WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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🇪🇺⚔️🇺🇸 Europe wants to cooperate with the US, but the European Union is ready to respond as a united front to American tariffs. This was stated by Olaf Scholz.

The acting German Chancellor noted that Europe is "neither naive nor weak," and trade wars harm all parties involved.

Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the imposition of customs duties of 25% on all steel and aluminum imports from the EU.

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🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Defense Top News Today

▫️As a result of a missile strike against a temporary deployment area of units of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and special operations forces of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of Ukraine, up to 170 Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries were neutralized.

▫️As a result of successful offensive actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces completed the liberation of Zaporozhye (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralize AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. Over the course of the day, the AFU losses were more than 160 troops, one armored fighting vehicle, six motor vehicles, one ATV, and four UAV command posts.

▫️The Russian Defense Ministry shows the footage of snipers and a Grad MLRS crew in action.

▫️Russian servicemen were presented with state awards in the zone of the special military operation.

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Suspected terror incident on one of Vladimir Putin's limousine fleet

Right, I'm treating this carefully as Alex does tend to exaggerate, and hyperventilate, but, this may just have happened although I'm uncertain whether it's Putin's actual vehicle, just one of the fleet. It's being treated as a terrorist attack, as I write. ]It all comes from The Sun (a British tabloid, famed for its sensationalism and low quality of its reporting!) in this article published today:

https://thesun.co.uk/news/34134385/putin-limo-exploded-fire-paranoid

Then I looked on RT (http://RT.com) and TASS (https://tass.com/) — and there was nothing about this at all.

That's incorrect.
Russian news outlet Shot reported that a car caught fire on Sretenka Street in Russia.
The car was not reportedly President Putin's, and it was in a different location from Lubyanka Square, where the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation is located.

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🇱🇹☠️🇺🇸What the media or Pentagon don't tells you

A real joke (even if four soldiers died - that's a very cheap lesson) happened at the Pabrade training ground in Lithuania, which is used jointly by the US Army:

A SECOND American M88 armoured recovery vehicle (ARV), which had arrived to provide assistance to the first, sank in a swampy area. What kind of logic they have - none? Seems the US military consists of the most dumb brain-dead clowns on earth.

Apparently, the situation has become so serious that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is being sent to Lithuania to provide assistance. This might be very helpful.

US Army spends a week searching for missing soldiers, then a week unable to pull out a tank believing the soldiers are in the tank, then sinking a second one along the way.

And these "heroes" believed being able to fight Russia?
Just a collection of mental disabled and allmost dumb idiots can believe they are able.
Swamps occupy almost 10% of the total area of ​​Russia. And most of the swamps are in the north and northwest of the European part of the country (flattened by glacieres during iceage) and in the central parts of the West Siberian Plain.
And Lithuania is not the worst swamp area, most of it is "solid floor" compared to the Pripet Marshes in Belarus, where even a soldier could break through a thin layer of grass and sink into the swamp and will drown within some seconds where the Pentagon believed to be able to attack into Russia.

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🕯🇷🇺 The farewell ceremony for Channel One war correspondent Anna Prokofyeva has begun in Moscow, taking place at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, reports an RIA Novosti correspondent.

Dozens of colleagues from local and federal media came to say goodbye. Wreaths were sent by the President of Russia, media outlets, military units such as the "Veterans" brigade and the "Viking" detachment, and many others.

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LIVE | Jeffrey Sachs' Speech Goes Viral After Trump-Zelensky Fiery Oval Office Clash:

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Watch LIVE as Professor Jeffrey Sachs' speech at the European Parliament gains widespread attention following the intense Oval Office confrontation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. On February 19, 2025, Sachs emphasized the need for Europe to adopt an independent foreign policy, understanding both Russia's and Europe's positions. His remarks take on new significance as Trump's stance on Ukraine has sparked international concern. The recent clash between Trump and Zelenskyy highlighted deep divisions over how to address Russia's aggression, with Zelenskyy refusing territorial concessions without security guarantees. Sachs' call for European self-determination resonates amid these geopolitical tensions.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺🇸🇰European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Prime Minister Robert Fico a "complete idiot" in a telephone conversation over his negotiations with Trump, Fico himself said.

According to him, they discussed tariffs that the US president plans to impose on Europe.

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🇸🇰🇪🇺 Slovak PM Robert Fico claims EU chief Ursula von der Leyen called him an idiot over his call with Trump.

“Today, I had a phone call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

We discussed two topics. The first was the tariffs imposed against us [Europe]. She absolutely tore into me:

Robert, what have you done? Why on earth did you negotiate with Trump like that? Are you out of your mind?

She berated me for half an hour… calling me a complete idiot.”

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Racist Allied Underestimation Of Russia's Abilities Led To Its Win
March 31, 2025

Yesterday I had linked the New York Times whitewashing of President Biden's (proxy) war against Russia:

Today's long-read from the NYT is some weird whitewashing and fake history. Anyone who, during the last three years, has read more than the propaganda from the New York Times already knew each and every of these points:

The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine (archived) - New York Times
Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine (archived) - New York Times
A U.S. base in Wiesbaden, Germany, supplied the Ukrainians with the coordinates of Russian forces on their soil.
U.S. intelligence and artillery helped Ukraine quickly turn the tide against the Russian invasion.
The Biden administration kept moving its red lines.
Ultimately, the U.S. military and C.I.A. were allowed to help with strikes into Russia.
Political disagreements in Ukraine contributed to the 2023 counteroffensive’s collapse.
Alex Cristoforou also remarks on it:

NYT article admits that this was more than proxy war between the US and Russia. It was as close as could be to an all out hot war between the two sides (US and Russia).
NYT however is running cover for the Biden administration. When you read through this very long article, the conclusion is that the Biden administration and US military command were easily defeating Russia until...

The Ukraine Generals started acting up and disobeyed US orders.
Zelensky chased "big wins" for PR reasons, failing to follow US strategy.
Resulting in the 2023 counteroffensive 'failure.' Trust was broken between US and Ukraine.
What followed was the US keeping Ukraine in the game up to the US elections, by striking targets in Crimea and pre-2014 Russia.
Trump entered the WH and decided to wind the war down, handing Russia the win.
"History Is Written by the Victors."
In this case the NYT has decided that the US (under Biden) was victorious, IF not for the insubordinate Ukrainian Generals and ego of Zelensky. Trump will be blamed for the end result capitulation.

👉The article 100% explains why NATO and the Europeans still believe that they can win this war. Peak delusion and propaganda.

The U.S. has in fact lost the war. If you do not believe so (yet) please read this remarkable piece:

‘Please don’t use my name’ A report by journalist Shura Burtin on the growing war weariness among Ukrainians - Meduza, Mar 27 2025

The frontline reporting is extremely grim. Ukraine and its army are done with.

But back to the New York Times piece.

Alex Cristoforou's diagnosis of delusion and propaganda does not go deep enough.

A quote from the New York Times piece reveals that a very real factor behind starting and losing the war is pure racism:

Within the coalition, the prevailing wisdom was that the 2023 counteroffensive would be the war’s last: The Ukrainians would claim outright triumph, or Mr. Putin would be forced to sue for peace.
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They didn’t have to be as good as the British and Americans, General Cavoli would say; they just had to be better than the Russians.
U.S. General Christopher G. Cavoli is the commander of the United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His lack of historic knowledge and respect of the abilities of Russian soldiers should have disqualified him.

It is for racist people like him that the U.S., UK and Ukraine failed to recognize that have had no chance to win.

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🔘 The Office of the President of Ukraine denied claims about preparations for elections and a "second term for Zelensky" — sources from BBC Ukraine.

Earlier, The Economist wrote that the president allegedly instructed his team to prepare for elections after the end of hostilities, and that this announcement was supposed to appear by May 5 — the date of a possible extension of martial law.

The president's team stated that "there was neither a relevant meeting nor an instruction to prepare for elections." Additionally, BBC, citing government officials, noted that "hopes for the end of the war by Easter are slim."

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🇲🇩🇷🇺 Oleg Belyakov, the Russian co-chairman of the peacekeeping operation in Transnistria, is being expelled from Moldova. This was reported by Russian Ambassador Oleg Ozerov.

Moscow will respond to Chisinau's decision to declare three employees of the Russian embassy personae non gratae, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.

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Former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, Zaluzhny, refused to comment on his possible participation in the presidential elections.

"My answer to this question has not changed. While the war is going on, we all need to work to preserve the country, and not think about the elections. I do not comment on various rumors," Zaluzhny said.

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Ukraine wants to amend legislation to delay elections after martial law is lifted, says Oleg Didenko, head of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine

According to current legislation, parliamentary and presidential elections must be announced within a month after martial law is lifted. However, the authorities want to delay the elections under the pretext that they will now take more time to prepare.

Zelensky's term as president of Ukraine expired on May 20, 2024.

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Bloomberg: U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Deal Comparable to Belgium's 19th-Century Colonial Exploitation of Africans

"The Trump administration is using Kiev's moment of greatest dependence to impose a resource contract. That deal was recently revised in a form worthy of Belgium's exploitation of the Congo in the 19th century, without providing Ukraine with any security guarantees," the publication writes.

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The New York Times has revealed how the US military secretly waged war against Russia

The New York Times writes in its investigation that US military advisers were first sent to Kiev, then they were allowed to get closer to the battlefields.

Soon, the military and CIA officers began helping to plan and supported campaigns to attack Crimea, and then they received the green light to carry out pinpoint strikes deep inside Russia itself.

"The US and Ukraine were honing a killing machine together," the investigation says.

According to the publication, Ukraine became "a revenge match in the long history of proxy wars between the US and Russia — in Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s, and Syria three decades later."

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 #Russian Ministry of Defense Statement:

Despite Kiev’s claims of not targeting energy infrastructure, #Ukrainian forces continued their attacks on Russian energy facilities over the past 24 hours. Strikes on energy sites in the Bryansk region caused power outages in the Sevsky and Suzemsky districts. These continued attacks highlight the complete unwillingness of the Kiev regime to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict. #Ukraine

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Russian forces strike Ukrainian military airfield, UAV assembly workshops over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 200 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed six enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

MOSCOW, March 31. /TASS/. Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assembly workshops and ammunition depots over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck a military airfield’s infrastructure facilities, workshops for producing and sites for launching unmanned aerial vehicles, ammunition, armament and materiel depots of the Ukrainian army and temporary deployment areas of Ukraine’s armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 147 locations," the ministry said in a statement.

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 70 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 70 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy jamming station and a fuel depot in its areas of responsibility in the Kharkov and Sumy Regions over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup North units operating in the Belgorod direction struck massed manpower and equipment of a mechanized brigade, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Veliky Prikol, Miropolye, Ugroyedy and Turya in the Sumy Region," the ministry said.

In the Kharkov frontline area, Battlegroup North units inflicted casualties on a motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Kazachya Lopan and Volchansk in the Kharkov Region, the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 70 personnel, an armored personnel carrier and an artillery gun in those frontline areas over the last 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed an electronic warfare station and a fuel depot of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts over 200 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 200 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed six enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units improved their forward positions and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Kupyansk, Kamenka, Dvurechnaya, Kondrashovka and Zagoruikovka in the Kharkov Region and Torskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 200 personnel, an armored combat vehicle, two pickup trucks and six field artillery guns, including three foreign-made weapons in that frontline area over the last 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed four electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts 275 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 275 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed a US-made armored personnel carrier in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup South units improved their tactical position and inflicted casualties on formations of five mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian army, the Azov special operations brigade [outlawed as a terrorist group in Russia] and an assault brigade of Ukraine’s national police in areas near the settlements of Seversk, Markovo, Chasov Yar, Dyleyevka and Aleksandro-Kalinovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 275 personnel, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, five pickup trucks and a US-manufactured AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar station in that frontline area over the last 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicts 420 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted roughly 420 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy tank and four armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Center units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses among manpower and equipment of four mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an infantry brigade, a jaeger brigade, two unmanned systems brigades and an assault regiment of the Ukrainian army and a marine infantry brigade in areas near the settlements of Shevchenko, Kotlino, Krasnoarmeysk, Sergeyevka, Novosergeyevka and Udachnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 420 personnel, a tank, four armored combat vehicles, including a French-made VAB armored vehicle and a US-manufactured HMMWV armored fighting vehicle in that frontline area over the last 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed three pickup trucks, two field artillery guns and a mobile electronic warfare station of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicts over 160 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted more than 160 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy tank and two artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup East units kept advancing deep into the enemy’s defenses and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of a tank brigade, three mechanized brigades, a jaeger brigade, an airmobile brigade, a mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Shevchenko, Novopol, Voskresenka, Volnoye Pole and Yalta in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 160 personnel, a tank, three motor vehicles and two field artillery guns, including a Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system in that frontline area over the last 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroys 50 Ukrainian troops over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroyed roughly 50 Ukrainian troops and two enemy ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted casualties on formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Novoandreyevka and Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye Region, Antonovka and Yantarnoye in the Kherson Region," the ministry said in a statement.

"As many as 50 [Ukrainian] military personnel, an armored combat vehicle, two motor vehicles, an electronic warfare station, two ammunition depots and a fuel depot were destroyed," it said.

Russian air defenses destroy 150 Ukrainian UAVs, five JDAM smart bombs in past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 150 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and five JDAM smart bombs over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down five US-made JDAM guided aerial bombs and 150 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 660 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 49,180 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 surface-to-air missile systems, 22,606 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,533 multiple rocket launchers, 23,130 field artillery guns and mortars and 33,545 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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🇱🇹☠️🇺🇸What the media or Pentagon don't tells you

A real joke (even if four soldiers died - that's a very cheap lesson) happened at the Pabrade training ground in Lithuania, which is used jointly by the US Army:

A SECOND American M88 armoured recovery vehicle (ARV), which had arrived to provide assistance to the first, sank in a swampy area. What kind of logic they have - none? Seems the US military consists of the most dumb brain-dead clowns on earth.

Apparently, the situation has become so serious that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is being sent to Lithuania to provide assistance. This might be very helpful.

US Army spends a week searching for missing soldiers, then a week unable to pull out a tank believing the soldiers are in the tank, then sinking a second one along the way.

And these "heroes" believed being able to fight Russia?
Just a collection of mental disabled and allmost dumb idiots can believe they are able.
Swamps occupy almost 10% of the total area of ​​Russia. And most of the swamps are in the north and northwest of the European part of the country (flattened by glacieres during iceage) and in the central parts of the West Siberian Plain.
And Lithuania is not the worst swamp area, most of it is "solid floor" compared to the Pripet Marshes in Belarus, where even a soldier could break through a thin layer of grass and sink into the swamp and will drown within some seconds where the Pentagon believed to be able to attack into Russia.

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Pentagon announces investigation into death of US servicemen in Lithuania

On March 27, the US Army authorities confirmed that an M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle was discovered
WASHINGTON, March 31. /TASS/. The Pentagon is investigating the cause of death of US soldiers in Lithuania, according to a statement published by the US Army Europe and Africa Command.

Earlier, the military authorities confirmed that three out of four US servicemen who went missing in Lithuania last week "were found deceased." The command specified that "search and recovery operations continue for the remaining fourth soldier." "The US Army and Lithuanian authorities are investigating the cause of the accident. Updates will be provided as more information becomes available," the statement reads.

On March 27, the US Army authorities confirmed that an M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle was discovered. As reported earlier, the US servicemen used it to leave military drills on March 25. The armored vehicle was found "submerged in a body of water" near the site of the drills.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 "Donbass Dome" Thwarts 188 UAV Attacks on Civilians and Infrastructure in the DPR

Over the past week, the airspace defense and electronic warfare system "Dome of Donbass" successfully detected and intercepted 188 enemy drones over Donetsk and Makeyevka, preventing potential attacks on civilians and infrastructure.

In Donetsk, a false aircraft-type drone and a Skat jet drone armed with a 10-kilogram warhead, targeting a railway track, were intercepted. Additionally, a Ukrainian "Darts" drone equipped with an improvised explosive device based on a PG-7 shot was neutralized in Makeyevka.

Explosives experts from the FSB Directorate for the DPR utilized specialized technical means to disable the UAV controls and destroy their components at a training ground. Thanks to the coordinated efforts of defenders and the prompt response from citizens, all drone impact sites were swiftly identified, resulting in no civilian casualties or damage to infrastructure.

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The leaders of Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are in Kyiv right now.…

If Putin wants to attack NATO, then why isn't he attacking them right now?

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FSB cracks down on Scientology cell in Russia's Kaliningrad

Distribution of Scientology literature and materials was outlawed in Russia in 2016, when it was legally classified a ‘cult’


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‼️🇷🇺📄 Vladimir #Putin signed a decree on the spring conscription into the army. According to it, 160 thousand people will be called up for military service.

The Ministry of Defense stated that conscripts will not be sent to deployment points of the #Russian Armed Forces units in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

‼️ As usual, we remind everyone that this is conscription for regular 1-year mandatory military service, which happens twice a year, and has nothing to do with the SMO, contrary to what the Western sources like to claim every time.

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‼️🇷🇺 In #Crimea, vandals desecrated the graves of Izvestia war correspondent Alexander Fedorchak and three soldiers who fought in the Special Military Operation, setting them on fire overnight. The attack comes just days after Fedorchak was laid to rest.

Law enforcement authorities are investigating the heinous act, working to identify those responsible and determine the cause. #Russia

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‼️🇩🇰🪖 #Denmark will introduce mandatory military service for women starting next year.

“In light of the current defence and security policy situation, the armed forces need to recruit more people,” Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said.

Women turning 18 after July 1, 2025, may be required to take part in an annual ballot to determine who must serve, similar to the existing system for men.

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‼️🇲🇩🗣️🎶 Supporters of Evgenia Gutsul sang "Katyusha" outside the courthouse in Chisinau, where the case of the Bashkan of Gagauzia is being heard today. #Moldova

The head of the autonomy was previously arrested for 20 days under articles related to the alleged illegal financing of the 2023 election campaign

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‼️🇪🇺🗣️🇺🇲🇷🇺 Head of European diplomacy Kallas called on the US to put pressure on Russia:

The US is doing shuttle diplomacy. But now we need Russia to agree to this ceasefire, to show goodwill. I think the US can also play a role in putting more pressure on Russia to stop this aggression and war.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 A crowd from all over #Europe has come to Kyiv. Speakers and vice-speakers of the parliaments of Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Sweden, as well as representatives of the European Parliament have arrived in the capital of #Ukraine.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥Units of the "East" grouping have liberated the settlement of Razliv.

💥During joint offensive actions by servicemen of the 36th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 430th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 29th Army, the settlement of Razliv came under the full control of the #Russian Armed Forces.

‼️Control has been established over a defense area more than 3 km deep and along the front. Our Soldiers have installed Russian flags in various parts of the settlement. The Far Easterners are consolidating their positions.

▪️Over 10 days of combat operations, about 400 buildings have been cleared, and up to two companies (more than 150 personnel) of the AFU have been destroyed.

The "East" grouping continues the offensive, crushing the enemy's defenses, demoralizing them and leaving the Nazis no chance!

We continue to observe the successes of our guys and cover their exploits!

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🚨🇷🇺🪖 EXCLUSIVE: Russian soldier gives UNFILTERED INTERVIEW about the current state of the Russian military, drone warfare, and Ukraine’s recent battlefield failures.

You won’t see this kind of NO-HOLDS BARRED conversation anywhere else.

(1:25) How NATO prepared Ukraine for war

(8:35) Battle for Donbass in 2022

(11:36) Lessons from drone warfare

(16:51) Have drones overtaken artillery and fighter jets?

(20:41) Why 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive failed

(24:43) Russian military is becoming more ‘democratic’

(31:42) How NATO weapons perform on the battlefield

(34:16) Colombian mercenaries used as human shields

(37:30) Why Ukrainians failed in Kursk

(40:18) How Russian soldiers treat Ukrainian POWs

(42:13) Russian military is stronger now than in 2022

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🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense briefing on the course of the Counter-Terrorist Operation (CTO) in the Kursk Oblast as of March 31, 2025. Key points:

🟥 Units of the "North" military grouping, during offensive operations, struck Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) formations near the settlements of Gornal, Guevo, and Oleshnya.

🟥 Over the past 24 hours, the AFU has lost more than 190 servicemen. A tank, an armored personnel carrier (APC), three infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), five vehicles, two artillery pieces, a mortar, three UAV control points, and an ammunition depot were destroyed. Two AFU servicemen surrendered.

In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy has lost more than 71,240 servicemen.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖🏳️ Captured Armed Forces of #Ukraine serviceman had no idea that he carried voluntary consent to organ donation. #Russia

Serviceman Andrei Chemer of the AFU 41st Mechanised Brigade was taken prisoner in the border area of Sudzhansky District.

The captured Ukrainian servicemen told that he carried a consent for organ donation in a hospital in Canada, but his command claimed that it was a health insurance policy.

'This is a French health insurance. Before sending us to the front line, our commander gave such a document to everyone. They promised that if we got wounded, we would be sent to the best French hospitals,' he said.

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‼️🇩🇪💰🇺🇦 #Germany to provide €11 billion in military aid to #Ukraine — Foreign Minister #Baerbock

"€3 billion will be provided this year, the remaining €8 billion - in the period from 2026 to 2029," Baerbock said.

‼️The more aid to Ukraine the more disastrous for the German population.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia Provided U.S. with List of #Ukrainian Strikes During Ceasefire, Second Meeting Planned – Lavrov

➡️ #Russia handed over a list of sites targeted by #Ukraine during the 30-day ceasefire to U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump adviser Mike Waltz.

➡️ Moscow continues to uphold the agreement despite violations by Kiev.

➡️ A second U.S.-Russia meeting is in the works.

➡️ Lavrov noted Washington's willingness to remove obstacles to diplomatic engagement.

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‼️🇷🇸🇭🇺 Following a meeting with Hungarian Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić stated, "The goal is a military alliance between Serbia and #Hungary."

Hungary is a #NATO member state, so it remains to be seen how such a military alliance would work practically, considering #Serbia's strongly anti-NATO stance.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖🏳️ Russian soldier captures a #Ukrainian... with a brick

A #Russian T-80 tank driver-mechanic, using the call sign "Max," found himself in an unexpected situation during a reconnaissance mission. After spotting a Ukrainian soldier, he attempted to negotiate, even offering to part ways peacefully. However, the Ukrainian soldier contacted his command and proudly reported that he had "taken a prisoner" — only to end up being captured himself!

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Kiev’s violation of moratorium, Black Sea initiative: what Lavrov said

Russia and the United States are preparing for a new meeting aimed at addressing annoyances in bilateral relations and normalizing communication, the Russian foreign minister noted

MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. Russia has informed the United States, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) about how Ukraine violates the moratorium on strikes targeting energy facilities, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told reporters.

He also said that Moscow has put forward concrete proposals regarding practical implementation of the Black Sea initiative.

TASS has gathered key statements, made by the top Russian diplomat.

