This Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated in support of the Palestinian cause in cities around the world. Some concentrations have been marked by episodes of violence, while Israeli abuses against Palestine continue.
The latest combat balance points to 139 deaths, including 39 children, and more than 1,000 injured in Israeli attacks since Monday. Hamas fired more than 2,300 rockets into Israel, killing ten people, including a child and a military man, and wounding more than 560 people.
IN Paris, about 4,200 police officers were mobilized to conduct unauthorized demonstrations at several points in the French capital, with instructions to disperse any congestion with water cannons and tear gas. It happened in the afternoon in the Barbes area in the north of the city, when the authorities intervened against about a hundred protesters who shouted “Palestine will win” and “Israeli assassin”.
In the afternoon, the organizers held a press conference at which they confirmed their intention to hold a peaceful demonstration, condemning the position of the authorities, who accused them of wanting to “worsen the situation and get out of control.”
Thousands of people also demonstrated in the center London, asking the UK government to intervene to stop Israel’s military intervention against targets in the Gaza Strip. Demonstrators gathered in the afternoon at the Marble Arch, near Hyde Park, and from there they made their way to the Israeli embassy, holding Palestinian flags and posters calling for the “liberation” of the Palestinian territories.
IN Madrid, about 2,500 people, including a significant number of young women, held signs with the inscriptions: “the silence of some – the suffering of others” and “Jerusalem – the eternal capital of Palestine.” Arriving at the Atocha transport station, they shouted that Israel’s military intervention in Gaza against the Islamist movement Hamas “is not a war, this is genocide.”
IN CopenhagenIn the Danish capital, three people were arrested Friday night after pro-Palestinian protesters threw stones at the Israeli police and embassy. The demonstration, which gathered about 4,000 people in front of the diplomatic mission, was eventually dispersed due to riots caused by several dozen protesters. According to the DR TV channel, Copenhagen police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.
In several cities Tunisia, demonstrations in support of the Palestinians called for the intervention of the international community to stop the “crimes of the Israeli forces.” In the center of the capital, Tunisia, hundreds of people with Palestinian flags gathered, and then, under police surveillance, marched along one of the main streets.
Although the country was imprisoned due to the pandemic until Sunday, protesters attended to declare that “Tunisians and Tunisians support Palestine” and that “the people want to criminalize the normalization of Israel.”
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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