Friday, March 11, 2022

Exposing cross-border blood drawing, live organ scams, biolabs in Ukraine

 Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA


News on CCP, Cambodia, Myanmar, Ukraine, Taiwan, disease control, U.S.

News (1) to (6) / Reporter : Jing Zhongming / Editor: Cheng Feihan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/10/a103370307.html / Image : Schematic diagram of blood draw, not related to news. (pixabay.com)




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Cambodia again exposes Chinese gangs drawing blood, selling live organs, Thais are also victimized


In recent years, there have been many reports that Chinese criminal gangs abducted people from the lower classes to engage in telecom fraud in Cambodia, and even took blood and sell organs. A few days ago, the Thai media disclosed that there are still many Thai people who have been victimized.

On 10 March 2022, several Thai media reported that the Thai police recently rescued 8 Thai citizens from Cambodia, including 1 man and 7 women. They were deceived by Chinese criminal gangs to Cambodia, engaged in telecom fraud, and some people had blood drawn, and they were almost sold by "slitting their organs".

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Victims of telecom fraud in Cambodia report electrocution, blood drawn, live organs harvested

One of the victims, a 25-year-old woman from Bangkok, told the Thai police that she was tricked into smuggling to Sihanoukville, Cambodia to "work for a Chinese company." It turned out that the so-called "work" was a telecom fraud, and she called back to Thailand to say Thais were deceived.

She was unwilling to do this "job", and as a result, she was imprisoned and abused by a Chinese criminal group, asking her to pay for "redemption". If she could not raise the money, she was electrocuted into a coma with an electric baton. She tried several times to escape and failed.

Before being rescued, she said, she had been blood drawn and electrocuted into a coma. Just as the criminal gang was about to harvest her organs, she was rescued by the authorities.

Another male victim also said that he had been in Cambodia for more than two months and did not know where he was. He only knew that he was locked in a small dark room and was electrocuted, waiting for blood to be drawn. He also said that at least three or four women would be heard crying at night.

The Thai Police Department said that after investigating the Chinese criminal group involved in the case, they found that the victim would have blood drawn, and after the blood was drained, the cornea, liver, kidney and other organs would be cut and sold.

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Nearly 3,000 Thais victimized

Nearly 3,000 Thai citizens have been tricked into Cambodia so far, the report said. Thailand and Cambodia will negotiate and launch actions in two weeks to eliminate the problem of illegal smuggling as soon as possible, so that Thais will no longer be victims of fraud gangs or human trafficking gangs.

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The blood drawing, live organ sale scams happen at the time of "Chain Woman" incident

In February 2022, when the "Chain Woman" incident in Xuzhou was fermenting, it was also revealed that a man from Jiangsu, China, was tricked into taking blood in Cambodia. His experience was similar to the experience of the above-mentioned Thai people. The difference is that he escaped at his own risk.

At that time, the CCP embassy in Cambodia and a number of CCP mouthpieces and party media had hyped up the matter, but most of them deliberately avoided the Chinese background of the criminal group and only vaguely claimed that "the Chinese were tricked into selling blood in Cambodia." A few days later, the party media quoted the "official Cambodian statement" as saying that the incident was "purely fabricated." Some analysts pointed out that the CCP may use this to divert people's attention from the "Chain Woman".

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Hun Sen administration ignore cases of live organ harvest scams according to independent media

At that time, unofficial media also quoted Cambodian internet celebrity A Long as saying that this kind of thing is very common in the local area. Chinese criminal gangs trick or abduct Chinese people to engage in online fraud. If these people cannot make "performance" or if they do not obey, they will be beaten, electrocuted, and finally resold, and then forced to sell blood and organs, and die after being squeezed out of the last bit of value.

He said that in the past two or three years, there have been disappearances and deaths of Chinese people around him from time to time. He heard that they were all caused by fraud and kidnapping, but the Cambodian government often turned a blind eye and did not disclose the real cause of death.