Ukraine’s violation of moratorium on energy strikes

Lavrov and Defense Minister Andrey Belousov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine is not complying with the moratorium on strikes targeting energy sites: "Belousov informed that the moratorium is not being observed, that Russian energy facilities are attacked all the time, with a pause of maybe one or two days, and listed all facilities targeted by Ukrainian drones over the period, including the past night. I continued in that same vein."

Russia has sent the list of violations to United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and to its representatives at the UN and the OSCE "so that they can present concrete evidence about what the word of the current Ukrainian authorities is worth, if you can call them authorities at all."

Moscow is "one hundred percent" compliant with the moratorium.

Contacts with the US

Russia and the United States are preparing for a new meeting aimed at addressing annoyances in bilateral relations and normalizing communication. In the meantime, there are ongoing contacts by telephone and video conference.

"We can observe some progress and willingness on the part of our US counterparts to remove these barriers to the normal functioning of diplomats in our capitals, which are entirely unacceptable from the standpoint of diplomatic practice."

Russia did not initiate the obstruction of diplomatic work: "Even the Obama administration was active in this regard."

Black Sea initiative

As far as the Black Sea initiative is concerned, Moscow needs concrete deeds, not empty promises; the US side has promised "to respond soon."

Putin asked at a session with permanent members of the Russian Security Council to talk about the meeting with the United States representatives on the resumption of the Black Sea initiative.

Moscow has made specific proposals for the practical implementation of the Black Sea initiative.

"We supported, as I have already said, the readiness of the United States, which was recorded on paper after the March 24 meeting, but added specific proposals on how this can be done in practice."

Such proposals are absolutely necessary so as not to repeat the failure of the initial Black Sea grain initiative, approved in 2022 and launched by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

"Part of the package is dedicated to promoting exports of Ukrainian grain, and the second part is dedicated to exports of our grain and our fertilizers. The Ukrainian part has been working all this time, we have respected our obligations. Nothing has been done in Russia’s interests, which were fixed as obligations of our partners in the framework of that initiative."

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Russian troops liberate Razliv community in Donetsk region over past day

"In the Belgorod direction, Battlegroup North units struck massed manpower and equipment of a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Ugroyedy, Turya and Miropolye in the Sumy Region," the ministry said.

MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated the community of Razliv in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"Battlegroup East units liberated the settlement of Razliv in the Donetsk People’s Republic through active and decisive operations," the ministry said in a statement.

During the last 24-hour period, Battlegroup East units "inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Bogatyr, Yalta, Zaporozhye and Zelyonoye Pole in the Donetsk People’s Republic," it said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 150 personnel, a tank, four motor vehicles and two field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 70 casualties on Ukrainian army over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 70 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy ammunition depot in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Belgorod direction, Battlegroup North units struck massed manpower and equipment of a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Ugroyedy, Turya and Miropolye in the Sumy Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 70 personnel, an armored combat vehicle and four motor vehicles in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed a field ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts over 210 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 210 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two US-made armored personnel carriers in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units improved their forward positions and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Kamenka, Dvurechnaya, Zagoruikovka and Kondrashovka in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 210 personnel, two US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, an armored combat vehicle, four motor vehicles and six field artillery guns, including two foreign-made weapons in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed two electronic warfare stations and a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery radar station of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts 255 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 255 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup South units improved their tactical position and inflicted losses on formations of three mechanized brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian army and a special operations brigade in areas near the settlements of Seversk, Nikolayevka, Pleshcheyevka, Katerinovka and Novoolenovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 255 personnel, two US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, two armored combat vehicles, three pickup trucks and an artillery gun in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicts over 430 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted more than 430 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Center units gained better lines and positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an infantry brigade and a jaeger brigade of the Ukrainian army in areas near the settlements of Grishino, Shevchenko, Krasnoarmeysk, Novosergeyevka and Dimitrov in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 430 personnel, a tank, five armored combat vehicles, eight motor vehicles and five field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroys 75 Ukrainian troops over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroyed roughly 75 Ukrainian troops and two enemy ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units gained better positions and inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Pridneprovskoye, Ivanovka and Antonovka in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.

"As many as 75 [Ukrainian] military personnel, a tank, four motor vehicles, an artillery gun, an electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots were destroyed," it said.

Russian forces strike Ukrainian army, mercenaries in 142 areas over past day

Russian forces struck deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck ammunition depots and explosives production sites and also temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 142 locations," the ministry said.

Russian air defenses down 67 Ukrainian UAVs over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 67 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down 67 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 660 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 49,247 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 surface-to-air missile systems, 22,622 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,533 multiple rocket launchers, 23,152 field artillery guns and mortars and 33,572 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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Kiev loses almost 22,000 troops, mercenaries in March in battles near LPR — expert

Military expert Andrey Marochko pointed out that during March Russian fighters advanced deep into the enemy's defenses

LUGANSK, April 1. /TASS/. Russian servicemen eliminated over 21,900 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries in fighting on the borders of the Lugansk People's Republic in March, which is almost 1,800 more than in February, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.

"In March, the Ukrainian military continued to resist and engage in terrorist activities. The intensity of hostilities slightly increased compared to February. The Russian Armed Forces have been confidently fulfilling the tasks of the special military operation and liberated territories. <...> Enemy losses during the reporting period amounted to about 21,940 Ukrainian troops and mercenaries, which is 1,735 more compared to the previous reporting period. Russia’s battlegroup North has eliminated the largest number of enemy manpower," he said, analyzing the Russian Defense Ministry's data.

Marochko pointed out that during March Russian fighters advanced deep into the enemy's defenses and improved their positions along the entire line of contact.

The expert added that the Russian army also destroyed 52 enemy tanks, two RAK-SA-12 MLRS launchers, 338 field artillery guns, 63 electronic and counter-battery warfare stations, 94 field ammunition depots, two fuel depots and over 1,100 different enemy combat vehicles.

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❗️ Ukrainian human rights activist and political scientist Kiril Molchanov was detained in Poland and handed over to the Zelensky regime.

Molchanov, who had been exiled in Russia, had been systematically informing European parliamentarians and members of the Bundestag (Germany’s parliament) about human rights violations in Ukraine and had spoken publicly on these issues in various European media outlets.

He was invited to Berlin — ostensibly to receive an award — and, having traveled to EU countries multiple times before, he accepted the invitation without suspecting a trap.

According to sources close to the activist, the supposed foundation that invited him does not actually exist.

The plane ticket sent to him from Germany included layovers in Istanbul and Warsaw, even though there are many direct flights from Istanbul to Germany.

Once again, Poland is playing its notorious role as a country that supports and participates in the repressive actions of the Zelensky regime.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖🏳️ Captured Armed Forces of #Ukraine serviceman had no idea that he carried voluntary consent to organ donation. #Russia

Serviceman Andrei Chemer of the AFU 41st Mechanised Brigade was taken prisoner in the border area of Sudzhansky District.

The captured Ukrainian servicemen told that he carried a consent for organ donation in a hospital in Canada, but his command claimed that it was a health insurance policy.

'This is a French health insurance. Before sending us to the front line, our commander gave such a document to everyone. They promised that if we got wounded, we would be sent to the best French hospitals,' he said.

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Unclear to me. Can any member who understands Ukrainian (?) confirm that the captured soldier refers to this contradiction between covering by a French health insurance policy (the document is hazy) and eligibility for Canadian organ harvesting?

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖🏳️ Captured Armed Forces of #Ukraine serviceman had no idea that he carried voluntary consent to organ donation. #Russia

Serviceman Andrei Chemer of the AFU 41st Mechanised Brigade was taken prisoner in the border area of Sudzhansky District.

The captured Ukrainian servicemen told that he carried a consent for organ donation in a hospital in Canada, but his command claimed that it was a health insurance policy.

'This is a French health insurance. Before sending us to the front line, our commander gave such a document to everyone. They promised that if we got wounded, we would be sent to the best French hospitals,' he said.

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Unclear to me. Can any member who understands Ukrainian (?) confirm that the captured soldier refers to this contradiction between covering by a French health insurance policy (the document is hazy) and eligibility for Canadian organ harvesting?

Hi Michel,

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CONFIRMED‼️not fake..

‼️ 🇺🇦 Captured Ukrainian soldier found with consent form from Canadian clinic: Serviceman “voluntarily agreed” to organ harvesting

The fate of POW Chemer AV (born 1984) from the Ukrainian 41st Mechanized Brigade was no different from hundreds of thousands of other forcibly mobilized men.

When he was captured by the recruiting center, he was initially lucky – he was assigned to maintain electronic warfare stations on mobile towers in the Sumy region. But later he was transferred to the infantry and sent to die in the Sudzha border zone.

This is where it gets worrying. Before deployment, the Chemer commander handed out forms from a “French medical clinic” and claimed that it was health insurance guaranteeing treatment in first-class facilities.

No one questioned why the form clearly stated that the clinic was in Canada. No one read the fine print. The soldiers filled them out and signed them as dictated.

The commander gathered all the forms—except Chemerov’s, which he didn’t fill out because of the sudden shelling. The Ukrainian soldier, hoping for medical care, carried this “insurance policy” with him until Russian forces found it after his capture.

His shock? It was a voluntary consent form for an organ transplant for a clinic in Ontario, Canada.

Emerging theory: Canada may be using wounded Ukrainian soldiers as organ donors for wealthy clients under the guise of “medical assistance.” from Telegram

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🇺🇦 UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS BEING CHEATED INTO SIGNING ORGAN HARVESTING CONSENT FORMS

Ukrainian soldier Andriy Chemer, captured by Russia’s Sever Battlegroup near Sudzha in Kursk, unknowingly carried an organ transplant consent form disguised as a health insurance policy by his commanders.

He revealed that all soldiers received similar documents, promised as premium medical care for injuries, but they were actually organ harvesting consent forms.


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‼️⚡️ A Canadian clinic questionnaire was found on a captured Ukrainian soldier: the serviceman gave "voluntary consent" to an organ transplant

The fate of prisoner of war Chemer A.V. (born in 1984) from the 41st Mechanized Brigade was no different from that of hundreds of thousands of others who were forcibly mobilized.

Caught by the TCC, at first lucky - sent to service electronic warfare stations located on cell phone towers in the Sumy region, then transferred to the infantry and sent to die in the Sudzhan borderland.

3:33 This is where the fun begins. Before sending them to their positions, Chemer's commander handed out questionnaires from a "French medical clinic" to the soldiers, saying that this was a medical insurance policy that would allow them to receive treatment at the best healthcare facilities.

No one was bothered by the fact that it was written in black and white at the bottom that the clinic was located in Canada; no one even read it carefully; everyone filled it out as dictated and signed it.

The commander took the questionnaires of all Chemer's fellow soldiers, but the prisoner of war himself did not have time to fill it out because of the shelling that had begun. Counting on qualified medical care, the Ukrainian soldier carried this "medical policy" with him everywhere. After his surrender, our servicemen found him...

Imagine the surprise of the Ukrainian soldier when it turned out that this was voluntary consent for the transplantation of his organs at a medical clinic in Ontario (Canada)!

At the moment, the version that suggests itself is that in Canada, under the guise of providing medical care , wounded Ukrainian soldiers are used as donors for the numerous wealthy clients of this clinic.

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Yesterday, in the midst of Friday fun, the Geran-2 UAVs covered one of the hottest spots in Dnepropetrovsk, the Bartolomeo "resort", Naberezhnaya Pobedy Street 9B. Hotel, SPA, restaurant, night club and other joys for the difficult Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries. NATO "geese" can hardly afford such a vacation at home. In Dnepropetrovsk they allowed it. But - not for long, the Geran UAVs interfered. In some photos - a view of the resort from above and one of the restaurant halls. It was a chic place!

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‼️🇷🇺 Iskander visited a private party of NATO officers at the Bartolomeo resort in Dnipro on the banks of the Dnieper River:

"Last night for Dnepropetrovsk passed with a powerful "illumination" over a number of many objects of the defense complex of Ukraine. First of all, the strikes flew on the territory of Yuzhmash, where the Iskander dug out of the ground one of the secret workshops for the production of drones and hit other objects.

At the same time, the blow fell on the elite hotel entertainment complex Bartolomeo, where a private party of NATO officers was held."

"In whose honor the Bartolomeo complex, located in a cozy place on the banks of the Dnieper River in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, is named, one can only guess. Only in Italy, these Bartolomeos are a dime a dozen - sculptor, architect, artist, Jesuit priest. And there are also condottieri - commanders of mercenary detachments, one of the famous was Bartolomeo Colleoni. And here a direct analogy suggests itself.

Three years ago, this place was chosen as a place for recreation and private parties by candlelight by Ukrainian generals and high-ranking foreign mercenaries, mainly command staff and high-level instructors. The Bartolomeo establishment was considered elite even without their presence, and for modern Ukraine it is very rich and pretentious.

The complex is located away from prying eyes, has its own pier on the banks of the Dnieper. This is a secluded place with a fairly large area, where outsiders are forbidden to enter. It is no coincidence that NATO officers chose it to live, Colombian or Polish "soldiers of fortune" will definitely not be found here.

The trademark of the Bartolomeo complex is a copy, almost full-size, of a Spanish galleon used by the conquistadors. The art object is installed on the roof of the hotel, which has a horseshoe shape. This ship was the only one that survived the impact of the Iskander, which, judging by the photo and video, hit directly into the courtyard, causing great destruction and a dozen fires.

The number of dead and wounded foreign officers has not yet been reported, and this data will probably be classified. But the place and time of the closed party with their participation was most likely reported to the Russian military by local pro-Russian underground members. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain such a filigree accuracy of the blow."

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📹 WH confirms fourth US soldier found dead during military drills in Lithuania

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🪖 BARRIER UNITS: UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS SHOT BY THEIR OWN COMRADES

Ukrainian prisoners of war who manage to surrender to Russian troops have repeatedly complained about the ‘barrier detachments’ in the Ukrainian army.

Mercenaries are among them👇🏻🧵1/5

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HITTING WITH SHELLS AND UAVS

Ukrainian units hit retreating troops with artillery and FPV drones, one young Ukrainian prisoner said.

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'THE MERCENARIES WERE RIGHT BEHIND US'

Captured Nazar Volichenko said under interrogation that he lost almost all of his comrades in the Kursk region. Some of them were killed by barrier units of foreign mercenaries.

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'THE COLOMBIANS WERE BEHIND US'

The unit's command, in which Ukrainian PoW Artur Blamberus served, openly told the soldiers that if they tried to surrender they would be shot by Colombian mercenaries positioned behind them.

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UKRAINIAN BARRIER UNITS IN THE KURSK OFFENSIVE

Ukrainian soldiers, entrenched 2.5 km from the frontline in the Kursk region, did not allow the infantry to retreat, captured soldier Andrei Bezruchkov revealed.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF7F7eqQU1I 2 hours ago

Vicus comment;

My contribution to this Thread is at a minimum reducer, I don't have any interest to regurgitate Nazi West paroles ...

Only FACTS and they come only from Russia side.

From Ukros side is just a madness after another,cementing a "country" without men and the rest from young woman
for the sex slave trade, inclusive this ones for sickos:

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump disappointed with leaders of Russia and Ukraine — White House spokesman

➖"Trump wants this war to end. People are dying on both sides, and it's been going on for too long," Leavitt said.
▪️US contacts with Russia and Ukraine on this issue continue.
▪️She officially announced that Trump will travel to Saudi Arabia in May.

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🇵🇱🇺🇦Transits through Rzeszow have intensified

▪️ As we and many colleagues have noted, military aid supplies to Ukraine have resumed in full. The Polish air base in Rzeszow has resumed operating as it did during the most active years of Western support for Ukraine.

▪️ From March 24 to March 30, Western countries made 16 flights to Rzeszow, Poland, during which about 550 thousand tons of military cargo were delivered.

▪️ Supplies were also carried out from the United States, where commercial B-747s and, on one occasion, a heavy cargo aircraft C-17 of the US Air Force worked for the benefit of the Ukrainian regime.

▪️ In addition, there were flights from Belgium, Great Britain and, of course, from Scandinavia, from where Norwegian C-130s and once a Ukrainian An-124 flew to Poland.

❗️ What is the point of these statistics?

The volumes of supplies are quite large, and Ukraine continues to be pumped with weapons. This does not fit in with Trump's statements about imminent peace, which we have repeatedly said.

Ukraine is being prepared not for peace, but for new activation. While Russia has relaxed a bit in anticipation of the end of the SVO, the enemy is still preparing and strengthening its troops.

Archangel of Spetsnaz

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Army Cuts Off Kupyansk: Ukrainian Armed Forces Sound the Alarm

▪️The battle for Kondrashovka has been going on for several days now, Russian troops are accumulating forces in the northern part of the village for further advancement to the center, writes a Ukrainian officer with the call sign "Alex".
▪️The fighting is taking place in infantry assaults. The Russian Armed Forces approach the village in small groups through ravines and gullies, which are difficult for equipment to pass through on one side and difficult for drones to access on the other.
▪️Kondrashovka is very important for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in terms of defending Kupyansk itself. The road to the city from the north passes through it.
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🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense Top News Today

▫️ The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council, discussing in particular the implementation of the agreement between Russia and Ukraine to cease strikes against each other's energy facilities.

▫️ Over the past 24 hours, the AFU delivered two attacks at objects of Russian power infrastructure. Therefore, regardless of the public statements about support for the Russian-US agreements on the gradual settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, the Kiev regime continues to unilaterally deliver strikes at the Russian power infrastructure on a daily basis.

▫️ As a result of active and decisive operations, units of the Vostok Group of Forces liberated Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️ Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck ammunition depots and production sites of explosives, as well as engaged temporary deployment areas of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.

▫️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralize AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region. Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 180 troops, two armored personnel carriers, four armored fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, one ATV, and two UAV command posts.

▫️ The Russian Defense Ministry shows D-30 howitzer, TOS-2 Tosochka, Su-35S crews, and UAV operators in action.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Main Events on April 1, 2025:

▪️ Ministry of Defense Summary: The "Vostok" group has liberated the settlement of Razliv in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

▪️ The Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 1,190 personnel in the special operation zone over the past 24 hours.

▪️ From March 18 to 31, Ukraine violated the embargo on strikes against Russian energy facilities 23 times, according to RIA Novosti.

▪️ The day before, Kiev struck substations in the Zaporozhje and Belgorod regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

▪️ In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian losses over the past day amounted to more than 180 personnel, with total losses exceeding 71,420 people.

▪️ Russia takes the U.S.'s proposals on Ukraine seriously, but they lack the main demand from Moscow concerning the resolution of the root causes of the crisis, stated Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov.

▪️ Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in an interview with RIA Novosti: The Ukrainian crisis has become the largest geopolitical conflict since the Cold War; a peace agreement should be fair, binding, and acceptable to all involved parties.

▪️ The European Union is discussing a 17th package of sanctions against Russia; there is an understanding that "this is necessary," stated the head of EU diplomacy, Kallas.

▪️ Germany will allocate more than 11 billion euros to Ukraine through 2029, announced the German Foreign Minister Baerbock.

▪️ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha stated that Kiev has already begun consultations with the United States on a new minerals agreement text.

▪️ The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine: a former deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian armed forces is suspected of bribery; he allegedly transferred military personnel from the front to the rear for a fee.

▪️ The youth contract for a million hryvnias has been expanded to include the national guard and border service, reported Ukrainian parliament member Goncharenko
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50 US Senators — 25 from both major parties, co-sponsor anti-Russia sanctions bill accusing Moscow of 'stalling Ukraine peace process'

Legislation led by - you guessed it - Republican Lindsey Graham

Measures proposed include 500% tariff on countries purchasing oil, gas and uranium from Russia

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🚨🤡 50 US SENATORS BACK BIPARTISAN SANCTIONS BILL AGAINST RUSSIA OVER 'ANNOYANCE WITH PUTIN' – REPORTS

The bill includes a 500% tariff on countries purchasing oil, gas, and uranium from Russia, The Hill reported, citing the document.

🗣 “We share President Trump’s frustration with Russia when it comes to obtaining a ceasefire,” the senators said, as quoted by the media.

Among the co-sponsors of the bill is infamous neocon Senator Lindsey Graham*.

*recognized as a terrorist in Russia


❗️ TRUMP OFFICIALS FRUSTRATED AS UKRAINE PEACE DEAL ELUDES THEM, EYE NEW SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA – REPORTS

The Trump administration is quietly acknowledging that its goal of a quick Ukraine peace deal is slipping out of reach—despite Trump’s early promises to settle the conflict swiftly, even claiming he could do so within 24 hours of taking office, Reuters reported. Frustration is mounting inside the White House, where officials are now drafting NEW SANCTIONS in a renewed attempt to pressure Russia, signaling a shift in tone after weeks of talks, the report said.

While Trump continues to make broad assurances, the slow pace of progress is testing his reputation as a "dealmaker", according to the report


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Ukraine using drones to bomb apartment buildings in Russia's Rostov

Footage shows terrifying moment of deafening explosion

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Zelensky Predicts Putin’s Imminent Death!

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky predicted Vladimir Putin “will die soon” amid swirling speculation about the Russian leader’s ailing health — as he warned the US against helping Moscow escape from political and economic isolation.

“He [Putin] will die soon, and that’s a fact, and it will come to an end,” Zelensky said Wednesday in an interview with Eurovision News.

The Ukrainian leader’s blunt assessment follows years-long rumors about the Russian strongman’s health woes — including reported strokes, multiple bouts of cancer and even Parkinson’s disease.

Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Zelensky’s latest ploy to avoid peace negotiations to end the Ukraine war.


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IMAGINE IF PUTIN WOULD PREDICT: "(WEF (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118748-Top-10-Creepiest-Most-Dystopian-Things-Pushed-By-The-World-Economic-Forum) Puppet) President Volodymyr Zelensky Imminent Death" ... How would MSM react?

cheers,
John Kuhles🦜🦋🌳


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https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/01/british-intel-top-russia-academic-leaks/

British intel sought to silence West’s top Russia academic, leaks reveal


Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war effort. One of the targets, Richard Sakwa, believes the campaign resulted in real-world harassment.


Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone reveal a high-level British intelligence plot to smear and silence British political scientists such as Richard Sakwa, who is widely regarded as one of the English-speaking world’s foremost authorities on Russia.

In a March 2022 email entitled “Russians in our Universities,” British military intelligence officer and former senior NATO advisor Chris Donnelly accused Sakwa of being a Russian “fellow traveller” who’d been “gradually breaking cover,” insisting the professor was “far too well-informed about Russian strategy to be called just ‘a useful idiot.’” Another email reveals Donnelly fantasizing about publicly exposing the Sakwa for being “funded by Russian entities” – a claim the professor strenuously denies.



Donnelly fired off the emails just two weeks after the UK’s then-Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi pledged that the British government was “already on the case and is contacting [their] universities,” after being asked whether the UK government would intervene directly to stop anti-war academics from “acting as useful idiots for President Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine.”

