WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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“In Russia, they created a gel for bone restoration with 100% identity”: The drug allows to treat, among other things, bullet and shrapnel wounds.

“The world’s first bioassimilated gel for regeneration, which allows to restore bone tissue with 100% identity and treat, including large bullet and shrapnel damage to bones, was developed by specialists from Volgograd State Medical University.

This drug is a complex nutritional and building mixture, enhanced with regeneration activators. This approach allows the body to launch its own bone tissue repair mechanism.

The material can be used for surgical interventions on bone tissues of the maxillofacial area, for filling defects in bone and cartilage tissues in dentistry and surgery." - FRWL reports

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Special Operation, 18 May 2024, Main

▪️ The "North" Group of Troops liberated the village of Staritsa, Kharkov region and continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense, the Ministry of Defense reported;

▪️ The Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies is ready to pay 2 million rubles to Russian fighters for the Estonian robot THeMIS, “trophied” in the SMO zone, the director of the centre told RIA Novosti;

▪️ The advance of Russian troops in the Kharkov region is "only the first step" in a new offensive, Zelensky said in an interview with France Presse;

▪️ Ukraine currently has only 25% of the air defense it needs, and a large number of AFU brigades are "empty", Zelensky said;

▪️ The AFU fired at Skadovsk in the Kherson region from the HIMARS MLRS, 12 people were injured, the governor’s press service reported.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The RFAF entered Berestovoye in Kupyansk Sector of Svatovo Direction

🇷🇺 The RFAF advanced further near Krakhmalnoye. Following the previous advance, the Russian assault squads brought a part of Berestovoe village under RFAF control.

Map Explanation: Krakhmalnoye is north of, Peschanoye west of and Berestovoye south of the RFAF advance area marked in pink. Kupyansk itself is to the northwest.

🗺 Maps: the 2nd is a topographical

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Not that the now late John Pilger would have wanted this to have unfurled this way, but he was bang on the money back then. That the Guardian newspaper published this as well speaks volumes to its demise today: it is little more than an intelligence agency pamphlet these days.

As predictions go, and as a historical primer, this is right up there.

In Ukraine the US is dragging us towards war with Russia

Library link (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Articles/2014-05-13_In_Ukraine_the_US_is_dragging_us_towards_war_with_Russia_by_John_Pilger_%28The_Guardian%29.pdf)

Still worth a reread I think.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Articles/2014-05-13_In_Ukraine_the_US_is_dragging_us_towards_war_with_Russia_by_John_Pilger_%28The_Guardian%29.pdf

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Filmed from her car this Russian speaking local Kharkov resident films practically deserted streets in the city, yesterday, following the new mobilisation law that kicked in. There are no English subtitles but as an optic tells the tale really quite clearly. She says that most of the men have gone into hiding as we would expect. No doubt some extraordinary fantastic PR will be spun, somehow, to downplay this, but this may be irretrievable now. Couple scenes like this with the trucker convoys ( :muscle: ), and bolt on the expiry of Zelensky's tenure, tomorrow, then we may be witness to a spectacular unravelling in Kiev, and perhaps an acceleration of the end.

It'll be interesting to witness what, if any, vacuum there may be in the Rada this week, and in the government as a whole. Bankhova bunkers? Zelensky run out of town, or secreted away? Who knows.


Source: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/110914

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Putin's only real fear: NATO Imbeciles :jester:

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 18 May 2024

Poland's Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, said, "Russian President Vladimir Putin should fear a war with NATO." In a chest-thumping address before the Sejm, the lower house of his country's parliament, the former debating club champion predicted Russia's imminent defeat should Putin dare attack.

This is how we know NATO would not stand a chance. When former Washington think tank "generals" who are not soldiers predict victory, it usually means a strategic situation is desperate. Sikorski, whose genius is revealed in the scores of photos with him and Donald Rumsfeld, Hillary Clinton, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and others, will be first on a plane for Tahiti if war does break out. The potential fallout of such a conflict is so severe that he and other members of the infamous Bilderberg Group will all jet to remote islands where the impact will be minimal. Let me explain.

Let's pretend that Poland's 500 dilapidated tanks were to toe the front line along with however many of Germany's 200-something rusty Leopards at the onset of WW3. With a few tens of thousands of US, French, reluctant Italians, and Romanians, and the stalwart Brits thrown in during the first days, the East of Poland and Romania would quickly resemble Dresden, Germany, at the end of WW2. NATO's biggest problem is putting American and UK boots on the ground on a front that would be over 2500 miles long. You see, it's not only the Russians who have a problem with long borders to defend. Russia has about 13,000 tanks and 4,500 aircraft, despite what Bloomberg experts may tell you.


The problem with Western propaganda is that the propagandists end up believing their own lies. The rationale for decades has been that the U.S.S.R. or later Russia, has not attacked because of NATO. If memory serves me, it has never been Russia on the offensive. Still, the fear is stoked for the obvious reasons. Money for guns and missiles that may or may not work. In Ukraine, I am told, all the amazing German tanks sent to help Zelensky are burned-out hulks now, and the air defence systems are virtually worthless against hordes of drones. Just because Mr. Putin has not called up another 2,000,000 reservists or made a killer thrust through Belarus into Northeastern Ukraine does not mean he cannot. The problem with Sikorski and those like him is that the rest of NATO (however unfit) IS NOT THERE! The Russians and Belarusians are.


Russia is not afraid of Poland or NATO. Vladimir Putin and his countrymen stand nothing to gain from all-out war. This is why the Russians will never attack in force. This is why Ukraine has not already been decimated. The holding action the Russian military has been in since Kherson was taken has been to preserve Russian lives, and the lives of civilians in Ukraine. Russians consider the Ukrainians as brothers and sisters. Only America's NATO push and re-indoctrination of the people in Ukraine are the main causes of this conflict. Western media does not tell citizens in Iowa, USA or Manchester, England, that Russia's military operation is a defensive one. All anyone reads, sees, or hears are broadcasts and subliminal messages painting Russians and Putin as barbarians.

Watch any Netflix series long enough, and some bad old Russians will pop up sooner or later. Ditto for Amazon Prime, cable, network TV, and every newspaper in the United States. Imagine the magnitude! As far as I can recall, the only times Russia has gone military have been when the United States tried to give them "their own Vietnam," as deceased Russia hater Zbigniew Brzezinski coined the Afghanistan affair.

The only thing Vladimir Putin fears about Poland or NATO is that imbeciles like Radoslaw Sikorski may finally stir their people to do the unthinkable. Putin fears, as I do, the false bravado and lies from the mouths of Bilderberg creeps.


https://www.sott.net/article/491521-Putins-only-real-fear-NATO-Imbeciles

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❗️🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Result of the missile attack on Crimea

During the night the SKU carried out another attack on Crimea. First, drones were launched from several sides towards the peninsula, the launch of which was observed both near Tarkhankut and Yevpatoria.

▪️ But after midnight, the main attack with ATACMS ballistic missiles took place. The target of the attack was the Bay of Sevastopol, where 12 tactical missiles were fired.

▪️ Units from several areas of Sevastopol and Belbek fired nine rockets in several salvos. Three rockets hit one of the piers in the bay where one of the ships was stationed.

🔻 As we can closely observe, the SKU is increasingly active and is conducting large-scale attacks against bases on the peninsula. After several waves of attacks on airfields and power supply facilities, the Sevastopol Bay was again targeted.

Equally important, about ten drones were in the airspace west of Sevastopol and Belbek. They did not fly close to the peninsula and were possibly carrying out objective control.

❗️ At the same time, an American RQ-4B drone was located south of the peninsula, also monitoring the results of the attacks on Sevastopol. At the same time, due to the impact of the REB systems, interference occurred, which gave the false impression that the drone was several kilometers from Crimea.

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🇺🇦 The front is commanded by criminals — Rada deputy Bezuglaya has returned from Ukrainian frontline

▪️ The new commander of the Joint Forces Command, General Sodol, is a criminal, as well as his deputies. He put his own people in high positions: Galushkin, Sokolov and Lutsenko not for their merits, she said.

▪️ "Galushkin screwed up Kharkov's defence. Sokolov has criminal proceedings on him and is now in charge of a section of the front. Lutsenko screwed up the breakthrough in Ocheretino and is not punished," the MP wrote.

▪️ "No general was punished under either Zaluzhny or Syrsky. Nothing has changed. Army general's factions continue to destroy our future, and Syrsky is part of the process," Bezuglaya concluded.

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Slaughter of the innocents

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George's monologue from tonight's MOATS show, starting with the Iranian President, The conversation turns to Ukraine from 6:45 and then reverts to Palestine.

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Russian Troops Liberate Belogorovka in Lugansk People's Republic 4 hours ago

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported on the progress of the special military operation, including the number of decimated militants and locations liberated.
Russian forces took full control of the village of Belogorovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

"As a result of active hostilities, units of the Yug group of forces entirely liberated the settlement of Belogorovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, strengthening their positions," the statement read.

The Yug Battlegroup also defeated Ukrainian forces near four villages in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Ukraine lost more than 340 military personnel, three tanks and an array of Western-donated artillery systems.

The Tsentr group of Russian forces improved their foothold in the Donetsk People’s Republic, dealing heavy blows to Ukrainian troops near the villages of Umanskoye, Netaylovo and Ocheretino and repelling a counteroffensive near Solovyovo. Ukraine lost more than 330 military personnel, a tank, two German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicles and a US-supplied Bradley fighting vehicle.
The northern group of Russian forces pressed on with their offensive in the Kharkov region in the past 24 hours, killing and wounding up to 380 Ukrainian military personnel and repelling two counterattacks.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240520/russian-troops-liberate-belogorovka-in-lugansk-peoples-republic-1118538728.html

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Kharkov Defensive Lines 'Just Don't Exist' - Ukrainian PoWs 15 minutes ago

As Russian troops demonstrate steady gains in the Kharkov area, liberating settlement after settlement, the truth about poor Ukrainian defenses in the region has come to light.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has shared a video showing the interrogation of Ukrainian PoWs who served in the Kharkov region.
The soldiers in the video voluntarily surrendered to the Russian Army and shared that they joined the armed forces as part of the forced draft without proper combat training.

Commenting on the deplorable state of the Kharkov defensive lines, one of the men said that they "just don’t exist".
“The conditions were subpar, there were no firing points, there were no shelters, there was nothing,” he revealed.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240520/kharkov-defensive-lines-just-dont-exist---ukrainian-pows-1118543565.html

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On the night of May 20, Russian forces launched a new series of strikes against targets in the Ukrainian rear regions. Russian strikes were reported in the southern Odessa, eastern Kharkiv regions and in the territories under the Kiev control in the Donetsk People’s Republic. In the morning, explosions thundered in the Poltava region, while several more waves of Russian strikes are likely to destroy targets in Kharkiv and its outskirts.

After a short pause, Russian forces resumed daily strikes on the Ukrainian military facilities in the Odessa region. The region was targeted by Russian kamikaze UAVs for the second night in a row. Russian strikes in the city of Odessa and in other settlements in the southern region destroy the points of accommodation and rehabilitation of the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Main Intelligence Directorate, as well as facilities of the port infrastructure, which were used as military warehouses with weapons and ammunition, including those supplied from abroad.

The Ukrainian military facilities in the eastern regions located near the frontlines are regularly pounded by Russian drones and missiles. Amid the ongoing Russian offensive in the Kharkiv region, Russian aircraft destroy the areas of accumulation of the Ukrainian military and their facilities in the city of Kharkiv and its outskirts. The city is pounded by various types of Russian missiles as well as heavy bombs with planning and correction modules.

More Russian strikes inflicted heavy damage to the Ukrainian rear facilities in the areas of Chuguev, Kupyansk, as well as to the Ukrainian military accumulated in the towns of Liptsy and Vovchansk, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempt to stop Russian offensive.

The Russian military maintains its dominance in the air over Ukraine. The constant massive strikes on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the strategic rear regions and near the frontlines allow the Russian military to disrupt Ukrainian military supplies to the battlefields and the operation of the entire military-industrial complex of Ukraine.

https://southfront.press/new-series-of-russian-strikes-inflict-damage-to-ukrainian-military-in-rear-regions/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkXO9Uz8kiY

Northern Vovchansk Fallen! Russians May Cross River Soon! 2hours ago

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Netanyahu ICC Warrant,
Raisi Killed Air Crash;
Rus Takes Belogorovka Storms Chasov Yar;
Assange Wins


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What fate awaits the Slovakian repair hub for Ukraine's Western-supplied weapons

As Western powers continue to send whatever weapons and military hardware they manage to scrounge up to Ukraine, the fate of a European facility created to aid the regime in Kiev may be hanging in the balance.

Germany and Slovakia are currently negotiating a lease extension for a repair hub established on Slovak soil to repair military vehicles supplied to Ukraine by Germany and France.

The facility was built in 2022 by a European defense contractor called KNDS (a product of a merger between German arms manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and French weapon maker Nexter Systems), and its lease is due for renewal this year.

While all parties involved seem to be “supportive” of the lease’s extension, “lot of complications have arisen” since this scheme was enacted two years ago, says international consultant and US Army veteran Ret. Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico and President Peter Pellegrini, both of whom were elected after the KNDS facility was built, favor a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict and do not advocate further military aid to the regime in Kiev, Rasmussen explains.

“So we have a complete changeover, both from the presidential side as well as the parliamentary and the prime minister side from when the contract was initially put together,” he surmises. The recent assassination attempt on Fico may also complicate this situation further, he points out.

Rasmussen does argue, however, that the lease on the KNDS facility will likely be extended, though Bratislava would probably continue to oppose sending Slovakian weapons to Ukraine. “I think they'll be very cautious what type of weapon systems are actually repaired there as well,” he adds.


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Just how much can someone be out of touch with the reality of the situation.

That's why the West has spectacularly misjudged Russia's capabilities to fight this war, it's economic and financial resilience and the ongoing support of Putin by the Russian people.

Meanwhile Ukraine continues to suffer enormous losses, it's economy and financial system destroyed and the ongoing loss of more territory, it will never get back.

The war should have ended in April 2022 when an agreement was reached between Kiev and Russia.

Instead to save political face and enrich the MIC, this insane war continues with a Ukrainian survival rate on the front line worse than in WW1.

The West should be ashamed of our role in this utter debacle.

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World leaders know Ukrainian conflict can only be resolved by US-Russia talks

The upcoming summit in Switzerland, ostensibly intended to help achieve a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, appears to have been snubbed by many of the prospective participants due to the “unrealistic approach” adopted by the event’s organizers, says Paolo Raffone, a strategic analyst and director of the CIPI Foundation in Brussels.

During an interview with Sputnik, Raffone points out that not only Russia was not invited to the summit, but the conference itself is aimed at promoting the so-called Zelensky ‘peace formula,’ a scheme that includes the demand for Russia to cede a part of its territory to Ukraine as a precondition for ending the Ukrainian conflict.

“Such an unrealistic approach is the reason for many invitees not attending. The countries that have chosen not to attend are aware that a dialogue in the absence of Russia does not represent ‘the legitimate interests of the parties’,” he explains.

“Moreover, no peace talks are well funded if not based on reality. Any meaningful peace talks imply that the Ukrainian government must recognize the ‘new territorial realities’.”

“World leaders are aware that any resolution to the war in Ukraine can only find a settlement between the real world powers underpinning the events, notably Russia and US,” he adds.

“While behind the scenes contacts and talks are continuing, the majority of world leaders believe that the time is not yet ripe for ‘peace talks’ and that in any case the starting point cannot be other than the document drafted and mostly agreed in Turkiye in March 2022.”

The analyst also observed that the implementation of Zelensky’s plan would be impossible without the “direct military intervention of Western countries,” and that it has already become clear that “none of the Western countries will officially send troops to fight in Ukraine against Russia.”
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🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Defense Top News

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces completely liberated Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and took more advantageous lines and positions.

▫️A meeting place of command of the AFU 92nd and 95th assault brigades was hit, as well as the enemy's manpower and hardware was engaged in 138 areas.

▫️The Russian Defense Ministry shows Su-34 crews, 203-mm Malka self-propelled artillery system crews, 152-mm 2A36 Giatsint-B towed howitzer crews, assault detachments, artillery crews of Vostok Group of Forces, Grad MLRS crews, tank crews of Tsentr Group of Forces in action.

▫️Major General Aleksandr Tulyaganov presents state awards to volunteers of the BARS detachments of Dnepr Group of Forces in Zaporozhye region.

▫️AFU POWs speak about poor quality of defensive positions near Kharkov.

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‼️🇷🇺🏅 Major General Aleksandr Tulyaganov presents state awards to volunteers of the BARS detachments of Dnepr Group of Forces in Zaporozhye region

🎖 Major General Aleksandr Tulyaganov, the Head of Main Organisational and Mobilisation Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, presented state and departmental awards to servicemen of the BARS volunteer units of the Dnepr Group of Forces in Zaporozhye region. In total, more than 110 volunteers received awards.

🤝On behalf of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and leadership of the Russian Defence Ministry, Aleksandr Tulaganov thanked the military for effectively working in the special military operation zone. Major General Aleksandr Tulaganov wished the servicemen good health and success in carrying out their tasks.

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Last week on May 16,

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https://fpif.org/romani-resistance-day-is-about-more-than-memory/

Romani Resistance Day Is About More Than Memory
May 16 marks a famed Roma uprising against Nazi death camp guards. Against a backdrop of rising right-wing hatred, we need to draw on that defiance and humanity.

Seventy-five years ago, on May 16, a spring day in Poland, 6,000 Romani people — elders, men and women, girls and boys — who were imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, barricaded themselves in the “Gypsy Camp.” They prepared to fight back and stand up against the Nazis’ extermination plan for that evening.

Locked up between barbed wire, wooden barracks, gas chambers, and cremation ovens, they could see, smell, feel, and touch death everywhere around them: the death of their loved one, the death of another Roma, the death of a Jew, the death of a gay man, the death of a Pole, the death of a human being.

And yet, in the face of catastrophe, the Romani people in the Zigeunerlager stood up, spoke up, rose up. Hugo Höllenreiner, then 11 years old, recalls hearing his father protest against the Nazi guards: “We’re not coming out! You come in here! If you want something, you have to come inside!”

We have come such a long way since then. We have reached a point when in some regions, Romani political thought, Romani institutions, and Romani scholarship are no longer only about Roma, but with and by Roma. The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, Roma Studies Programs at Central European University, Harvard, and other places are authoritative examples in that sense.

Yet Romani communities across the world are still under threat — even more so today, when the enduring slur of Romani criminality is exploited, both online and offline, as a weapon for anti-Romani violence. It is fortified by fake information, fake DNA police evidence, racist intellectuals, neo-Nazi groups, and vigilante groups.

Meanwhile many Europeans have remained silent in the face of so much inhumanity. The world neglected the killing of the five years old Robbi Csorba and his father, ten years ago in Hungary. Greeks did not react when Yannoula, a 13-year-old Romani girl was shot dead in Greece in 2018. Italians stayed silent while the number of racially motivated attacks in Italy tripled from 2017 to 2018.

Europeans may not even know or care about the killing of the 23-year-old David Popp last year in Ukraine or the cruel anti-Romani mobs in Italy and France in the past few months. No matter whether Roma live in Eastern Europe or Western Europe, the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, or Canada, we are all doomed to being blamed collectively simply for being Roma. And the racecraft of Roma inferiority allows gadje to morally justify their indifference and inaction in the face of harm and violence.

We are often told that we are a nation of survivors, but we often forget about our ancestors, who stood up and resisted in the face of misery, very much like the 6,000 Roma did on May 16, 1944, against the Nazis. And too often, we forget to honor them. Too often, the lack of spaces, memorials, history books, and museums prevents us from remembering.

Truth-telling and the collection of historical data are important for establishing a memory of the past and generating an enduring account of anti-Roma violence. And so, today, we pay tribute to our resistance and tell the truth about the persecution of our Roma communities during the Holocaust.

The non-Roma, gadjo world can and must learn from the fascinating history of the Romani people, who from one generation to the next have managed to remain compassionate, not hostile; forgiving, not vengeful; and unfortunately, even obedient to the oppressor, yet still aware of the injustices they have experienced and will continue to experience.

In memorializing resistance, the participation of allies is also worth remembering. So, today, we pay tribute to our allies too.

This year, the U.S. Congress and Senate are showing Roma a sign of justice and respect by introducing the first-ever bipartisan resolution to recognize Romani heritage and history.

When we started to think about the possibility of advocating for such a resolution, our fellow Romani, Nathan Mick, an experienced American politician, encouraged and advised us on how to proceed. But we also worked close with our non-Romani allies, including the Roma Working Group in Washington DC. But here’s what made this process more symbolically powerful and most meaningful to me: one of the greatest supporters and strategist working hand in hand with us on this initiative was Valentin Mihalache, a fellow Romanian American.

Therefore, to create historical consciousness of Roma and non-Roma about the atrocity of the Holocaust against Romani people and their resistance, what we need is allyships and a vibrant and genuine recognition and community voices that replicate the memorialization that other communities of survivors have established.

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https://t.me/FreedomDoc1/10740
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A former Ukrainian MP blew the whistle on Burisma's connections to terrorism

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Thu, 16 May 2024

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How Biden family's partners sponsored Ukrainian terrorism via Burisma Company

The dirt that Andrey Derkach shared about Hunter's Burisma corruption scandal made him an enemy of the American and Ukrainian governments.

Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who's reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt about Hunter Biden's Burisma corruption scandal with Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani ahead of the 2020 elections, just gave a very important interview to Belarus' BelTA where be blew the whistle even louder. According to him, the $6 million bribe that was paid in cash to shut down the investigation into the First Son's scandal eventually found its way to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and its military-intelligence agency.

Derkach claimed to have proof of the secret court order that divided these funds between those two, with the first investing its portion into building up their country's drone army while the wsecond financed terrorist attacks like the assassination of Darya Dugina, which he specifically mentioned in the interview. These allegations expand upon the ones that he shared earlier this year regarding the real-world impact of Hunter's corruption scandal, which were analyzed here at the time.

On the subject of Ukrainian assassinations and terrorism, Derkach said that the CIA and FBI actually condone these actions despite their public claims to the contrary, but he warned that this immoral policy will inevitably ricochet into the US itself. In particular, he cited FBI chief Christopher Wray's testimony to Congress last April where he said that law enforcement officials fear that Crocus-like attacks are presently being plotted against their country.

About that, it shouldn't be forgotten that Ukraine's military-intelligence service GUR is the chief suspect of Russia's investigation into what became one of the worst terrorist attacks in its history, thus meaning that the portion of Burisma's $6 million bribe that made its way into their hands likely financed part of it. In other words, the third-order effect of Hunter's corruption scandal is that it was partially responsible for the brutal murder of innocent civilians halfway across the world some years later.

That's already scandalous enough, but Derkach shared even more details about the other indirect consequences of this cover-up into the First Son's illicit activities, adding that some GUR-linked figures have been connected to the Western narrative about September 2022's Nord Stream terrorist attack. He regards that story as a distraction from the US' complicity, the view of which was elaborated upon here at the time that it entered the discourse, but lauded the CIA for the lengths it went to cover up its role.

In his view, the CIA might very well have sent a highly trained Ukrainian diving team to the Baltic Sea exactly as the Western media reported, though only to plant fake bombs. In his words:

"When a cover story is made, it is done quite well. We shouldn't belittle the experience of the CIA or the experience of MI6 in preparing cover operations. They have quite a lot of experience in using proxies, in using cover stories to form a certain position in order to dodge responsibility. This is actually what happened."

Looking forward, Derkach expects Ukraine to attempt more terrorist attacks against Russia, which the US public is being preconditioned to accept via the CIA's various leaks to the media. While many might lay the blame for all this on Zelensky's lap, Derkach believes that it's actually his Chief of Staff Andrey Yermak who's running the show, albeit as a Western puppet. Nevertheless, he's also convinced that the West is indeed preparing to formally replace Zelensky, but doesn't yet know when or with whom.

Altogether, the importance of Derkach's interview is that he's a former veteran Ukrainian politician who still retains a lot of sources inside the regime, having served in the Rada for a whopping 22 years from 1998-2020. While his homeland charged him with treason after he fled to Russia in early 2022, which followed the US charging him with election meddling on behalf of that country in September 2020, the argument can be made that these are politically driven attempts to intimidate a top whistleblower.

The dirt that Derkach shared about Hunter's Burisma corruption scandal, not to mention its newly revealed third-order effects that led to the brutal killing of civilians halfway across the world after part of his company's bribe made its way into GUR's hands, made him an enemy of the US Government. They and their Ukrainian proxies will therefore always try to discredit him with sensational allegations, but everyone would do well to listen to what he says and then make up their own minds about it.

https://www.sott.net/article/491565-A-former-Ukrainian-MP-blew-the-whistle-on-Burismas-connections-to-terrorism

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Medvedev: Zelensky must be caught and tried or liquidated yesterday

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky should be caught and brought to justice. He already leads a government hostile to Russia political regime, the politician said in an interview TASS.

Zelensky's term as president expired on May 20. But for Russia, Medvedev believes, the loss of legitimacy by the pseudo-president of the former Ukraine will not change anything.

For us, he is already a war criminal and the loss of his official status does not change anything. Although he, like any of his successors (although there is no need to talk about legal succession here), can be the party that signs the act of unconditional surrender

the politician concluded, recalling that this is exactly what Alfred Jodl or Wilhelm Keitel did on behalf of Nazi Germany and its armed forces.

The ex-president of the Russian Federation noted that the country is not indifferent to the future fate of the current Ukrainian leader.

He must be caught and tried for crimes against Russian citizens and Ukrainians. If it is impossible to deliver such a criminal, the rules practiced for terrorists should be applied. This is exactly the fate that befell Zelensky’s spiritual teacher, Stepan Bandera.

As for the question of who Russia now considers the head of Ukraine, the answer is obvious. According to Medvedev, the criminal regime does not and cannot have a competent leader.

Despite this, this person can be the subject of negotiations and a participant in signing the act of surrender, Medvedev once again recalled.

Commenting on the question of possible guarantors in the event of a peace agreement being signed, the deputy chairman of the Security Council said that there is no longer trust in former partners, and therefore the best guarantors for Russia will be its high-precision weapons and a strong army.

"Therefore, the best guarantees for us for the future are Sarmatians, Yars, Iskanders, Zircons, Daggers and other highly effective Russian weapons. And, of course, the heroic combat-ready Armed Forces of Russia"

– said Dmitry Medvedev.

https://en.topcor.ru/47625-medvedev-zelenskij-dolzhen-byt-pojman-i-predan-sudu.html

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ODAB-1500 with the UMPC module destroyed the temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Volchansk today

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Footage of the destruction of a temporary accommodation center for Ukrainian nationalists in Volchansk by an ODAB-1500 aerial bomb with a UMPC has been published on the Internet. As a result of a powerful munition, the nationalists' concentration area was completely destroyed.

It was the heavy aerial bombs that paved the way for the Russian infantry to capture Avdeevka and further advance into the DPR. With the help of the same ammunition, places where nationalists gather in the Kharkov direction are now being destroyed, where one of the hottest spots is the city of Volchansk.

