WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Vicus]

WATCH Ukrainian soldiers surrender in Donbass 14 Apr, 2024

The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

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The Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Saturday that nine servicemen from Ukraine’s elite 25th Airborne Brigade surrendered to the Russian Army.

Footage from the ministry shows the moment several soldiers laid down their arms near the settlement of Vodyanoye in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic.

According to the ministry, the servicemen reported atrocious treatment within the Ukrainian Army. In the video, they complain about poor planning of combat operations.

“Our superiors don’t care about us, they don’t want to go to frontline positions to assess the situation… It seemed better to surrender than to die without understanding why and what for,” one of them was filmed as saying.

“The commanders send us to die, like waste material, while they themselves are somewhere on the sidelines… When we were captured, our own people fired at us. I guess it means that no one really needs us there,” another said.

According to the Defense Ministry, the Russian military has set up a separate communication channel for Ukrainian soldiers who want to surrender.

The number of those laying down their arms has been steadily growing recently, Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, told RIA Novosti on Sunday. He noted that the Ukrainian Army punishes soldiers who try to surrender.

Ukraine has been increasingly reliant on forced conscription to bolster its frontline units, amid a shortage of volunteers and a high number of battlefield casualties. In early February, several Ukrainian commanders told the Washington Post that their units were staffed at around 35% or less.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu earlier estimated Ukraine’s casualties at more than 444,000 soldiers since the conflict began in February 2022. The government in Kiev insists that only 31,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the conflict so far.



https://swentr.site/russia/595930-ukraine-soldiers-surrender-russian-army/

[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQc5JtK6hEc

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[christian]

The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

I have no doubt this is true. And I know for a fact that there are tons of reports, just the same, from the other side. I listened to Russian soldiers who defected who tell exactly the same stories.

What does it mean? It means that "war is a racket," and we all should know that, cause Smedley Butler said it in 1935. Poor people (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=putin+draft+minorities) are treated like expendable cannon fodder, both in Russia and Ukraine, and elsewhere. It's terrible, and we should do everything to stop it. The system wants to draw us all into a war mindset, cause war is collective ritual abuse, it's their game, and they want us to play it. In the end, it's not even that important for them which side we're on as long as we choose a side, act like people on one side are humans and people on the other side are not, and collectively play the ritual abuse game. The only way out is to see the war racket for what it is and to reject it completely. Psychopaths profit from poor people killing each other, and in the bigger picture, they benefit from humanity entering the ritual abuse matrix. Let's get out of there, let's not follow psychopathic leaders, let's not put on uniforms and kill each other, let's instead develop empathy for the common people, for ourselves, and do what's in our best interests, and it's certainly not war.

[Jaak]

The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

I have no doubt this is true. And I know for a fact that there are tons of reports, just the same, from the other side. I listened to Russian soldiers who defected who tell exactly the same stories.

What does it mean? It means that "war is a racket," and we all should know that, cause Smedley Butler said it in 1935. Poor people (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=putin+draft+minorities) are treated like expendable cannon fodder, both in Russia and Ukraine, and elsewhere. It's terrible, and we should do everything to stop it. The system wants to draw us all into a war mindset, cause war is collective ritual abuse, it's their game, and they want us to play it. In the end, it's not even that important for them which side we're on as long as we choose a side, act like people on one side are humans and people on the other side are not, and collectively play the ritual abuse game. The only way out is to see the war racket for what it is and to reject it completely. Psychopaths profit from poor people killing each other, and in the bigger picture, they benefit from humanity entering the ritual abuse matrix. Let's get out of there, let's not follow psychopathic leaders, let's not put on uniforms and kill each other, let's instead develop empathy for the common people, for ourselves, and do what's in our best interests, and it's certainly not war.

After you go through russian style military training then no wonder they have moral problems..
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I read somewhere that average russian soldier shoots around 100 bullets during their military service because they cant be trusted anymore with live ammunition. That was already years ago.Have been too many cases of people shooting up the military base because of their traumas from ¨dedovshchina¨. And because russia is now using also alot of convicts in the war who got a strong ¨blatnoy¨or ¨urki¨ mentality and they rule over others with no remorse as they would in a prison cell with 20 people in it hasnt also helped with the moral of others who are forced to be their subjects..

The noun blatnoy (блатной) has an explicitly criminal meaning in Russian. It usually refers to a member of a thief gang – blatnoy itself means "professional criminal". The term originally meant "one possessing the correct paperwork", which, in the corrupt officialdom of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, indicated that the blatnoy was well connected. It later came to indicate career criminals because they had a blatnoy, or special status, in the Russian criminal underworld. The word is used to indicate association with the criminal underworld (e.g. "blatnoy language"/Fenya, "blatnoy behavior", "blatnoy outlook").[10]

[shaberon]

Ukraine is nothing but a pawn in the power game of NATO and Russia, unfortunately, and both sides don't play fair. Both sides want Ukraine in their sphere of influence, and both sides are willing to use deadly force to achieve this.


Do you have anything that would say Ukraine "Borderland" has ever been anything else?

Most people seem to want to say that Ukraine is inherently Khazaria, and therefor the master architect of all the world's problems today. That is a bit silly, but an easy belief to cling to.

There are, of course, several "crossroads" that have never quite been their own states, but tossed between competing regional powers, for instance Gaza. Perhaps it is a little scary that Gaza or Russia would stand up against invasive forces and related acts of resource management. They are acting locally, rather than projecting force dominance at the U. S. -- Mexico border.

It may be interesting to review that Kiev is the "first Russia" in light of the fact of the failed Khazarian apparatus being removed. On that basis, one could perhaps argue that east Ukraine is Russia. So far, I've seen nothing that says relinquished provinces like Ukraine or Estonia "belong" to Russia on principle, but, I can understand the difficulty when they become filled with hostile forces from thousands of miles away.

[Tintin]

An update here via Readovka:


Novokalinovo and Ocheretino - a detailed examination of the combat situation in the Avdeevka direction on April 15

While keeping busy the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novokalinovo area, which is covered from the north, Russian units got a chance to attack Ocheretino located behind it - an important enemy logistics hub in this sector of the front, in the northwest of Avdeevka.

The railway passes through Ocheretino, and the network of roads connecting Novobakhmutovka, Arkhangelskoye, Keramik and Novokalinovo also closes there. Accordingly, the potential loss of Ocheretino as a “hub” for the regular supply of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in this area threatens the Ukrainian command with another operational crisis, which will be caused by both the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield and supply interruptions.

Source: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/94657

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[Tintin]

An overhead view of how Chasov Yar looks as at April 16th, 2024 :flower:

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[christian]

Do you have anything that would say Ukraine "Borderland" has ever been anything else? […]

Perhaps it is a little scary that […] Russia would stand up against invasive forces[.] […]

It may be interesting to review that Kiev is the "first Russia"[.]

Ukraine has been formally sovereign since 1990, and I think it's generally better when people in a sovereign state take care of political affairs themselves without violent interference from other states, whether from NATO or Russia. I'm also no enthusiast of the coercive redrawing of borders in accordance with some historical state of affairs, because it encourages arbitrary violence and usually punishes individuals in the present for something that other people have done long ago. Besides, using the argument that Kyiv was the first Russia, you might as well say that Kyiv should be in charge of Russia.

Regarding your argument that Russia stood up against invasive forces, I don't see how Ukraine tried to invade Russia. At the most, you could argue that Ukraine was preparing to reconquer Crimea, where most residents did want to join Russia, but it happened in a questionable way that has not been universally recognized, so Ukraine had somewhat of a claim there, and there is no indication that Ukraine prepared an invasion of Russia inside its universally recognized borders. In any case, Russia didn't just "stand up against invasive forces," but actively invaded another country.

[Vicus]

Sergey Poletaev: Here’s Russia’s plan for Ukraine for this summer 12 Apr, 2024 18

The cost to the West of supporting Kiev continues to rise, meaning Moscow’s best option is to wait

From time to time, people ask why Russia is not acting more decisively in Ukraine, and why it appears to be dragging its feet. Some say it’s out of weakness, others suspect some secret agreements with the West, and it seems there are theories to suit all tastes.

In reality, the answer is clear and transparent. This year and the next, Russia has budgeted about 5-6% of GDP on the Ukraine conflict, and the Kremlin’s task is to use these comparatively small resources as efficiently as possible. Their intention is to achieve the goals of the military operation without a new mobilization, and to preserve not only a calm and functioning economy but also stability inside the country.

Although the front line has remained largely static since autumn 2022, the political situation and the circumstances in which the conflict will likely end are changing radically – in Russia’s favor. With little risk and at relatively small financial expense, President Vladimir Putin is slowly but surely getting his way.

Not waiting, but preparing

There is increasing talk of an imminent Russian offensive. As with the Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ a year ago, commentators claim to know exactly where it will take place (towards Kharkov or Sumy), when it will happen (in May or June), and are sure in advance that it will be decisive for the whole conflict, and so on.

But it seems to us that the Kremlin does not want a big march on Ukraine’s second city this summer, and here is why.

Firstly, there is a lack of experience. We are talking about an operation on the scale of the Eastern Front in the Second World War, and such endeavors have never been carried out during the current campaign. (February 22, 2022 doesn’t count, because the enemy wasn’t fully mobilized, and the front line didn’t really exist so there was no need to break through anything.)

In any conflict, the scale required for offensive battles increases steadily, and the appropriate tools, strategic and tactical techniques, officer and staff corps need to be formed. The leap required to go from a five-month operation to take Avdeevka to a rapid and successful occupation of Kharkov or Sumy seems unfathomable.

Also, the forces and means required are not yet in place. Yes, we have reserves of about 150,000-170,000 people. Yes, more people are signing up for military service every month than Ukraine is catching in taverns and on the streets, which means that the numbers are still growing. But a mass of soldiers is not an army. They need to be armed, equipped, trained, provided with experienced officers, staff capacity, equipment, shells, aircraft, and other things.

continue: https://swentr.site/russia/595831-heres-russias-plan-for-ukraine/

[Vicus]

Russia's FSB Detains Ukrainian Agent Behind Bombing of Defector's Car in Moscow 4 hours ago

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it arrested a Russian national who had planted explosives onto the car of a former Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officer in Moscow at the instruction of the Ukrainian special services.

This past Friday, a car belonging to former SBU Lt. Col. Vasily Prozorov exploded in Moscow while he was inside the vehicle. Prozorov survived, with minor injures, and blamed the assassination attempt on Ukrainian intelligence.
"FSB has detained a Russian national, born in 1983, who, under the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, detonated an explosive device planted onto the car of a Russian national and ex-SBU employee in Moscow," FSB said.

❗️A Ukrainian agent, following orders of a handler, who was instructed by the head of the SBU, Vasily Malyuk, remotely orchestrated the explosion of a former Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) employee’s car in Moscow, the FSB reported. https://t.co/G5wAHYrg5o

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) April 16, 2024

Russian investigators have established that following the launch of the Russian special military operation in February 2022, the perpetrator went to Ukraine, where he was subsequently recruited by a SBU employee in October 2023, FSB said.

"In March, instructed by his supervisor who was acting under direct guidance of SBU chief Malyuk Vasyl, he [the perpetrator] arrived in Russia, received elements of a radio-controlled explosive device and assembled it, and after examining the area of the ex-SBU employee's residence address, he mined the car," the statement read.

The Russian Investigative Committee's Moscow office has opened a criminal case into attempted murder as well as illegal acquisition, possession and transportation of explosive devices, FSB said. Separately, an inquiry is underway aimed at qualifying the perpetrator's actions as terrorism and treason, which might lead to a life sentence.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240416/russias-fsb-detains-ukrainian-agent-behind-bombing-of-defectors-car-in-moscow-1117957010.html?rcmd_alg=collaboration2

[Vicus]

Russia Hits FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION TROOPS in Ukraine APRIL 15

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On April 13, this website reported the arrival of French Foreign Legion troops into Slavyansk, Ukraine. Overnight, those troops were hit and mostly killed by the Russian Army.

he French military brought the CAESAR self-propelled gun to Slavyansk

According to the Military Chronicle, the brigade artillery group consists of 12 to 15 wheeled howitzers, as well as several Renault trucks with auxiliary equipment. According to preliminary information, the equipment was transferred for storage to the Starokramatorsky Machine-Building Plant from Dnepropetrovsk.

In Slavyansk itself, in the area of ​​clay quarries, as well as to the south (in the Cherevkovka area), firing positions have already been prepared for these guns: a road has been rolled out and ammunition supply routes have been equipped.

Most likely, we are talking about the potential use of the French CAESAR for barrage fire in the event of an attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Slavyansk, but we cannot exclude the use of this technology in the defense of Chasov Yar and its likely transfer to units of the 54th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (as well as the direct participation of the French within this division.)

When firing extended-range projectiles with a bottom gas generator from the Belenkoye area (between Kramatorsk and Slavyansk), the entire eastern part of Chasov Yar, including the western part of Bogdanovka and the entry point of Russian troops in the area of ​​vocational school No . 77 in the Kanal microdistrict, may be in the CAESAR destruction zone.

Those French troops and their CAESAR artillery were demolished overnight by the Russian Army.

Russia had previously warned NATO countries that if they sent troops into Ukraine, those troops would become legitimate targets. Now, Russia has made good on its word (again) and a slew of French Foreign Legion troops are now dead.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en-us/component/content/article/russia-hits-french-foreign-legion-troops-in-ukraine?catid=17&Itemid=101

[Vicus]

Playing Peacemaker, Macron Sent French To Deaths In Ukraine

Just a few days ago, reports from the Ukrainian frontlines claimed that the first groups of French militants from the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the French Foreign Legion have arrived in the city of Slavyansk in the DPR. The unit includes specialists in artillery reconnaissance, as well as an engineering group specialized in field fortifications. The French were reportedly stationed at the location of one of the Ukrainian brigades.

On the morning of April 15, a large explosion thundered in Slavyansk. According to claims from the local guerrilla movement, the precision Russian strike destroyed the location of the Ukrainian gunners, where the French could also have been stationed.

At the moment, only the training of the French special battalion tactical group consisting of about 1,500 servicemen from the Foreign Legion and regular troops of the French Army have been officially confirmed. Reports on the deployment of the French military on the frontlines can be reliably confirmed when Paris will no longer be able to hide the obituaries from Ukraine.

https://southfront.press/macron-sent-french-to-deaths-in-ukraine/

[Gwin Ru]

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... first part is about Ukraine and its soldiers bulk surrendering on the increase together with the Azov affiliated refusing to go feed the sacrificial meat grinder:

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

16 April 2024

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️ In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and repelled two counter-attacks launched by the AFU 21st Mechanized Brigade's assault groups close to Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer, and one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer. In addition, one AFU field ammunition depot was destroyed.

▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 46th Airmobile, 92nd Air Assault, 28th, 93rd Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Andreyevka, Krasnogorovka, Kurdyumovka, and Kleshcheyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Up to 630 Ukrainian troops, one armored fighting vehicle, and four motor vehicles were neutralized.

In counterbattery warfare, the U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin and Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems, one 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, as well as one Nota electronic warfare station were annihilated.

▫️ In Avdeyevka direction, the units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and repelled eight counter-attacks of the assault groups of the 25th Airborne, 68th, 71st jaeger, 23rd, 24th, 115th mechanized brigades of the AFU close to Novokalinovo, Semyonovka, Petrovskoye, Netaylovo, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 380 Ukrainian troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and three 122-mm D-30 howitzers.

▫️ In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line and hit manpower and hardware of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the AFU, 108th and 128th territorial defence brigades close to Lugovskoye (Zaporozhye region), Ugledar, Urozhaynoye, and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one Grad MLRS, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one 152-mm D-20 howitzer, and one Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station.

▫️ In Kherson direction, the units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on the 117th Mechanized Brigade of the AFU and 35th Marine Brigade near Orekhov (Zaporozhye region) and Ivanovka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made M777 howitzer.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU ammunition and fuel depots, UAV production and storage facilities, as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 133 areas during the day.

Air defense systems have shot down 155 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, two U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles, four U.S.-made MALD decoy missiles, as well as two HIMARS and Uragan MLRS projectiles during the day.

📊 In total, 583 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 21,292 unmanned aerial vehicles, 502 air defense missile systems, 15,793 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,267 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,928 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 21,063 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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🇺🇦🤑 UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR SEIZES HOUSE WORTH HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, THEN MOVES IN - In 2021, Kiev court seizes several land plots due to alleged land and environmental problems. A year later, same court changes its mind, releasing the lands after a letter from Kiev Regional Prosecutor's Office stressed "not enough evidence".

Shocking investigation finds, six months later, Alexander Gutsulyak prosecutor of same prosecutor's office responsible for environmental cases, MOVES IN and occupies one of the previously-seized 180 square meters, 2-story luxury home worth about $500,000.

When confronted by journalists, Gutsulyak explained both house and new 2022 BMW are in his father's name (whose salary can't afford), and built the house himself - except aerial footage proves house built a year before the move - his father with contradiction claims "he bought the land but didn't register it".

No surprise here, corruption is now part of Ukraine's national identity.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Krasukha electronic warfare system thwarts AFU attempt to conduct electronic surveillance of Russian positions

📍 Belgorod direction

During combat work, electronic warfare specialists of the State Border Covering Force timely detected and suppressed onboard GPS systems, radio navigation systems, and radio communication channels, disrupting the reconnaissance activity of Ukrainian aviation.

'Our crew detected an enemy aircraft that was trying to conduct radar reconnaissance of Russian facilities. Repeater jamming was used, and within three to four minutes the enemy ceased its activities and disappeared from our screens,' said the operator of the Krasukha jamming module with the call sign Vesyoly.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Right Sector Nazi Brigade disbanded after fleeing from positions in Chasov Yar

▪️ Today, the AFU ground forces essentially admitted that: "The consequences of the loss of positions by our unit and the exposure of the flanks of other brigades and battalions are considered lost lives, a change in the situation not in favour of the AFU," the AFU said in a statement.

▪️ Earlier it was reported that another reason discovered during the inspection was problems within the brigade. The directorate encouraged hazing and strictly separated the backbone of the brigade (made up of members of the Nazi Right Sector) from young recruits.

▪️ The latter were called "pixelated", disadvantaged in every way, and sent first to the positions from which they had fled.

▪️ During Zaluzhny's time, the Nazis of the "Ukrainian Volunteer Corps" (later reformed into the 67th separate mechanised brigade) retained some autonomy and had the support of the General Staff, but everything changed with the appointment of Syrskyy as head of the AFU.

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🇷🇺 Chasov Yar is nearing liberation.

The Russian Armed Forces continue to pound AFU positions in Chasov Yar and its surroundings.

A video of air strikes on the town has emerged today. According to reports, a group of AFU equipment was hit with "Grom" guided bombs.

It is particularly interesting that the town is perfectly visible through the lens of UAV.

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🇺🇦💀 National Medical University to be liquidated in Kharkov

This is reported by local sources. The liquidation will affect all institutes of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Some institutes will be transferred to other departments, and some will be completely liquidated.

Half of the staff of the Medical University will be employed at Kharkov University named after Karazin.

The dismissed teachers will be mobilised and sent for medical retraining.

Today Zelensky signed a new law deepening mobilisation. It will come in force on 16 May, and the mobilisation plan must be carried out.

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An internal audit by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has uncovered violations amounting to more than 10 billion UAH!

This was reported by the deputy head of the ministry, Yuriy Dzhygir. According to him, one third of humanitarian aid to military units has not arrived since the beginning of 2023.

It was also revealed that Kiev tried to illegally sell off funds and land belonging to one of the Defence Ministry's state enterprises.

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🇱🇻Who is the main corrupt official in Latvia?

Prime Minister? The president? No, the head of the Latvian border guard, Guntis Pujats.

Today, despite being persecuted in numerous criminal cases, he not only remains in office, but also abuses and kills migrants on the Latvian-Belarusian border with the help of security forces. (At least 15 people have died there since 2021).

Back in September 2020, Pujats was detained as a defendant in a corruption case related to the construction of engineering infrastructure on the eastern border of Latvia. He was accused of inaction, which caused the loss of several million euros.

However, Pujats is incredibly released on the day of his arrest. And as a punishment, they apply a measure - a ban on holding the position of head of the border guard.

In March 2021, Pujats was reinstated and all charges were dropped. Believing in his impunity, Pujats demands 7 thousand euros for moral damage. But he received a symbolic 32 euros.

In October 2022, the Bureau of Homeland Security completed an investigation into another high-profile criminal case.

It turned out that in the spring of 2020, Latvian border guards entered into a secret conspiracy with representatives of local businesses to “cut up” the state forest. The damage was estimated at more than 100 thousand euros.

Pujats' secret is simple. Firstly, he previously headed the criminal investigation department. Secondly, he has a patron in the government who carefully protects him and, for a reward, allows him to carry out criminal schemes on the border.

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🇺🇦 AFU fighters allowed to set up bases in civilians' best apartments

The head of Kiev regime's occupational forces in Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, has allowed AFU fighters to settle in civilians' flats. This was reported by the head of the Kherson Oblast (Russia), 🇷🇺 Vladimir Saldo, on his telegram channel.

At the same time, Prokudin ordered the soldiers not to engage in looting, but according to Saldo, the opposite is happening.

"The militants happily rushed to carry out his order: they are occupying the best apartments in the houses on the side opposite to Dnieper, so that if it comes to shelling, it will not fall on them, but on civilians. They use the possessions in the flats at their own discretion. They walk around in civilian clothes, leave their cars far away from the flats - in yards," writes the head of the Kherson Oblast.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

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❗️Ukrainian special services are behind the attempted assassination of Anatoly Shariy, a source told Sputnik.

According to the received data, the preparation of the assassination attempt on March 6, 2024 was carried out by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (GUR).

The GUR, in close cooperation with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), developed a "false flag" operation. They planned to physically eliminate the blogger while blaming Russia for his murder. The head of the GUR, Kyrylo Budanov, directly supervised the operation.

Ukrainian agents recruited participants for the attempted murder of Shariy from among ethnic Ukrainians living in Spain and representatives of local criminals, a source told Sputnik.

At the same time, Spanish law enforcement officers openly took a formal approach to the investigation of the circumstances of the attempted murder of Shariy, not even bothering to go to the place to inspect it.

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Anatoly Shariy knew about the attempted murder a week ago, he said in his Telegram channel.

"I repeat - a week before the machine gun with a silencer on the windshield of the car, I gave the Spanish police even the names and phone numbers of those who were planning the murder. I have a recording of my statement and documents about it in my hands."

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[SoulValor]

The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said

I have no doubt this is true. And I know for a fact that there are tons of reports, just the same, from the other side. I listened to Russian soldiers who defected who tell exactly the same stories.

What does it mean? It means that "war is a racket," and we all should know that, cause Smedley Butler said it in 1935. Poor people (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=putin+draft+minorities) are treated like expendable cannon fodder, both in Russia and Ukraine, and elsewhere. It's terrible, and we should do everything to stop it. The system wants to draw us all into a war mindset, cause war is collective ritual abuse, it's their game, and they want us to play it. In the end, it's not even that important for them which side we're on as long as we choose a side, act like people on one side are humans and people on the other side are not, and collectively play the ritual abuse game. The only way out is to see the war racket for what it is and to reject it completely. Psychopaths profit from poor people killing each other, and in the bigger picture, they benefit from humanity entering the ritual abuse matrix. Let's get out of there, let's not follow psychopathic leaders, let's not put on uniforms and kill each other, let's instead develop empathy for the common people, for ourselves, and do what's in our best interests, and it's certainly not war.

It may be honorable to have a pacifist mindset but IMO it's also naive. How can you stop/avoid/escape these type of scenarios if we don't get rid of the psychopaths? And how can you get rid of the psychopaths without using violence? It appears people have been trying that for ages by praying Kumbaya and meditating for world peace (or channeling XYZ ;-)) but somehow that doesn't seem to work....

[Ravenlocke]

It is cheaper to buy a Patriot for Ukraine than to restore the thermal power plant destroyed by Russia - head of European diplomacy Borrell

"Before we talk about rebuilding Ukraine, we must avoid its destruction. It is cheaper to buy Patriot systems than to rebuild a power plant that the Russians have targeted," he said.

@ukr_leaks_eng


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[Ravenlocke]

Israel Strike Coming,
Ukr Troops Encircled Berdychi,
Budanov Panics,
Ukr War West's Suez Moment

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Tintin]

Nine years since Ukrainian opposition journalist Oles Buzina was assassinated in Kiev

Published Russian MFA - April 16, 2024

Source: Telegraph (https://telegra.ph/Oles-Buzina-04-16)

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Exactly nine years ago, Ukrainian writer and opposition journalist Oles Buzina was assassinated in front of his home in Kiev. He became one of the many victims of the Kiev criminal regime because he posed a threat to it – he publicly criticised and exposed the true nature of the neo-Nazi forces that had gained power as a result of the bloody coup d'état in Ukraine.

Buzina urged the then Ukrainian leadership to establish a dialogue with the inhabitants of Donbass and spoke about the need to consolidate the rights of the Russian language, which seriously irritated the official Kiev. He also received threats from Ukrainian radicals because his interpretation of Ukraine's historical path did not coincide with the nationalist ideology. Such an active and firm civil position of Oles Buzina cost him his life.

A few days before his death, the journalist's personal data, including his home address, appeared on the Myrotrvorets (Peacemaker) extremist website, which contains personal information about all public figures, publicists, reporters, and journalists undesirable to the Kiev regime, a resource created literally as a practical guide for preparing terrorist acts.

Despite the fact that condemnation of the murder, condolences to the victim's family and demands for a comprehensive investigation were voiced by the UN Secretary General, OSCE and US State Department officials and many civil society organisations, the perpetrators of his murder were never identified and the suspects were released.

After almost a decade, it is clear that the situation with freedom of speech in Ukraine has degraded to a critical level. All media outlets in opposition to the Kiev regime are banned, and any manifestations of dissent are brutally suppressed and erased from the information space. Unwanted journalists, primarily Russian ones, are being hunted down with all possible weapons. In the past two years alone, the Kiev regime has killed journalists Darya Dugina (Platonova), Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin), Rostislav Zhuravlyov and Boris Maksudov. Terrorist methods are being used to implement these criminal plans, while Ukraine's Western handlers and biased human rights organisations continue to turn a blind eye to these evil deeds.

[Ravenlocke]

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Ukraine SitRep: The Power Plant War - Ideological Losses - More Signs Of Corruption
April 16, 2024

The Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski is lobbying Congress through U.S. media for more weapons and monetary support. It requires him to finally depict the situation as dire as it is (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31182):
Speaking to the PBS news hour on Tuesday, April 16, Zelensky underlined Ukraine’s air defences' critical condition. “I'll give you a very simple example,” he said.
“Eleven missiles were launched towards the Trypillya [thermal power] station, upon which the electricity supply in the Kyiv region depends. We managed to intercept the first seven, but the remaining four hit Trypillya. Why? Because we had zero missiles left. We have exhausted all the missiles that were defending Trypillya,” the President added.
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In response to the targeting of critical infrastructure, Zelensky used this example to once again call upon Ukraine’s allies to urgently supply the weapons Kyiv needs, particularly air defense launchers and missiles.
“Frankly speaking, without this assistance, we stand little chance of victory, because we need to be significantly stronger than our adversaries. The current ratio of artillery shells stands at 1 to 10. Can we endure for much longer? No,” Zelensky said.
It is good to see that Zelenski is finally noticing the situation Ukraine is in.

The electricity infrastructure is indeed a critical point. John Helmer, via Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/lenin-revised-russian-military-power-means-de-electrification-and-unconditional-surrender-of-the-kiev-regime.html), suggest that Russia is using the destruction of Ukrainian power plants to press for its unconditional surrender (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/russia-expects-unconditional-capitulation-of-kiev-regime.html).

Helmer quotes (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/lenin-revised-russian-military-power-means-de-electrification-and-unconditional-surrender-of-the-kiev-regime.html) the Colonel Cassad blog site:
Boris Rozhin, whose Colonel Cassad military blog broadly represents General Staff thinking, reports the operational breakthrough demonstrated on April 11, and explains what the maps of current targeting foreshadow for the next round of strikes, and the rounds after that. Rozhin republishes his analysis from RT, the state media organ. “By the evening of April 11, Ukrainian sources reported that air-launched X-69 missiles could be used to hit the Tripolskaya TPP [Thermal Power Plant]. So far, there is no confirmation of this information, but it is worth studying these missiles in more detail. Their range is almost 20 times less than that of the X-101 missiles [equivalent to about 250-500 kilometres], the carriers of which are strategic aircraft of the Aerospace Forces [Tu-95]. In their [X-69] function, they are closer to the foreign [Anglo-French] Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles, which are being attempted for strikes on the Crimean Bridge. The [X-69’s] long range of the 300 km could be enough if the launches of missiles were carried out from the territory of the Bryansk region. If the use of missiles is confirmed in the future, it will mean that no energy facility of the Ukraine on the Dnieper River can work safely, and the strike capabilities of the Aerospace Forces have multiplied.” https://t.me/rt_russian/197065
The lack of power supply is not the only unsolvable problem Zelenski has.

The situation at the frontline is deteriorating. One of the critical sectors in now Chasiv Yar, some 10 kilometer west of Bakhmut, where the Russian forces recently managed to make some crucial progress.

Chasiv Yar - April 1 2024:

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(https://www.moonofalabama.org/18i/chasivyar20240416.jpg) Ground that had been held by parts of the 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade had been given up very quickly.

The Ukraine command investigated and found the root cause in the ideological framework (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/14/7451183/) of the 'nationalist' brigade:
After losing some positions on the Chasiv Yar front in Donetsk Oblast, where heavy fighting has been ongoing since the beginning of 2024, the 67th Separate Mechanised Brigade of the Right Sector Ukrainian Volunteer Corps is being investigated and the military personnel who served as the brigade’s backbone are being transferred to other units.
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One of the factors revealed by the audit was issues within the brigade. The leadership allegedly separated the soldiers from the Right Sector and those who were transferred from other parts during the recent replenishment (they were referred to as "pixels", in reference to the pattern on the Ukrainian military uniform). The attitude toward the "pixels" was even worse; they were the first to be sent into combat, and their lack of experience made them lose territory. According to a source of Ukrainska Pravda, this was not the only reason for the brigade's combat capacity deficiencies, as revealed by the audit.
According to a former Ukrainian Volunteer Corps fighter who served in the unit during the 2014-2018 anti-terrorist operation in Ukraine's east and the first year of the full-scale invasion, the current problem stems from the inability to reform the former volunteer unit into a regular brigade of the Armed Forces.
Following the reformatting of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps into the 67th Brigade, volunteers were forced to live "according to military tenets", as determined by the newly formed army command. The former Ukrainian Volunteer Corps leaders lacked the military experience necessary for high positions.
The street gangs and hooligans of the fascist Right Sector, who played a major role during the so called Maidan revolution, were not keen to be real soldiers. They put the least experienced mobilized men into the frontline and kept their ideological brethren in the back.

Such behavior had been fine under the former Commander in Chief General Zaluzhni who has a well known affinity for the hard right 'nationalists' units. But the new Commander in Chief General Syrski needs real soldiers, not amateurish terrorists:
During the tenure of former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the backbone of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps, particularly Andrii Stempitskyi, was able to maintain some autonomy in the brigade while receiving assistance from the General Staff. Quote: "And when Sirskyi was appointed, they were confronted with the fact that they must only do activities that are appropriate for their official position. They saw it as political persecution. For highly ideological Ukrainian Volunteer Corps combatants, this appears to be the end of a movement, but it is actually the system bringing its combat units up to standard."
Strana adds (https://strana.news/news/462315-itohi-781-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html) a bit of history (machine translation):
Recall that the" Ukrainian Volunteer Corps "(DUK) was formed in 2014 by the "Right Sector" during the anti-terrorist operation. After that, for a long time he was not a member of any of the official law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, which raised questions about the ambiguity of his legal status. This continued until 2018, after which most of the DUK joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.Like other fascists groupings in Ukraine, i.e. Azov, the DUK or 'Right Sector has multiplied (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/14/7451183/) during the war. It has infiltrated more units:
In 2023, the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps was split into two parts: one joined the Special Operations Forces and the other formed the 67th Separate Mechanised Brigade. In February 2024, a portion of the Da Vinci Wolves Unit transferred from the 67th Brigade to the 59th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade.'Reforming' the 'nationalist' brigades will be quite a task for the new command under Syrski. As he was born in Russia they may in the end declare him to be their ultimate enemy.

Another problem Zelenski should, but wont, care for, are the signs of corruption which due to the war have only increased (https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30602):
By law, Ukrainian officials such as lawmakers, prosecutors, and judges must declare their assets to the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NACP). The NACP received some 664,000 documents by March 31, which was the submission deadline for 2023, Economic Pravda reported.
The news site reported Wednesday that it randomly selected declarations for 2,200 officials to see how their fortunes had changed from 2022 to 2023.
It found that every sixth official had bought an apartment or house, and every third one a car. They purchased 721 cars, 268 apartments, and 90 new houses.
Meanwhile, even with the new asset purchases, the officials’ savings increased.
Economic Pravda found that the cash and bank deposits of the declarants increased by about a quarter during the two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The dire economic situation of Ukraine leaves no explanation but corruption for this (https://strana.news/news/458645-pochemu-v-ukraine-stavjatsja-rekordy-prodazhi-elitnykh-avto-nesmotrja-na-vojnu.html) (machine translation):
In Ukraine, record sales of luxury foreign cars were recorded last year. Some premium brands were included in the top 10 best-selling cars, which was not even in peacetime. And the number of Tesla cars in Ukraine has increased almost 10 times compared to 2021. Such a boom in demand for expensive cars in a warring country, at first glance, looks at least strange. But there are explanations for this.
Used Teslas have become a bit cheaper in Ukraine. But the main reason why the sales of luxury cars in Ukraine is booming is this:
Third (and this is the main thing), there is a category of new applicants for luxury cars-people whose welfare has grown significantly since the beginning of the war. "Before the war, a man drove a modest Volkswagen. And then he sat down on the stream, got money, decided to upgrade the car, bought a Range Rover. And there are a lot of them," one of the car dealerships in Kiev told us.
According to employees of the salon, massively upgrading cars to something "more decent", are in particular, the security forces.
In addition, a whole layer of people appeared in the country, who became very rich during the war. Including on corruption schemes for supplies to the army. They are also a major category of luxury car buyers. Yes, and other expensive things. For example, one of the dealers of luxury watches told Strana that in the last year its sales are breaking records for the entire existence of the business.
While Zelenski is begging Congress it should consider that someone will have to pay for those who 'sit down on the stream' and gain from it.

[shaberon]

Ukraine has been formally sovereign since 1990...


Well, yes, at the tail end of extensive western collusion to break up the Soviet Union, and, i. e., re-draw maps arbitrarily. Isn't that a bit coercive in accordance with some historical status?

I'm trying to find that historical state--what was Ukraine that was absorbed and then released?

An arbitrarily re-drawn map?




Besides, using the argument that Kyiv was the first Russia, you might as well say that Kyiv should be in charge of Russia.


Not exactly. There is a reason why Rus came to power in Kiev--the locals kept killing each other for property and literally invited a Big Brother to teach them civilization.

As to why it was removed or moved to Moscow is a bit more complicated.

Between the departure of the Rus and the re-drawn map of a periodical state in the 1900s, what is Ukraine?



Regarding your argument that Russia stood up against invasive forces, I don't see how Ukraine tried to invade Russia.


It was something like a quarter million troops stationed in the south, appearing to have the intent to go outside its own borders, Crimea, that master map re-drawing by British strategists notwithstanding. That is on top of a Fascist coup and shelling civilians for years, while stripping labor rights and many kinds of rather brutish changes internally. Maidan is not violent interference by outside states? 1990 is a gift to the Nazis on a silver platter for every kind of exploitive scheme known to man. Organ harvesting, child trafficking? Ticket to paradise? Safaris for the pleasure of human slaughter? What is it exactly we would be championing the rights of here?? Biolabs to shuck cholera into Poland? That was one of the jobs.


Without going into all the details, it may be interesting that Ukraine's "Russian defectors" brigade has never had more than about fifty Russian citizens; the bulk of it consisting of Ukrainians and Europeans.

I would agree that it is unfortunate that force is required to deal with these regimes, but, that is nothing new. The fact that one of them had its border legally recognized in 1990 is not adequate to justify its behavior, certainly not in terms that I might consent with political will or tax money. That is because I would denounce almost everything America stuck a finger in. If there were cases of such events occurring on their own, I would probably consider it none of my business. America can't take care of America, but it has answers for the whole world. That's a very serious problem. Generally I don't like Americans, because this is a non-culture, perhaps like Ukraine. Just a bunch of rabid nationalism swirling the drain with secular interpretations of scriptures. If you have a strong stomach, look at the new thing in the Dating Sites thread...

[shaberon]

It may be honorable to have a pacifist mindset but IMO it's also naive. How can you stop/avoid/escape these type of scenarios if we don't get rid of the psychopaths? And how can you get rid of the psychopaths without using violence? It appears people have been trying that for ages by praying Kumbaya and meditating for world peace (or channeling XYZ ;-)) but somehow that doesn't seem to work....


Yes, unfortunately, "nothing for peace" is a way to sit you on a shelf and keep you out of the way.

Works great until you really need to do something.

I tend to follow the Russian strategy, which says "the enemy is Conflict".

That's very practical, right? It doesn't amount to an ideology. Least of all one which says the non-Russian is livestock fit for slaughter. Such was the teaching of Aristotle: foreign humans are animals, kill them all.

When legal efforts are exhausted, then, relief most likely comes in the hands of Outlaws. That is the simple meaning of a Tyrant. For example, the general who took rule in Niger by throwing out the legally-elected government is a Tyrant. Superficially similar to the Maidan Coup, let's see if the results are the same.

How can one be sympathetic to "legal systems" which are themselves the source of conflicts that have killed hundreds of millions?

I'm not. I think these "legal systems" are daft fictions of the man who believes his words are superior to nature.

War Is a Racket definitely pertains to Capitalism, and has nothing to do with Resistance, the only means of protection against Zion, or the Ukronazis, or other legalized industrial death factories.

[christian]

It may be honorable to have a pacifist mindset but IMO it's also naive. How can you stop/avoid/escape these type of scenarios if we don't get rid of the psychopaths? And how can you get rid of the psychopaths without using violence?

I don't think we get rid of psychopaths by obeying psychopaths, putting on uniforms, and killing other poor people in uniforms who also obey psychopaths. I think people everywhere better clean up their own governments first. And I think more than violence, it takes creativity, civil disobedience, and moral courage. Violence may be necessary sometimes in self-defense, but it's certainly not the main tool to bring about peace and create a better world.

[Bruce G Charlton]

@Christian - War is terrible. But there are even worse things.

Because it only takes one side to go to war; therefore, for a nation there may be only a choice between war and permitting genocide of oneself.

In the case of Russia, now, I believe the choice was/is war against the West/NATO - or allowing cultural genocide: i.e. destruction of Russia as a state, and culture - including the destruction of Russian Orthodoxy. (Note: I believe that Russia is a genuinely Christian nation - that that is what the spirit of the nation aspires towards. Naturally, this is my spiritual, not empirical, judgment.)

My understanding is that the destruction of Russia was the definite plan of the West, indeed absolutely explicitly so - over a period of thirty years, and indeed for more than a century (e.g. see the work of Terry Boardman); and that this plan had gone a long way, and was indeed accelerating.

For me the destruction of Russia would be the destruction of an essentially good-affiliated entity (one on the side of good); by another entity (the totalitarian globalist ideology, centred in The West) that is literally ruled by demonic values.

Therefore - on the basis of what I understand and believe - I regard the Russian case for fighting a war as valid. It was either that, or allowing their own cultural annihilation - when that culture is (IMO, so far as I know) a valid one (which is not something I would say for very many other nations in the world).

[Tintin]

"Our enemies constantly insist that Russia’s main goal is to “seize” Ukrainian lands, some “countless treasures of Independence”: wheat, steel, gas, coal. But in fact, it turns out that there is nothing special in Bandera’s “Ukraine” in terms of economics that Russia – unlike the West – would not possess itself and in much greater quantities.

In “Ukraine” the main wealth for us is of a completely different kind. The great value that we will not give up to anyone for anything is people. Those close to us and our family. The Anglo-Saxons consistently zombify them. A considerable part of the residents of “Ukraine” are now confused, embittered, experiencing extreme stress and completely disoriented. Our task is to clearly show them who is who. Remove the anti-Russian intoxication from them. Bring people back to our perimeter. The concept of “Ukraine is not Russia” proposed by one of the former leaders of this “Independence” should disappear forever. Ukraine is, of course, Russia.

If “Ukraine” had not fallen into the stupidest trap set by the United States and its allies to confront our country by creating “anti-Russia,” everything would have been different. As our president rightly noted, if Russia had not begun to be destroyed on its own historical territories, indeed, nothing would have happened." - Dmitry Medvedev

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Source: EXPERT
(https://expert.ru/mnenie/dmitriy-medvedev-u-rossii-kak-i-lyuboy-velikoy-derzhavy-strategicheskie-granitsy-lezhat-daleko-za-predelami-geograficheskikh/)

Dmitry Medvedev: “Russia, like any great power, has strategic borders that lie far beyond the geographical ones.”