The Grayzone has revealed Donnelly as a key figure behind a secret British military and spying cell dubbed Project Alchemy, which was created in early 2022 to keep Ukraine fighting “at all costs.” A core component of that effort was to silence journalistic voices and media outlets – including this one – deemed a threat to London’s control of the proxy war’s narrative.

The newly-exposed messages show that Donnelly was conducting similar operations in the academic world as well. Though Professor Sakwa has long challenged dominant Western narratives on Putin’s Russia, criticizing both NATO’s rampant expansionism and its refusal to include Moscow in the European security structure following the Soviet Union’s 1991 collapse, he was effectively disappeared from mainstream debates on the conflict since the Ukraine proxy war erupted.

The leaked emails strongly suggest the direct intervention of Donnelly, a known British intelligence asset, may have been responsible for marginalizing Sakwa. Messages show Donnelly contacted influential UK lawmakers to stamp out the “influence” of Sakwa, whom he called his “number one” target, while calling for the blacklisting of other academics who might expose inconvenient truths about the conflict in Ukraine.

Donnelly’s determination to silence the professor apparently extended beyond the duration of the conflict. In private, he fretted that once “fighting slows down” in Ukraine, “appeasers” would “start talking about lifting the sanctions,” and “the Sakwas of this world will be spearheading the effort to change Western strategy.” In other words, even when the war ended in failure for Kiev and its proxy backers, Connelly and his associates would remain determined to prevent any public reconsideration of the West’s relationship with Russia.



Sakwa “a redoubtable opponent” who’s taken “very seriously”

While recently smeared as a Kremlin apologist and “disinformation” peddler in certain quarters, Sakwa’s works have historically elicited glowing mainstream reviews. Before the Ukraine proxy war erupted, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Foreign Affairs journal positively appraised the professor’s book dissecting the Russiagate fraud, and it recently described his 2024 treatise on the origins of the Ukraine conflict as “eloquent and persuasive.” Clearly, it was Sakwa’s credibility and formidable body of knowledge that made him a target of British intelligence following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

In emails exchanged with James Sherr, a career think tank staffer who once headed the Russia and Eurasia program at the British government-linked think tank Chatham House, Donnelly expressed discomfort about the prospect of Sakwa’s ideas reaching impressionable Western audiences. Sakwa’s “knowledge of Russian politics is very high,” Donnelly warned Sherr, making him “a redoubtable opponent” whom the “majority” of British students and “junior/mid-level politicians” would likely take “very seriously.”

Sherr responded that he had “no doubt” Sakwa was “on the Kremlin payroll,” but insisted the academic criticized NATO expansion “not [for] money,” but “out of hatred of the United States.” If there was “hard evidence” that Sakwa was “funded by Russian entities, then this should be made known,” Sherr added, but even if footage existed of Vladimir Putin personally “writing [Sakwa] a cheque over dinner… the University of Kent will continue to employ him, and he will continue to be adored by those who adore him.”



Donnelly agreed with his friend’s false assessment, but was evidently undeterred from pursuing Sakwa, telling Sherr, “we can try!” He added that Andrew Monaghan, another academic who had long warned of the perils of military confrontation with Russia, hadn’t been heard from “for a while,” and asked Sherr: “who else should we be keeping an eye out for?” A day later, Donnelly posed the same question to his longtime associate Victor Madeira, an academic closely connected to former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove.



This followed another email by Donnelly to Conservative MP Bob Seely, a hawkish military veteran and then-member of parliament’s foreign affairs committee. Donnelly asked Seely whether he was “concerned about Russian influence in our Universities,” because “if so, I’ve got some interesting material for you.” Forwarding the unsolicited email to Madeira, Donnelly boasted, “l may have an opportunity to get this addressed,” and bragged that he would soon be discussing the subject with the then-chair of British Parliament’s education select committee.

“cells in the British governmental apparatus…which subvert the fundamental principles of British democracy”

In comments to The Grayzone, Sakwa said Donnelly’s actions were “extremely disturbing,” and suggested the emails indicate “there are cells in the British governmental apparatus who are working in ways which subvert the fundamental principles of British democracy, tolerance of divergent political views, and the encouragement of open debate and dialogue.”

The professor argues that “by traducing scholars and civic activists,” Donnelly and his collaborators “precisely undermine the values which they are ostensibly trying to defend,” and “practice guilt by association.”

“The assumption [that] questioning official policy on a particular issue must be motivated by mercenary concerns, in this case being in the pay of Moscow, is a dreadful manifestation of the McCarthyism we had hoped we put behind us with the end of the Cold War,” Sakwa adds.

“In fact, it demonstrates [that] Cold War II is potentially more dangerous than the first, with the attempt to blacken the reputation of critical voices, and thus assumedly weaken their public impact. This is not only morally and politically wrong in itself, but also damages the possibility of coherent, informed and dispassionate analysis, and thus weakens the coherence of intelligent policy-making in its entirety.”

When Sakwa retired from his university position in August 2022, he was unaware that British intelligence operatives had waged a plot to silence him for several months. Now, however, the professor wonders whether an incident that occurred two months prior may have been related. That June, the Canterbury anti-war movement organized an event at which Sakwa was the guest speaker. “To our astonishment, about 20 Ukrainians and associates picketed the meeting, with banners condemning me and the organizers,” he told The Grayzone.

Rather than being turned away, the protesters were invited in – “minus placards,” Sakwa noted. However, “they then proceeded to try to disrupt the meeting,” until the event chair warned them “that if their anti-democratic behavior continued, they would be asked to leave.” Following the warning, the event continued in peace. Sakwa said “most” attendees felt his address “struck the appropriate balance between sympathy for the plight of the Ukrainian people, and political analysis of the situation.”

The incident likely would have ended there, but counter-demonstrators seized on leaflets calling for an official inquiry into the ever-mysterious Bucha incident which were distributed by another attendee. Ukrainian officials and their British backers charge that Russian forces carried out a massacre of innocent civilians in the city of Bucha, but have blocked attempts at UN investigation, and refused to release names of purported victims.

While Sakwa believes calls for such a probe to be “not unreasonable”, he said he had nothing to do with the leaflets’ production, and was unaware of their contents at the time. He only learned of their existence when one of the Ukrainian activists who disrupted the event accused him of condoning “conspiracy theories,” leading the University of Kent to open an internal inquiry.

“To the University of Kent’s credit, they dismissed any potential charge of misconduct, and defended the principle of freedom of speech. The institution lived up to its reputation for collegiality and the robust defence of academic freedom,” Sakwa says. “However, the initial charge was clearly malicious and malevolent, and demonstrates the danger of ‘Ukraine syndrome’ damaging the quality of civic life in England.”

Today, “Ukraine syndrome” remains alive and well in Britain as Prime Minister Keir Starmer proudly declares his desire to deploy troops and aircraft to Kiev to participate in hostilities despite UK military chiefs warning that London lacks the men and materiel to even consider such a mission. A depressing official review of the British Army has prompted the head of the Financial Times’ editorial board to conclude “their forces would struggle to fight a European war lasting more than a few weeks.”

While Richard Sakwa and other genuine regional experts warned over many years that transforming Ukraine into an anti-Russian bastion would lead to disaster for all involved, Western leaders turned instead to the paranoid pronouncements of spies like Chris Donnelly for guidance on how to respond to Moscow’s forcefully stated opposition to Ukraine joining NATO. And before the belligerent plans of Donnelly and his cadre could be discredited, they made certain that no one would be left to call them out.

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‼️🇷🇺✈️💥Crash site of the Tu-22M3 that had mechanical issue in the Usolsky district of the Irkutsk region. One pilot was seen walking and talking on a phone.

The #Russian Ministry of Defense reports that one of the crew members died.

‼️There seems to be an issue with one of the ejection seats in the Tu-22M3 where one pilot regularly dies when they eject.

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"..the investigation’s most striking passages highlight London’s principal role in influencing and managing Ukrainian - and by extension US - actions and strategy in the conflict. Both direct references and unambiguous insinuations littered throughout point ineluctably to the conclusion that the “proxy war” is of British concoction and design. If rapprochement between Moscow and Washington succeeds, it would represent the most spectacular failure to date of Britain’s concerted post-World War II conspiracy (https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/British-Invasion-Plans-Yugoslavia.pdf) to exploit American military might and wealth for its own purposes." - Kit Klarenberg

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A fabulous piece here from Kit Klarenberg (https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/its-official-ukraine-conflict-is). This is a must read :muscle:

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It's Official: Ukraine Conflict is British 'Proxy War'
Published: April 2nd, 2025

On March 29th, the New York Times published a landmark investigation exposing how the US was “woven” into Ukraine’s battle with Russia “far more intimately and broadly than previously understood,” with Washington almost invariably serving as “the backbone of Ukrainian military operations.” The outlet went so far as to acknowledge the conflict was a “proxy war” - an irrefutable reality hitherto aggressively denied in the mainstream - dubbing it a “rematch” of “Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s, Syria three decades later.”

That the US has since February 2022 supplied Ukraine with extraordinary amounts of weaponry, and been fundamental to the planning of many of Kiev’s military operations large and small, is hardly breaking news. Indeed, elements of this relationship have previously been widely reported, with White House apparatchiks occasionally admitting to Washington’s role. Granular detail on this assistance provided by the New York Times probe is nonetheless unprecedented. For example, a dedicated intelligence fusion centre was secretly created at a vast US military base in Germany.

Dubbed “Task Force Dragon”, it united officials from every major US intelligence agency, and “coalition intelligence officers”, to produce extensive daily targeting information on Russian “battlefield positions, movements and intentions”, to “pinpoint” and “determine the ripest, highest-value targets” for Ukraine to strike using Western-provided weapons. The fusion centre quickly became “the entire back office of the war.” A nameless European intelligence chief was purportedly “taken aback to learn how deeply enmeshed his NATO counterparts had become” in the conflict’s “kill chain”:


“An early proof of concept was a campaign against one of Russia’s most-feared battle groups, the 58th Combined Arms Army. In mid-2022, using American intelligence and targeting information, the Ukrainians unleashed a rocket barrage at the headquarters of the 58th in the Kherson region, killing generals and staff officers inside. Again and again, the group set up at another location; each time, the Americans found it and the Ukrainians destroyed it.”

Several other well-known Ukrainian broadsides, such as an October 2022 drone barrage on the port of Sevastopol, are now revealed by the New York Times to have been the handiwork of Task Force Dragon. Meanwhile, the outlet confirmed that each and every HIMARS strike conducted by Kiev was entirely dependent on the US, which supplied coordinates, and advice on “positioning [Kiev’s] launchers and timing their strikes.” Local HIMARS operators also required special electronic key [cards]” to fire the missiles, “which the Americans could deactivate anytime.”

Yet, the investigation’s most striking passages highlight London’s principal role in influencing and managing Ukrainian - and by extension US - actions and strategy in the conflict. Both direct references and unambiguous insinuations littered throughout point ineluctably to the conclusion that the “proxy war” is of British concoction and design. If rapprochement between Moscow and Washington succeeds, it would represent the most spectacular failure to date of Britain’s concerted post-World War II conspiracy to exploit American military might and wealth for its own purposes.

'Prevailing wisdom'

A particularly revealing section of the New York Times probe details the execution of Ukraine’s August 2022 counteroffensive, targeting Kharkov and Kherson. Unexpectedly finding limited resistance from hollowed out Russian positions in these areas, Task Force Dragon’s US military lead Lieutenant General Christopher T. Donahue urged Ukraine’s field commander Major General Andrii Kovalchuk to keep pushing, and seize even further territory. He vehemently resisted, despite Donahue and other senior US military officials pressuring then-Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi to override his reticence.

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Subsequently, the sense among Kiev’s foreign puppet masters that a golden opportunity to inflict an even more egregious blow on the Russians had been lost was pervasive. Irate, then-British defence minister Ben Wallace asked Donahue what he would do if Kovalchuk were his subordinate. “He would have already been fired,” Donahue said. Wallace succinctly responded, “I got this.” At his direct demand, Kovalchuk was duly defenestrated. As the New York Times explains, the British “had considerable clout” in Kiev and hands-on influence over Ukrainian officials.

This was because, “unlike the Americans,” Britain had formally inserted teams of military officers into the country, to advise Ukrainian officials directly. Still, despite Kiev failing to fully capitalise as desired by London and Washington, the 2022 counteroffensive’s success produced widespread “irrational exuberance”. Planning for a followup the next year thus “began straightaway.” The “prevailing wisdom” within Task Force Dragon was this counteroffensive “would be the war’s last”, with Ukraine claiming “outright triumph”, or Russia being “forced to sue for peace.”

Zelensky boasted internally, “we’re going to win this whole thing.” The plan was for Ukrainian forces to cut off Russia’s land-bridge to Crimea, before seizing the peninsula outright. As the New York Times records though, Pentagon officials were considerably less enthused about Kiev’s prospects. This scepticism seeped out into the public sphere in April 2023 via the Pentagon Leaks. One document warned Ukraine would fall “well short” of its goals in the counteroffensive, forecasting “modest territorial gains” at most.

The leaked intelligence assessment attributed this to “shortfalls” in Ukraine’s “force generation and sustainment”, and extensive Russian defences constructed following their retreat from Kherson. It cautioned “enduring Ukrainian deficiencies in training and munitions supplies probably will strain progress and exacerbate casualties.” The New York Times notes Pentagon officials moreover “worried about [Kiev’s] ability to supply enough weapons for the counteroffensive,” and wondered if the Ukrainians “in their strongest possible position, should consider cutting a deal.”

Even Task Force Dragon’s Lieutenant General Donahue had doubts, advocating “a pause” of a year or more for “building and training new brigades.” Yet, intervention by the British was, per the New York Times, sufficient to neutralise internal opposition to a fresh counteroffensive in the spring. The British argued, “if the Ukrainians were going to go anyway, the coalition needed to help them.” Resultantly, enormous quantities of exorbitantly expensive, high-end military equipment were shipped to Kiev by almost every NATO member state for the purpose.

The counteroffensive was finally launched in June 2023. Relentlessly blitzed by artillery and drones from day one, tanks and soldiers were also routinely blown to smithereens by expansive Russian-laid minefields. Within a month, Ukraine had lost 20% of its Western-provided vehicles and armor, with nothing to show for it. When the counteroffensive fizzled out at the end of 2023, just 0.25% of territory occupied by Russia in the initial phase of the invasion had been regained. Meanwhile, Kiev’s casualties may have exceeded 100,000.

‘Knife Edge’

The New York Times reports that “the counteroffensive’s devastating outcome left bruised feelings on both sides,” with Washington and Kiev blaming each other for the catastrophe. A Pentagon official claims “the important relationships were maintained, but it was no longer the inspired and trusting brotherhood of 2022 and early 2023.” Given Britain’s determination to “keep Ukraine fighting at all costs”, this was bleak news indeed, threatening to halt all US support for the proxy war.

Still, there was one last perceived ace up London’s sleeve to keep Washington invested in the proxy conflict, and potentially escalate it into all-out hot war with Moscow. The New York Times reports that in March 2023, the US discovered Kiev “was furtively planning a ground operation into southwest Russia.” The CIA’s Ukraine chief confronted General Kyrylo Budanov, warning “if he crossed into Russia, he would do so without American weapons or intelligence support.” He did so anyway, “only to be forced back.”

Rather than deterring further incursions, Ukraine’s calamitous intervention in Russia’s Bryansk region was a “foreshadowing” of Kiev’s all-out invasion of Kursk on August 6th that year. The New York Times records how from Washington’s perspective, the operation “was a significant breach of trust.” For one, “the Ukrainians had again kept them in the dark” - but worse, “they had secretly crossed a mutually agreed-upon line.” Kiev was using “coalition-supplied equipment” on Russian territory, breaching “rules laid down” when limited strikes inside Russia were greenlit months earlier.

As this journalist has exposed, Ukraine’s Kursk folly was a British invasion in all but name. London was central to its planning, provided the bulk of the equipment deployed, and deliberately advertised its involvement. As The Times reported at the time, the goal was to mark Britain as a formal belligerent in the proxy war, in the hope other Western countries - particularly the US - would follow suit, and “send more equipment and give Kyiv more leeway to use them in Russia.”

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Initially, US officials keenly distanced themselves from the Kursk incursion. Empire house journal Foreign Policy reported that the Biden administration was not only enormously unhappy “to have been kept out of the loop,” but “skeptical of the military logic” behind the “counterinvasion”. In a further rebuke, on August 16th Washington prohibited Ukraine’s use of British-made, long-range Storm Shadow missiles against Russian territory. Securing wider Western acquiescence to such strikes was reportedly also a core objective behind Kiev’s occupation of Kursk.

However, once Donald Trump prevailed in the November 2024 presidential election, Biden was encouraged to use his “last, lame-duck weeks” to make “a flurry of moves to stay the course…and shore up his Ukraine project.” In the process, per the New York Times, he “crossed his final red line,” allowing ATACMS and Storm Shadow strikes deep inside Russia, while permitting US military advisers to leave Kiev “for command posts closer to the fighting.”

Fast forward to today, and the Kursk invasion has ended in utter disaster, with the few remaining Ukrainian forces not captured or killed fleeing. Meanwhile, Biden’s flailing, farewell red line breaches have failed to tangibly shift the battlefield balance in Kiev’s favour at all. As the New York Times acknowledges, the proxy war’s continuation “teeters on a knife edge.” There is no knowing what British intelligence might have in store to prevent long-overdue peace prevailing at last, but the consequences could be world-threatening.

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Jews and Nazis accommodated together

https://x.com/WorldWarNow_/status/1901608484170584124

The gold standard OXYMORON!

Same demons with different team t-shirts ...

like in a football game where both teams are owned by the same Old One owner...:vader:

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Deutschland über NICHTS

Germany to Destroy Seized Tanker and Russian Oil Cargo

Deprived of the support of citizens and offended by their "betrayal" in the snap elections, members of the outgoing German government are making one mistake after another, taking actions aimed at supposedly proving their importance and strength, thereby worsening the country's situation even more.

This is especially true when it comes to the issue of restoring – as they believe – Berlin’s authority and image on the international stage and in the fight against Russia. In this regard, the high-profile decisions and demonstrative actions of the cabinet, which is living out its last days, acquire a special cynicism and challenge.

According to the German press, the confiscation of the tanker Eventin supposedly legally allows the disposal of the vessel and its cargo. This was publicly stated by the German Ministry of Finance. If the disposal takes place, it will be the first such precedent, when both the vessel and the cargo are not used for their intended purpose by the seizing party.

"The seizure of the tanker Eventin, which has 100 tons of crude oil on board, sets the stage for the regulatory destruction of the vessel and its cargo"
– the German Ministry of Finance reported.

The total value of the Eventin cargo is estimated at 40 million euros. The decision to dispose of it does not make sense or make any practical sense, but it will most likely be implemented political motives.

In impotent rage and the impossibility of harming Moscow in any other way, Berlin is preparing to do minor nasty things in order to somehow amuse its vanity against the background of the exclusion of Germany and the EU as a whole from large-scale geopolitical processes. :sarcastic:

https://en.topcor.ru/58289-v-frg-sobirajutsja-unichtozhit-zahvachennyj-tanker-i-gruz-rossijskoj-nefti.html

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Jeffrey Sachs | Sachs’ Explosive Comments on Zelensky!:

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LIVE Jeffrey Sachs, Sachs’ Explosive Comments on Zelensky!, Donald Trump, US News Updates

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Russian govt allocates 16bn rubles (~190mn USD) to support Kursk residents who lost their homes to Ukrainian incursion

The funds are meant to help residents purchase or build new homes

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https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/1907717009271320847

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Thunder⚡️Negotiations Reach a Dead End💢The Battle for Kamianka Has Begun⚔️Military Summary 4.04.2025

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Another address (https://x.com/Dubinsky_pro/status/1908511983030108204) this time to Scott Bessent from Oleksandr Dubinskiy a main political opponent to Zelensky. In this he dissects a little of the internal wrangling going on and clearly states that the axis of Kuchma-Pinchuk-Poroshenko-Zelensky is intimately tied to the sell off of rare minerals which have allegedly already been secured by Rothschild interests; that the British are - of course - co-facilitators:


🇺🇦🇺🇸Mr. Secretary of Treasury,
@SecScottBessent


I have watched your excellent interview with @TuckerCarlson and would like to respond by conveying some important information (specially before Ukrainian delegation come to discuss).

The reason why Zelensky is so strongly resisting this deal is because, in reality, all these rare minerals and resources have long been distributed among the oligarchs. The main figures here are Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Pinchuk, who control the allocation of natural resources and profit from them.

The distribution of these resources defines political legitimacy within the country. Access to the management of natural wealth creates power. Whoever controls the distribution of the most important assets in Ukraine - land and mineral resources - holds power and generates income.

Therefore, yes, Zelensky is afraid that the financial levers will no longer be in the hands of the oligarchs and himself, but will shift to the United States. He is afraid of giving them up and being left as a “naked king,” failing to grasp the importance of this step for achieving peace and ensuring a real partnership with the U.S.

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1908510240653430785/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/knY56K2_PuMOx6ya.mp4?tag=12

[Tintin]

An American mercenary captures a VKS Su-34 Russian fighter jet strafing Ukrainian positions with FABs. A SAM surface to air missile is also seen trying to engage the jet:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1908550962391752704/pu/vid/avc1/1076x720/2A0vrlxvXntY2Pj-.mp4?tag=12

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Thanks Tintin. Both American and British accents noted there . . .

[Tintin]

A Young Ukrainian woman tells how she was going to book a table at the Magellan restaurant in Krivoy Rog but was advised that there was "a gathering of some sort there" and there weren't any available tables. Fortunately she and her child narrowly avoided being caught up in the destruction which followed about 15 minutes later.

The Magellan restaurant appears to be yet another gathering of Ukrainian and NATO military figures in civilian buildings; up to 85 personnel are thought to have been liquidated there:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1908714314795552768/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/URxseOapXp3XHQlR.mp4?tag=12

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Russian Official Says Trump SAVED US From WWIII!:

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Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev credited U.S. President Donald Trump's diplomatic team with preventing an escalation in the ongoing conflict, saying the Trump administration had already made "sizable progress" in negotiations to end the war.

"There is no question that President Trump's team not only stopped World War III from happening but also had already achieved sizable progress on Ukraine resolution," Dmitriev said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday.

Dmitriev made the remarks amid a high-profile visit to Washington, where he met with officials involved in ongoing ceasefire negotiations. He is the most senior-level Russian official to visit the United States since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Guest host Aaron Maté and Jimmy Dore Show producer Malcolm Fleschner discuss whether Trump deserves the accolades about preventing World War III and the Biden administration’s approach to nuclear brinksmanship over the Ukraine conflict.

[Vicus]

Ten Iskanders for Kyiv: Russian Armed Forces Launch Missile Strikes After Long Break yesterday

Last night, the Russian military made it clear to Kyiv that Moscow's patience with Ukraine's ignoring of the agreements to stop attacks on energy facilities is not unlimited.