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Blood drawing scam in Myanmar

In November 2021, there were also media reports that the police in the Kokang Autonomous Region of Myanmar announced the arrest of 24 Chinese Anhui suspects. Human blood was drained and the victims died.


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Documents show U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine


Documents have dropped that support Russia’s claim that the United States government is funding biolabs in Ukraine to “create bioagents that can target certain ethnic groups.” In other words, the U.S. regime of Joe Biden has been overseeing a bioweapons factory to carry out ethnic genocide.

The newly dropped documents show agents of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) involved in the Ukraine biolabs. 

As we first reported at NATIONAL FILE, archived U.S. government records show that the United States Department of Defense has long been funding biolabs in Ukraine and elsewhere and Eastern Europe, and the Department of Defense has also used the Air Force and a base in San Antonio, Texas to study the human tissue and RNA material of Caucasian Russians.

Now, the Ukraine government is reportedly destroying some of this biolab material as Russia supports the pro-Russia separatists in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, which has been at war against Ukraine at least since 2014.

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Russia accuses the U.S. government of making race-based "bioagents", transporting insects and bats from lab

The Russians stated that “The Pentagon is also interested in insect vectors of dangerous infections, the analysis of documents confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats – fleas & ticks – from the biological laboratory in Kharkov abroad.”

“The available documents confirm numerous cases of the transfer of biological samples of Ukrainian citizens abroad. With a high degree of probability, we can say that one of the tasks of the United States and its allies is the creation of bioagents that can selectively affect various ethnic groups of the population,”stated Russian military official Igor Kirillov. Russia is backing up its claims with documents.

The USDA and CDC have been involved in the U.S.-backed effort to have a bunch of biolabs in Ukraine and elsewhere, according to dropped documents.

Some Pentagon-funded labs in Ukraine have been geo-located according to citizen sourcing.

As NATIONAL FILE reported: The United States government admitted to the existence of U.S. Department of Defense-funded biolabs in Ukraine. 

The Russian government has made stirring allegations regarding the contents of U.S.-funded Ukrainian labs, suggesting that the labs are home to bioweapons research that could be used against enemies of the globalist Western regime.

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San Antonio base studies human tissue and RNA material of Russians

 Meanwhile, the Department of Defense has used a base in San Antonio to study human tissue and RNA material exclusively from Caucasian Russians. 

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Records show U.S. Department of Defense has been funding biolabs of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine at no cost

U.S. State Department records show that in 2005 the U.S. Department of Defense made an agreement with Ukraine to fund biolabs to conduct research supposedly to stop the construction of bioweapons. The agreement states, “In order to assist Ukraine in preventing the proliferation of technology, pathogens, and expertise that are located at the Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Hygiene (Lviv), the Ukrainian Scientific Research Anti-Plague Institute (Odessa), the Central Sanitary Epidemiological Station (Kyiv), and other facilities in Ukraine identified by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, and that could be used in the development of biological weapons, the U.S. Department of Defense shall provide assistance to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine at no cost, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.”

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U.S. intelligence agency refutes rumours: Ukraine does not develop biological and chemical weapons

Reporter : Chen Beichen / Editor: Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/10/a103370374.html / Image : U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines (in the middle) testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on 10 March 2022. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)


U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said on Thursday (10 March) that Ukraine is not developing biological or nuclear weapons, which Russia may be spreading disinformation to cover up its actions against Ukraine during the war.

"We assess that Ukraine is neither seeking biological weapons nor nuclear weapons, which is basically some propaganda going on by Russia," Haynes told the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual hearing on 10 March.

According to Bloomberg, Haynes pointed to Russian officials' claims that Ukraine is seeking or using biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, a "classic" move by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who fabricated the blame for his potentially dangerous actions are excuses, that is, to create "false flags".

Haynes and other intelligence community officials said Ukraine, like other countries, does have biological research laboratories, but those laboratories are used for medical purposes to contain a pandemic or other outbreak, unlike biological weapons laboratories.

"This is an information war that I think Putin is losing," Haynes told lawmakers.