April 15, 2024

Editors: Russia's strategic borders, like any great world power, lie far beyond its territory. And they are based not on military force and the desire to remake the political map, but on the principles of equality, mutual benefit and partnership. This is the essence of the new international order, which is gradually replacing the unipolar world. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev spoke about Russia’s approach to the formation of a new world order at the “Knowledge.First” marathon of the Russian Society “Knowledge”. The “expert” considered that readers should familiarize themselves with the theses reflecting Russia’s policy in international relations. With the consent of the author, we publish the text of this speech with minor abbreviations.

No state in the world can exist without borders. And not only those depicted on official maps, but also in a broader sense. When it comes to Russia, it is important to understand where and how its borders are delineated in our time. And what they might become in the future.

These questions are not rhetorical. And the answers to them are not as clear as they might seem at first glance. This is the basic coordinate system in which our Motherland lives and, together with it, we all live. We don’t just exist—we think, we act, we fight, we win. We are building the future of a country that fulfills a special, fateful mission in the global world.

There are several obvious things that our friends and allies understand very well, and our enemies should notch on their own noses.

First. We don't need someone else's land. We will never give up on ours. So it was and so it will be. This is the principle by which our state border policy is based.

March 31, 1814 is a significant date in our history. 210 years ago, Russian troops took Paris. Having established order in Europe, having achieved a change of power in Paris to one acceptable to ourselves and the other allied states, we returned to our home with unfurled banners.

We have never gone so far to the West either before or since. Why did we need this? Yes, it was necessary to eliminate the direct military threat. But, in addition, Russia also pursued greater geopolitical goals. One of the most important was the global security of our borders for a long time. And it can be effectively ensured only if the country is confident in the stability of the situation outside the direct perimeter formed by the border pillars. That is, on a much larger scale. Moreover, the larger the country, the greater the scale of external stability that is needed for this.

The authors of various geopolitical theories in various countries (from China to Europe and America) proceed from one obvious thesis. Any state as a sovereign subject of international relations has two types of borders - geographical and strategic.

The first are stable and officially recognized in accordance with international law demarcation and delimitation lines that fix the geographical limits of the state. This is one of the main elements of its political-territorial framework.

Within these borders, the state has full sovereignty. We are talking about strategic autonomy and independence from other countries, about the supremacy of power in pursuing its domestic policy. That is, what is usually called internal sovereignty. And also independence in external affairs, that is, external sovereignty.

They prefer not to mention the second, strategic type of borders again. Talking about them is kind of like political bad manners.

These boundaries are not limited to the physical size of countries, their airspace and territorial waters. They are not directly related to state sovereignty. The strategic boundaries of a state directly depend on how far its political power extends. The more powerful the state, the further its strategic frontiers are located beyond its state borders. And the larger the strategic space on which such a country has economic, political, socio-cultural influence. This is the zone of the so-called national interests of the state. Although strategic borders and national interests are divergent concepts.

In return, the strong powers that set the tone in world relations offered their wards military and political protection. States that were weak or, even worse, that had reached the end of their glory and power became puppet or vassal states for their patrons, or, as they later began to say, “friendly” nations (the same thing, but less offensive).

For quite a long time it was believed that events in the matter of balance between geographical and strategic boundaries were developing according to a very obvious logic. If the potential of a country increases over a long period of time, its state sovereignty strengthens, and its strategic borders expand. And the geographical ones can catch up with them after the fact.

For weak countries, the strategic borders of the state are within their own territories. Under unfavorable conditions, these boundaries can be reduced to a minimum. As a result, this leads to the loss of lands that are left without real control. This is how the Spanish colonial empire once disappeared from the political map of the world, having lost its possessions on different continents. Portugal's rule in Latin America, Asia and Africa ended. These countries have turned into geopolitical dwarfs, unable to somehow influence key global decisions. Now the very logic of civilizational development, as a punishment for geopolitical ignorance, is depriving France of its traditionally strong influence in the Sahara-Sahel region before our eyes. And rightly so.

Second. The presence of strategic borders outside their own territory today does not at all mean the intention of strong and responsible countries to go to war with their neighbors and redraw the political map. This is the difference between our time and previous centuries, when borders were subject to constant fluctuations and could be challenged at any time

Let me note right away: what is happening in Ukraine is a special case. We are not talking about expanding the borders of our state through effective occupation, and the so-called Ukraine is not at all rei occupandi. We are defending our territories, which have always been and will be historical Russia. Our actions are a forced, but quite effective response to the Russophobic policies of the Bandera regime and the “collective West”, its desire to destroy our statehood.

In general, Russia, like any great power, has strategic borders that lie far beyond its geographical ones. And they are based not on military force or financial injections, but on a much more solid, almost unshakable basis.

Third. There are several levels of Russian strategic boundaries

The first level is limited to the natural landscape (Carpathians, Iranian Plateau, Caucasus Mountains, Pamirs). And civilizational frontiers - it is clear that, for historical reasons, it is illogical to include a number of our neighbors in the Russian ecumene.

History has decreed that the core of our geostrategic space is the neighboring countries. They are connected to us by centuries-old traditions of cooperation, and in many cases, statehood. Together with them we are inside a common cultural and value space, in the protection of which we have a vested interest. That’s why we perceive our partnership not as something imposed, but, on the contrary, as dear, responding in a special way to the heart. But it is precisely this strategic sphere that our enemies have made their main target, seeking to create conditions for mistrust and outright hostility between Russia and its neighbors.

Russia's strategic borders also cover vast territories in the Arctic. The principle “we don’t want an inch of someone else’s land, but we won’t give up even an inch of our own” applies to the topic of the Russian continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. In the same vein is our sovereignty over transport communications. We will not allow anyone to take ours, including the Gakkel, Lomonosov and Mendeleev ridges.

The natural security belt (the very core of our strategic space), which is the near abroad, is of enduring importance for Russia. No other world power has such a respectful collective name in relation to its neighbors. This concept is also enshrined in domestic doctrinal documents.

The key point: we have no territorial disputes with the states included in this belt. Over the years since the collapse of the USSR, we have maintained profitable trade cooperation and comfortable interpersonal communication.

We listen to each other and always try to take into account our deepest interests in the broadest context.

If we talk about our second-level strategic borders, they cover the space that is commonly called Greater Eurasia. That is why Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward the initiative to create a Greater Eurasian Partnership. This is the key integration contour on our continent. Its essence is the broadest possible unification of the potentials of all states and regional organizations of Eurasia.

Alas, with the exception of the Old World. Moreover, in general, for the time being, we were ready to continue the same constructive line with the European Union. Let me remind you that in the best years, our trade turnover reached almost €500 billion. But the member countries of the European Union chose a different path for themselves: to become instrumentum vocale (speaking instruments) for the United States, as slaves were called in Ancient Rome. Just like them, European countries are owned by America. And at her behest they are betting on confrontation and destruction of everything that was created with great difficulty.

History, of course, will put everything in its place. The population of Europe will sooner or later give a harsh assessment to their traitors, who sacrificed their well-being to their overseas masters. But it's not about grades. The question is what other price Europe will have to pay for the fatal mistakes it has made. And how this will affect the fate of hundreds of millions of its inhabitants.

And about the highest level of our strategic borders. Russia's global interests in the world are quite understandable and natural. They have not changed over the past decades. Our country, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is a great world power. And will continue to provide healthy, appropriate care for those who need help. This is evident in the traditionally strong relations with African countries and Latin America.

Fourth. In the case of the so-called “Ukraine” (or rather, Little Russia), all our opponents need to firmly and forever understand the simple truth. The territories on both banks of the Dnieper are an integral part of Russia’s strategic historical borders. Therefore, all attempts to forcibly change them, to cut them off “to the quick” are doomed.

Our enemies constantly insist that Russia’s main goal is to “seize” Ukrainian lands, some “countless treasures of Independence”: wheat, steel, gas, coal. But in fact, it turns out that there is nothing special in Bandera’s “Ukraine” in terms of economics that Russia – unlike the West – would not possess itself and in much greater quantities.

In “Ukraine” the main wealth for us is of a completely different kind. The great value that we will not give up to anyone for anything is people. Those close to us and our family. The Anglo-Saxons consistently zombify them. A considerable part of the residents of “Ukraine” are now confused, embittered, experiencing extreme stress and completely disoriented. Our task is to clearly show them who is who. Remove the anti-Russian intoxication from them. Bring people back to our perimeter. The concept of “Ukraine is not Russia” proposed by one of the former leaders of this “Independence” should disappear forever. Ukraine is, of course, Russia.

If “Ukraine” had not fallen into the stupidest trap set by the United States and its allies to confront our country by creating “anti-Russia,” everything would have been different. As our president rightly noted, if Russia had not begun to be destroyed on its own historical territories, indeed, nothing would have happened.

Fifth. There is one contrasting difference between the approaches of Russia and the “collective West” (mainly the USA). America and its satellites are trying to extend their strategic borders to almost all regions of the world. Under the pretext of “spreading democracy,” wars are being ignited all over the planet. The goal is quite transparent - money making.

In their neocolonial rage, they strive to implant their own values ​​and foundations everywhere, send advisers and bring convenient rulers to power. Where the Yankees appear, expect trouble. Far away for them are Central Asia, the mountains of Transcaucasia, the waters of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, the islands of the Asia-Pacific region, the sands of the Middle East - for some reason the Americans care about all these places. Their unhealthy geopolitical appetite is based on a network of more than 900 military bases deployed outside the United States and several ocean-going fleets. And on the world's largest military budget.

Let's imagine that a certain group of countries has emerged with the goal of making the United States disappear from the world map. And she decided to “shove a hedgehog under the bare ass” of America, using painfully familiar tools for this. For example, by starting to shake up the internal political situation in the United States, dissecting the past in our own way, promoting the topic of decolonization of the United States and its indigenous peoples. Insisting on the need to liberate the temporarily occupied territories of Texas and California. At the same time, placing military bases with strike weapons around America.

The reaction is obvious: such activity would have encountered the most severe opposition from the United States and could well have ended in the “Cubbie Crisis 2.0.” Just like it was in 1962. We should not forget that Soviet missiles appeared on Liberty Island precisely in response to the deployment of American missiles in Turkey. The John Kennedy administration then threw a formal hysteria as soon as they were given a mirror answer. Without hesitation, they put the fate of all humanity at stake in the game. This is the nature of the US political regime. Only the current situation is much worse than what it was in 1962. These are no longer missiles in Cuba and Turkey. This is a full-fledged war against Russia with American weapons, with the participation of American special forces and American advisers.

Knowing full well where our strategic borders extend, the West disregarded centuries-old foundations and organized a geopolitical intervention, first in Georgia and then in Ukraine. We are seeing similar attempts in Moldova and the countries of Central Asia. Fortunately, the authorities of the Central Asian states are showing restraint and wisdom. Wishing prosperity for their peoples, they focus on their neighbors in Greater Eurasia, and not on an obese and dependent Europe.

Sixth. For the West, the conflict around Ukraine has now turned into a confrontation between two civilizations. Ours, all-Russian or Russian (the core of which is the territories of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine), and Western.

Our opponents are afraid to go against us directly. Although Western political and military madmen have recently been increasing their pressure (just remember the conversation between Bundeswehr officers - and how much of this has not been published), the Washington-Brussels puppeteers prefer to play war games using their puppets.

Today the West is again repeating exactly what it nurtured in different historical periods on both banks of the Dnieper. The current escheat “Ukraine” (if we mean its ruling clique) in this case is truly “anti-Russia”. History reminds us of how our ancestors fought against oppressors and aggressors: Poles, Swedes, French, Germans and other hostile Europeans. That is, with those whose grandchildren came to “Ukraine” today in brown clothes with Nazi chevrons and swastikas thickly printed on their bodies.

On the fields of propaganda battles, our enemies deliberately resort to shameless substitution of concepts. The West's seizure of "Ukraine" is called "liberation from the Russian dictatorship." And the implantation and support of the bastard neo-Nazi regime created by the actress of the comedy series is “support for democracy and freedom.” And, on the contrary, our efforts to preserve the all-Russian space are presented as Russian “intervention” and “occupation.”

All normal people have long understood that this is a lie. Gradually, healthy political forces in the world are realizing the true state of affairs.

For any reasonable person who is not infected with Russophobia and not fooled by Anglo-Saxon propaganda, the conclusions are obvious.

There is a harsh reality that Western countries will inevitably have to accept. The current historical context associated with the demise of the unipolar world order suggests at least one terrible thing for them. Every major power center on the planet will try to secure its own strategic boundaries. And America’s strength and influence have not been the same for a long time. Let us multiply this by the irreversible erosion of the US military superiority that emerged after the collapse of the USSR, as well as the mechanisms of the liberal world order. Time today is playing against the so-called “golden billion”.

The strategic borders of states that do not depend on the Anglo-Saxons will become wider and stronger. Most states of the world are determined to strengthen fruitful interaction in the name of improving the situation in international affairs, to build communication on the principles of sovereign equality, true multilateralism and civilizational diversity. This is the essence of the new international order, the creation of which is a matter of the foreseeable future. And everyone will have to take our position regarding Russia’s strategic borders into account. It's part of our self-identity. Basic principles in the field of foreign policy for decades. And we will not back down from them. For the benefit of friends, for the edification of enemies.

We strive to make the space outlined by our strategic borders a zone of mutual understanding and constructive cooperation. The most obvious example here is the invaluable creative experience of Moscow and Minsk in building the Union State.

We will certainly take the special military operation to its logical conclusion. Until the final victory. Until the surrender of the neo-Nazis. The sad idiots from Washington and Brussels are frightening: if, they say, the Russians gain the upper hand, then after Ukraine they will go further - to Europe and even overseas. You won’t understand what is more in these nonsense: the habit of shameless lies or senile dementia. But in reality, everything is simple: we do not need the territories of Poland, the Baltic states or other European countries. But no one is allowed to oppress the people living there, who are one with us.

The inevitable victory of Russia will give rise to a new architecture of Eurasian and international security. It must be reflected in new interstate documents that will “concrete” these realities. This includes observing international rules of decency with all countries, paying attention to their history and existing strategic borders. The Western world needs to finally learn a simple lesson and learn to respect our national interests.

[christian]

War is terrible. But there are even worse things.

Because it only takes one side to go to war; therefore, for a nation there may be only a choice between war and permitting genocide of oneself.

That's why Ukrainians are fighting back. There are indeed many who consider themselves Ukrainians who don't want to be ruled by Moscow, therefore they put on a uniform and fight back against the Russian invasion of their country. It's very easy to understand. Russia, on the other hand, was not invaded. And I think it's preposterous for Russia to claim that it had to invade Ukraine to prevent Ukraine or the West from destroying Russia. Ukraine could have never accomplished that and would have never attempted that, that's blatantly obvious. At the most, Ukraine was trying to reconquer the territories it lost since 2014. And if the West really wanted to launch a war to destroy Russia, they'd do it with or without Ukraine. One way or another, there was no acute security reason for Russia to invade Ukraine, but there was an imperialistic reason.

If I were Ukrainian, I wouldn't wanna be ruled by Moscow either, but also not by the government in Kyiv. I'd do my best to escape the war, and since the start of the war in 2022 I recommended that Ukraine bites the bullet and concedes some territory because they cannot persevere militarily—let alone kick the Russian army out of the country—without sufficient NATO assistance, but that assistance won't come. NATO is no reliable partner for Ukraine and never has been.

By playing favorites with both Russia and the West, Ukraine has gotten itself into this mess. Ukrainian political leaders should have opted for true neutrality long ago to avoid being caught in a proxy war.


In the case of Russia, now, I believe the choice was/is war against the West/NATO

You're saying Russia should go to war directly with the West/NATO? Sounds like an end-of-the-world scenario to me. Some in the West expect this to happen, that's why so many in the EU are now building up their militaries. It's all madness to me. Look at the big picture, humanity was/is awakening to the reality of the big picture, to the true nature of reality, and now the old establishment in Russia, the West, China, virtually all governments put the war menu back on the table at a time when many thought this was all over, that big nations don't go to war with each other anymore, at least not directly. What's happening is that the old establishment is trying to pull humanity down, suck people into the ritual abuse matrix. War is a great tool to stifle the human awakening, to pull people's minds down to the lower frequencies.


For me the destruction of Russia would be the destruction of an essentially good-affiliated entity (one on the side of good); by another entity (the totalitarian globalist ideology, centred in The West) that is literally ruled by demonic values.

I think when you hold one side in current global conflicts as essentially good and the other side as essentially evil, they got you. You're caught in the collective ritual abuse matrix, you're giving energy to their game. For the psychopaths of the world who want to keep humanity down it's secondary which side you support, they just want to get you to support one side, to get you into polarization, so you commit to the dehumanization of a whole group of people. It's a war for people's hearts and minds, the kinetic war between countries is actually secondary, even though it's the most apparent aspect of the whole thing, but it's not the most important. As Orwell wrote in 1984, "The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance."

Some things are better in the West, some things are better in Russia, both have corrupt psychopaths at the top and throughout their power apparatuses. Picking a side means giving power to psychopathic leaders on all sides. The only way out is to be on the side of regular people, of individual sovereignty. At the end of the day, individual sovereignty is the common enemy of both Russia and the West, of virtually all governments, and they fight individual freedom by getting people to rally around the flag. They want people to embrace collective ritual abuse out of fear and hate. This whole war business we see escalating on a global scale right now is in many ways a big theater play, it's a spiritual war on humanity, and behind the scenes there's more cooperation between seeming adversarial governments than they'd like to admit. They play a common game of screwing the common people and abolishing individual freedom.

I think it's the job of the alternative scene to see the bigger picture, not to pick sides, but to look at everything from a higher perspective and act accordingly. I think when enough people believe that it's either this big government or that big government that will save humanity, we're certainly doomed, and it doesn't even matter which side people pick. Picking a side in and of itself is the trap because it leads to dehumanization and collective ritual abuse. And that's what this whole matrix we live in is all about (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?40941-Horus-Ra-as-the-Archontic-Alien-Parasite-A-follow-up-interview-with-Maarit).

[Ravenlocke]

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▪️But Ukraine will hold out until the end of this year only if they start supplying weapons to Kyiv. And after that the situation may become less dangerous, said military analyst and professor Michael Clarke.
- RVvoenkor

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

17 April 2024

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces have taken more advantageous lines and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of 57th motorized infantry, 14th, 54th mechanized, and 77th aeromobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Sinkovka, Zagoruykovka (Kharkov region), and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic).

Four counter-attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 63rd mechanized, 3rd assault brigades, and the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade have been repelled near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye, and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 70 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, two Plastun-3000 electronic reconnaissance stations, as well as one Nota electronic warfare station.

▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of 56th mechanized, 5th, 79th air assault, 28th, 30th, and 93rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Blagodatnoye, Bogdanovka, Andreyevka, and Kurdyumovka
(Donetsk People's Republic).

In addition, three counterattacks launched by assault groups of the AFU 10th Mountain Assault Brigade and 46th Airmobile Brigade have been repelled near Vyemka and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 480 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one armored fighting vehicle, 20 motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.

▫️In Avdeyevka direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on units of 24th, 47th, and 59th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novgorodskoye, Netaylovo, and Karlovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Eight counter-attacks have been repelled by units of 25th airborne, 68th, 71st jaeger, 23rd, 115th mechanized brigades, and the 78th Separate Air Assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Leninskoye, Novokalinovo, Pervomayskoye, Umanskoye, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 330 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line. The servicemen also have defeated units of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and the 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Vodyanoye and Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 80 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, one 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

▫️In Kherson direction, the units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 126th Territorial Defence Brigade near Kazatskoye, Berislav, and Nikolayevka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses were up to 35 Ukrainian troops, five motor vehicles, as well as one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged ammunition depots of the Donetsk Operational-Tactical Group, the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the terrorist units of the Russian Volunteer Corps, as well as manpower and military hardware in 132 areas.

▫️Air defense facilities have shot down 191 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, six U.S.-made MGM-140 ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, and one French-made Hammer aerial guided bomb.

📊 In total, 583 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 21,483 unmanned aerial vehicles, 502 air defense missile systems, 15,798 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,267 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,935 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 21,096 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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[Bruce G Charlton]

@Christian - I think you regard all wars as essentially the same, and evil - and that it is always evil to go to war. Therefore both sides are always culpable. And I think you regard it as naïve or ignorant for anyone to regard one side as justified, in any war.

But I disagree, for reasons already stated.

Since this is a matter of disagreement over fundamental and very general value assumptions (including religious ones), there is no point in pursuing matters further in this specific thread - so I shall desist.

[Ravenlocke]

Ukr Disaster: Ocheretino;
Krasnogorovka Falling,
Politico: War Lost,
Xi Scolds Scholz, Make Peace


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[Ravenlocke]

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▪️Air defense forces shot down 14 Vampire MLRS shells over the territory of the Belgorod region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.
▪️Governor: 14 air targets approaching the city. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.
⠀In the Belgorod region, as a result of an air attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Pulyaevka, the roof of a canopy was broken and the porch was damaged in one private house, Gladkov specified.
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[shaberon]

I think it's the job of the alternative scene to see the bigger picture, not to pick sides, but to look at everything from a higher perspective and act accordingly. I think when enough people believe that it's either this big government or that big government that will save humanity, we're certainly doomed, and it doesn't even matter which side people pick. Picking a side in and of itself is the trap because it leads to dehumanization and collective ritual abuse.


I am wondering if there is any way to make this less abstract and into something tangible.

We understand you disagree with the Russian SMO on principle, however, it is too late. Being a fact, how does one realistically deal with it?

What is "individual sovereignty"? It sounds like something that would undermine any social contract.

I am "on a side", but it is not a government. It is, however, represented by what I see in Russian culture, and, is not, anywhere else, that I am aware of. The role of a Russian government is to provide a viable social contract among them; it may not please everyone, but there must be something to it, otherwise these events would not be possible.

Knowing that there is "another side", as Bruce said:




My understanding is that the destruction of Russia was the definite plan of the West, indeed absolutely explicitly so - over a period of thirty years, and indeed for more than a century (e.g. see the work of Terry Boardman); and that this plan had gone a long way, and was indeed accelerating.



well, yes, but as a standing governmental policy, it is continuous from Lord Palmerston, 1830s. As an ideological principle, it goes to the interpretation of Gog and Magog as Germany and Russia in the 1700s. This is very specific to English Bibles. I suppose you find it more in "splinter factions" than C of E, but, they rather remarkably destroyed the human mind for all time with a wave of this magic wand.

I don't believe that leaders are just doing war chants around flags and we are being dragged in to lower frequencies like puppies on leashes.

In Anglo and European countries, they try to do this, I guess, but I don't listen to it.

Any one of them is welcome to think of me as "the other side".

I can easily be a dumping ground for anger, fear, a Gaderene swine for whatever needs to be unleashed. It never proves any points that would make me support the western policies. By leaning towards those, Ukraine made a poor choice, like most of Europe, such as Bulgaria, where 86% of the residents wish Democracy would leave.

[Vicus]

Russian Forces Destroy Key Command & Control Point Belonging to Ukraine's 'North' Operative Command 4 hours ago

Russian armed forces destroyed the command post of the operational command Sever (lit. North) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Thursday.

"During the day, the following were destroyed: the command post of the operational command Sever of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two launchers with a radar illuminator and guidance system of the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, ammunition depot of the operational-tactical grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk, weapon and fuel depots of the 101st territorial defense brigade, as well as inflicted damage to enemy personnel and military equipment in 126 areas," the ministry said.

Ukraine has lost up to 590 soldiers in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Over the given period, the Russian armed forces have repulsed seven counterattacks by Ukrainian troops in the Avdeyevka vicinity, two counterattacks in the Kupyansk direction, one counterattack in the Donetsk area and another one in the Kherson region.
"Enemy losses amounted to up to 590 military personnel, a tank and seven vehicles [in the Donetsk region]," the ministry said in a statement.
Ukraine has also lost up to 140 soldiers in the South Donetsk area and up to 130 soldiers in the Avdeyevka suburbs, the ministry added

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240418/russian-forces-destroy-key-command--control-point-belonging-to-ukraines-north-operative-command-1117993795.html

[Vicus]

Ukraine strikes hospital in Donbass, injuring eight – authorities 18 Apr, 2024

Kiev’s forces “deliberately” targeted a blood donation center in the town of Gorlovka, regional head Denis Pushilin has said

Ukrainian troops have struck a hospital and blood donation center in the Donbass town of Gorlovka, the head of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, has said. Eight civilians including a child were injured in the attack.

The victims sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the strike, Pushilin wrote on Telegram on Thursday.

The Ukrainian forces “deliberately” targeted the town center where healthcare facilities are located, he claimed. Both the hospital and the donation center were damaged in the strike.

Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko published photos and videos from the scene showing damaged buildings, including the hospital and the blood donor center. The images show smashed windows and the area nearby littered with debris. One clip also showed destroyed and damaged furniture in a room at the healthcare facility.

Kiev’s troops used the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in the attack, according to preliminary data gathered by the Russian authorities.

Washington has sent dozens of these multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine since mid-2022. The systems provided to Kiev have a range of up to 160km (100 miles) when equipped with longer-range ATACMS missiles. Other projectiles launched by HIMARS and available to the Ukrainian military have a range of around 70km.

According to Pushilin, Kiev’s forces carried out a total of 12 attacks on Thursday – missile and drone strikes – targeting Gorlovka as well as Donetsk and some other Donbass settlements. Cluster munitions were used in some of these attacks, the official said.

https://swentr.site/russia/596193-ukraine-strike-hospital-donbass/

[Vicus]

“I’ll Shoot Them All”: Ukrainian Soldiers Threaten To Go AWOL If They Are Not Demobilised 18.04.2024

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According to the Ukrainian portal Strana, Kiev is facing problems in increasing the number of military personnel as a new mobilisation law will take at least eight months to be imposed. Worsening the situation, military personnel in Odessa are threatening to abandon their positions and even kill if the new law does not allow them to demobilise.

On April 11, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) approved a bill on expanding mobilisation for the military. The National Security and Defence Committee removed the provision on demobilisation from the bill on the eve of its presentation to the Verkhovna Rada for its second reading. Dmitry Lazutkin, a representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, later said that a separate bill on demobilisation was planned, which would take eight months.

Ukrainian journalists in Odessa questioned military personnel about their thoughts towards the government’s decision to exclude demobilisation from the bill on military conscription.

In that case, “I will leave the unit without permission,” one of the soldiers told the Ukrainian portal Strana.

Another Ukrainian serviceman said that the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada should go to the front on an equal footing with them, whilst another believes that changes are necessary in the country and that it is not possible to fight with the same soldiers all the time, making demobilisation necessary.

“I’ll shoot them all. They don’t have such a right… So now I get up and go back to the war whilst they have grown their bellies and will sit in the Verkhovna Rada? This shouldn’t happen,” said another soldier.

“There is the expression ‘Servant of the People.’ It is not we who must serve them, but they who must serve us,” added another, in reference to the name of the ruling party founded by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

These threats to go AWOL come as the New York Times reported that since the start of Russia’s special military operation, thousands of Ukrainian men have attempted to flee across the Tisza River from mandatory conscription. According to Romanian authorities cited by the American newspaper, approximately 6,000 men have arrived in their country across the river since February 2022.

continue: https://southfront.press/ill-shoot-them-all-ukrainian-soldiers-threaten-to-go-awol-if-they-are-not-demobilised/

[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVvazK2w-N0

4 hours ago

[norman]

Meanwhile,

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Why isn’t Europe giving more money to help Ukraine? Why is it that the United States is over $100 Billion Dollars into the Ukraine War more than Europe, and we have an Ocean between us as separation! Why can’t Europe equalize or match the money put in by the United States of America in order to help a Country in desperate need? As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us, but it is also important to us! GET MOVING EUROPE! In addition, I am the only one who speaks for “ME” and, while it is a total mess caused by Crooked Joe Biden and the Incompetent Democrats, if I were President, this War would have never started!

Apr 18, 2024, 6:55 PM


https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112293507314520477

[Ravenlocke]

Ukr Collapse: Rus Holds 40% Krasnogorovka,
Storms Ocheretino, Ukr Mutinies;
Israel Prepares Strike

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian artillery wipes out NATO-made electronic warfare system in South Donetsk direction

122-mm D-30 howitzers of the 36th Combined Arms Army (Vostok Group of Forces) destroyed a NATO-made electronic warfare system and an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces which was close to the concealed EW system detected by an unmanned aerial vehicle.

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[Ravenlocke]

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The Kiev regime does not stop subjecting civilians and the civilian infrastructure of our country to terrorist attacks.

• On April 9-15, Ukrainian neo-Nazis carried out more than three hundred bombings in the DPR and Belgorod region alone. 39 people were injured, including four children. One person died.

• On April 9, as a result of shelling of the center of the village. A woman and child were killed in Klimovo, Bryansk region, and three more people were injured.

• On April 12, the residential sector of Tokmak (Zaporozhye region) was subjected to a deliberate massive artillery strike, which led to the death of 16 people, including three children. 28 civilians were injured to varying degrees of severity.

• On April 13, Lugansk came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Nine people were injured.

• On April 14, Bandera’s supporters shelled the medical and obstetric station in the village of Glotovo in the Belgorod region.

• On April 15, two people were killed due to shelling of the settlements of Kakhovka and Tsarskoye, Kherson region.

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The Ukrainian intelligence services are not giving up attempts to deal with their former compatriots. On April 12 in Moscow they committed an attempt on the life of retired SBU officer Prozorov, and on April 16 on the life of Yakimenko, deputy of the Akimov District Council of the Zaporozhye Region. In both cases, explosive devices went off in the victims' cars.

⚖️ The courts of the Russian Federation, based on evidence collected by the Investigative Committee of Russia, continue to pass sentences on Ukrainian militants who have committed serious crimes against civilians:

• in the DPR, a court sentenced Zhernovsky, a bandit from the Nazi formation “Azov”, to 28 years,
• servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Veselovsky and Kashirin - by the age of 22,
• Kirilenko – to life imprisonment in a special regime correctional colony.

They were found guilty of killing civilians in March 2022 in Mariupol based on political and ideological hatred.


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Joseph P. Farrell | News and Views from the Nefarium | Apr. 18, 2024

Source: gizadeathstar.com (http://gizadeathstar.com)

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...well... maybe we just had our first real confirmation of my hypothesis regarding Russia's "horizontal escalation":

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Man charged with 'helping Russians facilitate President Zelenskyy assassination attempt' (https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/man-charged-helping-russians-facilitate-32619830)

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Being MSN, I have to consider it's possibly fake news but the video at the link looks like a plane falling out of the sky, I just don't know who's plane or where.

Russian Tu-22 bomber crashes in Stavropol

https://www.msn.com/en-in/foodanddrink/other/watch-russian-tu-22-bomber-crashes-in-stavropol/vi-AA1nhLhS

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Propaganda debunked: Ukrainian children 'kidnapped by Moscow' found in Germany

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Emergency accommodation for refugees at the former Tegel airport in Berlin, Germany

The revelation debunks Kiev's "myths," a Russian official accused of mass abductions has said.


Over 160 Ukrainian children allegedly "kidnapped by Russia" have been discovered living in Germany, the country's Federal Criminal Police (BKA) has confirmed.


The head of Ukrainian national police, Ivan Vygovsky, on Wednesday hailed the discovery, telling national media that he had discussed the issue with Holger Munch, president of the BKA, during a meeting earlier in this week.

Allegations by Kiev that Moscow kidnapped Ukrainian children en masse have been exposed as a lie after some of the purported victims have been found in the EU, according to Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. She is among the officials to have been accused of abducting youngsters from Ukraine amid the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

When asked for clarification by RT Deutsch, the BKA said its officers had identified the children after they were flagged as "kidnapping" victims by Kiev. Their personal details were checked against German records.

The majority of the youngsters had entered Germany as refugees accompanied by their parents or legal guardians, the police said. In a handful of cases, suspicion of "unlawful transfer" remained, the statement added, without offering further details.

Responding to the revelations, Lvova-Belova said Moscow has "long been drawing the attention of the international community to the fact that Ukraine has created a systemic myth regarding the children, who it claims had been 'deported' to Russia."


Last year, Lvova-Belova was named alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the key suspects in its investigation into the alleged unlawful deportation and transfer of minors during the Ukraine conflict. Moscow dismissed the claim as politically motivated, arguing that Kiev had lied to the court about what in reality was an evacuation of civilians from areas affected by the hostilities.

In her remarks about the German discoveries, Lvova-Belova said her office had identified multiple cases in which children described by Kiev as abductees were actually residing with their parents at home or in other nations, "never having been separated from their families."

She expressed hope that the Ukrainian "global disinformation campaign" would eventually stop and that the truth would prevail.

https://www.sott.net/article/490749-Propaganda-debunked-Ukrainian-children-kidnapped-by-Moscow-found-in-Germany

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No ceasefire with Ukraine even if talks start – Lavrov 19 Apr, 2024

Moscow has no reason to believe Ukraine will keep its promises, the Russian foreign minister has said

Russia has no intention of ceasing hostilities with Ukraine even if the two countries engage in peace talks, as Kiev has proven itself to be an unreliable actor, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

In an interview with Russian media on Friday, the diplomat stressed that Moscow does not trust the leadership in Kiev.

“We have said that we are ready for the negotiations, but – unlike the Istanbul story – we will not make any pauses in the fighting during the negotiations. The process must go on,” he said.

The two sides have not directly talked to each other since their sit-down in Istanbul in late March 2022. Russia, which initially expressed satisfaction with results of the meeting and withdrew its forces from the outskirts of Kiev as a goodwill gesture, later accused Ukraine of backtracking on all progress achieved in Türkiye, saying it had lost trust in Kiev’s negotiators.

The foreign minister noted that a major obstacle to any peace process that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky “forbid himself from negotiating” with the current authorities in Moscow. He was referring to a decree that Zelensky signed in the fall of 2022, which banned his government from any talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The realities on the ground have changed “significantly” since the time when the Istanbul negotiations took place, and “those realities must be taken into account,” Lavrov stressed.

He clarified that he was talking not only about the situation on the frontline, where Russian forces have recently been making gains, but also the fact that the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, which joined Russia as a result of referendums in the fall 2022, are now parts of the country in line with the Constitution. “Everybody should understand this very well,” the diplomat stressed.

Lavrov said it is “absolutely clear” to Moscow that Kiev and its Western backers “do not understand this and... are not even ready to look for any hypothetical compromises.”

Since late 2022, Zelensky has been promoting his so-called ‘peace formula,’ which calls for Russia to withdraw from all territories claimed by Kiev and pay reparations, and for the formation of a war crimes tribunal.

https://swentr.site/russia/596238-lavrov-ukraine-talks-trust/

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West plotting to assassinate Zelensky – Medvedev 19 Apr, 2024

Polish claims of a thwarted “Russian plot” against the Ukrainian president are a warning sign, the senior official believes

Allegations that a Polish man was plotting with Moscow to assassinate Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky are a sign that Kiev’s Western backers want to “liquidate” the Ukrainian leader, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.
On Thursday, Polish officials reported the arrest of a man who is accused of trying to provide sensitive information to the Russian intelligence services. The information could have been used in an attempt to kill Zelensky, Warsaw and Kiev have claimed.

“An attempt on the life of the chief Banderite [Zelensky] in Poland? That is truly serious,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy head of the Russian Security Council, wrote on social media on Friday in response to the claims.

“It may be the first piece of evidence that people in the West have made a decision to liquidate him. Be afraid, clown!”

The term ‘Banderite’ refers to the Ukrainian nationalist movement of Stepan Bandera, which was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Poles during World War II. The Nazi collaborator is considered a national hero in modern Ukraine.

The Polish citizen, identified as Pawel K. by the National Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, faces up to eight years in jail if convicted on charges of attempting to work with a foreign power against national interests.

Specifically, Pawel K. is accused of trying to share information with Moscow about Rzeszow–Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland. The facility is used to ship weapons and munitions that NATO members donate to Ukraine to fight Russia.

Polish officials, however, have claimed that his tips could “among other things” have helped Moscow plan a hit on Zelensky during a visit to Poland. Kiev’s successor to the KGB, the SBU, repeated the allegations in a statement of its own.

Warsaw has claimed Pawel K. was in contact with Russian nationals who are “directly involved” in the Ukraine conflict. Polish authorities were tipped off about the alleged threat by Ukrainian security services.

Zelensky has told Western media that Russia has been trying to kill him for years, with multiple attempts prevented by his security detail.

However, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally assured him in March 2022 that Moscow would not kill Zelensky.

https://swentr.site/russia/596234-medvedev-zelensky-assassination-plot/

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Russians ‘undesirable’ at death camp commemoration events in Germany – Moscow 18 Apr, 2024

Berlin’s “provocative attack” is an attempt to distort the history of World War II, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said

Russia’s diplomatic mission in Berlin has received a notice that the presence of Russian officials at events in Germany marking the liberation of Nazi concentration camps is “undesirable,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

The letter was sent earlier this month by the administrations of several memorial complexes at the sites of former death camps, Zakharova explained. It came ahead of International Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps Day, observed annually on April 11 to commemorate the freeing of prisoners from Buchenwald – one of the largest Nazi death camps of World War II.

“Our embassy in Berlin received a notice that it is undesirable for Russian officials to participate in commemorative events marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of death camp prisoners,” Zakharova said during a briefing. She noted that the letter targeted people who have dedicated their lives to preserving the memory of World War II.

Zakharova stressed that Moscow regards the move as a “provocative attack” and yet another attempt to portray the war in a politicized “anti-Russian vein.”

“We believe that this is the destruction of historical memory and the truth about the Second World War by Berlin,” the spokeswoman said

Zakharova also criticized Germany for continuing to ignore Russia’s demands to recognize Nazi crimes against the USSR as genocide, stressing that Berlin “will not be able to remain silent and avoid answering.”

In January, on the 80th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad during World War II, Berlin said it was “committed to ensuring that the memory of the atrocities of German War crimes in the Second World War” and acknowledged “its historical responsibility for the crimes committed in Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht.”

Russian diplomats, however, have argued that Berlin’s statements do not go far enough, and expressed dismay that Germany is seemingly hesitant to recognize the Leningrad blockade and other Nazi crimes against the people of the USSR as acts of genocide.


https://swentr.site/russia/596203-germany-russia-nazi-concentration-camps/

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Unique Russian EW System Safeguards Heavy Flamethrower Against Ukrainian Drone Strike 7 hours ago

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In addition to the heavy flamethrower systems, the Volnorez complexes can be installed on tanks, armored infantry vehicles and motorboats.

The Volnorez (Breakwater) mobile electronic warfare (EW) complex protected the Russian TOS Solntsepyok (Scorching Sun) unmanned heavy flamethrower system from Ukrainian drone attacks in the special military operation zone, the system's developer named Stanislav told Sputnik.

Up to six Ukrainian First Person View (FPV) drones tried unsuccessfully to destroy the Solntsepyok vehicle for at least six hours after the Russian soldiers had to temporarily abandon the TOS "in the open field" due to a malfunction, Stanislav said.

The Solntsepek was then repaired and returned to service, he added, praising the Volnorez for its ability to save both "human lives and military equipment".

The system is widely known for its modular characteristics, which means that the Volnorez can be modified according to the frequencies necessary to suppress enemy FPV drones in a given sector of the front line in real time.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240419/unique-russian-ew-system-safeguards-heavy-flamethrower-against-ukrainian-drone-strike-1118008880.html

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Russians ‘undesirable’ at death camp commemoration events in Germany – Moscow 18 Apr, 2024

Berlin’s “provocative attack” is an attempt to distort the history of World War II, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said

Russia’s diplomatic mission in Berlin has received a notice that the presence of Russian officials at events in Germany marking the liberation of Nazi concentration camps is “undesirable,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

The letter was sent earlier this month by the administrations of several memorial complexes at the sites of former death camps, Zakharova explained. It came ahead of International Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps Day, observed annually on April 11 to commemorate the freeing of prisoners from Buchenwald – one of the largest Nazi death camps of World War II.

“Our embassy in Berlin received a notice that it is undesirable for Russian officials to participate in commemorative events marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of death camp prisoners,” Zakharova said during a briefing. She noted that the letter targeted people who have dedicated their lives to preserving the memory of World War II.

Zakharova stressed that Moscow regards the move as a “provocative attack” and yet another attempt to portray the war in a politicized “anti-Russian vein.”

“We believe that this is the destruction of historical memory and the truth about the Second World War by Berlin,” the spokeswoman said

Zakharova also criticized Germany for continuing to ignore Russia’s demands to recognize Nazi crimes against the USSR as genocide, stressing that Berlin “will not be able to remain silent and avoid answering.”

In January, on the 80th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad during World War II, Berlin said it was “committed to ensuring that the memory of the atrocities of German War crimes in the Second World War” and acknowledged “its historical responsibility for the crimes committed in Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht.”

Russian diplomats, however, have argued that Berlin’s statements do not go far enough, and expressed dismay that Germany is seemingly hesitant to recognize the Leningrad blockade and other Nazi crimes against the people of the USSR as acts of genocide.


https://swentr.site/russia/596203-germany-russia-nazi-concentration-camps/

That's about as graceless, crass, squalid, disingenuous and racist a position as one could imagine from a German government FFS, that has completely rolled off the skids and is hurtling toward one of Dante Alighieri's 9 rings at quite some rate of knots, and dragging her poor citizens along as well.

Despicable.

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🇺🇦🤡The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, Denis Maliushka, has spoken of sending those convicted of murder to the battlefield:

Perhaps those who know how to kill would be more effective militarily than those who haven't killed yet. And safer than those who robbed for decades and then got a machine gun.