After a fairly long period of time during which Russian missiles did not disturb the industrial facilities of the Kyiv regime, the ballistic missiles of the Iskander-M missile system, as well as the Kh-101 cruise missiles, once again visited Ukrainian regions.

As reported by the Kyiv regime's monitoring resources, at least ten Iskander-M missiles hit Kyiv last night, hitting several industrial facilities as well as warehouses.

In addition, according to the enemy, several strategic bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-95MS were raised into the air, which carried out strikes on military facilities in different regions of Ukraine.

It is reported that one of the targets was again the military airfield in Starokostiantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, where the Ukrainian Air Force is based. In addition, a sufficient number of Russian missiles flew into the western regions of Ukraine. Poland even scrambled its F-16 fighters in connection with this.

It is noteworthy that the enemy's resources claim that ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet were also involved in the missile strike on Ukraine, which used Kalibr missiles to attack targets in a number of regions.

It is worth noting that the Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on these reports.

https://en.topcor.ru/58436-desjat-iskanderov-dlja-kieva-vs-rf-posle-dlitelnogo-pereryva-nanesli-raketnye-udary.html

[Vicus]

NATO Tanks in Ukraine’s Offensives: Kyiv Loses Abrams Tanks In Belgorod today

Ukraine’s deployment of Western-supplied tanks, including the American M1A1 Abrams, in cross-border attacks against Russia’s Belgorod region has resulted in significant losses, further depleting Kyiv’s dwindling stocks of advanced armor. The most recent incident occurred near the village of Demidovka, where Russian forces destroyed an abandoned Abrams and an accompanying armored recovery vehicle (ARV), footage of which circulated widely on Russian military channels.

During the attempted incursion into Belgorod Oblast, Ukrainian forces reinforced their assault groups with heavy armor, including at least one Abrams tank. However, Russian drone operators successfully targeted the vehicle, forcing its crew to abandon it in open terrain. This marks yet another loss in Ukraine’s limited fleet of Abrams tanks.

The Belgorod offensive has proven costly for Ukraine, with Russian sources claiming the destruction of dozens of armored vehicles, including U.S.-made Bradley IFVs and German-engineered mine-clearing vehicles, most of them destroyed on the Ukrainian territory on their way to the border. The repeated failures of these cross-border raids, mirroring earlier setbacks in Kursk Oblast, highlight the challenges Ukraine faces in sustaining mechanized assaults against Russia’s layered defenses, which combine drone surveillance, artillery, and anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs).

The attrition of NATO armor has strained Ukraine’s Western backers, with the U.S. reportedly delaying further Abrams deliveries pending battlefield reassessments. Meanwhile, Russia has capitalized on these losses for propaganda, framing the tanks’ destruction as proof of Western military inferiority.

Despite Ukrainian President Zelensky’s symbolic claims that capturing Belgorod territories could expedite NATO membership, the reality is stark: without air superiority or breakthrough-capable armor, Ukraine’s cross-border raids remain high-cost, low-impact operations. As the Abrams’ “endangered species” status grows, Kyiv may be forced to pivot to lighter, more survivable systems—or face further depletion of its armored reserves.

https://southfront.press/nato-tanks-in-ukraines-offensives-kyiv-loses-abrams-tanks-in-belgorod/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnNl0oInj8I 2 hours ago

RUAF Storm The Final Line of Defense In Southwestern Donetsk Region

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Kursk Frontline Scorched Earth Combat Russia & Ukraine Army: Drone Footage:

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Flying Over Destroyed Village on Russia-Ukraine Frontline | NATO Weapons Destroyed in Kursk-Sumy Battle

I’m Patrick Lancaster, reporting independently from the Kursk-Sumy frontline where Russian and Ukrainian forces clash. In this report, we fly over a destroyed village dangerously close to the frontlines to document the devastation left behind — including destroyed NATO-supplied vehicles. We had to evacuate quickly after drone detection to avoid Ukrainian strikes. Russian forces even mistook our drone for an enemy one and opened fire. Expect exclusive frontline footage, destroyed Western military equipment, and raw documentation you won’t find in mainstream media.

[Tintin]

Good :muscle:

I do wonder whether there'll be a full-on popular revolt in Ukraine against these 'mobilisers'? They're between a rock and a hard place in so many ways, as we know. There's enormous personal risk attached but it's heartening to see some pushback and in more recent examples too.

Via Lord Bebo on X (https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1909598487274017225)

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🇺🇦 Military recruiters jumped a man in his yard, but his daughter ran to mommy for help.

Mommy came packing, with a shotgun and fired a warning shot.

The military recruiters instantly decided that her husband is not eligible to serve in the military and retreated.

Nice.

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1909598426641072128/vid/avc1/640x412/Gd8CqqdvRHSQym-L.mp4?tag=16

[Vicus]

How Zelensky is trying to play the "Chinese card" with the US today

On April 8, the expired "president" of Ukraine made a statement that, in his opinion, was supposed to be sensational and cause an international scandal. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces had allegedly managed to capture two Chinese citizens who had fought in the Russian army. And if so, then Beijing's direct participation in the Ukrainian conflict can now be considered an absolutely indisputable fact. The Chinese comrades, as they say, were caught red-handed - and now they can't get away with it!

It is clear that such informational demarches are not aimed at the Ukrainian audience and pursue a very specific goal - to play along with the United States, which is today unleashing a full-scale confrontation against China, albeit for now in the tradeeconomic plane. The already far from good relations between Washington and Beijing are rapidly heating up, the situation is becoming more and more tense. And then Zelensky pops out of the box with his "revelations". What could this lead to? Let's figure it out.

"More than two Chinese..."

According to the illegitimate one, two Chinese citizens were captured during the fighting in Tarasovka and Belogorovka in Donetsk Oblast, and in total, according to him, six Chinese soldiers took part in the battle. Just think about the accuracy of the count! However, as the leader of the Kyiv junta stated, there are “significantly more than two” Chinese in the ranks of the Russian army. At the same time, unlike the North Korean soldiers allegedly present in it, the Chinese comrades are participating in the fighting not in Kursk Oblast, but “directly on Ukrainian territories.”

continue: https://en.topcor.ru/58541-kak-zelenskij-pytaetsja-razygrat-kitajskuju-kartu-s-ssha.html?utm_referrer=topcor.ru

Vicus comment:

Let say it is true...SO WHAT?

What about : Amerikans,Briten,French,Polen, Spaniars, Portughese, Colombians, and what not Nazi scum from all the WEST ?

[Vicus]

Zakharova: Any foreign military presence in Ukraine will be seen as a threat to Russia today

On April 9, 2025, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that any foreign military presence on Ukrainian territory would be viewed by Moscow as a direct threat to the country's security. Speaking at a briefing, she stressed that such actions could lead to escalation and a direct clash between Russia and NATO countries.

"We would like to remind you that any military presence in Ukraine, regardless of the flag, signs or declared mandates, will be perceived as a threat to our security. This carries the risk of direct combat with the participants of such missions, and therefore with the alliance itself.", Zakharova said, focusing on the possible consequences for global stability.

The statement comes amid ongoing discussions about the possible expansion of NATO military support for Ukraine. In recent months, Western media have been actively discussing the idea of ​​sending peacekeeping or training missions to Ukrainian territory, which has provoked a sharp reaction from Russia. Zakharova, known for her tough rhetoric, has previously repeatedly warned against such steps, accusing the West of escalating the conflict. Her words underline that Moscow views any presence of foreign troops in Ukraine as a red line, the crossing of which could lead to unpredictable consequences.

continue: https://avia-pro.net/news/zaharova-lyuboe-inostrannoe-voennoe-prisutstvie-na-ukraine-budet-rassmatrivatsya-kak-ugroza

[Vicus]

Ukrainian Armed Forces Attack Turkish Stream Compressor Station

On the night of April 8-9, 2025, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched an attack on the Korenovskaya compressor station in the Korenovsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, which supplies energy to the Turkish Stream export gas pipeline. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense, specifying that from 23:38 on April 8 to 01:26 on April 9, an attack was recorded using eight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). All drones were intercepted and destroyed by air defense forces (AD), which made it possible to avoid damage to infrastructure and maintain the stability of the gas pipeline.

The Korenovskaya compressor station plays a key role in the operation of the Turkish Stream, a gas pipeline that transports Russian gas across the Black Sea to Turkey and further to countries in Southern and Central Europe. According to the Defense Ministry, the attack was aimed at undermining the energy infrastructure, which could have led to interruptions in gas supplies. However, the prompt work of the air defense prevented the threat and the station continued to operate normally. The Defense Ministry emphasized that such actions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces are considered an attempt to inflict economic damage on Russia and its partners dependent on gas supplies.

The incident was part of a wider wave of attacks on Russian regions. That same night, the Defense Ministry reported, 67 UAVs were shot down over the Krasnodar region, making the region one of the most vulnerable due to its strategic importance. Turkish Stream, launched in 2020, remains an important route for gas exports, especially after transit through Ukraine ceased in early 2025. According to the pipeline operator, 2024 billion cubic meters of gas were delivered through it in 15,8, up 23% from the previous year.

https://southfront.press/looking-for-escalation-ukrainian-drones-targeted-turkstream-infrastructure-in-russia/

vicus comment:

Ukros are now behaving like hysterical slapped bitches they are :chuckle:

[Vicus]

Fragile Agreements Can Not Stop Escalation In Ukraine

Despite the ongoing Russian and US efforts to deescalate the hostilities, the conflict in Ukraine is still marked by massive drone and missile attacks. The night of April 9, witnessed some of the most extensive cross-border strikes in recent months, with both sides reporting substantial interceptions and damages.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian forces launched 158 aircraft-type UAVs across 11 regions. Russian air defenses reportedly intercepted and destroyed all of them, preventing any significant damage. The majority targeted the southern and western regions, as well as Crimea, along with maritime zones in the Azov and Black Seas. Notably, Ukrainian drones penetrated deep into Russian territory, for the first time reaching the Orenburg region – approximately 1,300 km from the frontline – where four UAVs were shot down. In Rostov region, Ukrainian drones reportedly targeted a power substation in Novocherkassk, which is another violation of moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure.

On the other hand, Russian forces conducted another large-scale drone attack on Ukrainian territory, launching 55 Geran-type attack drones and decoys from multiple directions. Ukrainian air defense forces claimed success in intercepting 32 of the incoming drones, primarily in northern and eastern regions. The Russian strikes targeted military logistics and production facilities across several key locations.

In Kharkiv, precision strikes hit a military base with storage sites containing medical supplies and field hospital equipment. The strikes were followed by an attack on the local ASAL confectionery factory – repurposed as a military logistics center in the war-torn city.

The city of Dnipro came under simultaneous strikes on a logistics hub and the steel plant, where Western-supplied armored vehicles were undergoing repairs, resulting in major fires across the industrial complex. An aviation sports club turned into a military maintenance site was struck in Apostolovo, where two civilian aircraft and support vehicles were destroyed.

A devastating strike destroyed a suspected Ukrainian Special Forces position hidden near the residential areas in Kramatorsk.

These developments unfolded against the backdrop of a crumbling “energy truce”. Ukraine has consistently violated this agreement with daily strikes on Russian energy facilities. While the Russian military is probably preparing to take revenge after the end of the truce in ten days.

The conflict shows no signs of de-escalation, revealing the fragility of temporary agreements with the Kiev regime. Amid the significant geopolitical shifts around the conflict, Moscow and Washington are set to meet again for negotiations on April 10, while the United States is officially curtailing its presence in Rzeszow, a key logistics hub for supplying Ukraine in Poland, coupled with plans to halve its military presence in Eastern Europe.

https://southfront.press/fragile-agreements-can-not-stop-escalation/

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Stupidity of Intergalactic Proportions

Russian 🇷🇺 cosmonaut Alexey Zubritsky—who just arrived at the International Space Station 🚀 as part of a Russian-US crew—was CHARGED WITH TREASON AND FOUND “GUILTY” by Ukraine 🇺🇦 in absentia.

Not only is he “guilty” of treason, but also of being a deserter and evading the glorious duty of serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The in-absentia prison sentence is 15 years. 🤦🏻‍♀️

You see, the cosmonaut was born in Zaporozhye, graduated from a flight school in Kharkov, and served in Crimea until Crimea became part of Russia. Starting in March 2014, Zubritzky began serving in Russia’s Armed Forces and was accepted to be a test cosmonaut in 2018. Seven years of training later, and he’s at the ISS.

Russia sends people into space, while post-Maidan Ukraine rains on their parade with such a ridiculous prosecution of a man with Russian citizenship who’s lived in Russia for 11 years. Maybe try something constructive for once?

https://x.com/NinaByzantina/status/1910023274937082078

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Russian territory in Kursk region

9 April 2025

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralize AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.

During offensive actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of one mechanized brigade, one tank brigade, three air assault brigades, and one territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gornal and Oleshnya.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and Artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Gornal, Oleshnya, Aleksandriya, Belovody, Vladimirovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Loknya, Miropolye, Sadki, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka in Sumy region.

▪️ The AFU losses were over 230 troops, eight motor vehicles, two artillery guns, two mortars, four UAV command posts, and one ammunition depot.

📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️ more than 72,990 troops,
▫️ 405 tanks,
▫️ 331 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 300 armored personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,260 armored fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,652 motor vehicles,
▫️ 597 artillery guns,
▫️ 53 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 123 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-battery warfare radars, ten air defence radars,
▫️ 56 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralize the AFU units is in progress.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1910028137104031855

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

9 April 2025

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

In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two mechanized brigades, one assault brigade, one air assault brigade, one coastal defense brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, and four territorial defense brigades close to Krasnopolye, Petrushevka, Stepok, Turya, Okop, Ugroyedy, Miropolskoye, and Prokhody (Sumy region).

In Kharkov direction, Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of one mechanized brigade, two motorized infantry brigades, one air defense regiment of the AFU, one territorial defense brigade close to Petrovka, Kovali, Volchansk, Zolochev (Kharkov region), and Kharkov.

▪️The AFU losses were up to 120 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, two motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, and one electronic warfare station.

The Zapad Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation along the front line. Russian troops delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of one mechanized brigade of the AFU and two territorial defense brigades near Kirovsk, Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic), Dvurechanskoye (Kharkov region), Makeyevka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry.

▪️The AFU losses were more than 200 troops, one Polish-made Dzik armored fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, and four artillery guns, including three Western-made ones. One ammunition depot was destroyed.

The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on formations of three mechanized brigades, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one territorial defense brigade near Grigorovka, Tarasovka, Zarya, Pleshcheyevka, and Kleban-Byk (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were up to 300 troops, seven armored fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, three field artillery guns, and two electronic warfare stations. One materiel depot was destroyed.

The Tsentr Group of Forces' units took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops launched attacks on manpower and hardware of two mechanized brigades, one assault brigade, one jaeger brigade, two UAV brigades, one assault regiment, one UAV regiment, and one marine brigade near Lenina, Kotlino, Zeleny Kut, Yelizavetovka, Zverevo, Kotlyarovka, Udachnoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Bogdanovka, Muravka, Novosergeyevka, and Petrovskogo (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were up to 435 troops, four motor vehicles, four artillery guns as well as U.S.-made: one M113 armored personnel carrier, two HMMWV armored fighting vehicles, and one MaxxPro armored vehicle.

Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defenses. Russian troops delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of two mechanized brigades, one air assault brigade, and one jaeger brigade of the AFU near Shevchenko, Otradnoye, Poddubnoye, Bogatyr, and Karla Marksa (Donetsk People's Republic).

▪️The AFU losses were up to 150 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, two field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155-mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system.

The Dnepr Group of Forces' units took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit formations of one mountain assault brigade, two coastal defense brigades of the AFU, and one territorial defense brigade near Ponyatovka, Dneprovskoye (Kherson region), Novopavlovka, Kamenskoye, and Blagoveshchenskoye (Zaporozhye region).

▪️The AFU losses were over 90 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier, two armored fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, three artillery guns, two electronic warfare stations, one counter-battery radar station, and two ammunition depots.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged an operational-tactical missile manufacture enterprise, production plants for unmanned aerial vehicles and their storage areas as well as clusters of manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries in 149 areas.

Air defense systems shot down six U.S.-made JDAM guided bombs and 333 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 158 drones out of the special military operation zone.

📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️ 660 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 50,612 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 601 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 22,739 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 1,534 MLRS combat vehicles,
▫️ 23,395 field artillery guns and mortars,
▫️ 33,827 units of special military vehicles.

Russian Defense Ministry

https://x.com/dana916/status/1910027714456695085

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[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo4avzTgbWE

Ukraine Suffered Complete Defeat in Belgorod Region | Russian Toretsk Breakthrough 8 hours ago

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ukraine must mobilize 30 thousand people monthly — Syrsky

▪️About 6 million men did not update their data in the TCC, avoiding mobilization, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief said.
▪️He proposed introducing large-scale digitalization in order to track all citizens and know their exact location.
▪️Ukraine has begun to receive less aid from the United States, accepting support primarily from European countries, he complained.
▪️Syrsky is also concerned about the upcoming Russian-Belarusian exercises "Zapad 2025" in the fall.
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🇪🇪🇺🇦Estonia to purchase €100 million in military aid for Ukraine from local industry

The republic's Minister of Defense, Hanno Pevkur, has just returned from a business trip during which he advertised 30 defense companies to Kyiv.

True, according to the minister, Estonia can only boast of drones and reconnaissance.

As Pevkur stated, there is something to strive for. However, he is very inspired by the cooperation with Ukrainian colleagues, who presented local military-industrial complex companies at the meeting.

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🇪🇪⚔️🇷🇺Estonian President Proclaims Law to Deny Voting Rights to Russians

Alar Karis signed a law amending the Constitution, according to which third-country nationals living in Estonia, and from the next elections also stateless persons, will be deprived of the right to vote in local elections.

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🇪🇪 Estonian MPs May Ban Tik Tok

The reason for the discussion in parliament was a report by the Department of State Information Systems (RIA).

The document outlines threats in the field of cybersecurity, the main one of which is Chinese technologies, which could potentially give Chinese intelligence access to the personal data of Estonians.

Until recently, Estonia refused to ban Tik Tok, and instead wanted to "cultivate critical thinking in young people." Apparently, the path of banning turned out to be easier and cheaper.

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Earlier, Estonian centrists expressed their readiness to appeal to the State Court due to the abolition of voting rights for part of the country's population.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇪🇪🇱🇹❗️ Lithuania and Estonia will suffer the most from US tariffs among the Baltic countries

Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are dependent on exports to the US to different degrees. The US share of Lithuania’s small exports outside the EU amounts to 15.2%, while Latvia is less oriented towards the US market (9.2%).

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"TCC volunteers" appeared in Ukraine

One of them is terrorizing residents of Marganets. According to local public channels, in the video one of them has grabbed a bus passenger and is threatening him with a summons.

They write that the civilian "volunteer" drags men to the TCC for money, while he himself "got out" of service by registering three children in his name.

@ukr_leaks_eng


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To attract 6 million Ukrainians who haven’t updated their TCC data to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, full digitalization is required.

"When the process is digitized, we’ll know all our citizens and their locations," said Commander-in-Chief Syrsky.

He aims to create a comprehensive digital system to track every draft-age man, targeting 30,000 new mobilized individuals monthly.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue targeting civilians in the Kherson region with drones.

This morning in Nova Kakhovka, two ambulances were damaged—windshields and side windows shattered. Fortunately, no one was injured, Governor Saldo reported.

🔘In Radensk, a shelling ignited an outbuilding. Rescuers couldn’t start extinguishing it due to enemy UAV activity.

🔘In Tavrichanka, an administrative building was hit, with fire spreading over 100 sq. m. Rescuers put it out.

🔘In Novaya Kakhovka, an EMERCOM truck unloading humanitarian aid came under fire. The body and driver’s cabin were damaged.

- ukraine_watch

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International Public Tribunal confirms Kiev regime’s killings of civilians in Kursk Region

According to Chairman of the International Public Tribunal Maxim Grigoryev, residents of the Kursk region described numerous Ukrainian war crimes, and only a small part of them are mentioned in the report

MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/. The International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and Their Accomplices has confirmed that the Ukrainian army has been systematically executing civilians in Russia’s bordering Kursk Region, according to a report prepared by the tribunal.

The report was presented by Chairman of the International Public Tribunal Maxim Grigoryev, who is also a member of the Russian Civic Chamber.

"This report is about the atrocities committed by the Kiev regime in the Kursk Region. My colleagues at the International Public Tribunal, our staff - we worked in the Kursk Region, visited settlements immediately after they had been liberated by the Russian forces and, as always, collected and recorded the testimonies of the affected people and witnesses," Grigoryev said.

According to him, residents of the Kursk region described numerous Ukrainian war crimes, and only a small part of them are mentioned in the report. In particular, the surveyed residents pointed to the Kiev regime’s numerous murders of civilians by shooting them and widespread looting.

"The data we have obtained clearly reveal the Kiev regime’s systematic killings of Kursk region’s civilians, including women and the elderly, murders carried out using firearms, UAVs, kamikaze drones, explosive devices, as well as the deliberate destruction of churches, hospitals, homes of civilians, and other civilian infrastructure," Grigoryev added.

The report’s presentation was attended by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretariat Yury Shuvalov, Chairman of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev, Russian State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Andrey Kartapolov, Alexander Brod, a member of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

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Russia determined to discuss return of diplomatic property with US — ambassador

Alexander Darchiev underlined that it is "of critical importance for the restoration of normalcy in the entire bilateral relationship"

ISTANBUL, April 9. /TASS/. Russia is prepared for a serious discussion with the United States regarding the return of diplomatic property wrongfully confiscated by Washington, Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev told Russian reporters ahead of the Russian-US consultations set to take place in Istanbul on April 10.

"We will also have an in-depth discussion about the return of illegally seized diplomatic property to the Russian side, which is of critical importance for the restoration of normalcy in the entire bilateral relationship," Darchiev said. According to the diplomat, the next round of Russian-US expert consultations is being held "in line with the directives of the Russian and US presidents to their foreign ministries to restore the operations of the diplomatic missions of the two countries."

"This is about addressing the 'toxic legacy' of the previous US administration, which imposed severe restrictions on the activities of Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, including limitations on diplomats' movement within the host country, financial and visa restrictions, and severely diminished interstate relations," the ambassador emphasized.

"Certainly, such aggressive actions, which included the outright seizure of six diplomatic properties belonging to Russia, did not go without a response," Darchiev noted. As a result, according to him, "a complex web of problems has been created, which is now being untangled through joint efforts by the Russian and American delegations."

The Russian Foreign Ministry previously announced that the Russian delegation at the April 10 consultations in Istanbul will be led by the ambassador to Washington, while the US delegation will be headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Sonata Coulter.

The last Russian-US consultations took place on February 27 in Istanbul at the residence of the US Consul General and lasted for over six hours. As the Russian Foreign Ministry stated in a release following the meeting, the talks were conducted in a "substantive and businesslike manner." The Foreign Ministry added that it was agreed to continue the dialogue through this channel.