On the 9th, the White House and the Pentagon rejected the Russian allegations. Moscow says the United States is developing chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine. The CCP then responded to this propaganda.

U.S. officials have warned that Russia often uses such claims to justify its use of biological weapons.

“Now that Russia is making these false assertions, and China seems to endorse this propaganda, we should all be wary of the possibility that Russia could use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or use these weapons to create false flags. This is a A clear pattern," White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted on Wednesday.

The British Ministry of Defense said on the 9th that Russia has confirmed Ukraine's allegations that the Russian army used the thermobaric weapon system TOS-1A, or "vacuum bomb", during the invasion of Ukraine. This kind of bomb will explode in mid-air, releasing a lot of heat energy and supersonic shock waves, while consuming oxygen in the area. Its high temperature is enough to vaporize the human body, and it is extremely lethal. The weapon has been banned by the Geneva Convention.


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Ukraine : Volunteers from other countries who join fight against Russia can get citizenship

Reporter : Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times


Image : Sean Gallup/Getty Images


Foreigners who travel to Ukraine to fight alongside Ukrainian forces during the war with Russia can receive Ukrainian citizenship, a top official said on 9 March 2022.

First Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Yenin said the growing number of volunteers sign a contract and get military papers, Ukrinform reported. Volunteers are eligible for citizenship, he also said.

“If such foreign nationals are interested in obtaining Ukrainian citizenship, our legislation provides for them such an opportunity,” Yenin was quoted as saying.

Ukraine recently created an international bridge composed of people from other countries who join the fight against Russia, which invaded Ukraine in February.

Ukrainian President Volodymy Zelensky called shortly after the conflict began for foreigners to help Ukraine and Zelensky said in early March that some 16,000 had volunteered.

As of Wednesday, that number was up to 20,000, according to the Kyiv Independent.

Britons who volunteered said they did so because they felt it was the right thing to do.

Ukraine has also been bolstered by tens of thousands of men reportedly returning from abroad.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov warned Western volunteers that they would be considered combatants and officials from countries sending military assistance to Ukraine had mixed responses to Zelensky’s call.

Several top American officials said Americans should not join the war.

“For those who want to help Ukraine and help its people, there are many ways to do that, including by supporting and helping the many NGOs that are working to provide humanitarian assistance; providing resources themselves to groups that are trying to help Ukraine by being advocates for Ukraine and for peaceful resolution to this crisis that was created by Russia,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a briefing on March 2.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, though, said she supported British citizens who wanted to join Ukrainian’s military.

“Absolutely, if that is what they want to do,” she said on BBC. However, British troops who leave to Ukraine face prosecution, the UK’s defense chief said.

A senior U.S. military official, meanwhile, told reporters on a call this week that reports Russia was recruiting Syrian fighters to help them against Ukraine were credible.

The United States thinks it’s “noteworthy” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “indicated a willingness to rely on foreign fighters to fight the war in Ukraine,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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Kyiv airport building attacked

A Russian missile was fired at and hit a building located at Boryspil Airport, the international airport of Kyiv.

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Zelenskyy begs again for NATO to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine

President Vlodymyr Zelensky warned on Wednesday that 'millions' of Ukrainians could die if NATO and the West wait for World War Three to start before imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop Vladimir Putin's bombing campaign.  

He also warned that Russia wants Ukrainians to 'feel like animals' as he urged NATO and the West to act two weeks after Moscow launched an all-out invasion of his homeland - and added that Putin is 'going directly to hell'. 

'They want us to feel like animals because they blocked our cities, the biggest cities in Ukraine and they blocked them because they don't want our people to get some food or water,' he said in an interview with Sky News 

"'We can't stop all of this alone. Only if the world will unite around Ukraine.

"Don't wait for me to ask you several times, a million times, to close the sky. You have to phone us, to our people who lost their children, and say ''sorry we didn't do it yesterday". 

"The world did nothing. I'm sorry, but it's true. In future, it will be too late. They will close the sky but will lose millions of people [while they wait]". 