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One for three: the AFU has discovered a shortage of female body armor

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have discovered a shortage of female body armor. This was reported by retired Lieutenant-Colonel of the Luhansk People's Republic Andriy Marochko with reference to radio intercepts in the Kupyansk direction.

❗️According to him, the Russian fighters managed to find out that AFU servicewomen arriving in the combat zone receive one bulletproof vest for 2-3 people. The AFU command is also not given any clothing, and is advised to buy the missing items with their own money in the nearest military stores, where everything is in abundance.

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The gist of the latest briefing from the Russian defence ministry:

▪️27 Ukrainian militants surrendered during the week;

▪️The Eastern Group of the Russian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction improved its tactical position and defeated 6 Ukrainian brigades during the week;

▪️The Central Group of the Russian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction continued to advance deep into the AFU defences;

▪️The AFU lost up to 365 troops in the direction of Kherson during the week;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces launched 34 group attacks on Ukrainian military and energy infrastructure during the week;

▪️590 Ukrainian aircraft have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation;

▪️The AFU lost up to 760 military personnel in the direction of south Donetsk during the week;

▪️Russian forces destroyed three AFU Mig-29s and four An-26s during the week;

▪️AFU losses in the Donetsk direction exceeded 3,550 military personnel during the week; 31 artillery guns and 7 ammunition depots were also hit;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction improved their position on the front line during the week, repulsing 11 AFU counter-attacks;

▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four S-300 launchers and one IRIS-T launcher during the week;

▪️The AFU in the direction of Avdeevka lost 2,170 soldiers, 7 tanks, 13 armoured fighting vehicles during the week;

▪️The AFU in the Kupyansk direction lost more than 380 soldiers during the week;

▪️Russian aviation and air defence intercepted 10 ATACMS missiles, 6 Storm Shadow missiles and 1,278 AFU UAVs during the week.

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‼️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦The West is one step away from sending troops to Ukraine, - Orban
▪️ “This is a military whirlpool that can drag Europe to the bottom. Brussels is playing with fire, what it is doing is already tempting God,” said the Hungarian Prime Minister.
▪️European leaders have “already gotten involved” in the conflict in Ukraine, calling it “their war,” Europe has already spent about 100 billion euros on Ukraine.
▪️ “Pro-war governments” and “the network of Brussels bureaucrats created by George Soros” are sending millions of dollars in support of the Hungarian opposition because they “want a puppet government subordinate to Brussels and Washington,” however, as long as Hungary has a nationally oriented government, Budapest will not enter into the conflict in Ukraine "on no one's side."
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‼️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦NATO defense ministers agreed to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems, an announcement is expected soon - Alliance Secretary General
▪️Stoltenberg believes that the alliance countries should take risks and send Kyiv even the weapons necessary for their own defense.
▪️NATO also considers Ukraine’s strikes “on military targets deep in Russian territory” to be legal.”
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Maria Zakharova:

„In Washington, they continue to have a penchant for dividing Russia.

Decades pass, but nothing changes. Just as they dreamed of dismantling the USSR, they now think the same of Russia.

Recently, the Jamestown Foundation, close to the White House, invited North Caucasus terrorists, American diplomats, Ukrainian deputies, and national traitors to discuss how to dismantle our country. Once again, they promised the “fall of the regime” and depicted “maps” of a future Russia, torn apart by sick fantasies into dozens of pieces. Money was also promised.

In general, the interest of Americans in this “dismemberment” is understandable - as they say, according to Freud. After all, never in recent history has American society itself been so polarized and tense as it is now.

In the run-up to the elections, the gap between “blue” and “red” states is growing with each passing month. Gun ownership, the death penalty, family issues, migration, minority rights, including national ones, relations with the media, women’s and children’s rights, and religious matters. America’s melting pot is boiling like never before.

Let’s not forget that the USA is an extremely armed society with an unprecedented level of crime for Western democracies.

The recent film “Civil War,” dedicated to the second Civil War in the USA (so far fictional) and “exploding” the American audience, could well become a reality.

The US presidential elections in November will be a real test for the American political system, unlike anything it has seen before. An indicator of the crisis is the fact of the pre-election race between a “mentally healthy, according to doctors, candidate” and a “candidate facing 120 years of imprisonment, according to lawyers.”

The previous US elections ended with the defeat of the Capitol - for the first time in two centuries - and with legal sentences for the opposition.

How will these end?

Judging by the phantom fears of the Jamestown Foundation, we can speculate on what they fear most. The breakup of the country against the backdrop of ever-worsening contradictions between the federal center and states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama looks frightening, but no longer such an impossible prophecy.“

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Complete report about strikes in Dnepropetrovsk by Russian Forces in early morning by Donbas Partisan Telegram Channel ⏬

Massive attack on enemy railway infrastructure targets in Dnipropetrovsk region

Today, Russian forces conducted a combined attack on enemy railway infrastructure targets in Dnipropetrovsk region.

Dnipropetrovsk:

A repair shop for electric trains at the locomotive depot was hit by two missiles.

Coordinates: 48.4763838, 35.0123901

The strikes caused a fire covering an area of over 2500 sq. m. Six electric locomotives and over 10 wagons were destroyed/damaged.

Additionally, the central bus station area was hit, resulting in further fires.

There were also consequences for the air defense. A missile hit a residential building on Vokzalna Square.

Pavlograd:

The territory of the Pavlograd power distribution station was hit by missile strikes and kamikaze drones.

Coordinates: 48.5487325, 35.8586917

Garage and utility buildings on the premises were destroyed. No fires were reported.

Kryvyi Rih:

The locomotive depot area at Kryvyi Rih Central Station was hit by two missiles.

Coordinates: 47.9149300, 33.4557929

As a result of the strikes, the depot administration building was destroyed, two locomotives were destroyed, and railway tracks were damaged.

Synelnykove:

One of the targets hit was the Railway Workers' Palace of Culture.

Coordinates: 48.3186855, 35.5316952

According to reports, the building was used by one of the enemy units for personnel accommodation, with a parking area for military vehicles and a fuel storage facility nearby.

The strike resulted in the destruction of about 15 personnel and over 20 injuries of varying severity. Vehicles were also damaged/destroyed. A powerful fire broke out at the fuel storage facility.

Additionally, the workshop of the locomotive depot, the agricultural enterprise "Synelnykove-AGRO," and the local solar power station were partially destroyed by the strikes.


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Sputnik Donbass correspondent Russell Bentley has died at the age of 64, his wife Lyudmila confirmed to Sputnik.

Bentley went missing in Donetsk on April 8, following a Ukrainian artillery attack on the city’s Petrovsky district. Four days later, the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on a missing persons list.

Bentley, who was born and raised in the United States, arrived to the Donbass in 2014 to help the fledgling local militias resist Ukrainian occupation. From 2014 to 2017, he served in the Sut Vremeni ( lit. "Essence of Time") combat unit, Vostok Battalion and Khan special forces battalion. He took part in some of the most heated battles during the early stage of the Donbass conflict, including Donetsk Airport, Spartak, Avdeyevka, and Yasinovataya.

After retiring from military service, Bentleу turned to humanitarian aid work and journalism. He converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity and in 2021 received Russian citizenship.

Bentley began contributing to Sputnik International in October 2023, publishing numerous video reports and columns that provided Westerners with an inside look at life in the Donbass.

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Brave soldier, aid worker & truth teller: Story of Texas-born Donbass volunteer Russell Bentley

Russell Bonner Bentley, known by his call sign "Texas," was a 64-year-old American from the Lone Star state who tragically passed away, as confirmed by his wife Lyudmila to Sputnik. He joined the Donbass militia in 2014, actively participating in defending the region's freedom against Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces.

Born into a well-to-do family in Dallas in 1960, Bentley's worldview was shaped by the Vietnam War, leading him to become an ardent anti-imperialist and anti-racist. His commitment to justice led him to the front lines of the conflict, where he fought alongside Donetsk and Lugansk freedom fighters.

Bentley's involvement extended beyond combat. He served as a Sputnik contributor, and thanks to his reports, he provided first-hand insights into Russia's special military operation, the liberation of Mariupol, foreign mercenary forces in Ukraine, and the Kiev regime's intensified attacks on civilians.

His interviews with Russian combat veterans and fellow Americans in the Donbass war zone aimed to shed light on the truth about the conflict. Despite the dangers he faced, Bentley remained dedicated to his mission of informing the world about the situation in Donbass.

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Brave soldier, aid worker & truth teller: Story of Texas-born Donbass volunteer Russell Bentley

Russell Bonner Bentley, known by his call sign "Texas," was a 64-year-old American from the Lone Star state who tragically passed away, as confirmed by his wife Lyudmila to Sputnik. He joined the Donbass militia in 2014, actively participating in defending the region's freedom against Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces.

Born into a well-to-do family in Dallas in 1960, Bentley's worldview was shaped by the Vietnam War, leading him to become an ardent anti-imperialist and anti-racist. His commitment to justice led him to the front lines of the conflict, where he fought alongside Donetsk and Lugansk freedom fighters.

Bentley's involvement extended beyond combat. He served as a Sputnik contributor, and thanks to his reports, he provided first-hand insights into Russia's special military operation, the liberation of Mariupol, foreign mercenary forces in Ukraine, and the Kiev regime's intensified attacks on civilians.

His interviews with Russian combat veterans and fellow Americans in the Donbass war zone aimed to shed light on the truth about the conflict. Despite the dangers he faced, Bentley remained dedicated to his mission of informing the world about the situation in Donbass.

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That's a real pity. He'd not been seen since April 8th. He was a brave man with a lot of integrity :flower:

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Swiss Military Analyst Contradicts the West: “Zelensky Violated the Minsk Agreements” (https://ejbron-wordpress-com.translate.goog/2024/04/19/zwitserse-militaire-analist-spreekt-het-westen-tegen-zelensky-verijdelde-de-akkoorden-van-minsk/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en)

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Despite the hegemony of the transatlantic mainstream media, there are still voices in the Western influence area that contradict the official story of the outbreak of the Ukrainian war. They are a reminder that the conflict did not only become “hot” in February 2022 – and that, against the prevailing narrative, Ukraine is by no means innocent.

https://ejbron.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/duits-zuerst.png?w=83 Someone who knows what he is talking about is the Swiss military analyst Ralph Bosshard (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Ralph%20Bosshard), who now recalled a series of uncomfortable facts in an interview with the Swiss weekly magazine “Die Weltwoche”. Bosshard is a former lieutenant colonel of the Swiss Army and was a senior staff member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In the interview he also contradicts the claim that NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) should take its positions against Russia.

Bosshard gets straight to the point and notes about the causes of the war: “It was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who foiled Minsk's first package of measures. This provided for a ceasefire and, thanks to UN Security Council Resolution 2202, has been binding under international law since 2015.”

Chancellor Olaf Scholz is said to have had the "thankless task" of informing Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin during his visit to Moscow in February 2022 that the government in Kiev would no longer adhere to the treaties. Bosshard assured that he would know this from a reliable source. However, it would not be surprising that the German government's press service would deny this information and that Scholz said nothing about it in his official statements at the time: “Scholz certainly does not want to make a big fuss about how he was being treated in such a way for the second time.” put on a shirt. The first time this happened was when US President Joe Biden put him on display before the eyes of the world during his visit in early 2022. Biden said at the time that he would find ways to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines if Russia attacks Ukraine. The rest is history.”

The Swiss military analyst recalls other important details about the history of the outbreak of the war: especially the fact that Russia had demanded security guarantees from the US at the end of 2021. Putin is said to have insisted that Ukraine would not become a NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) member. However, Washington would not have responded to that. Instead, there is said to have been an increase in ceasefire violations in the Donbass in the spring of 2022. “Ukraine was no longer willing to accept the agreements,” the former OSCE employee emphasized again. And: based on his own observations, he estimates that the Ukrainian side was responsible for the vast majority of ceasefire violations in the Donbass at the time. “The Ukrainians also obstructed the OSCE observers in their work. They shot at patrols of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) as well as objects of civilian infrastructure, residential areas and schools. And they interfered with the OSCE drones and other things. We were able to prove that,” reports Bosshard.

That is why he suspects “that in Moscow the decision to carry out the massive attack of February 24, 2022 was only made after Scholz's visit to Moscow.” The Russian armed forces would be able to prepare an offensive within a week, he declares, citing his own experiences as an audience member at the Russian Academy of the General Staff in Moscow in the context of the long-term Swiss-Russian military cooperation.

Bosshard's account has been confirmed again and again in the past two years by observers, some of whom were themselves involved in the events, such as former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Bosshard's compatriot, the publicist and former secret service employee Jacques Baud, has also described the development that led to the Russian invasion in February 2022 in this way on several occasions.


dutch (https://ejbron.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/zwitserse-militaire-analist-spreekt-het-westen-tegen-zelensky-verijdelde-de-akkoorden-van-minsk) 🇳🇱
german (https://zuerst.de/2024/04/17/schweizer-militaeranalytiker-widerspricht-dem-westen-selenskyj-warf-das-minsker-abkommen-ueber-den-haufen/) 🇩🇪

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Sputnik Donbass correspondent Russell Bentley has died at the age of 64, his wife Lyudmila confirmed to Sputnik.

Bentley went missing in Donetsk on April 8, following a Ukrainian artillery attack on the city’s Petrovsky district. Four days later, the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on a missing persons list.

Bentley, who was born and raised in the United States, arrived to the Donbass in 2014 to help the fledgling local militias resist Ukrainian occupation. From 2014 to 2017, he served in the Sut Vremeni ( lit. "Essence of Time") combat unit, Vostok Battalion and Khan special forces battalion. He took part in some of the most heated battles during the early stage of the Donbass conflict, including Donetsk Airport, Spartak, Avdeyevka, and Yasinovataya.

After retiring from military service, Bentleу turned to humanitarian aid work and journalism. He converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity and in 2021 received Russian citizenship.

Bentley began contributing to Sputnik International in October 2023, publishing numerous video reports and columns that provided Westerners with an inside look at life in the Donbass.

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[Ravenlocke]

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Semyon Yeremin, a military correspondent of the Russian media outlet Izvestiya, has died in the special operation zone in Ukraine

He was killed in an attack by a Ukrainian FPV drone, Izvestia reported.

Yeremin, who had been a special correspondent for the outlet since 2017, worked extensively in various areas of the special operation zone, particularly in Mariupol, Azovstal, and Maryinka, Izvestia reports.

He was near Volnovakha and entered the liberated city together with a rotation of storm troopers and came under mortar fire near Ugledar in August 2022, according to the publication.

It was then that a video was found on Ukrainian social networks that actually proved that the Ukrainian army was deliberately killing Russian journalists.

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[Ravenlocke]

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Lifting the diplomatic veil: What do Lavrov’s Istanbul peace deal revelations mean?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's very first disclosure of the partial terms of the Istanbul deal between Moscow and Kiev actually signals Russia’s readiness for peace talks with Ukraine, Sergey Poletaev, political and military analyst, co-founder of “Vatfor project”, told Sputnik.

“I think the West’s ruling circles are realizing the fact that it’s impossible to get the better of Russia on the battlefield and that the time is right to negotiate with Russia,” Poletaev stated.

He recalled that in the much-talked-about February interview with former Fox New host Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated Moscow’s intent to return to the 2022 Istanbul agreements, based on the current realities. “I guess, Lavrov is emphasizing this once again,” the analyst pointed out.

When asked what the top Russian diplomat meant by revealing that the security guarantees outlined in the Istanbul agreements were utterly serious, nearly on par with Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty (the principle of collective defense), Poletaev noted that those guarantees stipulated that “Ukraine cannot be NATO’s and the West’s battering ram” and that “the country should have a neutral status.”

“Namely, as long as Ukraine complies with these conditions, it can be given any guarantees it wants,” the analyst added.

Earlier on Friday, Lavrov sat down with Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, as well as the editors-in-chief of the radio stations Govorit Moskva and Komsomolskaya Pravda to discuss an array of pressing issues, including the possibility of peace talks with Ukraine.


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[christian]

@Christian - I think you regard all wars as essentially the same, and evil - and that it is always evil to go to war. Therefore both sides are always culpable. And I think you regard it as naïve or ignorant for anyone to regard one side as justified, in any war.

I think that most wars are launched for selfish reasons by psychopaths. That includes the Russia-Ukraine War. I think that violence (including war) in self-defense or in the defense of another is moral. Virtually everyone agrees on that. That's why psychopathic leaders generally like to justify their wars with this argument. But it's mostly dishonest propaganda.

Here is a very enlightening explanation of the dishonesty of Kreml propaganda by a Kreml propagandist. It boils down to, "Present everything the government does in a good light."

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[Ravenlocke]

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Russian "reporter" reveals details of the murder of Russel "Texas" Bentley, an American defector who's been in the so-called "DPR" since 2014.

After successful shelling by Ukrainian Defence Forces of a facility housing the 5th Tank Brigade in Donetsk on 8 April, Bentley who was 64 at the time of his death arrived at the scene and was apprehended, kidnapped, and murdered on suspicion of espionage by disgruntled Russian servicemen.

They most likely were angry at his accent and thought he was a spy. The search for Bentley lasted over a week with many bloggers asking for any information on his whereabouts.

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[Ravenlocke]

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Semyon Yeremin, a military correspondent of the Russian media outlet Izvestiya, has died in the special operation zone in Ukraine

He was killed in an attack by a Ukrainian FPV drone, Izvestia reported.

Yeremin, who had been a special correspondent for the outlet since 2017, worked extensively in various areas of the special operation zone, particularly in Mariupol, Azovstal, and Maryinka, Izvestia reports.

He was near Volnovakha and entered the liberated city together with a rotation of storm troopers and came under mortar fire near Ugledar in August 2022, according to the publication.

It was then that a video was found on Ukrainian social networks that actually proved that the Ukrainian army was deliberately killing Russian journalists.

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Propagandist Sladkov is furious after the death of “military correspondent” Semyon Eremin due to a Ukrainian FPV drone. I have never seen him like this, as a rule, he follows the official line.

However, he is dissatisfied with the attitude towards "military reporters", who are not considered participants of hostilities with all that entails: lack of payments and benefits to the family. That is, Sladkov directly states that all Russian “journalists” should be considered combatants.

Semyon Eremin, a propagandist for pro-Kremlin "Izvestia", illegally crossed the border into Ukraine, where he was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region. He constantly hung around the contact line, covering events in the war since February 2022. His car was attacked by an FPV drone, and he died from his injuries.

Sladkov is most likely very worried about his ass - after all, he has been successfully running away from fate for a very long time.


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[Reinhard]

Russians ‘undesirable’ at death camp commemoration events in Germany – Moscow 18 Apr, 2024

Berlin’s “provocative attack” is an attempt to distort the history of World War II, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said

Russia’s diplomatic mission in Berlin has received a notice that the presence of Russian officials at events in Germany marking the liberation of Nazi concentration camps is “undesirable,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

The letter was sent earlier this month by the administrations of several memorial complexes at the sites of former death camps, Zakharova explained. It came ahead of International Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps Day, observed annually on April 11 to commemorate the freeing of prisoners from Buchenwald – one of the largest Nazi death camps of World War II.

“Our embassy in Berlin received a notice that it is undesirable for Russian officials to participate in commemorative events marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of death camp prisoners,” Zakharova said during a briefing. She noted that the letter targeted people who have dedicated their lives to preserving the memory of World War II.

Zakharova stressed that Moscow regards the move as a “provocative attack” and yet another attempt to portray the war in a politicized “anti-Russian vein.”

“We believe that this is the destruction of historical memory and the truth about the Second World War by Berlin,” the spokeswoman said

Zakharova also criticized Germany for continuing to ignore Russia’s demands to recognize Nazi crimes against the USSR as genocide, stressing that Berlin “will not be able to remain silent and avoid answering.”

In January, on the 80th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad during World War II, Berlin said it was “committed to ensuring that the memory of the atrocities of German War crimes in the Second World War” and acknowledged “its historical responsibility for the crimes committed in Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht.”

Russian diplomats, however, have argued that Berlin’s statements do not go far enough, and expressed dismay that Germany is seemingly hesitant to recognize the Leningrad blockade and other Nazi crimes against the people of the USSR as acts of genocide.


https://swentr.site/russia/596203-germany-russia-nazi-concentration-camps/

That's about as graceless, crass, squalid, disingenuous and racist a position as one could imagine from a German government FFS, that has completely rolled off the skids and is hurtling toward one of Dante Alighieri's 9 rings at quite some rate of knots, and dragging her poor citizens along as well.

Despicable.

I TOTALLY agree..............it definately didn't happen in my name!!! :embarassed:

[Kryztian]

West plotting to assassinate Zelensky – Medvedev
Polish claims of a thwarted “Russian plot” against the Ukrainian president are a warning sign, the senior official believes
Russia Today * 19 Apr, 2024 11:20
https://www.rt.com/russia/596234-medvedev-zelensky-assassination-plot/

Allegations that a Polish man was plotting with Moscow to assassinate Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky are a sign that Kiev’s Western backers want to “liquidate” the Ukrainian leader, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.

On Thursday, Polish officials reported the arrest of a man who is accused of trying to provide sensitive information to the Russian intelligence services. The information could have been used in an attempt to kill Zelensky, Warsaw and Kiev have claimed.


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Deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. © Sputnik / Pavel Bednyakov

“An attempt on the life of the chief Banderite [Zelensky] in Poland? That is truly serious,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy head of the Russian Security Council, wrote on social media on Friday in response to the claims.

“It may be the first piece of evidence that people in the West have made a decision to liquidate him. Be afraid, clown!”

The term ‘Banderite’ refers to the Ukrainian nationalist movement of Stepan Bandera, which was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Poles during World War II. The Nazi collaborator is considered a national hero in modern Ukraine.

The Polish citizen, identified as Pawel K. by the National Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, faces up to eight years in jail if convicted on charges of attempting to work with a foreign power against national interests.

Specifically, Pawel K. is accused of trying to share information with Moscow about Rzeszow–Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland. The facility is used to ship weapons and munitions that NATO members donate to Ukraine to fight Russia.

Polish officials, however, have claimed that his tips could “among other things” have helped Moscow plan a hit on Zelensky during a visit to Poland. Kiev’s successor to the KGB, the SBU, repeated the allegations in a statement of its own.

Warsaw has claimed Pawel K. was in contact with Russian nationals who are “directly involved” in the Ukraine conflict. Polish authorities were tipped off about the alleged threat by Ukrainian security services.

Zelensky has told Western media that Russia has been trying to kill him for years, with multiple attempts prevented by his security detail.

[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺🇺🇦💡 AFU attacks on the Russian energy system

Last night, as part of a combined strike on Russian territory, the AFU attacked Novobryanskaya 750 kV high-voltage substation with drones.

Images circulating online show two fires at the 220 kV and 750 kV open switchgear (OSD) of the substation. Autotransformers may have been damaged.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Massive night UAV attack on Russian territory

At night, Ukrainian formations carried out a massive attack on various regions of Russia. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the destruction of 50 drones shot down and intercepted by electronic warfare and air defense systems.

Everything was shot down:
▪️26 UAVs in the Belgorod region;
▪️10 UAVs in the Bryansk region;
▪️eight UAVs in the Kursk region;
▪️two in the Tula region;
▪️one each in Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga and Moscow regions.

In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked several objects in the border zone of the Belgorod region with drones. A UAV fell at night in the village of Istobnoye, but there were no casualties. And in Poroz, as a result of a drone drop, a private house caught fire, killing two civilians.

In addition, in Kardymovo, Smolensk region, according to some reports, a fire broke out in the area of an oil depot, and in Vygonichi, ...

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[Ravenlocke]

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Or was it this?


While Ukraine aims at Russian military targets, the Russians continue to indiscriminately target residential areas, launching missiles at hospitals in broad daylight, like today in Chernihiv. A little later they will certainly announce that a "French mercenary base” or something like that was attacked.

Even if military personnel were treated there, such a strike on a civilian object is undoubtedly a war crime.

Western “partners” who have lost their balls, as always, watch from the sidelines and condemn. After all, there were no US military bases in this hospital.


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Russian military analyst Vlad Shlepchenko in his article for the radical Russian publication Tsargrad, said that a breakthrough in Ukraine’s defenses should not be expected, that Ukraine not only has not weakened, but also strengthened, and that Ukraine will not fall either this year or next.

At the same time, he also did not give a forecast for future years, saying only that there was a high probability of the war continuing in 2026-2027.

You can read the article on the Constantinople website using the page translation: https://tsargrad.tv/news/proryva-zhdat-ne-stoit-ukraina-usililas-shlepchenko-dal-prognoz-po-konfliktu_989320

* ”Constantinople” in this case is an incorrect auto-translation of “Tsargrad”, i.e. “Tsar-city”, the legacy name for Constantinople.

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[Bill Ryan]

Or was it this?

[...referencing WarTranslated (Dmitri) (https://twitter.com/wartranslated), an unashamed Estonian propagandist who lies at every opportunity...]

While Ukraine aims at Russian military targets, the Russians continue to indiscriminately target residential areasI think we can stop reading there! :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

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[Ravenlocke]

My point was about War Translated(Dmitri),

since he was mentioned here,
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1610157&viewfull=1#post1610157

as maybe a reliable, credible source?

[Bill Ryan]

Being MSN, I have to consider it's possibly fake news but the video at the link looks like a plane falling out of the sky, I just don't know who's plane or where.

Russian Tu-22 bomber crashes in Stavropol

https://www.msn.com/en-in/foodanddrink/other/watch-russian-tu-22-bomber-crashes-in-stavropol/vi-AA1nhLhSYes, it was a Russian Tu-22M, and the crash happened in Stavropol, over 300 km inside Russian territory. It encountered engine problems, and 3 out of the crew of 4 survived.
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(Of course, Ukrainian channels are claiming it was shot down, but that's more pure nonsense. :))

[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇸🇺🇦💰❗️UKRAINE AID BILL PASSED BY U.S. CONGRESS: American lawmakers chant "UKRAINE!" (00:08 in vid) and wave Ukrainian flags as they vote to give Kiev regime $61 BILLION to "assist fight against Russia".

Bill will now go to U.S. Senate for vote next week, before it’ll be sent to Old Joe so he can wake up from nap and sign it.

Who cares about ordinary Americans? American politicians sure seem to care more about Ukraine judging by the video.

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[Bill Ryan]

My point was about War Translated(Dmitri),

since he was mentioned here,
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1610157&viewfull=1#post1610157

as maybe a reliable, credible source?That was cited by christian (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?4456-christian), who (as much as I respect him and count him as a friend), does NOT always choose his sources of information very well or wisely.

[Ravenlocke]

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Medvedev:

“No one doubted that American lawmakers would approve "aid" to a gang of neo-Nazis. It was a vote by the joyous bastards of the state:
a) in favor of continuing the civil war of the divided people of our formerly united country;
b) in favor of maximizing the casualties of this war.

We will win, of course, despite the 61 billion bloody dollars that will mostly go down the throats of their insatiable MIC. Strength and Truth are behind us.

But in view of the Russophobic decision that took place, I cannot in all sincerity not wish the US to plunge into a new civil war itself as soon as possible. Which, I hope, will be radically different from the war between North and South in the XIX century and will be fought with the use of airplanes, tanks, artillery, MLRS, all kinds of missiles and other weapons. And which will finally lead to the ignominious collapse of the vile evil empire of the 21st century - the United States of America.”


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US mulls posting more military advisers to Kiev embassy

The US is considering sending more military advisers to the US Embassy in Kiev, the US Department of Defense spokesman Patrick Ryder said.

"Throughout this conflict, the DOD has reviewed and adjusted our presence in-country, as security conditions have evolved. Currently, we are considering sending several additional advisers to augment the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) at the Embassy," he told Politico.

The Pentagon spokesperson added that the office performed advisory and non-combat support missions despite being staffed exclusively with Department of Defense personnel.

"The US is getting more and more personally involved in this [Ukrainian] conflict. They are getting involved, it's an obvious thing. And let no one say that they have nothing to do with it. We believe that they do," Russian President Vladimir Putin noted earlier.

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#MariaTelegram
#Zakharova
Maria Zakharova, 20 April

The allocation of military assistance by the United States to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan will exacerbate the global crisis: military assistance to the Kiev regime is direct sponsorship of terrorist activities, to Taiwan - interference in China's internal affairs, to Israel - a direct road to the escalation of unprecedented aggravation in the region.

👉https://t.me/s/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nato-can-shoot-down-missiles-over-ukr--from-poland--german-p

NATO can shoot down missiles over Ukr. from Poland: German Politician
A senior researcher at the Munich Security Conference and former chief of staff at the German Ministry of Defense from 2019-2022, Nico Lange suggested in an interview with Tagesschau, that NATO allies should use anti-craft systems to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine from Poland's territory.

As Ukraine is currently struggling on the battlefield due to manpower shortages and hardware losses, Lange stressed "From now on, partners should use the numerous 'Patriot' systems on our eastern borders to shoot down all Russian missiles and drones that they have within range over Ukraine," referencing mainly the alliance’s air defense systems in eastern Poland.

"This would be fully covered under international law," Lange emphasized, using the example of Western assistance for "Israel" last week against the retaliatory Iranian strike.

Lange further argued that there is a need for an "unconventional solution", urging a "change in strategy" in Western support for Ukraine.

He also believes that simultaneously and in the long term, there should be an increase in the production of air defense systems in Europe.

A senior official of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, Vladimir Rogov, told Sputnik on April 19 that Poland is preparing its military personnel for entry into Ukraine, with some already arriving in the operation zone in small groups disguised as mercenaries.

Poland's PM warned Europe has entered 'pre-war era'

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on March 29 of the "real" threat of conflict in Europe, saying that for the first time since the end of World War II, the continent has entered a "pre-war era".

"War is no longer a concept from the past. It is real, and it started over two years ago. The most worrying thing at the moment is that literally any scenario is possible. We haven't seen a situation like this since 1945," Tusk said in an interview for the European media grouping LENA on March 29.

"I know it sounds devastating, especially for the younger generation, but we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun: the pre-war era. I'm not exaggerating; it's becoming clearer every day."

Polish FM said NATO troops already in Ukraine

NATO forces are already in Ukraine, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on March 10, declining to elaborate.

Sikorski expressed at a gathering commemorating Poland's 25th anniversary of NATO membership that "NATO soldiers are already present in Ukraine," thanking leaders from NATO member states who purportedly supplied soldiers to Ukraine, but refused to comment on the number of troops and their places of origin.

On March 8, Sikorski stated that the presence of NATO military in Ukraine "was not unthinkable," and praised Macron's intention to send Western troops to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that Poland needed to build a large airport to facilitate the transit of NATO soldiers.




NATO affirmed on Friday that they possess air defense systems that can be dispatched to Ukraine, as stated by the head of the alliance.

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that announcements regarding this matter are anticipated "soon," following a virtual summit between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO defense ministers.

Zelenskyy convened this urgent session, held within the framework of the NATO-Ukraine Council.

"NATO defense ministers have agreed to step up and provide further military support, including more air defense. NATO has mapped out existing capabilities across the lines and there are systems that can be made available to Ukraine," Stoltenberg said.

This comes as the US House passed a bill today that would grant Kiev $61 billion to aid Ukraine in its war against Russia.

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[Ravenlocke]

🇩🇰The new Commander-in-Chief of the Danish Army, General Michael Viggers Hildgaard, visited Ukraine - Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

In Kiev, Hildgaard met with Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Aleksandr Syrsky. According to him, during their meeting they discussed the urgent needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in various areas, as well as ways and possibilities for further support from the Danish government.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

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[Tintin]

Or was it this?

[...referencing WarTranslated (Dmitri) (https://twitter.com/wartranslated), an unashamed Estonian propagandist who lies at every opportunity...]

While Ukraine aims at Russian military targets, the Russians continue to indiscriminately target residential areasI think we can stop reading there! :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

:focus:

Yes, a propagandist, and a not very good one at that ( :) ) who I blocked a long time ago on our Avalon 'X' account. :bigsmile:

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[christian]

My point was about War Translated(Dmitri) […] as maybe a reliable, credible source?That was cited by christian (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?4456-christian), who (as much as I respect him and count him as a friend), does NOT always choose his sources of information very well or wisely.

I'm honored to count you as a friend, and I appreciate that you don't let disagreements over the Russia-Ukraine War get in the way of that. Thomas Jefferson said, "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." I would go even further: I prefer someone who lives and acts well and doesn't share my opinions over someone who shares my opinions but doesn't live and act well.

In the tweet I cited (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1610157&viewfull=1#post1610157), WarTranslated shared a video clip of Olga Skabeyeva, a renowned media personality who works for Russian state TV. The clip is authentic and the translation is accurate; I checked with a native Russian speaker. It's a significant admission of bias and propaganda. Such bias can also be found in the Western media, they're just usually not as candid about it.

In another tweet cited by Ravenlocke (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1610208&viewfull=1#post1610208), WarTranslated commented on the Russian attack on Chernihiv, claiming that "Ukraine aims at Russian military targets [while] the Russians continue to indiscriminately target residential areas." In making this statement, WarTranslated displays the same bias pro-Ukraine that Olga Skabeyeva admits to having pro-Russia.

Media bias and propaganda regarding kinetic warfare is a universal phenomenon. Anne Morelli summarized it in The Basic Principles of War Propaganda:


We don't want war, we are only defending ourselves
Our adversary is solely responsible for this war
Our adversary's leader is inherently evil and resembles the devil
We are defending a noble cause, not our particular interests
The enemy is purposefully committing atrocities; if we are making mistakes this happens without intention
The enemy makes use of illegal weapons
We suffer few losses, the enemy's losses are considerable
Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause
Our cause is sacred
Whoever casts doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor

Virtually all governments and their associated media follow these principles. My commitment is not to any government, but to the truth. I don't accept or dismiss information wholesale because of the source who shared it, because I know that even an untrustworthy source can sometimes share authentic information and even a trustworthy source can sometimes get things wrong.

Evaluating each piece of information on its own merits, I find truths and falsehoods embraced by both sides in the Russia-Ukraine War. Neither side is always right, and neither side is always wrong. That shouldn't come as a surprise. Life just isn't that simple, the world is more complex than that.

I think it's vital to appreciate the complexity of political intercourse in particular. The welfare of humanity depends on it. We're not getting anywhere by siding with any of the big governments present today.

[Tintin]

Text:
🇺🇸🇺🇦💰❗️UKRAINE AID BILL PASSED BY U.S. CONGRESS: American lawmakers chant "UKRAINE!" (00:08 in vid) and wave Ukrainian flags as they vote to give Kiev regime $61 BILLION to "assist fight against Russia".

Bill will now go to U.S. Senate for vote next week, before it’ll be sent to Old Joe so he can wake up from nap and sign it.

Who cares about ordinary Americans? American politicians sure seem to care more about Ukraine judging by the video.

IntelRepublic


https://x.com/dana916/status/1781747314035441950

1781747314035441950

Well, of course it did! :bigsmile:

It's a gigantic money laundering scheme of course, in full view. Many of us contributing here figured that out yonks ago, but it may be worth providing some further material to support that.

This extracted from Simplicius' latest (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-41924-a-small-gust-for-ukraines) written up just before the 'vote' and published April 20th:


******



However, while the pro-Ukrainian crowd rejoices, it’s not clear what real benefit the aid would bring, should it pass. For instance, days ago the provisions of the alleged bill had leaked which apparently showed the vast majority of the $48B Ukrainian aid going to various American DOD scams:


https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Articles/2024-04-20_Ukrainian_Aid_Bill_supplemental.jpg



If there’s any accuracy to the above, it appears that when you take away the civil funds to the Ukrainian government, and the DOD’s own beak-wetting double-dip, all that’s really left for Ukrainian ‘weapons’ is about $14B or less. And in fact Johnson appears to confirm this when he says that he changed the bill so that 80% of it now represents replenishment of American stocks, rather than new weapons for Ukraine

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[Tintin]

Video below, which can be played without the sound on: having 'softened' up the Aviatorskoye airfield in Dnepropetrovsk region a day or so ago the Russian armed forces now appear to have destroyed the MiG-29s stationed there. Here's more confirmation:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-20_Russians_again_target_MiG-29_%20aircraft_of_%20the_%20Ukrainian_Air_Force_at_Aviatorskoye_airfield_this_time_destroying_them.m p4

The Russian "Dnepr" Cossack brigade successfully neutralised two Ukrainian reconnaissance boats near the Kinburn Spit in the Mykolaev Oblast. It's an impressive direct hit. The boat/s was/were carrying personnel and equipment:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-21_Cossack_brigade_Dnepr_destroyed_two_Ukrainian_Armed_Forces_reconnaissance_boats_with_equipment_ne ar_the_Kinburn_Spit_Mykolaev_region.mp4

Usually the Russian Armed Forces turn NATO hardware into toasted scrap metal but this time, believed to be a first, they've acquired a German Leopard 2 tank fully intact and have brought it to the rear as a trophy:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-21_Russian_military_took_to_the_rear_a_captured_German_Leopard_2_tank_in_the_most_modern_A6_modifica tion.mp4

[Tintin]

Update from Novomikhailovka, now liberated, via IntelSlava Z on Telegram (https://t.me/intelslava/57985). Video here without subtitles but you can get the gist of the message from the text, below:


The 155th Marine Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces knocked out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Novomikhailovka. Photos and videos from marines from Novomikhailovka. The village has actually been liberated; there remains a little work on the western outskirts and cleanup. After Novomikhailovka, battles for Paraskovievka will begin. Well, then Konstantinovka, through which the main road passes, along which the Ugledar garrison is supplied. There will be a serious battle there

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-21_155th_Marine_Brigade_of_the_Russian_Armed_Forces_knocked_out_the_Ukrainian_Armed_Forces_from_Novo mikhailovka_-_now_liberated.mp4

[Tintin]

Zelensky Unmasked
Produced: Truth in Media with Ben Swann
Released: 2024
Source: Truth in Media (https://truthinmedia.com/series/zelenskyy-unmasked/)

The following two parts of a mini-series by Ben Swann and team at Truth in Media serves as a useful digest with the focus on Volodomyr Zelensky but which also contains interesting snippets that may have not been seen before, many of which are from interviews that TiM have conducted over the past couple years.

Many of us here who have been doing the research won't find much here ever so revealing but there are occasional interesting segments of footage that are included to form a part of the record.

******


Part 1 - Who is Volodomyr Zelensky?

Duration: 16:43

Description:


"Zelensky Unmasked": The American independent media platform Truthinmedia presented the first film in a series dedicated to the Ukrainian conflict. The creators of the project warned that there will be no "black and white" picture, as portrayed to the residents of the US by the White House and the largest pro-democratic media.

✔️ This part discusses Zelensky's connections with the oligarchs;
✔️ His promise to bring peace to Donbass, but continued anti-Russian stance;
✔️ The implementation of a law prohibiting the Russian language and his inaction regarding the rise of nationalism;
✔️ The repression against the UOC is also far from democratic.

💬 After watching all the parts, viewers will be able to answer: Is Ukraine an apologist for democracy or is it still a country with a tyrant at its helm?


https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Zelensky_Unmasked_Part_1_%28Ben_Swann_Truth_in_Media%29_2024.mp4

Part 2 -

Duration: 11:18

Description:


"Zelensky Unmasked": the second episode focuses on Zelenksy’s carefully crafted image and the PR-machine responsible for it.

✔️ This part tells how one of the most notorious gangsters, Igor Kolomoisky, assisted an actor in becoming president;
✔️ Nothing has changed in the country under the "main fighter against corruption". All his promises were not fulfilled;
✔️ During the war, Zelensky is not hesitant to appear in photos for prestigious magazines and record videos for Grammy and Golden Globe ceremonies, even when the fate of the country is at stake;
✔️ The new episode will provide more details about Zelensky being a puppet in this global show.

❗️He plays the role of a good Marvel hero, a symbol of democracy, and this story is successful in the US due to the absence of alternative perspectives, but this will likely change in the future.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Zelensky_Unmasked_Part_2_%28Ben_Swann_Truth_in_Media%29_2024.mp4

[Tintin]

https://x.com/dana916/status/1781747314035441950



Well, of course it did! :bigsmile:

It's a gigantic money laundering scheme of course, in full view. Many of us contributing here figured that out yonks ago, but it may be worth providing some further material to support that.

This extracted from Simplicius' latest (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-41924-a-small-gust-for-ukraines) written up just before the 'vote' and published April 20th:


******



However, while the pro-Ukrainian crowd rejoices, it’s not clear what real benefit the aid would bring, should it pass. For instance, days ago the provisions of the alleged bill had leaked which apparently showed the vast majority of the $48B Ukrainian aid going to various American DOD scams:


https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Articles/2024-04-20_Ukrainian_Aid_Bill_supplemental.jpg



If there’s any accuracy to the above, it appears that when you take away the civil funds to the Ukrainian government, and the DOD’s own beak-wetting double-dip, all that’s really left for Ukrainian ‘weapons’ is about $14B or less. And in fact Johnson appears to confirm this when he says that he changed the bill so that 80% of it now represents replenishment of American stocks, rather than new weapons for Ukraine

-----------------------

And yet more pertinent commentary from David Sacks, here:


“These scenes of celebration are going to look particularly foolish when Ukraine collapses anyway. The federal government can print more money; it can’t just print more artillery shells and air defense missiles,” he wrote. He further quipped, “And I should have added, they can’t print more soldiers.”

