MPLA spokesman Rui Falcao acknowledged this Saturday that the funeral of José Eduardo dos Santos is due to take place in Luanda on August 28, which coincides with his birthday, and said “the daughters walked absentmindedly.”
This was the justification put forward by the MPLA official to explain the fact that the eldest sons of the ex-president complained today that they were not warned that the court had given permission for the transfer of the body of José Eduardo dos Santos, who died on July 8 in Barcelona, in Luanda.
“The daughters were distracted (…) they were at the beach, doing fashion shows, etc.,” the host commented, indicating that there would be “mandatory public activities” such as a wake in June, bodywork is now available.
When asked if his daughters, namely Isabel dos Santos, who are at the mercy of Angolan justice, can come to the funeral, he replied: “If they do not owe anything to the state, then why? republic as he deserves.
Rui Falcao spoke to reporters after a massive rally – the last rally of MPLA candidate João Lourenço – to mobilize his supporters and convince the electorate that the “power of the people” still belongs to the party that has ruled Angola since independence. in 1975.
“We have elections on August 24, and the MPLA will win them, this is the most important thing for us. After the elections, we will do what he deserves,” he said with visible satisfaction.
As for the arrival of the body today, the date on which the incumbent President of the Republic João Lourenço, a re-candidate for a new term, held the final rally of the campaign, stressed that the party does not dictate the calendar of Spanish justice.
“Spanish justice made a decision in this context and we had to make a state decision, which was necessary, so the body will arrive soon,” he said.
He acknowledged that the funeral would “probably” take place on August 28, dismissing the political exploitation of the situation.
“If we wanted to take advantage of the political advantage, we would do it now, this human mole who is here respects José Eduardo dos Santos, as he always respected,” the MPLA spokesman emphasized, pointing to a crowd of militants who came to the Camama precinct . hear today from João Lourenço, who preferred not to mention his predecessor in his speech.
“Who does not respect is the family,” added Rui Falcao.
The body of José Eduardo dos Santos was contested in court by two factions of the family: one, the widow Ana Paula dos Santos and her younger children, advocated a state funeral in Luanda with the support of the Angolan regime; another of the older children, namely Chise dos Santos, is against the transfer of the remains to the widow and the funeral in Luanda, as they have been living outside the Angolan capital for several years and claim to be persecuted by the government of João Lourenço.
“We are going to implement the acts of state necessary for who he was, we will respect what we have always done. We did it with Agostinho Neto and we are going to do it with José Eduardo,” the MPLA leader stressed.
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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