Western governments have so far baulked at Zelensky's increasingly desperate appeal for a no-fly zone to be declared over Ukraine, fearing it would trigger a conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.

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Military aid from the UK and Canada for Ukraine

Nevertheless, underscoring Western support, Britain said it was preparing to send more portable missile systems to help Ukraine, in addition to more than 3,000 anti-tank weapons sent so far.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised an additional $50 million worth of military equipment.

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IMF approved emergency package for Kyiv

The International Monetary Fund approved a $1.4 billion emergency package for Kyiv to provide "critical financial support."

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Maternity hospital hit

Zelensky's comments came after a maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol was decimated in a 'direct hit' by Russian rockets on Wednesday afternoon, which left children buried in the rubble.   

Footage has emerged of badly wounded patients and nurses being evacuated from decimated buildings, while pregnant women were carried out on stretchers into a courtyard covered in rubble and littered with huge craters.   

Officials said at least 17 people, including women in labour, were injured in the attack.

An official death toll for the heinous attack has not yet been established but rescuers are working desperately to find and free those still trapped under the rubble with temperatures in the besieged city set to plunge to minus 4 degrees C overnight. 

Zelensky himself posted a video showing the badly damaged hospital buildings, filmed inside a destroyed ward room with its windows blown out and ceiling partially collapsed. 

More footage showed a car park covered in rubble and the smouldering wrecks of vehicles as injured families staggered into the freezing air while snow fell. 

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Zelenskyy: The world seem to be losing humanity

"Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity," the President tweeted.

He later announced on his Telegram channel that the hospital strike "is the ultimate proof that what is happening is the genocide of Ukrainians".

"Europeans, you can't say you didn't see what is happening. You have to tighten the sanctions until Russia can't continue their savage war," he said.

The bombing took place during what was supposed to be a ceasefire in Mariupol so that civilians could evacuate. It marks the fourth time a so-called 'humanitarian corridor' out of the city has failed because Russian forces opened fire.  

It is feared the evacuations are simply a precursor to Russia stepping up its bombardment of the cities to wear down dogged Ukrainian defenders before rolling in troops and tanks to capture them.

However Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov landed in Turkey for the face-to-face talks set for Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba - who warned in a Facebook video his expectations were 'limited'.

So far, the parties have been engaged in lower level talks in Belarus, involving Ukrainian officials but no Russian ministers and largely devoted to humanitarian issues.  

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Zelenskky urges the world to "unite around Ukraine"

Zelensky urged the world to 'unite around Ukraine' and do more to protect the country following the Russian invasion on 24 February. 

He said that only by fighting in Ukraine would 'people from Europe or USA', who are far away, understand 'the heart of this tragedy'. 

"You can't understand the details because you are not fighting here and I understand why, and I don't want them to fight. But these countries can help, can unite,' he said.  'We are speaking about closing the sky. You can't decide to close or not to close. You can't decide if you are united against the Nazis and this terror. You have to close."

He warned international leaders not to "wait for me to ask you several times, a million times, to close the sky". "'Yesterday the world did nothing. I'm sorry, but it's true," he warned. 

"In future, it will be too late. Believe me, it's prolonged this way. Yes, you will see, they will close the sky but will lose millions of people [while they wait]".  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meanwhile condemned the strike as 'depraved' and vowed to step up support to the beleaguered Ukrainian military. 

"There are few things more depraved than targeting the vulnerable and defenceless," the Prime Minister declared.  "The UK is exploring more support for Ukraine to defend against airstrikes and we will hold Putin to account for his terrible crimes," he added. 

The White House press secretary Jen Psaki also commented, "As a mother - I know a number of you are mothers - it is horrifying to see the barbaric use of military force to go after innocent civilians in a sovereign country." 

The deputy head of Mr Zelensky's office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said authorities are trying to establish the number of victims. Video footage from the aftermath of the attack showed that large parts of the hospital had completely collapsed, while blood soaked mattresses were pictured lying in hallways. 

