Three months prior to the sabotage of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the CIA was privy to detailed intelligence suggesting a Ukrainian plot to attack the key infrastructure.
These images could potentially support Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion that Ukraine is a "Nazi state" that therefore needs to be "de-Nazified."
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States will focus its efforts on aiding Ukraine "for as long as it takes" rather than encourage Russia and Ukraine to reach a settlement.
"What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care. It is an absurd episode for a key U.N. agency that is in much need of self-reflection and reform,” Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of Geneva-based independent human rights organization, UN Watch, commented.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that he was afraid of Donald Trump possibly being President again, before begging for more American-made Patriot missile systems.