Now there are heavy battles for this settlement, during which the Russian military is pushing Zelensky’s militants across the Volchya River. However, despite the very difficult situation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces group stubbornly clings to multi-story buildings, where a large number of firing points can be equipped.

The arrival of the ODAB-1500 aircraft munition from the UMPC, recorded on video, hit one of the houses in which the nationalists were holed up. Judging by the footage, the location of Zelensky’s militants was completely destroyed. It is difficult to talk about the number of losses in this case, but it is obvious that they are very large.

Let us add that Ukrainian army personnel regularly complain in their interviews about the actions of Russian aviation, which attacks them with heavy aerial bombs. Moreover, this is done with such precision that the nationalists have practically no chance of survival.

https://en.topcor.ru/47667-odab-1500-s-modulem-umpk-unichtozhila-punkt-vremennoj-dislokacii-vsu-v-volchanske.html

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Hypocrisy brazenly and nakedly displayed

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Russian Foreign Minister on Zelensky's hysteria at a meeting with ambassadors in Ukraine's capital, Kiev:

Zelensky, discussing the "peace conference" in Switzerland with foreign ambassadors in Kiev, "in raised tones, almost hysterical tones, demanded to support his formula for peace as a means to force Russia to kneel," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference following the SCO Ministerial Council in Kazakhstan.

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Brigadier General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrei Gnatov was sentenced in absentia in Russia for 28 years for crimes in Donbass in 2019, the Russian Investigative Committee said.

The court found that Gnatov ordered subordinates to carry out mortar attacks on populated areas in the Donetsk People's Republic.

After the dismissal of Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny in February, Brigadier General Gnatov became one of the five combat commanders who applied for senior positions in the Ukrainian Armed Forces but were not appointed, according to media reports.
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Zelensky's presidential legacy: a dying Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky's term in office expired on May 20, and with no election in sight due to martial law in the country, his future status remains unknown.

What have his five years in office brought to Ukraine? Let’s look at the figures:

Public debt

▪️Ukraine's combined internal and external state debt reached an all-time high, public debt reached a historical record of $145.3 billion in 2023, per official data

▪️For comparison, the figure in 2019 and 2020 stood at $50.59 billion and $64.2 billion, respectively

▪️The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in turn, estimated an increase in Ukraine's public debt in 2023 to 88.1% of the GDP, and in 2024 and 2025 - to 98.6% and 100.7%, respectively

GDP

▪️Zelensky came to power in May 2019, and by the end of his first year in office, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 4.4%, according to Ukraine’s National Bank.

▪️By 2022, Ukraine's GDP collapsed by almost a third, the country’ Ministry of Economy admitted.

▪️According to the ministry, exports had fallen 35% in 2022 from the year before, and physical volumes of production were down 38.4%.

Migration

▪️At least six million people have left Ukraine over the past twenty months, and about four million more have remained in the new Russian territories, per Kiev-based Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

▪️The IMF’s statistics put Ukraine’s current population at 33.7 million people as compared to 44 million before Zelensky’s presidency

▪️“The fertility rate in Ukraine has already fallen below 1, while for population growth, the figure should be more than 2. If nothing changes, the next few years will see twice as many pensioners in Ukraine as compared to workers. There will be no one to create the GDP in the country,” the Ukrainian Institute of the Future think tank acknowledged.

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Germany-initiated air defense action for Ukraine: Does it make sense?

Twelve countries are ready to join Germany’s Immediate Action on Air Defense (IAAD) initiative to provide Ukraine with air defense systems, the German Ministry of Defense announced on May 20.

Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Canada will help financially, while the US, UK, France, Spain, Romania, and Lithuania will provide missiles and equipment, with Latvia also seeking to join the initiative. But is the program feasible?

◻️ Ukraine now reportedly has three Patriot systems, with Volodymyr Zelensky telling CBS News last month that Kiev needs at least seven more to help “unblock” the skies;

◻️ Germany has thus far delivered one Patriot installation to the Ukrainian Army and reportedly mulls supplying another;

◻️ There are controversial reports on whether Spain will do the same, with El Pais newspaper arguing last month that Madrid agreed on the Patriot supplies to Ukraine after the Spanish government was pressurized by NATO and the EU;

◻️ Reportedly showing unwillingness to deliver the Patriots to Ukraine are France, the UK, the Netherlands, Poland, and Romania;

◻️ The US is considering sending one Patriot system to Kiev within the IAAD framework amid speculation that Washington may finally scrap plans to provide Ukraine with the systems;

◻️ Since the beginning of this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost 11 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, including five Patriots, the Russian Defense Ministry has reported.

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US and EU’s Ukraine strategy ‘has failed entirely’ – Hungarian FM

The strategy that Europe and the US have developed as a response to the Ukraine conflict "has failed entirely," Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation in Tokyo on Tuesday.

The minister touched upon the divisive rhetoric some European officials indulge in when bringing up a potential deployment of Western troops to Ukraine. He called for doing "everything to avoid a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia."

Speaking about the danger of such a development, the minister stressed that "there is no way the Hungarian military will take part in it, there is no way Hungarian territory will host such actions, there is no way a single eurocent of the Hungarian taxpayers will be allocated for it."

Regarding a yet another sanctions package aimed at crumbling Russia, Szijjarto pointed out that the initial draft of anti-Russian sanctions sought to “push Russia to its knees economically."

"Is Russia on its knees? Far from it. Are we close to ending the conflict? Definitely not," he emphasized, adding that, on the contrary, the sanctions had an adverse impact on the EU economy.

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💸Profits from frozen Russian assets to go to Ukraine: what's known so far

EU members have approved a plan to use the profits generated by frozen Russian state assets to support Ukraine, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky tweeted on Tuesday.

According to him, the move means the Kiev regime will receive $3.3 billion in 2024, with 90% of the sum due to go to the military, which will reportedly get such assistance twice a year.

The plan also stipulates that Ukraine will be provided with the net profits from February 15 onwards. About $172 billion of frozen Russian assets have already generated a net profit of $605 billion since that date.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg reported that the US is ready to provide Ukraine with a loan backed by frozen Russian assets if Washington gets EU guarantees that the loan will be repaid and the assets will remain frozen.

The US’ G7 allies have reportedly been warming to Washington’s scheme to rush tens of billions of dollars in funding to Ukraine before Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House. The scheme, due to be discussed at a June summit, purportedly envisages Kiev receiving money “upfront from a G7 loan.”

Most of the immobilised Russian funds, roughly $232 billion, are held in the EU, while the US has frozen only a fraction of Russian funds, about $5 billion. In April, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to allocate $60.8 billion in aid to Ukraine, a document that also allows for the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Kiev.

Russia has repeatedly warned that using its frozen assets to assist Ukraine “will have legal consequences for those who initiated and implemented it." Moscow has also rejected the possibility of exchanging new Russian regions for the country’s assets frozen by the West. “Russian assets must remain inviolable, otherwise, Western theft will be met with a harsh response,” the Kremlin said.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇪🇺Statement of The Russian Mission to the EU:

Today, the European Union, firmly on the path of self-destruction, has, without exaggeration, opened a new page in the history of both international monetary and financial relations and its own integration.

The Yesovites consciously took an unprecedented step - the theft of the sovereign assets of a foreign state. This is a clear example of what “European values” and the “rules-based order” imposed by Westerners are. In this particular case, one of these “rules” was a certain “legal justification” invented in the Euroquarter for fraud with income from illegally blocked assets of the Bank of Russia.

In fact, the EU has demonstrated to the entire world community that from now on it feels entitled to steal the financial reserves entrusted to it, to abandon its obligations to protect private property and investments, and to respect international legal immunities. Thus, theft is officially elevated to the rank of tools of Brussels' foreign policy .

❗️The consequences of the created precedent will definitely be unpredictable, including for the eurozone, the economies of the bloc’s member countries, and the investment climate. Only one thing is predictable - sooner or later the EU members will be forced to return what was stolen to our country.

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The Soviet Union Has Gone & Russia Is No Threat To The UK!:

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Godfrey Blooms gives a few words on the Russia Ukraine situation and the endless military campaigns the west seek to involve themselves with.


Godfrey Bloom (https://godfreybloom.uk/) is a libertarian author with six books published on both military history & Austrian School Economics. He worked in the City of London where he won an international prize for fund management. He represented Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the European Parliament. During his term of office he attracted over sixty million views on his chamber speeches exposing State bank & tax malpractice on Facebook & You Tube. Thought to be an all time record. He brought experience if not influence to the mainly lay EU Parliamentary Monetary & Economic Affairs Committee, putting both members & European Central Bank President under unaccustomed pressure. Godfrey Bloom is holder of the Territorial Decoration & bar, Sovereign’s Medal, Armed Forces Parliamentary Medal & European Parliamentary silver medal. He is married to one of Europe’s leading equine physiotherapists.

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Ukrainian Drone Attacks Territory of Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant 2 hours ago

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian armed forces have attacked the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with a drone, the plant's press service said on Wednesday, adding that no casualties and damage were reported.

"The Ukrainian armed forces attacked the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. A kamikaze drone hit the territory of the transport workshop of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. There were no casualties or critical damage," the plant's press service wrote on Telegram, adding that shelling of civilians, as well as the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and its infrastructure, is unacceptable.

Located on the left bank of the Dnepr River, the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is the largest nuclear facility in Europe. It came under Russia's control in early 2022 and has since been repeatedly shelled, raising safety concerns. IAEA experts have been monitoring the situation on-site since the fall of 2022.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240522/ukrainian-drone-attacks-territory-of-zaporozhye-nuclear-power-plant-1118586129.html

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Kiev forces launched overnight yet another wave of rocket and drone attacks on Belgorod and two other Russian regions.

The attacks began late on May 21. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the interception of a single drone over the Bryansk region.

Early on May 22, the ministry said that three more drones were shot down over Belgorod and another was intercepted over the Kaluga region. Later in the morning, at least six Grad rockets were intercepted over Belgorod, according to the ministry. Photos of the successful interception were posted to social media.

No losses were reported in Bryansk and Kaluga. However, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that a train was hit by a drone in the region

“This morning, a train running without passengers was attacked by an UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] on the Belgorod-Naumovka rail track. There are no casualties but the railway track and a power grid have been damaged,” the governor said on his Telegram channel.

Suburban train traffic from the Tolokonnoye station in the settlement of Oktyabrsky to the Naumovka station has been suspended until technical faults are removed, the governor added.

Ukraine intensified rocket and drone attacks on Belgorod and several other Russian regions in recent months. The main aim of these repeated Ukrainian attacks is apparently to make up for the never ending failures of Kiev forces on the battlefield.

In response to these attacks, the Russian military resumed large-scale group strikes against military and energy infrastructure in Ukraine last March. Furthermore, the Russian military launched earlier this month a limited ground operation in the Kharkiv region, the source of most recent attacks on Belgorode.

https://southfront.press/kiev-forces-launch-another-wave-of-rocket-drone-attacks-on-russian-territory-photos/

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Russian Army Destroyed 30 Ukrainian Boats, Neutralized Dozens Of Troops In Kherson

The Russian military destroyed 30 boats of Kiev forces in the Kherson direction over the past day, the region’s Russian Governor Vladimir Saldo said on May 22.

In addition to the losses reported by Saldo, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in its daily briefing that the Dnepr Group of Forces naturalized 35 Ukrainian troops, seven motor vehicles as well as four towed howitzers, two American-made M777, one Msta-B and one D-20.

Kiev forces began launching attacks across the Dnieper River in the Kherson direction after the failure of the spring counteroffensive of last year.

Most of the attacks were foiled. However, Kiev forces managed to keep a bridgehead at the small settlement of Krynki at the cost of thousands of troops and hundreds of pieces of military equipment. This didn’t last however as earlier this week it was confirmed that the bridgehead was wiped out and the settlement was once again under Russian control.

Despite suffering heavy casualties in Kherson and losing ground in several other directions, the Kiev regime will not likely stop attack attempts across the Dnieper.

The main purpose of Ukrainian attacks in that direction was always just to provide enough propaganda material to appease Kiev’s backers in the West.

https://southfront.press/russian-army-destroyed-30-ukrainian-boats-neutralized-dozens-of-troops-in-kherson/

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Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.05.22

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👀 The head of Lithuania's finance ministry has urged citizens to 'step out of their comfort zone' to find money for defence.

Gintare Skaiste's proposals included raising income tax rates and increasing excise duties on fuel and alcohol, local media reported. She hopes the Seimas will support her "great ideas".

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Ukrainians are massively entering incorrect addresses into the Reserve+ mobile application, which was supposed to simplify the registration of those liable for military service.

Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Bovsunovsky reported this. According to him, the service has “zero benefit.”

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❗️The EU will not pay Russia the proceeds of its frozen assets even after sanctions are lifted

According to yesterday's EU Council decision, frozen Russian assets are not sovereign assets. Therefore, the rules protecting sovereign assets do not apply to these proceeds.

The final approved decision is that 90% of these proceeds will be transferred to the EU budget for military aid and reconstruction in Ukraine, while 10% will be retained by custodians to cover possible risks.

This decision was added to the EU's package of economic sanctions against the Russian Federation.

We would like to remind you that the US is ready to lend Ukraine 50 billion dollars at once, but has asked the EU to guarantee that revenues from Russian assets will cover this loan in the future.

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🇪🇺⚔️🇬🇪 European officials from the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Sweden and Estonia want to impose sanctions against Georgia if the country passes a law on foreign agents.

Possible restrictions include the suspension of the visa-free regime with the EU, the freezing of funds and sanctions against officials, the Financial Times reports.

American politicians also threatened sanctions, but they wanted to impose them only against members of the Georgian government.

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Already 70 children have been reunited with their relatives in Ukraine during the special military operation

This time, a group of six boys who were in Russia will be reunited with their relatives in Ukraine through the mediation of Qatar, Russia's Children's Ombudswoman Maria Lvova-Belova said.

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❗️In recent days, the Russian Sever Battlegroup has managed to expand the front line; it is already spreading to the eastern part of the Kharkov region, said the head of the Russian administration of the region, Vitaly Ganchev.

According to him, almost 300 square kilometers of the region’s territory are under the control of Russian forces.

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🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Tsentr Battlegroup improved the situation along the front line over 24 hours and repelled seven attacks by Ukrainian troops;

▪️The Sever Battlegroup advanced into the depths of the enemy’s defense, whose losses that day amounted to 255 soldiers and a “Grad” MLRS;

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 420 soldiers the Tsentr Battlegroup’s zone of responsibility.

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted more than 365 soldiers in the area covered by the Yug Battlegroup;

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 125 military personnel in the area of responsibility of the Vostok Battlegroup;

▪️Russian air defense shot down 34 drones, two Hammer bombs and one HIMARS missile in one day.

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Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, said that she has lists of 500 Ukrainian prisoners of war, whom Kiev has been refusing to exchange for four months, and promised to publish them.

"Zelensky has selected 38 people from Azov* [Battalion] and the like and is ready to take only them. Ukraine does not need the rest of the Ukrainian soldiers," she said.

*Azov is recognized by Russia as a terrorist organization and banned

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'I have complete lists of 500 Ukrainian prisoners of war, whom Kiev has been refusing to exchange for four months now. Zelensky has selected 38 people - Azov people and others - and is ready to take only them. Ukraine does not need the rest of the Ukrainian soldiers' - Simonyan on her Telegram channel

'The lists include full name and dates of birth. I'll publish it in full this evening. I think it will be interesting for wives, mothers and Ukrainian citizens in general to read it'

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Russian general arrested in fraud probe
A Russian military court has ordered the arrest of Major-General Ivan Popov, the former commander of the 58th Army, alleging large-scale fraud, several media outlets have reported.

TASS revealed the arrest on Tuesday, citing anonymous law enforcement sources. The general is appealing the arrest and “does not admit guilt, because he is not guilty of anything,” his attorney, Sergey Buynovsky, told the agency.

Popov was reportedly detained last Friday, on orders of the 235th Garrison Military Court, according to the newspaper Vedomosti. Prosecutors allege that he was involved in a conspiracy to commit large-scale fraud, involving construction materials for military fortifications in Zaporozhye Region.

According to the Telegram channel ‘Two Majors’, the alleged fraud involved 2,000 tons of steel purchased by the military administration of the region to construct defense structures along the front line, in preparation for the 2023 Ukrainian offensive. An unnamed businessman from Krasnodar Region allegedly sold the materials elsewhere, defrauding the government of more than 100 million rubles ($1.1 million).

Popov commanded the 58th Guards Combined Arms Army, which defended the section of the Zaporozhye front centering on Rabotino, the town that turned out to be the main push of the Ukrainian offensive.

He was relieved of command in July last year, following the failed Wagner mutiny – according to a voice message he recorded for the troops, because he complained to command about inadequate support.

Popov is the third high-ranking military official to have been detained over the past month on allegations of misconduct. On April 23, Timur Ivanov, then deputy defense minister, was arrested on charges of taking bribes to the tune of one billion rubles linked to construction projects. He has pleaded not guilty.

Lieutenant General Yury Kuznetsov, head of the Main Personnel Directorate, was arrested last week and also charged with accepting bribes.

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US military aid to Ukraine is ‘grift’ – Blackwater founder to Tucker Carlson
US weapons shipments to Ukraine are senseless since they are not capable of changing the course of the conflict, Eric Prince, the founder of private American military contractor Blackwater, told journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview published on Tuesday.

The military aid to Ukraine is nothing but a “massive grift paid by the Pentagon,” Prince stated, adding that the latest major aid package worth $61 billion approved by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will end up lining the coffers of US defense industry giants. Prince, himself a former Navy SEAL officer, resigned and divested from his company after the 2007 Iraqi massacre scandal.

“Most of that money goes to five major defense contractors to replace at five times the cost the weapons that we have already sent the Ukrainians,” the Blackwater founder said, adding that “it does not change the outcome of the battle.”

“The Biden administration believed that all this American weaponry would have saved the day. It has not,” Prince said.

The Russian military has published photos and videos of damaged and destroyed Western-made military equipment in Ukraine, including US-supplied Abrams tanks. One of them ended up at a trophy exhibition in Moscow, alongside a German-made Leopard main battle tank and dozens of other pieces.

Kiev’s forces are already spread “very thin” and are about to face an “ugly summer,” according to Prince. “All the defenses that were supposed to be built by Ukrainians are much smaller or non-existent,” he said, mostly due to “corruption issues.”

Moscow’s forces are “going to have a very good summer” and will seek to “absolutely humiliate the West and make sure they never have a problem with Ukraine again,” the Blackwater founder believes.

The interview comes amid Russian offensives in Donbass and Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkov Region, where Moscow’s forces have been steadily gaining ground. Last month, Russia’s former defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, said Moscow’s forces had seized the initiative and “dispelled the myth of the superiority of Western weapons.”

Prince went on to say that he never believed Ukraine could push Russia out of Donbass and Crimea. “The war should never have [been] started.”

The only thing Washington and its allies will achieve in Ukraine is “facilitating the demise of the Ukrainian men” and “destroying” this nation “for future generations,” the Blackwater founder said.

Moscow has warned that Western arms shipments to Ukraine will only prolong the conflict without changing the outcome. It has also accused the West of forcing Kiev to “fight to the last Ukrainian.” In early May, Shoigu said that Kiev has lost more than 111,000 troops this year alone.

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Pentagon sends five times as much expensive, old weaponry to Ukraine, not knowing “how to buy stuff cost effectively,” largest American PMC CEO says

"Most of that money goes to five major US defense contractors to replace at five times the cost, what the weapons cost that we already sent the Ukrainians. If we send them something that was built ten years ago, now it's going to cost four and five times as much. So again, it's a massive grift paid by a Pentagon that doesn't know how to buy stuff cost effectively,” Erik Prince, founder of the largest American PMC Blackwater, told famous US journalist Tucker Carlson.

Russia is winning right now, while Ukraine may not remain an independent country, Prince stated.

“I don't know if [Ukraine] survives as an independent country, if they take Odessa. If they take the ability for Ukraine to export its grain, that really threatens the long term economic viability. Look, western Ukraine used to be part of Poland. Eastern Ukraine used to be part of Russia. So maps move depending on military victories, drive diplomatic breakthroughs, and right now, the Russians are winning, and they're going to have a very good summer.”

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793307553125871917

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[Ravenlocke]

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US lawmakers ask Biden Admin. to allow Ukraine to use US weapons inside Russia

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding that he allow Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range weapons to carry out strikes inside Russian territory.

"We write in our capacity as members of the US House of Representatives to convey our strong support of several urgent requests on behalf of our Ukrainian colleagues: Authorizing the Use of US-Provided Weapons to Strike Strategic Targets within Russian Territory Under Certain Circumstances," US House Intelligence Committee Chairman Michael Turner and other lawmakers said in the letter.

The Biden administration has repeatedly said since the start of Russia's special military operation that it discourages Ukraine from carrying out strikes on Russian territory and restricts Kiev from using US-supplied weapons for such strikes.

The West has recently been increasingly discussing direct intervention in the Ukrainian conflict. For example, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the French military might be sent to Ukraine, while British Foreign Minister David Cameron said that it was acceptable for the Ukrainian army to strike Russian territory with British missiles.

The Kremlin called what is happening an unprecedented round of escalation of tension that requires special attention and measures. According to presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov, the Europeans see that the situation is changing rapidly and is fraught with a complete collapse for Ukraine, so they deliberately escalate the situation.


https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1793102732619842042

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[Ravenlocke]

Zelensky Asks US Weapons Attack Rus;
Neocons Agree;
Rus Takes Kleshcheevka,
Pincers Close Chasov Yar

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/mossrobeson__/status/1793356774382215307

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A quite simply superb but shorter than usual history piece here from Simplicius which I post in its entirety but will omit many of the images used so as not to provide too long an entry here :muscle: For the full experience do see the link below. A fair few points he makes have already been made here in this thread by various of us commentators.

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Last Dance at the Vampire Ball: West Searches for Answers to Its Demise

By Simplicius
Date: May 23rd, 2024

Link: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/last-dance-at-the-vampire-ball-west?utm_campaign=email-post&r=trzwz&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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As the reality of the coming Russian victory over the combined NATO Leviathan has slowly dawned on the West, it has engendered a poignant shift in the increasingly high-pitched narrative. The comprador elite class has awakened to the fact that their global order is on the brink of dissolution, following Russia’s unclothing of their designs. The many decades of Gladio and other subversions are coming undone before our very eyes, as the dreams of a certain line of elite architects stretching back many generations are being washed away by the fitful birth of a new world.

Everywhere you turn, this elite moral panic is playing out front and center. As their industries die, their people gnash and seethe, and institutions flirt with collapse, the hoarse-voiced compradors crawl over each other to bleat out litanies of frantic warnings about saving themselves and their class.

The Global South sees clearly the writing on the wall: the Western order is falling.

As the West comes to grips with its slow pitch over the edge, its bellwethers and canaries have raced to trace the problem’s roots with the hopes of understanding how to stop it or where it might lead.

The problem with the technocrats’ solutions is that they are more of the same. They are using the crisis of their impending collapse as a way to usurp control over the sovereignty of all European nations. Take the insidious ‘inside man’ Draghi’s article above, about needing ‘radical change’ to compete with China and the newly shifting global order. What he urgently prescribes reads like a script from his crony controllers at Davos: a call to action to ‘integrate’ the countries of the EU with an iron fist, coercing them into giving up their individual points of leverage to some higher, unelected bureaucracy.

The dialectic is always the same: create a bogeyman to artificially unite people under one flag for ‘security’s’ sake—it’s the plot to 1984 and many other prescient works.

What we are witnessing is the agonizing death of a centuries’ old colonialist system of exploitation. It is the hegemonic European and Anglo-Empire’s corrupt extractive dominance of the global economy for the trickle-up benefit of a class of elite merchant and banking families whose power and influence spans centuries.

The way this Western order has cartelized and gamified the global economy is of course through their control of the banking monopoly, which mediates the flow of world finance and commerce to which they can apply endless arbitrage and seigniorage via control of the money supply by way of issuance of the dominant reserve currencies. To this day these remain: the Dollar and Euro, which together have combined for nearly 90% of global exchange.

This system is the direct carryover of the predatory mercantile fusions of state, banking, and corporate powers which saw organizations like the Dutch and British East India Companies ravage the world. But as the sun set on the British Empire in particular at the turn of the 20th century, the Crown began to get increasingly restive about the rising powers of China and Russia.

Now lacking military or industrial means to overpower these competitors, the waning British Empire was forced to resort to progressively devious and underhanded tactics to ‘rig’ the game invariably in its favor, hamstringing the Eastern giants at every turn. Over time this has led observers to wonder: what is behind the perceived infernal animosity Britain has for Russia? After all, both ruling monarchs were closely related:

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Recently, Jeffrey Sachs gave an interesting account of this very question on the Duran show: https://youtu.be/TAbi_2mbVKM


"I want to take it back to the 1840s, to the real roots of hegemony, which is Great Britain. Never was there a hegemon with such ambition and such a curious view of the world. But Britain wanted to run the world in the 19th century and taught America everything it knows. Recently, I read a fascinating book by a historian named J.H. Gleason, published by Harvard University Press in 1950. It's an incredibly interesting book called 'The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain.' The question is, where did England's hate of Russia come from? Because it's actually a little surprising. Britain has HATED Russia since the 1840s and launched the Crimean War that was a war of choice in modern Parliament—a war of choice by Palmerston in the 1850s—because it hated Russia. So, this author tries to understand where this hate came from, because it was the same kind of iterative hate that we have now. And by the way, we hated the Soviet Union because it was Communist, but we hated Russia afterwards when it wasn't communist. It doesn't matter. So, it's a deeper phenomenon, and he tries to trace where this hatred came from. The fascinating point is, Russia and Britain were on the same side in the Napoleonic Wars from 1812 to 1815, from the Battle of Moscow in Russia to Napoleon's defeat in Waterloo. They were on the same side, and in fact, for many years, the relations weren't great, but they were kind of normal. So, this historian reads every snippet of the newspapers, what's written, of the speeches, to try to understand where the hatred arose. The key point is there was no reason for it. There was nothing that Russia did. Russia didn't behave in some perfidious way. It wasn't Russian evil; it wasn't that the tsar was somehow off the rails. There wasn't anything except a self-fulfilling lather built up over time because Russia was a big power and therefore an affront to British hegemony. This is the same reason why the US hates China: not for anything China actually does but because it's big. It's the same reason, until today, that the United States and Britain hate Russia—because it's big. So, the author comes to the conclusion that the hate really arose around 1840 because it wasn't instantaneous, and there was no single triggering event. The British got it into their crazy heads that Russia was going to invade India through Central Asia and Afghanistan—one of the most bizarre, phony, wrongheaded ideas imaginable—but they took it quite literally. And they told themselves this: 'We're the imperialists. How dare Russia presume to invade India?' when it had no intention of doing so. So, my point is, it's possible to have hate to the point of war and now to the point of nuclear annihilation for no fundamental reason. Talk to each other."