"'Today Russia committed a huge crime," said Volodymir Nikulin, a top regional police official, standing in the ruins. 'It is a war crime without any justification."

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Apocalypse in Mariupol and other Ukraine cities

Mariupol has been under heavy Russian bombardment for more than a week, with food, water and electricity cut off several days ago - with the Red Cross describing conditions there as "apocalyptic".  

Giving an update on the military situation this afternoon, Ukrainian commanders said Russian units continue to try and surround the capital Kyiv with attacks taking place to the west and north-east of the city, with several highways blocked.

New footage released on Wednesday purported to show Russian armour just 13 miles from Kyiv as the invaders pushed through the town of Irpin. 

Fighting is also going on close to the city of Sumy in an attempt to surround Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, commanders said. Battles have also broken out around the city of Mykolaiv, in the south, as Russians attempt to push out from Kherson towards Odessa - but were turned back.   

Just hours before the hospital was hit, Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba warned that 3,000 babies were without food or medicines and begged for a humanitarian corridor to allow them to flee. Moscow had promised a ceasefire in the city on Wednesday so civilians could be evacuated, but failed for the fourth time to keep its word. 

Residents of Mariupol were pictured on Wednesday dumping bodies into mass graves dug on the outskirts of the city in a desperate attempt to remove the dead amid the sustained Russian bombardment. 

It is not the first time that Russian airstrikes have targeted hospitals. While fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad in Syria in 2016, Putin's generals were accused of 'deliberately and systematically' blowing up hospitals as a way of weakening the city of Aleppo ahead of a ground assault. 

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Kremlin's Syria-style battle plan against Ukraine

Observers have suggested that Russia is now using a Syria-style battleplan against Ukraine after its early precision strikes failed.

The Ukrainian Healthcare Center, a think-tank based in the country, says that between the outbreak of fighting on 24 February and on Wednesday, their team documented 42 cases of Russian forces attacking either healthcare facilities or medics in order to deliberately provoke a 'humanitarian crisis'.

Hospitals had been struck in every theatre where Russian forces were operating, the think-tank said, including Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv.

"'The humanitarian catastrophe is a part of Russia's hybrid war. [It] intends to spread panic, create a flow of refugees at the borders and force the Ukrainian government to surrender," said Pavlo Kovtonyuk, co-founder of the think-tank.

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Civilians killed in Severodonetsk

At least 10 people were killed in a Russian military attack in the eastern Ukrainian town of Severodonestk on Tuesday, a local official for the Luhansk region said in a statement on Telegram.

The Russian military 'opened fire' on residential homes and other buildings in the town, he said, without immediately specifying whether it was an artillery attack. The region has seen heavy fighting in recent days. 

Russia's defence ministry meanwhile acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that some conscripts had been sent to fight on the frontlines in Ukraine, just days after Putin promised that only professional soldiers would be sent in. 

Some associations of soldiers' mothers in Russia had raised concerns about a number of conscripts going incommunicado at the start of what Kremlin calls a 'special military operation' in Ukraine, suggesting they could have been sent to fight despite a lack of adequate training. 

The revelation comes just one week after Russia's parliament passed a law imposing a prison term of up to 15 years for spreading intentionally 'fake' news about the military.

'Unfortunately, we have discovered several facts of the presence of conscripts in units taking part in the special military operation in Ukraine. Practically all such soldiers have been pulled out to Russia,' the defence ministry said, promising to prevent such situations in the future. 

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss described the hospital attack as "absolutely abhorrent", but continued to reject Ukraine's request for a no-fly zone to be imposed over its skies.

Speaking in Washington, she said, 'The best way we can protect the skies is through anti-air weaponry which the UK is now going to be supplying to Ukraine.

"Of course the attack on the hospital is absolutely abhorrent, reckless and appalling."

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Blinken: U.S. involvement will make the conflict "even deadlier"

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said US involvement in a no-fly zone could 'prolong' the conflict, making it 'even deadlier'.

