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Donald Trump: The grand jury votes on the impeachment of the former US president

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The grand jury is voting to indict Donald Trump

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Former US President Donald Trump at an event in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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No former US president has ever been charged with a crime in the United States. Now Donald Trump will be prosecuted for questionable payments. The Republican presidential candidate sees this as „flagrant electoral interference.”

DrManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has confirmed an indictment against former US President Donald Trump. Bragg’s office said Thursday night (local time) that his office had contacted Trump’s attorney to coordinate his transfer to New York to be charged.

The indictment in the case remains closed and open. More information should follow once Trump’s appearance date has been determined. Previously, several US media outlets unanimously reported on Thursday that a so-called New York grand jury voted to indict Trump in connection with hush money payments to a porn actress.

Trump at a campaign event in Texas

Trump at a campaign event in Texas

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Never in US history has a former president been charged with a crime. The case concerns the payment of $130,000 (about 120,000 euros) to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 elections. The porn star, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, claims he had an affair with Trump in 2006, which he refuses.

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The payment itself is not illegal. But the former president could face charges of forging commercial documents or illegal campaign financing. New York prosecutors have been investigating this issue for years. The 76-year-old candidate for presidential elections in November next year denies all allegations.

Trump sees „flagrant interference in the election”

Trump responded angrily to the indictment. In a statement, the presidential candidate described himself as a victim of a „witch hunt” by „radical left-wing democrats”. The accusation of „a completely innocent person” is „an act of blatant interference in the elections”. „Never in the history of our nation has anything like this happened,” Trump added. The charges against him in New York „backfire” on President Joe Biden. Trump’s attorney, Tacopina, said: “He committed no crime. We will vigorously fight this political persecution in court.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s son Eric Trump said on the online platform Truth Social that the accusations target a „political opponent in an election year.” Donald Trump Jr., Trump’s eldest son, also wrote on Truth Social that the government is cracking down on its „political enemies”. Trump’s supporters in the Republican Party also responded with outrage, calling the action „scandalous”.

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For Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, the former US president’s indictment is „just the beginning.” Now you have to let the indictment speak for itself, Cohen said Thursday in a statement made available to US media. „However, I take comfort in the fact that the adage is true that no one is above the law, not even a former president,” Cohen said. He stands by his statement in the case.

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Cohen has since dumped his former client. According to his own statements, he paid hush money to porn actress Daniels on behalf of Trump in order to avoid hurting Trump in the presidential campaign. Trump and his lawyers waived the payment but denied any involvement with the actress.

Meanwhile, attorney Stormy Daniels said the charges against Trump are „no reason to be happy.” But truth and justice must prevail,” Clark Brewster wrote on Twitter. „No one is above the law.”

Trump himself said on March 18 that he should be arrested after three days and called on his supporters to protest. Previously, signs of a possible indictment have intensified. This raised fears among authorities in New York that riots might break out. The arrest announced by Trump did not take place.

Further investigations into other cases

The grand jury met in Manhattan in secret. At meetings of the informal committee responsible for the indictment, the team, led by Manhattan’s chief prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, presents evidence and witnesses can be cross-examined. Only on Wednesday several US media reported that the decision on the indictment will probably not be made until the end of April.

Trump isn’t just in the spotlight in the Stormy Daniels case. Investigations are underway in South Georgia regarding possible unlawful interference with the results of the 2020 presidential election.

A US private investigator is also looking into Trump’s responsibility for storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021 and taking several classified documents from the White House to Trump’s private estate Mar-a-Lago in Florida after the end of the Republican term. . However, Trump has not been charged in any of these three investigations, at least not yet.

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A possible trial and conviction that could result in Republicans facing several years in prison could jeopardize his plans to run for president again politically — in terms of support from his party and the Republican base. In pure legal terms, on the other hand, according to legal experts, Trump could theoretically also stand as a convicted felon in the 2024 presidential election.

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Ten kilometers in slippers: 98-year-old Ukrainian woman flees Russians on foot

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A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman flees from the Russians on foot


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The Russian army is gradually advancing in some areas of Ukraine. When Ochertyn becomes a target, Lydia Stepanievna Lomikowska and her family decide to flee. The 98-year-old is fighting alone. Now she can hope for private housing.

A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman fled Russian-occupied territory with a stick and slippers. She and her family decided to flee Osherytin in the Donetsk region after invading forces entered the city last week and fighting intensified, Lydia Stepanevna Lomikowska said after arriving in Ukrainian-controlled territory in a statement published by the National Police and a video distributed.