[Tintin]

Shared by Simplicius at the end of his most recent article (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-41924-a-small-gust-for-ukraines) and the following quote from German philosopher and Russophile *Walter Schubart (https://philitt.fr/2016/03/01/walter-schubart-lorient-peut-il-regenerer-loccident/):



“Western European man views life as a slave whose neck he has stepped on... He does not look with devotion at the sky, but, full of lust for power, looks down at the earth with evil, hostile eyes. Russian people are obsessed not with the will to power, but with a feeling of reconciliation and love. He is filled not with anger and hatred, but with the deepest trust in the essence of the world. He sees in man not an enemy, but a brother.” An Englishman wants to see the world as a factory, a Frenchman as a salon, a German as a barracks, a Russian as a church. The Englishman wants loot, the Frenchman wants glory, the German wants power, the Russian wants sacrifice. The Englishman wants to profit from his neighbor, the Frenchman wants to impress his neighbor, the German wants to command his neighbor, but the Russian doesn’t want anything from him. He does not want to turn his neighbor into his means. This is the brotherhood of the Russian heart and the Russian idea. And this is the Gospel of the future. The Russian all-man is the bearer of a new solidarity. Promethean man is already doomed to death. The era of John's man is coming - a man of love and freedom. This is the future of the Russian people. The West is driven by unbelief, fear and selfishness; The Russian soul is driven by faith, peace and brotherhood. That is why the future belongs to Russia…”



*Schubart: In his 1938 book Europe and the Soul of the Orient , the German-born Latvian writer Walter Schubart questions the possibility of a spiritual renaissance of the West compromised by Promethean ideology. In his eyes, the heroic man, that is to say the man who submits the world to his will, is out of breath and must give way to the messianic man who alone can reconcile the East and the West.

[Tintin]

Marjorie Taylor Greene wades in pretty heavily here following the aid package vote with nothing flattering at all to say about speaker Johnson, who is another wimp :muscle:

****

Comments:


“How can you vote for these people? They don’t serve our country,” she told reporters at press conference after the US House voted 311-112 to pass new Ukraine funding.

Source: Geopolitics Live (https://t.me/geopolitics_live/21973) on Telegram

'Every American should be furious’: Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts US Speaker Mike Johnson over $61 billion Ukraine aid package

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-20_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_blasts_US_Speaker_Mike_Johnson_over_USD_61_billion_Ukraine_aid_package.mp4

[Vicus]

Another deluded folk, next conflict?

Georgia advances 'foreign agents' bill as 20,000 protest against it


Al Jazeera
Sat, 20 Apr 2024

https://www.sott.net/image/s35/704530/super/661d839459bf5b10e17b9db5.jpg
Georgia, April 2024. The ruling party suddenly reintroduced the bill earlier this month, after mass protests forced its withdrawal last year.

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The Georgian parliament has advanced a controversial "foreign influence" bill through its first reading, as thousands joined a third day of anti-government protests.

The bill, first presented early in 2023 and withdrawn amid fierce public opposition, requires media and civil society groups to register as being under "foreign influence" if they get more than 20 percent of their funding from overseas.

Critics say the bill mirrors a repressive Russian law on "foreign agents" that has been used against independent news media and groups seen as being at odds with the Kremlin and will undermine Tbilisi's aspirations for closer European Union ties and, ultimately, membership.


Comment: Note Russia's FA bill was made in response, and mirrored, a US FA bill.


In a vote boycotted by the opposition in the 150-seat parliament, 83 politicians from the ruling Georgian Dream party backed the bill.

Some 20,000 people blocked traffic in front of the parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi, to show their opposition to the measure.

"No to the Russian law!" they shouted after listening to the Georgian national anthem and European Union's Ode to Joy.

Speaking at the rally, opposition member of parliament Aleksandre Ellisashvili condemned politicians who voted for the bill as "traitors" and said the rest of Georgia would show them that "people are power, and not the traitor government".

The Black Sea nation was once part of the Soviet Union but secured its independence in 1991 as the USSR collapsed.

Once seen as a democratic reformer, the current ruling party led by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has been accused of trying to steer Georgia towards closer ties with Russia.

continue: https://www.sott.net/article/490778-Georgia-advances-foreign-agents-bill-as-20000-protest-against-it

[norman]

I thought Afghanistan was an American war?

US aid shows Ukraine will not be ‘second Afghanistan’: Zelensky
April 21, 2024

https://insiderpaper.com/us-aid-shows-ukraine-will-not-be-second-afghanistan-zelensky/

https://insiderpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2-15-990x712.jpg

The decision by the US House of Representatives to earmark $61 billion in long-delayed aid for Ukraine shows the country will not become “a second Afghanistan,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday.

The House on Saturday approved the latest massive package of military and economic assistance for Ukraine as it struggles to hold off Russian forces more than two years since Moscow invaded its Eastern European neighbor.

“This aid will strengthen Ukraine and send the Kremlin a powerful signal that it will not be the second Afghanistan,” Zelensky said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“The United States will stay with Ukraine, will protect Ukrainians, and… they’ll protect democracy in the world,” he added.

The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, igniting a Cold War-era insurgency that saw the United States fund and arm mujahideen fighters who drove Russian forces out a decade later.

Afghanistan then fell into civil war, and soon the hardline Taliban took power, ruling most of the country from 1996 until 2001.

That year their decision to allow the Al Qaeda jihadist group safe haven saw the United States invade in the wake of the September 11 attacks — sparking yet another insurgency.

Nearly 20 years later, the United States also finally withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving Afghan forces battered and exhausted as the Taliban marched back into Kabul to seize power once more.

Zelensky said some of his own forces are also “exhausted.”

“We need to replace them. But these new brigades, they have to have the equipment,” he told Meet the Press.

The bills passed Saturday are the product of months of acrimonious negotiations, pressure from US allies and repeated pleas for assistance from Zelensky.

The United States has been the chief military backer of Ukraine in its war against Russia, but Congress has not approved large-scale funding for its ally for nearly a year and a half, mainly because of cross-aisle bickering.

The delay has undermined Kyiv’s fight against Moscow, as money to replace items drawn from US stocks ran out.

The resulting gaps saw Ukrainian troops — outnumbered and outgunned by Moscow’s forces — run short of key items such as artillery munitions, leaving them vulnerable.

The bills must still be passed by the Senate and then signed by President Joe Biden, who has promised to do so immediately, with the Pentagon adding that it will move fast to get aid to Ukraine.

“We really need to get this to the final point,” Zelensky said.

“We want to, well, get things as fast as possible so that we get some tangible assistance for the soldiers on the frontline as soon as possible. Not in another six months.”

[Vicus]

A can of worms after other...

Bombshell! 9/11, COVID PLANDEMIC & MOSCOW MASSACRE Terrible Connections…

Black Man of CIA Intrigues alongside Biden jr in Ukrainian Company Accused of Financing Crocus' Terrorists

by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio

«I was impressed to learn that Burisma Group is the fastest-growing private gas producer in Central Europe. International projects where the Group is involved require a more thorough analysis and risk assessment, not only in terms of conventional risks – financial or political but also in terms of security. My role will be to advise the Group with respect to its security practices and protocols, including on the most effective protections and programs to guard against cyber-attacks».

With these words Joseph Cofer Black, former director of counter-terrorism in the Central Intelligence Agency, the American counter-intelligence of Langley (Virginia), responded to the Kyiev Post in February 2017 in an article curiously signed by Burisma itself, the company of which Hunter Biden belonged, son of then Vice President Joseph and now POTUS in the White House.

Burisma is the Ukrainian company accused in recent days by the Russian National Investigative Committee of having financed terrorists in various attacks in their country (and outside) such as in the Crocus City Hall massacre.

continue: https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/04/bombshell-9-11-covid-plandemic-moscow-massacre-terrible-connections/

Vicus comment:
I dint really knew where to post this,because all the different themes so moderators it is your chose...

should all of this be true, well that country is the nest of all demons on Earth...
the other one ,well we knew it long time ago: the Great Satan.

[Rizotto]

In the wake of speaker Mike Johnson’s switching course and approving the $61 billions aid package to Ukraine, the foremost question is what exactly compelled him to do this…

In the article below, Tucker Carlson explains that members of congress are terrified of the intel agencies framing them if they don’t toe the line.
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https://www.rt.com/news/596361-tucker-congress-child-porn-blackmail/

April 21, 2024

US lawmakers scared of being framed for ‘kiddie porn’ – Tucker Carlson
Intelligence agencies have creative ways of forcing politicians to do their bidding, the conservative journalist claimed

Members of Congress consistently vote in favor of mass surveillance programs because they’re “terrified” that intelligence agencies will plant “kiddie porn” on their computers if they speak up, American journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed.

Carlson appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Friday, hours before the US Senate voted to renew Section 702 of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Ostensibly created to allow intelligence agencies such as the FBI and CIA to surveil the communications of foreigners, Section 702 allows these agencies to access data ‘indirectly’ collected from millions of American citizens without a warrant.

According to Carlson, a number of lawmakers actually opposed this renewal, but did not admit this publicly.

“People don’t say that because they’re worried about being punished,” Carlson told Rogan. “They’re worried about someone putting kiddie porn on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that, including people on the [intelligence] committee, including people who run the intel committee.”

“They’re afraid of the agencies,” he stated, adding: “That’s not compatible with democracy.”

“It’s playing out in front of everyone, and no one cares and no one does anything about it,” Carlson continued. “I think the reason is because they’re threatened. And if you look at the committee chairmen who allowed this s**t to happen year after year… I know them. And they have all the things to hide. I know that for a fact.”

Apart from the supposed threat of surreptitiously-planted child pornography, Carlson claimed that it’s “very common” for lawmakers to have “a drinking problem or a weird sex life,” which agencies could easily expose if these politicians refuse to do their bidding.

Carlson is not the first influential conservative to claim that elected representatives are being blackmailed. Back in December, Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett, a Republican, suggested that his colleagues opposed a motion to release the names of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s clients because they would have been implicated in sex crimes.

READ MORE: Diddy knows too much – former rival
Unnamed forces in Washington use “the old honey pot” to blackmail politicians and force them to “vote for crazy stuff,” he told conservative podcast host Benny Johnson at the time.

A year earlier, a nude video of Rep. Madison Cawthorn was leaked a month after he claimed to have been invited to drug-fueled orgies by older members of Congress. Washington, he said at the time, is rife with “sexual perversion.”

[Brigantia]

An interesting article on Zero Hedge (extract below)...

"Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money

As Seymour Hersh recently reported, CIA Director Burns had to warn Zelensky to stop stealing so much money.

The issue of corruption was directly raised with Zelensky in a meeting last January in Kiev with CIA Director William Burns.

His message to the Ukrainian president, I was told by an intelligence official with direct knowledge of the meeting, was out of a 1950s mob movie.

The senior generals and government officials in Kiev were angry at what they saw as Zelensky’s greed, so Burns told the Ukrainian president, because “he was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals.”

Burns also presented Zelensky with a list of thirty-five generals and senior officials whose corruption was known to the CIA and others in the American government.

Zelensky responded to the American pressure ten days later by publicly dismissing ten of the most ostentatious officials on the list and doing little else.

“The ten he got rid of were brazenly bragging about the money they had—driving around Kiev in their new Mercedes,” the intelligence official told me.

Zelensky’s half-hearted response and the White House’s lack of concern was seen, the intelligence official added, as another sign of a lack of leadership that is leading to a “total breakdown” of trust between the White House and some elements of the intelligence community.

Hersh went on to note that one estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled funds at $400 million last year, at least; another expert compared the level of corruption in Kiev as approaching that of the Afghan war, “although there will be no professional audit reports emerging from the Ukraine.”

But, remember, the first rule of sending money to corrupt Ukraine is... you don't talk about how corrupt Ukraine is (or you get impeached)."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-gets-their-billions-despite-cia-director-reportedly-warnings-zelenksy-stop

[Tintin]

More confirmation of the doom and gloom having to be experienced by disenfranchised Ukrainian citizens based overseas who really don't want anything to do with the US/UK/Zionist proxy war; I do hope that the Ukrainian diaspora - the non-ZioNazis that is; in other words the vast majority of Ukrainian people - can return to somewhere that isn't the Mordorian squalid hellhole that that poor country has become. Maybe in time the filth that occupies the 'power' will be rid, permanently and they can return to somewhere that can be truly renewed, and desirable a place to be :flower:

Joey Mannarino via X shares this (https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1782154965152043180):



"Had dinner with a friend from Ukraine tonight who told me something that the media has not reported.

If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy.

Her nineteen year old brother now lives in Poland with her and his passport has expired so he’s now without one.

If he goes back to Ukraine to renew it, he’ll automatically be conscripted into the war to go into Biden and Zelensyy’s meat grinder.

The level of depravity going on in the country of Ukraine is absurd.

They’re sending people to die with no rhyme or reason. They know they can’t win the war."
10:10 PM · Apr 21, 2024

[Jaak]

Joey Mannarino via X shares this (https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1782154965152043180):



"Had dinner with a friend from Ukraine tonight who told me something that the media has not reported.

If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy.


Strange,it´s same for Estonians.I made new ID in embassy several times but now cant do it anymore.Some new laws and rules.So i have to return to Estonia soonish where i havent been for 15 years or so just to make a new ID...

[Tintin]

Joey Mannarino via X shares this (https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1782154965152043180):



"Had dinner with a friend from Ukraine tonight who told me something that the media has not reported.

If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy.


Strange,it´s same for Estonians.I made new ID in embassy several times but now cant do it anymore.Some new laws and rules.So i have to return to Estonia soonish where i havent been for 15 years or so just to make a new ID...

Interesting Jaak. How do you feel about that? :handshake:

[Tintin]

For the point of reinforcement of the proof we have to hand of CIA involvement in funding operations in Ukraine over the last 6 or 7 decades here's an interesting 'SECRET EYES ONLY' a minute extract from, and I quote: "Minutes of the 303 Committee meeting held 23 December 1969 is set forth below for your information. ...Those present: Mr. Kissinger, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Johnson, and General Cushman."

Johnson - presumably Lyndon B. (? former President)

Avalon library link (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/CIA_Project_Aerodynamic/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%207%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%207%20%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29_0008.pdf)


https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/CIA_Project_Aerodynamic/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%207%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%207%20%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29_0008.pdf

[Jaak]

Joey Mannarino via X shares this (https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1782154965152043180):



"Had dinner with a friend from Ukraine tonight who told me something that the media has not reported.

If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy.


Strange,it´s same for Estonians.I made new ID in embassy several times but now cant do it anymore.Some new laws and rules.So i have to return to Estonia soonish where i havent been for 15 years or so just to make a new ID...

Interesting Jaak. How do you feel about that? :handshake:

Quite terrified. I left Estonia before i got the letter to show up for military service and for years the military police visited my parents twice a year and were looking for me. I doubt i will get dragged to military against my will but its sadly a possibility. Would be nice to see family i guess,although it will be probably awkward after all these years.They are normal people and im quite far from normal...

Is it only Estonians and Ukrainians who cant make new ID anymore abroad? Dont know how to research this,i assume some other EU countries might also have some new laws about that ?

[Tintin]

One assumes the lucky recipient of a CIA pension plan listed at 3., here, is a certain Mykola Lebed - as we (should) know, a former Nazi collaborator. (More here: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/53242 )

Concerning *PROLOG*: a Ukrainian Nationalist magazine run out of Munich and if my memory serves me well (? - may need to be more exact here) was known to have involved Chrystia Freeland's grandfather in an editorial capacity. (More here: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/24/orre-m24.html )

Avalon library link (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/CIA_Project_Aerodynamic/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%208%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%208%20%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29_0012.pdf)

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[Tintin]

Joey Mannarino via X shares this (https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1782154965152043180):



"Had dinner with a friend from Ukraine tonight who told me something that the media has not reported.

If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy.


Strange,it´s same for Estonians.I made new ID in embassy several times but now cant do it anymore.Some new laws and rules.So i have to return to Estonia soonish where i havent been for 15 years or so just to make a new ID...

Interesting Jaak. How do you feel about that? :handshake:

Quite terrified. I left Estonia before i got the letter to show up for military service and for years the military police visited my parents twice a year and were looking for me. I doubt i will get dragged to military against my will but its sadly a possibility. Would be nice to see family i guess,although it will be probably awkward after all these years.They are normal people and im quite far from normal...

Is it only Estonians and Ukrainians who cant make new ID anymore abroad? Dont know how to research this,i assume some other EU countries might also have some new laws about that ?

I can completely understand you being terrified. :flower: :bearhug:

I'm not quite sure about other country's ID requirements, but perhaps taking a sample from other Baltic states' Consulate and Embassy sites may give one some idea. I'd imagine that information ought to be published somewhere there (?)

[Brigantia]

Joey Mannarino via X shares this (https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1782154965152043180):



"Had dinner with a friend from Ukraine tonight who told me something that the media has not reported.

If you are a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside of the country and your passport expires, you no longer can renew it at an embassy.


Strange,it´s same for Estonians.I made new ID in embassy several times but now cant do it anymore.Some new laws and rules.So i have to return to Estonia soonish where i havent been for 15 years or so just to make a new ID...

Interesting Jaak. How do you feel about that? :handshake:

Quite terrified. I left Estonia before i got the letter to show up for military service and for years the military police visited my parents twice a year and were looking for me. I doubt i will get dragged to military against my will but its sadly a possibility. Would be nice to see family i guess,although it will be probably awkward after all these years.They are normal people and im quite far from normal...

Is it only Estonians and Ukrainians who cant make new ID anymore abroad? Dont know how to research this,i assume some other EU countries might also have some new laws about that ?

I wonder if being forced into the military might be the grounds for asylum or obtaining citizenship of the country where you're living. It's not right though that you should be forced into that.

I know we're no longer in the EU, but you can renew your British passport in another country by applying to the British embassy there. I've had a look at Italian passports, you can renew those at an Italian consulate in the UK so it doesn't look like this is an EU directive.

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🇸🇾 ASSAD: "Power has made the West decadent and decadence has appeared in the political class. Western politicians are focused on their personal careers, they no longer care about the interests of their countries. Their media create a virtual reality that works to destroy the family, atomizing and isolating of a person from his surroundings. All this may expose them to the loss of their achievements in the future."

"I said that the Russian Special Military Operation would correct the course of history... For me, there is no difference in where Russia is fighting world terror In Syria or in Ukraine. There is only one enemy... I am sure that the confrontation will end with the victory of Russia. And it will reunite brotherly nations again. That is why I said that Russia corrects what others have corrupted."

"Western policy, especially American, is based on the principle of divide and rule... America turns any conflict into a dangerous chronic disease... With any conflict, America benefits, and then steps aside and watches the growing chaos, waiting for the right moment to strike the decisive blow. For America, every conflict is profitable."

"After the dissolution of the USSR, there was an illusion that liberalism had won the final victory, that heaven on earth should resemble America both politically and economically. It seemed that money was intended to become the main goal of life, for which we should sacrifice ethics, morality, and humanism.

However, China has proposed a different model. A balanced combination of communist ideals with a capitalist economy. In its case, a centralized social state coexists with the economic freedom of private enterprises.

Since 2008, we have seen that China is steadily growing against the backdrop of a stable decline in the West. That is, China has proven that elements of capitalism are necessary for the economy, but capitalism as a format of state governance is doomed."

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‼️🇬🇷🇪🇸 Greece and Spain are under pressure to provide Ukraine with air defense systems - Financial Times

▪️Greece and Spain are under strong pressure from their EU and NATO allies, who demand to provide Ukraine with more air defense.
The leaders of the two countries, whose militaries have more than a dozen Patriot systems, as well as other systems such as the S-300, were told their needs were "not as great as Ukraine's."
▪️This month, Kyiv demanded the provision of 7 additional Patriot air defense systems. Only Germany has announced the delivery of one system.
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🇩🇪🇺🇦 German districts no longer want to accept Ukrainian refugees and offer them to return home. Some districts and municipalities have announced the restriction of the possibility of accepting new refugees from Ukraine because of the high level of migration.

This was stated by the President of the German Association of districts Reinhard Sager.

He pointed out that "the integration of all these people is no longer possible", and the problems are becoming more and more. Representatives of the districts of the FRG demand from Berlin and the EU to take measures to combat the growth of migration, as well as to stop the flow of refugees. According to Zager, Baden-Württemberg alone currently hosts twice as many people from Ukraine as the whole of France.

Zager suggested that Ukrainians would be better off staying in the west of their country or in Poland, which may be more willing to accept EU-backed refugees.

📌 Of course, no one is waiting for Ukrainians with open arms in Poland or other European countries. The fact that nobody in Europe needed Ukrainian refugees was clear from the beginning, but for Germany they became a humanitarian weapon, given their mass numbers and their desire to live on benefits. Thus, the beneficiaries of the "Ukraine project" managed to kill several birds with one stone: in this case, they managed to turn everyone against the Ukrainians and additionally burden the German economy.


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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Avdiivka direction
1pm, April 22, 2024

Russian Armed Forces assault groups have taken full control of the Ocheretine railway station, advancing along Zheleznodorozhnaya Street 1.2 kilometers to the northwest. Russian troops are also consolidating along the streets south of the railway station.

At the moment there is no information about control over the northern part of the settlement behind the railroad. There are several other solid buildings in the vicinity that can be relied on in defense: the territory of the Altcom brick factory, the school and the local water supply company.

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🇲🇩 Gagauzia reserves the right to external self-determination

This was stated by the head of the autonomy Yevgenia Gutsul . According to her, Gagauzia does not plan to leave Moldova, but if the country decides to unite with Romania or join the EU, then Gagauz autonomy will be able to exercise the right to external self-determination.

❗️ Hutsul also accused the Moldovan authorities of presenting the Gagauz people as “separatists” and trying to turn Moldovans against them. She previously warned that she would turn to Russia if Chisinau sent troops to the region.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧⚔️🇷🇺Russia's warning to the West; We are on the verge of a conflict between nuclear powers

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: The United States and NATO are fascinated by the idea of ​​imposing a strategic defeat on Russia, and in such a confrontation there are risks that can lead to an increase in the level of nuclear danger.

The West is teetering dangerously on the edge of a direct military conflict between the world's nuclear powers, fraught with disastrous consequences.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Americans have already transferred ATACMS missiles to Kiev, Americanist Vladimir Bruter told Baltnews.

“This was long-planned assistance, everyone was waiting for it. The only problem was the position of the Republicans, who linked this next tranche with solving problems on the Mexican border. That is, the victory of the Democrats is that they were able to push through this assistance without allocating money for the solution border problems," he said.

According to the expert, the West will continue to help Ukraine, and Kiev will not be left without shells. Moreover, ATACMS missiles may already be partially delivered. Previously, the West has already announced the supply of certain weapons only after they were noticed at the front.

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📱🙀🇺🇦 TELEGRAM IS A PROBLEM FOR UKRAINE - Kiev calls for suppression of app's renowned freedoms exposing its war crimes - Head of Ukrainian (un)Intelligence Budanov (pictured left) demands users are forced to register their real name to use the messenger application.

If you want to prove your position and someone doesn't like it, and this is normal in a democratic society - bear responsibility. Why are you afraid to say who you are? - Budanov baffled by concept of privacy.

How about beating civilians to a pulp, tying them up and sending them to die as cannon fodder? A president refusing to hold elections? Also "normal in a democratic society"? 🤡

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Frontline Summary for the Morning of 22 April 2024

On the ZaporozhyeFront, fighting continues in Rabotino and northwest of Verbovoye. The line of contact is unchanged.

On the Donetsk Front, there are battles on the western outskirts of Novomikhaylovka, where the AFU are trying to slow down the advance of the RFAF to Paraskoviyevka. In Georgiyevka, oncoming battles.

In Krasnogorovka, the frontline is unchanged, the AFU positions are under strikes by Russian aviation, fierce fighting continues. In the area of Netaylovo, there are small tactical successes.

In the area of Umanskoye, Semyonovka and Berdychi, there are oncoming battles.hy. The line of contact is unchanged.

In the ChasovYar Direction, Russian troops advanced in the area of Bogdanovka, completely knocking out the AFU from the outskirts of the settlement. Fighting continues on the eastern outskirts of ChasovYar.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 A rather difficult situation on the frontline awaits us in mid-May - Budanov in an interview with the BBC

According to the head of the GUR, "Armageddon will not happen, as many are now beginning to say. But there will be problems from mid-May. It is about the front including. Russians will take a comprehensive approach. It will be a difficult period. The middle of May, the beginning of June," he said.

Budanov also added that of course Ukraine will not lose.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

22 April 2024

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️The Yug Group of Forces units have fully liberated Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of the successful actions, and improved their tactical position along the front line.

Strikes were delivered at manpower and hardware of the 10th Mountain Assault, 79th, 92nd air assault, 46th, 81st airmobile, 22nd, 23rd, 28th, 41st, 93rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) close to Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Spornoye, Minkovka, Kleshcheyevka, Chasov Yar, Andreyevka, and Ostroye (Donetsk People's Republic).

Three counter-attacks launched by the AFU 33rd mechanized, 80th air assault brigades were repelled close to Bogdanovka and Pobeda (Donetsk People's Republic). The AFU losses amounted to up to 410 Ukrainian troops, nine motor vehicles, and one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system. One Anklav electronic warfare station and one ammunition depot were also eliminated.

▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on the 21st mechanized and 95th air assault brigades of the AFU near Terny (Donetsk People's Republic). Four counter-attacks launched by the 12th Special Forces Brigade (Azov*) have been repelled near Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic). The AFU losses included up to 25 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, and one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation and repelled nine counter-attacks launched by the assault groups of the 25th air assault, 68th, 71st jaeger, 59th motorized infantry, 24th, 47th, 100th, and 115th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Pervomayskoye, Semyonovka, Netaylovo, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic). The AFU losses amounted to up to 365 Ukrainian troops, one German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle, 12 motor vehicles, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, as well as three electronic warfare stations: Nota and Bukovel-AD.

▫️The Vostok Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on the units of the 58th motorized infantry, 72nd mechanized brigades of the AFU, 102nd and 128th territorial defense brigades near Staromayorskoye, Ugledar, Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonoye (Zaporozhye region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 95 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, and one UK-made 155-mm FH-70 howitzer.

▫️ The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 141st infantry, 65th mechanized, and 128th mountain assault brigades near Rabotino, Novoandreyevka, and Stepovoye (Zaporozhye region). The AFU losses amounted to up to 45 Ukrainian troops and two pickup trucks.

▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged one air defense positioning area, one storage point for uncrewed surface vehicles, manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 142 areas.

Air defense systems shot down 240 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the day.

▫️In total, 592 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 22,529 unmanned aerial vehicles, 508 air-to-air missile systems, 15,817 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,269 MLRS combat vehicles, 9,040 field artillery guns and mortars, and 21,232 special military vehicles have been neutralized since the beginning of the special military operation.

* Terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦A video of arrival at a TV tower in Kharkov has appeared on the Net

🗼 A communication antenna of the Ukrainian air defense was installed on a TV tower in Kharkov

This was reported by the coordinator of the Ukrainian underground, Sergei Lebedev.

There will be no more "Telethon"

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Another American mercenary, Ian Burdett, was eliminated in the SMO zone.

According to military commander Yevgeny Poddubny, he arrived in Ukraine a year ago and joined the so-called “The Chosen company” unit as part of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

It is not specified in which part of the front the mercenary was eliminated.

@ukr_leaks_eng


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🇵🇱🇺🇸 Poland is ready for the deployment of US nuclear weapons - Duda

The President of Poland, in an interview with Fakt, noted that this issue remains the topic of negotiations between Washington and Warsaw.

📝 “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear weapons within the framework of Nuclear Sharing also on our territory to strengthen the security of NATO’s eastern flank, we are ready for this,” Duda said.

✖️ According to him, Russia is strengthening the Kaliningrad region militarily and has deployed nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus. The United States will be able to place its nuclear bombs in Poland for “protection from the Russian Federation” within several years. - Ostashko reports


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Russia SWARMS Ukraine Town with Upgraded Turtle Tanks:

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[Ravenlocke]

Ukr Disastrous Day: Rus Controls 50% Ocheretino,
Ukr Admits Novomikhailovka Lost,
Budanov Crisis


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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Avdiivka direction: Russian forces capture the center of Ocheretyne
situation as of 9:00 pm on April 22, 2024

Russian units from the "Center" grouping of forces, taking advantage of the disorganization of the enemy, are advancing deeper into the village of Ocheretyne.

▪️ Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces, after capturing the southern (https://t.me/rybar/59389) outskirts of the village, crossed the railway tracks and entrenched themselves in the central part of the settlement.

▪️ Footage has appeared online showing (https://t.me/rsotmdivision/15566) the raising of the Russian flag on the building of the military-civil administration in Ocheretyne. The soldiers are standing upright, not fearing shelling and calmly moving around the territory. There is almost no sound of gunfire, which indicates the relative safety of being in the center of the village.

🔻 At the moment, the clearing of the northern part of the settlement and the water treatment area, where scattered enemy groups may still remain, is underway. The territory of the "Altkom" brick factory, located on the western outskirts of the settlement, is still under the control of the AFU.

High-resolution map (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2024/04/22/20240422212723-15b57b1b.jpg)

English version (https://rybar.ru/piwigo/upload/2024/04/22/20240422212709-9c3a1e99.jpg)

#Avdiivka #digest #Donetsk #map #Russia #Ukraine
@rybar_force

Original msg (https://t.me/rybar/59406)

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Operational report from Ocheretino from the Front Bird:

As darkness fell, the shooting and artillery fire subsided slightly.

Soldiers from the field report that the enemy used smoke screens in order to hide behind them while retreating.

Front-line aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces continues to strike with 122 mm S-13 Tulumbas shells deep into enemy positions.

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Ukrainian channel Deepstate reports:
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🇷🇺 Katsaps continue to advance in Ocheretino

Available footage shows that the enemy occupied the central part of the village and most of it . Fighting continues on the outskirts. Only the district of "Hydrobudivelniki" in the north-eastern part of the settlement remains in question.

The situation with Ocheretyn worsens.

We hope that those responsible for the strip where the front breakthrough happened will also expect strict checks with all derivatives, as was the case with 67 OMBr.


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The updated T-80 is back in service. Russia has found additional use for it

Russia has upgraded the T-80 tank to the latest standard, writes Defense 24. (https://defence24.pl/przemysl/przemysl-zbrojeniowy-rosji-modernizuje-t-80) Now Moscow plans to resume production of these vehicles, but with a different configuration and under a different name - T-80BVM.

The improved tank is equipped with Relikt dynamic protection, a Sosna-U or PNM-T fire control system with a thermal imaging sight, as well as an R-168-25U-2 Aqueduct radio station, a 2A46M-4 gun with a new stabilization system and a gas turbine GTD-1250.

In addition, the T-80 will be used as a platform for a new version of the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower system.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are modernizing Western equipment into heaps of burning scrap metal.

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🇺🇦 Former colonel of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine Roman Chervinsky, whom Western media called the coordinator of the Nord Stream bombing, has disappeared.

Chervinsky was detained in Ukraine at the end of April 2023 on charges of treason and abuse of power. Now his lawyers say their client was kidnapped. - FRWL reports

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🎙 Answer from the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova to a question from MIA "Russia Today" in connection with the statement of the President of Poland A. Duda about his readiness to place US nuclear weapons on Polish territory

❓ Question: In an interview with Fakt, Polish President A. Duda said that the Polish authorities are ready to deploy American nuclear weapons on their territory. How could you comment on this?

💬 M.V. Zakharova: Such provocative statements by the Polish leadership are not news. The Polish authorities have not been hiding their ambitions for a long time in terms of how to “cling closer” to the US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe and are actively weaving them into their deeply hostile policy towards Russia.

It is clearly not enough for Poland that it is already a member of NATO, which arbitrarily positions itself as a “nuclear alliance.” Moreover, Warsaw is actively involved in developing the so-called “joint nuclear missions” of the North Atlantic bloc as a state providing direct support to such operations.

All this together leads to the fact that in our own military planning we treat Poland with special attention and in accordance with the threats that arise for Russia with the participation of this country. The Polish factor, of course, was also taken into account by us and our Belarusian friends in the process of taking additional measures to strengthen the security of the Union State.

☝️ However, Warsaw seems to be maniacally seeking to attract even more attention from military planners in the Russian General Staff. It is not difficult to assume that if American nuclear weapons appear on Polish territory, the corresponding objects will immediately join the list of legitimate targets for destruction in a situation of direct military conflict with NATO.

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🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairperson Senator Mark Warner reported on April 21 that US provisions of military aid to Ukraine, including long-range ATACMS missiles, will be in transit to Ukraine "by the end of the week" if the Senate passes the supplemental appropriations bill on April 23 and US President Joe Biden signs it by April 24.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on April 21 that the swift delivery of US military aid to Ukraine could allow Ukrainian forces to stabilize the frontline and seize the initiative.

Ukrainian forces struck and damaged the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s (BSF) Kommuna submarine support ship – the world’s oldest active-duty naval vessel – in occupied Sevastopol, Crimea on April 21.

The Russian and Chinese navies signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation on April 21 amid recent reports of China’s increased support for Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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At the Moldovan airport in Chisinau, unidentified individuals are preventing Moldovan citizens who have arrived from Moscow after the opposition congress from entering the country. Eyewitnesses report that they refuse to identify themselves.

"Everyone here is going to pass out, because it's so hot and there isn't enough air to breathe, and we don't have any water!" - the passengers at Chisinau Airport have been waiting for more than three hours in a stuffy room with no access to water.

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Exposing Ukraine’s Secret Police and Mission to Exterminate Christianity:

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Bob Amsterdam is an international human rights lawyer who’s been banned from Russia by Vladimir Putin. He says Ukraine is the single most repressive country he’s ever been to, a place where everyone’s terrified of the secret police. “The idea it’s a democracy is a farce.” Once again, they’re lying to you and making you pay for it.


watch more here (https://watchtcn.co/49CDF2t)

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I tried twice to write an intro comment about this and gave up. Just look.

https://t.me/UnityNewsNetwork/17765
UnityNewsNetwork/17765

[Inversion]

The video alleges Chinese soldiers are fighting in the Ukraine as mercenaries.

04/22/24 (7:32)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trBOeFaGHQo

[shaberon]

We're not getting anywhere by siding with any of the big governments present today.


I'm not.

I'm personally not concerned about governments and borders; window dressing.

I, however, and some others, do side with what might be called "cultures". One of those is the Religion of Jerusalem. It is my Friend. I don't agree with them. But I have found they "live well" in a way that I am comfortable sharing the planet with.

Unfortunately it has been disagreed with since the 200s by the Church of Rome in a way not conducive to sharing. Take the Fourth Crusade as an example.

European countries in the vast majority have kicked out or prevented the Religion of Jerusalem, and, not because they got an upgrade or anything I would consider for a flat second. Seems to be due to supremacism.

I am not "pro" Russia, Iran, or China in terms of governments or political systems or anything, what I mean is some of the aspects of culture held by some of the nicer people there. In place of what I would call the lack of culture established in my own system. Most of all I am against the geo-strategic meddling at the taxpayers' expense.

In the long run, "my system" has never been up for debate, and, these days are probably the force that is needed to break it.

It would disappoint Mr. Medvedev because we do not really have what it takes to split into multi-nations with opposing air forces and commit SMOs on each other. On the other hand, I don't see how it is going to continue unbroken, either.

Propaganda is a rhetoric designed to transfer Reputation from one side to another. In that sense, I am doing propaganda *for* the Religion of Jerusalem. Due to events, it is effectively centered in Moscow. That is why I automatically understand them much more easily than English speakers and most Europeans.

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What is Project Maven AI and how is it disappointing US?

Project Maven AI is US Defense Department’s flagship project that uses artificial intelligence to make decisions on the battlefield in lieu of humans.

The technology is being tested in the Ukraine conflict area, with Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, Commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, cynically calling Ukraine “our laboratory”.

In theory, the system is supposed to process data from multiple sources, including satellites, drones, and even social media accounts of Russian soldiers, before anticipating, detecting, and destroying enemy targets by generating swarms of GPA-guided missiles with little input from humans.

However, field commanders have complained of the system’s failure in delivering “the picture of the battlefield” to “soldiers in the trenches”, according the New York Times.

In addition, Bloomberg has reported that while soldiers can accurately identify a tank 84% of the time, Project Maven AI is only managing 60%, a figure that tanks to 30% in snowy environments.

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‘Tsar grill’: Russian ‘turtle tanks’ defy Ukrainian FPV drones

Russian forces are successfully using T-72 tanks fitted with a shed-like metal cover on top to help protect against drone attacks in the special military operation.

🔸 These “cope cage” armored vehicles, also known as “turtle tanks”, were specifically designed to survive strikes by first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones;

🔸 One of the “turtle tanks”, which reportedly “looked to have the largest metal covering seen to date," effectively supported recent Russian troop attacks near the town of Krasnogorovka;

🔸 The tank, nicknamed “tsar grill”, added to a successful landing of the Russian assault troops and their subsequent offensive outside the town;

🔸 In addition to the cope cage, this “turtle” armored vehicle is equipped with “an omni-directional counter-drone electronic warfare jammer with eight antennas, a design that has been increasingly seen on other Russian tanks and armored vehicles,” according to The War Zone (TWZ) news channel;

🔸 Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov called the T-72’s metal cover “combat tuning” rather than a sign of scarcity;

🔸 The TWZ pointed to “apparently growing number of ‘turtle tanks,’” which “look to be part of these renewed Russian offensive operations.”

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Brazil says four mercenaries dead or missing in Ukraine

"The Foreign Ministry, through the Brazilian Embassy in Kiev, is aware of the death or disappearance of four Brazilians in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict," a source told Sputnik.

The Brazilian government did not provide a list of the dead, but according to local media reports, all the volunteers had served less than three months at the front.

▪️ Among the dead was a woman, Talita do Valle, 39. She died just three weeks after arriving in Ukraine, asphyxiated by a fire in the bunker where she was hiding. Her ashes arrived in Brazil a few months later, and the family suspects that they are not her remains. They also accuse Talita's colleagues of stealing her possessions worth 70,000 reals (more than $13,400).

"Unfortunately, 'Foreign legion' has become a stronghold of corrupt people," Teu Rodrigo Vieira, the victim's brother, told the UOL portal.

▪️ The youngest mercenary to die, Antônio Asitiani, was only 25 years old.

▪️ In June 2022, Andre Louis Ak Bai, 44, was found dead.

▪️ One month later, Douglas Rodriguez Burigu died in Kharkov. His family reported that he originally wanted to do humanitarian work, but ended up at the front.

▪️ The mercenary Max Panavo, who has been posting about his life on social media, also traveled to Ukraine. A number of media outlets claimed he was missing, but his close friend believes Panavu died in Avdeyevka.

In mid-March, the Russian Defense Ministry said that 13,387 foreign mercenaries had arrived in Ukraine during the special military operation to fight on the side of the Kiev regime. During this period, 5,962 fighters were eliminated. From Brazil 268 mercenaries arrived, 136 of them were eliminated.

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According to a source close to the security forces, in addition to Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, three more people were detained. Investigations are currently underway.

Preliminary info is that, all are employees of the Ministry of Defense/state structures.

Ivanov himself was guarded by an elite special unit that was authorised open fire on anyone who tried to detain Ivanov.

The only place where he was without protection was a meeting with the top leadership of the country where he was detained




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🇷🇺 The Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation was sent to a pre-trial detention center until June 23, 2024

Timur Ivanov received a bribe while carrying out contract and subcontract work for the needs of the Ministry of Defense

Sergey Borodin, was sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months

According to the investigation, Borodin, as well as Ivanov, has been charged with committing the specified crime
Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation

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Zelensky arrested Zaluzhny due to political competition. This was reported by the Ukrainian telegram channel “Resident”.

Our source in the OP said that after Zaluzhny’s refusal to become ambassador to Britain, he was detained by the SBU a month ago and is being kept under heavy security. The President's Office wants to get him to agree to work in London and give up his political ambitions to become president,
- writes the channel.

After information about Zaluzhny’s detention appeared, Bankova decided to give information that the ex-Commander-in-Chief had been approved as ambassador to Britain. Ermak was in a hurry to remove Zaluzhny from Ukraine before there was a power vacuum in order to prevent sabotage from the elites.

After the vote in Congress, it became clear that the Biden Administration continues to support the war without a change of power.

Let us note that there has been no official information about Zaluzhny’s fate since his resignation on February 8.


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⚡️ AFU indirectly confirms attack on its facility in Odessa

It said that the missile strike was carried out on the car park of the 'hit vehicle equipment'.

At the same time, the photos show that the fire was very intense. Local TG channels report that the site of the attack is cordoned off and that the explosion was so powerful that 8 trains are now delayed.

The 'disabled automotive equipment' exploded with such force that it appears to have hit the railway next to where it is parked.

What was the big deal about this 'automotive equipment'? Maybe it wasn't automotive equipment?

Of course not. Another lie by Ukrainian regime to appease the Kiev citizens.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

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🇺🇦Yesterday's decision of the Zelensky government to stop providing consular documents for male Ukrainians of military age abroad indicates the direction the authorities intend to take.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba essentially declared them traitors of their country and showed that the government's stance on the mobilization will only become tougher.

"Men of conscription age went abroad, showed their country that the question of its survival does not concern them, and then they come and want to receive services from their country. That's not how it works. There is a war in our country.

Staying abroad does not release a citizen from his duties to the Motherland. That is why yesterday I instructed to take measures to restore the fair treatment of men of mobilization age in Ukraine and abroad. It will be fair"

It's necessary to point out that the current decision will affect not only the refugees who left the country sometime within the past 2 years but also the Ukrainian citizens who were there before that.