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Evgenia Gutsul, leader of Moldova's Gagauzia region, hugs supporters outside the courtroom after being released from jail.

She has been placed under house arrest, but has vowed to continue fighting politically-motivated campaign financing charges against her.

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Oleksandr Dubinskyi with another update here (https://x.com/Dubinsky_pro/status/1909981288292905299), and a little more information from the inside, as it were:


BREAKING: yesterday, at Zelensky's request, Google's European office deleted my personal YouTube channel, which I created in November 2022.

It had 75,000 subscribers and millions of views - thousands of Ukrainians who don’t watch Zelensky’s TV marathon tuned in to me daily.

The channel was removed without warning, explanation, or right to appeal. Just as
@VP
Vance described Europe’s censorship - terrified of its own citizens’ voices like the devil fears holy water.

On my YouTube, I exposed Biden’s corruption with Burisma, Zelensky’s corruption, and the theft of American aid by Zelensky’s office - specifically, the embezzlement of $550 million through the shell company "Lehmar."
I spoke about the SBU concentration camp set up by SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk in central Kyiv in 2022, where they tortured American blogger Gonzalo Lira and Ukrainian citizens. Over 300 people passed through that camp, a fact documented by the UN Human Rights Office.
Zelensky instead of targeting those who created it, is fighting me - the one speaking about it.

🇺🇸 I believe YouTube’s U.S. owners need to know that in Europe, Google accounts are being deleted for those exposing the torture of American citizens in Ukrainian prisons, Zelensky’s power grab, and his kleptocracy.

The deletion of my YouTube is part of a systematic campaign against me by globalists since 2021.
Back then, after false OFAC sanctions imposed by Steven Mnuchin at Blinken’s and USAID’s behest, my YouTube channel with 300,000 subscribers was deleted also.

In November 2023, as an opposition politician and Parliament deputy, I was thrown in prison for exposing the truth - about the Bidens’ corruption, Burisma, the war, corruption, and Soros’s influence. Yet even from pretrial detention, I found ways to keep speaking.

For videos on my YouTube exposing how Zelensky fabricated a fake Russian interference narrative in Trump’s campaign, I was beaten twice in prison in 2023, threatened, and told to shut up. They failed.

Over 16 months in detention, I’ve shown how my trials unfold, the lawlessness Zelensky perpetrates.

As a deputy, I’ve highlighted my work.
Despite being jailed, my voice rang loud - and it deeply bothered Zelensky, Malyuk (SBU head), Oleg Tatarov, and Andriy Yermak (Zelensky deputies and executives).

A month ago, they lost it completely, kidnepped my lawyers who helped me to be public. But it didn’t help also - videos of me being dragged from courtroom by 15 armed soldiers in vests, just for my speaking, were seen by millions on my YouTube and TikTok.

Then Zelensky, with Soros’s cronies, had both my YouTube and TikTok deleted within a month.

My channel broke no community guidelines or rules.
I didn’t monetize it - Mnuchin’s sanctions forbade that.

I’m certain this wasn’t a decision by Google’s U.S. office @Google or Youtube US office @nealmohan

This is the work of Ukrainian and European offices of Google, long engaged in silencing dissent - I’m not the first they’ve gagged this way. They deleted YouTube by opposition blogger @oleshkomyroslav

I remain the only Rada deputy in Ukraine openly advocating for peace. My voice grows louder despite prison, threats, and bans.

I know people from White House read me here on X.
I’m asking for help from those who defend free speech - politicians, journalists, human rights advocates.

Help me get this message to Google’s U.S. leadership.

Tag those who can influence the European office’s unjust decision, share this text, spread it.

This isn’t just about me - it’s about millions of Ukrainians who want the truth.

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"Za SVOIKH": the first creative festival dedicated to the special operation is taking place in Murmansk

An exposition of fine and decorative arts has opened in the Exhibition Hall of the regional center.

I had my picture in there ))

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Sourced from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on X (https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/1910226426650898855):


🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian delegation, helmed by Ambassador to the US Alexander #Darchiev arrives at the
@rusya_istanbul — venue for the consultations with the US delegation, headed by Sonata #Coulter, DAS of State for Russia & Central Europe, which will be begin shortly.

📍 Istanbul, Türkiye

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Russian Frontline Combat Assault On Last Ukrainian Forces In Kursk:

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In this exclusive frontline report, I document the Russian "Veteran" Brigade launching a rocket artillery assault using BM-21 Grad multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) against the last remaining Ukrainian positions in Russia's Kursk region, near the Sumy border.

After Ukraine's incursion into Kursk back in August—initially seizing over 1,500 square kilometers—Russian forces have steadily reclaimed territory, reducing Ukrainian control to a handful of fortified areas. In this report, you’ll witness firsthand the planning, coordination, and execution of a real-time combat rocket strike.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia and USA exchanged prisoners in Abu Dhabi in deal organized by intelligence agencies.

Russia has released Ksenia Karelina, a US and Russian citizen sentenced last year to 12 years in a maximum security prison for donating in support of Ukraine.

The US has released Artur Petrov, a German and Russian citizen arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the US for exporting microelectronics to Russia.

FSB published a video of their exchange.
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Russia and the US exchanged prisoners in the UAE – The Wall Street Journal

The prisoner exchange took place this morning, citing CIA Director John Ratcliffe:

▪️Russia released Ksenia Karelina, a citizen of Russia and the US, previously sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security prison for treason. According to investigators, she sent money to purchase tactical medical supplies, equipment, weapons, and ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️The US released Artur Petrov, a citizen of Russia and Germany, arrested in Cyprus on charges of exporting microelectronics.

According to the WSJ, negotiations on the exchange were conducted between Ratcliffe and a representative of Russian intelligence. The CIA director was personally present at the Abu Dhabi airport and greeted Karelina.


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Russia stresses priority of diplomatic property return in US — ambassador

Alexander Darchiev underlined that "the sides showed their mutual readiness to work on a corresponding roadmap"


ISTANBUL, April 10. /TASS/. During consultations in Istanbul, Russia stressed the priority of getting back its diplomatic property confiscated in the United States and the sides showed readiness to work on a corresponding roadmap, Russia’s Ambassador to the US and head of the Russian delegation at the talks with the US on the embassy’s work Alexander Darchiev said on Thursday.

"The Russian side emphasized the priority of the quickest return of the diplomatic property belonging to the Russian Federation by virtue of the ownership right and confiscated by the US authorities, and in relation to it the sides showed their mutual readiness to work on a corresponding roadmap," Darchiev said.

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Russian forces strike Ukrainian military airfield, weapons depots over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted roughly 430 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield, missile and artillery depots over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck infrastructure facilities of a military airfield, missile and artillery armament warehouses, ammunition and military hardware depots and massed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army and foreign mercenaries in 144 areas," the ministry said in a statement.

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 105 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 105 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Belgorod direction, Battlegroup North units inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade, an air assault brigade, a coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Prokhody, Turya, Krasnopolye, Ugroyedy and Miropolskoye in the Sumy Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 105 personnel, an armored combat vehicle, two motor vehicles and two field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts over 250 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 250 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy ammunition depot in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units improved their forward positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Makeyevka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Dvurechanskoye in the Kharkov Region, Yampol and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 250 personnel, three motor vehicles and an artillery gun in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts 330 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 330 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy armored fighting vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup South units improved their tactical position and inflicted losses on formations of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Zarya, Kleban-Byk, Grigorovka and Tarasovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 330 personnel, three armored combat vehicles, 23 motor vehicles, three field artillery guns and an electronic warfare station in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed a field ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicts 430 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted roughly 430 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Center units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses among manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Kotlino, Udachnoye, Yelizavetovka, Petrovskogo, Kotlyarovka, Novosergeyevka and Bogdanovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 430 personnel, five armored combat vehicles, six motor vehicles and two artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicts 170 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted roughly 170 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed a French-made self-propelled artillery system in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup East units kept moving deep into the enemy’s defenses and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Poddubnoye, Bogatyr, Shevchenko and Otradnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 170 personnel, an armored combat vehicle, eight motor vehicles and two field artillery guns, including a French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery system in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroys 90 Ukrainian troops in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroyed roughly 90 Ukrainian troops and three enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses on formations of two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian army and a territorial defense brigade in areas near the settlements of Novopavlovka, Blagoveshchenskoye and Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

"As many as 90 [Ukrainian] military personnel, three armored combat vehicles, seven motor vehicles, an artillery gun, two electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed," it said.

Russian air defenses down 200 Ukrainian UAVs, nine JDAM smart bombs over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 200 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and nine JDAM smart bombs over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down nine JDAM guided aerial bombs and a rocket of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system of US manufacture and 200 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 660 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 50,812 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 surface-to-air missile systems, 22,752 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,534 multiple rocket launchers, 23,434 field artillery guns and mortars and 33,876 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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⚡️Russian-American consultations on normalizing the work of diplomatic missions have begun in Istanbul. The parties will also discuss the issuance of non-migrant visas and the resumption of direct flights.

The Russian delegation is headed by Ambassador Alexander Darchiev, the American delegation is headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Sonata Coulter.
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Vasily Nebenzia Russia's permanent representative at the UN Security Council provides an update on the Iskander-M missile attack on the Magellan restaurant in Krivoy Rog on April 4th. His address comes with reminders:

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More footage here of Ksenia Karelina who was exchanged with Artur Petrov in a reciprocal US-Russia agreement this week:

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..and footage of Artur Petrov on board the aircraft:

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Some have raised an eyebrow when I've mentioned that the modern iteration of Ukraine is in fact a Zionist project, and I expect one concocted in the nineteenth century.

Here's footage (https://x.com/WWNHost/status/1910291734632054941) of the largest Talmudic centre in 'Europe' or at least sharing the same land mass. Location, Dnipro:

The Menorah Centre of Dnipro - described once in Soviet times as the union's ‘shadow capital’.

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‼️🇷🇺 Report by the #Russian Defence Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (11 April 2025)

🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.

💥 The Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on a mechanised brigade, a tank brigade, three air assault brigades, and two territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gornal and Oleshnya.

✈️ Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Belovody, Vladimirovka, Vodolagi, Maryino, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Sadki, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.

▪️The AFU losses amounted to more than 235 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, and an engineer vehicle during the day.

📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️ more than 73,645 troops,
▫️ 405 tanks,
▫️ 331 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 301 armoured personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,264 armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,671 motor vehicles,
▫️ 601 artillery guns,
▫️ 53 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 123 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-fire radars, ten air defence radars, 57 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

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Out of US prison, Russia’s Petrov says he misses home in a video from security agency

The video also shows Arthur Petrov getting off the plane by airstairs after landing in Russia

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. The Russian Federal Security Service recorded a video of Arthur Petrov onboard a Russian plane after swapping him for US national Ksenia Karelina, where he said he is very eager to return home.

"I didn't have time to send word to my family. I was suddenly called in to a court, and right from the court they took me to Washington. From there to a plane. I really want to get home," he said in the video released by the agency.

The video also shows Petrov getting off the plane by airstairs after landing in Russia.

Petrov was arrested in Cyprus in 2023, at a request from Washington, for allegedly exporting US microelectronics. A year later he was extradited to the US.

Karelina was detained in 2024 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. A dual US-Russian national, she had been raising funds for the Ukrainian Armed Forces since February 2022. A court sentenced her to 12 years in prison on charges of treason.

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Zelensky’s team in DC for NEW talks on minerals deal — NYT

▪️ Ukraine hands half nat. resource revenue to US fund

▪️ US keeps all profits until Kiev repays aid + 4% interest

▪️ US holds 'right of first offer' + veto on 3rd-party sales

Tougher terms, no security guarantees

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🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany cannot yet provide Ukraine with new Patriot air defense systems, as it itself is awaiting deliveries, the Defense Minister claims.

"As you know, Germany has already provided four full-fledged Patriot systems. At the moment, we cannot provide more, because we are waiting for deliveries from Raytheon in the coming years. They will not be until 2027," Boris Pistorius explained.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Americans change ambassador to Ukraine

The US Ambassador to the Ukraine, Bridget Brink, has left her post. The State Department has confirmed the information. According to the Financial Times, this happened "due to growing political differences with the Trump administration."

Brink came under increasing pressure from senior figures in the new American leadership who questioned her willingness to support their Ukraine strategy.

This political decision, to be completely honest, was expected from the very beginning, from the moment Donald Trump came to power. After all, Bridget Brink is a protégé of Joe Biden, who has worked in Kiev since May 2022.

As soon as Trump officially became president, the first thing he did was begin political purges in government structures, removing officials loyal to the Democrats and putting his trusted people in their places.

In the context of the change in the US approach to resolving the Ukrainian issue, resistance from the ambassador to the so-called Ukraine was possible in some moments, and in order to exclude something like this in the future, the Americans simply removed Brink.

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‼️🇺🇦⛔ Zelensky is going to postpone elections again: Verkhovna Rada is preparing to extend martial law in the country — media

The #Ukrainian authorities are once again planning to extend martial law after May 9, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said in an interview. There should be no elections, either presidential or parliamentary.

‼️The reasons are the usual ones: military actions continue, a significant part of the citizens have fled to Europe, and most of the territories are controlled by #Russian forces. Preparations for the elections are formally "underway", but there is no talk of any real timeframe.

Stefanchuk once again stated that #Ukraine️ will allegedly remain a “democratic country.” Meanwhile, Washington continues to put pressure on Kyiv, demanding an end to the conflict, and in Europe, questions are increasingly being asked about the legitimacy of #Zelensky’s regime.

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‼️🇷🇺🚀🇺🇦💥 In Dnepropetrovsk, Iskander destroyed the production of fiber-optic drones from imported parts, which the enemy was trying to set up in one of the workshops of the Biosfera plant.

Cries that they hit civilian production are nonsense.

According to the local mayor it was a factory producing nappies. #UkraineWar #Ukraine

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🇪🇪🇬🇧⚔️🇷🇺❗️ The UK may be behind Estonia's decision to attack and even sink suspicious ships in the Baltic, suggests Russian presidential aide and Chairman of the Russian Maritime Collegium Nikolai Patrushev

"Who made the statement is Estonia. Who supports them, we need to understand. Because I don't think that all Western countries supported them in this. I think, most likely, these are European countries. I can assume that Great Britain. But I don't have any exact information," - Patrushev stated.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Kursk region, liberation of Zhuravka, successes at Gornal

❗️ In the Kursk region, Russian units continue to advance towards the administrative borders of the region, driving the enemy out of the adjacent forest belts.

▪️ North of Gornal, Russian assault groups occupied and cleared several landings, making significant progress toward the border with Sumy Oblast.

▪️ In Gornal itself, Ukrainian formations are actively resisting, taking advantage of the tactical advantage of the terrain on which the village is located.

▪️ In a counterattack supported by artillery and drones, they forced Russian advance groups to retreat and occupied part of the adjacent landings.

▪️ In Sumy Oblast yesterday Russian units were able to finally clear and liberate Zhuravka. Before that, success was also achieved near Veselovka.

❗️ Many began to speculate that the Russian Armed Forces are preparing to create a buffer zone in the Sumy region in order to prevent a repeat of the Kursk region scenario.

However, only a few villages have been liberated so far, so it is somewhat premature to talk about a full-fledged operation in Sumy region and there is no point in rushing things.

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🇪🇪⛓️🇩🇯🇨🇳🇲🇲🇷🇺An Estonian Navy ship has detained an oil tanker in the Baltic Sea, allegedly en route to Russia

The Kiwala tanker under the flag of Djibouti, is operated by a Chinese-Myanmar crew and on its way to the Russian port of Ust-Luga for loading. Estonians claim that the vessel is under sanctions and is part of Russia's “shadow fleet”. They were not embarrassed by the fact that the tanker was traveling in neutral waters which is tantamount to an act of piracy.

The Estonian Admiral Cowan minesweeper, built in the 1980s, was received by the Estonian Navy from Great Britain. The Estonian Navy named it in honor of the British admiral who covered in January 1919 the Entente's intervention against Soviet Russia from the sea and attacked the port of Kronstadt.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 To the borders of the Dnepropetrovsk region

Situation in the Novopavlovsk direction by 19:00 on April 11, 2025

As a result of fierce fighting in the Novopavlovsk direction, some time ago, the Russian Armed Forces managed to advance west towards the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region, engaging in battles in several populated areas.

More details about the situation in the Novopavlovsk direction:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces' assault aircraft have entered almost the center of Troitskoye, advancing on a relatively wide front along a line stretching for about six kilometers. Fighting is also taking place southeast of Bogdanovka.

▪️ The closer Russian troops advance to the DPR border, the stronger the resistance of Ukrainian formations grows. The enemy is hastily erecting fortifications in the Novopavlovka area, fearing a breakthrough of the defense.

▪️ Taking into account the latest territorial acquisitions and the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces, there are about 4 kilometers left to the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region.

The Russian troops' approach to the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine will have an extremely negative impact on the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian formations. The transfer of the combat zone to Ukrainian territory in the area will definitely become a political issue.

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🇺🇦🇸🇴 Ukraine has officially established diplomatic relations with Somalia.

Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha called it a “step forward” in strengthening ties — but here’s the part they left out:

🇲🇱 Just 8 days ago, Mali officially designated Ukraine a terrorist state, accusing it of supplying militant groups operating in the Sahel.

Malian FM Abdoulaye Diop stated bluntly:
“Ukraine is a sponsor of terrorism and must be stopped.”

So while Kiev is celebrating its “diplomatic victory” with one of the world’s most unstable countries, they're sponsoring terror next door.

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🇷🇺 Putin, September 2024:

“We are not pursuing de-dollarization. We were denied the ability to transact in dollars. We are simply forced to look for other options… The U.S. is pushing this process forward through its own careless, unprofessional, and foolish actions.”

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Germany announced a new aid package for Ukraine. It will include:

▪️4 IRIS-T SAMs (SLM/SLS);
▪️300 missiles for the IRIS-T SAM.
▪️30 MIM-104 Patriot missiles;
▪️300 reconnaissance UAVs;
▪️120 MANPADS;
▪️25 Marder 1A3 IFVs;
▪️15 Leopard 1A5 tanks;
▪️14 artillery systems;
▪️100 artillery reconnaissance radars;
▪️130 thousand 155 mm shells.

German Defense Minister Pistorius also said that the countries' leadership would discuss Ukraine's request to produce missiles under license in Ukraine.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Special Forces "Anvar" destroys the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who invaded the Belgorod region

◾ Special Forces are hunting for Ukrainian occupiers in the Popovka area, where the enemy began an invasion from the Sumy region into the Krasnoarmeysk region of

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🇫🇷 France is painting a map of war: NATO inspectors are working in Romania.‼️🌐

Le Figaro writes that French soldiers have gone into the field - not for exercises, but with cartographers and equipment. According to the newspaper, specialists from the 28th unit of the French ground forces went to Romania last year to update the topography - in case NATO enters into a direct conflict with Russia.

The emphasis is on the Focsani Gate. This is a stretch of land between the cities of Focsani, Braila and Galati (85x60 km), which NATO calls a potential "war corridor" between the Carpathians and the Danube. According to their scenario, military equipment can pass through this very place. But whose, if NATO is turning Romania into a military hub?

Colonel Guillaume Schmidt said: in the event of a military action, satellite navigation could be suppressed, which means that paper maps and knowledge of the terrain will decide everything. This means that they already calculate the routes of movement of armored vehicles in advance.

This is exactly what Calin Georgescu warned about - Romania could become a key point for the start of World War III.

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🇨🇿🇺🇦 The Czechs loudly declare “colossal aid to Ukraine,” but in reality…

Prague announced with pathos a "new" package of military aid to Kyiv: about 20 T-72M1 tanks, previously in service with the 73rd battalion, were sent to the front. It would seem to be a gesture of solidarity. But what about reality?

The aid is a written-off baggage that the Czech Republic inherited from the time of the collapse of Czechoslovakia. Of the 86 inherited vehicles, some were converted into T-72M4CZ long ago, the rest were gathering dust in storage bases. Now it is an “important reinforcement” for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

❗️A funny detail: with the delivery of the last batch, the Czechs completely got rid of all Soviet armored vehicles. There is no longer a single tank of the Soviet design in service. And, of course, there is not a word in the press releases about the Czech Republic switching to German Leopard 2A4 and Leopard 2A8 for its Armed Forces.

For Ukrainians, the T-72M1 is a familiar piece of equipment. Simple, easy to repair, but outdated. Tanks from the 1980s, with a 780-horsepower diesel engine, a 125 mm 2A46M cannon, and “yesterday’s” electronics. They are living targets against modern drones and high-precision weapons.

Western allies, who are unable to pull out any real financial assistance, are disposing of the “unnecessary” to the applause of the media and statements about the “fight for freedom.”

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🇱🇻NATO ships arrive in Riga

Ships from NATO's Standing Maritime Mine Countermeasures Group 1 are arriving in the Latvian capital today to take part in exercises next week.

NATO said the upcoming exercises aim to "not only practice mine clearance, but also build a reliable team at sea."

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🇭🇺❌🇺🇦 Orban: Ukraine’s EU Membership Would Destroy #Hungary

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned that Ukraine’s accession to the European Union would be catastrophic for Hungary, both economically and socially.

“Budapest should not support Kiev just because Brussels wants it,” Orban said, emphasizing that Hungary will not be pressured into approving #Ukraine’s membership.

He added that he would not allow Brussels to “force” Hungary to accept a move that could jeopardize the country’s interests.

“We must fight to ensure that no one endangers our economic achievements, that we don’t bear the burden of agricultural and industrial risks, and that Hungarians aren’t exposed to the serious security and social challenges that will inevitably come with Ukraine’s EU membership,” Orban explained.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺 Kellogg Proposes Dividing #Ukraine into Spheres of Influence – The Times

Trump’s special envoy on Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has proposed a ceasefire plan that would effectively divide Ukraine into zones of influence, similar to post-WWII Germany, The Times reports.

Key points of the proposal:

➡️ #Russia would control eastern Ukraine; Western Ukraine could host British and French troops as part of a “security mission.”

➡️ The U.S. would not deploy ground forces but may assist with coordination.

➡️ An 18-mile buffer zone would separate Ukrainian and Russian forces.

➡️ New elections in Ukraine could follow a ceasefire.

➡️ Europe should not expect U.S. military support unless it's willing to act independently.

‼️Russia opposes any #NATO troop deployment after a ceasefire, while European countries are hesitant to send forces without firm U.S. backing—making the plan basically impossible.

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US to take control of Gazprom pipeline in Ukraine — Reuters

US and Ukrainian officials met on the draft proposal in Washington on Friday, the source said

WASHINGTON, April 12. /TASS/. The draft agreement on Ukrainian minerals suggested by the United States contains a demand that the US government's International Development Finance Corporation take control of a natural gas pipeline from Russia's Gazprom across Ukraine to Europe, Reuters reported citing a source with knowledge of the matter.

