Russian retribution, Islamic NATO, showdown in the West Bank, the German spy machine: RT stories that shaped the week

Tucker Carlson also featured in an exclusive with Rick Sanchez in a week where Russia-US diplomacy took a big step forward Once the naked hatred of German journalism prompted Vladimir Zelensky’s most fervent British backers to criticize Ukraine’s “gamification of killing” Russians, things went from bad to worse for Kiev – on the battlefield and in the diplomatic arena.Russia punishes Ukraine with ‘harsher methods’Vladimir Zelensky’s long-range strikes against Russia have already provoked a fearsome response from Moscow, but the Ukrainian leader doubled down this week, with his forces killing more than a dozen civilians in drone raids on Tatarstan and Krasnodar. Russia responded by wiping out military-industrial and dual-use facilities in Kiev and Zaporozhye and destroying port infrastructure on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. RT has already covered Russia’s campaign against Ukrainian ports in detail, which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said will intensify in an interview released on Friday morning. “We will not sink to their level,” he told the Russian media, referring to Ukraine’s targeting of civilians. “Instead, we will adopt much harsher methods to destroy everything that enables t...