One can ask several questions about what the Zelensky government wants to achieve with this, and what conclusions your average Ukrainian abroad will draw. Will it make men head back home without a chance of getting back out? Unlikely. Will it make them consider looking for an opportunity to change their citizenship which seems more of a burden than an advantage every day? That's more like it.

Does it indicate that the Ukrainian government intends to continue to push more unpopular and, frankly, unconstitutional measures on its people? Looks almost certain. We have already seen them plan to strip people of their driving license over not responding to a summons, once things get even grimmer they could move on to denying medical services or education.

One thing is for sure - it will not make people any more willing to fight in this war that Ukraine cannot win. It will only make them find new ways to escape, one way or another.

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‘Neutral’ Switzerland blocking $14 billion worth of Russian assets[/B]
Switzerland is holding an estimated 13 billion francs ($14.3 billion) in Russian assets frozen in its financial institutions, around half of which belongs to the state and half to private individuals, the national agency overseeing sanctions revealed on Tuesday.

While the value of Russia’s state assets remains unchanged, Swiss authorities reported a sharp drop in the value of privately owned funds.

As of the end of December, a total of 5.8 billion francs ($6.3 billion) in funds and properties belonging to sanctioned Russian individuals or entities was frozen in Switzerland, authorities have said. The figure represents a 1.7 billion franc ($1.9 billion) decline from the 7.5 billion francs registered at the end of 2022, according to the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

“The decrease is explained by a loss in value of certain blocked assets – particularly securities related to Russia – as a result of international sanctions,” SECO said in a statement.

The sum is separate from the 7.24 billion francs ($7.9 billion) in assets belonging to the Russian central bank, which has also been blocked in Switzerland.

Swiss authorities said last year that they had frozen an additional 580 million francs ($636 million) in financial assets and two more properties, following their own investigations and “detailed clarifications” by banks. The current estimate includes 17 properties, luxury cars, works of art, furniture and musical instruments belonging to sanctioned Russians.

The agency also revealed that 140 million francs ($153.5 million) in frozen funds had been released “after further investigations found the legal requirements for their freezing were not met.”

Despite not being an EU member and considering itself to be a neutral state, Switzerland has supported the West’s Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia. The Swiss government said on more than one occasion that it had been closely following EU discussions on the prospect of seizing frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, but has yet to outline plans to do so.

Moscow has repeatedly challenged the legitimacy of the asset freezes, slamming the practice as “theft” and warning of countermeasures should the West move to confiscate the funds.

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Russian court orders seizure of $440mn from JPMorgan
Move follows lawsuit from state-owned bank VTB to recover funds held at America’s largest lender

A Russian court has ordered the seizure of JPMorgan Chase funds totalling $439.5mn a week after Kremlin-run lender VTB launched legal action against the largest US bank to recoup money stuck under Washington’s sanctions regime.

The move highlights some of the fallout western companies are feeling from the punitive measures against Moscow. It is also further evidence of the difficulties western lenders are encountering when trying to follow through with pledges to close their Russia operations since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The seizure order, published in the Russian court register on Wednesday, targets funds in JPMorgan’s accounts and shares in its Russian subsidiaries, according to the ruling issued by the arbitration court in St Petersburg. The assets had been frozen by authorities in the wake of the western sanctions.

The dispute centres around $439mn in funds that VTB held in a JPMorgan account in the US. When Washington imposed sanctions on the Kremlin-run bank, JPMorgan had to move the funds to a separate escrow account. Under the US sanctions regime, neither VTB nor JPMorgan can access the funds.

In response, VTB last week filed a lawsuit against the New York-based group to get Russian authorities to freeze the equivalent amount in Russia, warning that JPMorgan was seeking to leave Russia and would refuse to pay any compensation.

The following day, JPMorgan filed its own lawsuit against the Russian lender in a US court to prevent a seizure of its assets, arguing that it had no way to reclaim VTB’s stranded US funds to compensate its own potential losses from the Russian lawsuit.

JPMorgan and VTB declined to comment on the ruling.

When JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs announced their intention to close their Russia businesses, which made up just a small part of their worldwide operations, experts warned that any exit could take more than a year to accomplish. Other western banks including Citigroup, Italy’s UniCredit and Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International are still operating in Russia.

Since a decree issued in 2022, exiting Russia requires a greenlight from President Vladimir Putin himself. Seven banks — out of 45 then operating in the country — have been granted presidential approval, including Mercedes-Benz Bank, Ikano, J&T and Intesa.

In early 2022, Russia also banned shareholders from “unfriendly countries”, including the US, from withdrawing their dividends.

Last summer, a Russian court froze about $36mn worth of assets owned by Goldman following a lawsuit by state-owned bank Otkritie. A few months later the court ruled that the Wall Street investment bank had to pay the funds to Otkritie.

In March 2023, another Russian court seized $204mn worth of Volkswagen’s assets in Russia pending a lawsuit by its former partner Gaz Group, owned by sanctions-hit oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The assets were later unfrozen as VW received permission from the Russian authorities to sell its Russian business to Avilon, one of the country’s largest car dealers.

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Ukraine strikes Russian oil facilities
Ukrainian drones have targeted energy infrastructure in Russia’s Smolensk Region, local Governor Vasily Anokhin said on Wednesday morning.

“Our region is again under attack by Ukrainian UAVs,” Anokhin wrote on Telegram at around 5am local time, adding that Russian air defenses were responding to the situation.

The drone attack targeted “civilian fuel and energy facilities” and resulted in several fires in the Smolensky and Yartsevsky districts, according to the official. Firefighters are tackling the blaze, Anokhin added, urging the residents to remain calm.

Smolensk Region is around 300 kilometers southeast of Moscow and borders Belarus. The distance from the city of Smolensk to the border with Ukraine is 400km.

Ukraine attempted to bomb another undisclosed oil facility in Smolensk last week. The drones were downed, but debris fell onto a storage unit of oil and lubricants, resulting in a small fire, according to Anokhin.

On Saturday, Russian air defenses intercepted several Ukrainian drone raids across the western part of the country, destroying some 50 UAVs over the border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk, and also deeper into Russia – in Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga, and Moscow Regions.

Since January, Ukraine has launched a series of long-range attacks on Russian energy facilities, including oil depots and refineries, using kamikaze drones. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has suggested the strikes are meant to impress Kiev’s Western backers to compensate for a lack of progress on the frontline.

The Washington Post reported on Monday that US Vice President Kamala Harris met privately with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in February, telling him to refrain from targeting Russian oil refineries. President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly believes that such attacks could raise global energy prices and provoke a massive Russian retaliation.

According to the media outlet, the Ukrainian head of state “brushed off the recommendation.” Despite the US becoming more and more insistent over the following weeks, Kiev doubled down on its strategy.

[Michel Leclerc]

We're not getting anywhere by siding with any of the big governments present today.


I'm not.

I'm personally not concerned about governments and borders; window dressing.

I, however, and some others, do side with what might be called "cultures". One of those is the Religion of Jerusalem. It is my Friend. I don't agree with them. But I have found they "live well" in a way that I am comfortable sharing the planet with.

Unfortunately it has been disagreed with since the 200s by the Church of Rome in a way not conducive to sharing. Take the Fourth Crusade as an example.

European countries in the vast majority have kicked out or prevented the Religion of Jerusalem, and, not because they got an upgrade or anything I would consider for a flat second. Seems to be due to supremacism.

I am not "pro" Russia, Iran, or China in terms of governments or political systems or anything, what I mean is some of the aspects of culture held by some of the nicer people there. In place of what I would call the lack of culture established in my own system. Most of all I am against the geo-strategic meddling at the taxpayers' expense.

In the long run, "my system" has never been up for debate, and, these days are probably the force that is needed to break it.

It would disappoint Mr. Medvedev because we do not really have what it takes to split into multi-nations with opposing air forces and commit SMOs on each other. On the other hand, I don't see how it is going to continue unbroken, either.

Propaganda is a rhetoric designed to transfer Reputation from one side to another. In that sense, I am doing propaganda *for* the Religion of Jerusalem. Due to events, it is effectively centered in Moscow. That is why I automatically understand them much more easily than English speakers and most Europeans.

Thank you Shaberon. I agree with the essence of what you are defending, as always. I would maybe – but that is only a matter of words – substitute for the word and concept of “culture” (which in its etymological base means something like “turning around, encircling, taking care of”, and is related to “wheel”, “cycle”, “chakra" and “polis/politics” ) the word and concept of “civilisation” (meaning in its base “allowing humans to sleep together and make love”, and is related to “home”) because it is closer to essence — the religious consequence of it would be to try and aspire at “the depth of it” (the depth of religious ideas, concepts, words) or, in other words: the “esoteron” of it, i.e. the "more inward" aspect of them, the "esoteric" aspect of them..

If people would open themselves up to the "holy primitivity” of the words they use, they would never come to prefer their identifications with superficialities to “the depth of it all" – which teaches them that they are each other’s brothers and sisters – who can never become estranged from each other.

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What is Project Maven AI and how is it disappointing US?

Project Maven AI is US Defense Department’s flagship project that uses artificial intelligence to make decisions on the battlefield in lieu of humans.

The technology is being tested in the Ukraine conflict area, with Lt. Gen. Christopher Donahue, Commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, cynically calling Ukraine “our laboratory”.

In theory, the system is supposed to process data from multiple sources, including satellites, drones, and even social media accounts of Russian soldiers, before anticipating, detecting, and destroying enemy targets by generating swarms of GPA-guided missiles with little input from humans.

However, field commanders have complained of the system’s failure in delivering “the picture of the battlefield” to “soldiers in the trenches”, according the New York Times.

In addition, Bloomberg has reported that while soldiers can accurately identify a tank 84% of the time, Project Maven AI is only managing 60%, a figure that tanks to 30% in snowy environments.

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Unfortunately, as with any AI learning model, it is going to get better and better.

Skynet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)) is only a few years away.

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The US quietly shipped long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine
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WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - The United States in recent weeks secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine for use in its battle to fight off Russian invaders, and Ukraine has now used them twice, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

The missiles were contained in a $300 million military aid package for Ukraine that U.S. President Joe Biden approved on March 12, said the U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official would not say how many of the missiles were sent.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, at a briefing for reporters, confirmed that a "significant number" of the missiles had been sent to Ukraine and said "we will send more."

He said Ukraine has committed to only use the weapons inside Ukraine, not in Russia.

Some of the missiles were contained in a $1 billion weapons package for Ukraine that President Joe Biden approved on Wednesday, Sullivan said.

The missiles were used for the first time in the early hours of April 17, launched against a Russian airfield in Crimea that was about 165 km (103 miles) from the Ukrainian front lines, the official said.

The official said Ukraine used the weapon a second time overnight against Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine.

Whether to send the Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) with a range up to 300 km was a subject of debate within the Biden administration for months. Mid-range ATACMS were supplied last September.

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...substitute for the word and concept of “culture” (which in its etymological base means something like “turning around, encircling, taking care of”, and is related to “wheel”, “cycle”, “chakra" and “polis/politics” ) the word and concept of “civilisation” (meaning in its base “allowing humans to sleep together and make love”, and is related to “home”) because it is closer to essence — the religious consequence of it would be to try and aspire at “the depth of it” (the depth of religious ideas, concepts, words) or, in other words: the “esoteron” of it, i.e. the "more inward" aspect of them, the "esoteric" aspect of them..

If people would open themselves up to the "holy primitivity” of the words they use, they would never come to prefer their identifications with superficialities to “the depth of it all" – which teaches them that they are each other’s brothers and sisters – who can never become estranged from each other.



The two are close; this is the main usage I am working from:


Culture --> Nation

Civilization --> State


"Culture" in this sense having a primary meaning of shared language and similar diet.

A "state" is a physical area defined by a border, which may house any kind of individuals. It is a legal entity, with no straightforward basis in nature.

My understanding is that "civitas" is in distinction to "state of nature"; there is an agreement where a person sacrifices some freedoms and takes on some responsibilities. Whereas you could have a shamanic culture, or one of the essentially lawless decisions of petty kings, a civilization is a type of bond over the res publica or "public things", a broader agreement than the words of one individual.

The "wheel-like" aspect of culture is represented in some of the early Renaissance paintings, which appear to show the civic person in "new roles" that are colorful, sportive, and conversational, above and beyond what is considered a "muddy and drab" lifestyle.

My issue and argument is with relatively recent political documents that confound "Nation" and "State". You can't call America a "Nation" without making a very narrow WASP-centric meaning of it. Moreover, it represents, and causes, the loss of culture. Therefor, I, personally, dovetailed into others, which in the long run prove to be mostly Japanese and Indian. In this thread, we have featured a number of American individuals who have emigrated to Russia for this very purpose, in some cases by re-joining the root of Christianity. One of them, Father Joseph Gleason (http://www.pravoslavie.ru/srpska/print111566.htm), so strongly resembles the one that ran the Mission I visited, I had to track down all of his possible bio's to eliminate the possibility he had ever lived in my area. Different person. Went over around 2017:


All Roads Lead to the Third Rome

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So that link has the basics about his conversion; here is a video chat from 2023 (https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/333498-story-of-american-orthodox-christian-priest). Overall, his satisfaction sounds like that of the farmers.

That is the Greek sphere or culture, which has no reason to particularly answer to Latinisms.

Correspondingly it uses the term and office Metropolitan Bishop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_bishop).

One could almost exactly map the conflict of east and west according to the performance of Bishops.

In most places such as France, the Roman Empire tended to leave local officials such as magistrates and earls intact. What they installed was a system of Bishops. Naturally, post-Empire, this hive is self-propagating. And it has a vested interest, more like "preaching to the congregation", rather than "supporting the community". Followed with its own re-education.

Then you still have problems such as Bishops as Electors in Germany well into the modern conflicts.

At the very least, the "polis" culture is very different from the "non-polis", Bishops being a type of interface between "the elite and the masses", which has worked differently in these two spheres.

In the area of Toulouse, we find the first known "privatization of public infrastructure", i. e., several miles of a navigable river, converted to property transferable to heirs and assigns in the 800s. Prior to Industrialization, the main aggravator of such corporatocracy was "de Nimes" or "denim", a commodity featuring majority ownership also in southeastern France. Currently, the land and infrastructure of Ukraine is in a dubious corporate ownership. Russia, on the other hand, has clamped down on "vampirism".

The Greek civilization is, I suppose, still Bavarian, if it chooses pro-western policies that often lack public support.

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According to a source close to the security forces, in addition to Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, three more people were detained. Investigations are currently underway.

Preliminary info is that, all are employees of the Ministry of Defense/state structures.

Ivanov himself was guarded by an elite special unit that was authorised open fire on anyone who tried to detain Ivanov.

The only place where he was without protection was a meeting with the top leadership of the country where he was detained


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🇷🇺 The Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation was sent to a pre-trial detention center until June 23, 2024

Timur Ivanov received a bribe while carrying out contract and subcontract work for the needs of the Ministry of Defense

Sergey Borodin, was sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months

According to the investigation, Borodin, as well as Ivanov, has been charged with committing the specified crime
Part 6 of Art. 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation



Here's Simplicius The Thinker's take on this from today's published article (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-42424-comedown-after-post). I expect it's pretty well on the mark as well :muscle:



The other more likely explanation goes as follows:

The beginning of neat purges before the counter-offensive of the Russian army...

Apparently, the Kremlin will trample all-in, which is why it is giving a clear signal to the entire power vertical (including Shoigu’s group) to mobilize.

Mobilize - take care of your direct obligations, and also clearly understand the fact that for every failure you will have to pay not with the careers of middle echelon representatives - subordinates, but with your own head.

Some believe that Putin had planned to do a mass purge of all the corrupt after his inauguration on May 7th, when his hands are more freed politically. This could be a final purge of any remaining corrupt, 6th columnist, and liberal factions before plunging the SMO into a new phase of the expected large-scale offensives to come.

Furthermore, as the above hints, it could be a final message-sending attempt to everyone involved on the eve of these coming military escalations. While on the surface it may seem like an embarrassing or damaging mark on Russia’s or the MOD’s reputation, in fact the news thus far has been taken with great excitement among the Russian forces, elevating morale. It sends a message that Russia is cleaning up all corruption, and that even the highest levels of the military echelons, to the “fat cat suits” of the defense ministry, are not immune to consequences and accountability for fraud, deception, betrayal, and treason.

This is why I believe the optics of carting off Ivanov to the court room glass cage in full military general regalia were very deliberate. It was a message sent to the public that the time has come to tighten the belt and allow no more leeway for corruption and betrayal, no matter who you are.

This powerful image will resonate very well with the armed forces.

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Interestingly, there was a ‘rumor’ that Ivanov was at the center of the MOD’s calamitous friction with the Wagner group, though I haven’t been able to corroborate that just yet. Of course, it wouldn’t be surprising if two corrupt mafia bosses squared off over the leavings on the table. Anticipating the next logical challenge, I can already say that concern trolls will use this instance to declare that “Prigozhin (and Strelkov) was right all along, the MOD is a corrupt gang”, etc., etc. But any corruption within the MOD does not absolve Prigozhin’s own proven corruption. It just so happens that Prigozhin was a much more charismatic actor and salesman of his deeds, and thus comes across as the quintessential ‘folk hero’ of the saga, when the truth is far more granular than that.

Either way, this stir has the potential to shake things up in even bigger ways than we realize, and could be the start of something much bigger, good or bad, though in my estimations it’s extremely good and feels like it marks a new change in ethos of the entire country.



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OK, posted 20 hours or so ago (so April 24th) Lukashenko has approved the positioning of 300,000 Belarussian troops to protect their borders.

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🇧🇾 Alexander Lukashenko: We are facing a NATO threat. So, we are face to face with NATO on our western borders. A plan to deploy a military group of 300,000 soldiers on the eastern flank of the bloc has been approved.

Source: https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1783123885875155118

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[Tintin]

Gentle :bump: as the PDFs now do load following DNS repairs now effected by The Pythonic Cow, for any of you interested in the CIA history. Now time-stamped for today.

Probably one of the most important historical resources concerning the history of Ukraine. This document: AERODYNAMIC VOL.9 (DEVELOPMENT AND PLANS)_0001.pdf (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/CIA_Project_Aerodynamic/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%209%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%209%20%20%28DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS%29_0001.pdf) runs to 25 pages and I've extracted some of the passages from the first two pages here that should I hope cement in the minds of anybody reading this, both member and guest, the depth of the collaboration and of course its real origins.

Embedded are the first two pages of this document.

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DESIGNATION: TOP SECRET CONTROL
TYPE: OPERATIONAL MEMORANDUM
DATE: INFO. November 1946
DISTRIBUTED: 27 December 1946
COUNTRY: UKRAINE
SUBJECT: OPERATION BELLADONNA
ORIGIN: Amzon
SOURCE: KILKENNY

A. HISTORY OF THE OPERATION

1. Operation Belladonna originated in April 1946 with the introduction
of source to members of the Oriental (Catholic) Church familiar
with Eastern affairs. Through Father Ivo Zeigar at that time
special adviser to the chief of-the Vatican Mission to USFET at
Kronberg, source was introduced to Father Diaczisyn , formerly also
on the staff of the-Vatican Mission but then in'Rome. Through
Diaczisyn in Rome, source met the Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Buczko,
adviser to the Vatican on Ukrainian affairs and a long standing
member of Ukrainian nationalist movements, who supplied information
and introductions to other informants. Eventually both BuCzko and
Diaczisyn withdrew as active contacts, after sending source on to a
leader of the Ukrainian organization in Germany, Vasily Mudry,
former vice-president of the Polish Sejm. After considerable contact with source, Mudry also withdrew from the operation, on the grounds that, although he is a vice-president of UHVE, he s only an overt Ukrainian political representative and does not deal with any secret affairs. He passed source on to the real leaders, 'Father Ivan Hrinioch' and Yury Lopatinsky who accorded source their confidence and agreed to collaborate on intelligence operations.

2. Contact was thus established with the UHVE for the purpose of
obtaining intelligence concerning the USSR and Soviet operations at
home and abroad. - It was understood from the beginning that the
Ukrainians considered themselves not agents but collaborators of
the Americans and that their subordinate agents should remain
ignorant of the American aspects of their work. On this basis,
contact has been maintained with the representatives of the UHVR at
the highest level: Hrinioch, Lopatinsky, and Lebed. An additional
contact is a Ukrainian, Michael Korzan, an ABN representative in
Austria, whom source employs as an informant and liaison man.
Source is known by his real name to Hrinioch, Mudry, Buczko, and Lebed
but with Hrinioch he also uses the name Dr. Felix Novak and
with Lebed Dr. Micheli. Incidental information has been supplied
by Mudry, Bishop Buczko, Father Diaczisyn, and other less prominent
Ukrainians.

After mutual confidence had been established, Hrinioch delivered to source
two long, detailed reports on Ukrainian centers as well as much other information,
and agreed to furnish agents to enter the Ukraine. A questionnaire submitted to Lopatinsky in May 1946, however, was not answered owing to the UHVR group's understanding that they were to deal directly with source and with no one else in his absence. That difficulty was resolved, and satisfactory arrangements were made for contacts through other means in source's absence. The work of selecting and preparing agents continued, although source has not been in contact with Hrinioch for several weeks. One agent (Basil) was briefed and dispatched from Bayreuth
in October, arrived at Przemysl, and is expected to return soon, A second agent, intended for Poland, went only as far as Vienna because of the lack of necessary documents and has returned to Munich to await further assignment.

(Tintin: there is no 3. bullet - an error/typo - and next para continues labelled 4.)

4. Background and personnel of the UHVE are discussed in Sections B
and E respectively, and their future operation plans in Section D,
Most of the information on personnel and organizations was supplied
by the members of R-33 (see below) and the operational plans were
also supplied by them. In reference, R-33 means primarily,
Hrinioch, Lebed, and Lopatinsky.

Link: https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/1946-12-27_AERODYNAMIC_VOL.9_DEVELOPMENT_AND_PLANS_0001_TS_Op_memo_page_1.pdf

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/1946-12-27_AERODYNAMIC_VOL.9_DEVELOPMENT_AND_PLANS_0001_TS_Op_memo_page_1.pdf


Link: https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/1946-12-27_AERODYNAMIC_VOL.9_DEVELOPMENT_AND_PLANS_0001_TS_Op_memo_page_2.pdf

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/1946-12-27_AERODYNAMIC_VOL.9_DEVELOPMENT_AND_PLANS_0001_TS_Op_memo_page_2.pdf

[Tintin]

OK, posted 20 hours or so ago (so April 24th) Lukashenko has approved the positioning of 300,000 Belarussian troops to protect their borders.

Text here:


🇧🇾 Alexander Lukashenko: We are facing a NATO threat. So, we are face to face with NATO on our western borders. A plan to deploy a military group of 300,000 soldiers on the eastern flank of the bloc has been approved.

Source: https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1783123885875155118

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Um, this doesn't look good at all :flower:

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BREAKING

Head of the KGB (?) Ivan Tertel has just confirmed the Lithuanian Drone Attack on Belarus

He said the “Belarusian Special Services prevented drone strikes from Lithuanian Territory on Minsk”

Source: https://twitter.com/mrbarnicoat/status/1783459882705809450

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https://x.com/RT_com/status/1783454218906391027

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https://www.rt.com/russia/596559-belarus-lithuania-drone-attack/

Belarus reveals alleged plot to attack Minsk from EU
Security forces in Belarus have prevented a plot to launch combat drones from Lithuania and attack targets in and near the capital, Minsk, the head of the Committee for State Security (KGB) Ivan Tertel has revealed.

The operation took place “recently” and in cooperation with “colleagues from other security structures,” the senior official said on Thursday, as he was delivering a speech to the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, a leading political body.

The senior official told members of the assembly that his agency has concerns regarding the further escalation of tensions in the world, potentially leading to a “conflict of a global scale.” Belarus would prefer to remain peaceful and independent, but its sovereignty and status as a close Russian ally “make it the target of the West’s destructive intentions,” he noted.

The US and its allies seek full control of Belarus and its national wealth, Tertel claimed. Lithuania, as well as Poland and Ukraine, host militant forces, which Western nations intend to use as tools against Belarus; to destabilize it and potentially topple its government, he warned.

“The radicals are producing combat drones to deliver strikes on critical sites in Belarus,” Tertel claimed.

He said his agency was not in a position yet to make public details about the plot to attack Minsk, but assured that “we continue the work on this issue.”

Since the beginning of 2023, the agency has put a stop to over 40 criminal operations, which sought to smuggle weapons, including explosives, from Ukraine into Belarus, Tertel reported.

He said Ukrainian special services were behind multiple attempted terrorist attacks in Belarus and Russia, and the threat remained a “daily reality for members of the border guard, interior affairs and state security.”

The Ukrainian government has plans to use Belarusian nationals to seize territory and install a Western-backed government, the KGB chief claimed. The agency estimates the strength of the would-be occupation force at 1,000 troops.

Tertel identified a specific hospital in Kiev, which he claimed served as a base of operations for the Ukrainian-backed radicals.






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❗️The Belarusian opposition and its curators plan to seize the Kobrin district, located near the border with Ukraine, declare a new government and contact NATO about sending troops, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said.

The opposition is planning cyber attacks on the nuclear power plant and critical infrastructure, provoking disasters in production and railways, the head of Belarus' KGB added.


https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1783454023825170475

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1783537597542715758

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⚡️ Pentagon instructors arrive in Ukraine

"In addition to missiles, Pentagon military instructors disguised as advisers from the US Embassy in Kiev have arrived in the AFU," said Leonid Ivlev, a State Duma deputy from the Crimea region,

He added that in this way the US is becoming more and more involved in the conflict in Ukraine.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1783512057955975584

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https://x.com/RT_com/status/1783486116273762748

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https://www.rt.com/news/596546-atacms-us-ukraine-antonov/

Moscow reacts to secret US delivery of ATACMS missiles to Kiev
The long-range ATACMS missiles that the US has supplied to Ukraine will not help Kiev turn the tide of the conflict against Moscow despite “extremely dangerous weapons,” Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has said.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden had ordered the provision of Kiev with a “significant” number of ATACMS missiles for use inside Ukraine back in February. The ATACMS, which have a range of 300km, “were transferred quietly to Ukraine in order to maintain operational security,” Pentagon spokesman Major Charlie Dietz stressed.

The delivery of long-range missiles to Kiev is “impossible to justify,” Antonov wrote in a post on Telegram on Thursday. The move by Washington “increases the threat to the security of Crimea, including Sevastopol, the new Russian regions [the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions] and other Russian cities,” he added.

The assurances by the US officials that the long-range missiles will not be used against Russian territory are “particularly cynical,” the ambassador stressed. “How can we ignore the numerous terrorist attacks by Kiev’s criminals? Deadly strikes on hospitals, schools, kindergartens, bridges and even their own servicemen?”

Antonov reminded that the Russian forces have already shot down mid-range ATACMS missiles, which Ukraine had received last September. The same will happen with their long-range counterparts, he assured, adding that “neither these missiles nor other weapons can help defeat Russia.”

“Aren’t local politicians [in the US] afraid of drowning in the quagmire of conflict? Washington will not be able to get out of the horrible swamp that has absorbed the blood of ordinary soldiers,” the ambassador warned.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed to the fact that Washington’s acknowledgement of the delivery of long-range ATACMS to Ukraine comes amid attempts by Kiev and its Western backers to “deceive the international community into some kind of conference on the ‘Zelensky formula’.”

“Washington’s plan is sickeningly simple: drag everyone into a pointless meeting under the pretext of ‘peaceful intentions’, while at the same time boosting [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s terrorist potential,” she said on Telegram.

Switzerland said earlier this month that it is going to host a peace conference on Ukraine in June, without Russia’s participation.

READ MORE: Pentagon’s ‘new’ Ukraine aid package was spent months ago – Politico
Zelensky’s plan for ending the conflict, which he has been promoting since 2022, calls for Russia to withdraw from all territory held by Ukraine prior to 2014, for Moscow to pay reparations, and for the formation of a war crimes tribunal. Russia instantly rejected the plan as “unrealistic” and a sign of Ukraine’s unwillingness to look for a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

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https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1783336200620622185

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https://tass.com/politics/1780283?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share


Transfer of US ATACMS missiles to Ukraine cannot be justified — Russian ambassador

"Neither these missiles nor other weapons can help defeat the Russian Federation," Anatoly Antonov said

WASHINGTON, April 25. /TASS/. The "underhand" transfer of US ATACMS missiles to Ukraine cannot be justified as it increases security threats to Crimea and other Russian regions, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said.

"Local officials 'retroactively' confirmed the fact that extremely dangerous weapons had been sent to Kiev," he said in a commentary posted on the embassy’s Telegram channel. "It is obvious that the transfer of ATACMS to the [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky regime increases the threat to the security of Crimea, including Sevastopol, new Russian regions and other Russian cities."

He slammed the US’ assurances that the Ukrainian military allegedly promised not to use missiles against targets in Russia as "particularly cynical." "Who should be reassured by such lies? How can we ignore the numerous terrorist attacks by Kiev’s criminals? Deadly strikes on hospitals, schools, kindergartens, bridges and even their own servicemen?" he said, adding that even US media, "which are far from being in our favor, recognize the duplicity of the "puppets" and their attacks on Russian cities."

He recalled that Russian forces have already shot down several ATACMS missiles and will continue doing this. "Neither these missiles nor other weapons can help defeat the Russian Federation," he stressed.

"Washington will not be able to get out of the horrible swamp that has absorbed the blood of ordinary soldiers," he added.

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https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1783374934095335677

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https://tass.com/politics/1780293


Potential nuclear facilities in Poland to be military target for Russia — senior diplomat

According to Sergey Ryabkov, discussions around the deployment of NATO nuclear facilities in Poland are an "unfolding story"
MOSCOW, April 25. /TASS/. NATO nuclear facilities, if permanently deployed in Poland, will be a military target for Russia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS.

He warned that joint nuclear missions of NATO countries close to the Russian border add to the treats to Russia’s security.

"Let alone permanent deployment hotheads in Warsaw are speaking about," Ryabkov said. "That is why all those politician who are discussing such an option in and outside Poland should understand: any steps in this direction will not add to Poland’s security and relevant facilities will inevitably be a target. And they will be in the fore in our military planning."

According to the senior Russian diplomat, discussions around the deployment of NATO nuclear facilities in Poland are an "unfolding story." He stressed that Moscow is keeping a close eye on how "various bodies of Poland’s executive branch "are mulling this topic in their domestic discourse."

In an interview with the Fakt newspaper on Sunday, Duda said that Poland is ready to deploy nuclear warheads under NATO’s Nuclear Sharing program. According to the Polish president, he has discussed this matter with US partners more than once.

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🇺🇸 💰🇺🇦The US Congress approved aid to America and debt bondage to Ukraine - Al Jazeera

▪️ Americans will spend more than half of the new aid package for Ukraine on themselves. Kiev will receive a small part of the $61 billion allocated as a loan. The “aid package” can only be called debt bondage for Ukraine, states Al Jazeera

▪️ The assistance package provided in the form of a loan includes the following items:
— $23.2 billion — replenishment of our own stocks of weapons and ammunition to replace those already supplied to Ukraine
— $13.8 billion — purchase of advanced weapons systems and other military equipment from American contractors and other countries
— $11 billion — funding for current military operations of the US Armed Forces in the region
— $7.85 billion — direct budget support for Ukraine

▪️ Aid will begin to arrive in Ukraine only in the second half of June, after all bureaucratic procedures are completed

▪️“The new American aid package to Kiev will bury the Ukrainian economy and deprive the country of its future - this is debt bondage from which there is no escape ,” Al Jazeera emphasizes

DDgeopolitics

https://x.com/dana916/status/1783509334774743301

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I figured I’d put the international funding for the Ukrainians for 2024-2025 into perspective. Based on the tracking sources, funding for periods 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 amounted to approximately $200 billion. On top of this, funding for the months we don’t yet have clear figures for, late 2023 through early 2024 amounted to about a $1 billion per month, so we can say that the Ukrainians received about $210 billion up until the latest funding bills. Earlier this year, the EU approved an addition $50 in multiyear funding, and the latest American aid bill allocates $61 billion. Along with other bits and bobs, we can say that, as far as we know, funding for the Ukrainians for 2024-2025 will amount to approximately $120 billion. I know many will shout, “But the majority of this money is not going TO the Ukraine, but rather to weapons contractors, international support organizations, and aid organizations, with much of it going to economic and public spending and only a small portion going to military funding.” However, the same can be said about the earlier funding packages. For the sake of argument, I’ll assume that the composition of the latest round of funding will be like the earlier rounds, for the sake of giving the AFU the benefit of the doubt.

Therefore, the latest round of funding brings the financial resources and support for the Ukraine back to the average for the previous two years. However, a lot has changed over that time. The amount that Russia is committing to its armed forces has doubled since 2022, and has increased dramatically since 2023 (2022: $75 billion, 2023: $110 billion, 2024: $150 billion). The RF now has a much more capable system of military production and has reformed its tactics and strategies to conform to the new realities of modern warfare. Further, the number of soldiers that the RF has in theater has increased by multiples since 2022.

What we can conclude is that the same amount of funding, even assuming the composition is the same, will simply not be able to stop the Russian advances, and it definitely won’t last long enough to fund the theorized “renewed Ukrainian offensive” of 2025. Another round of funding will be necessary just to keep the lights on for next year. For a Ukrainian 2025 offensive to even be on the table, they will need another round of funding packages. According to everything that I’ve seen, the bare minimum necessary for the Ukrainians to retake their lost territories in 2025 will be what I call “The 3X Plan.” Basically, $300 billion, 300k shells delivered per month, 30k new recruits ABOVE losses per month (60k in total), 300 F 16s, and 300 tanks delivered per month. This is a political non starter to say the least.

https://x.com/vestnik_russia/status/1783507974553563250

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From the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation dated April 25, 2024.

Enemy losses yesterday were:
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⏺ 1000 military personnel
⏺ 4 armored vehicles
⏺ 19 artillery systems and MLRS
⏺ 14 units of special vehicles
⏺ 200 UAVs
⏺ five electronic warfare stations: “Nota”, “Enclave”, “Bukovel-AD”
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Two ammunition depots were destroyed in the Donetsk direction.
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The manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the formations of the Foreign Legion mercenaries, were affected.

#summary
🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1783558068153798722

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"New attacks were carried out on the enemy’s railway infrastructure: the target of the Russian Armed Forces was the railway line in Balakleya, running from Kharkov towards Donbass.

The strike on the railway track in the Kharkov region was the third today carried out on the Ukrainian railway: reducing the possibility of transporting ammunition and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the front line, Russian troops struck the railway facilities in the area of the village. Udachnoe village (DPR) and Smela, Cherkasy region."

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https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1783556184823169035

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US Ukr Package Falls Short;
Rus Advance Accelerates, Ukr Admits Retreats;
China Tough On Blinken

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https://x.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1783529832401281507

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Text translation,
Your idols are dying in droves, so much so that they are literally kidnapping men in the streets. They are even suspending passports and trying to deport the poor people who are abroad to Ukraine. Your liver explodes and I enjoy it 🤩

https://x.com/SamashBlack87/status/1783508356851745257

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🇷🇺🇲🇩Moldova's Opposition Forms 'Victory' Bloc with Gagauzia, is Sending a Signal to Europe and NATO

In Moldova, opposition groups have signed an agreement to form the "Victory" bloc, including the and four other parties. Gagauzia has also joined the bloc. This move sends a signal to both Europe and NATO.

The "Moldova-Romania" project is important for NATO to ensure its presence on the Black Sea. NATO needs access to the ports of Odessa, which are hindered by Transnistria and Moldova. Russia opposes this project and is taking countermeasures.

Moscow is signaling to Moldova the possibility of a political settlement through the opposition, emphasizing the importance of maintaining control over Odessa.

InfoDefenseENGLISH

https://x.com/dana916/status/1783603200085369064

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The Mauthausen Committee Austria has refused to allow delegations from Russia and Belarus to participate in the commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi-run concentration camp in Mauthausen, the Russian embassy in Austria said.

The organizers of the official events also discouraged members of Russian expat communities in Austria, who represented Russia during anniversary events at the camp in 2022-2023, from attending this year's celebration, the embassy added.

"Preserving the memory of the innocent victims of the 'brown plague' and thousands of Red Army soldiers who laid down their lives on the altar of liberating Austria from Nazism is the sacred duty of all Russian diplomats. There can be no doubt that we will worthily implement our own 'memory watch' in Mauthausen this time as well, with the help of Russian compatriot organizations and all concerned individuals, and properly mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp. No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten," the embassy said.

It further slammed the Austrian organization's decision as "political games" abusing the memory of the victims of Nazism, rejecting the move as "categorically unacceptable."

Russian diplomats described the MKO's "mock readiness" to welcome former inmates of the camp, their relatives or organizations of victims from Russia at the event as "the pinnacle of cynicism."

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1783599208273993821

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[Tintin]

Cross-posting from the 2024 US Election thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120811-The-2024-US-POTUS-Election&p=1610858&viewfull=1#post1610858) as it's more subject specific to that, but, still has some relevance here:

CIA Bot Farms running out of Kiev


"I honestly tried to convince myself it's Okay since Biden is clearly a better option for Ukraine, but it was just too much for me… One thing is to work for the best interests of my country, but interfering in US politics is a whole other thing.” - Olesya

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Our community won't be too surprised by this revelation, but, crack open the popcorn and endure this little gem of an exposé :popcorn:

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⚠️🚨BREAKING: CIA Operates Troll Farms in Kyiv to Influence American Voters and To Assure Biden’s 2024 Win.

A former employee of one of the Kyiv troll factories owned by the head of Zelensky’s office, Andriy Yermak, spoke about how the interference in the upcoming American elections is taking place in Ukraine with the help of the CIA. According to the source, the purpose of the interference is to ensure Biden’s victory over Trump. A former employee showed a video taken inside a troll factory, as well as several photos, guidelines and a list of accounts that trolls use to influence the American voters.

“Long story short we were asked to do everything to prevent Donald Trump from winning the elections. So basically, this topic was added to our main lines of work.

Since then, each of us had to post at least 3 to 5 posts daily posing as the Americas and Europeans, criticizing Donald Trump and praising Biden.

The Americans have even organized a few lectures for us to get a better understanding of American politics, the American mindset the main social and political issues.

Then we were occupied with the topics for the job which sounded like this:

1.Unlike Trump, Biden is a smart and experienced politician.

2. Unlike Trump, Biden will never betray NATO partners. Trump will alienate our partners.

3. Biden will not abandon Ukraine. Biden will protect democracy, while Trump is Putin's puppet.

I honestly tried to convince myself it's Okay since Biden is clearly a better option for Ukraine, but it was just too much for me… One thing is to work for the best interests of my country, but interfering in US politics is a whole other thing.”

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https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2024-04-26_Former_employee_Olesya_confirms_CIA_Operates_Troll_Farms_in_Kiev_to_Influence_American_Voters_and _To_Assure_Biden_2024_Win.mp4

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The Polish President Revealed That Foreign Companies Own Most Of Ukraine’s Industrial Agriculture

https://korybko.substack.com/p/the-polish-president-revealed-that

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🇺🇦🇷🇺WELT showed an agreement that could end the war in Ukraine

▪️The peaceful solution followed from the draft agreement, which both warring parties agreed upon by April 15, 2022. Only a few points remained open. They were supposed to be discussed personally by Putin and Zelensky at a meeting that never took place.
▪️According to this document, Ukraine obliged:
➖ observe “permanent neutrality”, i.e., renounce membership in a military alliance, including NATO;
➖ abandon the production and receipt of nuclear weapons, do not allow foreign troops into the country and do not allow weapons to pass through;
➖ do not provide your infrastructure, including airfields and seaports, to other countries;
➖ refrain from conducting military exercises with foreign participation and from participating in any military conflicts;
➖ legally prohibit “fascism, Nazism and aggressive nationalism” .
▪️Russia pledged not to attack Ukraine anymore;
➖ in the event of an attack, the guarantor countries would be obliged to support Ukraine within 3 days;
➖ parts of the DPR and LPR would remain with Russia. Crimea and the port of Sevastopol were excluded from security guarantees, which, in fact, meant the transfer of the peninsula to the Russian Federation.
▪️During the negotiations, Russia announced its readiness to withdraw troops from Ukraine, but not from Crimea and part of Donbass. The heads of state were supposed to discuss the details of the troop withdrawal directly.
▪️The issue of the future number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also remained unresolved.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1783938063820890153

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‼️🇷🇺The Russian army broke through the enemy’s defenses in the Kharkov region, occupying almost half of Kislovka
▪️During the offensive operation that began a day ago, units of the “West” group of troops knocked out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from several lines of defense and broke into Kislovka, occupying about half of the settlement in the Kupyansky district.
▪️The assault on the village continues, our artillery is actively working against the enemy. Cluster bombs were also used to break through defensive lines.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1783937710522003586

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

20–27 April 2024

▫️ From 20 April to 27 April 2024, in response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage Russia's energy and industrial facilities, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out 35 group strikes by high-precision sea- and air-launched missiles, including Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles to hit Ukrainian power industry, military and railway enterprises, air defense systems, arsenals, fuel bases, manufacturing and repair facilities for uncrewed surface vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

In addition, temporary deployment areas of nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries, clusters of AFU manpower and military hardware were hit at railway loading stations.