In the chaos of her escape, she was separated from her son and her two daughters-in-law. While her relatives took side roads, she continued on the main road.

Lomikowska stated that she had been walking ten kilometers all day towards the Ukrainian lines, carrying a stick in one hand and a piece of splintered wood in the other, without food or drink. I fell twice. “Once I lost my balance and fell among the weeds. I slept a little and then continued on my way. Then – for the second time – I fell again. But then I got up and said to myself: ‘I must keep myself steady.’ “I say little by little,” said the old woman.

He actually survived World War II

Pavlo Dyachenko, spokesman for the Donetsk National Police, said soldiers finally rescued Lomikowska after discovering her in the street that evening. They handed them over to a police unit called the White Angels, which evacuated civilians from the front lines. Then they called Lomikowska's family.

The 98-year-old said she actually survived World War II. “Now I had to fight this war too, and in the end I had nothing left,” she said. At that time you didn't see any house burning, but now everything is on fire.

The story was heard by the director of one of the largest banks in Ukraine. “Monobank will buy a house for Lydia Stepanevna and she will live in it safely until this abomination disappears from our country,” Oleh Horokhovsky promised.

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Consequences of Russia's losses in the Ukraine war

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Vladimir Putin must accept resistance from his own ranks in the Ukraine war. Russian organizations help deserters and report an increase in their numbers.

Kiev/Moscow – “Get Lost” is the name of a Russian initiative that supports deserters from the Russian army. “We live in a world today where the Russian army brings nothing but death and destruction. Escaping from the army is the best way to help your country.” With these words, the organization addresses Russia's soldiers.

According to opposition media Novaya Gazeta More and more soldiers are doing it: while in January 2023, according to Get Lost, only 28 men were looking for support, the number has increased tenfold within a year. In January 2024, 284 soldiers arrived at the deserter contact point.

Organization helping those fleeing the Ukraine war: “We receive new inquiries every day”

“Idite Jeslom,” translated as “walking through the forest,” is the name of another Russian organization that takes care of deserters. Employee Ivan Shulyaev says they have already been in contact with more than 30,000 men. A quarter of the cases involved soldiers who were already at the front and wanted to escape the operation. Others contacted her after receiving the recall notice. In an interview with the magazine geography He said he did not initially expect the commitment to last so long.

“When we started with seven people, we thought we would do this for a few months, dealing with urgent cases. And that was it. But we receive new requests every day, and we cannot stop. These people do not want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin and have nothing to do with the war.” In his estimation, the people were not interested in the war at first, but now they felt like hostages of their government and he now worked from abroad to strengthen the anti-war movement in Russia.

Putin's toughness towards those fleeing Russia – almost no protection in Germany according to ProAsyl

He says desertion and resistance have become an increasing problem for the Russian military in the Ukraine war Novaya Gazeta. According to another Russian portal. mediazonaDespite Vladimir Putin's tightening of regulations, desertions increased by 400 percent in one year.

A soldier who left with the help of another organization called Ivan says he still knows many soldiers who are happy even after more than two years on the front. But not everyone: “Escape from the front is very dangerous. People are fully aware that there are criminal consequences, but that does not stop them. Some pretend to be one of the dead or wounded, and some may harm themselves to escape.

Those fleeing Russia come to Armenia, Kazakhstan, Serbia and Turkey

Incidentally, only a small percentage of those who have fled come to the EU: people on the front will be helped to flee to Kazakhstan, Armenia or Kyrgyzstan, says Chulyaev of Idite Jeslom. high ProAsylum About 250,000 men have fled since the beginning of the war, often to Serbia or Türkiye. Some of them, for example from Kazakhstan, were deported to Russia. Nearly 3,500 men of military age were due to apply for asylum in Germany by August 2023.

While Germany was open to accepting Russian deserters in the first year of the Ukraine war, e.g Daily news I mentioned, apparently not much happened. Non-governmental organization Supported asylum Complain about it though Changes in decision-making practice As of 2023, there is still little protection for those fleeing Russia in Germany. In November 2023, Russian soldiers fled Crimea, wounding the deputy commander of their regiment. (cat)

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A military economist sees a strategic defeat for Ukraine for Putin

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A military economist believes that time is running out for Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war. This is also why there are increasing calls for peace in the West.

COLOGNE – When we look at the war in Ukraine, people increasingly imagine that Vladimir Putin is just trying to buy time. Because the head of the Kremlin knows that Russia is significantly superior to its invaded neighbor.