As he states, Russia and Britain were on the same side in the early 1800s, during the Napoleonic Wars, then something started to change by the 1840s. There is nuance to everything: Britain long believed Russia had aims to steal India from it, which at the time was being gobbled up by the East India Company, with—as some believe—major support from the Rothschild clan.

But according to Sachs, the author concludes that there was no one real scintillating reason for the ‘hatred’ other than opportune geopolitical exigency in the form of Russia posing a grave emergent threat to the British order. This segued into the rush of the Great Game to central Asia, not long after which Mackinder set forth his ‘Heartland’ theory.

At the time the Ottoman Empire was dying and Britain’s fears were once more stoked, as Russia stood to gain inordinate geopolitical heft by seizing much of the Ottoman’s territory, which—in Britain’s view—would push Russia over the top as a Great Power.

This Forbes article (https://www.forbes.com/sites/stratfor/2013/12/18/disraeli-and-the-eastern-question) goes into detail about how British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli—to this day the only Jewish PM in British history—went to great lengths to prop up the failing Ottoman Empire as long as possible simply to keep its peripheries out of Russian reach. The author, James Kaplan, nevertheless concludes it still all revolved around keeping Russia from gaining access to India, which the British continued to believe was Russia’s goal.

The escalation continued to the pre-WWI era when Britain got another bolt in its quiver against Russia in the form of the Jewish diaspora. At the time, the Russian pogroms had caused a wave of resettlements of Russian Jews to the ‘Pale of Settlement’, which mostly consisted of modern day Poland, western Ukraine, the Baltics, etc.

And this is where the two-pronged attack on Russia began. Benjamin Disraeli is cited by many as one of the fathers of Zionism, not only having put forth one of the first ‘Zionist’ visions in his book The Wondrous Tale of Alroy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wondrous_Tale_of_Alroy), but likewise even positioning himself to be the Messiah of the Jewish people by creating Israel.

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The British quest to create a colony in the Middle East under the auspices of ‘Zionism’ was always linked to maintaining British interests in the Heartland, keeping France from the region, as when Napoleon had conquered Egypt, as well as Russia from encroaching on the erstwhile Ottoman lands.

To quote Mao:

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At the time of the rise of truly international banking, Rothschild and many other Jewish bankers were ascendant. So this was perfect time to utilize these combined vectors as a new attack on Russia. It is why Jacob Schiff funded both the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese war, as well as the Bolsheviks leading up to the 1917 revolution. Since the most powerful dynasties like that of the Rothschilds made their home in Britain the country became a single coordination point against Russia. However, it’s not quite as black and white as it seems. After the Bolsheviks took power and began stripping Western banking and other assets, Schiff and his brood quickly turned against them, pulling out his money. Britain, likewise, sent an expeditionary force on the side of the White forces against the Bolsheviks, who had effectively co-opted the Western plan.

[Vicus]

Russian soldiers start using Piranya FPVs, capable of withstanding electronic warfare systems

Russian soldiers received FPV drones Piranya capable of withstanding electronic warfare systems, developed by Simbirsk Design Bureau, Izvestia reported on May 22.

“We recently supplied them with drones using our unique frequencies, which are not jammed by electronic warfare system. Here they launched the first one, and immediately hit the target,” the Simbirsk Design Bureau’s public relations manager told reporters.

He explained that the UAV was equipped with a new multi-frequency communication system, which helps to avoid the impact of electronic warfare systems. The drone is controlled using non-standard frequencies. In addition, when exposed to a signal, the operator changes the drone’s frequency and continues to control it.

Russian soldiers have already destroyed US armored vehicle with rocket launcher, German IFV Marder, anti-tank grenade launcher SPG-9, mortar, warehouse with ammunition and other targets using Piranya FPVs.

https://eu.eot.su/2024/05/23/russian-soldiers-start-using-piranya-fpvs-capable-of-withstanding-electronic-warfare-systems/

[Vicus]

The National Interest: Russian S-500 Prometheus could change conflict in Ukraine

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Testing of S-500 SAM system at Kapustin Yar test range

The delivery of the new S-500 surface-to-air missile system (SAM) to the Russian army could significantly change the course of military actions in Ukraine, The National Interest wrote on May 22.

According to the expert, the appearance of the S-500 SAM systems in the zone of Russia’s special military operation “could change the conflict and give Russia a noticeable advantage.” The article notes that the Russian system is capable of destroying not only the latest enemy aircraft, but also low-orbit satellites.

In April 2024, then-Defense Minister of Russia Sergey Shoigu announced the planned delivery of new S-500 air defense systems to the Russian Armed Forces in 2024. According to Shoigu, the air defense systems will come in two modifications – long-range surface-to-air missile systems and missile defense systems.

https://eu.eot.su/2024/05/22/the-national-interest-russian-s-500-prometheus-could-change-conflict-in-ukraine/

[Jaak]

I remember that he tried to grab hold of most of russias oil resources and sell them to west. Why he got thrown to prison by Putin .
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Britain has HATED Russia since the 1840s and launched the Crimean War that was a war of choice in modern Parliament—a war of choice by Palmerston in the 1850s—because it hated Russia. So, this author tries to understand where this hate came from, because it was the same kind of iterative hate that we have now.



This is a good analysis--shouldn't be too surprising--published in 1950. Same story continues!

What is missing is the 1700s British interpretation of Ezekiel 38:


Gog and Magog


Germany and Russia


So this is a non-governmental, populist movement, giving Millinerian Eschatology a way to go berserk.

In actuality, England had been trading in the Ukrainian area since the 1500s and things seemed relatively normal/progressive.

Even when the shift starts--I may have the names mixed up, but, I believe it was Tsar Nicholas II and Queen-to-be Victoria were well in love with each other. The nuptial didn't go through because mom and dad said no, we just don't do these things.

Everything I have seen would agree the intellectual and political precursors became fused in Palmerston, the handler of Mazzini.

That combines unreasonable hatred with terrorism -- "everywhere".

People who were less motivated by religion could go just as berserk with Nationalism, and, voila! Suddenly the Crimean issue is Britain's business.

This is a large part of why I say the English language is ruined, it has no background or context other than this.

They manipulate everything--next, we find an ancient, implacable enemy, France, spontaneously welded--Britannia and Marianne, the Entente Cordiale:

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That's unnatural.

You can just stop fighting, you don't have to strangle Germany from ever becoming robust, and, say, friends with Russia.

Oh--Germany is stagnated and unable to act like an adult. Oh. Kind of Americanized. Wait, how did the Brits get back on the American side? What happened to our Independence? /joke

But yeah. You have to give the Gog and Magog thing a hundred years to percolate before Palmerston arrives on the scene. And yes, we have the same broken record, infinite loop, being postured as if others are still going to take it seriously.

The entire freaking language is undermined, this is going to take a lot of work to catch up with what was already published in 1950.

When Disraeli published in 1877, a million Jews had already gone to the United States, and Zionism did not go as quickly as he planned. I think we could say it was faster after 1945.


The United States also got an unreasoning fear/hatred of China in the 1850s. Well, the U. S. was friends with Russia at the time, so this was easier. Instead of changing, it simply added the British opinion.

These different scenes are not unrelated and cannot really be separated.

I don't personally know what it is like to "spontaneously hate" some ethnicity, I just don't have what it takes to react in that manner. I object to a lot of things, most of which comes from other English speakers similar to me. They seem to be seriously developmentally disabled.

The difference is, in the United States, I can find counter-arguments up through the early 1900s. I don't know if you can dredge from any archive some person that dissented against Palmerston or anyone around London opposing the trend. If you can find one, I think you need to revive it.

[Jaak]

Text:

Ukrainian soldier steals tank and defects to Russian side.

Maksim Likhachov, a thirty-nine-year-old soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, defected to the side of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in one of the directions in the Donetsk region.

Maxim not only defected to the side of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation but also, for his own safety during the defection as he admitted, seized a T-64BV tank.

He agreed in advance with our fighters and, approaching the Russian positions, raised the tank’s barrel high up to identify himself.

Maxim was born in the small city of Svatovo in the Lugansk region, lived in Poland, and served in four brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, each of which suffered heavy losses.

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Our latest investigation revealed that one of the special military-medical formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) called Unit No. 110 conducts banned secret experiments on people. The victims of inhuman biological experiments in a strictly classified laboratory were Ukrainian citizens (adults and children), foreign mercenaries from “third world” countries, as well as Russian prisoners of war. The patients were subjected to complex and lethal medical manipulations similar to torture, including medical drug testing, frostbite, radiation, electric shocks, vivisection and dismemberment. The experiments are aimed at testing the limits of the human body’s survivability, trying out the effects of new bioweapons, drugs and stimulants.

https://theinteldrop.org/2024/05/23/mengele-2-0-secret-ukraine-medical-vivisection-unit-conducting-cruel-and-bizarre-experiments-on-the-living/

https://x.com/MiraMiru4/status/1793901177748226299
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https://www.theinteldrop.org/2024/05/23/mengele-2-0-secret-ukraine-medical-vivisection-unit-conducting-cruel-and-bizarre-experiments-on-the-living/

Mengele 2.0: Secret Ukraine Medical Vivisection Unit Conducting Cruel and Bizarre Experiments on the Living
INTEL-DROPMay 23, 2024

Human rights activists of the Foundation to Battle Injustice have found out that one of the special military-medical formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) called Unit No. 110 conducts banned secret experiments on people. The victims of inhuman biological experiments in a strictly classified laboratory were Ukrainian citizens (adults and children), foreign mercenaries from “third world” countries, as well as Russian prisoners of war. The patients were subjected to complex and lethal medical manipulations similar to torture, including medical drug testing, frostbite, radiation, electric shocks, vivisection and dismemberment. The experiments are aimed at testing the limits of the human body’s survivability, trying out the effects of new bioweapons, drugs and stimulants.

The Foundation to Battle Injustice has obtained convincing and verified evidence of the existence and functioning large-scale and carefully classified military medical unit within the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This unit of the AFU, headquartered in Rivne, was created by personal order of President Volodymyr Zelensky and is staffed primarily by military medics. The main mission of this semi-military and semi-scientific team is to conduct medical experiments on live people, including prisoners of war. The code name of the military medical unit is Unit No. 110. The personnel size as of February 2024 is 2,500, of which 310 are military officers. The purposes of the unit are to test biological and chemical weapons on humans, the effects of explosives on living flesh, new drugs, narcotics, and to examine the survival factors of the human body in various environments. The secret military-medical unit conducts operations on the removal and transplantation of animal internal organs on living people, researches how long a person can survive under the influence of certain drugs in extremely low and high temperatures. The victims of Unit No. 110 are Russian prisoners of war, foreign mercenaries from third world countries, and Ukrainian citizens, including children.

The Foundation to Battle Injustice began to receive the first unverified data on the inhuman activities of Unit No. 110 in mid-2022. These were scattered facts, not supported by a sufficient and unified evidence base. However, to date, the Foundation has managed to gather strong evidence of the reality of all the following and verify them thanks to information received from sources: a former member of Unit No. 110, an employee of the Main Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and two victims of inhumane medical experiments who managed to survive and escape from captivity. The Foundation to Battle Injustice can confirm with a high degree of certainty the existence of Unit No. 110 within the AFU engaged in immoral and prohibited experiments on living people.

The evidence of inhuman experiments on human beings conducted by Unit No. 110 of the AFU, collected by the Foundation, once again calls into question the commitment of the military and political leadership of Ukraine to the norms of international law, UN declarations and principles of humanism. The unlawful activities of Unit No. 110 cause colossal damage to Ukraine’s reputation as a UN Member State and make us recall the darkest and most sinister pages of crimes against humanity from the Second World War.

Inspirations and architects of Unit No. 110

According to a Foundation to Battle Injustice source in the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the 110th Unit was created in March 2022 with the personal approval of President Volodymyr Zelensky at the initiative of Gennadiy Druzenko, a Ukrainian lawyer and co-founder of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital of Ukraine. Since 2009, Druzenko has been interning and studying in European and American institutions and has been honored with numerous civil and military awards of Ukraine. In 2011-2012, Druzenko coordinated the distribution of investments in the Ukrainian economy by USAID, the U.S. agency responsible for non-military assistance to foreign countries.

A high-ranking AFU official connected to the military medical administration of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry suggests that Druzenko managed to establish close ties with European and American political and public figures at that time, who later gave him the idea to create Unit No. 110. According to a Foundation to Battle Injustice source, the initiative to create a unit whose main task is to conduct medical experiments on live humans began to be promoted by Druzenko among Ukrainian elites shortly before he called for the castration of captured Russian soldiers on live Ukrainian television in March 2022.

A month later, in April 2022, the plan to create Unit No. 110 was presented to Zelensky, the presidential administration and the AFU leadership, who unanimously supported Druzenko’s initiative.

A Foundation to Battle Injustice source from the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said:

“Gennady Druzenko became a kind of founding father of the secret Unit № 110. It was he who brought to Zelensky the idea of organizing a military-medical group engaged in experiments on people from among Russian prisoners of war. The president, Yermak [the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine] and the then leadership of the AFU fully supported Druzenko’s initiative”

Despite the key role Drusenko played in the formation of Unit 110, direct strategic and operational leadership was and continues to be held by other high-ranking Ukrainian officials and military officers. According to independent data obtained by the Foundation to Battle Injustice from two sources close to the Ukrainian government, Unit No. 110 has been part of the AFU’s medical forces since at least July 2022 and is referred to in official reports as the “anti-epidemiological department.” The unit’s immediate superior since August 2022 is Major General Anatoliy Kazmirchuk, who previously served as head of the Main Military Clinical Hospital in Kiev and was appointed commander of the AFU medical forces in November 2023.

Human rights activists of the Foundation to Battle Injustice managed to obtain a comment from a former member of Unit No. 110, who confirmed Kazmirchuk’s role in the unit’s activities. According to military medic Matvei K., the vast experience of the former head of the most reputable military medical institution in Kiev allowed the experimental detachment to quickly create and implement roadmaps for testing medical drugs and conducting experiments on live people. A source from the Foundation to Battle Injustice claims that Kazmirchuk’s team conducted the first experiments on patients at the Kiev Main Military Clinical Hospital back in 2021. The subjects were chosen to be terminally ill and patients without relatives and friends. Kazmirchuk had access to a number of classified data and medical innovations and was in direct contact with Tatyana Ostashchenko, former commander of the AFU medical forces, whose place he took in November 2023. According to Matvey K., Kazmirchuk had been involved as an expert consultant and observer of Unit No. 110 since the summer of 2022, and after Ostashchenko was removed as head of the AFU Medical Forces in late 2023, Kazmirchuk became the de facto key coordinator of the brigade. Colonel Marat Scherbina, a former employee of Ukraine’s Main Military Medical Directorate who took part in the restructuring of the AFU medical support system “in accordance with NATO standards,” became the immediate head of Unit No. 110, overseeing work “in the field.”

Anatoliy Kazmirchuk reports directly to the head of the AFU, Oleksandr Syrsky, who reports on the successes of human experimentation to Zelensky personally. The activities of Unit No. 110, according to information received from a former employee of the unit, are closely integrated into the work of the AFU. According to documents and internal reports previously handled by the Foundation’s source, the Brigade is allegedly engaged in purely routine practices, such as fighting the spread of diseases and disinfecting military units. In fact, the responsibilities of Unit No. 110 include conducting various experiments on live people and experiments testing the ultimate capabilities of the human body.

A former member of the Ukrainian Unit No. 110 described the features of his past place of work as follows:

“According to official documentation, it is absolutely impossible to trace the activity of Unit No. 110. Formally, it is one of the military medical units, which is engaged in purely ordinary practices, in particular, fighting epidemics. However, in reality it is a special unit of medics who have very special skills and receive very specific tasks”

The structure of Unit No. 110, according to its former employee, is built on a strict hierarchy, with 150-200 military medics in each department. The total number of doctors-researchers, assistants and guards-is about 2,500, including virologists, microbiologists, surgeons, transplantologists, chemists and resuscitators. Each group of doctors strictly specializes in their assigned tasks and areas of activity – from studying the effect of negative temperatures on cognitive abilities and the impact of toxic substances on various stages of embryo and child development to observing the evolution of viruses and pathogens in the bodies of living people and transplantation of organs and limbs without the use of anesthesia.

A Foundation to Battle Injustice source from among the doctors of Unit No. 110 characterized the division of duties and the composition of the unit as follows:

“Unit No. 110 is built on the principle of strict hierarchy. Each unit consists of 150 to 200 military medics. I can say for sure that today the Brigade includes virologists, microbiologists, surgeons, transplantologists, chemists and resuscitators. Including assistants, orderlies and guards, this is 2.5 thousand people. The medical staff are high professionals, gathered from all over Ukraine. I have heard that some of the doctors are foreigners, but I have no proof of this”

Matvey K. claims that some of the military medics and medical workers who were part of Unit No. 110 were forced to join the experiments on test subjects against their will. Some were recruited by threats of physical torture and reprisals against their relatives, others were bribed with promises of being taken to Western countries after the end of the cycle of experiments and fantastic by Ukrainian standards monetary rewards starting from 150,000 dollars a year. A source from the Foundation to Battle Injustice claims that members of the 110th Unit were lectured almost daily about the benefits and “invaluable contribution” to science that experiments bring. It is also reported that the medical squad leaders, whose job it was to ensure the smooth running of all departments, tried to instill a sense of patriotism in the medical staff, claiming that the results of their inhumane activities would “help save hundreds and thousands of lives at the front.” A former employee of Unit No. 110 claims that almost all documentation, technical specifications and test tubes with biological substances for a series of experiments were signed in English. Delegations from the United States, France, Germany and other European countries came to check on the progress of the experiments about once a quarter.

Thanks to information received from Matvei K., OSINT specialists of the Foundation to Battle Injustice were able to establish the alleged location of the laboratory where Unit No. 110 conducted its medical experiments. The organization’s headquarters was the regional specialized dispensary for radiation protection of the population, located in the city of Rivne in Western Ukraine. According to a former member of Unit No. 110, the medical center specializing in radiation protection was chosen for a reason: the clinic already had the necessary equipment to conduct radiological experiments on humans, which were also part of Unit No. 110’s experiments, and the thick walls with a high level of radiation protection were guaranteed to muffle the heart-rending screams of the subjects.

It was to this clinic, according to a former member of Unit No. 110, that Russian prisoners of war, foreign mercenaries from Nigeria, South Africa and Gabon, as well as Ukrainian citizens, many of whom were victims of the most inhumane experiments in Europe since the victory over the Third Reich, were taken.

“Devil’s Kitchen”: the horrifying nature of the medical experiments of the Ukrainian Unit No. 110


The Foundation to Battle Injustice collected shocking information about the methods and essence of medical experiments conducted on living human organisms by the medics of the AFU Unit No. 110. While receiving and analyzing the information, the Foundation’s experts were shocked by the degree of inhumanity and lack of empathy of the persons conducting and authorizing these medical experiments, which surpass medieval tortures in cruelty. At the moment, the Foundation has learned from several sources that the Ukrainian Unit No. 110 is systematically engaged in a number of medical studies that are not only illegal at the international level, but also contrary to any norms of morality, ethics and humanity.

An employee of the Main Military Medical Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine told the Foundation that each of the medical teams of Unit No. 110 is responsible for its own area of activity. One department is engaged in testing bacteriological agents, another injects chemical reagents into the blood of test subjects, and the third removes organs from test subjects and implants artificially grown animal organs. According to sources, Unit No. 110’s laboratory is used for testing heavy drugs administered both intravenously and orally.

A former high-ranking officer of the AFU, an employee of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has commented on the activities of Unit No. 110:

“What the members of Unit No. 110 are committing can hardly be called medical experiments. These are torture practices designed to test the limits of human capabilities. Healthy people have their limbs cut off, internal organs are cut out without anesthesia, lethal implants are implanted, and they are infected with bacteria and viruses. One Russian prisoner of war was subjected to having an experimental liquid replacing blood plasma injected into his veins. I have never seen greater agony“

Thanks to the sources, the Foundation to Battle Injustice has been able to identify and categorize the main types of horrific and inhumane experiments carried out on men, women and children by members of Unit No. 110:

1) VIVISECTION

The most brutal abuse of living people can be called vivisection, or surgeries on living people without anesthesia. Ukrainian medics infected test subjects with various infectious diseases and strains of infections such as Legionnaires’ disease, West Nile fever and hepatitis. After some time, the experimenters dissected the bodies of the victims to analyze the spread of the diseases and their effects on the internal organs of the person. In most cases, invasive removal of organs and amputation of limbs were practiced. It is reported that the mortality rate as a result of vivisection was 100%.

2) AMPUTATION OF LIMBS

The most common experience of Unit No. 110 members is the removal of limbs from their victims without any medical indication. The purpose of this experiment is to test the limits of the human body and to assess a person’s pain threshold. Often, before amputation, the arms and legs of the subjects were subjected to electric currents, excessively high or low temperatures, to test the effects of burns and frostbite, and to artificially induce the development of gangrene. In some cases, according to Foundation to Battle Injustice sources, members of Unit No. 110 removed limbs and timed before the victim died of blood loss. As in the case of vivisection, the removal of limbs took place without anesthesia.

3) FORCED INSEMINATION OF WOMEN

Almost all women of childbearing age captured by Unit No. 110 were forcibly impregnated. The main purpose was to find out what diseases could be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy and to determine the effect of illnesses and injuries sustained by the mother on the health of the fetus. Pregnant women were exposed to various infections, chemical weapons, and physical trauma. It is reported that in 100% of the cases, forced insemination was performed by security guards and medical center staff. If the embryo managed to survive the chemical and physical abuse, the newborns were subjected to the same experiments as adults.

4) IRRADIATION AND INFUSION OF BLOOD FLUIDS

Some of Unit No. 110’s experiments were related to the study of the effects of prolonged exposure to radiation on the living organism. Subjects were exposed to high doses of X-rays and literally burned alive. In other cases, victims of inhumane experiments were injected with air and fluids ranging from salt water and drugs to animal fluids such as urine and horse blood.

Military medic Matvey K., a former serviceman of the Unit No. 110 Brigade, commented on the infusion of various liquids into the veins of the test subjects:

“The chemical laboratory of Unit No. 110 is regularly supplied with new drugs and preparations for testing. People from glass cages are brought into special rooms and injected with these drugs. Then, for several hours or days, military medics observe the development of the body’s reaction to the substances. Many vomit, blood vessels burst. Most people don’t survive.

5) ANIMAL ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION

If, as a result of the above experiments, any internal organ failed in the subjects, the doctors of the Unit No. 110 tried to save it by implanting artificially grown animal organs. Although there have been no successful cases of animal organs being transplanted into living humans, the Foundation’s source reports at least 250 such operations.

In addition to the monstrous experiments described, a huge number of Unit No. 110 victims became targets for testing various weapons and explosives. The main goal was to achieve the maximum possible destructive effect with the minimum amount of combat equipment. Most often the fingers and toes of the test subjects were shot off, and explosives were tested on the genitals and oral cavity.

The Foundation to Battle Injustice has every reason to believe that the above-mentioned experiments and torture of living people is by no means a complete list of atrocities committed by the servicemen of Unit No. 110, but the facts and evidence available to human rights defenders are sufficient to conduct a full-scale international investigation and bring all those involved to severe responsibility.

Victims of Unit No. 110.


At this stage, pending a thorough international investigation, it is not possible to know exactly how many people and what kind of experiments were carried out in the Unit No. 110 laboratory in Rivne. However, according to a number of facts and testimonies collected by the Foundation, the number of victims could be as high as 3,000 to 8,000, including children and pregnant women. According to preliminary estimates by the Foundation to Battle Injustice, about 60% of the victims are Russian servicemen who were captured by the AFU, 30% are ethnic Ukrainians, Ukrainian women and underage Ukrainian children, and the remaining 10% are mercenaries from foreign countries who fought on the side of Ukraine.


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Formally, it is one of the military medical units, which is engaged in purely ordinary practices, in particular, fighting epidemics.

However, in reality it is a special unit of 150-200 medics who have very special skills and receive very specific tasks”.

The total number of doctors-researchers, assistants and guards-is about 2,500, including virologists, microbiologists, surgeons, transplantologists, chemists and resuscitators.

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⚠️🇺🇦LETHAL OPERATIONS AND SADISTIC EXPERIMENTS:
Ukraine's secret No. 110 "medical" unit with 2500 "medical personel" conducts inhumane experiments on living people such as:

Testing biological and chemical weapons on humans, the effects of explosives on living flesh, new pharmaceutical drugs and organ transplanting experiments from animals to live humans.
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⚡️⚡️ A seriously wounded instructor of the French foreign legion was taken prisoner in the village of Klesheyevka – media.

Russian forces in the village of Kleshcheyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic captured a severely wounded instructor of the French foreign legion.

Russian medics reportedly found him wounded in the leg as well as in the chest.

“By the nature of the wounds, it is clear that the AFU tried to finish him off, wounded in the leg, with a shot to the heart. But he was lucky,” the reports said.

For now, paramedics are fighting for his life, just like for any other Ukrainian POW’s. If he survives, he could be a valuable source of information.

Earlier, head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said that there was no confirmed data on the participation of regular French troops in the fighting in Donbass on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, the French took part in the conflict as instructors and mercenaries, he noted.


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Ukrainian troops booby-trapped bodies of dead civilians before retreating from Avdeyevka

According to the official, in some cases, family members saw the bodies of their dead relatives booby-trapped by the troops
MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops booby-trapped the bodies of dead civilians before retreating from the city of Avdeyevka, a security official in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) told TASS.

"We came to know that Ukrainian forces had booby-trapped the bodies of dead civilians before retreating. Those were the bodies of the people gunned down by them or killed in military operations," he said.

According to the official, in some cases, family members saw troops booby-trap the bodies of their dead relatives. "Bomb squad members did their best to remove mines in the most careful manner in order to make it possible for the families to bury the dead," he noted.

Efforts continue to clear Avdeyevka of mines.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Military intelligence of Ukraine is directly related to the terrorist attack in Crocus, the investigation continues - FSB Director Bortnikov

▪️The preparation, financing, attack and withdrawal of terrorists were coordinated via the Internet by members of the Vilayat Khorasan (the Afghan wing of the terrorist group ISIS).
▪️More than 20 people, including perpetrators and accomplices, have already been detained in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus.
▪️Kiev, having no chance on the battlefield, switched to the tactics of total terror.
▪️NATO countries facilitate the transfer of mercenaries and terrorists to Ukraine.
▪️Ukraine, under pressure from the West, is disrupting any peace initiatives.
▪️NATO is dragging Moldova into a military confrontation with Russia and Belarus.
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NATO helping send mercenaries, terrorists to Ukraine, FSB chief says

Alexander Bortnikov specified that these mercenaries come from the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan
BISHKEK, May 24. /TASS/. NATO has been contributing to sending large numbers of mercenaries and terrorist militants to Ukraine, Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the Council of Heads of National Security Enforcement Agencies and Special Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) underway in Bishkek.

"We have been registering the continued deployment of large numbers of mercenaries and international terrorist militants from the Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan to Ukraine with the support from NATO member countries," he said.

Some of them, he added, "are being used for terrorist penetration deeper into the Commonwealth."