▫️ Over the past week, the Zapad Group of Forces units have taken more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on 13 brigades of the enemy close to Glushkovka, Petropavlovka, Sinkovka (Kharkov region), Novoyegorovka, Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.

Nine counter-attacks launched by the 12th Azov Special Forces Brigade, the 3rd Assault, the 63rd Mechanized brigades of the AFU, as well as the 12th and 18th national guard brigades of Ukraine have been repelled near Chervonaya Dibrova, Novovodyanoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Grigorovka and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 255 Ukrainian troops, three armored fighting vehicles, 21 motor vehicles, 27 field artillery guns, including five U.S.-made M777 howitzers, as well as two U.S.-made counter-battery warfare stations (AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ-50).

▫️The Yug Group's units liberated Novomikhailovka and Bogdanovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and advanced into the depths of the enemy's defence.

In addition, two AFU air-mobile, four assault, and ten mechanized brigades have been hit near Andreyevka, Belogorovka, Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka, Maksimilyanovka, Minkovka, Paraskoviyevka, Spornoye, and Ostroye (Donetsk People's Republic).

In addition, 19 counter-attacks launched by assault groups of the 46th Airmobile, 80th Air Assault, 28th, 33rd, 41st, and 93rd mechanized brigades have been repelled close to Bogdanovka, Georgiyevka, Pobeda, Krasnogorovka, Chasov Yar, and west of Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy has lost more than 3,890 Ukrainian troops, four tanks, nine armored fighting vehicles, 51 motor vehicles, 22 field artillery guns, including one Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and five U.S.-made M777 howitzers in this direction during the week.

In addition, 17 electronic warfare stations (Nota, Anklav, Bukovel-AD) and 22 field ammunition depots of the enemy have been wiped out.

▫️As a result of successful actions, the Tsentr Group of Forces has improved the situation along the front line, inflicted fire damage on 12 brigades of the AFU and repelled 63 enemy counter-attacks close to Leninskoye, Novgorodskoye, Novokalinovo, Ocheretino, Berdychi, Umanskoye, and Netailovo (Donetsk People's Republic).

More than 2,950 Ukrainian troops, 33 armoured fighting vehicles, 33 motor vehicles, 29 field artillery guns, with six of them foreign-made, as well as five electronic warfare stations (Nota and Bukovel-AD) have been eliminated during the week.

▫️The Vostok Group of Forces has improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on the formations of the 58th Mechanized Brigade, 102nd, 106th, 128th territorial defense brigades, and 1st Ukrainian National Guard Brigade near Ugledar, Urozhaynoye, Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic), Chervonoye, and Gulyai Pole (Zaporozhye region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 825 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, seven armored fighting vehicles, 28 motor vehicles, 11 field artillery guns, including nine U.S.-made howitzers, five electronic warfare stations (Nota, Anklav, Bukovel-AD), and four field ammunition depots.

▫️The Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of five brigades of the AFU, the Marines Brigade, three territorial defense brigades, as well as on the Ukrainian National Guard brigade close to Malaya Tokmachka, Rabotino, Novoandreyevka, Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Mikhailovka, Ivanovka, and Berislav (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 360 Ukrainian troops, one armored fighting vehicle, 30 motor vehicles, and 20 field artillery guns, including eight U.S.-made M777 howitzers.

The Missile Troops and Artillery and unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Groups of Forces have obliterated one MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force on its home airfield; eight HIMARS, Vampire, and Grad MLRS combat vehicles; one S-300PS SAM launcher with a command post and radar; two HAWK and Osa-AKM SAM combat vehicles; and two radar stations (P-18 and Pelikan).

Aviation and air defense units shot down Mig-29 and Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 18 French-made Hammer guided bombs, one Tochka-U tactical missile, 35 projectiles of HIMARS, Olkha, and Uragan, as well as 1,659 unmanned aerial vehicles during the week.

Over the past week, 15 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered.

In total, 593 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 23,541 unmanned aerial vehicles, 509 air defense missile systems, 15,864 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,275 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 9,167 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 21,336 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Russian Defense Ministry


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People don't realize just how dangerous this rhetoric is. This is in effect the US demanding China become hostile to Russia by stopping to supply items that "power its industrial base"... meaning asking China to join the West in trying to weaken Russia as a country.

As a reminder this is exactly the reason why during WW2 Japan went to war with the US: the US at some point stopped supplying oil to Japan and this directly led to Pearl Harbor. Countries typically don't take it very constructively when you're trying to strangle them economically...

The worst part is that the only rational they give China for doing this is 100% stick and 0% carrot: "if you don't do this we in turn will be even more aggressive towards you than we've been to date". With of course, in the back of China's mind the knowledge that the US's calculus is that they want to be done with Russia in order to fully concentrate on containing them.

So they're presenting China with a completely lose-lose proposition: be hostile to your neighbor now so we can contain you faster down the line, or don't be hostile to your neighbor and we'll ramp up our containment now. How attractive is that? 🙃

China will of course not start being hostile to Russia, in fact if anything this will convince them that the US is even more unhinged and unreasonable that they thought.

It's very hard to predict what they'll do... An ideal scenario for China would be to secure peace in Ukraine on terms that are agreeable to all except the US, weakens the transatlantic alliance and unites Eurasia. By the way, objectively speaking this would also be the best scenario for Europe's interests because it stands to reason that a long-term Korea-style divide with Russia would be a complete disaster. President Xi is going to Europe shortly and I am ready to bet he'll argue for something along these lines. But the thing is that he'll be speaking to Europeans who, if anything, are even less reasonable than Americans so I don't think we can be very optimistic about that prospect...

The more realistic scenario is that China does nothing and reacts to additional hostile measures against it in ways that weaken the US more than it weakens them. Some sort of Kung Fu move where you use your opponent's strength against them. For instance the US floated the idea of expelling Chinese banks from the global financial system: China, the biggest trading partner of almost all countries, can then say "from now on to trade with us, you need to use our system", which would be a big blow to the US dollar's status as the world's preeminent currency.

All in all, we're well and truly in Cold War 2, which is pretty sad. Just like WW1 was really different from WW2, Cold War 2 is different from the first one: this time it's not an ideological competition between 2 blocs, but it is still a war in all respects except a direct military fight between the world's 2 largest great powers, which is what makes it a cold war.

The key cause is because the US cannot bear to lose its global hegemony and wants to restore a unipolar order where they call the shots and try to transform the world in their own image... which is the very reason why it's a 100% certainty they won't succeed: to win a cold war you need to convince a significant share of the world that your cause is worthy and this is anything but. The whole world saw what happens when the US achieves unipolarity: insane hubris where they don't hesitate to destroy entire nations and kill millions in the process. No-one wants to get back to that, except maybe a few die-hard vassals in the West.

China's cause on the other hand is a multipolar world order, an order where the US simply doesn't call the shots, something a good 80% of the world's countries can get behind. Furthermore China can point to 1,800 years out of the past 2,000 years when it was the world's preeminent power and never tried to submit the whole world: colonialism, transforming the world in their own image or being "the world's policeman" is just not in their DNA.

So I think we can safely predict that this transition towards a multipolar world order is unavoidable, in fact we're probably already there. The question now is when will the US stop challenging this reality and start being a constructive actor in this new world as opposed to waging war and sowing conflict everywhere. And I'm afraid we can wait a long time for that... In fact it's already a de-facto characteristic of the new order: it's a multipolar world order with a revisionist power in its midst that wants to restore its former hegemonic imperial status.

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1784098974477250629

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⚡️ ☦️ A Ukrainian drone targeted monks' vehicles as they delivered humanitarian aid to the Holy Dormition St. Nicholas-Vasilyev Monastery.

The monastery reported that a Ukrainian military drone made two attempts to strike the monks' vehicles, but luckily detonated just a few meters away.

Recently, the monks at this monastery had already been subjected to attacks by enemy kamikaze drones, according to
@donbassr
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http://t.me/ukraine_watch

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❗️ No match for Russian EMI warfare — The Telegraph has explained why the long-range bombs handed over to Kiev did not work. The lauded GLSDB glide bombs handed to Ukraine by the US simply failed.

🔴 This is reported by the British edition of The Telegraph.

🔴 The article says that these shells for ground launchers were delivered at the end of January, it was assumed that they would force Russia to move logistics and military warehouses away from the front line, as the range of these bombs is 160 kilometres.

🗣 “We sent it to the Ukrainians. It didn’t work. It didn’t work for multiple reasons including EMI [Electromagnetic interference] environment, just really, dirt, and doing it on ground.”

“When you send something to people in the fight of their lives that doesn’t work, they’ll try it three times and then just throw it aside,” the publication quoted Pentagon weapons procurement chief William LaPlante as saying at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

🔴 GLSDBs are rocket-propelled projectiles that are launched from HIMARS and M270 launchers, which the US has also transferred to Ukraine. This type of weapon uses a head that is guided to the target by a GPS system and a laser.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1784178934571024418


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We sent the Ukrainians the GLSDB, a so-called “silver bullet” of American military technology that many, including erstwhile “experts” like
@JeffFisch
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The Russians were able to jam the GLSDB immediately upon introduction to the SMO zone, completely nullifying the utility of the weapon.

This is the same fate that has befallen other “miracle” weapons that the West has provided Ukraine.

It will be the fate of ATACMS.

It will be the fate of the F16.

It might be time for western military analysts to finally acknowledge that the notion of western military technological superiority is but a myth.

Before the hubris that attaches to this myth leads the West down the path of military ruin.

https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1784216275905851779

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Historically, Muslims in Russia were (for the majority) loyal to the Russian Orthodox Emperor. They developed their own Sunni beliefs, wherein they would view the ‘White Tsar’ as a servant of the prophet Issa, whom they must obey until the end of time. They believed, that the White Tsar would lead them to battle against the ‘Dajjal’ Antichrist at Armageddon. They saw Tsar Nicholas ii as a representative of their prophet, and thus served him with unwavering loyalty.

These local Islamic traditions ran so deep, that during the February Revolution - there was not a single traitor from Russia’s Muslim population. There is a possibility that both President Putin, and the future Emperor of Russia will use these same local beliefs and legends to harness the auxiliary potential of these Islamic minorities who live under their care, in Russia.

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There is a possibility that both President Putin, and the future Emperor of Russia will use these same local beliefs and legends to harness the auxiliary potential of these Islamic minorities who live under their care, in Russia.


Yes, this is more of the ethos that works.

If we take the western European memory, it would celebrate driving the Moors out of Spain, and stopping the Ottomans at Vienna. In turn, the support for Greek Independence, and then the rather thoughtless disruption of the Ottoman Empire, giving us the confounded map that fosters more conflicts.


Such waves of disagreement do not really exist in Russia.

There is also agreement on a common foe.

Cooperation between Orthodox and Muslims represents the main basis of either tradition. It is not really capable of a political spin, rather, it is telling those in power they must maintain the harmony.

This is not averse to Monarchy, particularly in the sense that Divine Right is a tradition of Germanic kings, whereas pursuant to the above, you might have a transition of power for some other reason than birth, and, the installed must continually re-qualify for office.

Orthodoxy does not dictate a government or a form of government. Its task is to apply values the best way it can. In that way it must accept Islam but condemn Wahabbism, accept Judaism but reject Zionism, try to find protection against the violent tendencies of the extremists.


A recent potential track of escalation has been taken seriously by
Lucas Leiroz (https://southfront.press/nato-based-terrorists-launch-foiled-attack-on-belarus-during-important-political-event/):



A drone attack against the capital of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, was neutralized by local defense forces, avoiding a serious tragedy. The UAVs departed from Lithuania – a NATO country that is home to several Belarusian expatriate terrorists who since 2020 have been promising to wage a civil war against the legitimate government of Aleksandr Lukashenko. The incident clearly shows the danger posed by these groups and how irresponsible and provocative Western countries are by sheltering, training and financing them.

On April 25, Ivan Tertel, head of the Committee for State Security (KGB), stated that a plot to attack Minsk and neighboring cities with combat drones had been disrupted by Belarusian intelligence. His speech took place during the All-Belarussian People’s Assembly, one of the most important political events in the country, which took place between April 24 and 25, bringing together representatives from all sectors of Belarusian society in Minsk. It is very likely that the attack was aimed at preventing the event from taking place properly.

Since the precise date of the attack was not revealed – which is usual procedure in security matters – it is not possible to know whether the attackers’ plan was to cancel the Assembly or target the meetings during the event, killing Belarusian public figures. What seems clear is that the importance of the Assembly to the Belarusian people appears to have been one of the main reasons for the terrorist incursion.

During his speech, Tertel warned about the risk of a serious escalation in regional tensions, given the hostile and provocative stance of NATO countries. He emphasized that Minsk has a neutral and peaceful stance in current conflicts, but the Collective West acts in a hostile manner because it does not tolerate friendly relations and mutual cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

According to him, the US and its European allies plan to control Belarus completely, capturing the country’s wealth and turning it into a satellite state – something similar to what happened to Ukraine in 2014. The states that cooperate the most with the US to provoke Minsk are neighboring countries that have engaged in Russophobic hatred, such as Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine. These countries are even protecting terrorists who publicly want to start a civil war in Belarus.

These terrorist groups are mainly formed by expatriate fascist militants from Belarus. In 2020, NATO financed an attempted color revolution in Minsk, co-opting nationalist militants to take to the streets and lead mass demonstrations against the legitimacy of the presidential electoral process. The country’s security forces acted efficiently and managed to neutralize the regime change attempt, which led the most radical militants to flee the country and seek shelter and financing in states such as Ukraine and NATO countries.

Ultranationalist organizations include groups such as Bypol, one of the most dangerous neo-Nazi militias in Europe. Bypol has already claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in Belarus, including drone attacks against the country’s capital. More than that, Bypol’s leaders have publicly admitted that their intention is to return to the territory of Belarus and start a civil war so that they can overthrow Lukashenko. Considering that there are members of Bypol in Lithuania, it is very likely that the group is also behind the latest attempted UAV incursion against Minsk.

Tertel warned in his recent speech that radical expatriate militias are currently developing advanced capabilities for using military drones – largely due to cooperation with NATO armies. He also warned of the direct action of Ukrainian intelligence in crimes committed by expatriates. According to Tertel, there are around one thousand Belarusian dissidents currently in Ukraine preparing for raids on the border with Belarus.

The official believes that the rebels plan to create a parallel [US-puppet] state on the borders. After attacking Belarus, Bypol and other militias want to establish territories inaccessible to Minsk’s forces, creating a kind of “new country”, which is expected to be able to continue fighting the official government in the long term in a permanent civil war. This plan would allow terrorists to destabilize the Russian strategic environment for a long time.

However, this project seems to be utterly unrealistic, considering the high combat and intelligence capacities of the Belarussian forces. It must be remembered, since 2023, more than 40 terrorist operations involving these nationalist groups have been neutralized – which shows that, despite the efforts of the West, Minsk continues to keep the situation absolutely under control.

[Tintin]

There is a possibility that both President Putin, and the future Emperor of Russia will use these same local beliefs and legends to harness the auxiliary potential of these Islamic minorities who live under their care, in Russia.


Yes, this is more of the ethos that works.

If we take the western European memory, it would celebrate driving the Moors out of Spain, and stopping the Ottomans at Vienna. In turn, the support for Greek Independence, and then the rather thoughtless disruption of the Ottoman Empire, giving us the confounded map that fosters more conflicts.


Such waves of disagreement do not really exist in Russia.

There is also agreement on a common foe.

Cooperation between Orthodox and Muslims represents the main basis of either tradition. It is not really capable of a political spin, rather, it is telling those in power they must maintain the harmony.

This is not averse to Monarchy, particularly in the sense that Divine Right is a tradition of Germanic kings, whereas pursuant to the above, you might have a transition of power for some other reason than birth, and, the installed must continually re-qualify for office.

Orthodoxy does not dictate a government or a form of government. Its task is to apply values the best way it can. In that way it must accept Islam but condemn Wahabbism, accept Judaism but reject Zionism, try to find protection against the violent tendencies of the extremists.


A recent potential track of escalation has been taken seriously by
Lucas Leiroz (https://southfront.press/nato-based-terrorists-launch-foiled-attack-on-belarus-during-important-political-event/):



A drone attack against the capital of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, was neutralized by local defense forces, avoiding a serious tragedy. The UAVs departed from Lithuania – a NATO country that is home to several Belarusian expatriate terrorists who since 2020 have been promising to wage a civil war against the legitimate government of Aleksandr Lukashenko. The incident clearly shows the danger posed by these groups and how irresponsible and provocative Western countries are by sheltering, training and financing them.

On April 25, Ivan Tertel, head of the Committee for State Security (KGB), stated that a plot to attack Minsk and neighboring cities with combat drones had been disrupted by Belarusian intelligence. His speech took place during the All-Belarussian People’s Assembly, one of the most important political events in the country, which took place between April 24 and 25, bringing together representatives from all sectors of Belarusian society in Minsk. It is very likely that the attack was aimed at preventing the event from taking place properly.

Since the precise date of the attack was not revealed – which is usual procedure in security matters – it is not possible to know whether the attackers’ plan was to cancel the Assembly or target the meetings during the event, killing Belarusian public figures. What seems clear is that the importance of the Assembly to the Belarusian people appears to have been one of the main reasons for the terrorist incursion.

During his speech, Tertel warned about the risk of a serious escalation in regional tensions, given the hostile and provocative stance of NATO countries. He emphasized that Minsk has a neutral and peaceful stance in current conflicts, but the Collective West acts in a hostile manner because it does not tolerate friendly relations and mutual cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

According to him, the US and its European allies plan to control Belarus completely, capturing the country’s wealth and turning it into a satellite state – something similar to what happened to Ukraine in 2014. The states that cooperate the most with the US to provoke Minsk are neighboring countries that have engaged in Russophobic hatred, such as Poland, the Baltic states and Ukraine. These countries are even protecting terrorists who publicly want to start a civil war in Belarus.

These terrorist groups are mainly formed by expatriate fascist militants from Belarus. In 2020, NATO financed an attempted color revolution in Minsk, co-opting nationalist militants to take to the streets and lead mass demonstrations against the legitimacy of the presidential electoral process. The country’s security forces acted efficiently and managed to neutralize the regime change attempt, which led the most radical militants to flee the country and seek shelter and financing in states such as Ukraine and NATO countries.

Ultranationalist organizations include groups such as Bypol, one of the most dangerous neo-Nazi militias in Europe. Bypol has already claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks in Belarus, including drone attacks against the country’s capital. More than that, Bypol’s leaders have publicly admitted that their intention is to return to the territory of Belarus and start a civil war so that they can overthrow Lukashenko. Considering that there are members of Bypol in Lithuania, it is very likely that the group is also behind the latest attempted UAV incursion against Minsk.

Tertel warned in his recent speech that radical expatriate militias are currently developing advanced capabilities for using military drones – largely due to cooperation with NATO armies. He also warned of the direct action of Ukrainian intelligence in crimes committed by expatriates. According to Tertel, there are around one thousand Belarusian dissidents currently in Ukraine preparing for raids on the border with Belarus.

The official believes that the rebels plan to create a parallel [US-puppet] state on the borders. After attacking Belarus, Bypol and other militias want to establish territories inaccessible to Minsk’s forces, creating a kind of “new country”, which is expected to be able to continue fighting the official government in the long term in a permanent civil war. This plan would allow terrorists to destabilize the Russian strategic environment for a long time.

However, this project seems to be utterly unrealistic, considering the high combat and intelligence capacities of the Belarussian forces. It must be remembered, since 2023, more than 40 terrorist operations involving these nationalist groups have been neutralized – which shows that, despite the efforts of the West, Minsk continues to keep the situation absolutely under control.

Great, and interesting article.

I came across this yesterday which visually expands a little on the Belorussian KGB head's recent comments. Here he states that hospitals are being used in Kiev to shelter terrorists and their networks, and provides a street address too. If this is faithful reporting and not more image jiggery-pokery, shortly after his statements we can see that the hospital is being evacuated; I'm inclined to its veracity though - it probably is directly related footage:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-27_Chief_of_the_Belorussian_FSB_says_that_terrorists_hide_in_a_specific_Kiev_hospital_and_even_gives _the_address.mp4

[Tintin]

This, via Slavyangrad on Telegram (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/95892):



Oleg Tsarov reports from his TG channel (https://t.me/olegtsarov) about a variety of topics.

"A resident of Chernigov, Oleg Serik, filed a lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada with the Supreme Court of Ukraine. In the statement, he demands that the inaction of parliament, which did not call the presidential elections for March 31, be recognized as illegal. The plaintiff believes that this violates the country’s constitution and the rights of Ukrainians, and asks the court to oblige the Rada to call elections. The court has already opened proceedings on this claim. The Verkhovna Rada was given 15 days to provide explanations...

The Ukrainian ambassador in Warsaw estimated the approximate number of Ukrainian men of military age who are in Poland. According to his estimates, this is several tens of thousands of people. The ambassador expects to receive more accurate figures after the law on mobilization comes into force. He also hopes that Ukraine will not have to resort to the help of the Polish authorities to forcibly send these people to Ukraine. Judging by yesterday's statement by the head of the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs, this assistance most likely will not happen...

"Ukraine is again dissatisfied with the amount of assistance from its allies. This time, the assistance from the United States and Europe to replace energy capacities destroyed by shelling was called insufficient. The Allies transferred 91 low-power congeneration plants to Ukraine. Ukrainian experts called this a PR project of the American agency USAID. According to them, this is extremely little, since Kharkov alone needs several hundred such mini-stations.

In Rivne, a monument erected on the Hill of Glory to mark the 40th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War was destroyed. The spiritual heirs of the Nazis dismantled and scrapped sculptures and bas-reliefs depicting Soviet soldiers and Ukrainian partisans who liberated the Rivne region from the fascists and their local minions. The authorities report that this was the last architectural and sculptural complex that fell under the decommunization law.

At the same time, the head of the Russophobic organization “Decolonization. Ukraine" complains that in the Rivne region there are about 200 more monuments with Soviet soldiers, red stars, a hammer and sickle, and models of Soviet orders with the image of the Kremlin. Local communities often do not want to cooperate with Russophobes, since many monuments are erected over the mass graves of their fellow countrymen. To the Nazis’ demands for dismantling, they answer that “war”, “not the time”, or refer to the law on the protection of monuments."

Source: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/95892

Slavyangrad/95892

[Tintin]

Is Alexey Arestovich now jostling for position? His remarks in recent months have been very critical of Zelensky and a lot more conciliatory in tone....



“I’m ready to talk to Putin and shake his hand.” Alexey Arestovich* stated that, out of good intentions, he is ready to reconcile Ukraine and Russia for the sake of stability throughout the world:

Source: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/95894



"I am ready to talk to Putin and shake his hand. One thing is my emotions, and another is the fate of a huge country. And in general the whole world. A politician is someone who can weigh everything. I'm a reasonable person, I'll agree. And I'll fix the situation inside. Because I love people."

[ExomatrixTV]

Putin HITS BACK Over Threats To Seize Russian Assets:

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A resident of Chernigov filed a lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada due to its inaction in setting presidential elections.

Oleg Serik demands that the Rada’s position be recognized as illegal and that parliament be obliged to set presidential elections.

The court accepted the claim for proceedings. The Ukrainian parliament will have 15 days to provide explanations, local media write.

How many days Serik has before being voluntarily sent to the front is not specified.

@ukr_leaks_eng

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1784560496256929856

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️AFU officers expect Russian troops to take control of the entire Donbass by October 2024 - Blick

▪️Pessimistic sentiments are increasing in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, despite assistance from the United States.
▪️The main problems are the lack of manpower and lack of ammunition.
▪️The units refuse to go into battle and protest, for which they are disbanded.
- RVvoenkor

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DmitryTelegram
#Medvedev #Zakharova
Dmitry Medvedev, 27 April

As for our response to the US law on the confiscation of Russian assets

It is obvious that we will not be able to give a completely symmetrical response to this US rudeness about the shameless theft of our valuables. The reason is clear: we don't have a significant amount of U.S. government property, including U.S. money, rights, and other assets.

Therefore, the answer can only be asymmetrical. By the way, it is not a fact that it will be less painful. We are talking about foreclosure, for example, by a court decision, on the property of private individuals located in the jurisdiction of Russia (money, real estate and movable property in kind, property rights). Yes, this is a complicated story, since these individuals usually acted as investors in the Russian economy. And we guaranteed them the inviolability of their right to private property. But the unforeseen happened – their state declared a hybrid war on us, including legal and judicial war. It has created a mechanism for the misappropriation of Russian valuables, which completely contradicts international and Russian law.

This must be answered. And, in a sense, it is in our legislation. These are the so-called retorsions. Art. Article 1194 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation states: "The Government of the Russian Federation may establish retaliatory restrictions (retorsions) in relation to the property and personal non-property rights of citizens and legal entities of those states in which there are special restrictions on the property and personal non-property rights of Russian citizens and legal entities." This rule should be made wider, because the confiscation of our assets is the termination of the right of ownership.

This means that our norm should provide not only for the restriction of the rights of foreign persons, but also for their termination, so that it is possible to foreclose in favor of the Russian state, Russian legal entities and individuals on the property of foreign legal entities from unfriendly countries. This will require a certain correction of Russian civil legislation.

But America and Americans must pay for their criminal decisions.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus!

👉https://t.me/s/medvedev_telegram

https://x.com/_MariaZakharova/status/1784184159516156338

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian Armed Forces struck a shipbuilding factory in Nikolaev overnight where marines were assembling drones and training, RIA Novosti reported, citing pro-Russian underground activists.

The second strike hit a hotel housing more than 20 English-speaking foreign mercenaries.

Local Ukro-Nazis have already confirmed that a hotel and a 'heat-generating infrastructure facility' were damaged.

ukraine_watch

https://x.com/dana916/status/1784576547489296384

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

28 April 2024

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 12th Azov Special Forces Brigades, 10th mountain assault, 57th, 63rd mechanized brigades near Sinkovka, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic) and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

Three counter-attacks launched by units of the AFU 77th Airmobile Brigade were repelled close to Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 270 Ukrainian troops, one armored personnel carrier, eight motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M198 howitzer, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, one 152-mm D-20 gun, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 130-mm M-46 gun.

▫️The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 93rd mechanized and 80th air assault brigades near Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Four counter-attacks of the AFU 92nd Assault Brigade were repelled close to Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 360 servicemen, two armored fighting vehicles, and 17 motor vehicles.

In the course of the counter-battery warfare, two 152-mm D-20 howitzers, two 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100-mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun were neutralized.

Two Anklav-N electronic warfare stations and one ammunition depot were also eliminated.

▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' units liberated Novobakhmutovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and defeated units of AFU 142nd infantry, 24th mechanized, 68th jaeger brigades near Leninskoye, Keramik, and Semyonovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Ten counter-attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 23rd, 100th mechanized, 71st jaeger brigades and the 78th Separate Air Assault Regiment were repelled near Novgorodskoye, Ocheretino, Novobakhmutovka, Netaylovo, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 380 Ukrainian troops, one tank, one armored fighting vehicle, and five motor vehicles.

In the course of the counter-battery warfare, two 155-mm U.S.-made M777 howitzers, one 155-mm U.S.-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, two 105-mm U.S.-made M101 towed guns, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, and one 100-mm MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun were eliminated.

▫️The Vostok Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 58th mechanized infantry, 108th territorial defense brigades close to Pavlovka and Lugovskoye (Zaporozhye region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 85 Ukrainian troops, four pickups, one 122-mm German-made PzH-2000 self-propelled artillery system, and one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

One Anklav-N electronic warfare station and one ammunition depot were also destroyed.

▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on clusters of manpower of AFU 65th mechanized, 128th mountain assault, 126th territorial defence brigades near Kamenskoye, Rabotino (Zaporozhye region), Ivanovka, and Olgovka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one 155-mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have eliminated hangars with strike drones at the Kamenka airfield (Dnepropetrovsk region).

In addition, hangars with aircraft munitions and aircraft at the Priluki airfield (Chernigov region) and at the Starokonstantinov airfield (Khmelnitsky region), temporary deployment areas for foreign mercenaries, manpower and military hardware of the AFU in 121 areas were engaged.

Air defense systems shot down 46 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and five U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles during the day.

▫️In total, 593 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 23,587 unmanned aerial vehicles, 509 air-to-air missile systems, 15,869 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,275 MLRS combat vehicles, 9,189 field artillery guns and mortars, and 21,372 special military vehicles have been neutralized since the beginning of the special military operation.

Russian Defense Ministry

https://x.com/dana916/status/1784546901020348825

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[pyrangello]

Mercenaries , special forces from other countries and on and on. All going to the pigs pen for slaughter being directed by leaders who sit in their ivory towers smoking cigars drinking scotch lifting up skirts while they talk about sending more men to go to the pig pen only to become a casualty number not knowing what the hell they are there for to begin with. If there ever was a definition of insanity feeding greed feeding insanity this is it.


In total, 593 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 23,587 unmanned aerial vehicles, 509 air-to-air missile systems, 15,869 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,275 MLRS combat vehicles, 9,189 field artillery guns and mortars, and 21,372 special military vehicles have been neutralized since the beginning of the special military operation.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1784621786354667776

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‼️💥 The enemy is shelling civilians in the Kherson region

▪️Governor Saldo: In the urban village of Dnepryany, two civilians were killed due to mortar shelling by Kyiv militants.
▪️Residential areas of Nova Kakhovka also came under heavy enemy artillery fire. There is a victim, she is in the hospital.
▪️In Kakhovka, one person was injured from terrorist attacks by the VFU. He was hospitalized and is receiving all the necessary medical care.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1784621477263732987

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The enemy recognizes the collapse of the front: Russian troops are advancing in several sectors of the front at once, - Syrsky

▪️The Russian Armed Forces are successful in the Berestovoy area in the Kharkov region. The main areas of concentration of efforts of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kupyansky direction are the villages of Stelmakhovka and Berestovo.
▪️Also, units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated west of Berdychi, Semenovka and Novomikhailovka.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1784607092336160932

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Britain will equip their army with hypersonic missiles, reports Europeanskya Pravda...Just as soon as they can figure out how to make them.

The nations military is shooting for year 2030. They hope that in the next 6 years they can catch up with Russian missile capabilities of 2017. The Khinzal was first put into service in that year. As of May of 2023 the US had determined that their current radar systems were "insufficient" for detecting and tracking hypersonic missiles.

source: https://archive.ph/Z4tBE

http://t.me/Slavyangrad | Nagasaki Nightmare 👋


https://x.com/by_their_deeds/status/1784566975903027489

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[ExomatrixTV]

“It’s OVER For Ukraine & Zelensky Will Be GONE Within 60 Days.” Col. Douglas MacGregor:

kttfALsoQx0


It's frightening to think that the world is run by psychopaths.
Politicians don't become criminals. Criminals become politicians.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor, like Scott Ritter nails it on the head. It was obvious, from day 1, that Ukraine would have no chance against Russia.
Tulsi warned us of this in 2016. That the war industry wanted the Cold War reinstated. And now it is. So much money for the weapons industry. The nuclear treaty ended. Insanity.
There is hardly anything more stupid and dangerous than putting important decisions in the hands of people who don't have to pay a price for being wrong.
You would hope that other countries would at least raise a performative eyebrow when BlackRock & Co come calling offering to 'help'.
Russia has the God given right to defend the Donbas and stop NATO interference and expansion 🇷🇺
Guy keeps begging for money, he is completely entitled now, and Democrats cater to this garbage. Not our war. American first.
Diapers and WEF politicians need changing often and for the same reason, because they are full of it.
"They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin

[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦🇵🇱 ⚔️🇺🇦Ukraine has asked Poland for the possibility of stopping social payments to Ukrainian refugees in order to force them to leave Poland for the slaughterhouse.

It is quite obvious that due to the shortage of personnel and difficulties with mobilization, refugees in Europe are considered by the terrorist regime and its masters as a resource that can be thrown into the furnace.

Hence the forced mobilization, the new law on mobilization, the deprivation of Ukrainians’ rights and freedoms, the creation of problems with paperwork, and now the cessation of payments.

Problems with documents + termination of payments is a way to force people to go to Ukraine to be killed there at the front.

intelslava

https://x.com/dana916/status/1784604399374905362

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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇳 Former Pentagon official: NATO is deploying combat troops in Ukraine

NATO begins deployment of combat troops to Ukraine - more troops are arriving from Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Finland and other Alliance members, and the newly arrived troops are mostly concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are located near the front in the east. writes former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Bryan on his blog "Weapons and Strategy".

According to him, the North Atlantic Alliance claims that these are not soldiers, but people who were sent to Ukraine to operate sophisticated Western equipment, but it is correct to say that they are actively participating in the fighting. source MG channel

https://x.com/peacemaket71/status/1784517923303821405

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The situation at the front has worsened, said the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky.

He also confirmed the retreat of Ukrainian troops from Berdychi and Semenovka near Avdiivka, as well as from Novomikhailovka near Marinka.

“Trying to seize the strategic initiative and break through the front line, the enemy concentrated its main efforts in several directions, creating a significant advantage in forces and means. It is actively attacking along the entire front line, and has tactical successes in some directions,” Syrsky wrote.

intelslava

https://x.com/dana916/status/1784589085232845193

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦“A thousand cuts”: the Russian Armed Forces successfully went on the offensive in the Kharkov region

Ukrainian sources confirmed that the Russian Armed Forces successfully secured a position in the settlement. Kislovka, Kharkov region, from where, apparently, the Zaporozhye 110 TRO was knocked out.

This territorial defense brigade has long been composed of forcibly mobilized local residents. According to the information we have, some Ukrainian soldiers do not understand what they are doing in the distant Kharkov region, others are completely asleep and see how to surrender and return to their relatives living in Russia.

In the current situation, it is also not very clear where the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will take reserves - Russia has chosen the “thousand cuts” tactic, intensifying military operations in several places at once.

Slavyangrad

https://x.com/dana916/status/1784581785394843812

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1783637028472504493

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[shaberon]

The nations military is shooting for year 2030. They hope that in the next 6 years they can catch up with Russian missile capabilities of 2017.


The thing is that in actuality we have been saying this exact thing since the early 2000s.

That at a peer level, the Arms Race was gone, because the expectation of any conflict was total loss.

I mean that from what our military said, not what the politicians said or what it looked like. So this is like a 20-year delayed promise. And, probably as with any category you'd like to track, the best-case scenario is if you hit the ground with your feet running, then you might be able to maintain being only a little over ten years behind.

That's our best correction course, over ten years behind.

Assume without further information, these countries are not in any position to accomplish something in an ideal manner, even a revered national pastime, such as weapons.

[Vicus]

Burial Sites of Tortured Civilians Discovered in Avdeyevka - Russian Investigative Committee
47 minutes ago

Burial sites of civilians showing signs of torture have been discovered in the city of Avdeyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). Investigators have begun an investigation, the Investigative Committee of Russia reports.

"Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia will investigate another crime committed by the armed formations of Ukraine against civilians of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as the Donetsk People's Republic... It is reported that burial sites of civilians showing signs of torture have been discovered in Avdeyevka (DPR)," the report published on the committee's Telegram channel said.
The department will establish all the circumstances of the incident and those involved in the commission of the crimes.
Avdeyevka, a northern suburb of Donetsk turned into a powerful fortified area by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was liberated by the Russian army on February 17.

On February 20, Special Representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik told Sputnik that, according to preliminary information, secret torture chambers and burial sites were located in Avdeyevka, where Kiev held residents in detention for political reasons.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240429/burial-sites-of-tortured-civilians-discovered-in-avdeyevka---russian-investigative-committee-1118178282.html

[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxNQ5SYiGFY

5 hours ago

[Vicus]

Swiss Daily Speculates Russia Will Liberate Donbass ‘By October,’ Forcing Ukraine to Negotiate
3 hours ago

As Russian forces advance steadily in the military op zone, Ukraine has been racking up battlefront failures. Facing a drastic shortage of military personnel, with growing numbers of fighting-age men dying in combat, deserting, or dodging the draft, top commander Oleksandr Syrsky recently acknowledged the “difficult” situation facing Kiev’s forces.

Swiss German-language daily Blick has speculated that Russia will liberate Donbass by October.
There is a prevailing tenor that “Ukraine will lose the war, the conflict will freeze and we will have to negotiate,” the newspaper cited an assault brigade officer hunkered down near Chasov Yar as saying.
Despite the weapons and ammunition package worth $61 billion promised by the US to Ukraine, senior officers shared pessimistic forecasts with the outlet. According to them, Kiev’s looming rout by Russia’s military can be explained by several reasons.

Firstly, Ukraine’s military faces an acute shortage of manpower. Ukrainian brigades fighting on the nearly 1,500-kilometer-long combat line of NATO's proxy conflict are operating at 30-40% personnel strength in many places, as per the report.
“The current mobilization will not save us. Those enlisted and training now will not be with us until October at the earliest. By then we will have lost all of Donetsk,” another Ukrainian officer admitted to the publication.

Ukraine has lost almost half a million soldiers since the beginning of the special military operation in 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier in April. More than 71,000 soldiers and over 11,000 units of various weapons of the Kiev regime have been wiped out since the start of the year, according to Shoigu. Per the defense minister, Russian servicemen have "dispelled the myth about the superiority of Western weapons."

continue:

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240429/swiss-daily-speculates-russia-will-liberate-donbass-by-october-forcing-ukraine-to-negotiate-1118172493.html

[Vicus]

Ukrainian Troops Strike Church During Palm Sunday Service in Donetsk Yesterday

One woman died and another was injured in the shelling by Ukrainian forces in Alexandrovka, reported a representative of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of ceasefire-related issues (JCCC).
Ukrainian troops struck a church in the village of Alexandrovka, Donetsk region, during a festive service on Palm Sunday, killing and injuring civilians.

A Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene that one woman was killed in the attack.
According to Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC), during the shelling the church, the war memorial to the Liberating Warriors and an ambulance were damaged.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240428/ukrainian-troops-strike-church-during-palm-sunday-service-in-donetsk-1118162475.html

[Tintin]

Known defective German Leopard 1A5 tanks acquired by Ukraine November 2023

Via Intel Slava Z on Telegram (https://t.me/intelslava/58532) published 2 hours or so ago. Documents are written in Ukrainian with no English translation, save for below. Not super helpful I know but it's good to have the originals here for the record, and with some watermarked source verification:



Russian hackers from the Beregini group published a report of the Ukrainian military, which received German Leopard 1A5 tanks in Poland in November last year. During acceptance, it turned out that almost all tanks had defects

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-29_Beregini_Russian_hacker_group_published_a_report_of_the_Ukrainian_military_which_received_German_ Leopard_1A5_tanks_in_Poland_many_w_defects_%28In_Ukrainian_November_2023%29.jpg
https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-29_Beregini_Russian_hacker_group_published_a_report_of_the_Ukrainian_military_which_received_German_ Leopard_1A5_tanks_in_Poland_many_w_defects_%28In_Ukrainian_November_2023%29_2.jpg

[ExomatrixTV]

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[norman]

After being struck by a Russian missile, the iconic Harry Potter Castle in Odesa is engulfed in flames, a devastating event that has shocked fans and residents alike. The beloved landmark, known for its enchanting architecture and magical ambiance, now stands as a symbol of the destruction caused by the ongoing conflict

https://t.me/dailyrealtimenews/27327
dailyrealtimenews/27327

[Ravenlocke]

Most members waving Ukraine Flags after the passage of the massive funding bill were expressing gratitude for donors who will reward them for voting for this terrible bill.

60-70 % of the cash will most likely not even reach Ukraine and will be circulated through the DC laundry machine to the Department of Defense and the Military industrial complex.

https://x.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1784961492569256404

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[Vicus]

EU leaders 'fooling' people with horror stories about Russia - Kremlin
RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024

Western rhetoric painting Moscow as a threat is a way of distracting citizens from problems at home, Dmitry Peskov says


Warnings from some EU leaders that Russia could attack other European countries if it prevails in the Ukraine conflict are "horror stories" made up to distract people from domestic problems in their own countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

He was responding to a reporter's question regarding recent statements by Polish President Andrzej Duda, who signaled that his country was open to hosting US nuclear weapons. Duda claimed that this would "strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank" as Russia was "increasingly militarizing" its exclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Poland and Lithuania, as well as deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. Several other European leaders have also warned that Russia could attack an EU member state if it defeats Ukraine on the battlefield.

"European capitals are escalating tension in every possible way... trying to fool their population with these horror stories about terrible Russians who will never stop and continue moving forward. That's absolutely groundless," Peskov said in an interview aired by Rossiya 1 TV channel on Sunday.

According to the spokesman, the 'Russian threat' is used by some European leaders "to cover up" their internal economic or political problems, while some even "try to compensate for the loss of their image, their rating" with their warnings regarding Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made similar remarks last month, when he dismissed any talk of a potential Russian attack on Poland, the Czech Republic, or the Baltic states as "nonsense" and attempts to scare local citizens "to extract additional expenses from people."

Last year, Russia placed its tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, but Putin explained the move at the time as a response to NATO's increased military activity close to Belarusian and Russian territory. Meanwhile, Moscow has repeatedly stressed it has never threatened to use its nuclear arsenal and has no plans to do so.

Duda's statements regarding the placement of US nuclear weapons on Polish soil were criticized by Polish officials and the country's NATO allies. Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Friday said Duda had no authority to speculate publicly about the matter.