That is why Germany's opponents of arms deliveries to Kiev often say that this will only prolong death and suffering indefinitely. The best that could happen to Ukraine is a negotiated peace that would also allow Moscow's ruler to save face.

Putin and the Ukrainian war: “Like Hitler, he must win in the short term”

Marcus MQ turns the tables. In the meeting with Cologne Rundschau The military economist confirms that the clock is actually ticking against Putin. The 71-year-old has long been personally determined to be a loser.

The Freiburg native compares World War II to another aggressive and inhumane dictator: Adolf Hitler. “Putin faces the same problem as Hitler,” says Cube. “He has to win in the short term, because in the long term he has no chance against the industrial potential of the West.” That is exactly why Putin is burning systems and people on a massive scale at the front.

Vladimir Putin has to endure this comparison often: Military economist Markus MQ also sees similarities between Adolf Hitler and the head of the Kremlin. © imago/montage

Military expert compares World War II: “Putin does it like Marshal Sokov”

Keough is convinced: “He wants to make a decision before the whole huge arms industry takes off in the entire Western world. About 80 years ago, something similar happened to the United States when Washington intervened to stop Hitler: “It took years to ramp it up.” The American defense industry. And it did not The maximum is reached only in 1945, at the end of the war.

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Putin also acted as the Soviet Union did at the time against Nazi Germany – even if those countries were initially fighting to liberate their territories. „What is Putin doing there?“The tsars did it, and then Marshal (Georgy) Zhukov in World War II,” recalls the lecturer at the Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. “If 30,000 people fall in a wave of attacks, it means ‘it doesn’t matter to him, in the end’ The survivors were able to regain their new positions.

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It did not survive the Russian attack on Ukraine: there are several destroyed tanks sent by the Kremlin to the Kharkiv region. © imago

Present The Kremlin's tactic of relying on the massesIt also has consequences for Kiev: “If Russia continues like this, Ukraine will have to mobilize at some point, even if it is difficult for democracy.” A million men.” Their time has not yet come: “At the moment, it is cheaper for them to rely on wear and tear.”

Military economist Q sees new tactics: „The Kremlin's parrots are shouting loudly again”

But not least because of the $1 billion US aid package approved in the House of Representatives after months of stalemate, the sun is starting to shine brighter again for Kiev. Additionally, despite the shift to a war economy, Russia has shown its limits, as Cube asserts: “Russian warfare is getting worse and worse technologically.”

The soldiers will be sent „with old T62 tanks without a turret and some in golf carts.” The reserve of about 3,000 tanks has been exhausted, and satellite images show that pipes in artillery camps are missing and systems have been dismantled.

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“I would say that Russia can definitely continue the war in 2024 and 2025,” Cube estimates. “But they are increasingly facing a time problem.” One indication of this for him is that “the Kremlin’s parrots are starting to shout loudly again, with the usual slogans: Negotiate peace, and Ukraine cannot win.” And so on. The AfD in particular could feel directed here.

Putin before the end? Expert Cube is betting heavily on Russia's defeat in the Ukraine war

Putin has already realized that Russia will be inferior to Ukraine and its allies: “That is why he is trying to sabotage the Western logistical base by transforming countries politically and playing the German emotional keyboard so that the Germans feel afraid.”

But Cube is certain: “If the Western logistical base continues to grow, Russia will not only win the war, but also lose it. With all the ensuing consequences for the internal organization in Russia.”

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Left behind: Young men enjoy this Russian tank in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv. © imago

Cube points out that this may mean the end of Putin's power, but it may be a disservice to his main supporters. By ending the war. Russia will decline economically and will have to unite internally again. “But the rule of the Siloviki, the group currently leading Russia, will continue,” the author explains the way to avoid impending unrest in the country.

The end of the Ukrainian war: According to Cube, Russia's strategic defeat has been certain since the fall of 2023

Cube is certain that the Ukraine war could end any day. It is in Putin's hands. However, there is reason to doubt whether the Kremlin's seemingly all-powerful head is really prepared to go down in history as the biggest loser who sent countless people to their deaths and, on top of that, divided two former sister states for more than a year. A decade for his own purposes.

According to Cube, Russia strategically lost the Ukraine war in the fall of 2023: “By then it had become clear that the rate of production could not keep up with the rate of attrition.” He had already started the war in the fall of 2023, and it had to stop, as if he simply didn't want to accept that time was against him. (mg)

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