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The three foreign and military aid supplementals and the GOP sort of wishlist bill have now passed the House. The House then immediately went into recess. The Senate will not take them up till Tuesday at the earliest. By not simply bringing the Senate supplemental to a vote, Johnson has instead wasted over four months and given Trump’s supporters in the Senate GOP minority the chance to kill the bill that passed the House this morning. Everyone who is taking victory laps right now should cool it. They are all the same people who took victory laps back in February when the Senate brought up what McConnell and his caucus demanded they had to have: a supplemental aid bill that included significant funding for border security and changes in immigration law. The need to negotiate the border and immigration language had delayed the Senate for three to four months. Ultimately that bill went nowhere because Trump demanded it be killed. So the Senate Democrats stripped the immigration and border provisions out and passed a Ukraine, Israeli, Taiwan/INDOPACOM AOR, and humanitarian aid bill only. Johnson then killed it in the House because it didn’t include anything dealing with the border and immigration.
What the House passed today may pass the Senate this week. It may not pass the Senate this week. We won’t know until Tuesday at the earliest. What we do know is that Putin and Russia will continue to bombard Ukraine. US aid to Ukraine is not a done deal. Hope is not a strategy.
Russia attacked Kharkiv again today. Twice!
This morning in Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, began with russian troops destroying an apartment building, injuring a 60-year-old woman. Additionally, a 50-year-old man was killed in a separate attack that destroyed a private home. #ArmUkraineNow #SaveKharkiv pic.twitter.com/8PeXrSf9O7
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 20, 2024
The death toll from russian shelling of Vovchansk in Kharkiv Obl has risen to two, additionally two civilians were wounded this morning
Western media isn't covering this,so please spread the word: Ukraine is paying with human lives for each day's delay in receiving military aid pic.twitter.com/TEOxTPkq5P
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 20, 2024
Explosion reported in Kharkiv! Right now, my hometown is under russian missile attack for the second time in a day!
— Iryna Voichuk (@IrynaVoichuk) April 20, 2024
Here’s what Russia thinks it is doing to Kharkiv.
Watch the video and read the subtitles.
One of the most famous Russian propagandists Olga Skabeeva, who has been broadcasting hatred of Ukraine and the West on TV screens for a decade, gave a master class on propaganda for young students in Kaluga.
She openly stated that Russian strikes on Ukraine are just a matter of… pic.twitter.com/gr0gzdOAoF
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) April 19, 2024
One of the most famous Russian propagandists Olga Skabeeva, who has been broadcasting hatred of Ukraine and the West on TV screens for a decade, gave a master class on propaganda for young students in Kaluga.
She openly stated that Russian strikes on Ukraine are just a matter of interpretation and that the strike itself does not matter, only our attitude towards it.
Thus, Skabeeva paints a picture of Russian propaganda – all statements, regardless of the events described, must favor state interests.
And there is nothing particularly secret about this. However, for the first time, we hear such a frank confession from the main mouthpiece of propaganda of the so-called Russian Federation.
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.
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