'Our goal is to end the war, not to expand it, including potentially expanding it to Nato territory,' he said.

'We want to make sure it is not prolonged, to the best of our ability. Otherwise, it is going to turn even deadlier, involve more people and I think potentially even make things harder to resolve in Ukraine itself.'

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UK considering anti-aircraft missiles and more anti-tank weapons for Ukraine

Earlier, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told the MPs that the Ministry of Defence was looking at whether they could supply anti-aircraft missiles as well as more anti-tank weapons.

'We can all see the horrific devastation inflicted on civilian areas by Russian artillery and air strikes, indiscriminate and murderous,' he said.

'It is vital, therefore, that Ukraine maintains its ability to fly and to suppress Russian air attack.'

Mr Wallace said that 'in response to a Ukrainian request' the Government was exploring the donation of Starstreak high-velocity man-portable anti-air missiles.

He also confirmed that 3,615 Nlaw anti-tank weapons had been supplied - up from the previously-announced figure of 2,000 - and 'small consignments' of the Javelin system would also be sent to Ukraine.

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Putin may resort to chemical weapons

Other Western officials expressed concern that Putin could next resort to the use of 'non-conventional weapons' such as chemical weapons, in the conflict. 

One official speaking on condition of anonymity said: 'I think we've got good reason to be concerned about possible use of non-conventional weapons, partly because of what we've seen has happened in other theatres.

"As I've mentioned before, for example, what we've seen in Syria, partly because we've seen a bit of setting the scene for that in the false flag claims that are coming out, and other indications as well."

Before the rocket attack took place, Mariupol's deputy mayor spoke about the dire situation in the besieged city - saying residents had been forced to use melted snow as drinking water, as it runs dangerously low on supplies.

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Russian troops keep breaking their ceasefire agreement

Serhiy Orlov admitted that he did not know how long the blockaded urban centre would be able to continue under siege as he spoke to CNN's John Berman about the devastating bombings on Wednesday.

Orlov said on Wednesday was their fifth attempt to provide a humanitarian corridor to get supplies and transport into Mariupol, but he added that by 3 pm local time, the buses had not made it anywhere near the city. 

He said many residents are unable to leave as Mariupol is being bombed "each second", after Russian forces have broken their ceasefire agreement despite agreeing to open 'humanitarian corridors' allowing citizens to flee.

"There is no ceasefire, any ceasefire in Mariupol, Mariupol is under continuous shelling from the artillery and bombing. Each hour, each minute, each second," he added.

Mariupol, which has been under blockage for eight days, is one of the Ukrainian cities worst hit since the invasion began, with Russian forces bringing widespread destruction to residential and administrative centres.

Speaking about the devastation across the city, Orlov said Russian forces had destroyed their biggest steel planter as he warned that the situation is 'unmanageable'.

He praised the bravery of the Ukrainian army, but warned that it is the humanitarian crisis is also worsening, adding, 'We are not able to protect our lives.'

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Mariupol lacks electricity, heat, gas, water supplies

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday warned that the port city was running dangerously low on food, water and medicine.

Ukrainian territorial defence forces have been able to deliver vital supplies to some residents, but many more remain isolated and unable to access lifesaving rations.

Reiterating Zelensky's stark warning, Orlov said there is no more electricity, heating, gas or water supplies in Mariupol, adding that residents have had to resort to collecting wood to make fires for warmth and using melted snow as drinking water.

"It's an awful situation and I cannot imagine in my mind that it's possible in the 21st century, but it is true," he said.

When asked how long the city might be able to continue under siege, Orlov admitted he "didn't know" as he claimed there are at least 3,000 infants who are currently without food.

American talk show host Berman also asked the deputy mayor whether his own family are safe, after he previously spoken about being unable to reach his parents.

In response, a devastated Orlov said the district where his parents lived has been completely destroyed, saying it "does not exist anymore", as he admitted he does not know if they are alive.

He added, "'The district where they live is flattened and I'm not sure that I can see them anymore. But I hope and pray they are alive."   