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Russia hammers Ukrainian military sites with 49 strikes over week — top brass

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 920 troops in battles with Russian forces in the south Donetsk area over the week, the ministry reported

MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. Russian troops delivered 49 combined strikes at Ukrainian military sites, military-industrial facilities, arms, ammunition and fuel depots, army and mercenaries’ deployment areas over the past week in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.

"On May 18-24 of this year, the Russian Armed Forces delivered 49 combined strikes by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting enemy military aerodrome infrastructure, missile, ammunition and fuel depots and workshops for the production of naval drones and unmanned aerial vehicles. The strikes also targeted temporary deployment areas of the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and nationalist formations and Ukraine’s military-industrial enterprises," the ministry said in a statement.

Russian troops repulse 23 Ukrainian counterattacks in Kharkov area over week

Russian troops kept moving deep into the enemy’s defenses, repulsed 23 Ukrainian army counterattacks and liberated the settlement of Staritsa in the Kharkov area over the week, the ministry reported.

"During the week, Battlegroup North units liberated the settlement of Staritsa in the Kharkov Region as a result of active operations and continued moving deep into the enemy’s defenses. They inflicted casualties on manpower and equipment of five army and four territorial defense brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces. They repulsed 23 counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army in areas near the settlements of Glubokoye, Tikhoye, Liptsy and Volchansk in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.

Ukrainian army loses 1,840 troops in Kharkov area over week

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,840 troops, four multiple rocket launchers and 37 field artillery guns in battles with Russian forces in the Kharkov area over the week, the ministry reported.

"The enemy’s losses over the week amounted to 1,840 personnel, six tanks, eight armored combat vehicles, 40 motor vehicles, four Grad and Vampire multiple rocket launchers and 37 field artillery guns," the ministry said.

Russian forces take better positions in Kupyansk area over week

Russian forces took better positions and inflicted casualties on seven Ukrainian brigades in the Kupyansk area where the enemy lost roughly 2,040 troops over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units gained more advantageous lines and inflicted casualties on formations of four Ukrainian mechanized brigades, two territorial defense brigades and a National Guard brigade. Over the past period, they repelled 15 counterattacks by units of four Ukrainian army brigades and a National Guard brigade in areas near the settlements of Grigorovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Chervonaya Dibrova, Novovodyanoye and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. The enemy’s losses amounted to 2,040 personnel," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army also lost two tanks, 18 armored combat vehicles, 19 motor vehicles, two Grad multiple rocket launchers, and 32 field artillery guns, among them 14 Western-made weapons in the Kupyansk direction over the week, it specified.

Russian troops liberate three communities in Donetsk area over week

Russian troops liberated three communities in the Donetsk area over the week, the ministry reported.

"During the week, Southern Battlegroup units liberated the settlements of Belogorovka, Kleshcheyevka and Andreyevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic in active operations and kept moving deep into the enemy’s defenses," the ministry said.

Russian troops strike 11 Ukrainian brigades in Donetsk area over week

Russian troops inflicted casualties on 11 Ukrainian brigades in the Donetsk area over the week, the ministry reported.

Russia’s Battlegroup South units "inflicted casualties on manpower and equipment of seven army and four territorial defense brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces," the ministry said.

Russian troops inflict 3,285 casualties on Ukrainian army in Donetsk area over week

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 3,285 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk area over the week, the ministry reported.

"Over the week, the enemy lost as many as 3,285 personnel, seven tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles, 46 motor vehicles, 32 field artillery guns, among them 27 Western-made weapons," the ministry said.

In addition, Russian troops wiped out 10 field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it specified.

Russian troops repel 41 Ukrainian counterattacks in Avdeyevka area over week

Russian troops improved their frontline positions and repelled 41 Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Avdeyevka area over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Center units improved their forward edge positions and inflicted casualties on nine Ukrainian army and National Guard formations. They repelled 41 counterattacks by assault groups of eight Ukrainian brigades in areas near the settlements of Shumy, Netailovo, Novokalinovo, Umanskoye, Ocheretino, Arkhangelskoye and Solovoyovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

Russian troops destroy 12 Western-made combat vehicles in Avdeyevka area over week

Russia’s Battlegroup Center destroyed 12 Western-made armored combat vehicles of the Ukrainian army in the Avdeyevka area where the enemy lost roughly 2,770 troops over the week, the ministry reported.

"Over the week in that direction, the Ukrainian army lost as many as 2,770 personnel, a tank, 26 motor vehicles, 35 field artillery guns and 20 armored combat vehicles, among them four German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicles, five Bradley IFVs and three MaxxPro armored personnel carriers of US manufacture," the ministry said.

Ukrainian army loses 920 troops in south Donetsk area over week

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 920 troops in battles with Russian forces in the south Donetsk area over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup East units improved their tactical position and inflicted casualties on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s motorized infantry brigade and territorial defense brigade. They repelled nine counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s mechanized brigade, territorial defense brigade and National Guard brigade in areas near the settlements of Vladimirovka, Staromayorskoye and Urozhainoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy’s losses amounted to 920 personnel, 13 armored combat vehicles, 39 motor vehicles, and also 18 field artillery guns, among them 10 Western-made weapons," the ministry said.

Russian troops strike eight Ukrainian army brigades in Kherson area over week

Russian troops inflicted casualties on eight Ukrainian army brigades in the Kherson area over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted casualties on manpower and equipment of two Ukrainian marine infantry brigades, three army brigades, two territorial defense formations and a National Guard brigade," the ministry said.

Russian troops inflict 350 casualties on Ukrainian army in Kherson area over week

Russian troops inflicted roughly 350 casualties on the Ukrainian army in the Kherson area over the week, the ministry reported.

"The enemy’s losses amounted to 350 personnel, three tanks, two armored combat vehicles, 35 motor vehicles, two Grad multiple rocket launchers, and also 24 field artillery guns, among them seven US-made M777 howitzers and a UK-made FH70 towed howitzer," the ministry said.

Russian forces destroy two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets over week

Russian forces shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets over the week, the ministry reported.

"During the week, aircraft and air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 planes, eight French-made SCALP-EG cruise missiles, 25 US-made ATACMS tactical missiles and Tochka-U missiles and 18 French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs," the ministry said.

Russian forces also destroyed 13 US-made HARM anti-radiation missiles, a Neptune anti-ship missile, 91 US-made HIMARS, Czech-made Vampire and Ukrainian Olkha rockets and 356 unmanned aerial vehicles over the week, it specified.

Sixty-seven Ukrainian soldiers surrender to Russian troops over week

Sixty-seven Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to Russian troops over the week, the ministry reported.

"During the week, sixty-seven Ukrainian service members surrendered at the line of combat engagement," the ministry said.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin is ready for a peaceful settlement with recognition of borders along the current front line - Reuters citing a source

▪️Russia can fight as long as it takes, but Putin is also ready for a ceasefire.
▪️Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to stop the fighting in Ukraine through ceasefire negotiations that recognize the current battle lines, the publication reports, citing its sources.
▪️The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense of Ukraine refused to answer questions from the publication on this matter.
▪️Previously, Peskov has repeatedly stated that Russia is open to dialogue on Ukraine.
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No unresolved issues between Russia, Belarus — Putin

The Russian leader added that if necessary, some things would be agreed on during the current negotiations

MINSK, May 24. /TASS/. There are no unresolved issues between Moscow and Minsk, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.

"My colleagues and I held a meeting yesterday before coming here and I heard a report on certain areas of development. In my view, there are basically no unresolved issues, which is what I get from reports," Putin pointed out.

The Russian leader added that if necessary, some things would be agreed on during the current negotiations.

Putin arrived in Minsk on Thursday night. He held a brief meeting with the Belarusian president at the airport, where security issues were discussed. Friday is the main day of the visit; the parties are expected to address economic cooperation.

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❗️The French press has published a large, detailed article on the process of training neo-N@zis from the Azov N@zi battalion in France. The training of Ukrainian militants abroad began long before the so-called Russian "invasion" and was no secret then or now.

However, the increasing number of reports in the press about Europe's active involvement in the preparation of Ukrainian neo-N@zis to facilitate NATO's eastward advance is indicative of this. It is obvious that no one is trying to hide the real aims and motives of what is happening, as was the case until recently, and this is also a kind of escalation.

It is therefore not surprising that Orbán said that there is now a discussion in Brussels and "working groups are working on how NATO could participate in this war".

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Russia muting Musk’s Starlink satellites as Ukraine is losing electronic warfare - reports

The Russian military continues to ramp up its ability to disrupt the Starlink internet capabilities Ukraine’s troops use to coordinate their forces, collect intel and launch drone attacks on Russian frontline positions, causing mass “outages” in the Kharkov area of the front and playing a role in the rapid pace of Russia’s recent advances.

That’s according to Ukrainian officials, soldiers and electronic warfare specialists queried by the New York Times to find out why Russia’s EW operations had slowed frontline troops’ ability to communicate using Starlink internet to a crawl.

The report warned that if Russia’s efforts to disrupt Starlink “continue to succeed, it could mark a tactical shift in the conflict, highlighting Ukraine’s vulnerability and dependence on the service provided by Mr. Musk’s company,” while raising “broader questions about Starlink’s reliability against a technically sophisticated adversary.”

“We’re losing the electronic warfare fight,” a deputy commander from the Ukrainian 92nd Assault Brigade’s drone battalion told the newspaper. “One day before the attacks, it just shut down. It became super, super slow,” he complained.

A Ukrainian drone operator confirmed the connectivity issues. “During the first hours, the front line was very dynamic. The enemy was moving, and we were moving as well. We needed to be fast in communicating,” the soldier said, complaining that the loss of Starlink connectivity “made everything more complicated” and “time consuming.”

Experts from NATO countries aren’t entirely sure what’s causing the signal loss – improved and more precise Russian jamming equipment, or a new breed of special electronic warfare weapons mounted on drones to confuse GPS signals. The report also didn’t rule out that “solar storms” may be responsible for random outages.


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Hungary to ‘redefine’ its NATO membership as bloc plans to join Ukraine conflict — Orban

The Hungarian government is reassessing its country's role in NATO as it does not want to get involved in the alliance's military mission in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the country’s Kossuth radio station.

He said military planning was underway in Brussels “on how NATO could participate in this war.”

“Hungary is opposed to this. There is quite a lot of work going on in the government to determine how we can remain a member of NATO without taking part” in the conflict, Orban said.

He added that Brussels was aware of this and had even coined the term ‘non-participant’ for Hungary.

Hungary will neither provide funds for Ukraine nor send weapons there. It will not even allow the storage of weapons intended for the Ukrainian armed forces on its territory.

The PM explained that his position stemmed from the conviction that the conflict in Ukraine could not be resolved militarily, that there could be no winner, and that it could be settled only through peaceful negotiations.

Orban also recalled that NATO was meant to be a defensive alliance, and no-one had attacked it. The conflict in Ukraine concerns only that country and Russia, and the talks about the ‘Russian threat’ should be regarded as “maneuvers of the West and Europe to prepare to enter the war,” he said.

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From the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation dated May 24, 2024.

Enemy losses yesterday were:
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⏺ 1630 military personnel
⏺ 17 armored vehicles, including 1 tank in the Kharkov direction
⏺ 42 artillery systems
⏺ 33 units of special vehicles
⏺ 1 MLRS combat vehicle
⏺ 1 SAM
⏺ 39 UAV
⏺ 3 field ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
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From May 18 to 24, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 49 group strikes with high-precision weapons and UAVs, as a result of which the enemy’s military airfield infrastructure, missile, ammunition and fuel storage sites, and workshops for the production of unmanned boats and unmanned aerial vehicles were damaged.
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"Putin said that Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine, but considers Zelensky illegitimate. https://t.me/stranaua/155589?single
“We are aware that the legitimacy of the current president has ended. When resuming negotiations with Ukraine, Russia needs to understand with whom it can and should deal when signing documents,” Putin said in Minsk.

He repeated that Moscow is ready for negotiations “only based on today’s realities in the special operation zone.” That is, with the fixation of territorial gains.

Putin blamed the West for the breakdown in negotiations. Claims that the 2022 Istanbul Agreements suited both Kyiv and Moscow.

And he added that it is possible to return to negotiations “based on the agreements already reached (in Istanbul - Ed.).”"

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"Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond. Three of the sources, familiar with discussions in Putin's entourage, said the veteran Russian leader had expressed frustration to a small group of advisers about what he views as Western-backed attempts to stymie negotiations and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's decision to rule out talks.

"Putin can fight for as long as it takes, but Putin is also ready for a ceasefire – to freeze the war," said another of the four, a senior Russian source who has worked with Putin and has knowledge of top level conversations in the Kremlin.

Zelenskiy has repeatedly said peace on Putin's terms is a non-starter. He has vowed to retake lost territory, including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. He signed a decree in 2022 that formally declared any talks with Putin "impossible."

One of the sources predicted no agreement could happen while Zelenskiy was in power, unless Russia bypassed him and struck a deal with Washington. However, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Kyiv last week, told reporters he did not believe Putin was interested in serious negotiations.

In February, three Russian sources told Reuters the United States rejected a previous Putin suggestion of a ceasefire to freeze the war.

In the absence of a ceasefire, Putin wants to take as much territory as possible to ratchet up pressure on Ukraine while seeking to exploit unexpected opportunities to acquire more, three of the sources said.

Russian forces control around 18% of Ukraine and this month thrust into the northeastern region of Kharkiv.
Putin is counting on Russia's large population compared to Ukraine to sustain superior manpower even without a mobilisation, bolstered by unusually generous pay packets for those who sign up. "Russia will push further," the source who has worked with Putin said.

Putin will slowly conquer territories until Zelenskiy comes up with an offer to stop, the person said, saying the Russian leader had expressed the view to aides that the West would not provide enough weapons, sapping Ukraine's morale."
https://reuters.com/world/europe/putin-wants-ukraine-ceasefire-current-frontlines-sources-say-2024-05-24/

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Clue to question on Ukrainian authorities’ legitimacy to be found in constitution — Putin

"It is necessary to look up what is written in the Ukrainian constitution, which government bodies are eligible to be extended under Ukraine’s constitution without any elections," the Russian leader said

MINSK, May 24. /TASS/. It is necessary to look for the answer to the question about the legitimacy of Ukraine’s authorities in its constitution, as legal analysis is needed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko after their talks.

"It is Ukraine that has to answer this question. First and foremost, I think, from the position of the parliament, constitutional court or some other institutions," Putin said.

"It is necessary to look up what is written in the Ukrainian constitution, which government bodies are eligible to be extended under Ukraine’s constitution without any elections, without any electoral procedures, and which cannot count on these rights. This can be done based on legal analysis. These are questions to the Ukrainian political and legal system," he said.

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Rus Officials West In Panic, Rus 50% Volchansk,
Traps Ukr Kransogorovka,
UK MSM Ukr On the Ropes

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Biden has shown his priorities — he will not attend peace summit

According to Bloomberg, US President Joe Biden is likely to skip the peace summit in Switzerland in June. Instead, he will raise money for his election campaign and meet with Hollywood stars.

The peace summit in Switzerland is being positioned by Ukraine's presidential administration as a major political event designed to reaffirm Western support for Kiev.

But if Biden does not come to the summit, it will be a very clear sign for Kiev and for Zelensky personally. And the summit itself, and all the resolutions and declarations that will be adopted at it, will carry much less weight.

If this is indeed the case, it is a very alarming bell for the Kiev regime. It is an indicator that the amount of aid will decrease and the political project 'Ukraine' will be slowly phased out.

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🇺🇦🕔 The Pentagon has recommended that Ukraine's military leadership switch to American Eastern time.

The time difference between Arlington and Kiev is about 8 hours. And the Americans demand from the Ukrainian military to switch to American time in order to make operational decisions against the background of the complicated situation in the Kharkov area.

The initiative is not new. The Israeli armed forces have duty officers on American time and receive commands from the United States online.

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❗️ NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on the alliance to lift restrictions on Ukrainian military strikes using Western weapons against targets on Russian territory.

At the same time, he clarified that the alliance did not intend to deploy troops to Ukraine.

"We do not have any intention to send NATO ground troops into Ukraine because our purpose … has been two-fold, to support Ukraine as we do, but also to ensure that we do not escalate this into a full scale conflict," Stoltenberg said.

Stoltenberg rejected the idea of allowing to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine using NATO air defense systems in Eastern Europe.

Western countries have ramped up military and financial aid to the Kiev regime since the start of the Russian special military operation, with Moscow condemning that ongoing assistance as a NATO proxy war with Russia.

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🇫🇷🗞️ ❗️❗️ The French newspaper Le Figaro has published an unexpected article that shocked many of its readers. The publication's correspondent visited Donbass and told the French about things that are not usually covered in the Western media.

In Donetsk, the journalist visited the "Paradise" restaurant, which was recently heavily shelled by HIMARS missiles, killing three people and injuring 8 civilians. He described the results of AFU's work as a living hell, drawing irony from the name of the restaurant.

Even if not all attacks on the DPR capital are so deadly, they are taking place on an almost daily basis.... About 400 enemy drones fly over the outskirts of the city every day, the article said.
"The Ukrainians are looking for military targets. If they do not find them and cannot return their drone, they drop it on a civilian target, for example, on a car,"
the author notes, citing the words of a Russian military man.

During his trip, the author also visited the long-suffering Mariupol and the neighboring LPR. Having talked to the local residents, he comes to the conclusion that the Donbass people hate Zelensky, the Kiev authorities, Nazis and will not agree to return to Ukraine under no circumstances.

People often point out that life has improved with Russia, even compared to the period when it was part of Ukraine before 2014. Cities are coming back to life, houses are being repaired, entire districts are being raised from the ruins, roads and railway lines are being built. All of this was not the case under Ukraine, residents note.
"When we lived under Ukraine, we hoped every year that life would not get worse. Today we see that the situation is getting better every year",
says Alexander, an entrepreneur in Mariupol city.

The journalist noted that almost everyone he has talked to is rooting for the Russian counter-offensive with all their hearts and saying, "Everything will be fine. We are praying for peace to come".

"Of course, this is a civil war, and it would have ended long ago if the Americans had not intervened," one resident summed up the opinions of the overwhelming population in Donbass. What the author of the column saw for himself.

🗯️ And judging by the comments to the article, the readers were no less stunned than the author himself. Not only by the Western media's distortion of reality and the fact that Le Figaro dared to publish such material, but also by the censorship that quickly cleaned up the comments under the article. Some have advised to let European politicians read the piece.

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The Ukraine War in 2024
https://swprs.org/the-ukraine-war-in-2024/

intersting analysis from Swiss Research

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🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Defense Top News Today

▫️As a result of active actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Arkhangelskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 116th Mechanized Brigade, 102nd, and 128th territorial defense brigades near Antonovka, Vodyanoye, Storozhevoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Gulai Pole (Zaporozhye region).

▫️The Russian Defense Ministry shows Su-25 ground-attack aircraft, Tor-M2 air defense system crews, EOD specialists of the Sever Group of Forces, artillerymen of Tsentr Group of Forces, D-30 howitzer crews in action during the special military operation.

▫️Scouts of Tigr volunteer detachment try out new Russian-made UAV.

▫️In Kherson direction, servicemen of the Sever Group of Forces took prisoner more servicemen of Ukrainian border service.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦'There was no support, the radios went silent'

In Kherson direction, servicemen of the Sever Group of Forces took prisoner more servicemen of Ukrainian border service.

'There were eight of us. We ran out of ammunition. Over the radio we asked for back-up, but no one helped us. There was a Senior Lietenant with us and we decided to surrender,' said the POW.

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🇮🇹⚔️🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦 ITALY REJECTS OLD STOLTY'S PROPOSAL - to allow Ukraine to strike Russian territory using NATO weapons as country's Foreign Minister Tajani says Italy will not send its soldiers to die for Kiev.

Italy also flips course on NATO and U.S. wishes by resuming donations to UNRWA after earlier joining Canada, U.S. and co. in decision to cut their funding.

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While all (Western) eyes were on Kharkov - and celebrated the "slow down of Russian Forces" -Ukrainians lost some settlements on other sectors the last couple of days...

So the Kharkov "offensive" did exactly what expected - it forced Kiev to shift attention - and forces to that sector - taken away from all along the lines - including important drone units.
Now at least one or even two settlements in other sectors were taken by the Russians every day for a while.
And we will see more ground taken by them in the coming days and weeks to come.
Kiev will also have to react to this crisis - and then we will see Russia continuing in the north - or even open another axis (Sumy - Zaporozhye?)
The fact that Kiev had to thin out other lines is also a proof for not existing strategic - or even operational reserves.
Russia did not change the tactics of war of attrition by pressing on all along the lines - more or less intensively - it just changed the dynamics after some lines crumbled.
The speed of advance is increasing in Donetsk and so does the amount of casualties - which are now on around 1500 per day - from a level of around 900 per day before the start of Army Group North's "Kharkov Offensive" - but only with a few brigades - so far.
And all that is supported by constantly attacked targets in the operational and strategic rear.

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‼️🇷🇺Armada of Russian Aerospace Forces strategic bombers takes off and heads towards Ukraine for retaliatory strikes

"So far, the enemy has monitored the takeoff of up to 10 Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Olenya airfield on the Kola Peninsula.
▪️Closer to the approach to the launch lines, the Tu-22m3 should traditionally join them.
▪️If the flight is combat, the missiles will be in Ukrainian airspace around 03:30-04:30.
▪️Ukraine is also being attacked by Geranium/Shahid strike drones."

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Tanks of the 5th brigade break through to the center of Krasnogorovka
▪️The footage shows an attack by the armored group of the 5th brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in Krasnogorovka (between Marinka and Donetsk).
▪️Armored vehicles and attack aircraft are attacking the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the eastern part of Krasnogorovka. A landing is taking place in a block of high-rise buildings on the street. Soviet.
▪️Analysts record the progress of our units up to 400 m in urban development.
▪️ “The fighting in the city continues. There are cases when there are Russians on the first floor of the house, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the second floor,” write analysts working at the GUR.
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🚨 Air defense forces shot down 15 Ukrainian Vampire MLRS shells in the Belgorod region

❗️ Three people were killed and ten were injured in the village of Oktyabrsky during shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.

Among the wounded is an eight-year-old boy.

In Oktyabrsky, Emergency Situations Ministry employees are extinguishing residential buildings. In Dubovoy, the Krucha shopping center and private buildings are on fire.

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"France has not declared war on the Russian Federation, but is a participant in the conflict"

This was admitted by a soldier of the French Foreign Legion, convicted in Russia, who had fought as part of the International Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A recording of an interesting conversation with him appeared on the Internet.

He says that he was never dismissed from service in France and is still an active member of the French Legion. Like his other colleagues who went to fight against Russia. These are mainly engineers and drone operators, mostly Slavs, since there are about 70% of them there.

The convict emphasizes that the legion is a kind of personal army of the President of France, which is subordinate to him personally and it is the head of state who decides in which military operations his fighters will participate.

▪️The day before, @voenndelo reported that an officer of the French Foreign Legion was captured in Russian captivity near Kleshcheevka. He is in serious condition due to his injuries and doctors are fighting for his life. If he survives, he will become a valuable source of information.

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‼️🇺🇦☠️ “The Russians simply razed our 3 lines of defense to the ground near Chashi Yar with controlled air bombs” - battalion commander of the 92nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

▪️ “Where our lines were very strongly fortified, the Russians used guided aerial bombs and simply razed these positions to the ground,” Y. Fidorenko, battalion commander of the 92nd Brigade, told the NYT and showed on the map where the KABs destroyed 3 lines of Ukrainian defense.
▪️No one could withstand such shelling, the Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered losses and were forced to retreat.
▪️Fidorenko added that the fighting in the East has never been so brutal.
❗️Combat 92 is confident that the Russian Armed Forces will take the area around Chasov Yar within a few weeks. He considers it possible to hold the city only after receiving US aid. Now there is an acute shell hunger.
▪️ “The guns fired only 2 shells a day, when they should have fired at least 30. Imagine a boxing match where there are equal boxers, but one of them can hit 1 time, and his opponent can hit 10 times.”
▪️Drones have become the “last line of defense” for Clock Yar, but with their help they can only slow down the Russian advance, he added.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Zelensky confirmed that the leaders of a number of countries propose to stop the war on the front line and put forward a new argument against this

▪️According to the Ukrainian drug addict, Russia can take advantage of the cessation of hostilities and move its equipment closer to the front.
▪️At the same time, the overdue president did not specify what prevents Ukrainian troops from opening fire on Russian equipment in case of aggravation.
▪️Perhaps Zelensky meant that, taking advantage of the ceasefire, Russia would build fortifications near the front line and place equipment there. But the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to do the same.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Guerrilla war against the TCC in Ukraine: they attack, take away weapons and fire at military registration and enlistment offices with RPGs
▪️In the Chernivtsi region, about 7 employees of the TCC, together with the police, stopped 3 men who turned out to be athletes, beat them all and took away their service weapons.
▪️Also, 3 days ago, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at the TCC department, 2 days ago, someone fired a “Mukha” grenade launcher, and a week and a half ago they also shot at the TCC with an RPG.
▪️"A subscriber from Kharkov wrote that the entire database is being leaked onto the Internet, as well as the residences of TCC employees. I guarantee you that for everything that they are now doing to people: they mock, beat, forcibly detain in various places, pack minibuses - there will be retribution. After the war, they will change places with civilians and will hide themselves so that they are not caught and punished...” writes hacker Joker DPR,
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🇺🇦 Ukraine frees 350 prisoners to take part in conflict against Russia - The New York Times.

“Ukraine has been in urgent need of soldiers since Russia opened a front in the northeast of the country, near Kharkov, two weeks ago. This has stretched its forces and forced the transfer of soldiers,” the publication reports. The New York Times writes that it is not yet known how Ukraine will manage the new recruits.

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‼️🇷🇺 We must be one step ahead all the time, we must stay ahead of the enemy - Putin at a meeting with heads of defense industry enterprises

▪️During the SVO, the growth in arms production has increased. For missile and artillery weapons - more than 22 times, for electronic warfare - 15 times.
▪️The production of ammunition and weapons increased 14 times, cars - 7 times, aviation equipment and UAVs - 4 times, armor protection equipment - 6 times, armored weapons - almost 3.5 times.
▪️Most enterprises complete state defense orders on time and with high quality, and for a number of positions even ahead of schedule.
▪️It is important to continue to increase the provision of modern weapons and equipment to the Russian Armed Forces: UAVs, electronic warfare equipment, high-precision weapons, communications, etc.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/military/us-weapons-accuracy-drops-10-ukraine-due-jamming

US Weapons Accuracy Drops To 10% In Ukraine Due To Jamming

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Ukraine attacked key element of Russia's nuclear umbrella — Russian senator

RT
Sat, 25 May 2024

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FILE PHOTO. The operations control room of the Voronezh radar, a Russian over-the-horizon early warning highly-prefabricated radar station.

The US is so deeply involved in the conflict that it likely knew about Kiev's plans, Senator Dmitry Rogozin says

The US is directly responsible for a Ukrainian strike on a key element of Russia's nuclear umbrella, Senator Dmitry Rogozin has said, warning that such attacks could lead to the collapse of the entire global nuclear security architecture.