French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu also warned that an additional nuclear deployment would breach key arms-control accords between NATO and Russia. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg completely dismissed the idea of expanding the bloc's nuclear-sharing arrangements, saying at a press briefing on Tuesday that the alliance had "no plans to deploy any more nuclear weapons in any additional NATO countries."


Comment: Since the US has much autonomy at the bases they occupy in various European countries, and have weapon systems that can carry nuclear weapons, denials from officials like the Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorsky and Jens Stoltenberg are of little merit.

1) For the US Government and aligned people, it is of advantage to maintain high tensions in Europe. Besides turning attention away from internal issues, as Peskov suggests, increased defence spendings amounts to more US produced weapons being added to the European shopping carts, and money going away from the EU economies, thus supporting the US economy cannibalizing the European.
2) The EU and NATO have invested much in Ukraine, some countries so much that their identity is becoming fused with the need to keep the fight going.
3) Comparing the Wikis for Enlargement of NATO with Generalplan Ost reveals a few similarities, of which depopulating parts of Eastern Europe is a common result. And would not some of the architects of Operation Barbarossa have applauded the high number of dead descendants of the Soviets?

https://www.sott.net/article/491017-EU-leaders-fooling-people-with-horror-stories-about-Russia-Kremlin

[Vicus]

Ukraine running out of troops for US to train - WaPo

RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024

The last American-trained brigade left Germany in January or February, a US official told the newspaper.

The number and frequency of Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in US bases in Western Europe has dropped to almost zero in the last months, suggesting that Kiev is running out of men to fight Russian forces, US officials have told the Washington Post.

American instructors began training Ukrainian troops in April 2022, with drills taking place at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany. Some 3,100 Ukrainian soldiers had received US training by the end of 2022. The program was expanded in January 2023 to train 12 brigades in the run-up to Kiev's disastrous summer counteroffensive.

In addition to these 12 brigades, three brigades were trained by other European nations, while American instructors taught combined arms tactics to a tank battalion and two national guard battalions.

However, the last brigade trained in Germany left Grafenwoehr, the largest US ovcerseas training command, in January or February, anonymous officials told the Washington Post on Saturday. None have been trained in the months since, "suggesting a depletion of the personnel pipeline," the newspaper paraphrased.

Ukraine's manpower issues have been covered by Western news outlets since late last year, although Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky insisted in February that his forces had suffered only 31,000 fatalities in two years of fighting. American and Ukrainian officials know that this figure is a gross understatement, but admitted Zelensky must find a way to "inspire more Ukrainian men to come to the front lines," one US source said.

"We see so many deaths and so many wounded," a Ukrainian lawmaker said. "If they go, [troops] want to know how long they will be there."

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine lost more than 160,000 troops during last summer's counteroffensive, out of nearly half a million during the entire conflict to date. Zelensky's former presidential adviser, Aleksey Arestovich, ​h​as claimed that Ukraine ha​s lost up to 300,000 men​ so far.

https://www.sott.net/article/491016-Ukraine-running-out-of-troops-for-US-to-train-WaPo

[Bill Ryan]

After being struck by a Russian missile, the iconic Harry Potter Castle in Odesa is engulfed in flames, a devastating event that has shocked fans and residents alike. The beloved landmark, known for its enchanting architecture and magical ambiance, now stands as a symbol of the destruction caused by the ongoing conflict
I did a quick search to find out why the Russians had done this, but of course western media is full of screeching propaganda about the evil destructive ruthless Putin, etc etc etc etc.

My first guess would be that mercenaries (or French troops??) were hiding there, but I don't know the facts at all. No way would Russia have struck this target without pretty good reason. Maybe we'll learn more later today.

[Tintin]

After being struck by a Russian missile, the iconic Harry Potter Castle in Odesa is engulfed in flames, a devastating event that has shocked fans and residents alike. The beloved landmark, known for its enchanting architecture and magical ambiance, now stands as a symbol of the destruction caused by the ongoing conflict
I did a quick search to find out why the Russians had done this, but of course western media is full of screeching propaganda about the evil destructive ruthless Putin, etc etc etc etc.

My first guess would be that mercenaries (or French troops??) were hiding there, but I don't know the facts at all. No way would Russia have struck this target without pretty good reason. Maybe we'll learn more later today.

This was a Ukrainian air defence projectile that, not for the first time, failed to intercept a Russian missile heading elsewhere targeted as they usually are at military installations, and (the debris from AD - air defence) landed on the Law Academy of Sergei Kivalov. You can take that to the bank :)

Library saved footage here:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-29_Ukrainian%20air%20defense_again_tried_and_failed_to_intercept_Russian_missiles_and_as_a_result_th ey_accidentally_hit_the_Law_Academy_of_Sergei_Kivalov_in_Odessa.mp4

PS: of course if the Russians had actually targeted it - which they didn't - it wouldn't be there at all; it'd be dust

[shaberon]

At this point, Ukraine is perishing at a rate of over a thousand per day (https://southfront.press/kiev-regime-losing-more-than-a-thousand-soldiers-per-day-on-the-front-lines/):


...at least 8,280 Ukrainian soldiers were neutralized during one week on the battlefield.


And the way in which they are being slowed down (https://southfront.press/russian-assault-groups-achieved-important-victory-around-chasov-yar-video-18-map-update/):



The Russian military treats the abandoned bodies of dead Ukrainians to avoid their decomposition and infections.

In an attempt to slow down Russian offensive, the Ukrainian military command has deployed fresh reserves to the area of Chasov Yar. The reinforcement included nationalist militants from the former Kraken Nazi Battalion. Together with the nationalist militants, units of the special forces of the Amin Intelligence Directorate, as well as the 18th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine was also thrown to the battles for Chasov Yar.


According to Asia Times (https://asiatimes.com/2024/04/nato-starts-deploying-troops-as-russia-races-to-win/):


In a disturbing and rather underreported development, NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine, with British, French, Polish and other soldiers arriving in huge numbers, writes Stephen Bryen (former staff director of the Near East Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former deputy undersecretary of defense for policy), noting that those are not mercenaries, but regular military “in uniform, home country proclaimed via insignia”, and mostly “concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are close to the actual fighting in the east.”


As for the debris (https://southfront.press/new-wave-of-russian-strikes-damage-castle-in-odessa/):

The infamous Odessa Law Academy is known to be highly corrupt. The building of the educational institution confirms this. Last year, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, defended his thesis there.


We see where Temptation (https://southfront.press/london-revealed-secret-supplies-of-italian-storm-shadow-missiles-to-ukraine/) lives:


Italy has joined the list of countries that supply Ukraine with Storm Shadow missiles. In his interview with The Times, British Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps confirmed that together with Paris and London, Rome is preparing its SCALP EG/Storm Shadow cruise missiles for supply to Ukraine for the attacks in Russian rear, in particular in Crimea.



Why does that seem like a natural fit?

[ExomatrixTV]

NATO is starting to deploy Troops in Ukraine and Russia is Racing to Win (https://weapons.substack.com/p/nato-is-starting-to-deploy-troops)
"US Troops to Ukraine After Biden is reelected?" :facepalm:



dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/de-navo-begint-troepen-in-te-zetten-in-oekraine-en-rusland-is-aan-het-racen-om-te-winnen) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[ExomatrixTV]

Aaron Maté : Ten Years of US in Ukraine:

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This presentation by Aaron Mate should be re broadcast by Judge Andrew Napolitano several times. It is the most comprehensive summary of what has happened in Ukraine in the last 10 years.

[Bill Ryan]

After being struck by a Russian missile, the iconic Harry Potter Castle in Odesa is engulfed in flames, a devastating event that has shocked fans and residents alike. The beloved landmark, known for its enchanting architecture and magical ambiance, now stands as a symbol of the destruction caused by the ongoing conflict
I did a quick search to find out why the Russians had done this, but of course western media is full of screeching propaganda about the evil destructive ruthless Putin, etc etc etc etc.

My first guess would be that mercenaries (or French troops??) were hiding there, but I don't know the facts at all. No way would Russia have struck this target without pretty good reason. Maybe we'll learn more later today.

This was a Ukrainian air defence projectile that, not for the first time, failed to intercept a Russian missile heading elsewhere targeted as they usually are at military installations, and (the debris from AD - air defence) landed on the Law Academy of Sergei Kivalov. You can take that to the bank :)

Library saved footage here:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-04_%28April%29/2024-04-29_Ukrainian%20air%20defense_again_tried_and_failed_to_intercept_Russian_missiles_and_as_a_result_th ey_accidentally_hit_the_Law_Academy_of_Sergei_Kivalov_in_Odessa.mp4

PS: of course if the Russians had actually targeted it - which they didn't - it wouldn't be there at all; it'd be dustAn interesting, detailed and useful comment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nptmNObXHBo&lc=Ugwl_6hua_lZ2teUAFl4AaABAg) posted by Svetlana Vladimirova under Alex Christoferou's video update for today.

https://yt3.ggpht.com/nDqo3JE2yHzqCEIf6LKxRILJKAJynDxMYYPwL7wEIgaKqbdP6bMkaSU1vRddd58hKZRt1sNJMA=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@SvetlanaVladimirova8590) @SvetlanaVladimirova8590
(https://www.youtube.com/@SvetlanaVladimirova8590)


Update from Odessa: Yesterday my hometown of Odessa was once again hit by Russian missiles. One destroyed Ukrainian army HQ in the city center. If The New York Times is to be believed, another missile hit “a Gothic-style building known locally as ‘Harry Potter’s Castle’, which houses a private law academy.”

This is utter nonsense. Setting aside the fact that Russian military would hardly target a building of zero military or strategic value, “Harry Potter’s Castle” is not at all “a private law academy,” but the opulent, private home of former Rada deputy Sergei Kivalov, owner of the aforementioned academy, notorious and loathed big-time Ukrainian crook.

Moreover, the available evidence strongly suggests that the castle was in fact hit by a Ukrainian air defense missile, although details regarding how this happened are unclear. Tragically, five people walking near the castle were killed. However, many Odessa residents are deriving some solace from the fact that the hideously corrupt and despised Kivalov, at home at the time, was badly injured.

Unsurprisingly, Western MSM are Ukrainian authorities are blaming this on Russia. Don’t believe it.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/TarasKuzio/status/1785585511337202162

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/79549876-b218-4a92-9cd8-2e4688de330b?shareToken=2b4ac957bfd71daec8aba16a7eee85a3

Four killed in Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s ‘Harry Potter castle’
Children and a pregnant woman among those injured in attack

The architectural landmark houses the Odesa Law Academy, one of Ukraine’s leading higher educational institutions, and serves as the residence of Serhiy Kivalov, a prominent former MP who is the president of the university. It was reported that Kivalov was among those injured in the strike.

Kiper said that among eight people seriously injured were two children, one of them four years old, and a pregnant woman. It was reported that 23 people were being treated in hospital.

“Monsters. Beasts. Savages. Scum. I don’t know what else to say,” Gennadiy Trukhanov, the mayor of Odesa, said in a video posted on Telegram. “People are going for a walk by the sea and they are shooting and killing.”

Trukhanov added that separate Russian shelling had killed one person in the past 24 hours. At least two people were killed and six injured in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday, according to Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.

President Zelensky said: “My condolences to family and friends. Many wounded — everyone is being helped now.” He called for more support from Ukraine’s allies to stop “Russia’s regular missile attacks, as well as the occupier’s efforts to destroy as many Ukrainian positions as possible”.

He said: “Ukrainian strength must be backed up by sufficient support from partners. ‘Patriots’ that need to be in Ukraine now, the 155mm-calibre [artillery ammunition] … and weapons with sufficient range to destroy Russian logistics.”

Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of Nato, said “serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield” for Ukraine and that that the “process must be sped up”.

Speaking from Kyiv, Stoltenberg added: “The lack of ammunition has allowed the Russians to push forward along the front line. Lack of air defence has made it possible for more Russian missiles to hit their targets, and the lack of deep strike capabilities has made it possible for the Russians to concentrate more forces.”


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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Army group O broke into Arkhangelskoye and completed the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village near Avdeevka
▪️After the liberation of Ocheretino, Novokalinov and Keramika, the “Center” group of troops broke into Arkhangelskoye, continuing the offensive from Avdeevka.
▪️The Central Military District soldiers broke through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and actually defeated the enemy, taking most of the village under control.
▪️The cleansing and finishing off of scattered groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the outskirts continues.
▪️Meanwhile, Ukrainian military analysts recognize the new advances of our troops, but traditionally underestimate them:
➖"In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian troops took the village of Novokalinovo and the village of Keramik , advancing in an area up to 5.2 km wide to a depth of 1.4 km.
➖East of the village of Novoaleksandrovka, the Russian Armed Forces advanced along two forest belts in a northern direction in an area up to 900 m wide to a depth of up to 630 meters.
➖West of Solovyovo, the Russians continue attacks in the direction of the Samoilov beam."
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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇦Earlier a warehouse with shells from the United States, which had just been brought, was destroyed in Odessa.

Perhaps even within the framework of the newly accepted assistance package. 155 mm shells arrived in the morning from Romania by sea. At the moment, detonation is going on and a fire is raging. The SBU has cordoned off the area where two missiles from Comrade Iskander K. arrived, and catches everyone who is trying to film the place on video.

Detonations are still ongoing. $61 billion well-spent.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1785859808198824435

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺Communications equipment, drones and weapons - more NATO trophies at an exhibition on Moscow's Poklonnaya Gora.

The West has handed over to Ukraine not only equipment, but also many other devices for combat operations.

Western radios, grenade launchers, small arms, heavy weapons and NATO-made shells are on display in the "Trophies of the Russian Army" tent.

Russian soldiers have also managed to keep drones in good condition. Including a heavy hexocopter.

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[Tintin]

https://x.com/TarasKuzio/status/1785585511337202162

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/79549876-b218-4a92-9cd8-2e4688de330b?shareToken=2b4ac957bfd71daec8aba16a7eee85a3

Four killed in Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s ‘Harry Potter castle’
Children and a pregnant woman among those injured in attack

The architectural landmark houses the Odesa Law Academy, one of Ukraine’s leading higher educational institutions, and serves as the residence of Serhiy Kivalov, a prominent former MP who is the president of the university. It was reported that Kivalov was among those injured in the strike.

Kiper said that among eight people seriously injured were two children, one of them four years old, and a pregnant woman. It was reported that 23 people were being treated in hospital.

“Monsters. Beasts. Savages. Scum. I don’t know what else to say,” Gennadiy Trukhanov, the mayor of Odesa, said in a video posted on Telegram. “People are going for a walk by the sea and they are shooting and killing.”

Trukhanov added that separate Russian shelling had killed one person in the past 24 hours. At least two people were killed and six injured in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday, according to Oleh Syniehubov, governor of Kharkiv Oblast.

President Zelensky said: “My condolences to family and friends. Many wounded — everyone is being helped now.” He called for more support from Ukraine’s allies to stop “Russia’s regular missile attacks, as well as the occupier’s efforts to destroy as many Ukrainian positions as possible”.

He said: “Ukrainian strength must be backed up by sufficient support from partners. ‘Patriots’ that need to be in Ukraine now, the 155mm-calibre [artillery ammunition] … and weapons with sufficient range to destroy Russian logistics.”

Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of Nato, said “serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield” for Ukraine and that that the “process must be sped up”.

Speaking from Kyiv, Stoltenberg added: “The lack of ammunition has allowed the Russians to push forward along the front line. Lack of air defence has made it possible for more Russian missiles to hit their targets, and the lack of deep strike capabilities has made it possible for the Russians to concentrate more forces.”


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https://x.com/Newsweek/status/1785256155222028480

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Yup, the screeching propaganda that Bill referred to, further back on the thread :) Pathetic stuff from legacy media - really pathetic drivel. Once upon a time Western propaganda used to be really very good, or at the least a little convincing. Much like the DEI infested military apparatuses in the 'West' even the PR machine is getting rusty and decrepit.

[Tintin]

Musing on Odessa

Some of my own passing thoughts here concerning Odessa: now, according to intel and commentary I've picked up through Telegram over the last couple weeks or so there seems to be an active Russian underground in operation in the city; that oughtn't to be too much of a surprise in truth. One guesses that there are probably Russian Special Forces embedded there too (Spetsnaz, or equivalent maybe?) My hunch is that in tandem with the targeted missile strikes on military installations - ammunition silos and the like - that the city will be 'softened up' from within, with any concerted show of force at brigade level and more intense aerospace operations following later on in support of any sabotage ops. 'Big arrow' WW2 style offensive activity is likely off-the-table due to advances in ISR capability.

Those of us following events here closely are already aware that the capture of Odessa would seal what's left of Ukraine into an essentially land-locked and somewhat rump entity. We'll see of course but securing Odessa must most definitely be a Russian strategy and may well have been for quite some time, and certainly following the Western sponsored scuppering of the Istanbul 'peace' talks from April 2022, and subsequent to the referenda held in the four new regions from autumn/fall of 2022.

The other area of immense interest is of course Kharkov where it seems that there have been incremental Russian advances, and military successes.

[Tintin]

Known defective German Leopard 1A5 tanks acquired by Ukraine November 2023

Via Intel Slava Z on Telegram (https://t.me/intelslava/58532) published 2 hours or so ago. *Documents are written in Ukrainian with no English translation, save for below*.



Russian hackers from the Beregini group published a report of the Ukrainian military, which received German Leopard 1A5 tanks in Poland in November last year. During acceptance, it turned out that almost all tanks had defects


*With thanks to Simplicius in his most recent (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5124-the-russian-steamroller), here, we now have an English translation :highfive:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Beregini_1.jpg
https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Beregini_2.jpg

[ExomatrixTV]

'Ukraine Is Not Anymore Sovereign State', Says Hungary's Orban:

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. Various of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arriving at conference

2. Various of Orban walking on stage, preparing to speak

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:

“The sense of this European election is - change the leadership. What is election for? The sense of election is that if the leadership proves to be bad, must be replaced. That is so simple. And this leadership of European Union is simply bad. It has failed. So it's not just a political statement, it is very much factual.”

4. Orban on stage

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:

“I think that nations have the right to decide about their own future. So if somebody would like to make an attempt to create a mixed society, Christian-based with Muslim community, and as liberal thing that the outcome will be something good - let's do it, it is your fate, your future, but don’t force us to do so. That’s what we called the offer of tolerance, what I have made several times to Brussels. I said, 'guys, you can create whatever migration system you would like to do, but don’t force Hungary to do the same thing, because we simply don’t believe.' We think that mixture of two civilizations will not result in good things.”

6. Orban on stage

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:

“We respect (inaudible) rights of Ukraine, sovereignty of Ukraine, (inaudible) people to maintain their own state. So therefore the invasion of Putin against Ukraine is totally against values of international relations and all the values we respect, so no question of that. But the Hungarian point of interest is that something must be between Russia and Hungary, so this is the number one. So we support Ukraine to survive somehow, which is questioned, because Ukraine is not any more sovereign state. Ukraine is now just the protectorate of the West. So without getting the money and weapons from the European Union and United States, Ukraine as a state would cease to exist. So it is not a sovereign state anymore.”

8. Wide of conference

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:

“Hungary has always had good economic relations with Russia, so I would not like to give up that kind of cooperation. Because the war between Ukraine and Russia is not the war of Hungarians. It is the war of two Slavic nations, one big Slavic nation attacked another one. And they have a war. And we don’t behave like the Europeans who said - 'oh it is our war, because it is about values, it is about international order, whatsoever, so we are in the war, it is our war but not fully. Because we would not like to die. So, please Ukrainians die, we give the money, give the weapons and defend our values please. So it is not so much our war to go into, to take the lives, to fight there, but just to finance your (inaudible).' So, I don’t like that approach at all.”

10. Wide of conference

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:

”The reason of the war is very simple. It is called NATO membership. And just as a country who was occupied by the Russians for 45 years, I can say from personal experience that Russians will never allow to have membership of Ukraine as it is now in NATO. For the geopolitical thinking, it is impossible. They will always do everything to have something between the Russian border and NATO countries' border. It could be called Ukraine, it could be war zone, whatever, but a buffer zone must exist between NATO and Ukraine.”

12. Wide of conference

[Tintin]

Referring to Hervé's post on the Ukraine Webcast thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69467-Ukraine-Webcast-Summary-of-all-events-to-date-from-legit-Ukraine-Gov-t&p=809742&viewfull=1#post809742). There may actually be a case for merging these but that can perhaps wait a bit. Given the purges on YouTube and link breakages as a result of censorship I felt it timely to recover this moment, and save it to our archives:

[HISTORICAL] Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet And Catherine Ashton Discuss Ukraine Over The Phone

Intercepted telephone conversation from 2014

Description:



Officers of Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) loyal to the ousted President Viktor Yanukovich have hacked phones of Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Urmas Paet and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton and leaked their conversation to the web.

The officials discuss their impressions of what's happening in the country after the revolution.

The gist of it is that Ukrainian people have no trust in any of the leaders of Maidan.

However the most striking thing of all is the fact which concerns the use of force during the revolution, particularly the snipers who killed both protesters and officers of the riot police.

Mr. Paet reveals astonishing information which confirms the rumours that the snipers were employed by the leaders of Maidan.

MP3 below:

Duration: 00:10:49
Year: 2014

Conversation proper starts at 00:01:53

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Maidan_massacre_February_2014/2014-03-05_Estonian_Foreign_Minister_Urmas_Paet_and_Catherine_Ashton_discuss_Ukraine_over_the_phone.mp3

[Tintin]

"The State Department has accused Telizhenko being part of a "Russia-linked foreign influence network." In Sept. 2020 it revoked his visa to travel to the United States. Telizhenko, who now lives in a western European country where he was granted political asylum, denies working with Russia and says that he is a whistleblower speaking out to expose how U.S. interference has ravaged his country. RealClearInvestigations has confirmed that he worked closely with top American officials while they advanced policies aimed at severing Ukraine’s ties to Russia. No official contacted for this article – including former CIA chief John Brennan and senior State Department official Victoria Nuland – disputed any of his claims. - Aaron Maté, for RealClearInvestigations, April 30, 2024

What 10 Years of U.S. Meddling in Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)

Way too long to post here but can be read in its entirety via our Avalon Library PDF copy (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Articles/2024-04-30_What_10_Years_of_U.S._Meddling_in_Ukraine_Have_Wrought_%28Spoiler_Alert_Not_Democracy%29_by_Aaron _Mate_for_RealClearInvestigations.pdf), here, or at source (https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/30/what_10_years_of_us_meddling_in_ukraine_have_wrought_spoiler_alert_it_wasnt_democracy_1027411.html):


"This account of U.S. interference in Ukraine, which can be traced to fateful decisions made by the Obama administration, including then-Vice President Biden and his top aides, is based on often overlooked public disclosures. It also relies on the personal testimony of Andrii Telizhenko, a former Ukrainian diplomat and Democratic Party-tied political consultant who worked closely with U.S. officials to promote regime change in Ukraine.

Although he once welcomed Washington’s influence in Ukraine, Telizhenko now takes a different view. “I'm a Ukrainian who knew how Ukraine was 30 years ago, and what it became today,” he says. “For me, it's a total failed state.” In his view, Ukraine has been “used directly by the United States to fight a [proxy] war with Russia” and “as a rag to make money for people like Biden and his family.”"

Source: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/30/what_10_years_of_us_meddling_in_ukraine_have_wrought_spoiler_alert_it_wasnt_democracy_1027411.html

[Vicus]

Odessa Massacre Ten Years On: How Radicals Drowned City in Blood to Subdue Ukraine

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Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the May 2, 2014 Odessa Trade Unions Building massacre, in which 48 anti-Maidan activists were burned alive by neo-Nazi thugs. The violence, coming soon after Kiev kicked off its ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the Donbass, demonstrated the new regime’s readiness to drown Ukraine in blood to cling to power.

The warm weather of the spring of 2014 was accompanied by the winds of revolutionary fervor across southeastern Ukraine, with activists from across Kharkov, the Donbass, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Nikolayev and Odessa rising up in opposition to the Euromaidan coup in Kiev that had taken place in February.
The US and EU-sponsored insurrection in the Ukrainian capital, which culminated in the ouster of democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych and his replacement by radical pro-US and ultra-nationalist forces seeking to scupper relations with Russia in favor of closer ties with the West, was met with anger by many residents in Ukraine’s southeast. Holding dear the centuries of common historical, cultural, linguistic, family, economic and other bonds with Russia, residents of southeastern regions favored Ukraine’s entry into the Eurasian Union, and expressed opposition to the pro-EU, pro-NATO course of the new authorities in Kiev.

When the Euromaidan protests began in November 2013, and as pro-Maidan activists had only just established their first encampments in the center of Kiev to protest the Yanukovych government’s rejection of a European association deal with the EU, Odessa became among the first cities in Ukraine’s southeast where opposition to the Maidan was organized.

continue: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240502/odessa-massacre-ten-years-on-how-radicals-drowned-city-in-blood-to-subdue-ukraine-1118193803.html

[Vicus]

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Pro-Maidan activists and football ultras watch burning House of Trade Unions Building in Odessa after setting it alight with dozens of anti-Maidan activists inside.

“Another piece of evidence that these events were planned in advance is that on April 29, [then-Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Andriy] Parubiy came to Odessa. As I said, there were five checkpoints around the city. There was also a post near the Seventh-Kilometer Market, which he visited, bringing bulletproof vests to the Maidan protesters. I don’t know what else he brought, but in any case, it included about 20 pieces of level 5 body armor. Then he held a meeting at the Odessa Regional Administration. I believe he came to review the preparations, to check whether everything was ready for the operation, which was already planned for May 2, under the pretext of the football match…Was he in Odessa on May 2? I cannot say. I don’t think he was. But among those who committed the crimes of that day, some were in touch with him,” the investigator said.

“At about 7 pm, when the Trade Unions building had started to burn and I saw that people were dying, I began calling the Fire Department, but the line was always busy. I saw a man jump out of the building before my eyes, or get thrown out the window – literally five meters in front of me a body slammed down onto the ground. As it turned out, it was former Odessa Regional Council lawmaker Slava Markin. Before that, I heard a woman’s cry ‘help, people, help!’ They shouted from the street in response ‘Shout your mouth!’ Suddenly the woman fell silent, and a man appeared in the window with the flag of Ukraine shouting ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ and from the street they shouted back ‘Glory to Heroes!’ and applauded. I don’t know for certain, but I believe they killed Irina Yakovenko – the woman who was then shown repeatedly in television reports dead in an unnatural position on the table in the Trade Unions building. She was strangled with a wire.”

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240502/odessa-massacre-ten-years-on-how-radicals-drowned-city-in-blood-to-subdue-ukraine-1118193803.html

[Vicus]

Nowhere to Hide: Ukrainian Retreat Shows Their Defense Lines Barely Exist 2 hours ago

A recent article has stressed that Ukrainian soldiers are outmatched and outgunned and often forced to retreat to poor rear defenses.

Ukrainian soldiers find no shelter even after retreating from the front lines since rear defenses barely exist, a new report by the Associated Press has revealed.
According to the outlet, Ukraine is currently bracing to build concrete-fortified trenches, yet this comes amid constant shelling by the Russian Army and in the absence of proper equipment, limiting the impact of the measure.
The Kiev regime has allocated $960 million to create a fortified network, however corruption and bureaucracy plague the process.
According to the data, construction companies were awarded contracts to erect the third defensive line without a typical bidding process – clearly increasing the risk of corruption. The managing directors of these businesses lament the passivity of the Ukrainian state.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240502/nowhere-to-hide-ukrainian-retreat-shows-their-defense-lines-barely-exist-1118228062.html

[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi9-o0eV3wQ

9 hours ago

[Vicus]

Le Monde: the Russians have an “absolute weapon”

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Russian troops are successfully using glide bombs against Ukrainian militants. The French newspaper Le Monde writes that these ammunition have become a complete nightmare for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The publication notes that in order to achieve firepower, the Russian Armed Forces modernized Soviet-era aerial bombs, turning them into “ultimate weapons.”

These bombs completely destroy any position. All buildings and structures simply turn into a pit after the arrival of just one CAB. And in one day they drop 60-80 pieces on us

– one of the Ukrainian soldiers told Le Monde in an interview.

Gliding bombs played an important role in the liberation of Avdeevka, and since then Russian troops have been actively using them in various directions. It is possible that thanks to these ammunition, the scales on the contact line will finally tip in favor of Moscow and will allow the Russian Armed Forces to break through the front.

KAB also contribute to the battle for Chasov Yar. The city is one of the last strongholds of the Ukrainian side on the way to Kramatorsk.

Earlier, the German magazine Spiegel wrote that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are experiencing big problems with supplies in the Chasov Yar area. In fact, Ukrainians getting ready to retreat from this locality. If the city is liberated by Russian units, the entire Ukrainian defense in Donbass may collapse.

https://en.topcor.ru/46993-le-monde-rossijskie-planirujuschie-aviabomby-razrushajut-ljubye-pozicii-vsu.html

[Vicus]

Russian electronic warfare systems turned out to be a “big problem” for American precision weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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Ukrainian troops have practically stopped using American 155-mm Excalibur precision artillery shells, since the effectiveness of their use has dropped to extremely low levels due to Russian electronic warfare systems. This statement was made by senior researcher at the Hudson Institute Daniel Patt.

Speaking before congressmen, the specialist said that in six weeks the Russian military adapted electronic warfare systems to combat American precision-guided munitions, making them extremely ineffective, reducing the probability of hitting a target from 70% to 6%. According to Patt, the command of the Russian Armed Forces is actively using electronic warfare systems to combat high-precision ammunition, deploying them along the front line. The expert claims that the peak effectiveness of any high-precision system transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces occurs in two weeks, after which the Russians find countermeasures.

According to Defense One, not only did the Excalibur projectiles lose their effectiveness, but the GMLRS rockets and the JDAM GPS-guided bombs also had problems. And the GLSDB “small diameter bombs”, specially developed for the Ukrainian army, showed extremely low effectiveness due to the use of electronic warfare systems by Russian troops.

According to a report prepared by the Pentagon, Russian electronic warfare systems turned out to be a “big problem” for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of the use of high-precision American weapons. According to the US military, they have never encountered such systems before.

https://en.topwar.ru/241606-rossijskie-sistemy-rjeb-okazalis-bolshoj-problemoj-dlja-amerikanskogo-vysokotochnogo-oruzhija-postavlennogo-vsu.html

[Vicus]

Kurginyan: West gives green light to international neo-Nazi movement 3 hours ago

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Nazism in Ukraine

The West uses international neo-Nazi structures to destabilize the situation in various regions, the leader of the Essence of Time movement, political scientist and analyst Sergey Kurginyan said on April 8 on Belarusian channel BelTA.

At the program, it was discussed how tension will be escalated in Belarus. The host noted that local radicals are involved in this process, but “trained NATO soldiers, including e.g. Poles and Lithuanians, enter under their flags.”

Kurginyan suggested that the situation should be considered at the level of meanings, which determines economy, army, security services, and everything else. From this point of view, the most important question is whether a European war will happen.

“So, you are asking what we have to prepare for. Indeed, for what? Will we have to suppress 40 conflicts in various spots? Or do we need to prepare for a certain system unfolding?” the political scientist said.

Kurginyan noted that “local outcasts” will be involved in the escalation of a conflict in Belarus. But they will not play the key role.

Kurginyan noted that “local outcasts” will be involved in the escalation of a conflict in Belarus. But they will not play the key role.

“Yes, of course, the ‘great Belarusian democracy fighting Lukashenko’s tyranny’ will consist of some Lithuanians, some Poles, Ukrainians, and local outcasts. The local outcasts will not dominate, they will follow behind and wave their flags. That’s it!” the leader of Essence of Time stressed.

Kurginyan drew a parallel with the “Russian Volunteer Corps” (organization banned in Russia), which is not at all Russian as it involves international neo-Nazi structures.

“All these sectors of neo-Nazism, are they Russian? The idea is that the first echelon of it will be the international neo-Nazi movement, which has been given the green light,” the leader of Essence of Time noted.

https://eu.eot.su/2024/05/02/kurginyan-west-gives-green-light-to-international-neo-nazi-movement/

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We'll see of course but securing Odessa must most definitely be a Russian strategy and may well have been for quite some time...


Yes, of course, Odessa is the creme de la creme of a different kind of social engineering, that is, the spread of Greek and Jewish communities around the Black Sea. Not an indigenous habitation of 5,000 B. C. E., but, a newish build-in from around 500 B. C. E..

That means it is like the "foot" of Russia, in terms of culture, or the on-the-ground day-to-day reality of humanity, politics notwithstanding. A prime example of "the people".

And, since, strategically, it is an easy gate to Romania, there is the counter-interest of keeping it available for western hands. What could be more of an advertisement about a warehouse full of shells? How do you think you can feed that much live ammunition into the place? Put a 155 in your pocket and sneak them in one by one, bribing the border guards.



Like Gaza, we are talking about a "region of inhabitation", not a "country"--it of course has been kicked like a football between outside powers over and over again. Its, perhaps, "historical ties" to a Ukrainian entity are:



UPR dec 1917-nov 1918

Ukrainian State mar-dec 1918

Ukraine 1991-to this day


But the Ukrainians do not seem to be part of the Greek sphere, so, on a human level, there is no reason to think they "deserve" the Black Sea coast. This may take a little longer, but, is probably the next step after the current front.

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Kurginyan: West gives green light to international neo-Nazi movement


Or, the West *is* the pre-, the then-, and the neo- Nazis.

Repeating the same story:


“Yes, of course, the ‘great Belarusian democracy fighting Lukashenko’s tyranny’ will consist of some Lithuanians, some Poles, Ukrainians, and local outcasts. The local outcasts will not dominate, they will follow behind and wave their flags. That’s it!” the leader of Essence of Time stressed.


Same as the nineteenth-century Russian Student Groups, Nihilists, eventually the Bolsheviks; Mazzini. British hegemony in your local language. Mindless violence fueled by cash. Not representatives of "the people".

Wiser from experience, perhaps Belarus will be the place to snuff it before it happens.

It's not a toy, it has a defense pact with nuclear-armed Russia. Messing with it can only be categorized as Absolutely Stupid.

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Known defective German Leopard 1A5 tanks acquired by Ukraine November 2023

Via Intel Slava Z on Telegram (https://t.me/intelslava/58532) published 2 hours or so ago. *Documents are written in Ukrainian with no English translation, save for below*.


Russian hackers from the Beregini group published a report of the Ukrainian military, which received German Leopard 1A5 tanks in Poland in November last year. During acceptance, it turned out that almost all tanks had defects

*With thanks to Simplicius in his most recent (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5124-the-russian-steamroller), here, we now have an English translation :highfive:

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https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/Beregini_2.jpgMany thanks — I was going to have a crack at translating this myself, but Simplicius beat me to it. :)

The list is instructive — and reveals even more just how little the west really cares about the Ukrainians. One suspects that at least some of these trumpeted weapons deliveries are just for western media PR. Even a quick look at this shows that many of those tanks would have been quite unusable in a serious battle situation.

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Or it may be that the collective west supporting Ukraine with defective weaponry is in fact simply to prolong this war as much as possible, specifically to ensure that as many Ukrainians as possible die or flee the country. They have designs on Ukraine, and there is a curious synchronicity between the conflict in Ukraine and the one in Gaza.

Here's a video that provides the best explanation on this point. It has already been posted in the Israel vs Gaza thread couple of weeks ago, but it also belongs here, as Ukraine is just as much part of the deep state war agaisnt the BRICS. Highly recommend it.

The Hidden Reasons Behind the War on Gaza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuGZ2MdKpU

"(Published Oct. 27, 2023) | Richard Medhurst, independent journalist from the United Kingdom, presents his geopolitical analysis in this viral video exposing the hidden reasons behind the US and Israel's war on Gaza.

1. Control of the large quantities of gas in the mediterrenean sea through sanctions on Iran (withdrawal from nuclear deal), Russia (Ukraine war), and crippling Lebanon, Syria, and now Gaza's, infrastructure. Conveniently, this leaves only Israel able to extract the gas in the Leviathan gas field, necessary to deliver on its gas deal with the European Union following the outbreak of the Ukraine war.

2. Countering BRICS, China, and the New Silk Road. Shortly before the war in Gaza began, Netanyahu had announced his "plan for a New Middle East" establishing a rival trade route from India, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and into Occupied Palestine and Europe."

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Withering :laughs:

Colonel of the SVR, MGIMO professor Andrei Bezrukov - about Macron’s statements about sending the French army to Ukraine

Quote: "“Forget about Macron, he will be gone soon. He's in his last presidential cycle. He can’t run for office, and he’s such a dick. Someone I know joked that the French rooster is the only bird that can sing while standing knee-deep in ****. In reality, these statements are worthless, they are worth nothing!

With the contingent of the French army that can still be sent, this will solve absolutely nothing on the battlefield. This will only add to the mess. The French army is in principle incapable of introducing a field war of the type that exists here now. She is not prepared for this, she is not equipped for this. It can fire nuclear missiles from a submarine. Maybe, but she's not stupid enough to do it. She can give her planes, good planes. But what kind of pilots will have to be placed there? And everyone understands that if they are in Ukraine, they will burn." Endquote

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Ukraine's neo-Nazis should face tribunal - Russia's top senator

RT
Thu, 02 May 2024 09:26 UTC
Russian Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko.

Those responsible for the deaths of 42 anti-Maidan activists in Odessa in 2014 should face justice, Valentina Matvienko said.

Russia must establish a special tribunal for Ukrainian neo-Nazis after Moscow's military campaign ends, the chairwoman of the upper house of Russia's parliament, the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, has said.

The senator singled out events in Odessa in May 2014, when 42 activists burned to death after being pelted with Molotov cocktails by a mob supporting Western-backed protests in Kiev which overthrew Ukraine's democratically elected government.

During the clashes, both sides used sticks, batons, Molotov cocktails, rubber-bullet guns and firearms. Outnumbered by far-right radicals, the so-called anti-Maidan activists took cover inside the port city's Trade Unions House, which was surrounded and torched by the nationalists.

In a post on her Telegram channel on Thursday, Matvienko wrote that she was "convinced that on completion of the SMO (Special Military Operation) there will be a need for a big tribunal," adding that events in May 2014 in Odessa should be investigated as the cornerstone of the process.

The senior Russian lawmaker insisted that there would be "no statute of limitations" and those responsible for the massacre, as well as Ukrainian officials who chose to "turn a blind eye," would not evade justice.


The fact that ten years on, authorities have still not named or prosecuted any of the perpetrators, proves that Nazism is a "deep-rooted, natural norm" for the current Kiev authorities.

"I would even call it an overt, deliberate, brazen cover-up by Kiev of its ideological Nazi-supporters," Matvienko wrote.

The top senator also accused Western powers and international organizations of ignoring the crime, comparing their stance to Europe's appeasement policies toward Nazi Germany back in the 1930s.

She concluded that there are currently no forces capable of uprooting the "ordinary Nazism" which she said has taken hold in Ukraine, meaning that "external efforts are needed" to accomplish this task.

"A clear understanding of this fact today completely confirms that Russia's decisions and actions aimed at denazifying Ukraine have been justified," Matvienko said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin's stated goal of the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine. She added that this was in the interests of Russian security, of the Ukrainian people, and "in the interest of mankind."

Following the deadly clashes in Odessa on May 2, 2014, top-ranking Ukrainian officials were quick to point the finger at Moscow, claiming the events had been a "pre-planned and well-financed operation by the Russian special services."

https://www.sott.net/article/491105-Ukraines-neo-Nazis-should-face-tribunal-Russias-top-senator

[Vicus]

The Terror's Instigators: How NATO Generals Ignite Conflict
Jillian Bennett
The Houston Post
Fri, 03 May 2024

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According to sources from the Foundation to Battle Injustice, a former high-ranking officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff, and confirmed by a former MI6 officer, there are significantly more NATO soldiers and officers in Ukraine than officially reported. The estimated number is around 6,800, including 2,500 Americans, 1,900 Canadians, 1,100 British citizens, and about 700 French representatives. Moreover, approximately 13,000 foreign mercenaries are operating in Ukraine, carrying out orders from NATO's governing structures.


Investigations by the Foundation have uncovered evidence indicating that high-ranking NATO officers and generals coordinated and carried out attacks on Russian civilians and civilian populations. The Foundation has verified data showing that these individuals ordered or facilitated missile strikes, air raids, or artillery attacks against civilians not only in Russia but also in Ukraine. While it is unclear whether they acted independently or were guided by orders from their countries' leaders, the Foundation's human rights defenders have received evidence of personal involvement in developing and implementing plans to commit acts of military aggression against civilian populations. The Foundation qualifies these actions as military terrorism.

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General Death: How an American officer is practicing genocide in Ukraine and coordinating attacks on the Belgorod region

The US sent Lieutenant General Antonio Aguto to develop the strategy and tactics of combat operations for the Ukrainian military. In effect, he took Zaluzhny's place as commander of the Ukrainian Army.

The Foundation's sources say that Aguto has been in de facto charge of the Ukrainian armed forces since December 2023

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The Foundation notes that Aguto was not chosen by chance. The 57-year-old lieutenant general has extensive experience in combat operations in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. During his time serving in the US military's foreign missions, Aguto was involved in contacting and recruiting terrorists and members of various radical organizations. In particular, according to a source from the Foundation, in late 2007, during the US intervention in Iraq, Lieutenant General Aguto personally participated in the formation of combat units of radical Islamists in northern Iraq.

continue: https://www.sott.net/article/491108-The-Terrors-Instigators-How-NATO-Generals-Ignite-Conflict

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Very long but fantastic article with all the names and photos from all west bastards ...