US and Ukrainian officials met on the draft proposal in Washington on Friday, the source said. Prospects for a breakthrough were scant given the meeting's "antagonistic" atmosphere, the agency wrote. "The negotiating environment is very antagonistic," the source said, pointing to the "maximalist" draft submitted by the US administration in March. A Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed the discussions, calling them "technical in nature."

The Ukrainian government has hired law firm Hogan Lovells as an outside adviser on the minerals deal, Reuters said. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal and Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko will be in Washington in two weeks for International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, including a Ukraine-focused ministers' meeting on April 25, the agency said citing multiple sources familiar with the plans.

The minerals deal previously fell apart because of a verbal spat between Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump in the White House on February 28. On March 27, Kiev announced receiving a revised deal, one which was much tougher on Ukraine than the previous one. The latest proposal demands all of Ukraine’s revenues from natural resources as repayment for aid worth some $120 billion that Washington has provided to Kiev. The United States will control an investment fund to help Ukraine’s recovery as part of the deal. Since then, Ukrainian officials have repeatedly stated that they are still reviewing the terms, while Zelensky has complained that Washington has changed the original terms of the agreement. Trump has accused Zelensky of trying to back out of the deal, threatening him with big problems.

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Kellogg’s idea on division zones in Ukraine may lead to new escalation — Russia’s diplomat

It is one of the options for freezing the conflict, Rodion Miroshnik said

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. US Presidential Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg’s idea to divide Ukraine into zones of control between European countries and Russia, following the example of post-war Berlin, is one of the options for freezing the conflict and could lead to a new escalation, but at a different level, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large, said on Saturday.

"By keeping the militarization zone there and the formation of radicalized elements is one of the options of freezing, which may be later implemented through a new level of escalation," Miroshnik said during a live broadcast on the Soloviev Live TV channel.

"Therefore, this toxic hotspot upholds these options of occupation," Miroshnik continued. "By preserving the influence on this territory, including the military one, without creating a demilitarized zone in the area raises serious concerns for the near future."

"The period of time for [the Kiev regime] to heal its wounds may be very short indeed - they gathered, analyzed the previous experience, prepared themselves, pumped tens of thousands of troops through Great Britain again and deployed them to the battlefront once again."

The Times reported earlier citing Kellogg that Ukraine could be divided into control zones between European countries and Russia like Berlin after the Second World War. UK and French troops could adopt zones of control in Ukraine’s west, forming a "reassurance force" for allegedly preventing the resumption of combat operations whereas Russia could control the east of the country. Between the European and Russian troops would be Ukrainian forces, and a demilitarized zone could be implemented along existing lines of control, Kellogg added.

Kellogg later denied this information stating on his page on X social media: "The Times article misrepresents what I said. I was speaking of a post-cease fire resiliency force in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty. In discussions of partitioning, I was referencing areas or zones of responsibility for an allied force (without US troops). I was not referring to a partitioning of Ukraine."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on March 12 that the presence of NATO troops under any flag and in any capacity on Ukrainian soil is a threat to Russia, adding that Moscow would not accept this under any circumstances.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 RDIF CEO Dmitriev called the talks with Witkoff productive on the X social network.

#Putin and Witkoff met at the Presidential Library in St. Petersburg on Friday. They were accompanied by presidential aide Ushakov and Dmitriev.

The meeting lasted 4.5 hours. The topic of the meeting between Putin and Witkoff was aspects of the Ukrainian settlement, the Kremlin reported.

The plane that allegedly carried US Special Envoy #Witkoff to #Russia departed from St. Petersburg airport, according to FlightRadar24 data.

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Russia-US negotiations progress towards lifting American sanctions — expert

Jeffrey Sachs added that he saw no pressing risks for Russia at the moment regarding US President Donald Trump's policy on customs duties

ANTALYA, April 12. /TASS/. A negotiating process between Russia and the United States proves to be productive and is likely to result in the lifting of the previously-imposed American sanctions against Russia, US economics expert Jeffrey Sachs told TASS on Saturday.

"I think the ongoing talks between the US and Russia can be very productive," Sachs stated. "There is hope, it definitely is. Everything is working in the right direction toward the eventual lifting of US sanctions on Russia, I think."

Sachs, who serves as a professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University in New York, added that he saw no pressing risks for Russia at the moment regarding US President Donald Trump's policy on customs duties. "Trump's so-called tariff wars will not be a big problem for Russia, as it will not have a direct and significant impact on this country," the expert said.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 The White House and State Department are concerned about Witkoff's role in Ukraine negotiations, — Reuters

▪️The reason was that Trump's special representative invited Putin's special envoy Dmitriev to his personal residence for dinner before the meeting at the White House, violating normal security procedures.
▪️This caused alarm in the White House and the State Department, the agency writes.
▪️Usually, US officials avoid hosting Russian representatives, avoiding "Russian intelligence capabilities."
▪️As a result, the dinner was postponed and took place at the White House.
▪️After the incident, American officials fear that Whitkoff may show inexperience, which Russia will take advantage of at the negotiating table.
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NATO warmongers come up with the good old **** again:
(would they say the same if US doing it?)

🇷🇺🇪🇺Consequences "could be fatal": Russia intends to place nuclear weapons in space — NATO Secretary General

➖"Russia is apparently studying the possibility of placing nuclear weapons in space that could destroy hundreds of satellites in one fell swoop," Rutte complains.
▪️According to him, such a step would be a violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.
▪️He says it is very alarming and the consequences "could be fatal."
▪️NATO is adapting to "new space challenges," including sharing intelligence, creating space operations control centers, developing maneuverable satellites and strengthening monitoring of the Arctic, the secretary general notes.
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‼️🇺🇲🇬🇧🇪🇺🇷🇺 #NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told the German weekly Welt am Sonntag that #Russia is considering deploying nuclear weapons in space and may use them against Western satellites.

‼️ From stealing dishwashers to space based nuclear weapons. These Eurorats are something else...

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🇺🇸 U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Departs Russia.
Last night, he held 5-hour talks with Putin ⏱️🤝. According to open-source reports, the negotiations focused on the Ukrainian conflict and its resolution 🇺🇦⚔️.
🇺🇦 Ukraine has no plans to lift martial law or mobilization 🚫✋—instead, it intends to extend these measures until August 2025 📅⚠️. This effectively means no presidential elections will be held 🗳❌.
Meanwhile, 🇷🇺 Russian forces continue their offensive, making tactical gains across the frontline 🔥💥.

Ukraine Extends Martial Law and Mobilization📜✊ Russians Storm Kalynove⚔️ Military Summary And Analysis For 2025.04.12

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian army is breaking through from the south to the Dnepropetrovsk region on a broad front

▪️In the South Donetsk direction, Russian troops are conducting offensive operations in the areas of Shevchenko, Volnoye Pole, Vesyoloye and in the direction of Bogatyr.
▪️"In the Komarovsky direction, Russian troops are storming forest belts to the east and southeast of the Shevchenko settlement. Clashes in this area continue," enemy resources reported earlier.
▪️Russian assault groups from Razliv (former Kurakhovsky direction) are trying to break through to the road near Bogatyr.
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The rights of residents of new regions must be ensured regardless of Kyiv's opinion - Lavrov

▪️In the context of the Ukrainian settlement, Russia is concerned not with the problem of territories, but with the problem of the people who live on them.
▪️Trump understands that the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine must be eliminated.
▪️There is always potential for moving forward in relations between Russia and the United States.
▪️Russia and the United States are discussing bilateral relations: the work of diplomatic missions and the possibility of joint projects.
▪️The Euro-Atlantic structures created to ensure security have collapsed.
▪️Russia had no contacts with Ukraine in Antalya.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Defense Ministry on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region

12 April 2025

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralize AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.

Units of the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two mechanized brigades, one tank brigade, three air assault brigades, one marine brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defense brigades near Gornal and Oleshnya.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Belovody, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Sadki, Shalygino, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka in Sumy region.

▪️ Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were over 175 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, one armored personnel carrier, seven motor vehicles, one 155-mm M777 howitzer, and three mortars.

📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️ more than 73,820 troops,
▫️ 405 tanks,
▫️ 332 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 302 armored personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,264 armored fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,678 motor vehicles,
▫️ 602 artillery guns,
▫️ 53 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 123 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-fire radars, ten air defense radars,
▫️ 57 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armored recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralize the AFU units is in progress.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦🗞️In Chernovtsy, a journalist from a local outlet was sentenced to 5 years in prison for publishing a video about forced mobilization.

According to the court ruling in the public registry, the video showed a military facility—an regional recruitment center—which violates the law under martial law.

The defense argued the journalist was documenting potential human rights violations, not a military site. The video didn’t include coordinates, and the facility was widely known.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 Ukraine will mobilize men from age 18, stated Shamil Krutkov, commander of the 93rd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

“I’m certain, unfortunately, that we’ll have to mobilize from 18. These are the realities we may face,” he said.

He also noted that patriots alone aren’t enough to counter Russian forces, and mobilization should have been “voluntary-compulsory” from the start.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺➖🇺🇦Reuters: Chinese citizens fighting for Russia in Ukraine are volunteers, not regular military, and have no ties to the Chinese government.

Media reports suggest over 100 Chinese fighters are in the Russian army, operating for financial rewards. Meanwhile, Chinese military officers, with Beijing’s approval, are traveling near the front line to study the war.

“Officers are definitely there with approval,” said a former Western intelligence official.

U.S. officials, speaking anonymously to Reuters, said Chinese fighters in Russia appear to have minimal training and little impact on Russian operations.

The issue gained attention amid Zelensky’s accusations against China after the detention of two alleged Chinese citizens.

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🇱🇹🇪🇺🇺🇦Lithuania asks for European money to treat Ukrainian soldiers

Health Minister Marija Jakubauskiene said Lithuania could seek EU support for the treatment and rehabilitation of Ukrainian soldiers.

Jakubauskene made a similar statement after a meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Lyashko.

The most interesting thing is that at the end of March this year, Lithuania declared an urgent need for funding for healthcare. Are Ukrainian soldiers a higher priority than Lithuanian citizens?

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"Europe is the values of the Talmud"

Ursula von der Leyen
Unelected dictator of Europe

Not according to my history books Ursula!

Europe is the values of Jesus Christ!

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‼️🇺🇲🇺🇦 #Trump demands that Ukraine return all the money it received from the US in the form of military and financial aid after the start of the #Russian SMO.

According to the NYT, the US is offering an economic agreement that implies full reimbursement by Ukraine of the aid it received.

Along with this, Kiev must give half of the profits from the development of natural resources to a fund controlled by Washington. The US has the right to withdraw all profits from it, as well as 4% per annum, until #Ukraine returns all the aid it received.

‼️No security guarantees are provided.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Elections are cancelled: Rada will extend mobilization and martial law on April 15-18 — MP

▪️The Rada plans to extend martial law for another 90 days until August 6, Zheleznyak claims.
▪️He added that presidential elections in Ukraine could be held 60 days after the end of martial law, and elections to the Rada – 90 days later.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

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Gulag started decades before nazi germany even existed and the camps the soviets ¨liberated¨ became part of gulag and functioned for decades after WW2 . But i guess they are the heroes .
Also that foto in that post is probably made by soviet propaganda machine.

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https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/1910791176661123076

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Gulag started decades before nazi germany even existed and the camps the soviets ¨liberated¨ became part of gulag and functioned for decades after WW2 . But i guess they are the heroes .
Also that foto in that post is probably made by soviet propaganda machine.

Here is the video from which that picture came from.
Must be the whole video was created by soviet propaganda too.

https://x.com/rgpoulussen/status/1221704405495488512

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https://x.com/HolocaustMuseum/status/1775999624462963051

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[Jaak]

yeah look at them kids from Auschwitz video wearing clothes that dont fit and none of them seem malnourished at all ... Soviet propaganda. I thought they were all human skeletons who survived holocaust ?
Nobody from the west visited the so called deathcamps until couple decades later (and all the deathcamps were in the soviet side ) . I suggest research Vassily Grossman and his works who was the medium to push that narrative (most of his writings are still locked away in russian archives ).
I recall that british also made one documentary about german camps , directed by A.Hitchcock . Why would they put a jew who makes horror movies in charge of making a documentary ? I guess they wanted to push a certain (horror) narrative that was of course full of lies .
I dont wish to derail the topic , i have posted some things about it in there before. Holocaust = bullsh*t but thats just my opinion from years of research on the matter .
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?86972-Hitler-and-the-Jewish-holocaust-what-s-the-reality/page2&highlight=holocaust

[Ravenlocke]

yeah look at them kids from Auschwitz video wearing clothes that dont fit and none of them seem malnourished at all ... Soviet propaganda. I thought they were all human skeletons who survived holocaust ?
Nobody from the west visited the so called deathcamps until couple decades later (and all the deathcamps were in the soviet side ) . I suggest research Vassily Grossman and his works who was the medium to push that narrative (most of his writings are still locked away in russian archives ).
I recall that british also made one documentary about german camps , directed by A.Hitchcock . Why would they put a jew who makes horror movies in charge of making a documentary ? I guess they wanted to push a certain (horror) narrative that was of course full of lies .
I dont wish to derail the topic , i have posted some things about it in there before. Holocaust = bullsh*t but thats just my opinion from years of research on the matter .
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?86972-Hitler-and-the-Jewish-holocaust-what-s-the-reality/page2&highlight=holocaust

Just to be clear, so you are saying even the US liberation of the Holocaust camps were fictional stories? Like the one about the Ohrdruf camp ? the gas chambers a lie…

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Thank you, I’ll look at the other thread where you posted on this subject.

Back to Topic.

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[Tintin]

Well, it's a legitimate military target. There's a lot of in-fighting going on at the moment between Rada MPs and local region heads: this has happened before (Poltava, September 2024) when a similar gathering was also hit. Unfortunately some civilians have got caught up in this, but, typical of the Kiev regime practice of placing military infrastructure in densely populated areas.

Russian missile strike on military parade gathering of Ukrainian 117th Brigade in Sumy

At 7 seconds in here:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2025-04_%28April%29/2025-04-13_Russian_missile_strike_on_military_parade_gathering_in_Sumy_filmed_by_civilian_on_the_street.mp4

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2025-04_%28April%29/2025-04-13_Russian_missile_strike_on_military_parade_gathering_in_Sumy_caught_on_dashcam.mp4

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2025-04_%28April%29/2025-04-13_Russian_missile_strike_on_military_parade_gathering_in_Sumy_aftermath_filmed_by_civilian_on_the_s treet.mp4

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2025-04_%28April%29/2025-04-13_Sumy%92s_Konotop_mayor_demands_apology_from_Sumy_region_chief_by_6pm_or_he%92ll_tell_you_what_hap pened_in_attack.mp4


Source: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/144705
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[Vicus]

"Three were fired, but one was enough": Ukrainian military claims F-16 was shot down by Russian missile today

Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet lost yesterday was shot down by Russian rocket, and not Ukrainian, as previously stated. This is reported by the service News BBC, citing military sources in Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian military, the Russian Armed Forces "organized a hunt" for Ukrainian aircraft that participated in strikes on Russian Armed Forces positions in the Belgorod and Kursk regions. There was no "friendly fire" and no systems at all in that area. Defense The Ukrainian Air Force was not used, they were not physically present there. But Russian air defense systems were there, as were aircraft in the air. In general, a Ukrainian pilot named Ivanov in his F-16 came under simultaneous attack from an air defense system and a fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces, only three missiles were fired, but one was enough.

This is already the second confirmed lost F-16 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force along with the pilot. Zelenskyy yesterday urgently signed a decree, awarding Major Ivanov the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously.

Earlier, Verkhovna Rada MP Bezugla hinted that the fighter could have been shot down as a result of friendly fire, saying that the "friend or foe" system has not yet been debugged. :chuckle:

In general, we will wait for an official statement from the Ministry of Defense, which will give a clear answer as to what shot down the F-16.

https://en.topwar.ru/262925-bylo-vypuscheno-tri-no-hvatilo-odnoj-ukrainskie-voennye-utverzhdajut-chto-f-16-byl-sbit-rossijskoj-raketoj.html

[Vicus]

"We are not interested in old British submarines": Russian Ambassador to London denies threat to Britain from Russia -today

https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2025-04/17dd16a560_1329932460_astute_and_dauntless_1.webp

Russia does not threaten Great Britain, London can sleep peacefully. But if the British want to invent threats for themselves, that is their business. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kelin.

In an interview with the BBC, the Russian diplomat answered questions from British journalists, including about the threat to Britain from Russian submarines, allegedly ready to destroy underwater communications, as well as about the "investigation" of the British press, which claimed that Russia had placed sensors around Britain to track British nuclear submarines. According to Kelin, Russia does not pose any threat to Britain, is not going to cut cables, and Moscow is not interested in old British nuclear submarines at all. At the same time, he did not deny some interest from Russia in Great Britain.

"I won't deny it, but I wonder if we really have an interest in keeping an eye on all these old British submarines with very old, very obsolete nuclear warheads. All these threats are highly exaggerated, they are created out of nothing,"

— the Russian ambassador said.

Earlier, the British press published a number of materials about the discovery of some “sensors” around Great Britain, which, allegedly, were installed by Russia to track four British strategic nuclear submarines weapons on board. There is, of course, no evidence, but statements about a hybrid war that "Putin started" were heard from every iron.

https://en.topwar.ru/262932-starye-britanskie-apl-nam-ne-interesny-posol-rf-v-londone-oproverg-ugrozu-britanii-so-storony-rossii.html

[Vicus]

Tanks for the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be built at European car factories - 11.04.2025

https://topwar.ru/uploads/posts/2025-04/c275d04d1a_kmw-leopard2-factory-e1683202464684.webp

Impoverished automakers

The huge financial losses of European automakers have long been no secret to anyone. The first to suffer was the VW concern, forced to lay off at least 35 thousand workers. The Germans got off easy - the plans were to close three car factories at once. But the enterprises were left, but the employees will have to be fired. As a result, the production range will be reduced with a simultaneous increase in the price of manufactured equipment. Volkswagen Group, which includes Bentley, Audi, Lamborghini, Skoda, Bugatti, Porsche, is far from the only one that has faced a drop in sales. Mercedes-Benz (-3,7 percent for 2024), BMW (-2,3 percent) suffered from the reduction in demand to one degree or another, Mini fell by 17 percent, Jaguar by 8 percent. The list can go on for a long time.

Porsche Tigers

First with weapons The reporters married Porsche to concerns. They say that the German manufacturer is doing so badly that its management is ready to switch to production tanks. History turned out funny. Porsche has a "glorious" history of producing military equipment for the Third Reich. Ferdinand Porsche, as is known, was Adolf Hitler's favorite designer and even claimed a contract to produce heavy tanks for the Wehrmacht. The German overdid it a bit with the transmission, and the "Tiger" from Henschel-Werke went into production.

Our soldiers got acquainted with the creations of Ferdinand Porsche at the Kursk Bulge - these were the Elephant self-propelled guns, created on the platform of "electromechanical" tanks. It is possible that the history of German tank building will repeat itself in 2025. Moreover, Porsche previously participated in the development of a tank for the Bundeswehr. This was the first Leopard. Hands, as they say, remember.

continue: https://en.topwar.ru/262764-tanki-dlja-vsu-postrojat-na-avtozavodah-evropy.html

[Vicus]

Chihuahuas barking -today

"We will meet Russia with fire and steel": Latvia showed exercises to repel an "invasion"

NATO continues to stubbornly insist on the "probable invasion" of Russian troops into the Baltics, trying to justify the concentration of forces on the border with the Russian Federation. This myth is fueled by the authorities of the local border states, in particular, the leadership of Latvia.

Two years ago, the number of active military personnel in this country was 6600 people. Now there are 7870 contract soldiers in the troops, the number of soldiers in the National Guard has grown from 1200 soldiers to 10, and another 38 people are in reserve.

"The reason for this increase in military power is obvious. Latvia is one of the countries that Russia has threatened since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, and the Latvians have taken their defense seriously."

- says the local press.

The army is represented by only one mechanized brigade (not armed with tanks), consisting of 3 infantry battalions, 2 support battalions and one artillery unit armed with 47 M109A5Ö self-propelled guns (2023 HIMARS MLRS were also purchased in 6).

The brigade posted materials online that, as the local press claims, show “preparations for a possible invasion by two hostile neighbors: Russia (to the east) and Belarus (to the southeast)”:

continue: https://en.topwar.ru/262952-vstretim-rossiju-ognem-i-stalju-latvija-pokazala-uchenija-po-otrazheniju-vtorzhenija.html

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sorry but I cant continue copy and paste ... because a laughing attack... :laughs:

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‼️🇷🇺🪖 Defense Minister Andrey Belousov announced the start of production of combat robots. #Russia

Each group has its own production of ground robots, robotic systems, which are produced in the groups. It should be noted that it is the products produced in the troops that are the most effective, he said.

Tracked platforms have long proven their effectiveness. During the assault on Avdeevka, Frog drones delivered charges and destroyed militant positions.

The Courier robot can be equipped with various types of weapons, which allows it to perform a wide range of tasks.

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‼️🇺🇦💥 Strike in Sumy hits gathering of soldiers during awards ceremony — MP Bezuhla

➖ “A message to Syrskyi and especially to the commander of the Territorial Defense Forces: stop gathering troops for award ceremonies, especially in civilian areas — once again, the Russians had intel on the assembly. And formations are still being held at training grounds,” she writes.

▪️ She also points out that no one has been held accountable for previous incidents where Ukrainian soldiers were killed during such gatherings.

➖ “No one has been punished for previous cases. For example, after the tragedy during the awards ceremony of the 128th Brigade, no suspicions have even been issued. Brigade commander Lysiuk is the godfather of General Zubanych…” she complains.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Forces Enter Novomykhailivka and Launch Assault on Novoe

▪️ Near the border between Kharkiv region and the Donetsk People’s Republic, on the Svatove-Lyman axis, the “Zapad” (West) group has broken into Novomykhailivka and established a foothold on its outskirts.

▪️ Russian assault units are also attacking nearby Novoe, attempting to gain entry and advance further.

- RVvoenkor

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🇺🇦☠️ Ukrainian Commander Killed in Precision Strike on Sumy

Ukrainian media have started releasing the first official details regarding yesterday’s missile strike on the city of Sumy.

Among the confirmed casualties is Colonel Yuriy Yula, born in 1982. According to reports, “He died on April 13 as a result of a missile strike on the city of Sumy—suffering injuries incompatible with life.”

Colonel Yula served as the commander of the 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Unit A1476). Prior to that, he led a battalion within the same branch.

The elimination of such a senior military figure highlights the accuracy and strategic impact of the strike, suggesting it was aimed at high-value targets within Ukraine’s command structure.
- RVvoenkor

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On Sunday, Russian military launched an Iskander strike on the meeting place of the command staff of the Ukrainian operational-tactical group "Seversk" in Sumy, the Defense Ministry reported.

As a result of the target being hit, more than 60 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen were killed, the department says.

