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Ukrainian climbs Mount Everest with a blue and yellow flag

On the top of Mount Everest, Ukrainian Antonina Samoylowa has one appeal to the world for help directed. As the 33-year-old mountaineer reported to the AFP news agency on Wednesday, she scaled the highest mountain in the world with the flag of her home country in hand. When she spread them out on the summit, tears welled up in her eyes, Samoylova said. The 33-year-old’s father and brother are fighting Russian troops in their homeland.

“Stand with Ukraine” (Stands with Ukraine) read the blue and yellow flag that Samoylova held aloft on Mount Everest. Global attention to their country is dwindling, the 33-year-old told AFP following returning to Kathmandu. “It’s not good for us Ukrainians because we need more help. We need the whole world to help us.”

Samoylova was on the Pico de Orizaba, Mexico’s highest mountain, when she learned of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to her own statements, she received the first information regarding the war from her Sister who had taken shelter in an air raid shelter in Kyiv. Her father and brother volunteered for the Ukrainian army, says Samoylowa.

Before her ascent of Mount Everest, she had not had any contact with them for days. In the meantime, however, she has learned that it had recently been quiet in the region of the two. “I was like, ‘Phew, thank goodness!‘” says the mountaineer. Samojlowa has set herself the goal of climbing the highest mountains on each of the seven continents. Prior to Mount Everest, she has already scaled Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus and Mount Vinson in Antarctica.

But before she continues her climbing tour, Samoylova wants to first travel to Croatia, where her sister and nephew have found refuge. Afterwards she wants to visit her father and brother in Ukraine. “I just want to hug her,” she said. (AFP)

The first Russian soldier to face trial in Ukraine for war crimes has pleaded guilty. When asked if he was guilty of charges including war crimes and premeditated murder, 21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin, a soldier, answered yes.

Shishimar is also accused of killing a 62-year-old civilian in northeastern Ukraine in the early days of military action.

Shishimarin was the unit commander of the Tank Division of the Russian Army. The court may sentence him to life imprisonment for pleading guilty. The Kremlin responded that it had not been officially notified of the case or the trial.

Eng­lish summary;War crime; The Russ­ian sol­dier confessed

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In a second video released this May 18 by the research portal of Glass Code It is shown as Former Vice President Jorge Glas, who managed the strategic sectors in the government of Rafael Correa, would have ordered the then director of the Hydrocarbon Regulation and Control Agency, José Luis Cortázar, not to hold the private oil companies accountable without first consulting him and having your approval.

This occurred in a meeting held at the Vice Presidency of the Republic, on February 5, 2014, in which they addressed several issues related to the electoral campaign that year in the sectional elections and the management of the hydrocarbon area.

Glass Code He pointed out that Cortázar had formed, months before, a commission of technicians that established that the curve to set the payment that the Government would receive for each barrel of oil extracted from the Shushufindi-Aguarico and Libertador-Atacapi oil fields was not well calculated, to the detriment of the Ecuadorian State.

In 2012, the Correa government handed over the co-administration of these fields to the Shushufindi SA and Pardaliservices consortiums, with the signing of contracts for the Provision of Specific Services with Financing, for fifteen years. It agreed to pay them, for each barrel of crude oil, a fee of $30.62, at Shushufindi, and $39.53, at Libertador.

Cortázar told Glas that he had proposed resources for access to information to these companies to obtain documents on the subject, but that he had to sue them because they did not comply with the delivery at the time.

To which Glas said the following:

“Ask me before you do that bullshit. You have to understand, brother, that this is a political project, and if we hurt ourselves… It’s like having a ball in the Foreign Debt Committee, right? You approve all the credits as part of a directory, but for everything you have sent 10,000 letters. I had to tell him, hey, look compadre, ask all the questions you have, I’m not a party, I have nothing to do with it, ask them, but don’t put them in writing because following ten years with that they’re going to put the president in jail. You don’t see that the committee is chaired by the president, he delegates someone (…). So you have to be careful, you can’t act like that, you have to tell me and we make a meeting. They have to explain, right? And we have to know what happens before we can have a definition because, finally, if the rate is very high, we lower the rate… Do I explain myself?”.

Cortázar indicated that he would act as indicated. “That’s why I asked you to talk, so I wouldn’t make any mistakes,” he told Glas.

Glas expressed his fear that the information would reach the activist and now legislator Fernando Villavicencio: “I am convinced that Villavicencio is a CIA agent, a Petroecuador trade unionist who has intervened in everything, everything.”

The former vice president has two final sentences, for illicit association in the Odebrecht case and bribery in Bribery 2012-2016; he is pending a third for embezzlement in Singue. He is now serving his sentences in freedom due to a habeas corpus a su favor. (I)