Numerous gunshots were heard as Ukrainian protesters confronted Russian troops in the city of Melitopol. It was not immediately clear if anyone was harmed by the gunfire.
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The world must do more to help. How can you give up on them when they’re showing bravery like that
Ppl u just dont even know how many things they are faking. Mb more than 100 videos is fake as this one, 2022 year the quality not even from 2010, everytime check whole information, every where is liers
Salute all of you people of ukraine…all of you are true hero
Putin is a bloody murderer and a shameless liar! Putin is waging a ruthless, bloody genocide of all residents of Ukraine. He is introducing more and more military equipment and soldiers into Ukraine to defeat Ukrainians and occupy our Homeland! Therefore, Ukraine urgently needs to receive even more stingers and Javelins to protect itself and defeat this treacherous and merciless invader! They are necessary to protect the Ukrainian people from Putin's fascist troops, so that he could not surround and seize our cities, and could not shoot their inhabitants with rockets and tanks. We wholeheartedly want to defeat him and expel his troops back! This is a wonderful weapon that allows us to successfully destroy Putin's military equipment! However, the territory of military operations is so huge that only a small amount of it goes to specific units of the Ukrainian army! We ask for an increase in the supply of weapons, as they are necessary both to protect our people and our children, and to maintain security throughout Europe! Thank you for the help you have already provided! We really appreciate you and are incredibly grateful to you!
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Both sides will be Lost their lives, the quarrel of the adult world but the young generations will be Lost their lives ___The scariest world for innocent people to live on if the Boss never has the Buddha's Dhamma !
From Cambodia.
Screw it! Let’s start WWlll! I’ll come out of retirement and re-enlist!
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For eight years, the valiant West has been waging war in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8veOzd39VWI
Please keep them all sefe
It’s confirmed, all of them. Killed. Happy?🤗 Next five days will be more those footage, grab your pop corners and enjoy the show. European/US.
Looks like it’s clipped together…
0:22 hope that red pants guy is not an under cover Russian agent, I mean he is wearing red pants.
Great job Brandon! Just add this to his long list of failures! Let’s go Brandon! !
Shout out to George Floyd on 646 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals!
Someone anyone please tell me why those fighters planned to be donated to Ukraine didn’t fall through
Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.
May jesus christ god almighty blessed these brave ukrainian people
Biden is responsible for this because he allowed to dictator Putin destroy free and independent country and did absolutely nothing at all nothing
Fake news
The US government has unbound the legal regulations against using propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting the American and foreign people in controlled psy-ops.
The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has an amendment added that negates the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (SMA) and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987.
These laws made propaganda used to influence foreigners and US citizens illegal. Without these laws, disinformation could run rampant throughout our information junkets.
This amendment added to the NDAA has passed into implementation as of this month.
SMA defines the prohibition of domestic access to influence information through a variety of means, from broadcast to publishing of books, media, and online sources by restricting the State Department.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors was created from SMA. This agency claims to “inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy”. They omit that their specialty is making sure propaganda is added to the informational flow we all depend on.
The amendment sanctions the US government, without restriction, the use of any mode of message to control how we perceive our world.
As of now, the level of propaganda in the mainstream media (MSM) is quite high, with all of our television, printed media and internet sites associated with MSM owned by only 5 corporations.
Without these laws, the lies purveyed as truth to foreigners would find their way to our doorsteps as a purposeful operation enacted by our government. And in the name of national security, the US government could, and probably would, disseminate misinformation to gain public support for otherwise decidedly deplorable actions.
Amendment 114 of the NDAA was approved by the House in May of 2012.
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) reads:
Sec. 501. (a) The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication.
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, upon request and reimbursement of the reasonable costs incurred in fulfilling such a request, make available, in the United States, motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad.
According to Michael Hastings: “The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public. “It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”
Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) (H.R. 5736), advocate that it is time to liberate the authority of the US government to broadcast American produced foreign propaganda in the U.S.
The amendment, which was hidden within the NDAA, has remained relatively unnoticed. However, it empowers the State Department and Pentagon to utilize all forms of media against the American public for the sake of coercing US citizens to believe whatever version of the truth the US government wants them to believe.
All oversight is removed by Amendment 114. Regardless of whether the information disseminated is truthful, partially truthful or completely false bears no weight.
Thornberry believes that with the use of the internet by terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, the federal government needs to have the freedom to circulate their own propaganda to combat terrorism effectively.
“I just don’t want to see something this significant – whatever the pros and cons – go through without anyone noticing,” says one source on the Hill, who is disturbed by the law. According to this source, the law would allow “U.S. propaganda intended to influence foreign audiences to be used on the domestic population.”