The Ministry of Defense noted that Kiev continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield, holding events with the participation of military personnel in the center of a densely populated city.

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Russian army strikes Ukrainian Armed Forces formation in Sumy

60 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and officers were killed, including those who abused civilians in Kursk Oblast. 80 militants were wounded.
- SK

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Interview Excerpt with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov – Kommersant, Moscow, April 14, 2025

Q: You’ve said the new U.S. administration seems willing to discuss not just bilateral matters, but also a peaceful settlement in Ukraine.

Yet at a recent UN session on Ukraine—called after the strike on Kryvyi Rih—the U.S. representative warned that continued Russian strikes on Ukrainian territory could derail peace talks. Just days later, Russia struck Sumy, where, according to Ukrainian reports, civilians and children were killed. Does this mean Russia is ignoring U.S. warnings?

Lavrov: The Americans have a lot of “official” representatives. One of them recently made some remarks in Greenland. She was asked to return home—and look for a new job.

Now, I’m not saying this woman (I don’t recall the statement you mentioned) deserves the same fate, but let’s be honest: during the Biden era, lies have completely dominated the Western and U.S. narrative. And we know that well.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve repeatedly pointed out to UN Secretary-General António Guterres that he, as the organization’s top administrative official—as per the UN Charter—should remain impartial and not take instructions from any government.

We’ve known each other for decades. We’re on a first-name basis. I told him: even if you’re not directly receiving orders, you’re still carrying out the West’s agenda regarding Ukraine.

Now once again, after all the noise about children and civilians “dying by the dozens” in Sumy, he issued a statement calling for an end to violations of international humanitarian law, a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine crisis under the UN Charter, and respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity in line with General Assembly resolutions.

But let’s be clear: International humanitarian law strictly forbids placing military infrastructure and weapons in civilian areas.

From the earliest days of the conflict—even back during the Minsk Agreements, when there were still naïve hopes of peace—we saw endless cases of Ukrainian forces setting up air defenses and artillery in residential neighborhoods, right next to kindergartens. There are countless videos online of Ukrainian women shouting at soldiers to get away from playgrounds and grocery stores. But this tactic continues.

We know exactly who was at the site hit in Sumy: it was another meeting between Ukrainian commanders and their Western partners—whether they’re called “mercenaries” or something else.

Let’s not pretend: NATO personnel are there, running the show directly. Everyone knows it. Even The New York Times recently laid it all out—how the Americans have played a decisive role in the attacks on Russia from the very start. Without them, most long-range missiles wouldn’t even leave their launch pads.
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❗️The Russian Federation has evidence that another "meeting" of Ukrainian military leaders with Western colleagues took place at the facility in Sumy, Lavrov said.

The head of the Foreign Ministry explained that there are NATO servicemen there who directly command Ukrainian militants.

"Everyone knows this. The New York Times recently explained how the Americans played a decisive role in the attacks on Russia from the very beginning. Without this role, most of the long-range missiles would not have left their bases at all," he said in a conversation with Kommersant.

- ZN
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A member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who called on TikTok to desert the army and "incited the population to overthrow the constitutional order" was arrested in Ukraine

One of the videos is titled "Zelensky and all authorities [should get] life imprisonment with confiscation of property." The titles of other videos call for peace and negotiations.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Mobilization should not stop, and martial law should be continued — MP

▪️There is no reason to hope for a quick end to the war, and therefore for the end of martial law, says Kreidenko.

▪️He noted that Ukrainian society must clearly understand how the country will move forward after the extension of martial law.
- RVvoenkor

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🇺🇦☠️ Ukrainian Commander Killed in Precision Strike on Sumy

Ukrainian media have started releasing the first official details regarding yesterday’s missile strike on the city of Sumy.

Among the confirmed casualties is Colonel Yuriy Yula, born in 1982. According to reports, “He died on April 13 as a result of a missile strike on the city of Sumy—suffering injuries incompatible with life.”

Colonel Yula served as the commander of the 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Unit A1476). Prior to that, he led a battalion within the same branch.

The elimination of such a senior military figure highlights the accuracy and strategic impact of the strike, suggesting it was aimed at high-value targets within Ukraine’s command structure.
- RVvoenkor

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Deputy Brigade Commander of the 26th Artillery Brigade, Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Yula, was killed in Sumy as a result of yesterday's missile strike - local administration.

This is only the first signs. The list of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is about 200 people.
- Condottiero

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The effectiveness of the missile strike on Sumy is reflected in the aftermath: NATO air ambulances have been flying nonstop for nearly 24 hours, signaling a high casualty toll.

Reports suggest that among the dead are senior officers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), and even NATO personnel. The spike in obituaries and the unusually high air evacuation activity point to a precision strike that hit a high-value target—likely during a meeting or coordination event.

While official confirmations remain limited, the scale of the response speaks volumes.
- Condottiero

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They entered not only through gas pipes, but even through water pipes — soldiers share their most unexpected combat missions.

The operation took place in the DPR: a pipe just 1.2 meters high led directly into the enemy’s rear. Our fighters used it to cut off the Ukrainian troops’ retreat and pushed them out with minimal forces.

In a conversation with Zvezda war correspondent Lana Iden, the servicemen described their tactics as a “creative approach.”

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Trump says Ukraine is "Biden's war, not mine,"

He is right. But the longer he allows it to continue, the more it becomes his.

This is exactly what Zelensky is counting on. Not that it will save him.

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/palm-sunday-attacks-on-sumy-and-al-ahli.html#more (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/palm-sunday-attacks-on-sumy-and-al-ahli.html)

Palm Sunday Attacks On Sumy And Al-Ahli

In yesterday's week-in-review (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/the-moa-week-in-review-ot-2025-077.html) I had linked to a missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy:

Russia launched a missile attack on the center of Sumy. More than 30 people were killed (https://strana.news/news/483345-v-rezultate-rossijkoho-udara-po-sumam-pohibli-bolee-20-chelovek.html) - Strana

Machine translation:
This morning, the Russians fired two ballistic missiles at the center of Sumy. 31 people were killed, including 2 children. 84 people were injured, including 10 children.
The Prosecutor General's Office reported that at about 10:15, the Russian military launched two missile strikes on the center of the city of Sumy. Rescue operations are continuing, the number of victims is being specified.
One of the pictures Strana provided showed the destroyed congress center of the Sumy State University.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/19i/sumyuni1.jpg

Shortly after the incident the Member of the Rada Mariana Bezuglaya accused the military command of staging a ceremony in the city despite it being less than 20 kilometer from the active fighting front (machine translation):
Mariana Bezuhla (Mariana Bezuhla) @marybezuhla - 9:32 UTC · Apr 13, 2025 (https://x.com/marybezuhla/status/1911351685030486172) Russia shelled the center of Sumy on Palm Sunday. Appeal to Syrsky and separately to the TrO commander: do not gather the military for awards, and even more so in civilian cities-again, the Russians had information about the cluster. And the polygons are still being plotted...
Don't build, don't do "reward and build" so that your scoop and you with it will be cursed!
SBU: another information leak.
No one has been punished for previous cases. For example, after the tragedy with the award ceremony in the 128th brigade, no one has yet been handed suspicion. Therefore, Brigade Commander Lysyuk is the godfather of General Zubanich...
...
Mr. President, is this OK for you? Keep silent and keep scoops??? They don't draw conclusions! They don't draw conclusions, Mr. President!
Mariana Bezuhla has some notoriety for having insider information from the Ukrainian military. She has for some time argued for the removal of the Ukrainian Commander in Chief General Syrsky.

She later added (https://x.com/marybezuhla/status/1911374804839546969):
Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, Poltava, Dnipro, Sumy. All cases are similar. In between, there are hundreds of other Russian cynical attacks directly on civilians, but there are cases where the enemy received information about the military in major cities. It is impossible not to draw conclusions! The enemy is trying to take every chance!
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We cannot put up with the indifferent heads of some administrations who send out information about meetings in an open way, and then remain in their positions — as has happened several times before.Her tweet included a propaganda picture of the 117th Territorial Brigade.

Bezuhla was not the only politician to speak out (https://strana.news/news/483363-po-komu-rf-nanesla-raketnyj-udar-v-sumakh.html):
MP Mariana Bezuglaya, former MP Ihor Mosiychuk and Mayor of Konotop Artem Semenikhin said that the missiles arrived at the award ceremony for the military of the 117th territorial Defense Brigade, which is fighting in Sumy region and just today marks the anniversary of its creation. Bezuglaya and Mosiychuk say that there may have been a leak of information when sending out invitations to the event. Moreover, Mosiychuk said that civilians were also invited to the event. Including children.
"I hope that in Sumy they are already detaining the head of the Internal Affairs Service Artyukh and MP Ananchenko (MP from Sumy from the ruling Servant of the People party- Ed. ), who so wanted to make a splash at the festive awarding of soldiers of the 117th TrO brigade on the occasion of the seventh anniversary. Artyukh, Ananchenko promoted the award ceremony in Sumy and gathered there, in addition to the military, also civilians, in particular children! Scum and scum! " - wrote Mosiychuk.
At the same time, Konotop Mayor Artem Semenikhin called Governor Artyukh "scum and scarecrow" and called on him to "get down on his knees and apologize to people" before 18:00. He also said that he was on the spot at the time of the impact and "draped" from there, "knocking down children." He called on the governor and the head of the regional SBU to resign.
Today news appeared of several (https://x.com/squatsons/status/1911736068795154804) high ranking military casualties (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/04/14/7507507/):
Colonel Yurii Yula, commander of the 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade named after Ataman Petro Kalnyshevskyi, was killed in a Russian missile attack on the city of Sumy on 13 April. Source: Berdychiv City Council; Suspilne, a Ukrainian public broadcaster, with reference to Berdychiv District Military Administration; Ukrainska Pravda sources in the defence forces.
The 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade is the only Ukrainian unit that is officially equipped with HIMARS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_Rocket_Artillery_Brigade_(Ukraine)), the U.S. missile system which is used to fire long range missiles into Russia. It is headquartered in Sumy. The U.S. military would regard its commander a 'high value target'.

Today the Russian Ministry of Defense announced (https://eng.mil.ru/en/special_operation/news/more.htm?id=12558830@egNews):
Yesterday, the Russian Armed Forces launched two Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles in conditions of heavy electronic warfare countermeasures and foreign-made air defence systems in action to hit the site in Sumy where commanding officers of the Seversk task force had a meeting. More than 60 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been eliminated. The Kiev regime continues to use the Ukrainian population as a human shield by deploying military facilities and carrying out activities involving servicemen in the centre of the densely populated city.
The facts thus seem to be clear. There was a ceremony planned for the seventh anniversary of the founding of the 117th Territorial Brigade. This was to take place in the congress center of the Sumy State University. Medals were to be presented for the recent participation of the brigade in the attack on the Russian oblast of Kursk. Invitations to the commanders of neighboring units were sent out.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov hinted (https://twitter.com/DagnyTaggart963/status/1911787852888756596) that 'western' military official were also there:
We have facts about who was at the facility that was hit in Sumy - Lavrov "There was another "meeting" of Ukrainian military leaders with their Western colleagues, who were either under the guise of mercenaries, or I don't know under the guise of who," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized."
The Russian military got wind of the event and destroyed the congress center (https://hromadske.ua/rehiony/243132-u-sumskomu-tsentri-iakyy-poshkodyly-rosiiany-mala-vidbutysia-dytiacha-vystava-ot-iak-vin-vyhliadaye-zaraz-foto) (pics) with two Iskander missiles. There were military and civilian casualties. But under the rules of war the strike was on a legitimate target.

European politicians widely condemned the attack as having been on civilians. President Trump called the attack a "mistake" (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/04/14/7507460/).

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post report of the military target of the Russian attack. Both emphasize that the attack took place on Palm Sunday.

NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/world/europe/sumy-ukraine-russia-strikes.html) (archived (https://archive.ph/4Rdlq)):
Two missiles hit the city center about 10:15 a.m., according to the regional prosecutor’s office. Ukraine’s interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said the ballistic missiles struck when the streets were crowded with civilians out enjoying Palm Sunday, a Christian celebration popular in Ukraine. At least 83 people were injured, Mr. Klymenko added.The Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/13/russia-ukraine-sumy-attack/) (archived (https://archive.ph/0eMif)):
The attack on the city’s downtown area occurred on Palm Sunday, as families flocked to church to mark the beginning of Holy Week ahead of Easter. Volodymyr Artyukh, head of the Sumy regional military administration, said Russia launched two ballistic missiles at the city. One hit “an ordinary city street” in Sumy, which sits just 18 miles from the Russian border, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
In another attack yesterday Israel destroyed one of the last hospitals in Gaza.
The New York Times has only a short video (https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010108438/gaza-city-hospital-israeli-airstrike.html) of the attack:
Israeli Strike Heavily Damages One of Gaza’s Last Major Hospitals No one was killed in the attack on the Ahli Arab Hospital, but a child being treated for a head injury died from the rushed evacuation, according to the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, which oversees the medical center.
The Washington Post report is better (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/13/israel-gaza-al-ahli-baptist-hospital/) (archived (https://archive.ph/fYKri)):
The Israeli military bombed the last fully functional hospital in Gaza City early Sunday, medics there said, giving patients, doctors and displaced Palestinians sheltering on the grounds only 20 minutes to evacuate before it struck and destroyed key parts of the facility. More than 200 people — 88 patients and 120 staff members — were at al-Ahli Hospital when its reception received a call from the Israeli military telling them to leave the building shortly before 2 a.m. local time, according to the facility’s medical director and an American orthopedic surgeon volunteering at the hospital.
The al-Ahli hospital is provided for and administered by Christian institutions. But neither paper thought it necessary to emphasize that the illegal attack on the obviously civilian target took place on Palm Sunday.

Only deep down its piece does the Post insert a quote which mentions it:
“The Diocese of Jerusalem is appalled at the bombing of the hospital now for the fifth time since the beginning of the war in 2023 — and this time on the morning of Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week,” the Baptist Church in Jerusalem said.The Russian attack on a legitimate military target is depicted as a war crime. That it took place on Palm Sunday is emphasized.

The illegitimate Israeli attack on a civilian health care institution is treated as somewhat normal. Despite its direct relation to Christian heritage and care there is no explicit mention that it took place on Palm Sunday.

This is an example of how propaganda inserts religion when it helps to condemn an "enemy" but leaves it out when it reports of the outrage committed by a "friendly" force.

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‼️🇺🇦🪖☠️About 100,000 #Ukrainian soldiers died in the war. This was reported by the American TV channel CBS News during an interview with #Zelensky.

Moreover, this figure was not voiced by Zelensky (as many media outlets wrote), but by the TV channel itself, which inserted it into the interview with a summary of the victims of the war in #Ukraine.

It should be noted that 100,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers is twice as many as the figures Zelensky cited. Two months ago, on February 16, he spoke to NBC News about 46,000 dead soldiers.

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 #Zelensky invites EU leaders to Kiev on May 9 - in contrast to the parade in Moscow.

Kiev wants to invite top European Union officials to visit Kyiv on May 9, the same day as Moscow's annual Victory Day parade, to demonstrate diplomatic unity and to contrast its event with Russia's.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiga extended the invitation to his European counterparts at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. He said Zelensky would like to host the leaders of the so-called "coalition of the willing" in Kyiv on May 9 to discuss possible security guarantees for #Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with #Russia.

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‼️🇪🇺🇷🇺 The #EuropeanUnion is warning of consequences for those who attend #Russia’s Victory Day parade on May 9, EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja #Kallas said:

“Many ministers have made it clear that the EU takes trips to Moscow for the May 9 celebrations seriously — there will be consequences.”

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What we know about Russia’s Iskander strike on Ukrainian military command in Sumy

The strike on the target eliminated more than 60 Ukrainian army personnel, Russia’s Defense Ministry said

MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Russia delivered a strike by two Iskander-M missiles on a gathering place of Ukraine’s military command in Sumy on April 13, destroying over 60 Ukrainian army personnel, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

TASS has gathered key facts about the strike.

Defense Ministry’s report

On April 13, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a strike by two Iskander-M tactical missiles on a gathering place of the command staff of Ukraine’s Seversk operational-tactical group in the city of Sumy amid the Ukrainian army’s active counter-measures by foreign-made electronic warfare and air defense systems, the ministry said in a statement.

The strike on the target eliminated more than 60 Ukrainian army personnel, it said.

The Kiev regime continues using civilians as a human shield, holding measures with the army personnel in the center of the city of Sumy and placing military facilities there, the ministry stressed.

Kremlin’s comment

The Russian Armed Forces deliver strikes solely on military and paramilitary targets, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

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Russian forces strike Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries in 137 areas over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted roughly 420 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day

MOSCOW, April 14. /TASS/. Russian forces struck Ukrainian army personnel and foreign mercenaries in 137 areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck the workshops of a Ukrainian military-industrial enterprise, the infrastructure of a military airfield, armament and ammunition storage sites of the Ukrainian army and temporary deployment areas of Ukraine’s armed formations and mercenaries in 137 areas," the ministry said in a statement.

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 95 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 95 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy electronic warfare stations in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Belgorod direction, Battlegroup North units inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade, a coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Lesnoye, Miropolskoye, Petrushevka and Prokhody in the Sumy Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 95 personnel, an armored combat vehicle, three motor vehicles, a field artillery gun, a multiple rocket launcher and three electronic warfare stations in that frontline area over the past day, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts 240 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted roughly 240 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses on formations of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade and an artillery brigade of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Kupyansk, Borovaya and Kamenka in the Kharkov Region, Kirovsk, Karpovka and Krasny Liman in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 240 personnel, three armored combat vehicles, including two US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, five motor vehicles and two artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed a Kvertus electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts 315 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 315 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed six enemy ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup South units improved their tactical position and inflicted losses among manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, an unmanned aircraft systems regiment of the Ukrainian army, a territorial defense brigade and a National Guard brigade in areas near the settlements of Petrovka, Kalinovo, Tarasovka, Chasov Yar and Kleban-Byk in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 315 personnel, four armored combat vehicles, including a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, 13 motor vehicles and a field artillery gun in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed two electronic warfare stations and six ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicts 420 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted roughly 420 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Center units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses on formations of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an unmanned systems brigade and an assault regiment of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and two National Guard brigades in areas near the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Lysovka, Zverevo, Rodinskoye, Krasnoarmeysk, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Alekseyevka and Preobrazhenka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 420 personnel, five armored combat vehicles, including four US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, six motor vehicles and four artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicts 165 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted roughly 165 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy tank and three artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup East units kept advancing deep into the enemy’s defenses and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades and an air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Shevchenko, Zelyony Kut, Zelyonoye Pole, Bogatyr and Voskresenka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Gulyaipole in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 165 personnel, a tank, five motor vehicles and three field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroys 55 Ukrainian troops in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr destroyed roughly 55 Ukrainian troops and four enemy ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted losses on formations of a mechanized brigade, a mountain assault brigade and three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian army in areas near the settlements of Novodanilovka and Pavlovka in the Zaporozhye Region, Ponyatovka, Antonovka and Nikolskoye in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.

"As many as 55 [Ukrainian] military personnel, an M113 armored personnel carrier and a HMMWV armored combat vehicle of US manufacture, seven motor vehicles, a US-manufactured 155mm M777 howitzer, an electronic warfare station, an Israeli-made RADA radar station and four ammunition depots were destroyed," the ministry said.

Russian air defenses destroy 227 Ukrainian UAVs, six JDAM smart bombs in past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 227 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and six JDAM smart bombs over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down six JDAM guided aerial bombs and three rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system of US manufacture and 227 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 661 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 51,562 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 surface-to-air missile systems, 22,833 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,536 multiple rocket launchers, 23,602 field artillery guns and mortars and 34,087 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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German Leader Merz Says Attack Crimea Bridge; Russian Medvedev says "Think Twice, NAZI" April 14, 2025

Did you catch those final words "Think twice, Nazi."?

The Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council just publicly called the incoming Chancellor of Germany, a "Nazi."

This isn't just name-calling. This is serious. Way serious.


In World War 2, Germany invaded much of western Europe and then attacked what was then the Soviet Union. The Soviets - mostly Russians - fought back ferociously. It was the most battle-deadly front of the entire war.

Russia lost twenty-seven MILLION people fighting the Nazis.


When Russia repelled the Nazi army, the Russians chased them all the way across Europe, back to Berlin. There, it was the Russian "Red Army" that stormed Berlin and conquered Nazi Germany.

Not the Americans. Not the British . . . . . the Russians.

Fast-forward to the present Russia-Ukraine conflict, which is a Proxy war, by NATO, against Russia. Germany has been supplying Leopard Tanks which have been used on Russia soil but were finally repelled. Now, the incoming German chancellor wants to provide German "Taurus" Missile to destroy the Kerch Strait Bridge, and the Deputy Chairman of Russia's Federation council just told him "Think twice, Nazi."

This is not rhetoric. This is not "posturing." Medvedev means it.

With three small words, Medvedev explained the Merz and to the entire world, what this situation is actually becoming.

It seems to most rational people that Germany was taught a horrifying lesson in World War 2. They should not make the mistake of attacking Russia again.

Using Ukraine as a Proxy for Germany to launch German-supplied and programmed missiles, will not relieve Germany of the responsibility. Germany would be an accessory to the war, and just as responsible as Ukraine for any coming Taurus missile attack.

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Confirmed Identities of Dead in Kursk Russia PROVE **NATO Forces** in the war against Russia April 14, 2025



Since ejecting foreign troops from Kursk, Russia, authorities have been performing identification of the dead bodies. Positive ID shows NATO country forces ARE in active combat against Russia.

According to the Russia Ministry of Defense, the totals below show the dead (. . .ahem . . .) "mercenaries" from each country who were killed fighting against Russia inside the Russian Oblast (state) of Kursk.

Identities and nationalities were determined from ID documents found on each dead body. Countries in BOLD typeface are NATO countries:

Poland: 1953
Georgia (Caucuses Mountains) 1230
Colombia (South America) 917
France 208
Germany 197
Great Britain (UK) 156
United States 89
Australia 17
Japan 4

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🇸🇰🇪🇺 Slovak PM Robert Fico Fires Back at Kaja Kallas: "Her Warning is Disrespectful, I Will Attend Moscow's Victory Day Celebrations"

This is what he posted on his social media:

"WARNING AND THREAT BY MS. KALLAS ARE DISRESPECTFUL AND I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THEM.

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, is warning EU leaders against participating in the May celebrations of Victory Day in Moscow. She claims that such participation will not be taken lightly.

I will go to Moscow on May 9th. Is Ms. Kallas's warning a form of blackmail or a signal that I will be punished upon my return from Moscow? I don’t know. But I do know that the year is 2025, not 1939.

Ms. Kallas’s warning confirms that we need a discussion within the EU about the essence of democracy. About what happened in Romania and France in connection with presidential elections, about the 'Maidans' organized by the West in Georgia and Serbia, and how the abuse of criminal law against the opposition in Slovakia has been ignored.