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Some of the west bastards...

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Nato General Cadieux designed and supervised a number of high-profile military provocations in Ukraine in the first half of 2022. Curator of the Azov battalion

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French general Jean Laurentin developed the strategy of shelling the territory of Donbass with the CAESAR French artillery system

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Anthony Radakin, British admiral, author of fakes about the involvement of the Russian Armed Forces in the destruction of civilian objects

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NATO generals suspected of committing war crimes in Ukraine and Russia

https://www.sott.net/article/491108-The-Terrors-Instigators-How-NATO-Generals-Ignite-Conflict

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❗️🇷🇺 🇺🇦🇱🇹 The Ukrainian saboteur neutralized in the Leningrad region was trained in Lithuania, the FSB reported. When examining his phone, “correspondence with the curator was discovered, confirming the preparation of a terrorist attack in the Leningrad region.

It also became known about plans to “completely eradicate everything Russian” in the Baltic countries and planning terrorist attacks in Orthodox churches and in places of residence of Russian-speaking residents, in particular, the arson of a cinema in Riga during a film screening.”

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

3 May 2024

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️ The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 14th and 44th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Sinkovka and Dvurechnaya (Kharkov region).

Three attacks launched by assault groups of the AFU 63rd Mechanised, 77th Airmobile, and 1st National Guard brigades were repelled close to Berestovoye (Kharkov region), Stelmakhovka, and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

The enemy losses amounted to up to 355 Ukrainian troops and two motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155-mm M198 howitzer, one 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, two U.S.-made 105-mm M119 gun, one UK-made 105-mm L-119 howitzer, and one BM-21 Grad MLRS were eliminated.

▫️ The Yug Group of Forces units took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on the 79th, 80th air assault, 46th Airmobile, 24th Mechanized brigades of the AFU and 4th National Guard Brigade close to Spornoye, Konstantinovka, and Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 340 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier, four motor vehicles, one 152-mm D-20 howitzer, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, one UK-made 105-mm L-119 howitzer, as well as Nota electronic warfare station.

As a result of active actions, the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on the 3rd Assault Brigades, 24th, 110th mechanized brigades of the AFU and 109th Territorial Defense Brigade close to Mayorsk, Novgorodskoye, Semyonovka, and Rozovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The Russian troops also repelled ten counter-attacks launched by assault groups of the AFU 68th, 71st jaeger, 142nd Infantry, 23rd, 100th, 115th mechanized brigades of the AFU near Keramik, Novokalinovo, Ocheretino, Solovyevo, and Netailovo (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 360 Ukrainian troops, one U.S.-made Abrams tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored fighting vehicles, five pick-up trucks, one U.S.-made 155-mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one Czech-made 152-mm DANA M2 self-propelled gun, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, and one D-30 howitzer.

▫️ The Vostok Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and defeated the units of the 58th Mechanised Infantry Brigade of the AFU and 128th Territorial Defense Brigades near Staromayorskoye and Prechistovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Three counter-attacks launched by assault groups of the 106th Territorial Defence Brigade were repelled near Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer.

▫️ The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on manpower of the AFU 35th Marine Brigade and the 121st Territorial Defense Brigade close to Mikhailovka and Ivanovka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzer.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have eliminated one engagement radar of the S-300PT surface-to-air missile system and one launching vehicle of the German-made IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system have been neutralized.

In addition, the Balovoye oil base was hit by fuel supplies for AFU military personnel, as well as enemy manpower and hardware in 102 areas.

▫️Air defense systems shot down 40 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and three French-made Hammer aerial guided bombs during the day.

📊 In total, 593 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 23,713 unmanned aerial vehicles, 512 anti-aircraft missile systems, 15,908 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,278 combat vehicles of multiple rocket launcher systems, 9,276 field artillery guns and mortars, and 21,457 special military vehicles have been neutralized since the beginning of the special military operation.

Russian Defense Ministry

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🗺️🇷🇺 SMILEY SELFIES EVERYWHERE AS MILITARY ATTACHES FROM AROUND THE WORLD HAPPILY SNAP PHOTOS WITH RUSSIA'S CAPTURED NATO TROPHIES DISPLAYED IN MOSCOW.

Representatives from 51 countries, such as China, Morocco, South Africa, Argentina, India, Brazil, Italy, Serbia and Turkey thank Russia's Defense Ministry for opportunity to get close view of Western game-changers trash knocked out by Russia's superior weapons.

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The Duran

Shoigu, Russian offensive.
Ukraine, Donbass collapse



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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/suspected-mastermind-of-crimean-bridge-bombing-revealed--rep

Suspected mastermind of Crimean bridge bombing revealed: Reports
The Kommersant newspaper has revealed new details regarding the Russian investigation into the 2022 Crimean Bridge bombing.

Initially, there were suspicions of Ukrainian military involvement, but Russian investigators now focus on Vasily Malyuk, head of Ukraine’s civilian security agency, the SBU, as the suspected mastermind.

Malyuk reportedly orchestrated the attack by appointing a group of agents to carry it out.

According to the report, the bomb, disguised as rolls of plastic film, utilized solid rocket fuel triggered by a GPS tracker. It specifically refers to small explosive charge as an initiator, likely C4 or PE-8, and a GPS tracker set to detonate at a predetermined location on the bridge.

The report also named eight suspects involved in smuggling the bomb through multiple countries.

Read more: Audio says German Army plotted attack on Crimea bridge, media confirms

The investigative phase concluded in February, with the Russian Prosecutor General’s office expected to finalize its case and send it to a military tribunal for trial in June.

Ukrainian officials have prioritized their goal of destroying the Crimean Bridge, with senior envoy Sergey Kislitsa issuing threats against its existence.

The recent revelation of US missile deliveries, including ATACMS mid-range missiles, reportedly boosts Ukrainian expectations for achieving this goal.

The destruction of the Crimean Bridge is considered a national priority by Ukrainian authorities, who have hailed the operation as a success for their special services.

Despite initial denials of responsibility, Kiev now regards the terror attack as a major achievement.

Read more: Elon Musk denied Starlink access to Ukraine for Crimea attack

It was previously reported in July 2023 that Ukraine claimed responsibility for the attack, with Malyuk making this announcement during a television appearance.

The explosion that occurred in October 2022 severely damaged the bridge, and Russian authorities initially attributed it to a truck explosion while crossing, which tragically claimed the lives of three people.

However, Ukraine's revelation points to a deliberate act of sabotage as the cause behind the destruction.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦Ukrainian military commissars can fine all Ukrainians in absentia without a court decision - deputy head of the committee Osadchuk

We are talking about fines for violating military registration rules. It is also specified that the bank accounts of the evader will be blocked.

“The scheme will be such that the TCC will have the right to immediately issue a decree on bringing to responsibility, send it to you if you do not pay it - executive service, blocking of accounts and etc. As far as I read the law, in principle, you can fine everyone,” Osadchuk said.

Fines for individuals during martial law will be up to 25,500 UAH (64,000 rubles), and for legal entities - up to 60,000 UAH (150,000 rubles).

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ukrainian authorities were unable to establish official contacts with Telegram management

“In order to fine Telegram, you need to understand who it is. And we, unfortunately, know only one address in Dubai, where Telegram’s headquarters seems to be located. And all our attempts to establish official contacts with Telegram have so far been unsuccessful,” - said Deputy Head of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting Koval.
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The Council of Heads of the UN General Assembly called for the launch of a peace process for Ukraine based on the Istanbul Agreement of 2022, which provides for its neutrality.

In addition, they called for an immediate exchange of prisoners and the search for steps to prevent further escalation of the conflict.

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Russian troops struck the Balovnoye oil depot, from which fuel was supplied to Ukraine's military units.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Units of the Yug Battlegroup have taken more advantageous positions. Ukrainian losses amounted to 340 soldiers;

▪️Battlegroup Zapad improved its position on the frontline and repelled three attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region and the Lugansk People's Republic. Ukrainian losses amounted to 355 soldiers and nine pieces of equipment during the counter-battery struggle;

▪️Units of the Vostok Battlegroup repelled three counterattacks by Ukrainian forces, who lost up to 135 soldiers;

▪️Battlegroup Tsentr repelled ten Ukrainian counterattacks during the day;

▪️Russian troops destroyed the Ukrainian illumination and guidance radar, as well as the IRIS-T air defense missile launcher with two S-300PT air defense missile launchers. Russian air defenses shot down 40 Ukrainian drones and three Hammer bombs in a day.


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"For the first time, a Western politician has so openly recognized what has long been an 'open secret' for the majority of the world: The West is waging an open war against Russia through the hands of the Ukrainians," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, referring to British Foreign Minister David Cameron's remarks about Kiev's right to use British weapons to attack Russia.

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Ukrainian politician names those behind Odessa tragedy in interview with TASS

Viktor Medvedchuk pointed out that in a premeditated act of intimidation, the Kiev regime led by then acting Ukrainian President Alexander Turchinov burned people alive inside Odessa’s Trade Union House

MOSCOW, May 2. /TASS/. Viktor Medvedchuk, former leader of the Opposition Platform-For Life party who now leads the Other Ukraine movement, has exposed who was behind the May 2, 2014, tragedy in Odessa in an exclusive interview with TASS.

Medvedchuk pointed out that in a premeditated act of intimidation, the Kiev regime led by then acting Ukrainian President Alexander Turchinov burned people alive inside Odessa’s Trade Union House. "Ten days before the tragedy, Turchinov chaired a meeting on preparations for the mass murder of coup opponents in Odessa. [Then] Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Security Service of Ukraine chief Valentin Nalivaichenko and National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andrey Parubiy took part in the discussions. The consultations on the operation also involved Igor Kolomoisky, head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional state administration," he specified.

From the very start, they decided to carry out the operation on May 2, when a football match was set to take place in Odessa, which is why numerous members of fan groups and some 500 radicals from the Right Sector organization (outlawed in Russia) had arrived in the city. Medvedchuk noted that transportation had been provided to the perpetrators by Avakov, Parubiy, Kolomoisky and his henchman "Igor Palitsha, who led the operation on the ground and was appointed as Odessa Region governor for its ‘success’ on May 6, 2014."

Medvedchuk said that the criminal group’s actions were steered by outside forces who still rule Ukraine, "preventing the Ukrainian conflict from abating because they are vitally interested in it."

Those who organized, led and participated in the operation to burn people alive on May 2, 2014, must be brought to justice in Odessa, the politician added.

Odessa Trade Union House fire

On May 2, 2014, radicals from the Right Sector organization (outlawed in Russia) and the so-called Maidan self-defense forces attacked a tent encampment at Odessa’s Kulikovo Field public park, where city residents had been gathering signatures for a referendum on the federalization of Ukraine and granting Russian official language status. Some supporters of federalization took refuge inside the nearby Trade Union House but the radicals surrounded the building and set it on fire. According to official data from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, 48 people died and more than 240 others were injured in the tragic events of that day.

The authorities blamed the unrest entirely on "anti-Maidan" activists. However, the investigation, which lasted several years, was unable to prove their guilt in court. As a result, all those initially detained were ultimately acquitted.

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‘Keep sending more weapons and we’ll keep hammering them’: Ordinary Russians react to captured Western military hardware

Sputnik spoke to attendees at Moscow’s trophy weapons exhibition, and asked them whether they had any message for Western governments and taxpayers. Here’s what they had to say.

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Russia not depending on foreign gas turbines anymore — Rostec

"Two plants were constructed in Crimea and one in the Taman Peninsula - the Udarnaya, which we will launch in full as early as in this year," Sergey Chemezov noted

MOSCOW, May 3. /TASS/. Russia has overcome the dependence on high-capacity gas turbines of the foreign make, CEO of the Rostec State Corporation Sergey Chemezov said at the meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

"We are installing it [the GTD-110M high-capacity turbine - TASS] at our Udarnaya plant that is under construction at the Taman Peninsula. This is the first serially made turbine. Now we are confident that we can become independent," Chemezov said. "We can break up now with Siemens, and with General Electric. We built three plants - this is the third one. Two plants were constructed in Crimea and one in the Taman Peninsula - the Udarnaya, which we will launch in full as early as in this year," the chief executive noted.

Development of the GTD-110M high-capacity turbine is a very important milestone, the Prime Minister said. "I know the corporation was working for a long time on that, to create analogs of Western turbines," Mishustin stressed.

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🇱🇻 The Latvian army is already digging anti-tank ditches on the border with Russia and Belarus, local media report.

It is planned to erect defensive fortifications, various obstacles and prepare the territory for ammunition depots. The first line of defence will be built 1 km from the border with Russia, not far from the "Terekhovo" checkpoint.

Earlier, Lithuania and Estonia also decided to build a "defence line". The latter still intends to build 600 bunkers.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1786461787400888557

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https://tass.com/politics/1783381?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Russian diplomat sees Kiev preparing for new attack on Crimean Bridge with Western support

According to Maria Zakharova, ahead of Victory Day celebrations in Russia, "the Kiev regime and its Western patrons are plotting new terror attacks on Russian soil," while aiming for the news to "reverberate in the media and have a propaganda effect"

MOSCOW, May 3. /TASS/. Kiev is overtly making preparations for another attack on the Crimean Bridge with support from the West, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press briefing.

"Today, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Crimea, <...> the Crimean Bridge is being targeted again. It’s hard to believe but preparations for another attack on it are being made openly now <…> with direct and blatant support from the collective West," the Russian diplomat said.

According to Zakharova, ahead of Victory Day celebrations in Russia, "the Kiev regime and its Western patrons are plotting new terror attacks on Russian soil," while aiming for the news to "reverberate in the media and have a propaganda effect."

"It is exactly for these purposes on this day a year ago, on May 3, that they attempted to carry out a drone attack on the Moscow Kremlin," she recounted.

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https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1786461978942206185

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺✖️ The FSB destroyed a Ukrainian saboteur who was preparing terrorist attacks on military facilities

The saboteur came to Russia in March 2024 from Lithuania, where he studied mine explosives and small arms fire. They tried to catch him when he was taking explosives from a cache, but he put up armed resistance and disappeared.

During the seizure of another cache in the Gatchina region, the man again resisted and was eliminated. He prepared terrorist attacks at Ministry of Defense facilities, at a volunteer center and at a fuel terminal in the Leningrad region.

❗️ In his phone they found correspondence about the preparation of terrorist attacks in Orthodox churches and places of residence of Russian speakers in the Baltics. The terrorists’ plans were to “completely eradicate everything Russian.” - Ostashko reports


https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1786323596614291727

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This is exactly what I told you all 2 years ago:

🇺🇸🇺🇦 “The USA has forgotten how to fight a war” - American mercenary in Ukraine

▪️The American mercenary explained that most of the military training in the United States is focused on guerrilla warfare.
We've lost sight of much of the training in how to fight and survive in war against peer opponents, he says.
▪️By focusing on wars in the Middle East, the United States and its NATO allies have allowed the skills necessary for real large-scale conflicts to atrophy.
He says American soldiers are used to fighting with superiority in equipment and manpower, but against Russia in Ukraine, “I spent a lot of time fighting at a disadvantage compared to the enemy.”
http://t.me/RVvoenkor


https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1786088760716739006


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[Michel Leclerc]

Or it may be that the collective west supporting Ukraine with defective weaponry is in fact simply to prolong this war as much as possible, specifically to ensure that as many Ukrainians as possible die or flee the country. They have designs on Ukraine, and there is a curious synchronicity between the conflict in Ukraine and the one in Gaza.

Here's a video that provides the best explanation on this point. It has already been posted in the Israel vs Gaza thread couple of weeks ago, but it also belongs here, as Ukraine is just as much part of the deep state war agaisnt the BRICS. Highly recommend it.

The Hidden Reasons Behind the War on Gaza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuGZ2MdKpU

"(Published Oct. 27, 2023) | Richard Medhurst, independent journalist from the United Kingdom, presents his geopolitical analysis in this viral video exposing the hidden reasons behind the US and Israel's war on Gaza.

1. Control of the large quantities of gas in the mediterrenean sea through sanctions on Iran (withdrawal from nuclear deal), Russia (Ukraine war), and crippling Lebanon, Syria, and now Gaza's, infrastructure. Conveniently, this leaves only Israel able to extract the gas in the Leviathan gas field, necessary to deliver on its gas deal with the European Union following the outbreak of the Ukraine war.

2. Countering BRICS, China, and the New Silk Road. Shortly before the war in Gaza began, Netanyahu had announced his "plan for a New Middle East" establishing a rival trade route from India, to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and into Occupied Palestine and Europe."

Brilliant, excellent, correct – and beyond cognitive: replete with the passion necessary to fight!

[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 The mentally ill and mentally retarded will be drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published an order with a list of diseases for which they will be considered fit for service.

❗️ People with mental retardation, mental illness, patients with HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis and cancer will serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Lord of War

https://x.com/dana916/status/1786360368962359522

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[ExomatrixTV]

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[Tintin]

"Western mercenaries who visited Ukraine admitted that their combat skills had “atrophied”This was reported by the Business Insider portal with reference to the American military.

"We've become so accustomed to the idea of fighting guerrilla wars, fighting terrorists and everyone else, that we've forgotten what it's really like to fight a peer war," said one American mercenary.

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Extracted from Simplicius' latest gem (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/rusi-report-quietly-validates-russias): RUSI Report Quietly Validates Russia's Strategic Superiority: A Breakdown

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As reminder, RUSI is the Royal United Services Institute, and claims to be “the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defence and security think tank.” And not to be confused with a prominent Russian politician of the same name serving in the Duma, the article’s author Alex Vershinin’s credentials are listed....

The entire report revolves around an urgent plea for the West to remold its strategic concept of warfare, which has been badly degraded and fallen out with the times by several decades of lazy misallocation of resources and reorientation toward colonial policing actions.

In the following paragraph, the author defines precisely the difference between ‘maneuver’ wars and classic attritional wars, which is relevant in understanding the rest of the exegesis:


Attritional wars require their own ‘Art of War’ and are fought with a ‘force-centric’ approach, unlike wars of manoeuvre which are ‘terrain-focused’. They are rooted in massive industrial capacity to enable the replacement of losses, geographical depth to absorb a series of defeats, and technological conditions that prevent rapid ground movement. In attritional wars, military operations are shaped by a state’s ability to replace losses and generate new formations, not tactical and operational manoeuvres. The side that accepts the attritional nature of war and focuses on destroying enemy forces rather than gaining terrain is most likely to win.

In particular, re-read the last statement:


The side that accepts the attritional nature of war and focuses on destroying enemy forces rather than gaining terrain is most likely to win


This appears a major admission of Russia’s strategy. After all, recall how Ukraine’s strategy famously centers on “not one step back”, because even a single lost yard represents unbearable reputational costs for Zelensky’s much-admired ‘international community’. This has led to generals like Syrsky being dubbed “General 200” for his no step back attitude in prosecuting defenses like that of Bakhmut and Avdeevka, among others.

Russia on the other hand has notably used strategic retreat to such a vast extent it has left the military commentariat perplexed, as in the case of the large-scale back-to-back Kherson and Kharkov region withdrawals, not to mention the late March 2022 rerouting action from the entire north of the Kiev, Sumy, and Chernigov regions.

What this amounts to is the bitter admission that Russia has in fact been ahead of the mark all this while. Despite full-throated attempts to disparage Russia’s military choices throughout the course of the war, it has only now in retrospect become obvious to ‘experts’ that Russia has in fact been utilizing the superior common sense strategy all along, while waging the correct war.

What has it amounted to? It’s clear to see: just read the headlines. For Russia, the headlines talk incessantly of an “over abundance” of manpower and materiel. In the case of Ukraine, it’s the total opposite, the total lack of men. One side has competently pursued the strategy outlined by RUSI above: “The side that accepts the attritional nature of war and focuses on destroying enemy forces rather than gaining terrain is most likely to win.”

I’ve said since the beginning that most of Russia’s objectives in the war will be reached not by territorial gains but attritional ones. For instance, there’s almost no feasibly realistic way for Russia to “capture” Odessa via kinetic and direct physical assault. Going cross-river is unlikely, and having to come down from the north in Kiev would hypothetically take years. But simply baiting Ukraine to throw in all its blood and treasure into the Donbass killbox and meatgrinder, Russia stands to attrit the AFU both militarily, materially, economically, and morally to the point of exhaustion and collapse, allowing the subsequent capture of required territory via Ukrainian capitulation.


Source: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/rusi-report-quietly-validates-russias

[Vicus]

Russia Warns Reprisals if West and Ukraine Attacks Crimea

https://www.telesurenglish.net/__export/1714773269539/sites/telesur/img/2024/05/03/aharova.jpg_1718483346.jpg

"I want to warn Washington, London and Brussels once again that any aggressive action against Crimea is not only doomed to failure, but will be dealt a blow in retaliation that will be crushing," the spokeswoman said.

The statements are made from the statements of the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who reported that, as part of a counter-offensive, they will destroy the Crimean bridge.

According to Zakharov, the plans to attack Crimea are being carried out with "the brazen support of the Western countries".

Previously, the permanent representative of Ukraine to the UN, Sergei Kislitsa, hinted on Thursday that Ukrainian forces are preparing an attack on the bridge.

In response to this, Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitri Polianski, responded to these threats: "Now they bark angrily, but they will complain pathetically later, when the day of judgment comes and all those mistakes will be something they will regret".

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Warns-Reprisals-West-Ukraine-Attacks-Crimea--20240503-0015.html

[Vicus]

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the head of the Kyiv regime Zelensky and ex-President of Ukraine Poroshenko on the wanted list today

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put the head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, on the wanted list. A corresponding card has appeared in the department’s database, which indicates that Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelensky, born in 1978, is wanted under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, the criminal article for which the head of the Kyiv regime is wanted is not disclosed. The database also indicates the place of birth of the wanted person - the city of Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region.

The day before, Zelensky announced what issues he plans to discuss with participants in the so-called “Peace Summit,” which is scheduled for June 15-16 in Switzerland. In particular, the head of the Kyiv regime intends to raise the issue of exchanging prisoners of war with Russia in the “all for all” format (which is already somewhat absurd, since the number of militants of the Kyiv regime captured by the Russian Armed Forces is an order of magnitude greater than the number of captured Russian military personnel), freedom of navigation , as well as the return to Ukraine of allegedly “children deported from there.”

In turn, the Council of Presidents of the UN General Assembly called for the launch of a peace process to resolve the Ukrainian crisis on the basis of the long-lost remnants of the Istanbul Agreement of 2022, which provided for the return of new regions of Russia to Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv’s obligations to maintain the neutral status of its state .

It also became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put Petro Poroshenko, the ex-president of Ukraine, on the wanted list.

https://en.topwar.ru/241797-mvd-rf-objavilo-v-rozysk-glavu-kievskogo-rezhima-zelenskogo.html

[shaberon]

In his phone they found correspondence about the preparation of terrorist attacks in Orthodox churches and places of residence of Russian speakers in the Baltics. The terrorists’ plans were to “completely eradicate everything Russian.”


This.

What do you call "this"?

Not the potential crimes, the ideology or "side" expressing its desires.

[pounamuknight]

In his phone they found correspondence about the preparation of terrorist attacks in Orthodox churches


Here in Kiev, the women sitting in the marketplace are all witches.

Nikolai Gogol - THE VIY

Just recently on live Ukrainian TV, magik curse was cast against to Russians by popular host, Dimitry Gordon

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TRANSLATION: Friends, I have in my hands an official statement from Ukraine's best sorcerers and witches. They gathered in a cemetary on the night of the full moon. And singled out six most disgusting war criminals: Putin, Medvedev, Shoigu, Solovyov, Skabeeva and Simonyan. These six were doomed to hideous damage and death

Their photgraphs were place a top of forty graves. On this earth of the dead, water of the dead was spillled; water that was used to wash 40 dead bodies. The photographs were then pierced 40 times with a gypsy's needle. Then burnt upon the 40 graves

They are now marked for death. No one can banish the damage invoked! Terrible illness and death will befall upon them. Soloviev will be the first to pay for his crimes against Ukraine. Everyone will see the results in a couple of months

Not the first time Ukraine has conjured black magik (https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2022/03/26/witches-in-ukraine-to-perform-ritual-to-punish-putin.html) during this tragic war

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While at the same time, Ukraine has been violently carving up (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/reports/1898457/) while burning down their Orthodox-Christian heritage :cry:

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So when Russia Today's head, Margarita Simonyan found out her name was on this ghoulish hitlist (https://t.me/margaritasimonyan/13903), she found a witty way to dispell it :chuckle:


As usual, I find myself in very good company

But I’ll go to church and light a candle so that the demons will stop messing with Ukraine

[Jaak]

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[kfm27917]

France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/

[Rizotto]

"Former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and analyst Garland Nixon joined the show to discuss how neocons in both Washington and NATO are desperately attempting divert attention from the reality that Russia is moving forward in its attritional victory against Ukraine and its Western arsenal."

Scott Ritter: Ukraine is Heading for TOTAL COLLAPSE and Russia's Had ENOUGH ft. Garland Nixon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txzjKRrBT5c

[Tintin]

Russian forces advance in Kharkov region: Kyslovka near Kupyansk confirmed under Russian control.

An interesting 9 minute video via an Arabic source shared by Vasily Prozorov not so long ago.

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[grapevine]

France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/#:~:text=France%20has%20sent%20its%20first,Foreign%20Legion%20(L%C3%A9gion%20%C3%A9trang%C3%A8re) (https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/#:~:text=France%20has%20sent%20its%20first,Foreign%20Legion%20(L%C3%A9gion%20%C3%A9trang%C3%A8re).)

France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère).

In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home.

The Legion today is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Under the curren anonymat (being anonymous) a volunteer who joins the Legion can decide whether to keep his given name or adopt a new one. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship. If a legionnaire is wounded, he is entitled to gain French citizenship without any waiting period. There are no women in the Foreign Legion.

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The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine.

These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists.

For months French President Emanuel Macron has been threatening to send French troops to Ukraine. He has found little or no support from NATO countries outside of support from Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly the US opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine (other than as advisors).

One of the questions to immediately arise from France’s decision to send soldiers from its 3rd Infantry Regiment is whether this crosses the Russian red line on NATO involvement in Ukraine? Will the Russians see this as initiating a wider war beyond Ukraine’s borders?

France itself does not have many troops to put on Ukraine’s battlelines, should the French government want to do so. According to reports, today France cannot support an overseas deployment of a full division and won’t have this capability until 2027 at the earliest.

The decision to send Foreign Legionnaires is, itself, a peculiar French compromise. France is not deploying its home army and, besides the small number of officers, the men sent are not French citizens.

France’s decision has two meanings, beyond the obvious one of potentially triggering a pan-European war.

First of all, it allows Macron to send troops to Ukraine and act like a tough guy without encountering much home opposition. That’s because no French army soldiers are being sent and there is no consequent conscription or other measures in the offing. This clearly reduces the potential fury of Macron’s political opponents.

The second reason is Macron’s anger at seeing French troops, almost all from the Legion, getting kicked out of Sahelian Africa and replaced by Russians. Control of Francophone Africa, and the riches it provides to French politicians, has been broken by the revolt and revolution in Africa and a decisive tilt to Russia – either directly or through PMC Wagner (the Wagner Group). now clearly under Vladimir Putin’s direct control.

This “humiliation” is felt in the Élysée Palace and particularly by Macron who, his opponents say, has lost France’s influence and harmed France’s overseas mining and business interests.

A particular blow is in Niger, an important supplier of uranium to France. France gets 70 percent of its electrical power from nuclear power generators. Global uranium supplies are tightening and prices rising. With Russia and Kazakhstan, along with Niger, on the top of the heap in terms of supplying uranium for nuclear reactors, France has a home economic security problem. The US decision to ban Russian uranium (but probably not realistically, in the next few years) the Russians could deal a serious blow to France and the United States by cutting off supplies.

/. . . full article at link

[Open Minded Dude]

Quite some pessimism in this summary of European war preps from Mr Roeper. I hope he is still not entirely right.

https://anti--spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2024/wie-oeffentlichkeit-und-militaer-im-westen-auf-einen-baldigen-kriegseintritt-vorbereitet-werden/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

How the public and military in the West are being prepared for an imminent entry into war

Kiev is losing the war, and quite soon. Therefore, European states will now send regular armed forces to fight against Russia in Ukraine on their own, not as official NATO members. The question is no longer if, but when.

from Anti-Spiegel
May 5, 2024 7:24 p.m

The creed in the West is clear. All Western politicians announce in unison that Ukraine must not lose the war, that Russia must suffer a strategic defeat, and even that Russia must lose the war. Politicians in the West are now arming themselves rhetorically without any restraint, as we will soon see.

The EU states have put themselves in a quandary

However, there is a catch, as I explained in detail in the last Tacheles broadcast : You cannot defeat a nuclear power militarily, because if Russia really loses and suffers a strategic defeat, that could endanger the existence of the state of Russia itself in this case, Russia would use nuclear weapons as a last resort.

And not because Russia is so evil, but simply because any nuclear power would act like that. It doesn't matter whether we are talking about the USA, France, Great Britain, Israel, China or Russia.

The idea of ​​trying to defeat Russia militarily is therefore pure suicide, because even if it were successful, it would also mean the ultimate end for the victors. However, the (publicly dangerous) clowns who are currently allowed to play government in the EU and most EU member states do not seem to understand this, because they are forcing the further escalation of the war verbally and with their weapons and financial aid.

The question therefore arises as to how European politicians will deal with it if the Ukrainian front collapses in the near future. After Federal Smurf Scholz proudly announces at every opportunity that he has already sent almost 30 billion euros to Ukraine, if Ukraine loses, he can hardly stand in front of the German public and declare: “Sorry, it didn't work, that's it Ukraine."

The same applies to almost all other European politicians who have put themselves in a bind with their war rhetoric, because if Russia wins on the battlefield, they will not be able to explain to their voters tomorrow that all the billions were pointlessly thrown out the window and that Inflation and loss of prosperity in Europe were also for nothing. They have put themselves in the dilemma of having to prevent the Russian victory in their own interest (not in the interest of their countries or citizens!).

And since Kiev is known to be running out of soldiers, the only option left for European politicians is to send their own soldiers to Ukraine. They no longer have any other option, because what use are all the beautiful Western cannons and rockets if there are no more soldiers in Ukraine who can fire them?

And both the European soldiers and the European public are currently being systematically prepared for the fact that regular European soldiers will soon appear on the front in Ukraine. Let's take a closer look at how this has been done for weeks.

The political preparations

French President Macron gave the starting signal when he no longer wanted to rule out sending European soldiers to Ukraine at the end of February . Afterwards there were a number of other such explanations, of which I cannot show all of them here, but will only show a few examples.

Estonian Prime Minister Kallas loved Macron's proposal and said on February 29 that it was "good that we are discussing all options . " Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski stated at the beginning of March that NATO soldiers were already deployed in Ukraine and that some NATO countries had already sent soldiers to Ukraine:

“NATO troops are already present in Ukraine. And I would like to sincerely thank the representatives of these countries for taking this risk.”

At the beginning of March, France hastily began to have the French army conduct maneuvers in realistic conditions , simulating a high-intensity conflict with an enemy that is not inferior in firepower. It is obvious that this means Russia.

On March 15, the Latvian president said he supported Macron, adding that Europeans should not set red lines when supporting Ukraine. On the same day, the Finnish Foreign Minister echoed the same sentiments and declared that nothing should be ruled out in the “long term,” including the sending of ground troops to Ukraine.

Influential Ukrainian MP Alexei Goncharenko said on March 20, while taking part in the work of a PACE committee in France, that the French government was considering sending a European military mission to the Ukrainian regions bordering Belarus to attack the Ukrainians stationed there to release troops to fight against Russia.

The fact that German war drummers like Defense Minister Pistorius are now saying every day that the Bundeswehr and German society must become “ready for war” against Russia is also reminiscent of formulations by German politicians from the 30s and 40s of the last century, without this disturbing the German media.

As I said, these were just examples; the list could be continued for a long time.

The media preparations

De facto, NATO is already at war with Russia. The Western public is now gradually being prepared for this, even if German media are much more fearful than media in other Western countries because, despite all efforts, it has still not been possible to erase from the collective memory of Germans the memory of how bad and A war against Russia is hopeless. The fact that NATO is already at war with Russia would be extremely unpopular in Germany and, even with the best will in the world, enthusiasm for war cannot be aroused in Germany, so the German media simply hides the unpleasant truth.

Others are less shy. For example, CNN reported on April 2 that Western countries were helping Ukraine plan drone strikes on targets in Russia. At that time, the drone attacks on the Russian oil industry were taking place. CNN quoted a Ukrainian source as saying:

“These flights are determined in advance with our allies, the aircraft follow the flight plan that allows us to hit targets with an accuracy of several meters.”

A day later, on April 3, the Guardian reported in detail about Kiev's plans to attack the Crimean bridge again. It wasn't in the article, but Kiev has no means of attacking the bridge without help from the West. This would require missiles with a longer range, such as the German Taurus. And we have known that the Bundeswehr had planned such an attack scenario since the leaked phone call from the leadership of the German Air Force.

British Storm Shadow or French Sculp cruise missiles are unable to do this because they are fired from aircraft. Since these missiles only have a range of 300 kilometers, the aircraft would have to fly too close to the Russian air defenses. The Taurus has a range of 500 kilometers and could therefore be fired from aircraft at the Crimean bridge from a safe distance.

An alternative would be US ATACMS missiles with a range of 320 kilometers, which are fired from the ground and whose launch devices can be brought closer to the front than a fighter aircraft with cruise missiles.

Is the simultaneity a coincidence?

Macron did not wake up on the morning of February 27 and spontaneously declare that he was not ruling out sending troops to Ukraine. This had been prepared for a long time and, according to European politicians who oppose it, it was already known behind the scenes that Macron would say this at the EU summit that day. So the idea probably came about in February.

Meanwhile, the USA announced that ATACMS had already been secretly delivered to Ukraine in March. And – note the coincidence of timing – President Biden made the decision to do so in February.

After Macron's statement in March alone, I wrote several articles in which I quoted reports from Western politicians and media, all of whom suddenly announced that regular soldiers from NATO countries were already on one mission or another (including combat missions) in Ukraine are active. I don't want to repeat it all here, but refer you to my articles from February 29th , March 10th and March 20th .

The fact that the presence of NATO soldiers in Ukraine is now suddenly being openly acknowledged in the West, instead of being vehemently denied as before, suggests a coordinated media campaign to accustom the Western public to the idea that Western soldiers are fighting in Ukraine could. I already pointed this out on March 21st .

Interesting statements in April

Western politicians have also worked diligently on this, as I will show with a few more examples. At the beginning of April, the newly elected Finnish President Alexander Stubb declared that there would be no peace negotiations with Russia. The only way to peace leads through the battlefield.

On April 11th there was an interesting report from France. France, which has always tried to play a certain special role in NATO, announced on that day that it was taking operational control of its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle for the first time as part of a mission in the Mediterranean from April 26th to May 10th will provide NATO.

A day later, a refreshingly honest report came from Brussels. Margaritas Schinas, the deputy head of the EU Commission, said that day that the EU needs Ukraine because of its many mineral resources and large agricultural production:

“We need Ukraine because it is a large country with a lot of mineral resources and large production in the agricultural sector.”

By the way, she was following the EU's chief diplomat Borrell, who, in a fit of honesty, openly stated on CNN at the end of March what was actually going on in Ukraine:

“We cannot allow Russia to win this war. Otherwise, the interests of the USA and Europe would be significantly damaged. It's not a question of generosity. It's not about supporting Ukraine because we love Ukrainians. It’s in our own interest.”

On April 24, the Finnish president upped the ante when he called for more war preparations :

“In my opinion, the rhetoric has become increasingly bellicose in recent years. I think you feel that too. That is clear. Our screens are full of wars in Europe and the Middle East. But this rhetoric easily undermines feelings of security and belief in the future, especially among the younger generation. The best way to avoid war is to talk less and prepare more.”

Of course, everyone has to decide for themselves whether the Finnish president, who categorically rejected peace negotiations with Russia at the beginning of April and called for a decision on the battlefield, is serious about avoiding war. I feel like he's encouraging the public to go to war rather than trying to avoid war.

These were also just examples of how the Western public was consistently sworn to war in April. There are many more, such as the statement by James Heappey , the former Minister of State in the British Ministry of Defense, who on April 12th spoke out in favor of sending British soldiers to Ukraine, but of course for operations far from the front.

This is another salami tactic of Western politics, which wants to explain to the public that it only wants to deploy its soldiers far away from the front. Western politicians and media prefer to keep quiet about the fact that they are also legitimate targets for the Russian army there when they take over tasks from the Ukrainian army in order to free Ukrainian soldiers for the front.

But if Russia then bombs European soldiers, the excitement among Western media and politicians will of course be gigantic.

May: The number of hits increases

As Kiev's situation on the front becomes more and more desperate, statements from the West are becoming clearer and more frequent. The West had always set a red line for itself: attacks with weapons supplied from the West on undisputed Russian territory were not permitted because Russia could see this as open participation in the war by the West, which it would not do - if only because of the pressure that would then arise from the Russian population – would have to react.

On May 2, British Foreign Secretary Cameron crossed this red line when he declared that Ukraine had the right to attack targets in Russia with British weapons. This was followed by a very clear reaction from the Russian Foreign Ministry, which warned of the consequences of such attacks - specifically on the Crimean Bridge.

Macron has also portrayed himself as an agitator again. In an interview with The Economist last week, Macron gave two conditions for sending French troops to Ukraine: "if the Russians break through the front lines" and if there is a "Ukrainian request." The French president also renewed his "strategic goal" of ensuring that Russia does not win in Ukraine, as that would threaten European security.

Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president's spokesman, responded by saying that Macron and Cameron's statements represent a "very dangerous trend" that could threaten security on the continent:

“France, represented by the head of state, constantly talks about the possibility of direct participation on the ground in the conflict over Ukraine. This is a very dangerous trend that we are monitoring closely.”

Given that the Russian army in Donbass appears to have broken through the Ukrainian front (or is at least on the verge of it), Macron's statement must be taken very seriously, because if he were to carry out his threat, French soldiers would already be on the way to the front be Ukraine. It is fitting that an American expert has now written that soldiers from the French Foreign Legion are already on the front in Donbass.

Meanwhile, the Bundeswehr has another glitch to report. At least 6,000 meetings held via Webex were easily discoverable online. You could see the title, time and the inviting person of important meetings. A meeting on April 25 was entitled “Review of the Taurus milestone plan and finalization,” which would mean that the Bundeswehr is moving forward with plans for the delivery and deployment of the Taurus in Ukraine, despite the German Chancellor claiming the opposite is the case and under no circumstances would he deliver the Taurus to Kiev.

On May 5, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica also alerted its readers to a possible war against Russia when it reported on two NATO red lines.

Will the decision on war and peace be made at the end of May?

In this context, I must once again point out an article that I wrote at the end of March. In it I presented the NATO maneuver Steadfast Defender, as part of which almost 100,000 NATO soldiers will be deployed ready for combat along the borders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in three sub-maneuvers at the end of May.

If European leaders are prepared to go to real war with Russia, this would be the defining moment. NATO soldiers could move into Ukraine, while at the same time other NATO soldiers stand ready along their borders as a threat against Russia and Belarus.

Of course, this would not be an official action by NATO, because all European politicians, including Macron, always point out that each state would reach its own agreement with Kiev. This is not a NATO war. They also have to say that because the USA itself does not want a war with Russia - and without the green light from the USA there is no NATO war.

The Council on Foreign Relations just reiterated this in an article when it called for “Europe – not NATO – should send troops to Ukraine . ”

With the Ukrainian army's front line likely to collapse soon, the die appears to have been cast. After the Ukrainians, the USA now wants to fight Russia to the last European.

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I am adding this video... from 8 months ago... it belongs to this thread as well!

BREAKING NEWS: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Gives Unvarnished Take On US's Role In The War In Ukraine

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Yes, we already know so many these kind of topic... but, also this video belongs here...This is from 3 months ago!!!
RFKJr is knowledgeable man... why we can not hear the other candidate to debate like that???? Because they are NOT....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Explains How The Ukraine Russia War Started
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‼️🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The 1st Tank Army cleared and consolidated in Kislovka and Kotlyarovka, hoisting #Russian flags over villages in the Kharkov region

Units of the 47th Division had previously broken through several lines of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Kotlyarovka adjacent to Kislovka in the Kupyansky direction and, during the battles, liberated both settlements.

Then the populated areas were completely cleared and our fighters established a foothold in them. #Russia #RussianArmy

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🇷🇺🇬🇧🇫🇷 The ambassadors of Britain and France arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The British diplomat spent half an hour in the facility and left without speaking to the press.

Following him, the French ambassador arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The reasons for the visit are not reported. Moscow probably handed the British a note in response to Cameron’s statement about the possibility of using British weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation. And the French - to Macron’s statement about the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine.

After these statements, we recall that the Russian Federation began exercises on the use of tactical nuclear weapons

Also today, the German government announced that it was recalling its ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Lambsdorff, to Berlin for consultations. Officially, due to a cyber attack on the email accounts of members of the German SPD party, which Germany blamed on Russian intelligence services. - ISZ reports

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The ambassador was warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory could be any #British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond

The Russian Federation views the statements of the head of the British Foreign Ministry as evidence of escalation and confirmation of growing involvement in military actions on the side of Kiev.

The diplomatic service called on Britain to think about the catastrophic consequences of London’s hostile steps and immediately refute Cameron’s statements.

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