Doctors, public health experts and opposition parties have criticized the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) decision to host the America’s Cup in Brazil in the midst of the 19-covid pandemic.
Physician and neuroscientist Miguel Nikilelis used Twitter to criticize the Brazilian government, stressing that “Colombia and Argentina have abandoned CONMEBOL, but of course Brazil could not pass up the opportunity to host another football event in the midst of the pandemic. … out of control. ”“ Will the teams be vaccinated in front of the millions of Brazilians waiting in line? ”the doctor added.
CONMEBOL announced this morning that the 2021 Copa America will be held in Brazil. “Start and end dates [10 de julho] tournament confirmed. CONMEBOL will inform the headquarters and the table in the next few hours. The oldest international tournament in the world will cause a wave for the entire continent, ”the organization said.
Epidemiologist Pedro Curi Halal also spoke out against the event, noting that the America’s Cup in Brazil is “debauchery and disrespect for the 460,000 families of those killed in the country.”
“The decision was made just at the moment when the third wave begins. As a football fan, I regret that sport is becoming more and more distant from the people, ”said a social media posting specialist.
The Workers’ Party (PT), led by former President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, also criticized the country’s decision to host an event that Colombia cannot host and from which Argentina pulled out as host last Sunday.
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“And we will learn that [o presidente, Jair] Bolsonaro sanctioned America’s Cup here in Brazil! This is serious? In a pandemic, third wave, risk of lack of beds, vaccine supplies and slow vaccinations? Incredible! “, -” dismissed “the president of PT Gleisi Hofmann.
Federal MP Julio Delgado, on the other hand, announced that he would file a lawsuit with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to bar the event’s dispute in the country. “I’m going to court against the America’s Cup in Brazil. This is absurd! I bring more information throughout the day, “wrote Delgado on his personal Twitter account.
Despite the backlash from experts and opposition, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mouran said hosting the event in the country posed “less risk” than in Argentina, which will host the tournament.
“Let’s say the next thing is less (…) It’s not that it’s safer, it’s less of a risk. It’s not anymore. This is less. The risk remains, ”Murao told reporters in Brasilia, leaving the Palacio do Highland.
On the other hand, the governor of the Federal District, which includes Brasilia, said today that “there is nothing against” the possibility of hosting the America’s Cup games in the city.
“As long as the necessary sanitary measures are being followed, I have nothing against,” Ibaneis Rocha said.
The Mane Garrinchi Stadium in Brasilia, which was renovated for the 2014 World Cup, is already considered a possible scenario for America’s Cup games.
Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country hardest hit by the pandemic and one of the hardest hit in the world, with 461,931 deaths and more than 16.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,543,125 deaths worldwide, with more than 170.2 million infections, according to a report by French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus discovered at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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