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CCTV FOLLIES: April 27 AM news cycle

Much of the news hour was devoted to coronavirus lock-down problems, with lots of positive talk about China's ample food supplies, and why it's important to eat three meals a day, and drink a lot of liquids.

And now, the Ukraine Situation

No comment.

Putin told UN chief Gutteres that Russia's Special Military Operation "is in keeping with UN principles."

Russia made a breakthrough in Turkey but then the Bucha incident happened.

Putin: "Russia had nothing to do with it! A black hand did it behind-the-scenes and we know who."

On to a Foreign Ministry event at a different location.

CCTV's man in Moscow Song Yiping doesn't get a chance to ask questions, but he does sneak up front to get a close-up view of Sergei Lavrov and Maria Zakharova.

Lavrov says Russia is always willing to negotiate, but US and NATO keep adding fuel to fire and ruining it.
He says it is a proxy war.

He blames the situation on NATO expansion, Western weapons and the US desire to impose its unipolar system on the world.

He says the Russian army is within its legal rights to target Western weapon supplies.

In other news, US and European defense leaders met at Ramstein Base in Germany.

Germany says it will supply heavy weapons to Ukraine such as tanks.

And Poland just got a notice from its Russian supplier:
--The gas is being turned off--

Well, at least the weather's not cold anymore.

#guterres #putin #lavrov #CCTV #moscow #outofgas

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