In a statement on Telegram on Saturday, Rogozin, a senator who previously headed up the Russian space agency Roscosmos and is now in charge of a military technical center called Tsar's Wolves, said that the attack targeted a nuclear early warning system in the southern Krasnodar Region. The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the matter, while the extent of the damage remains unclear.

Rogozin suggested that it was extremely unlikely that the strike, which Ukrainian media reported involved several drones, was carried out at Kiev's sole initiative and without US involvement.

According to the senator, Washington has always sought to achieve military superiority over Moscow since the very dawn of the nuclear age, but this rivalry was mostly limited to a battle of minds between scientists, strategists, and policymakers.

This seems to have changed, however, as "the US has commissioned a crime by hiring an irresponsible bandit" to attack Russia's early warning system, the official said, apparently referring to Vladimir Zelensky.

Rogozin claimed that Washington's "deep involvement in the armed conflict and total control over Kiev's military planning means that the version that the US does not know about Ukrainian plans to strike Russia's missile defense system can be discarded."

Thus, we stand not on the precipice, but on the very edge... If such enemy actions are not stopped, an irreversible collapse of the strategic security of nuclear powers will begin.

The attack apparently targeted an advanced Voronezh radar station in the city of Armavir, which went into operation in 2013. The system can detect incoming cruise and ballistic missiles at a range of 6,000km and can track up to 500 targets. During the inauguration of the system, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it would significantly increase the country's defense capabilities in the southern and southwestern directions.

https://www.sott.net/article/491705-Ukraine-attacked-key-element-of-Russias-nuclear-umbrella-Russian-senator

Vicus comment:

Note that the now unprotected zone (southern and southwestern ) is from where Russia self proclaimed eternal enemy (ex Khasaria), today Israhell ,could perpetrate his "Samson" option...

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Maybe slightly offtopic but damn,crazy footage.

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Yes, you don't mess with the Wagner guys. (For those just skimming this thread, Chelyabinsk is way deep inside Russia, about 1000 miles/ 1600 km from Donbass.)

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Ukraine Сonference Will Be ‘Propaganda Exercise' to Cover Up Zelensky's Illegitimacy – Analyst
2 hours ago

Moscow earlier said that the June 15-16 summit in Buergenstock, Switzerland, to discuss ways to end the Ukraine conflict will be "absolutely futile" without Russia’s participation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "is correct" when he states that the goal of the upcoming Ukraine 'peace' conference in Switzerland is to try to confirm Volodymyr Zelensky's legitimacy to the Western community, Christopher C. Black, an international criminal lawyer with 20 years of experience in war crimes and international relations and a commentator on international affairs, told Sputnik.

"It is a propaganda exercise to try to cover up the fact the Kiev regime is not legitimate. Of course legitimacy cannot be assured by statements by supporters of an illegitimate regime and those who arranged the coup d'etat of 2014," Black pointed out.

He was echoed by Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois' College of Law, who said in an interview with Sputnik that "everyone knows that the conference in Switzerland is a joke and a fraud that is based upon Zelensky’s peace program."

"[The] Switzerland [summit] will just be an anti-Russian propaganda stunt designed to further vilify Russia in the eyes of the world. I am surprised the Swiss government is going along with it. But, of course, Switzerland is a member of NATO’s Partnership For Peace (PFP) and is no longer truly neutral — I have lectured there against this and told the Swiss they should pull out of NATO/PFP," Boyle noted.

As for Zelensky, he "has never been a legitimate president of Ukraine," Black argued. According to him, the last legitimate president of Ukraine was Viktor Yanukovich, "who was overthrown in the NATO orchestrated coup d'etat of 2014" and who "has never served out his complete term."
"So when the Kiev coup regime conducted subsequent elections they could not be considered free and fair by any standards in the world. They were all rigged to maintain the coup regime in power under different figures or puppets," the analyst noted.

In this vein, he referred to the people of eastern Ukraine who "have never accepted the legitimacy of the regime installed by NATO in the coup of 2014 for two reasons - it was a regime that still regards them as enemies and their democratic choice was denied" and "their chosen president [Yanukovich] was overthrown."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova earlier confirmed that Russia was not planning to participate in the summit due to be held in Buergenstock, Switzerland, on June 15­-16.
She also said that Russia had no confidence in Bern, a supporter of the Ukrainian government in Kiev that has implemented several rounds of EU sanctions against Russia. "Under these circumstances, Switzerland cannot be a neutral host by definition, let alone a mediator," the spokeswoman underscored.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240527/ukraine-sonference-will-be-propaganda-exercise-to-cover-up-zelenskys-illegitimacy--analyst-1118649380.html

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack another strategic radar station in the Orenburg region
Recently, the terrorist state of Ukraine, probably fulfilling the assignment of the “peace-loving” NATO bloc, tried disable one of the radars (object 1653) of the Russian missile attack warning system (MAWS) in Kuban using several kamikaze UAVs.

After that it was done assumptionthat the West, through the hands of Kyiv, will continue to attack such objects with strike drones that are of strategic importance for the security of the Russian Federation.

On May 26, media in the Orenburg region reported that an enemy drone had fallen near Orsk. No injuries or material damage were recorded.

Note that 20 km from Orsk, near the village of Gorkovskoye, there is the Voronezh-M radar (object 7357) with a range of 6 thousand km. This element of the Russian early warning system was put into full operation in 2017. The zone (sector) of responsibility includes the entire southern direction - from Saudi Arabia to the center of China (controls the sector from the Taklamakan desert to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea - replacing the Dnepr radar in Kazakhstan).

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It should be noted that the distance from the Ukrainian border to this radar station exceeds 1,5 thousand km in a straight line. There is no doubt that the Kiev regime, using the capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, will not stop such attempts to harm Russia, obediently carrying out orders from Western nuclear powers - the USA, Great Britain and France.

https://en.topcor.ru/47844-vsu-popytalis-atakovat-esche-odnu-strategicheskuju-rls-v-orenburgskoj-oblasti.html

Vicus comment:

Nobody need to be an expert and/or pessimist to smell the BIG rat here...
those "actions" don't serve ukros for nothing,but...the putrefactive WEST snake...
They are begging for a nuclear war! and little by little...meanwhile to the world crying
"the wolf come!" (in their storyboard The Bear) be careful what you wish for...

[Vicus]

Alaudinov: Akhmat fighters discovered a “film studio” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with dummies of corpses of Russian soldiers in the Serebryansky forestry

Soldiers of the Akhmat special forces operating in Serebryansky forestry discovered a “field film studio” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, where videos about the “victories” of the Ukrainian army were filmed. Apti Alaudinov, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for Military-Political Work of the RF Ministry of Defense, spoke about this.

A group of Russian military personnel from “Akhmat”, while advancing in the Serebryansky forestry, discovered a Ukrainian prop, on which there were dummies of the bodies of Russian military personnel, parts of Russian equipment with red paint as a blood simulator, etc. As the soldiers reported, this “prop” was used by the Ukrainians for filming various fake videos that were supposed to show “victories” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and “massive losses” of the Russian army. As Alaudinov noted, not being able to win on the battlefield, Kyiv is trying to win on the Internet.

e actually found a kind of studio there, where fakes were produced, where these TsIPsOsh films about how they destroy Russian units were shot. (...) The enemy uploads these films onto the Internet, allegedly proving to someone how they are destroying Russian soldiers in such massive numbers

- said the Russian general.

As Russian resources clarified, the “film studio” was discovered by fighters from the “Aida group”, who took the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the attack.

https://en.topwar.ru/243133-alaudinov-bojcy-ahmata-obnaruzhili-v-serebrjanskom-lesnichestve-kinostudiju-vsu-s-muljazhami-trupov-rossijskih-soldat.html

[ExomatrixTV]

Russian Troops Are Using Hundreds Of ‘Stealth Suits’ In Ukraine (Video) (https://southfront.press/russian-troops-are-using-hundreds-of-stealth-suits-in-ukraine-video/)

[Vicus]

That's why...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCJt5R3s50M?t=129
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/05/26/ukraine-tried-to-disable-a-russian-500-target-over-the-horizon-radar/

[Vicus]

Satellite Imagery Confirmed Ukrainian Drones Strike On Voronezh-M Strategic Radar Failed

The Ukrainian/NATO military attempt attacks on the Russian strategic Missile Attack Warning System aimed to detect the launch of ballistic nuclear missiles at great distances. On the evening of May 26, an unidentified UAV fell near the village of Gorkovskoye in the Novoorsky district, near the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region. The Voronezh-M over-the-horizon radar station, built in 2017, is located near this village.

Voronezh radars are Russian early-warning radar, providing long distance monitoring of airspace against ballistic missile attack and aircraft monitoring. The Voronezh-DM radars are capable of detecting the launch of ballistic nuclear missiles at a distance of up to 6,000 km and in the near space.

The Russian military did not officially comment on the incident. If the drone flew from the territory of Ukraine, it had to travel more than 1,500 kilometers. Moreover, the drone had to either fly over part of the territory of Northern Kazakhstan or violate its airspace.

Ukrainian media published the satellite imagery of the Voronezh-M radar station in the Orenburg region, claiming another fake victory. Ukrainian media claimed that the territory of the facility was damaged, circling the alleged areas affected by the strike by a single Ukrainian UAV.

In fact, the satellite imagery did not confirm any damage to the radar. The dark areas seen on the territory of the facility could be explained by some shadows, pits in the asphalt or simply plashes after rain. A single Ukrainian drone could not inflict such damage across the territory of the radar station.

Thus, the satellite imagery confirmed the reports that the attack failed or it was thwarted by Russian air defense.

On May 24, Ukrainian drones attacked another Voronezh-DM radar near Armavir in the Krasnodar region. The antennas of the radar were reportedly damaged.

The ongoing attacks on the Russian strategic facilities do not affect to the ongoing operations on the Ukrainian frontlines. Hiding behind the puppet Kiev regime, NATO attempts to inflict damage to the strategic infrastructure of the Russian Federation. Attacks on the Russian nuclear security system is a clear step towards the global nuclear war.

According to paragraph c) of paragraph 19 of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On the Fundamentals of the State policy of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence”, the conditions determining the possibility of our country using nuclear weapons include, inter alia, “the enemy’s impact on critically important state or military facilities of the Russian Federation, disabling which will lead to the disruption of the response of the nuclear forces.”

The dangerous provocations are launched amid the ongoing Russian exercice on the deployment of non-strategic nuclear weapons in the southern military district of the Russian Federation.

https://southfront.press/satellite-imagery-confirmed-ukrainian-drones-strike-on-voronezh-m-strategic-radar-failed/

[Bruce G Charlton]

Thanks for this and your continued work Vicus - I greatly appreciate it.

I must say that Rus cannot allow this kind of attack to continue; and unless it stops very soon such repeated attacks will surely, sooner or later, lead to the "escalation" (i.e. spread of no-holds-barred war far beyond Ukr and (officially... )among multiple nations) that so many of the Globalist/ Western leadership class are seeking - (IMO) as a core component of their agenda of spiteful destruction of as much of Mankind and Nature as possible.

Their goal is total war - between- and within- all nations: a war with no winners. As soon as this is judged inevitable, there is significant advantage to striking first - so we may not see things building-up.

I suspect that this situation is already closer than ever before.

Meanwhile... near total ignorance/ indifference/ denial from almost everyone in The West.

[Tintin]

May 24th, 2024 Presidential visit of Vladimir Putin to Belarus


As expected the main thrust of the meeting involved discussion around their mutual joint working as the Union State. But of course the topic of Ukraine was also discussed.

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Press conference


This video with an overdubbed English audio translation is embedded below at 38 minutes in length. Also linked is the transcript of this press conference.


Extracted:


Vladimir Matveyev: Good afternoon, President Lukashenko, President Putin.

I have a question about Ukraine. In view of Vladimir Zelensky’s expired presidential term, what are the prospects for resuming peace talks with Ukraine? The key question here is who to talk with even if such a request comes from the Ukrainian side?

The second part of my question: Do you see any real forces in Ukraine, political or military, that are really capable of being clear-eyed about the current situation, reaching tradeoff solutions and, most importantly, that are able to reach and honour agreements?

Vladimir Putin: Is this question for me?

Vladimir Matveyev: It is for both presidents.

Vladimir Putin: I will start, then.

Alexander Lukashenko: You know better.

Vladimir Putin: As for the negotiating process, I have discussed it many times. I would like to emphasise it once again here in Minsk: Russia has never turned these negotiations down. Moreover, we started these talks in Belarus at some point and then moved them to Istanbul, Turkiye, at the request of the Ukrainian side. We reached certain agreements and drafted an agreement. Moreover, the head of the negotiating group from Ukraine initialed an extract from the potential agreement, meaning that the Ukrainian side was overall satisfied with it, as was the Russian side. Some of its provisions needed to be finalised, but, to reiterate, since Ukraine signed this document it was happy with what it said.

For reasons that are known quite well now, after the former British Prime Minister arrived in Kiev, the Ukrainian side tossed out these agreements and stopped acting on them. Moreover, they said the talks were over. They said so publicly, we were not the ones to terminate these talks. They did it and made it illegal for themselves to continue these talks. We did not forbid anyone to negotiate, since we are in favour of negotiations.

After that, at the direction and at the behest of their Western sponsors and masters, a new goal was set to inflict a strategic defeat of Russia and achieve victory over Russia on the battlefield. The discussions about the need to resume talks are back. Let them be back, but they should return not because one country wants then to return, but they must return on the basis of the principled agreements that had been reached during the difficult talks in Belarus and Turkiye, and on the basis of today’s realities on the ground. We are ready for this.

Who to negotiate with? This is certainly not an idle question, I agree. Of course, we realise that the current head of state is no longer legitimate. I think one of the goals of the conference to be held in Switzerland is precisely to have the Western community and sponsors of the Kiev regime confirm the legitimacy of the current head of state, or no longer the current head of state.

But these PR steps are irrelevant for legal documents. But if it comes to this, we will, of course, have to and I proceed from the premise that peace talks must be resumed and not via ultimatums but via common sense. They must rest on common sense. But if it comes to this, we, of course, must understand with whom we need and can deal with a view to signing legally binding documents. In this case, we must be absolutely sure that we are dealing with the legitimate authorities. This question must be answered in Ukraine itself, primarily, I think, by its parliament, the Constitutional Court or some other government authorities.

As far as I know, we must look at what is written in the Constitution of Ukraine, which government bodies have the right to be extended under the Constitution of Ukraine without elections and electoral procedures, and which cannot count on these rights. This may be done through a judicial analysis. These are questions for the Ukrainian political and legal systems.

Alexander Lukashenko: I absolutely agree with what Mr Putin has just said.

As for the expiration of Vladimir Zelensky’s powers, there is no legal clarity on this issue. Nor can there be any because as you understand they have deep democracy and everything has been stifled. I and we are often reproached or being dictators. Some others are also accused of this. Here is democracy in action: neither the Constitutional Court nor other courts can say anything. Therefore, the legal clarity that the President of Russia was talking about is ruled out in this situation.

As for war and peace – the main issues mentioned by Mr Putin as well – what importance do they have? In any case, I believe neither the current nor the future president will resolve these major questions that the state and the people of Ukraine are facing. You know who will resolve them: many have already been resolved overseas and they will resolve later what is still outstanding. The President of Russia has just presented evidence of this. When someone unknown came and ordered, the agreements were crossed out. It was hard to reach them but they were put on paper and initialed. So, this was the result. I myself thoroughly analysed these problems about Vladimir Zelensky’s authority but now I understood that all this is pointless.

VIDEO: Avalon Library link (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Vladimir_Putin_%28speeches%29/2024-05-24_News_conference_following_Russian-Belarusian_talks_-_Minsk_Belarus_May_24_2024.mp4)

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Vladimir_Putin_%28speeches%29/2024-05-24_News_conference_following_Russian-Belarusian_talks_-_Minsk_Belarus_May_24_2024.mp4

FULL TRANSCRIPT PDF: Avalon Library link (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Vladimir_Putin_%28speeches%29/2024-05-24_News_conference_following_Russian-Belarusian_talks_-_Minsk_Belarus_May_24_2024_%28full_transcript%29.pdf)

[Vicus]

NewsReal: Georgia Dream - Empire of Lies to Open Second Front Against Russia?

It's sure shaping up that way in Russia's Caucasus neighbor, where the government in Tbilisi is facing a veritable battering ram of Western NGO-activated protests in response to its move to rein in thousands of... those same foreign-funded NGOs. So, Kiev's Maidan movement redux? The country's PM fears this to be the case, telling media that NATO seeks to open a 'second front' against Russia.


Meanwhile, multiple 'hits' and plots against various countries' leaders suggest intense interest on the Empire's part to force regime change in 'wrong' leadership. Was the would-be assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico acting alone? And who organized the failed military coup in the Congo? In that context, was the death of the Iranian president and foreign minister just a tragic accident?


The apparent 'quickening' of geopolitical, social and environmental events is undoubtedly connected to Russia's advances on the battlefield in Ukraine, where Zelensky now rules as dictator and his regime is teetering. The Western Powers are confident they'll walk away from this as Lords of Western Ukraine, but will Russia accept such a 'deal'?

https://www.sott.net/article/491725-NewsReal-Georgia-Dream-Empire-of-Lies-to-Open-Second-Front-Against-Russia

[Michel Leclerc]

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Guerrilla war against the TCC in Ukraine: they attack, take away weapons and fire at military registration and enlistment offices with RPGs
▪️In the Chernivtsi region, about 7 employees of the TCC, together with the police, stopped 3 men who turned out to be athletes, beat them all and took away their service weapons.
▪️Also, 3 days ago, someone threw a Molotov cocktail at the TCC department, 2 days ago, someone fired a “Mukha” grenade launcher, and a week and a half ago they also shot at the TCC with an RPG.
▪️"A subscriber from Kharkov wrote that the entire database is being leaked onto the Internet, as well as the residences of TCC employees. I guarantee you that for everything that they are now doing to people: they mock, beat, forcibly detain in various places, pack minibuses - there will be retribution. After the war, they will change places with civilians and will hide themselves so that they are not caught and punished...” writes hacker Joker DPR,
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1794393953896177871

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This is the first time I have heard of such an organised reaction. This is excellent news. Let us hope it expands fast and effectively. The beginning pf the "counterrevolution" which is actually the real revolution.

[Helvetic]

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❗️A video from the cellars in Krynki (Kherson Region) full of the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen has appeared at the disposal of RIA Novosti.

The footage was provided by the press service of governor Volodymyr Saldo and was taken on 24 May.

Saldo earlier said that "terrible finds" are being found everywhere in Krynki - basements full of bodies of Ukrainian "marines".

http://t.me/ukraine_watch


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[Ravenlocke]

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❗️🇺🇦☣️ Ukraine is requesting antidotes and gas masks in excessive quantities, indicating plans to use toxic substances

This was announced by the head of the RKhBZ troops, Igor Kirillov.

📝 Main statements:

▪️Ukrainian neo-Nazis first used chemical weapons on May 2, 2014 during a terrorist attack in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa

▪️AFU used chemical weapons in the area of Donetsk, Bogdanovka, Gorlovka, Kremennaya and Artemovsk

▪️AFUassault groups are equipped with gas grenades

▪️The United States is creating new and improving existing non-lethal chemical munitions, including tank ones

Lord of War

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺❗️The Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning large-scale use of toxic substances and are stocking up on antidotes, gas masks and other protective equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The main thing from the briefing of the head of the RCBZ troops of the RF Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov:

▪️🇺🇸The United States is creating new and modernizing existing non-lethal chemical munitions, including tank ones;

▪️The use of toxic substances and chemical agents by Ukrainian militants became systematic during the special operation;

▪️The use of chemical weapons by Ukraine was recorded in the areas of Donetsk, Bogdanovka, Gorlovka, Kremennaya and Artemovsk;

▪️Attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to destroy chemically hazardous facilities in the territories of the DPR and LPR create a threat of chemical damage to the civilian population of the regions;

▪️AFU assault groups are equipped with gas grenades;

▪️The actions of the collective West are aimed at depriving the Russian Federation of voting rights in the OPCW.

🇺🇸The United States sought to conceal the use of non-lethal chemical weapons in suppressing protests in Iraq, said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of the Russian Chemical Defense Forces.

He also noted that the United States is violating the convention by transferring non-lethal chemical weapons to third countries.

Lord of War

https://x.com/dana916/status/1795434430015651942

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Borrell:

“EU defense ministers will today discuss the possibility of granting Ukraine permission to strike with Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation and the associated risks of escalation.”

Ukrainian Minister Umerov and NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg, who previously called for allowing such strikes, will also take part in the meeting.

CyberspecNews

https://x.com/dana916/status/1795419208051798227

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1795401731460960359

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇪🇺🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺NATO is training to strike Russian territory with nuclear weapons near its borders, the head of the border service of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Vladimir Kulishov, told Sputnik.

"Near the Russian border, NATO's reconnaissance activities are increasing, the intensity of operational combat training of the alliance's troops is growing, during which scenarios for conducting combat operations against the Russian Federation, including the launch of nuclear strikes on our territory, are being worked out," he said.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240528/nato-training-for-nuclear-strike-on-russian-territory---top-border-security-official-1118658044.html


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[Ravenlocke]

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🇲🇩Moldova is accumulating military equipment at a training ground near the village of Bulboaca near the borders of unrecognized Transnistria, according to Tiraspol authorities.

The Moldovan military is conducting training there on how to conduct real combat operations, and mobilization resources are being checked.

At the same time, it is only 12 km from Bulboaca to Transnistrian Bender, noted co-chairman of the control commission Oleg Belyakov.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1795472521220776049

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1795460892059893873

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[Ravenlocke]

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⚡️🇺🇦 "I DON'T WANT THE WAR TO END - I'M QUITE COMFORTABLE WITH IT" - Petrov, Communications Specialist of the Ukrainian President's Office.

Officials and MPs who are legally exempt from the draft want the war to continue, "until they run out of Russians."

Video by
@IntelRepublic

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1795484450274341223

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1795438662798241941

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦 “I went for bread and was captured”: another batch of prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Volchansk

One of the militants said that he ended up at the front against his own will. He was caught on the street by TCC representatives while going to the grocery store.

“I went to the store to buy bread, the TsKashniks drove up, threw me into a minibus and took me away. They brought me to some gym. We stayed there for 3 days and were taken here. I didn’t even know where we were, only you said it was Volchansk,” said the prisoner.

Lord of War
https://x.com/dana916/status/1795436476722774212

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[Ravenlocke]

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In Odessa, a multimillion-dollar scheme to make money from draft dodgers was exposed

According to the State Bureau of Investigation, since July 2023, the head of the recruitment center department has “corrected” the data of 138 men liable for military service. They paid him from $4.5 thousand to $7 thousand for false information about their unfitness for service.

He faces up to 15 years in prison.

@ukr_leaks_eng

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1795400723829600732

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[Ravenlocke]

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Where are US tactical nukes deployed in Europe?

Right now, an estimated 100 US tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) - intended for use on the battlefield or for a limited strike - remain at six bases in five NATO countries in Europe and West Asia, including:

◾️ Buchel Air Base in Germany (reportedly houses 15 TNWs)

◾️ Kleine Brogel Air Basein in Belgium (15 TNWs)

◾️ Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands (15 TNWs)

◾️ Aviano & Ghedi Torre Air Bases in Italy (35 TNWs)

◾️ Incirlik Air Base in Turkiye (20 TNWs)

(All the figures are based on last year’s data obtained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists non-profit organization).

The US nuclear arsenal in Europe consists of B-61 gravity bombs, designed to be dropped from allied bombers or fighter aircraft. The B-61 is known to be three times more powerful than the US’ atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg earlier said the time had come for allies to untie the Ukrainian military’s hands and allow Kiev to use its Western-sourced long-range strike systems to target Russian rear areas.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded by saying that Stoltenberg had exceeded his authority, and that his behavior had been berated by NATO members themselves. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that NATO is toying with military rhetoric, raising the degree of escalation and plunging into what he called a warlike "ecstasy".

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1795462557588668554

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[Ravenlocke]

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❗️Ukrainian losses amounted to 405 soldiers, two infantry fighting vehicles, including an American Bradley, in the area of responsibility of the Tsentr Battlegroup.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the daily briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian air defenses shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force and 39 Ukrainian drones in one day;

▪️Units of Russia’s Zapad Battlegroup occupied more advantageous positions and repelled three attacks by Ukrainian troops;

▪️Ukrainian forces lost more than 700 soldiers in one day in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Yug Battlegroup;

▪️Units of the Yug Battlegroup of the Russian Armed Forces improved their situation along the front line, and defeated the troops and equipment of two Ukrainian brigades;

▪️The Sever Battlegroup repelled five attacks in one day, defeated four enemy brigades, and the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to 285 military personnel.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1795400430995849718

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Lithuania will support Moldova’s accession to the European Union - Foreign Minister Landsbergis

“I am pleased to welcome my colleague Mihail Popšoj to Vilnius to discuss the upcoming start of EU accession negotiations. Moldova will receive the full support of Lithuania,” Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote in X.

BALTNEWS

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

28 May 2024

▫️Units of the Sever Group of Forces continue advancing to the depth of the enemy's defenses.

Units of AFU 42nd mechanised, 57th mechanized infantry, 3rd tank, and 125th territorial defence brigade were hit near Petropavlovka and Liptsy (Kharkov region).

Five counter-attacks of enemy assault groups were repelled close to Volchansk and Staritsa (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 285 Ukrainian troops, three armored fighting vehicles, and six motor vehicles.

In the course of the counter-battery warfare, two 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery systems, one 155-mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, one 155-mm French-made Caesar howitzer, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, four 122-mm Grad BM-21 MLRS and one Czech-made RM-70 Vampire MLRS were eliminated.

▫️The Zapad Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of AFU 57th mechanized, 95th air assault brigades near Kupyansk (Kharkov region) and Krasny Liman (Donetsk People's Republic).

Three counter-attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 115th mechanized, 31st national guard brigades were repelled near Belogorovka and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, one 155-mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, one 155-mm U.S.-made M777 howitzer, one 155-mm Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, as well as two 122-mm D-30 howitzers.

▫️The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the situation along the front line, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 54th mechanized, 46th airmobile brigades near Ivano-Daryevka, Krasnogorovka, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to more than 700 Ukrainian troops, three armored fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, two 152-mm D-20 howitzers, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, and one 105-mm U.S.-made M119 gun.

▫️The Tsentr Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation, defeated units of AFU 47th mechanized, 109th territorial defense brigades close to Yevgenovka, Sokol and Karlovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

Six attacks launched by units of AFU 23rd, 24th, 47th mechanized, 144th infantry, 25th airborne brigades were repelled close to Shumy, Ocheretino, Novoaleksandrovka, Novopokrovskoye, Solovyovo, and Umanskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 405 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, to include one Bradley, and six motor vehicles.

In the course of the counter-battery warfare, two 155-mm U.S.-made M777 howitzers, two 152-mm Msta-B howitzers, one 152-mm D-20 howitzer, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer were eliminated.