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Learning from the experience of the Ukrainian war, Taiwan reservist soldiers' training convened
Editor : Dawn / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/03/09/a103369331.html / Image : Taiwanese soldiers take part in a military exercise at an army base in Kaohsiung on January 6, 2022. (Sam Yeah/AFP via Getty Images)

The Russia-Ukrainewar has aroused Taiwanese people's sense of crisis. The new education system for Taiwan's reservists announced the start of training. Military experts say Taiwan, drawing on the experience of Ukraine's national resistance against Russia, is working on training reservist soldiers to deal with CCP China's increasing military intimidation.
The first batch of nearly 400 trainees was convened by the new education system for Taiwan's reservists, which was reported on 5 March 2022. During the new 14-day training period, these reservists will receive 10 hours of training every day, including two hours of training at night. The course will add live ammunition shooting of pistols, rifles, machine guns and other weapons, and implement night marching and camping in the field. high-intensity subjects.
Chen Mingcai, a retired major who served for 20 years, has also been recalled to serve as deputy battalion commander. In a joint interview with the media, he said that if there is a war in the Taiwan Strait, someone will eventually have to go to the battlefield to operate weapons. Since he has been taught, he will cooperate with the national policy.
A reservist surnamed Zhang told VOA when he arrived on 5 March that the Russian-Ukrainian war was vivid in his mind, which made many Taiwanese have a heightened sense of crisis. The enhanced version of the vocation can improve the combat power of the reserve soldiers and help Taiwan prepare for war.
In the past, the education convening of the reserve soldiers in Taiwan was once a year for 5 to 7 days. In order to promote the reform of reserve mobilization, Taiwan established the National Defense Agency at the end of last year to strengthen the training of reserve forces.
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense stated that the new 14-day training plan will be partially piloted in the first three quarters of this year, with a training capacity of about 15,000 people throughout the year, and the effectiveness will be reviewed in the fourth quarter.
The Voice of America stated that the combat power on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is seriously unbalanced, and under the principle of building an army of asymmetric warfare, the role of the reserve soldiers will become more and more important. Taiwan's military experts agree that Ukraine's experience in resisting Russia also shows that reserve forces are the most effective combat force to consume enemy forces and delay the war.
The report quoted Su Ziyun, director of the Institute of Defense Resources and Industry of Taiwan's National Security Research Institute, as saying that the new system has strengthened courses such as camping and marching, equipment maintenance and weapon shooting. Through repeated practice, it is integrated into muscle memory, which is absolutely helpful to the battlefield. .
Ma Zhenkun, director of the Institute of Military Affairs of the National Defense University of Taiwan, pointed out at a symposium on March 2 that the establishment of the General Movement Agency in Taiwan to reform the vocation system and weapons and equipment of the reserve soldiers is to enable the standing troops to assist the regular troops. combat power, perform tasks such as beachfront annihilation and ground maneuver operations, and achieve basic defense operations in each theater.
A few days ago, Jie Zhong, a researcher at the China Strategic Foresight Association, said in an interview with the Voice of America that in the Taiwan-Pengland defense operation plan, the main task of the reserve army is the defense of beaches, towns and important facilities. However, the combat skills required for these three tasks are quite different, and the training period of the reserve soldiers is very limited, and it is unlikely that they will be proficient in the use of weapons such as rifles, pistols, machine guns and mortars in a short period of time. 
Therefore, he suggested that the division of labor should be finely divided from the source, and the reservist soldiers should be divided into different specialties according to the three major tasks of beach shore, town guarding and protection of important facilities, and targeted training, including weapons training, should also be targeted. In other words, the future reserve training will design different combat training according to the nature of the mission.
Jie Zhong also mentioned that Ukraine's experience shows that individual anti-armor rockets have caused great trouble to the Russian army. In the future, once Taiwan enters the urban defense battle, the reserve force may become the main defense force. In the urban battle, the range of weapons and the field of view of the troops are limited. The individual rocket with the effect of attacking fortifications can often play a miraculous effect. However, Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has not arranged similar courses in the new system, and these must be reviewed.
Statistics from Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense show that as of 2019, there were more than 2.3 million reservist soldiers, of which there were more than 770,000 elite troops within 8 years of retirement.
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Wang Yi finally called Russia's attack on Ukraine a "war"

China called Putin's attack on Ukraine a 'war' for the first time on Thursday, marking a shift in tone pivot for Beijing which has towed the line between supporting and condemning Russia over the past two weeks.

