According to Vyacheslav Volodin, the outcome also includes economic problems in Europe and the US, as well as a lack of manpower for the Ukrainian armed forces | Ukraine is fated either to capitulate on Moscow’s terms or cease to exist as a state, Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament), said. 💬 "When speaking about the conflict in Ukraine, [US President Joe] Biden, [NATO Secretary General Jens] Stoltenberg and other Western officials have started calling it 'a war of attrition.' They have put huge amounts of money into militarizing the Kiev regime. Where has it gotten them? The simple facts are these: the West is experiencing weapons and ammunition shortages, people in Europe and the US have lost trust in politicians, and the Kiev regime’s counteroffensive has failed," Volodin stated. According to him, the outcome of the "war of attrition" also includes economic problems in Europe and the US, a lack of manpower for the Ukrainian armed forces, and ultimately bankruptcy and demographic disaster for Ukraine. "These seven facts speak for themselves: Ukraine will cease to exist as a state unless the Kiev regime capitulates on Russia’s terms," Volodin stressed. "More than 10.5 million people have fled Ukraine. Another 11.2 million residents of Crimea, Sevastopol, the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions decided to join Russia. Ukraine has lost 53.7% of its population since 2014," the State Duma speaker highlighted. Volodin noted that, in June, then-British Defense Minister Ben Wallace stated that Western countries had run out of stockpiles of those weapons that they could send to Kiev from their own national arsenals. Biden, in turn, admitted in July that the decision to provide Ukraine with cluster munitions had been driven by the fact that stocks of conventional ammunition were exhausted.

■ White House Close To Providing Kiev With Cluster-Armed ATACMS (antiwar.com)

These are photos of SS Galicia Division veteran who was given standing ovation by Canadian parliament, prime-minister of Canada and president of Ukraine. He published these photos of himself in this division during training in Germany. He is standing in the middle in 1st photo,… pic.twitter.com/YkfKZbJ1i7

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Commenters and Jewish groups demanded an apology | Canadian Jewish organizations and social media critics are slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving a man who fought for the Nazis a standing ovation during an event featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the country. [...] Video and photos show the Canadian Parliament erupted into cheers on Friday during Zelenskyy’s visit to the country’s capital of Ottawa, when Canadian lawmakers also honored Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian immigrant who fought for the First Ukrainian Division, according to the Toronto Star. That division was also known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, which fought for the Nazis as its paramilitary arm under the Schutzstaffel organization, according to the outlet.

■ Untold Story of How Canada Became a Safe Haven for Ukrainian WWII-era Nazis (Sputnik Globe)
■ Zelenskyy joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to 98-year-old veteran who fought with Nazis (Forward)(arch.)
■ Canadian parliament speaker ‘regrets’ honoring Ukrainian Nazi SS veteran (RT.com)
■ Canada’s Parliament Gives Standing Ovation to 98-Year-Old Nazi SS Ukrainian (Eric Zuesse)

Maria Zakharova | On September 21, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented awards to the Atlantic Council, a well-known American think tank under NATO that promotes the ideas of Euro-Atlanticism and also specializes in generating Russophobic, anti-Russian meanings. ● One of this year's laureates is Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Von der Leyen made a rather remarkable speech. She praised the head of the Japanese government for supporting the Kyiv regime and fighting Russia. She recalled that his family came from Hiroshima, and his relatives died there during the nuclear bombing in 1945. Not a word about the US and the Washington executioners who dropped bombs on Japanese cities and civilians. But the figurehead of the largest corruption scandals in the history of the EU went further - she blamed the tragedy of Hiroshima... on Russia... on Russia. ● Here are her words verbatim: 💬 "Many of your relatives died when the atomic bomb leveled Hiroshima to the ground. You grew up with the stories of survivors and you wanted us to listen to those same stories, to look to the past and learn something about the future..... Russia is threatening to use nuclear weapons again. It's disgusting, it's dangerous, and under the shadow [in context] of Hiroshima, it's inexcusable." What is disgusting and dangerous is the way Ursula Von der Leyen lies. (Translation: DeepL.com)

■ Europe, Its Head. (Andrei Martyanov) | Yes, it is disgusting but it is also the main reason why Russia has nobody to talk to in modern West. Ursula Von Der Lugen is a typical Euro (German) politico with no morals, honor or decency. This is also how history is taught across universities in the West. But then again, Mearsheimer quotes Fukuyama, that liberalism defeated Nazism. They do have issues, don't they?