▫️ Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 58th mechanized infantry and 128th territorial defense brigades near Urozhaynoye and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 165 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, two U.S.-made 155-mm M777 howitzers, two Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery systems, and one UK-made FH-70 towed howitzer.

▫️Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces hit manpower and hardware of the AFU 35th Marine Brigade close to Tyaginka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 45 Ukrainian troops, four motor vehicles, and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 118 areas during the day.

▫️Russian air defense means have shot down one Mig-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, 39 unmanned aerial vehicles, one U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missile, seven French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, and one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile.

📊 In total, 604 airplanes and 274 helicopters, 24,739 unmanned aerial vehicles, 524 air defense missile systems, 16,182 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,322 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 9,914 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 22,060 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Russian Defense Ministry


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"Ukrainians have now attacked a second critical Russian nuclear strategic early warning radar at Orsk.

This radar looks towards the Indian Ocean and has some overlap with the radar fans from the already damaged radar at Armavir.

The initial indicators are that the amount of damage to the Orsk is likely limited, but it cannot be ruled out that the radar is not functioning for the moment due to the attack.

This is a very serious situation.

Unlike the United States, the Russians do not have space-based satellite warning systems that can see ballistic missile attacks globally. This means that the radar coverage lost by the attacks on these radars greatly reduces the warning time against attacks on Moscow from the Mediterranean and Indian oceans.

The Russians have a radar operating in Moscow that can see arriving warheads but they would only begin to see the warheads above the horizon at very short times before impacts.

My estimates (based on real analysis, not bull****) is that the radar early morning time has been reduced from about 15 to 16 minutes to about 10 to 11.

This amount of warning time might quite possibly eliminate the possibility of any deliberation-time on the part of Russian leaders if they were confronted with a decision of whether or not to launch Russian strategic nuclear forces in response to a nuclear attack on Moscow.

Russian political leadership in Moscow would have almost no time to assess the situation if they believed a possible attack from the south was underway.

The extreme time-pressure on Russian leadership could thereby significantly increase the possibilities of a catastrophic nuclear accident.

The fact that Blinken and his national security team have provided a “go ahead” to the Ukrainian government to attack Russian sites outside of Ukraine, means that either Blinken has recklessly told Ukrainians they can engage in such acts that would have a potentially catastrophic consequence for the United States, and the entire planet.

If Blinken is not aware of the danger that is posed by these attacks, he is so incompetent that he should be removed along with his entire team from any position of authority.

If he is aware of this danger, you should also be removed with his entire national security team.

I have extensive personal experiences with people at the White House that indicate to me it is entirely possible that Blinken and his team are not aware of the dangers they are knowingly allowing to occur.

I will not spend time herein describing my personal experiences and observations, but I can do so at any time on any notice. It cannot be ruled out that the White House is completely unaware of the danger.

Please feel free to give me a call at any time if you would like to hear further about my concerns.

I cannot emphasize enough how frightening and dangerous this development is – at least to me, who I think can claim a rather detailed knowledge of the nuclear strike systems of both Russia and United States."

Prof. Theodore A Postol


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NATO members divided on Ukraine's plans to hit Russia with Western weapons

Western powers, who initially supplied Kiev with weapons for defense, now suggest using them to strike deep into Russia.

Who favors such attacks:

▪️Last week, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged the bloc’s members who supplied weapons to Ukraine to stop barring Kiev from using these weapons to attack Russia. - Stoltenberg’s sentiment was recently echoed by Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics who announced that he sees no reason to impose such restrictions on Ukraine.

▪️Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala claimed that Ukraine has the right to use Western weapons to attack Russia, arguing that it is “logical.”

▪️Estonia’s Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said he hopes every country who provided Ukraine with weapons would allow Kiev to attack Russia with this gear.

▪️Dutch Defense Minister Kasja Ollongren said that the situation where Ukraine would strike inside Russia should not even be a matter of discussion.

The opposition:

▪️Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo insists that all military gear his country provides to Ukraine should be used on Ukrainian territory.

▪️Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani also argued that Western armaments provided to Kiev should be used within Ukraine’s boundaries.

Ambiguous:

▪️US Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that Kiev “will have to make its own decisions” about conducting attacks beyond Ukraine’s borders, even as the Biden administration officially prohibits the use of US-supplied weapons such as ATACMS missiles for strikes deep into Russian territory.

▪️Austrian Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner said that her country is "militarily neutral according to our constitution".

Moscow warns that Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory using Western-supplied military hardware could lead to direct conflict with NATO.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1795509490260819994

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇷🇺The constitution says nothing about extending the powers of the Ukrainian president — the parliament remains the only legitimate authority there, Putin has said

Answering a question about the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government, the president said that a deep legal analysis of Zelenskyy's status should be carried out. The Ukrainian constitution provides for the extension of the powers of the Ukrainian parliament for the period of martial law. It does not say anything about the extension of the president's powers.

As the Russian president noted, no presidential election is held during martial law in Ukraine. But this does not mean that his powers are prolonged. Referring to Article 111 of the Ukrainian constitution, Putin said that during martial law in the country, the powers of the supreme power are transferred to the speaker of parliament. The Russian leader thus stated that the Verkhovna Rada and its speaker remained the only legitimate authority in Ukraine.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1795486329616101863

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1795443429154910243

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1795448802746220981

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[Vicus]

Putin warns West about consequences of attacking Russia 28 May, 2024

Moscow knows who would be behind long-range “Ukrainian” strikes, the president has said

Kiev's Western backers need to understand that long-range strikes on Russian territory using weaponry they have supplied would represent a conflict escalation that would have “serious consequences,” Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.

Speaking to reporters at the end of a two-day visit to Uzbekistan, Putin addressed recent Ukrainian demands for NATO to permit the use of their weapons to attack deep inside Russia as well as comments by the US-led bloc’s head, Jens Stoltenberg, appearing to endorse the tactic

“To be honest, I don’t know what the NATO secretary-general is saying,” Putin told reporters, adding that Stoltenberg “did not suffer from any dementia” when he worked constructively with Russia as the prime minister of Norway (2005-2013).

Putin explained that long-range precision strikes require space reconnaissance assets – witch Ukraine does not have, but the US does – and that their targeting is already done by “highly qualified specialists” from the West, without Ukrainian participation.

“So, these representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries, must be aware of what they are playing with,” the Russian president said, noting that a lot of these countries have “a small territory and a very dense population.”

Putin reminded reporters that their colleagues in the West never reported on the Ukrainian attacks on Belgorod and other Russian regions along the border, only about the Russian advance on Kharkov.

“What caused this? They did, with their own hands. Well, then, they will reap what they have sown. The same thing can happen if long-range precision weapons are used,” the Russian president added.

Asked if Russia was refusing to negotiate with Ukraine, Putin told reporters that such claims by the West were baffling.

“We don’t refuse!” he said. “I’ve said it a thousand times, it’s like they don’t have ears!”

The Ukrainian side initialed an agreement with Russia in March 2022, then publicly reneged and refused to negotiate any further, Putin explained. He described Kiev’s current “peace conference” effort in Switzerland as an attempt to get some kind of international buy-in for their entirely unrealistic “peace platform,” which isn’t working out.

https://www.rt.com/russia/598350-putin-serious-consequences-west/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

[Vicus]

EU state’s president pledges to bring Russia ‘to its knees’ :sarcastic:

Alar Karis urges the West to keep up pressure on ordinary Russian citizens, to force political “change” in Moscow

Estonian President Alar Karis has claimed that meaningful discussions on ending the Ukraine conflict can only take place when Moscow is fully subdued. The head of state also called on Western nations to attempt to force political change in Russia.

In an interview with the news website Yle on Sunday – ahead of Finnish President Alexander Stubb’s state visit to Tallinn on Monday – Karis expressed skepticism over whether Russia can “change” quickly enough to “respond to our [Western] understanding of democracy.”

He urged Western powers to intensify the pressure on Moscow – referring to sanctions imposed by the EU and US since the start of the conflict – with the goal of fueling public discontent among ordinary Russians.

“We will do everything possible to bring Russia and Putin to their knees,” Karis stressed. “Then it will be possible to start serious negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine.”

Russia had a “chance” when the USSR ended, but then something went “wrong,” and now even regime change and the removal of President Vladimir Putin would not have the effect desired by the West, he argued.

Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022, the Estonian leadership has adopted a hawkish stance towards Moscow, regularly referring to the country as “an aggressor” and an “existential threat” to the Baltic states.

Last week Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas suggested that the conflict between Moscow and Kiev should end with the breakup of the Russian Federation into separate states, arguing that it would bring “a change in society.” She repeatedly urged NATO nations to keep “all options on the table” to ensure that Moscow “loses the war.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/598266-eu-states-president-pledges-to/

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1795521500575076567

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‼️🇷🇺🇫🇷We must allow Kyiv to strike military targets on Russian territory from which they strike Ukraine - Macron
“We believe that we should allow them to neutralize the military facilities from which missiles are launched, and mainly the military facilities from which attacks on Ukraine are carried out. But they should not have the right to hit other targets in Russia, obviously civilian targets or other military targets,” he said.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1795517305356529795

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1795527226269790430

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[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QMFaQHyM24

2 hours ago

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1795447391648125265

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https://houstonpost.org/2024/05/28/revelation-germanys-von-der-leyens-shady-dealings-with-russian-firm-amid-eu-sanctions/


Revelation: Germany’s Von der Leyen’s Shady Dealings with Russian Firm Amid EU Sanctions!

German journalists have recently unveiled a corruption scandal involving the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. According to their investigation, von der Leyen allegedly used her influence to help Russian company “Krasniy oktyabr” evade the sanctions imposed by the European Union after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The scandal comes less than two weeks before the European Parliament elections, casting a shadow over one of the most prominent Members of the European Parliament (MEP). Ursula von der Leyen’s career has been marred by numerous scandals, such as the Bundeswehr scandal and Pfizergate. This new report raises more questions about her integrity and motives.


In the spring of 2022, in the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU adopted several packages of sanctions aimed at crippling the Russian economy. The fourth package of sanctions included a ban on Russian steel imports into the European Union, affecting numerous companies, including “Krasnij oktyabr”, a leading company supplying the automotive industry and producing 40 percent of stainless steel in Russia.
According to an interview with the general director of the plant, “We will deliver European orders (production) up until the beginning of May (2022). We are entitled to supply the EU until mid-June and we will do so.” However, in 2023, “Krasniy oktyabr” became a participant in
the 13th International Mining and Metallurgy Congress in Astana, Kazakhstan. Another participant of the congress was the steel giant “ArcelorMittal”, which, among other things, is the largest metal supplier to the automotive industry in Europe. The third link in
this chain was Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission and colleague of Ursula von der Leyen.

According to official data, the goal of his visit was to deepen the relations between the EU and Kazakhstan. However, according to Congress insiders, Šefčovič was personally sent to the Congress by Ursula to monitor the measures to circumvent the sanctions so that “Krasnij
Oktyabr” could continue supplying its steel to Europe.

At the behest of von der Leyen, Šefčovič helped “Krasnij oktjabr” and “ArcelorMittal” to agree on schemes to circumvent the sanctions, and the Russian company’s products began to enter the European market once again. Journalists are wondering why Ursula von der Leyen is dealing with this matter and what benefit she is getting from it.

Russian steel accounted for 20 percent of the EU market in 2020. After the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the imposition of sanctions, Chinese companies tried to replace Russian companies. However, they have encountered resistance from European lawmakers and in particular from Ursula von der Leyen, who stated that “European markets are being flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars and steel” and called on China to stop overproduction.

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/coope125/status/1794753864203128923

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[Tintin]

Answers to questions from journalists following the visit to Uzbekistan

Date: May 28th, 2024


Vladimir Putin answered questions from representatives of the Russian media following his state visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan. The press approach took place at Tashkent airport.

Source: President of Russia website: Events page (http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/74132)

Source (other): Avalon Library PDF (full transcript) (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Vladimir_Putin_%28speeches%29/2024-05-28_Vladimir_Putin_Answers_to_questions_from_journalists_following_the_visit_to_Tashkent_Uzbekistan_M ay_28_2024.pdf)

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Yet more highly intelligent and accurate observations emanate from Vladimir Putin, here, with particular regard to the bleating bravado from Trifleberg (Stoltencheese, or whatever moniker may be more apropos - you choose) concerning "striking" into Russia with Western weapons using space-based NATO technologies, which of course points the finger directly at the real perpetrators behind the recent provocations in civilian areas of Belgorod, amongst others including the botched Voronezh event from the weekend.

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Excerpted:



PUTIN: Now about the blows. To be honest, I don’t know what the NATO Secretary General is saying. When he was the Prime Minister of Norway, we communicated with him and resolved difficult issues regarding the Barents Sea and others, and in general we could agree; at that time, I’m just sure, he did not suffer from any dementia. If he talks about the possibility of striking Russian territory with long-range precision weapons, he is like a person who heads a military-political organization, although he is a civilian, like me, but he should still know that long-range precision weapons are not can be used without space reconnaissance equipment. First.

Second. The final choice of target and the so-called flight mission can only be made by highly qualified specialists based on this intelligence data, technical intelligence data. For some strike systems, such as Storm Shadow, these tasks can be entered automatically (flight missions), without any presence of Ukrainian military personnel. Who does this? This is done by those who produce and those who allegedly supply these strike systems to Ukraine. In general, it can happen without participation - and does happen without the participation of Ukrainian military personnel. And other systems, for example, such as ATACMS, are also prepared on the basis of space reconnaissance, [goals] are formulated, and are automatically brought to the appropriate calculations - they may not even understand what they are entering - and the calculation may be Ukrainian calculation, enters the corresponding flight task. But this task is being prepared not by Ukrainian military personnel, but by representatives of NATO countries.

So, these representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries, must be aware of what they are playing with. They must remember that these are, as a rule, states with a small territory and a very dense population. And this is a factor that they must keep in mind before talking about striking deep into Russian territory. This is a serious thing, and we, of course, are watching this very carefully, looking at it.

Everything now revolves around events on the outskirts of Kharkov. So it was they who provoked these events in this direction. I think I publicly said six months ago: if they continue to strike residential areas, we will then be forced to create a security zone. And just recently, as I said, we moved on to this.

They first provoked us in Donbass, led us by the nose for eight years, deceived us by saying that they were supposedly going to resolve the issue peacefully, and forced us to attempt to bring the situation to peace by armed means. Then they deceived us during the negotiation process, they decided that they would defeat Russia on the battlefield and inflict a strategic defeat on it. Then we warned them: do not enter our territory, do not shell Belgorod and other adjacent territories, otherwise we will be forced to create a security zone.

Look at all the reports of your Western colleagues. No one is talking about the shelling of Belgorod and other adjacent territories; everyone is only talking about the fact that Russia has opened a new front and is attacking Kharkov. Not a word. What causes this? They did it with their own hands. Well, then they will reap the fruits of their creativity. The same thing can happen in the case of the use of long-range precision weapons, which you asked about.

In general, this constant escalation can lead to serious consequences. If these serious consequences occur in Europe, how will the United States behave, bearing in mind our parity in the field of strategic weapons? Hard to say.

Do they want global conflict? It seems to me that they wanted to negotiate in the field of strategic weapons, but for some reason we don’t see much desire to do this. There are conversations about this, but we don’t seem to see much desire. Let's see what happens next.

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Sergey Lavrov answers question from Pavel Zarubin

And directly related to the the theme of "strikes" more diplomatic magnificence from Sergey Lavrov, who has few peers I'd say. I appreciate this has been linked to via a Twitter post here, but no harm in a reminder (4 minutes):

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Sergey_Lavrov/2024-05-28_Sergey_Lavrov_answer_to_question_from_Pavel_Zarubin_journalist_from_Rossiya_TV_channel_on_NATO_pl ans_to_strike_into_Russia_mainland.mp4

[Tintin]

Kinzhal "Dagger" strikes in Lvov, Yavorovsky training ground

This was reported by Simplicius (https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1795595579872964667) 12 hours ago and if Slavyangrad's sources are reliable - they usually are - here's an update via their Telegram channel (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/99690):



@svarschiki writes:

At night, there were arrivals on military targets in Stryi, Dublyany, Drohobych and the Yavorovsky training ground near Lvov, which was just recently restored after a similar hit in 2022.

By the way, then it was a native Lvov resident who helped the Russian Armed Forces and in March 2022 launched a strike with 30 missiles at the Yavorovsky training ground, where more than 60 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were killed and more than 160 were injured. In court he did not repent and did not admit guilt.

As a result of the night strike by the “Dagger”, some sources estimate that up to three hundred Air Force officers and NATO Allied Forces personnel, including Polish, French and American instructors, could be killed. The wounded are taken to Poland.

At the Yavorovsky training ground, Ukrainian troops underwent courses in tactical, engineering and medical training, and also received basic skills in operating equipment.

In addition, the training ground is a key logistics point for the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the transfer of Western equipment to eastern and central Ukraine.

@Slavyangrad

No footage available at this point

[Tintin]

https://houstonpost.org/2024/05/28/revelation-germanys-von-der-leyens-shady-dealings-with-russian-firm-amid-eu-sanctions/

Revelation: Germany’s Von der Leyen’s Shady Dealings with Russian Firm Amid EU Sanctions!

German journalists have recently unveiled a corruption scandal involving the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. According to their investigation, von der Leyen allegedly used her influence to help Russian company “Krasniy oktyabr” evade the sanctions imposed by the European Union after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The scandal comes less than two weeks before the European Parliament elections, casting a shadow over one of the most prominent Members of the European Parliament (MEP). Ursula von der Leyen’s career has been marred by numerous scandals, such as the Bundeswehr scandal and Pfizergate. This new report raises more questions about her integrity and motives.


In the spring of 2022, in the first months of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU adopted several packages of sanctions aimed at crippling the Russian economy. The fourth package of sanctions included a ban on Russian steel imports into the European Union, affecting numerous companies, including “Krasnij oktyabr”, a leading company supplying the automotive industry and producing 40 percent of stainless steel in Russia.

According to an interview with the general director of the plant, “We will deliver European orders (production) up until the beginning of May (2022). We are entitled to supply the EU until mid-June and we will do so.” However, in 2023, “Krasniy oktyabr” became a participant in the 13th International Mining and Metallurgy Congress in Astana, Kazakhstan. Another participant of the congress was the steel giant “ArcelorMittal”, which, among other things, is the largest metal supplier to the automotive industry in Europe. The third link in this chain was Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission and colleague of Ursula von der Leyen.

According to official data, the goal of his visit was to deepen the relations between the EU and Kazakhstan. However, according to Congress insiders, Šefčovič was personally sent to the Congress by Ursula to monitor the measures to circumvent the sanctions so that “Krasnij Oktyabr” could continue supplying its steel to Europe.

At the behest of von der Leyen, Šefčovič helped “Krasnij oktjabr” and “ArcelorMittal” to agree on schemes to circumvent the sanctions, and the Russian company’s products began to enter the European market once again. Journalists are wondering why Ursula von der Leyen is dealing with this matter and what benefit she is getting from it.

Russian steel accounted for 20 percent of the EU market in 2020. After the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the imposition of sanctions, Chinese companies tried to replace Russian companies. However, they have encountered resistance from European lawmakers and in particular from Ursula von der Leyen, who stated that “European markets are being flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars and steel” and called on China to stop overproduction.

More from a German Bundestag member here, Eva Lang - Eva Lang from the German Die Grunen party exposes the corruption of Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission involved in scandals with the Bundeswehr, Pfizer and Russian steel companies:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-05_%28May%29/2024-05-29_Eva_Lang_from_the_German_Die_Grunen_party_exposes_corruption_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_President_of _the_European_Commission_involved_in_scandals.mp4

[Bill Ryan]

As a result of the night strike by the “Dagger”, some sources estimate that up to three hundred Air Force officers and NATO Allied Forces personnel, including Polish, French and American instructors, could be killed. The wounded are taken to Poland.That seems to be a very significant response by Russia that may remind the NATO military planners that the Kinzhal can take out anything anywhere. If it can reach Lvov with pinpoint accuracy, it can also do the same in Poland, Romania, or even Germany and beyond.

[Tintin]

Source: https://t.me/ukraine_watch/23269


❗️The SBI says it has uncovered a large-scale system of torture of prisoners in penal colonies in several regions of Ukraine.

Four employees of the Bozhkivska penal colony (No. 16) (Poltava region) were suspected.

According to the investigation, almost all the prisoners there were cruelly beaten. The possibility that people died as a result of these beatings is being investigated. Various systems of torture, harassment and pressure were also used.

The men who were new to the prison were threatened with being placed among the 'generally alienated' inmates and beaten until they broke their will and were forced to obey all instructions without question," the SBI reports.

The beatings were filmed on videos, which has now been added to the case.

Also under the investigation is the acquisition of numerous assets by colonial officers for which they had no official funds.

ukraine_watch/23269

[Tintin]

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and Radars
By: Andrey Martyanov
Date: May 25th, 2024
Source: InfoDefenseENGLISH (https://t.me/infodefENGLAND/20984) on Telegram


"Voronezh" DM radars in the Krasnodar Krai, Russia: these radar stations are designed to detect the launch of ballistic nuclear missiles. As such, they are part of Russia's nuclear umbrella. This incident is therefore widely discussed, with a lot of speculation about the US' potential involvement (via its proxy Ukraine), and how incidents like this may lead to major escalation between the nuclear superpowers.

He questions the validity of the available reports about the incident and the theories about the US being behind it. But at the same time, he outlines a few possible ways in which Russia can retaliate should all of this prove real.

Source: https://youtu.be/kRPWLW3fvz8?si=ntgtGTBN_Fzk4DOj

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-05_%28May%29/2024-05-25_Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_and_Radars_-_Andrey_Martyanov_on_the_Voronezh_incident.mp4

[Tintin]

As a result of the night strike by the “Dagger”, some sources estimate that up to three hundred Air Force officers and NATO Allied Forces personnel, including Polish, French and American instructors, could be killed. The wounded are taken to Poland.That seems to be a very significant response by Russia that may remind the NATO military planners that the Kinzhal can take out anything anywhere. If it can reach Lvov with pinpoint accuracy, it can also do the same in Poland, Romania, or even Germany and beyond.

Yes, and a reminder that just about nowhere is safe from Russian ISR and materiel.

An update/confirmation really from Cyberspec News on Telegram (https://t.me/CyberspecNews/54479) on the strike:


⚡️Update (see attached post)

At the Yavorovsky training ground in the Lvov region, the command post for managing F-16 fighters was hit

It's noted that the “Kinzhal” also hit a training center and a dormitory for 200 people.

💥 Previously, in underground facilities, training of flight crews of the Ukrainian Air Force and preparation for organizing flights took place in coordination with the NATO control center located in Poland. At the time of the strike, there were up to 410 people there.

Ostashko News

[Tintin]

Source: Cyberspec News on Telegram


For the first time, the Russian Military from the North Group destroyed an Australian armoured vehicle LC79 APC-SH Fighter 2nd in the Northern Military District in the Kharkov region.

(I usually recommend that the sound is switched off for these sorts of destruction themed videos - musical addition that really is not required. That's at the listener's discretion.)

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-05_%28May%29/2024-05-29_Russian_Military_from_the_North_Group_destroyed_an_Australian_armored_vehicle_LC79_APC-SH_Fighter_2nd_in_the_Northern_Military_District_in_the_Kharkov_region.mp4

[Tintin]

Answers to questions from journalists following the visit to Uzbekistan

Date: May 28th, 2024


Vladimir Putin answered questions from representatives of the Russian media following his state visit to the Republic of Uzbekistan. The press approach took place at Tashkent airport.

Source: President of Russia website: Events page (http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/74132)

Source (other): Avalon Library PDF (full transcript) (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Vladimir_Putin_%28speeches%29/2024-05-28_Vladimir_Putin_Answers_to_questions_from_journalists_following_the_visit_to_Tashkent_Uzbekistan_M ay_28_2024.pdf)

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"In general, it can happen without participation - and does happen without the participation of Ukrainian military personnel. And other systems, for example, such as ATACMS, are also prepared on the basis of space reconnaissance, [goals] are formulated, and are automatically brought to the appropriate calculations - they may not even understand what they are entering - and the calculation may be Ukrainian calculation, enters the corresponding flight task. But this task is being prepared not by Ukrainian military personnel, but by representatives of NATO countries.

So, these representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries, must be aware of what they are playing with. They must remember that these are, as a rule, states with a small territory and a very dense population. And this is a factor that they must keep in mind before talking about striking deep into Russian territory.".


Here he is, filmed:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-05_%28May%29/2024-05-28_Vladimir_Putin_comments_at_press_conference_following_presidential_visit_to_Tashkent_Uzbekistan_r egarding_NATO_weapons_suggested_strikes.mp4

[Tintin]

A moving 10 second clip here of a Russian soldier administering a respectful kind of last rites to fallen Ukrainian soldiers :flower: :rose:

Source: https://x.com/DravenNoctis/status/1795748045683843511

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[Vicus]

Western experts realizing NATO expansion was a mistake – Lavrov

Historians and political scientists in the West have finally grasped that NATO’s post-Cold War expansion led to conflict in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, adding that this expansion was driven by Washington’s “irresistible desire” to dominate the continent.

“Today, many historians and political scientists in the West express the point of view that their colleagues have been declaring for many, many years, maybe even decades. This is the fact that when the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist, when the Soviet Union extended its hand for unification with Europe, the US and the West as a whole on the basis of equality, mutual benefits and respect, no one dissolved NATO. And actually no one planned to,” Lavrov told a meeting of ambassadors in Moscow on Wednesday

“They got this idea that ‘we’ll expand NATO so that every country in the Black Sea around Russia is a NATO country. We’ll get Romania and Bulgaria, we’ll get Ukraine and we’ll get Georgia’,” Sachs explained. “And the reason was very clear. This is our way to basically dominate Eurasia. We are the sole superpower. We are unchallenged.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/598409-lavrov-sachs-nato-expansion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

[Vicus]

‘Crew does not survive’: Ukrainians reveal Abrams tank troubles 29 May, 2024

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.05/m/665743b62030277cee720f68.jpg
FILE PHOTO: A US M1 Abrams tank.

The US-made vehicles have reportedly proven inadequate on the modern battlefield, officers have told CNN

Main battle tanks the US has provided to Ukraine have inadequate armor and ammunition for the modern battlefield, their operators have admitted to CNN, complaining about being priority targets for Russian drones.

Though the tanks arrived too late for last year’s summer offensive, they entered battle in February. Russian forces have documented eight Abrams kills so far. One of the wrecked tanks was even towed to Moscow as a trophy.

“Its armor is not sufficient,” one soldier from Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade, stationed in Donbass, told CNN – the first Western reporters to observe the Abrams on the Ukrainian battlefield.

“It doesn’t protect the crew. For real, today this is the war of drones. So now, when the tank rolls out, they always try to hit them,” said the soldier, identified only by the callsign ‘Joker.’

“Without defense, the crew doesn’t survive on the battlefield,” said his teammate, ‘Dnipro.’