'We hope to see fighting and the war stop as soon as possible,' state broadcaster CCTV cited foreign minister Wang Yi as saying on Thursday in a video conference call with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Wang called on all sides to calm down and to take more actions to prevent escalation in Ukraine, CCTV reported. 

China has yet to call the war an 'invasion', steering clear of language that would pit them against Russia on the international stage. 

China has toned down its support of Russia, but is still rejecting calls for it to join the West in sanctioning the invading nation. 

On Thursday, China refused to supply Russian airlines with aircraft parts, an official at Russia’s aviation authority. 

Russia will look to source parts from other countries including Turkey and India, according to Russian news agencies.

Boeing and Airbus have halted supply of components, in line with the sanctions, and almost all European nations have closed their airspace to Russian planes.

Wang described the Chinese-Russian relationship as 'rock solid' earlier in the week, but the change in tone suggests a shift in China's view of the conflict.

Ukraine has asked Beijing to use its connections with the Kremlin to put an end to the invasion.

Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday that he had received assurances that 'China is interested in stopping this war', raising hopes the country could act as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia.

China has claimed neutrality since Putin's attack, abstaining from a UN general assembly resolution calling on Russia to withdraw its troops on March 2.

This week, China also said it would send £600,750 in humanitarian aid to Ukraine, an amount dwarfed by humanitarian aid sent by other nations.

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Officials: 10,000 uncounted ballots found in Texas County

Reporter : Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times PREMIUM

Officials in Texas said they discovered about 10,000 uncounted ballots in last week’s primary election, which led to a delay in the results.

The Harris County Elections Office said that some 6,000 Democratic votes and 4,000 Republican votes weren’t counted and will be added to final tallies.

“While the votes were scanned into our tabulation computer, they were not transferred and counted as a part of the unofficial final results as they should have been,” the Harris County Elections Office stated over the past weekend. They blamed an “oversight” for why the votes weren’t counted in the county, which is home to Houston.

The office also told local news outlet KHOU-TV that officials “are focused on ensuring that every ballot cast is accounted for through this canvassing process,” and they “will continue to be transparent in that process through our updates but as you can imagine it is most critical that everyone on our team stay focused and commit all of their time to the task at hand.”

“We will be discussing at commissioners court and that will be an opportunity for broadcast to hear from our office,” the Harris County Elections Office continued.

The March 1 primary was the first Texas election that took place in the state under tighter voting laws that were passed last year. Thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected across the state for not having new information.

Following the discovery of the uncounted ballots, the Harris County Republican and Democratic party chairs told KHOU that they believe the issue will be fixed soon.

“Every voter regardless of party should be able to have confidence that their vote has been properly counted. Unfortunately, this is another example of the serious mismanagement of [Harris County Judge] Lina Hidalgo’s unqualified Elections Administrator. Isabel Longoria owes all Harris County voters an explanation,” Harris County GOP Chair Cindy Siegel said, according to the news outlet.

On Monday, the Harris County GOP filed a lawsuit against Longoria and her office for committing the “worst elections fiasco in Texas history” by not counting the ballots.

Meanwhile, Harris County Democratic Party Chair Odus Evbagharu released a statement saying his party is also concerned with the balloting problem.

“We called for a post-election review of all processes—there has not been any skirting of party responsibility, and we have been completely transparent in our desire to dig into the details of what went wrong and identify how to make corrections moving forward,” Evbagharu remarked.

The Harris County Elections Office has not immediately responded to a request for comment.


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