’ – Chemical Linked to Over 100 Suicides in 🇬🇧 Alone

A Ukrainian supplier has been unmasked for allegedly selling a deadly poison to customers in the UK via a suicide forum – he denied selling the chemical when approached by the BBC outside his home in Kiev.

However, a BBC investigation found that Leonid Zakutenko has been supplying the substance for years - the chemical can legally be sold in the UK, but only to companies using it for a legitimate purpose, the BBC chose not to name the poison.

Zakutenko was described as a "contemptible and evil human being" by the family of twin sisters Linda and Sarah, who died in London last year after the Ukrainian supplied them with a “death kit” for just a “few pounds.”

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❌“Ukraine is Destroying Itself Demographically”: Erik Prince, Founder of Private Military Firm Blackwater

“We need to bring this war to a close because all Ukraine is doing right now is destroying itself demographically.

They’re chewing up the next generation of Ukrainian manpower that they really can’t replace right now. The Western defense base is pathetic and you’re not going to out-conventional war the Russian bear,” the former US Navy Seal said on the Patrick Bet-David podcast.

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☄️ NOW: At least 17 injured as car plows into crowd in Polish city of Szczecin – local official

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