The 47th is the only Ukrainian unit operating the US-made tanks. The brigade is now working on field modifications to the M1A1, including mounting boxes of reactive armor – as witnessed by CNN – as well as wire frames that the Ukrainians previously derided as “cope cages” when employed by the Russians.

CNN’s reporting seemed to contradict statements from the Pentagon last month that the Abrams were pulled back from the battlefield because of the threat from Russian drones. The US behemoth has proven particularly vulnerable to kamikaze UAVs striking their weak upper armor.

Ukrainian tankers complained that electronics inside the vehicles can be shorted out by condensation from rain and fog. The engine on one tank, which was just shipped from Poland, had already broken down. Moreover, the US supplied them with anti-tank ammunition not suitable for what they actually have to do.

continue: https://www.rt.com/russia/598408-ukraine-abrams-tank-woes-cnn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

[Vicus]

Georgia’s Efforts to Protect Itself From Foreign Meddling Cause US Outrage (hint: no way to Georgia Maidan)

This week, the Georgian parliament overturned a presidential veto and passed a bill that obliges NGOs and media that receive funding from abroad to register as "organizations pursuing the interests of a foreign power," evoking the displeasure and outrage from Western powers and their sympathizers in the country.

The United States’ anger over the new foreign agents law recently adopted in Georgia stems from the fact that non-government organizations and media currently remain the only regime change tool at the West’s disposal in this Caucasus region country, says Arno Khidirbegishvili, general director and chief editor of the Georgian Information and Analytical Agency "GEOINFORM."
During the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, Khidirbegishvili explains, the West had many more options available: “the Saakashvili regime itself, president Saakashvili, [foreign] aid, credits, investments and all the rest.”

“Today, only the non-government organizations and media are left – that is, foreign agents and their funding. And so we – the government, that is – hit them where it hurts, the bullseye,” he tells Sputnik.

This is why the protests against the law in question started, Khidirbegishvili explains – Western powers realized that they were losing their hold on Georgia.
According to him, Western attempts to destabilize the situation in Georgia, which involve efforts to destroy Georgia's currency, may lead to armed clashes within the country.
That, in turn, could be used as a pretext for a military intervention by a “peacekeeping” NATO force, he suggests.
Meanwhile, Western pressure aimed at bringing Georgia to heel and turning it into a weapon against Russia only evokes outrage among the Georgian people, Khidirbegishvili adds.

“If the grand purpose of the United States and the foreign agents in Georgia, including their leader [Georgian] President Zurabishvili, was to somehow push Georgia towards Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union, then they succeed splendidly,” he quips.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240529/georgias-efforts-to-protect-itself-from-foreign-meddling-cause-us-outrage-1118691726.html

[Vicus]

Nuclear threat: Russia’s Medvedev warns Poland ‘it will get its share of radioactive ash’

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Former Russian President and current Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took to social media over the weekend in response to an interview with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and warned Poland would face a nuclear attack if Poland and its allies responded to any Russian nuclear tactical attack with a massive conventional assault on Russian forces in Ukraine.

“Warsaw will not be omitted and is certain to receive its share of radioactive ash,” wrote Medvedev in response to remarks made on the likelihood of a Russian nuclear attack by Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in an interview with The Guardian on May 25.

Sikorski assessed the likelihood of a Russian nuclear attack as low because of the stance taken by the U.S., and that Poland backed Ukraine’s right to strike at military targets inside Russia, arguing that the West had to stop constantly limiting itself in what it does to support Ukraine.

“The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn’t kill anybody, we will hit all your targets (positions) in Ukraine with conventional weapons, we’ll destroy all of them. I think that’s a credible threat,” Sikorski argued.

“The Russians are hitting the Ukrainian electricity grid and their grain terminals and gas storage capacity, civilian infrastructure. The Russian operation is conducted from the HQ at Rostov-on-Don. Apart from not using nuclear weapons, Russia does not limit itself much,” he added.

Russia’s Medvedev responded on X by claiming that “Sikorski, apparently, has decided to scare his own masters” and challenged Sikorski’s assertions with regard to the Americans.

“First, the Yankees so far haven’t said anything exactly like that because they are more cautious than the Polacks. Second, Americans hitting our targets means starting a world war, and a foreign minister, even of a country like Poland should understand that,” he wrote using the pejorative term “Polack.”

Medvedev also remarked on Poland’s bid to participate in the NATO nuclear sharing program.

“And third, considering that yet another Polack, Duda, has recently announced the wish to deploy TNW in Poland, Warsaw won’t be left out, and will surely get its share of radioactive ash. Is it what you really want?” he asked, adding condescendingly, “The Polish are resentful; have been like that for over 400 years…” :chuckle::chuckle:

https://rmx.news/article/nuclear-threat-russias-medvedev-warns-poland-it-will-get-its-share-of-radioactive-ash/

Vicus comment:
Medvedev comments are always delicious... because he play the "bad cop"part and always say what "good cops" should not...
That is his style to say the "normal "things" that every one with a healthy common sense percent looong time ago figure out...

[lake]

A very thought provoking 15 mins ....

“Russian Woman” series, Episode 1 “Call sign ‘Masha’” Documentary project “Russian Woman”


Documentary project “Russian Woman” is about genuine stories of women at the front. The heroine of Episode 1 is a Donbass-born sniper with the call sign “Masha”.

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[Bill Ryan]

At 55.35 in Alexander Mercouris' video update for yesterday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDzS4RokC10), he reports that the Military Summary channel has speculated that the Russian radar station at Armavir that was attacked by Ukrainian drones (and only superficially damaged) was ideally situated to detect missile launches from Israel towards Iran.

That then suggests the following possibilities:


Israel (and/or the US) may be working with Ukraine to attack those radar facilities.
Israel may be planning another missile strike against Iran (which of course Russia would warn Iran about if they detected the missile launches first.)

[kfm27917]

Drones filling the skies over Ukraine battlefields
The Ukraine war is the first that could be decided by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in huge numbers

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/drones-filling-the-skies-over-ukraine-battlefields/

[ExomatrixTV]

Tulsi Gabbard & Piers Morgan Disagree On Ukraine War:

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New Attack on Russia’s Early-Warning Radar at Armavir: NATO’s ‘Chicken Game’ with Nuclear Weapons Is On

Three “Ukrainian” drone/missile attacks in a week on Russia’s early-warning radar system—the most recent one in the early morning of May 29—have brought the world to the edge of a breakdown in global strategic security, and a nuclear war.

https://eir.news/2024/05/news/new-attack-on-russias-early-warning-radar-at-armavir-natos-chicken-game-with-nuclear-weapons-is-on/


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New Attack on Russia’s Early-Warning Radar at Armavir: NATO’s ‘Chicken Game’ with Nuclear Weapons Is On

Three “Ukrainian” drone/missile attacks in a week on Russia’s early-warning radar system—the most recent one in the early morning of May 29—have brought the world to the edge of a breakdown in global strategic security, and a nuclear war. The attacks fulfill one of Russia’s stated policy conditions for counterattack with its nuclear missile forces. Whether the NATO powers have themselves ordered and supplied these Armageddon-like attacks from Ukraine—which seems more than likely for both political and technical reasons—or have failed to stop Ukraine’s desperate leadership from launching them, the resulting “Chicken Game” with nuclear weapons is on.

During the night of May 22-23, a drone attack originating in Ukraine hit one of Russia’s 10 over-the-horizon early warning radar systems—near the city of Armavir in southwestern Russia. A second attack occurred against another radar facility in Orsk on May 26, and a third drone attack targeted Armavir again on May 29—these last two reportedly producing no damage.

These attacks, purportedly by Ukrainian-launched drones, are in fact high-stakes NATO-sponsored attacks on Russia’s sophisticated radar network which gives it the ability to detect incoming ICBM attacks with enough time to respond. According to leading experts in the field, blinding Russia at one or more radar sites lowers the threshold for nuclear war by dramatically reducing Russia’s available response time down from about 15 minutes from detection, to some 10 minutes or so—hardly enough time to safely determine if a reported launch is a false positive or the real thing. Russia’s standing nuclear warfare doctrine is to ignore the former, and respond with full nuclear force to the latter.

It is the height of strategic insanity to play this kind of nuclear chicken-game with Russia, the most powerful thermonuclear power on the planet, especially under conditions where they are already at war with NATO-armed forces in Ukraine. And yet that is exactly what Washington and London are doing, with most of NATO in tow—all the while proclaiming that “Putin is just bluffing.”

Most of the Global South, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with these deadly wars, including the continuing carnage in Gaza, or with the collapsing financial system which is fueling them. China is playing a leading role in presenting an alternative approach: through its role in the BRICS; its in-depth strategic association with Russia; its work with Arab nations on a joint approach to development; and most recently in working with fellow BRICS member Brazil to present a viable joint peace plan for Ukraine, based on mutual security and development for all parties—exactly the kind of approach that will also work in the Middle East, as best exemplified by LaRouche’s Oasis Plan.

The Schiller Institute launched a worldwide “Red Alert” press release and mobilization immediately upon learning of the May 22 attack on Armavir, taking the initiative to organize to stop the rapid escalation of the NATO-Russia war in Europe. That urgent mobilization will escalate further against the escalating war danger at the upcoming Friday, May 31 meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC), the 52nd consecutive Friday meeting of that grouping.

We urge you to be part of that process, and bring others to the IPC meeting with you.

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Alleged Ukrainian attacks on Russian nuclear radars unnerving US – WaPo
Reports that Ukraine has attacked Russia’s early ballistic missile warning stations are unnerving the country’s American backers, according to the Washington Post on Wednesday.

Last week, Ukrainian sources claimed that two operations had been carried out against Russian long-range facilities designed to detect intercontinental ballistic missile launches. The Russian Defense Ministry did not comment on the claim. Footage shared online suggests that at least one of the attacks caused damage.

In a statement on Saturday, Senator Dmitry Rogozin, who previously headed up the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said Moscow should hold the US responsible for these attacks if they were carried out by Ukraine. Washington “has hired a reckless bandit, who is trying to damage… a key element of our system of strategic nuclear forces combat control,” he stated.

A US official told the Post that Washington was “concerned” with the news, since “Russia could perceive its deterrent capabilities being targeted.” Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added: “These sites have not been involved in supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine.”

The two facilities that apparently were attacked are over-the-horizon radar sites near Armavir, Krasnodar Region, and Orsk, Orenburg Region. The latter monitors airspace over the Middle East and China.

A Ukrainian official told the newspaper that Kiev had military reasons to attack both, because Russia had “switched all of its capabilities for war against Ukraine.” By disabling the stations, the country would undermine Russia’s ability to monitor its activities, particularly its use of drones and missiles, the source claimed.

Last week, the Austrian Armed Forces published analysis of the situation, which suggested that the attack in Armavir could have been sanctioned by the US, and was meant as a warning to Moscow, because Kiev was unlikely to get any military value from it.

There is at least 700km between the Voronezh-DM station in Armavir and the location from which Kiev could launch US-supplied Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) ballistic missiles, the report said. It would be difficult for the station to detect those low-flying projectiles at this range. Meanwhile, ICBMs usually fly at altitudes of up to 2,000km and are detectable from much longer distances.

READ MORE: Ukraine striking targets deep inside Russia with Western weapons – AFP
Kiev is currently lobbying the US to allow it to use donated long-range weapons against targets located deep inside Russia. Washington claims it has forbidden attacks outside of the territory claimed by Kiev to prevent further escalation. Ukraine has suffered a series of battlefield setbacks in recent months.

[Ravenlocke]

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How to Start a Nuclear War

The three drone attacks on Russian early warning radar sites -- attacks claimed by Ukraine -- could have triggered an attack on NATO countries, as the Russians are convinced NATO is behind targeting its radar sites. While Western leaders are engaged in provocations, which demonstrate their commitment to war against Russia, the Global South is pursuing the development of a global economic system outside the control of the imperial predators in London and on Wall Street. Help us bring the West out from under the control of the deluded Unipolar maniacs, into a new security and development architecture.

Link to "Red Alert" Press release:
https://eir.news/2024/05/news/schiller-institute-press-release-red-alert-ukrainian-strike-on-russian-early-warning-radar-threatens-to-unleash-nuclear-world-war/

Link to register for Schiller Institute June 15-6 Conference:
https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/for_a_new_peace_of_westphalia_20240615

Link to my latest article:
https://laroucheorganization.com/article/2024/05/29/anglo-american-establishment-behind-push-permanent-war

For Friday Questions, send your questions and comments to: harleysch@gmail.com


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"You are the true support and armour of Russia": Putin addressed the participants of the special military operation at the state awards ceremony in the Kremlin.

"We are going through serious trials, defending truth, justice, Russia's sovereignty and our people's right to determine their own destiny. On the front line of this struggle are those who perform their military, professional and civic duties in the sphere of the special military operation," the president said.

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🇫🇷 🇺🇦Information about France’s preparations to send military personnel to Ukraine is confirmed – Russian Foreign Ministry

Maria Zakharova said that Paris “signed for the failure of its entire strategy.” Other statements:

▪️Russia will provide a proportionate response and ensure security amid calls to lift restrictions on Kiev’s use of Western weapons

▪️Plans for the supply of weapons against the Russian Federation are planned by NATO countries for the next five years - Ostashko reports
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The US is allowing Ukraine to use its transferred air defence systems in Russia, The Washington Post quotes its sources as saying.

The Americans are not opposed to shooting down Russian missiles and fighter jets in Russian skies 'if they pose a threat to Ukraine'.

However, there have been times when American officials have expressed concern about attacks against Russia and even cancelled such plans. In particular, a planned GSD attack on Moscow was cancelled. The Americans feared an aggressive response from the Kremlin.

The Americans were also against strikes on oil refineries on the territory of the Russian Federation. Even though the strikes were carried out with Ukrainian weapons.

Earlier it was reported that the AFU had used the US Patriot air defence system at least once for strikes on Russia. However, this was a system transferred from Germany. Berlin and Washington reacted negatively.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch


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Important news for Thursday morning, May 30:

🔷 The Russian Armed Forces launched a massive attack on enemy targets at night - explosions were heard in Vinnitsa, Poltava, Kharkov and Khmelnytsky regions.

🔷 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 8 ATACMS missiles overnight over the Sea of ​​Azov and the interception of 8 UAVs over the Black Sea near Crimea. In addition, 2 unmanned boats heading towards Crimea were destroyed in the Black Sea. 5 UAVs were also destroyed over the Krasnodar Territory.

🔷 The night strike hit a microdistrict adjacent to the military airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine, the underground movement reported. In total, at least 5 strikes were carried out on the city, one of them was on a shelter for Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft on the territory of the airfield.

🔷 Russia will view the delivery of F-16s to Kiev as a deliberate “signaling” action by NATO in the nuclear sphere - Sergey Lavrov.

🔷 NATO countries have only 5% of the air defense systems needed to protect member countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Financial Times wrote, citing sources familiar with the alliance's defense plans.

🔷 Almost half of the shells purchased for Kiev on the Czech initiative in Africa and Asia turned out to be of poor quality or with flaws and cannot be delivered on time without modification, the FT reported, citing the defense company CSG.

🔷 The United States has issued a record number of green cards to Russians. Vedomosti writes about this, citing data from the immigration company Second Wind. In 2023, almost 13 thousand Russians received green cards. This is the highest result since 2016.

🔷 In Thailand they want to launch payment with the Russian Mir card. This was stated at the Russian Embassy in Thailand. The country is considered one of the most popular among Russians. According to the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand, over 800 thousand Russians have visited the country since the beginning of the year. - FRWL reports

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Ukrainian organization for the protection of prisoners' rights released video of torture of prisoners

“Over eight years of work, our organization has collected numerous reports of murder, violence, extortion and forced labor in prisons in Ukraine,” the statement said.

@ukr_leaks_eng

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“These are not people, this is a mobilization resource”

A Ukrainian prisoner of war recalls that during training the conscripts were treated like cattle. For the command, they were just expendables.

He realized this already on the front line, when his own people first tried to shoot them, and then sent two kamikaze drones.

@ukr_leaks_eng

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🇺🇲🇺🇦 The United States is building a plant in Texas to produce 155mm shells for Ukraine.

As the New York Times writes, this will be the first such enterprise that the Pentagon is building from scratch since the start of the war in Ukraine.

The Mexit plant will produce 30,000 artillery shells per month, roughly double current U.S. production.

However, as the newspaper points out, Ukraine fired from 4,000 to 7,000 such shells per day alone when it went on the offensive last summer (the publication refers to data from the NATO Secretary General).

That is, with more or less intensive work of the Ukrainian artillery, the monthly production of the new plant will be enough for the Armed Forces of Ukraine for less than a week.
- ISZ reports

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🇺🇦 “They’ll make a fool of themselves”: another batch of Ukrainian militants were captured in the Kharkov direction

During interrogation, prisoner of war Andrei Kozhoma said that in the 120th territorial defense brigade, where he served, half of the fighters were “three hundred,” and the other half simply deserted. There were only about a hundred people left in the unit.

“We were told that we would not be brought into combat. When they realized that something like this would happen, many fighters slowly began to run away,” explained the prisoner.

❗️Spent one day in positions. He also said that he did not surrender immediately because he was afraid of getting shot by his own people.

Lord of War

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[Ravenlocke]

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Ukrainian organization for the protection of prisoners' rights released video of torture of prisoners

“Over eight years of work, our organization has collected numerous reports of murder, violence, extortion and forced labor in prisons in Ukraine,” the statement said.

@ukr_leaks_eng

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This is the reality in Von Der Liar and Bidens' "Bastion of Freedom" Ukraine.

A Ukrainian journalist secretly filmed and exposed routine torture and mistreatment, beatings, and terror in Ukraines prisons.

The most infamous is the Bozhkovsky correctional colony in the Poltava region. New prisoners are threatened with rape and transfer to the units for violent criminals, extortion and violence are routine.

“In fact, every prisoner entering the walls of the Bozhkovskaya colony is subjected to torture and moral humiliation. It is known about the facts of abuse that led to the death of men,” notes the letter sent by the “Protection of Prisoners of Ukraine”.

EU and US taxpayers are paying the salaries of these sadistic guards.

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Ukrainian nationalists are not satisfied after stealing all the churches and prosecuting the priests, they continue mocking and humiliating the Orthodox Christians.

The head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was called into court, but right in front of the entrance they laid the portrait of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill for him to step on it.

Satanic.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Special Operation, 29 May 2024, Main

Prisoner exchanges have been suspended for several months due to the Ukrainian side, which constantly puts forward new far-fetched demands, Moskalkova said;

Kiev’s losses over the day amounted to 1,305 militants, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported;

Russian aviation and artillery hit warehouses of unmanned boats, fuel for AFU equipment and a drone assembly workshop, aircraft, air defense shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29, MoD added;

Sweden will allocate the country's largest package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $1.2 billion;

Poland 's Deputy Minister of Defense Tomczyk said that the country’s authorities do not in any way limit the Ukrainian army in the possibility of using Polish weapons;

The General Staff of the AFU reported that the most tense situation remains in the Red Army direction in the territory of the DPR controlled by Kiev;

Ukraine needs at least 60 Western fighters to protect the frontline, and twice as many would be optimal, Zelensky’s office said.

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Countries that have given Ukraine "permission" to strike Russian territory with their weapons:
🇬🇧 UK
🇨🇦 Canada
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇵🇱 Poland
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇸🇪 Swede
🇪🇪 Estonia
Coming Soon;
🇩🇪 Germany
🇺🇸 United States

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‼️🇨🇿🇺🇦Half of the shells purchased by the Czech Republic for Ukraine in African and Asian countries turned out to be of poor quality - Financial Times

▪️The Czech Republic planned to purchase 1.5 million artillery shells for Ukraine.
▪️15 EU and NATO countries have so far contributed 1.6 billion euros to the Czech initiative.
▪️Most of the purchased shells cannot be sent to Ukraine immediately; the Czech Republic intends to finalize them.
▪️Czech Prime Minister Fiala said that the first batch of tens of thousands of 155 mm shells will be delivered to Ukraine next month.
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🔥Destruction of equipment and infantry: after taking Netailovo, the Russian army is moving towards Karlovka and the reservoir.

▪️On the flank of Avdeyevka, the Russian air force, artillery and attack drones continue to smash the AFU's defences in order to facilitate the advance of Russian ground troops.

▪️"The Russians were able to reach the approaches to the Karlovka reservoir," the Ukrainian sources reported on Monday.

▪️The front line is approaching Karlovka. The Karlovka reservoir is a natural water barrier, along which the AFU's defensive lines are located, on which the enemy is trying to stop the breakthrough of the Russian forces.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

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Russia is working on a 1,400 km long road ring around the Sea of ​​Azov through Rostov-on-Don, Melitopol, Mariupol, Genichesk, Skadovsk, Dzhankoi, Simferopol, Kerch, Krasnodar region. The repair of the highway connecting Crimea and 🇷🇺 mainland has already been completed.

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UkraineRussiaWar
For the second day in a row, the Russian Aerospace Forces have launched massive missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine. The Russians are striking at the same point - at the airfield in Starokostiantyniv. It is not known for sure whether there were F-16 planes at the airfield, but we can say with confidence that the Russians are hunting for them.

Another Strike With Kinzhal On The Airfield With F-16 | Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.05.30

PREMIRE: 11:30 AM GMT +3

YouTube English (https://youtu.be/KJFJlSqV-5E)

Rumble (https://odysee.com/@Military.Summary:c/30.05.2024-(morning):e)

Odysee (https://rumble.com/v4ye3ou-another-strike-with-kinzhal-on-the-airfield-with-f-16-military-summary-and-.html)

Military Summary Map (https://dev.militarysummary.com)


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🇷🇺❗️A centenarian veteran of the Great Patriotic War told Putin in the Kremlin that he had asked to volunteer for a special military operation but was not accepted because of his age.

According to Ibrahim-Pasha Sadykov, he wrote a letter to the defence minister, who forwarded it to the Makhachkala military commissar:

"The commissar replied to me: "Ibrahim-Pasha, we only accept people up to the age of 60, but you are more than 100 years old.

As a young man, the veteran volunteered to go to the front and fought throughout the war. Today, the President of the Russian Federation awarded him the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War, as well as for his great contribution to the patriotic education of young people.

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Pepe Escobar: The West is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia Into Hot War

🔹 For all their circumlocutions, NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have effectively greenlighted Kiev using Western weapons for attacks deep inside the Russian Federation. The alleged debate, still ongoing, is just a “smokescreen” for the real objective: a pretext that could lead to WWIII.

🔹 There’s no reason to think Kiev will stick to “limited” strikes against relatively unimportant targets. Instead, it is likely to target critical security infrastructure in hopes of provoking an unrelenting Russian response, which in turn would pave the way for NATO to invoke Article 5 and de facto engage in a hot war.

🔹 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, once again displaying his trademark Taoist patience, had to come up with another serious reminder: Russia will regard the deployment of nuclear-capable F-16s in Ukraine – which de facto can only be operated by NATO pilots – as “a deliberate signal from NATO in the nuclear field to Russia.”

🔹 And still the gaggle of armchair Dr. Strangeloves – lavishly rewarded by the rarified Atlanticist plutocracy holding real power, funds, influence and mass media control - is not listening.


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‼️🇷🇺 A series of terrorist attacks on the railway were prevented in Crimea

▪️Agents recruited by the State Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine carried out tasks to collect and transmit information about the locations and movements of the Russian Armed Forces, the location of air defense facilities and the fuel and energy complex, data on the organization of security and defense of the Crimean Bridge, the preparation of caches and the transportation of explosive devices.
▪️They planned to carry out terrorist attacks on railway tracks in different regions of Crimea, which was supposed to paralyze train traffic.
▪️4 IEDs, an AK-74 assault rifle, a TT pistol, and a Degtyarev machine gun were found in the places where the saboteurs lived.
- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1796119335779422464

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[ExomatrixTV]

This Is What George Soros (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111279-George-Soros) Wrote In 1993 About A Future War In Eastern Europe


A resurfaced publication by George Soros (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111279-George-Soros), dated 1993, discusses how crises could be manipulated by the U.S. for its own goals through using European soldiers as cannon fodder. The document casts further doubt on the Western narrative that NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) and its allies have no stake in the ongoing conflict.

https://player.odycdn.com/v6/streams/38073a7f0825f905d31ddafe738b44516089bd71/afb3b9.mp4


source (https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Soros_2501:3)
t.me/rtnews (https://t.me/rtnews)

The United States would not be called upon to act as the world's policeman. When they perform, they do so together with others. The combination of manpower in Eastern Europe and NATO's technological capacity [...] would reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries.

This is stated in a document published in 1993 (!) by the Open Society Foundations of billionaire George Soros (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111279-George-Soros).

The document explains how the US and its allies can use countries in Eastern Europe as a proxy to fight against Russia. That way, "no NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) troops have to die".


We are carrying out NATO's mission

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov also admitted this on TV: “We are carrying out NATO's mission without bloodshed on their side. That's why they have to provide us with weapons.” Reznikov handed in his resignation last year.

Earlier, Defense Minister Ollongren said at the Warsaw Security Forum (https://x.com/HaraldDoornbos/status/1709847794133963013) that arming Kiev is a "cost-effective way to prevent Moscow from threatening NATO."

She also said that supporting Ukraine (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia) is "a very cheap way" to ensure that Russia does not pose a threat to NATO.



dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/dit-schreef-george-soros-in-1993-over-een-toekomstige-oorlog-in-oost-europa/) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

Soros_2501/38073a7f0825f905d31ddafe738b44516089bd71

[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1796172659845206306

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1796107699051958659

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[Tintin]

Text:
🇷🇺❗️A centenarian veteran of the Great Patriotic War told Putin in the Kremlin that he had asked to volunteer for a special military operation but was not accepted because of his age.

According to Ibrahim-Pasha Sadykov, he wrote a letter to the defence minister, who forwarded it to the Makhachkala military commissar:

"The commissar replied to me: "Ibrahim-Pasha, we only accept people up to the age of 60, but you are more than 100 years old.

As a young man, the veteran volunteered to go to the front and fought throughout the war. Today, the President of the Russian Federation awarded him the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War, as well as for his great contribution to the patriotic education of young people.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1796197728164159946

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1796214072347648047

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This is all totally inspiring :flower: :sun:

Also, at the same award presentation was a certain Steven Seagal - remember him? :muscle:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-05_%28May%29/2024-05-30_Vladimir_Putin_awarded_the_Russian_Foreign_Ministry%27s_Special_Representative_for_Humanitarian_R elations_Steven_Seagal_with_the_Order_of_Friendship.mp4

[Bill Ryan]

https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1796059195550093727
(https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1796059195550093727)
The text:

The Ukrainian soldier who stole a tank and drove it through no man's land to surrender it to Russian forces gives his first interview.[/URL][URL="https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1796059195550093727"]
(https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1796059195550093727) (https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1796059195550093727)1796059195550093727
This is SO GREAT. :ROFL: The guy was a tractor driver, and had seen a few YouTube videos about tank driving, so he figured he could maybe do it. He just jumped into the empty tank, saw some levers, pressed a START button, and it all worked out.