Four billion dollars per year is spent by the Pentagon on propaganda aimed at the American public; as well as $202 million spent by the Department of Defense on misinformation operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2011.
Currently, the Pentagon is using “ sock puppet ” (fake handles) on social media sites to purvey false information, harass users and enact psy-ops to influence Americans.
A California corporation is working with the US Central Command (CENTCOM) in spreading propaganda overseas. They provide “online persona management service” that allows active duty military to set up an estimated 10 different false identities that are used worldwide.
Each fake persona comes complete with a background history and safeties to prevent “sophisticated adversaries” from discovering the lie.
CENTCOM spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable CENTCOM to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US.”
Sophisticated software allows the military to engage in online conversations with coordinated answers, blog comments and instant messaging remarks that are solely meant to spread pro-American propaganda.
US Army whistleblower, Lieutenant Col. Daniel Davis believes there is a definitive aspiration within the US government “to enable Public Affairs officers to influence American public opinion when they deem it necessary to “protect a key friendly center of gravity, to wit US national will.”
Edward Bernays would be proud.
When will the great people of Russia realize that they're being led by a coward? They must rise up and do what they know must be done, and remove him from power by any means necessary. Mother Russia this is not the stone ages, this is the civilized world and you are not barbarians. Please do what is right and make stop this war. The world is far far far far bigger than putin's parlor, and abounds great endless opportunities for you. To the war generals of the army of Russia and the whole soldiers of Russia, I call to you all to please follow your hearts and put an and to the cowardice of the mad man at the prime office of the beloved mother Russia. GOD bless you all, amen. 🙏
I really believe with need to get militarily involved. Sorry but we need to help stop this madness. I believe in our men and women and in our intelligence. We'll be alright but if we are going to deal with nuclear weapons I honestly think we need to strike first and wipe Russia off the map.
The truth about Ukraine 🇺🇦
In 18 seconds !! Zelenskyy sells out Ukraine – https://youtu.be/gJDj7LzmvaY
Zelensky Shot them
It took 41 days for Germany and THE USSR to capture poland
TODAY KYIV UKRAINE
TOMMOROW LA+WASHINGTON USA ATTACK ON BOTH SIDES
Soros's goons getting ruined.
TR💩MP thinks this invasion is "genius"
DONT FORGET WHO HE IS
ATTACKED OUR CAPITAL
ATTACKED OUR CONSTITUTION
ATTACKED OUR DEMOCRACY
A TRULY EVIL MAN
PUTIN
TR💩MP
BOTH NEED TO SUFFER THE FATE OF HITLER… CHASED DOWN BEATEN AND EADD
"march" w
tronald dumpsheep!🚶🔫 🐑
I FEEL SORRY FOR THE SECRET SERVICE ASSIGNED TO PROTECT THAT P O S 💩 TR💩MP
WHAT THE HELL PUTIN STILL KEEP DOING THIS AWFUL!!!!!!!!! STOP IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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In few days Ukranians will see the most unimaginable sufferings and losses.
With friends and brothers like Russia, who needs enemies.
Would love to see the russian soldiers turn on Putin!!
Fake video people don't walk calmly and stand still in the open when bullets are flying through the air.
Road Blocking that's worth while
Putin is still on Twitter! Democrats haven't said a word because it doesn't effect their poll numbers
You don't get to do the news anymore. Remind us how "everything" is Trump's fault losers! Altogether Bull Crap network. Russian Operative. LMAO. You lost all credibility, and we are watching you FAIL. We Love it. LOSERS! You would triple your viewership if you did real news like investigate that lying cheating Hillary. Russian Operative. Losers all of you who Hate Trump. You didn't give the man a chance because of "ALL" the horrific and TRAITORIST lies. He hurt your wittle feelwings.
how does a major news outlet have this footage but also have almost 0 context for the video itself?
That’s what they get for enslaving people over 400 years this is judgment now their own brothers are killing them by the sword
I like how Americans present themselves as doves of peace while it's them who break the international law all the time with bombings of Yugoslavia, Iraq (still looking for WMDs?), Libya and killings of innocent people by the US military in the Middle East and Afganistan. Do not expect Russia to behave in alliance with your national interests when you present an exestential military threat to Russia by expanding NATO at the expense of Russia's security and by withdrawing from crucial security treaties like the anti-ballistic missile treaty with the Soviet Union/Russia.
This white on white crime is crazy
Maybe Putin should say that Ukraine has weapons of mass destruction…that worked last time.
Don’t believe everything western propaganda tells you . Wake up!