:muscle: :muscle: :muscle: :muscle: :muscle: :)

[ExomatrixTV]

This Is What George Soros (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111279-George-Soros) Wrote In 1993 About A Future War In Eastern Europe


A resurfaced publication by George Soros (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111279-George-Soros), dated 1993, discusses how crises could be manipulated by the U.S. for its own goals through using European soldiers as cannon fodder. The document casts further doubt on the Western narrative that NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) and its allies have no stake in the ongoing conflict.

https://player.odycdn.com/v6/streams/38073a7f0825f905d31ddafe738b44516089bd71/afb3b9.mp4


source (https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Soros_2501:3)
t.me/rtnews (https://t.me/rtnews)

The United States would not be called upon to act as the world's policeman. When they perform, they do so together with others. The combination of manpower in Eastern Europe and NATO's technological capacity [...] would reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries.

This is stated in a document published in 1993 (!) by the Open Society Foundations of billionaire George Soros (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111279-George-Soros).

The document explains how the US and its allies can use countries in Eastern Europe as a proxy to fight against Russia. That way, "no NATO (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries) troops have to die".


We are carrying out NATO's mission

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov also admitted this on TV: “We are carrying out NATO's mission without bloodshed on their side. That's why they have to provide us with weapons.” Reznikov handed in his resignation last year.

Earlier, Defense Minister Ollongren said at the Warsaw Security Forum (https://x.com/HaraldDoornbos/status/1709847794133963013) that arming Kiev is a "cost-effective way to prevent Moscow from threatening NATO."

She also said that supporting Ukraine (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia) is "a very cheap way" to ensure that Russia does not pose a threat to NATO.


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/dit-schreef-george-soros-in-1993-over-een-toekomstige-oorlog-in-oost-europa/) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

Soros_2501/38073a7f0825f905d31ddafe738b44516089bd71


"NATO is cooking up something big" and Putin is ready for all out war | Redacted News:

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[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-HyrI72nNk

Complete Disaster Is Coming | Ammunition Shortages Ended - 2 hours ago

[ExomatrixTV]

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[Jaak]

Nice example of money laundering. Top shareholders who make this cheap crap are ofcourse usual suspects https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AVAV/holders/

Useless RQ-20 Puma UAV

Russian military personnel have broken down the characteristics of the American RQ-20 Puma UAV, which they managed to capture. A batch of such drones was purchased for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the money of American taxpayers. The cost of one sample is about 250 thousand dollars. However, it remains unclear what this cost consists of. As we see in the video, it is made from the cheapest components, most of which can be purchased at a regular hardware store.

See the video for details.
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[Vicus]

'No one will Maidan Georgia. We can see what consequences that had for Ukraine' - PM Kobakhidze says
The Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, stated that there will be no "Maidan" in the country amid the ongoing protests against the law on "foreign agents."

"As for the parallel between the 'Maidan' and the processes taking place in Georgia, I want to inform everyone that no one will attain 'Maidan' in Georgia. Let me remind what consequences the 'Maidan' had for Ukraine. Then the leadership of Ukraine was appointed from outside, once, then a second time, and in the end the appointer took no accountability for the development of events," the Georgian PM told reporters.

According to him, the most important thing for the Georgian authorities is the concern about the country's independence.

https://www.sott.net/article/491852-No-one-will-Maidan-Georgia-We-can-see-what-consequences-that-had-for-Ukraine-PM-Kobakhidze-says

[Tintin]

Eva Bartlett recently reported that she's "..on the road.." in Donetsk, quite literally at the beginning of this interview with Dmitry Astrakhan.

Here's how she summarises it:


In Donetsk's Kievsky district on May 27, I interviewed Dmitry Astrakhan, a war correspondent and journalist who has covered Ukraine's brutal war on the civilians of the Donbass since its inception one decade ago.

He details Ukraine's war crimes, attacking Donbass civilians since 2014, along with the complicity of the OSCE in enabling these atrocities. He covered the liberation of Mariupol, and countless other Donbass regions, and saw Ukrainian forces using civilians as human shields, a well-established fact by now, keeping civilians on one or two floors, and putting Ukrainian forces above them who then fired on Russian forces.

“You could see white flags on one level, and machine gun firing from another.”

He took testimonies regarding Ukrainian snipers shooting at civilians, Ukrainian forces exploding buildings knowing there were civilians inside, in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).

Dmitry spoke of too many Ukrainian war crimes to detail here. Instead, listen to the first-hand experiences of this courageous Donbass journalist.

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She has quite rightly been bracketed in the same camp as the great now sadly late John Pilger, and with very good reason: alongside Whitney Webb, and maybe even Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, probably my favourite journalist working right now.

Dmitry found himself falling into journalism quite by accident - that seems to happen to all of us who end up doing some kind of reporting or investigation. He is a trained engineer who later joined the DPR militia to report on what was really happening in Donetsk as the only previous information available to the outside world was the heavily weighted Kiev regime propaganda.

So, from one courageous journalist, to another :muscle:

Donbass War Correspondent & Journalist, Dmitry Astrakhan, on 10 Years of Ukraine's Brutal Terrorism & Slaughter of Donbass Civilians
Eva Bartlett, May 27, 2024
Source: Odysee (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/dmitry-int:b?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs)
Source (other): Avalon Library (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Eva_Bartlett/2024-05-27_Donbass_War_Correspondent_%2B_Journalist_Dmitry_Astrakhan_on_10_Years_of_Ukraine%27s_Brutal_Terro rism_%26_Slaughter_of_Donbass_Civilians_%28Eva_Bartlett%29.mp4)
Size: 1.9GB
Duration: 00:42:41

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Eva_Bartlett/2024-05-27_Donbass_War_Correspondent_%2B_Journalist_Dmitry_Astrakhan_on_10_Years_of_Ukraine%27s_Brutal_Terro rism_%26_Slaughter_of_Donbass_Civilians_%28Eva_Bartlett%29.mp4

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Related: today on a strong recommendation from Olga Bazova we've begun following a brave Ukrainian journalist, Diana Panchenko (https://x.com/Panchenko_X), on X, who has been sanctioned by the Zelensky regime. She picks apart each of the regime lies as they spew forth. :muscle:

[kfm27917]

Escobar: The West Is Hell-Bent On Provoking Russia Into Hot War

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-west-hell-bent-provoking-russia-hot-war

[Tintin]

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Related: today on a strong recommendation from Olga Bazova we've begun following a brave Ukrainian journalist, Diana Panchenko (https://x.com/Panchenko_X), on X, who has been sanctioned by the Zelensky regime. She picks apart each of the regime lies as they spew forth. :muscle:

...and here's a morsel :) Ouch

https://avalonlibrary.net/Tintin/panchenko-zelensky%20X%20screenshot%202024-06-01%20170403.png

[Tintin]

More from Diana Panchenko here who reveals the truth first-hand about the leadership in Kiev and here also addresses her Ukrainian subscribers. Never in the 15 years that she's been a journalist has she been witness to such corruption as there is there today. She's staunchly patriotic but is also quite rightly disgusted at what she, and a great many others there, certainly those without her higher profile, see what's being done to their country, by those in power: also to be able to bravely state these facts openly takes courage :flower: :

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-05_%28May%29/2024-05-31_Diana_Panchenko_Ukrainian_journalist_reveals_the_truth_behind_the_leadership_in_Ukraine_%2B_and_a ddresses_her_Ukrainian_subscribers.mp4

[kfm27917]

Russia vs Ukraine… and the Anglo-Americans: The Esoteric Dimension
BY TERRY M. BOARDMAN

https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/russia-vs-ukraine-and-the-anglo-americans-the-esoteric-dimension

[ExomatrixTV]

Douglas Macgregor: Great play by Putin once again!

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In this exclusive presentation, we delve into the life and journey of Douglas Macgregor, unveiling his revolutionary concepts, leadership philosophies, and the profound impact he has made on global military thinking.

✅ WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS

- Early Life & Education of Colonel Douglas Macgregor
- Military Career Highlights and Achievements
- Pioneering Strategies & Theories Explored
- Insights into Macgregor's Published Works
- Exclusive Interview Footage (if applicable)

Douglas macgregor latest interviews

[kfm27917]

Is Ukraine Going Rogue Or Did It Attack Russia's Early Warning Systems With American Approval?

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-going-rogue-or-did-it-attack-russias-early-warning-systems-american-approval

[kfm27917]

Is this the last summer of relative peace?

The satanic cabal known as "politicians" that roost over the populations of the West have discovered the joys of war-talk, and they can't start World War Three fast enough. But why this sudden push? Even leaders of countries that are mere specks of dirt on the map (Estonia, for instance) squeak about "bringing Russia to its knees." Sure, Western politicians are lapdogs of Washington, but why this naïve war-talk? Is it just deep duncery (usual for the Western politician), or is something more sinister afoot?

We use the term "satanic" purposefully. We have long known that the Western powermongers are neo-Malthusians — that is, they all believe that the planet has too many people and we need to do something to bring the population down. The less people living on the planet is better. This is the guiding principle behind every aspect of modern life, so that every political, social, and even cultural decision is guided by this principle. Culling humanity is the grand, moral goal — the postmodern utopia, where we only have as many people as we need. The "we," by the way, are the powermongers. What's the point of having millions of useless eaters, they reason? Culling the herd is good management of nature (the planet): Woke husbandry pushed to its ultimate limit. Such overarching evil can only be satanic.

And then along comes this war in Ukraine. Here is a country that is not part of the EU, nor a member of NATO, but all the Western politicians latched on to it, because it was "existential" somehow for each of them. For places like Canada, the UK, New Zealand to be truly safe, Ukraine must win. If it loses, well, it's slavery and the dull road to the Gulag, for the whole world. It's absurd really that we are ruled by such morons who spew endless lies which are sadly believed, and therefore the general populace keeps electing them dutifully (but let's not digress).

The entire war in Ukraine, for the West, was a round-robin of wonder weapons that were going to "bring Russia to its knees" — so many that it's now hard to keep track... there were HIMARS, Leopards, Abrams, Patriots, Bradleys, and let's not forget the much-bruited 61 billion that was going to be the bee's knees of military might which was going to undo Russia lickety-split; and of course the much-awaited F-16s. To be charitable, let's not forget the various armchair journo-strategists who have been meaningfully employed for the past two years; anyone that can put two (or less) words together has advice to offer on to conduct the war. It's tiresome to even parse the endless strategies spun out. Are these people being paid by the word, one might begin to wonder? (By the way, you can easily spot these experts — they love to use the term, "geopolitics").

The current buzz, the new wonder weapon is the great theater of "allowing" Ukraine to use NATO supplied weapons to strike deep inside Russia. The propagandists tell us that thus far poor Ukraine has been fighting with one hand tied behind its back. If it had both hands free, Russia would be... well, on its knees. How stupid do these politicians think we really are? Or, perhaps the question is better another way — how stupid do we think these politicians really are? When did Ukraine ever set up a network of satellites in space that guide and program each and every missile and drone launched every day against Russia? When did Ukraine train such expert cryptographers who can handle the guidance systems and then identify Russian targets to be struck — last we heard, said Ukrainians were hard put trying to learn enough English to somehow get an F16 up into air and keep it there — thus far that has been mission impossible.

The short answer to all these questions is — Washington. Ukraine would not be able to fight its way out of a paper bag if it weren't for the Americans and their various lackeys, like the Brits, the Germans and the French. There's really no point mentioning Italy, Poland, and all those others that fall under the rubric of "etc."

Shocking as it may seem to the various journo-generals, it is Washington that has a massive network of sophisticated military satellites which alone can manage the war that is being currently fought in Ukraine — and it is a huge credit to the Russians who are fighting this mighty American capability to a standstill. Despite the highly sophisticated lethal gadgetry, Washington is losing the war, and on an epic scale. What does that tell us about "allowing" Ukraine anything? The private citizen that is now the martial law coordinator of Ukraine (since he declared that having elections during a "war" is pointless) is Washington's bobblehead (but that's hardly news).

So, all this talk about the moral hemming and hawing of "allowing" Ukraine to strike inside Russia, of untying that one hand, and allowing Ukraine to fight more freely, is simply flapdoodle ("twaddle" works well here as, so feel free to substitute). But it does give employment to the faceless many among the bureaucrat types who would otherwise be unemployed.

And because Washington is losing badly, it wants to let all of us know that it is now going to hit Russia — and we should look after our affairs as best we can because when Russia responds, we are all collateral damage (and that will include the many journo war experts) — only the powermongers with good underground bunkers will survive.

In other words, all this war-talk about "allowing" Ukraine to hit Russia is a message to all of us — a major war is on its way; call it World War Three, if you like, though that term is meaningless, since most of the world will not be lifting the proverbial finger to "protect" Washington and its lickspittles, its tufthunters, commonly known as "politicians" in the West. Washington has decided that it wants a greater war with Russia, which it will lose, just like it lost so many others. (What's the thinnest book ever written? Wars Won by America after WWII).

America has declared war.

Why does the entire Western political class want a larger war? Well, can you think of an easier way to cull the herd? The clot-shot didn't work so well with the Covid business in thinning out humanity... but a nuclear bomb — well, that's quite a handy thing to have lying around to get that job done. This is why no one who is sensible can make any sense of why "we" fight on in Ukraine.

This next war is not going to be about power, resources, or real estate. It's going to be a grand neo-Malthusian project, in which the real enemy is all of us who need to be taken out, so the planet can be rid of all the useless eaters. This is the real point of all the war-talk by out useless politicians. We are the real enemy.

In other words, the West has reached the final phase of its Woke logic — it is now eager to kill off the majority of its population. We are being frog-marched into annihilation.

So, who is my enemy?

https://www.sott.net/article/491889-Who-is-My-Enemy

[ExomatrixTV]

https://static.euronews.com/articles/stories/08/47/34/44/1920x1080_cmsv2_1c1d92e4-6c92-51ef-94ef-9acf29571c29-8473444.jpg (https://www.euronews.com/video/2024/06/01/tens-of-thousands-take-to-the-streets-in-show-of-support-for-hungarian-prime-minister-vikt)

Tens Of Thousands March In Hungary Against The Dragging Of Europe Into Wаr (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5824450450996665/posts/7363097397131955/) (2 Facebook Videos)

euronews.com/video/2024/06/01/tens-of-thousands-take-to-the-streets-in-show-of-support-for-hungarian-prime-minister-vikt
(https://www.euronews.com/video/2024/06/01/tens-of-thousands-take-to-the-streets-in-show-of-support-for-hungarian-prime-minister-vikt)

[Bruce G Charlton]

@kfm27917 -

Good analysis - and true (I believe) at the level of those leaders and power-brokers who discuss "geopolitics".

But ultimately I think the "neo-Malthusian" or global totalitarian (omni-surveillance, micro-regulation) project is a lower level strategy, and not the genuine aim.

I believe the techno-utopia is a fake (because impossible, as well as because it is not genuinely intended) that is being "sold" to the globalist level of (and yes, I agree with you, literally Satan-affiliated/possessed) "Western" leaders.

But my understanding is that the highest level of plan as of 2024 (also demonic in origin) is not population reduction for a more efficient and controllable world; it is chaotic destruction and mass suffering and death, enjoyed spitefully for its own sake.

This plan for an evil-chaos of each against all (which includes widespread and uncontrolled conventional and nuclear war, plus many other things like starvation, epidemics, poisoning, and inter-personal/ inter-tribal violence - as well) will not benefit human beings, who would (at least, it is intended) all suffer; but the results will greatly be enjoyed (and in a real but spiritual sense fed-upon) by the demonic spirits who have tricked humanity into it.

[ExomatrixTV]

Scott Ritter Reveals: HUGE Escalate! CSTO Enter The War After The West CROSSED The Red Line:

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[ExomatrixTV]

MASSIVE Ukrainian Mistake Results in Significant Russian Local Victory:

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
‼️🇷🇺🚀🇵🇱🇺🇦🪖💀 Several hundred dead NATO mercenaries after a successful Russian attack on Polish-Ukrainian border base.

4 days ago the RF Armed Forces attacked the Yavoriv training ground---over 300 elite instructors from Europe, trained pilots and technicians of American aircraft, as well as high-ranking NATO officers have been destroyed.

"The death of several hundred mercenaries was confirmed."

The strike of Russian missikes on the Yavoriv training ground near Lviv destroyed, according to presumable data, an underground #NATO military town, from which officers of the North Atlantic bloc coordinated and planned military operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the #Russian army.

According to available information, the underground military center consisted of three reinforced concrete bunkers connected to each other. Underground there was a command post of the #Ukrainian Air Force, a training center and barracks for several hundred people.

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1797245610845671543

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/onlydjole/status/1797010184616755600

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
‼️🇵🇱🏴‍☠️🪖🇷🇺 #Polish mercenaries take part in attacks on the Belgorod region.

▪️ Militants created by GUR for PR so-called. The “Polish Volunteer Corps” published footage of the raid on May 22 from the Graivoroni border checkpoint and from the post office in one of the settlements of the Belgorod region.

▪️Earlier, Governor Gladkov reported that Americans and Poles participated in the attack. This was told by a resident of Kozinka, who heard speech in Polish and English.

▪️The wife of the local self-defense commander Yury Gaevoy, who was killed by the Nazis during their raid, reported that she was taken hostage by militants from Poland and the USA.

▪️PDK is a sabotage and reconnaissance unit from the military of the Polish Army. Created and used in terrorist operations by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine.

The West and Ukraine narrative was that Russian entered Belgorod,and it was #Russian civil war,but now evidence emerge Polish were also there,so West and #Ukraine are killing their own narrative.


https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1797142512261300691

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:

‼️🇷🇺🪖 #Chechen security forces “opened the hunting season” for groups of Ukrainian DRGs

This was announced by Ramzan Kadyrov. The enemy regularly carries out sorties, during which they kill the civilian population, he added, referring to the words of the head of the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kurchaloevsky district of Chechnya.

📝 “ As Rustam Aguev said, just the other day, a whole family was shot by Ukrainian bandits. Where are the peaceful people? Fight with our warriors, don't force them to look for you, don't hide from them. We are in the zone of the NMD to protect civilians from the arbitrariness of Ukrainian bandits... We will not allow anyone to run amok in the #Russian Donbass! ", - said #Kadyrov.

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1797141840178696281

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1796961974334509405

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1796962489529212970

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇭🇺Viktor Orban:

Hungary wants to be bought in vain, it is not for sale. It is so valuable because it is not for sale. It is not for sale to Brussels, Washington or Soros. Ladies and gentlemen, we have never had such a large crowd before a European election. If only we could strike a blow against our opponents. They would fly to Brussels. But we won't, because there are enough pro-war politicians in Brussels. My friends, today Europe is preparing for war, announcing every day the passage of another section of the road to hell. Every time we talk about 100 billion euros for Ukraine, about placing nuclear weapons in the centre of Europe, about conscripting our sons into a foreign army, about a NATO mission in Ukraine, about European military units in Ukraine. My friends, it seems that the pro-war train has no brakes and the engineer has gone mad. In the European elections we will do nothing less than stop this train. We must apply the emergency brake so that at least those who want to can get off and not get involved in the war.

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🇺🇦 Italian Prime Minister Meloni confirmed Zelensky’s participation in the G7 summit in June

❗️ Vladimir Zelensky will take part in the June G7 leaders’ summit, which will be held in Italy. This was stated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, ANSA reports.

According to her, at least 15 countries and international organizations are also invited to the event.

🔹 Bloomberg previously reported that Zelensky will meet with G7 leaders in Italy amid demands from Western countries for longer-range weapons that will allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack Russia within its borders. It was noted that this will be Zelensky’s second visit to the G7 meeting.

✔️ The summit will take place at a closed resort near the city of Bari (Apulia region) from June 13 to 15.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US State Department recognizes the legitimacy of the expired 🤡 as President of Ukraine.

The department believes that it is now difficult to hold elections in the country.

At the same time, his term of office expired, and new elections were not announced in Ukraine. - FRWL reports


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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ukraine is facing economic collapse, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be left without support due to the government’s decision

▪️Increasing prices for electricity will lead to shutdowns of enterprises and increased unemployment; the Ukrainian budget will not have money to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️ “For the last 2 years, enterprises have already been operating on the edge of what is possible and with huge losses. Any step that leads to an increase in production costs simply pushes enterprises over the line where they will be forced to either reduce production volumes, or stop and fire people,” said President of Ukrmetallurgprom Kalenkov.
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Ukrainian Reserves DIVERTED Cannot Stop Russian Spearheads

Battle of attrition in Vovchansk. Russian forces reach Seversky Donets canal in Chasiv Yar. Ocheretye breakthrough operation continues after a short pause. Intensification of Russian armored attacks across Luhansk Front. Ukraine momentarily stabilizes situation in Krasnohorivka.

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In the direction of Siversk, the Russians were able to advance along the railway tracks and secure the defensive positions, according to reports. In Chasiv Yar, they crossed the canal north of the Microdistrict Canal and successfully deployed infantry. A video also confirmed that the Russians managed to gain a foothold in the village of Novoaleksandrivka. In the direction of Vuhledar, the Russians have recorded territorial gains.

The Heat | Massive Assaults Have Restarted | Zelensky Crossed The Red Line. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.06.02

PREMIRE: 10:30 PM GMT +3

YouTube English (https://youtube.com/watch?v=R1pArC3Helw)

YouTube Russian (https://youtu.be/PRXFK6eUMJo)

YouTube German (https://youtu.be/sg_BoyWuZkc)

YouTube Serbian (https://youtu.be/380HnByXH2A)

Rumble (https://rumble.com/v4z5ez6-the-heat-massive-assaults-have-restarted-zelensky-crossed-the-red-line.-mil.html)

Odysee (https://odysee.com/@Military.Summary:c/02.06.2024-(Main):5)

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Kallas, no Plan B.
Above the law.
Putin to conquer Eurasia


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Escobar: The West Is Hell-Bent On Provoking Russia Into Hot War
Authored by Pepe Escobar,

The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (…) Do they want global conflict? It seemed they wanted to negotiate [with us], but we don’t see much desire to do this.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov then came up with the appropriate metaphor to designate NATO’s ramped-up military outbursts: not only NATO is raising the degree of escalation but delving into a warlike "ecstasy".

It does not get more serious than that. “They”, as Putin alluded to, do seem to want “global conflict”. That’s at the heart of NATO’s new suicidal “ecstasy” strategy.

For all their circumlocutions, NATO Secretary Jens Stoltenberg, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have effectively greenlighted Kiev using Western weapons for attacks deep inside the Russian Federation. The alleged debate, still ongoing, is just a “smokescreen” for the real objective: a pretext that could lead to WWIII.

There’s no reason to think Kiev will stick to “limited” strikes against relatively unimportant targets. Instead, it is likely to target critical security infrastructure in hopes of provoking an unrelenting Russian response, which in turn would pave the way for NATO to invoke Article 5 and de facto engage in a Hot War.

Already on the Edge of Doom

The escalation “ecstasy” defined by Peskov went out of control since a – secret - new batch of ATACMS was dispatched to Kiev earlier this year, complemented with longer-range ATACMS. Kiev has been using them for serious hits on Russian air bases and key air defense nodes. These ATACMS fire missiles at Mach 3 speed: a serious challenge even for the best Russian air defense systems.

All that seems to point to a crucial decision enveloped in several layers of fog: as the incoming, cosmic NATO humiliation in the black soil of Novorossiya becomes self-evident day after day, the Western elites who really run the show are betting on provoking a full Hot War against Russia.

Richard H. Black, a former US senator from Virginia, offers a sobering analysis:

“This is a continuation of the pattern in which the NATO forces recognize they are losing the war in Ukraine, with the fragile lines of defense breaking, and the NATO response is to escalate. This is not accidental, but very deliberate. It is not the first attack on the Russian nuclear triad. The ideological folks are seeing their world crumbling, after flying the rainbow flag over conservative countries and [waging] perpetual wars. They are frantic and could escalate to nuclear war to get out of the bind. They are taking a series of baby steps, and respond that ‘they don’t do anything in response,’ and so they keep taking baby steps until one of them lands on a land mine and we are into World War III. (…) Putin is very aware of the disconnect in the West, who keep saying he is just saber rattling, but he is not—he is informing the West of the dangerous reality.”

In Russia, Senator Dmitry Rogozin, a former head of Roscosmos, directly warned Washington: “We are not just on the threshold, but already on the edge, beyond which, if the enemy is not stopped in such actions, an irreversible collapse of the strategic security of the nuclear powers will begin."

General Evgeny Buzhinky advanced an ominous scenario: “I am sure that if the strikes of Taurus of ATACMS are very harmful for Russia, then I presume we will at least strike the logistical hub in the territory of Poland in Rzeszów” where the missiles are staged for delivery to Ukraine.

The connection in this case would be irreversible: Russia hits Poland; NATO invokes Article 5; WW3.

Be Careful What You Wish For

NATO warlike “ecstasy” is predictably cloaked in cowardice. For all the rhetorical garbage 24/7 about “we don’t want a war with Russia”, the facts point to NATO using Kiev to attack and try to destroy a wide range of Russian military assets. There’s also no denying the US Deep State’s role in enabling Kiev’s terror attacks against Russian civilians in the Donbass, Belgorod, and elsewhere.

Considering the serious debate finally on across several Russian platforms, all of that might constitute a reasonable pretext for a tactical nuclear drop on the – legally illegitimate – Kiev gang. At least that would finish a war that is dragging for too long.

Yet that would be totally out of character when it comes to legalistic Putin – who deals with Armageddon-laden issues with the patience of a Taoist monk. Yet Russia has an entire arsenal of asymmetric tools – both conventional and nuclear -- that can deliver a painful blow to NATO in places where the alliance least expects.

We’re not there yet – even as we get ominously closer day after day. Dmitri Medvedev has issued the umpteenth red line: a US strike on Russian targets, or the US letting Kiev hit targets within Russia using American missiles and drones would be the ‘start of World War’.

And Foreign Minister Lavrov, once again displaying his trademark Taoist patience, had to come up with another serious reminder: Russia will regard the deployment of nuclear-capable F-16s in Ukraine – which de facto can only be operated by NATO pilots – as “a deliberate signal from NATO in the nuclear field to Russia”.

And still the gaggle of armchair Dr. Strangeloves – lavishly rewarded by the rarified Atlanticist plutocracy holding real power, funds, influence and mass media control - is not listening.

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Greece sends an officer to Kiev to train the Ukrainian Armed Forces to operate F-16 fighters

02.06.2024, Greece.

Greece has already sent the first officer of its Air Force to train Ukrainian military to pilot F-16 fighter jets, donated by various NATO countries, the Greek news portal defence-point reported on June 2.

The website publication notes the Greek Air Force’s extensive experience and knowledge in the operational use of F-16s, including in close combat, as Greece has been using these aircraft for almost 40 years and has been constantly dealing with Turkey’s aggressive actions.

“The presence of the Greek pilot in the Ukrainian capital is apparently part of the initiative of the ‘F-16 Training Coalition’, an international coalition established on July 13, 2023 at the NATO summit in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to train Ukrainian pilots, technical and support personnel in the use of this type of fighter aircraft,” the website reported.

The coalition originally included 11 NATO countries: Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Sweden. Greece joined later – in August 2023 – after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky visited Athens.