Ms. Kallas, I would like to inform you that I am the legitimate Prime Minister of Slovakia – a sovereign country. No one can dictate to me where I can or cannot travel. I will go to Moscow to pay tribute to the thousands of Red Army soldiers who died liberating Slovakia, as well as to the millions of other victims of Nazi terror. Just as I have paid tribute to the victims of the Normandy landings, or those in the Pacific, or as I plan to honor the RAF pilots. And let me remind you that I am one of the few in the EU who consistently speaks about the need for peace in Ukraine and does not support the continuation of this senseless war.

Ms. Kallas’s words are disrespectful and I strongly object to them."

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“Abstinence Might Be Good for Kallas” — Russian Senator Responds to EU Diplomat’s Warning

Grigory Karasin fired back at Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas after she urged EU leaders to avoid visiting Moscow for the Victory Day Parade, warning of possible consequences.

Speaking to Zvezda, the senator called her remarks a cynical attempt to intimidate politicians. He described it as an insult to the memory of those who fell fighting fascism — a level of disrespect bordering on criminal.

“I don’t know her personally — lucky for her,” Karasin added. “For our peoples across the former Soviet Union, the 80th anniversary of Victory and Victory Day itself is a sacred occasion.”
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Zaluzhny’s lost it completely in London. He’s now urging Ukrainians not only to be unafraid of dying—but to be ready to kill Russians.

“War is about making two crucial choices. First — don’t be afraid. Don’t fear death. But dying for Ukraine, for your people — that’s not enough. You must make a second, equally hard and vital choice — to be ready to kill.

Where does that spirit—the will to kill—come from? Special food? No. Unique weather we grow up in? No… It comes from something deeper. It’s in our code, the code of our nation, embedded in us through our culture.”
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“Putin Wants to Achieve a Lasting Peace” – Witkoff on the Results of His Third Meeting with the Russian President

“Our most recent meeting lasted nearly five hours. In the room with Putin were two of his key advisors – Ushakov and Kirill Dmitriev. It was a substantive discussion. We reached a point where Putin expressed a desire to achieve a lasting peace — not just a ceasefire, but something more. And we have a response to that as well.”

Will the agreement include elements that go beyond the usual framework — things no one is thinking about yet?

“I would suggest that Vladimir Putin may, in fact, want to do business with the U.S. and Europe. Could that be part of the deal? Absolutely.

Formally, the peace agreement concerns the so-called five territories [Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson], but in reality, it’s much broader. It involves security protocols, NATO, and even Article 5 of the NATO treaty. There are a lot of complex details. The situation is complicated.

But I believe we’re on the threshold of something very significant for the entire world. Moreover, I believe there’s an opportunity to reformat U.S.-Russia relations through attractive commercial ventures, which, in my view, could provide real stability in the region. Partnership creates stability.”
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Wait—no way!!! The Poles did it for the money too??? I can’t!
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🇵🇱🇺🇦 Poland does not want to simply be in solidarity with Ukraine, but wants to earn money from it - Prime Minister of the Republic Tusk.

“We will no longer help in a naive way. It will not be that Poland will be in solidarity, and others will earn money from the restoration of Ukraine.”

According to the Russian-faced Prime Minister, now Poland will also "earn money" in this context, firmly defending its own interests and the interests of the companies of the Republic.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 For the first time, an FPV drone controlled from Moscow hit a Ukrainian Armed Forces facility in Chasov Yar

▪️The strike was carried out by the Ovod FPV drone using the new Orbita control system.

▪️The UAV crew from the Espanyola brigade prepared the drone for takeoff.

▪️The drone was controlled by a UAV operator located in Moscow City.

▪️The drone flew more than 11 km (in the combat zone) and successfully hit the target.

▪️Orbita will allow drone strikes to be carried out by giving commands from anywhere in the world.

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Interview Excerpt with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov – Kommersant, Moscow, April 14, 2025

Q: You’ve said the new U.S. administration seems willing to discuss not just bilateral matters, but also a peaceful settlement in Ukraine.

Yet at a recent UN session on Ukraine—called after the strike on Kryvyi Rih—the U.S. representative warned that continued Russian strikes on Ukrainian territory could derail peace talks. Just days later, Russia struck Sumy, where, according to Ukrainian reports, civilians and children were killed. Does this mean Russia is ignoring U.S. warnings?

Lavrov: The Americans have a lot of “official” representatives. One of them recently made some remarks in Greenland. She was asked to return home—and look for a new job.

Now, I’m not saying this woman (I don’t recall the statement you mentioned) deserves the same fate, but let’s be honest: during the Biden era, lies have completely dominated the Western and U.S. narrative. And we know that well.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve repeatedly pointed out to UN Secretary-General António Guterres that he, as the organization’s top administrative official—as per the UN Charter—should remain impartial and not take instructions from any government.

We’ve known each other for decades. We’re on a first-name basis. I told him: even if you’re not directly receiving orders, you’re still carrying out the West’s agenda regarding Ukraine.

Now once again, after all the noise about children and civilians “dying by the dozens” in Sumy, he issued a statement calling for an end to violations of international humanitarian law, a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine crisis under the UN Charter, and respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity in line with General Assembly resolutions.

But let’s be clear: International humanitarian law strictly forbids placing military infrastructure and weapons in civilian areas.

From the earliest days of the conflict—even back during the Minsk Agreements, when there were still naïve hopes of peace—we saw endless cases of Ukrainian forces setting up air defenses and artillery in residential neighborhoods, right next to kindergartens. There are countless videos online of Ukrainian women shouting at soldiers to get away from playgrounds and grocery stores. But this tactic continues.

We know exactly who was at the site hit in Sumy: it was another meeting between Ukrainian commanders and their Western partners—whether they’re called “mercenaries” or something else.

Let’s not pretend: NATO personnel are there, running the show directly. Everyone knows it. Even The New York Times recently laid it all out—how the Americans have played a decisive role in the attacks on Russia from the very start. Without them, most long-range missiles wouldn’t even leave their launch pads.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky proudly showcases one of the key masterminds behind the war with Russia to wounded Ukrainian soldiers – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Rutte is grinning ear to ear, clapping like a cheerleader, and taking selfies, completely indifferent to the bloodshed and the horrors he's helping to fuel.

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The special services of Russia and Belarus are ready to act preemptively in the face of NATO activity and increasing escalation from Europe around Ukraine, said Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

We see an increase in military activity by NATO countries near our borders, we feel and see that European countries, especially France, Great Britain and Germany, are increasing the level of escalation around the Ukrainian conflict, so we need to act preemptively. We are ready for this.

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‼️🇺🇦🪖 Narrative Collapse: #Zelensky Dismisses Sumy Governor Over Hidden Military Gathering.

Zelensky has dismissed the head of the Sumy Regional State Administration, Artem Artyukh, according to government representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Melnychuk. The decision was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.

‼️🇺🇦 Artyukh had confirmed the holding of a military awards ceremony in #Sumy just before the strike on April 13. However, he insisted that he was not the one who initiated the event.

It has been reported by opposition figures, including MP Marianna Bezuglaya, former deputy Igor Mosiychuk, and Konotop Mayor Artem Semenikhin, that Artyukh organized the ceremony for soldiers from the 117th Brigade. This was the target of the "Iskander" missile strike.

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🇩🇪 If you wondered why Medvedev called out Merz today... here is some context.

Friedrich Merz, soon to be Germany’s chancellor, is drenched in his family’s filthy Nazi stench.

His grandfather, Josef Paul Sauvigny, joined the Sturmabteilung—Hitler’s brutal "Brownshirt" thugs who beat Jews and crushed dissent—in 1933, became an NSDAP member, and as Brilon’s mayor, plastered streets with Hitler and Göring’s names.

Merz allegedly called this Nazi scum “admirable” in a 2004 speech during a local election campaign.

Later, in a statement to the Berliner Zeitung, Merz described his grandfather as an “impressive personality” and a “successful mayor.”

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‼️🇷🇺📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted:

▫️ to more than 74,450 troops,
▫️ 407 tanks,
▫️ 333 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 304 armoured personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,270 armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,717 motor vehicles,
▫️ 612 artillery guns,
▫️ 57 MLRS launchers including 15 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 123 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-fire radars, ten air defence radars,
▫️ 57 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

#Russian Defence Ministry

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From Lord Bebo on X (https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1912221765360660956):



US BOY WANTED TO KILL TRUMP WITH AN EXPLOSIVE DRONE WITH UKRAINIAN HELP!

Sounds like AZOV was guiding and supporting this boy to setup a Kamikaze FPV drone to take out Trump!

INSANE

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From Lord Bebo on X (https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1912221765360660956):


US BOY WANTED TO KILL TRUMP WITH AN EXPLOSIVE DRONE WITH UKRAINIAN HELP!

Sounds like AZOV was guiding and supporting this boy to setup a Kamikaze FPV drone to take out Trump!

INSANEhttps://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1912221653003632640/vid/avc1/1280x720/TWmbj2N2MhY-LHon.mp4?tag=16Astonishing, important, and this was reported yesterday by Redacted as well:

Why are Trump’s Assassins all tied to Ukraine? Here’s what the Media won’t say


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uylHBiKY9Ew

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Kamikaze land drone destroys a Ukrainian Armed Forces dugout position in Kharkov region

One of the most interesting aspects to leap out during the documentation of this conflict (https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1912541054466945252) have been the developments in robotic/s, and drone warfare. As unsavoury as it all is it is also quite remarkable seeing quite how sophisticated - and simple in many ways - their deployment has been.

This land drone, as I suspect many are, carries a TM-62 anti-tank landmine and their destructive power is pretty immense. Pity the poor souls in this particular dugout; that's some explosive power there. Kharkov region as one of these drones enters a Ukrainian armed forces dugout - nowhere is safe:

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🇺🇳 U.S. Votes Against UN Resolution Over Ukraine Clause, Joining Russia

The United States voted against a UN resolution on cooperation with the Council of Europe, citing objections to a clause that condemned "Russian aggression against Ukraine." Due to that specific language, the U.S. opposed the entire resolution.

U.S. representatives stated that the wording was “unhelpful in advancing the cause of peace.”

Although the U.S. continues to express support for Ukraine, it has consistently voted against similarly worded resolutions in international bodies since the Trump administration.

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🇷🇺🇪🇪 Russia Warns of Response to Any Estonian Actions Against Its Ships in the Baltic

Russia will respond proportionally to any threats or risks posed by Estonia as a NATO member if it takes unlawful actions against Russian vessels in the Baltic Sea, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated.

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe is unable to agree on aid to Kiev due to disagreements , Le Monde writes. European allies have reached a dead end because they are not participating in the negotiations.

There are also questions about sending troops to #Ukraine after the ceasefire, with France backing the deployment of ground troops and the UK supporting the protection of Ukraine's air and sea space, with funding contingent on a review of the #USA military presence in #Europe.

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‼️🇷🇺📊 Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to:

▫️ more than 74,780 troops,
▫️ 410 tanks,
▫️ 334 infantry fighting vehicles,
▫️ 305 armoured personnel carriers,
▫️ 2,277 armoured fighting vehicles,
▫️ 2,734 motor vehicles,
▫️ 618 artillery guns,
▫️ 57 MLRS launchers, including 15 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA,
▫️ 28 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles,
▫️ 125 EW stations,
▫️ 18 counter-battery warfare radars, 12 air defence radars,
▫️ 57 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.

The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.

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‼️🇷🇺🇩🇪 The #Russian Foreign Ministry has warned that any strikes by #Taurus missiles on Russia's critical infrastructure will be regarded by Moscow as "direct involvement by #Germany in the war on Kiev's side."

This comes after the future German Chancellor, Merz, suggested the possibility of supplying these missiles and striking the Crimean Bridge.

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‼️🇷🇺👨‍🚀 "We are Russians! God is with us!"

For the first time in history, #Russian #Orthodox symbols appeared in space. Russian cosmonauts took a banner with the face of #JesusChrist to the International Space Station and unfurled it in space.

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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 Residents of Odessa who crossed the Dnieper in a rubber boat and surrendered to #Russian troops told RIA Novosti how they began to prepare their escape after being kidnapped by TCC employees and policemen.

In June 2024, Odessa residents Andrei Berezovsky and Vladislav Stoyanov crossed the Dnieper in a rubber boat and surrendered to Russian paratroopers on the Kinburn Spit.

Vladislav says that he is divorced and went to visit his child being invited by his ex-wife but she met him with the policemen who kidnapped him to the TCC.

The men are currently serving 9 months in a penal colony in Adygea for illegally crossing the Russian border as a group by prior agreement. #Ukraine

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 All those who accused #Russia of striking civilians in #Sumy should "get on their knees before the world" after clarification from Ukraine, said the official representative of the #Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova:

"When the militants' meeting was liquidated, everyone started blaming Russia. But when it became clear that the authorities had deliberately covered up these ghouls with children, everyone somehow went silent."

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🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 #Ukraine still has a chance to defeat #Russia

This is what former #bundeswehr General Wittmann assures. According to him, the course of events can be reversed by a "powerful joint effort".

"So I am not saying that this war is already lost," he said and called for giving Kiev Taurus.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 All those who accused #Russia of striking civilians in #Sumy should "get on their knees before the world" after clarification from Ukraine, said the official representative of the #Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova:

"When the militants' meeting was liquidated, everyone started blaming Russia. But when it became clear that the authorities had deliberately covered up these ghouls with children, everyone somehow went silent."

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'Coalition of willing’ gone mad, strike on Sumy: Russian MFA spokewoman holds briefing

Vladimir Zelensky is "certainly" responsible for the unintended consequences of the Russian Armed Forces' attack on the venue where a Ukrainian command staff meeting was being held in Sumy, the Russian diplomat stated

MOSCOW, April 17. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky bears the responsibility for the collateral damage that occurred as a result of Russia’s strike on Sumy, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

She also called France and Britain's plan to station a "multinational peacekeeping contingent" in Ukraine insane.

TASS has compiled her main statements.

On Sumy strike

Vladimir Zelensky is "certainly" responsible for the unintended consequences of the Russian Armed Forces' attack on the venue where a Ukrainian command staff meeting was being held in Sumy. "Faced with the facts, Zelensky had to dismiss the head of the Sumy military administration [Vladimir] Artyukh. In fact, he thus confirmed the charges against him."

"Coalition of the willing" loses its marbles

The "coalition of the willing’s" plan to send a "multinational peacekeeping contingent" to Ukraine is "insane."

Despite their efforts, France and the United Kingdom "cannot unify support" for this plan.

Most of the members of the "coalition" see such a military intervention as unfeasible without US backing: "Judging by the current discussions, Washington still has no intention of becoming involved in such an adventure. It seems to be realistically assessing where all this could lead."

On weapons supplies to Kiev

When discussing the next arms package to Ukraine, Europe feels "increasingly detached from the United States" in this matter, while the United Kingdom and Germany are taking an active role in the process.

On moratorium on strikes on energy facilities

Russia has again recorded Ukraine's non-compliance with the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities: "The Ukrainian military conducts drone strikes on the infrastructure of the Russian fuel and energy sector literally every day. Since the so-called energy truce was declared, over 80 such attacks by the Kiev regime have been documented."

Transformers, electrical substations and gas infrastructure were targeted in the Ukrainian attacks: "We have already sent all this data to international organizations and the US side. And we will continue to do so."

On Kiev’s crimes

Russia has evidence of Kiev's atrocities in the Kursk Region, and the information discovered is "not for the faint of heart."

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, his numerous assistants, envoys and special representatives, as well as relevant international organizations are "not fulfilling their mandate well": "Where are your statements, your concerns, your press releases, your words of sympathy at least at briefings and press conferences, where are the specialized briefings or interviews on this subject? There is none of this."

On the detention of Gagauzia head

The Moldovan authorities are "actively attempting to dismantle" Gagauzia's autonomy. Its head Evghenia Gutsul was detained "under an obviously far-fetched pretext."

Russia "strongly condemns the totalitarian methods of the Moldovan authorities that are being applied to Gagauzia and call on specialized international structures to pay attention to the blatant violation of human and national minority rights and to force Chisinau to stop strangling the Gagauz people."

On Estonia’s actions

Russia will respond proportionately if Estonia, a NATO member, attacks Russian ships in the Baltic Sea.

Russia strongly condemns such "pirate-like behavior," arguing that the powers now granted to the Estonian Navy exceed the bounds of international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

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Russian troops liberate Preobrazhenka community in Donetsk region over past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted roughly 240 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

MOSCOW, April 17. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated the community of Preobrazhenka in the Donetsk region over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

"Battlegroup Center units liberated the settlement of Preobrazhenka in the Donetsk People’s Republic through active operations. They inflicted losses on formations of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an unmanned systems brigade of the Ukrainian army and two National Guard brigades in areas near the settlements of Ulyanovka, Uspenovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Novoekonomicheskoye and Mirolyubovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 385 personnel, three armored combat vehicles, six motor vehicles and five field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 65 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 65 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy tank and two ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Belgorod direction, Battlegroup North units inflicted losses on formations of two mechanized brigades, an air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army and three territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Miropolskoye, Prokhody, Ryasnoye and Novodmitrovka in the Sumy Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 65 personnel, a tank, three armored combat vehicles, two motor vehicles and six field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed two ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts 240 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted roughly 240 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units gained better lines and positions and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades and an assault brigade of the Ukrainian army in areas near the settlements of Yampol in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Olgovka and Borovaya in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 240 personnel, a tank, three armored combat vehicles, five motor vehicles, three field artillery guns and a Kvertus electronic warfare station in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed three ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts 320 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted roughly 320 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup South units improved their tactical position and inflicted losses on massed manpower and equipment of four mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army, a territorial defense brigade and a National Guard brigade in areas near the settlements of Katerinovka, Poltavka, Seversk and Yablonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 320 personnel, five armored combat vehicles, seven motor vehicles and six field artillery guns in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed six ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicts 130 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted roughly 130 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy jamming stations in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup East units kept moving deep into the enemy’s defenses and inflicted losses on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades and an air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army in areas near the settlements of Karla Marksa, Zelyonoye Pole, Zelyony Kut and Shevchenko in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost an estimated 130 personnel, an armored combat vehicle, two motor vehicles, two field artillery guns and two electronic warfare stations in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr inflicts over 90 casualties on Ukrainian army in past day

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr inflicted more than 90 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed three enemy ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted losses on formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian army and two territorial defense brigades in areas near the settlements of Novodanilovka and Kamenskoye in the Zaporozhye Region, Tomarino and Nikolskoye in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost more than 90 personnel, nine motor vehicles, an artillery gun and an electronic warfare station in that frontline area over the past 24 hours, it specified.

In addition, Russian forces destroyed three ammunition depots of the Ukrainian army, it said.

Russian forces strike Ukrainian military airfield, UAV production facility in past day

Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military airfield and an enterprise producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck the infrastructure of a military airfield, an UAV production enterprise, a warehouse of uncrewed boats and temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 143 areas," the ministry said.

Russian air defenses destroy 204 Ukrainian UAVs, five JDAM smart bombs in past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 204 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and five US-made JDAM smart bombs over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities destroyed five JDAM guided aerial bombs and three rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system of US manufacture, and also 204 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 661 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 52,293 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 surface-to-air missile systems, 22,876 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,536 multiple rocket launchers, 23,741 field artillery guns and mortars and 34,203 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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Diplomats deny reports of missile strike on Indian pharma company’s Kiev warehouse

"The most likely explanation of the incident is that one of Ukrainian air defense missiles fell on Kusum Healthcare’s warehouse setting it on fire," the Russian embassy in New Delhi said

NEW DELHI, April 17. /TASS/. The Russian embassy in New Delhi rejected the Ukrainian embassy’s claims of a Russian strike on a warehouse of an Indian pharmaceutical company in Kiev.

"In response to the accusations spread by the Embassy of Ukraine in India the Russian Embassy in New Delhi informs that the Russian Armed Forces did not attack or plan to attack on April 12, 2025, Kusum Healthcare’s pharmacy warehouse in the eastern part of Kiev," the embassy said.

The embassy went on to say that on that day, Russian tactical aviation, strike drones and missile forces hit an aviation plant of the Ukrainian military, as well as the infrastructure of a military airfield and armored vehicle repair and UAV assembly workshops at a completely different location.

"The most likely explanation of the incident is that one of Ukrainian air defense missiles fell on Kusum Healthcare’s warehouse setting it on fire," the Russian diplomats said. "Similar cases have occurred previously whereby Ukrainian air defense interceptors failing to hit their targets fell in urban areas due to ineptly operated electronic warfare systems."

"The Embassy outlines that during the Special Military Operation the Russian Armed Forces have never targeted civilian facilities," the Russian diplomatic mission added.

Previously, Ukraine’s embassy in New Delhi released a statement claiming that a Russian missile hit a warehouse owned by Kusum Healthcare, inflicting losses of $25 million.

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Ukrainian strikes target energy facilities in 15 Russian regions — TASS estimates

The attacks involved unmanned aerial vehicles, FPV drones and artillery, including HIMARS rocket launchers

MOSCOW, April 15. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army carried out strikes on energy facilities in 15 Russian regions between March 18 and April 16, according to TASS estimates.

The Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Zaporozhye, Kursk, Lipetsk, Rostov, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Kherson and Krasnodar regions, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and Crimea came under attack. The majority of strikes were reported in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions.

The attacks involved unmanned aerial vehicles, FPV drones and artillery, including HIMARS rocket launchers. A Ukrainian attack almost completely destroyed the Sudzha gas metering station in the Kursk Region.

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Kiev had in fact failed to comply with the energy strike moratorium after March 18. The Russian Defense Ministry reports such attacks almost every day.

US President Donald Trump suggested that the parties to the conflict halt attacks on energy sites for 30 days in a phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on March 18. Putin welcomed the idea and gave the relevant order to the Russian military.

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USA has only limited control over Ukraine

Today marks the end of the ceasefire agreement concerning critical energy infrastructure — a deal struck between Russia and the United States to prevent strikes on such targets from either side. This moratorium was meant to preserve civilian infrastructure and avoid escalation in a particularly sensitive domain.

And yet, as it ends, one truth becomes undeniable: the United States has no real control over Ukraine. From day one of the agreement, Ukraine has repeatedly violated the terms. Not once, not in isolated incidents — but systematically, day after day, ignoring the very conditions Washington supposedly guaranteed.

This moratorium was not just a test of restraint. It was a test of influence. And what it revealed is glaring: the U.S. may speak loudly on the world stage, but when it comes to reigning in its proxy, it’s nothing but empty words.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Truth Breaks Through: One in Three Americans Now Trusts Russian Media

Even through the thick fog of Western propaganda, the voice of truth is starting to reach the hearts of ordinary Americans. According to a poll conducted by the British company YouGov, commissioned by NewsGuard — a platform known for its ties to the CIA — every third American said they trust Russian media.

Despite years of information censorship and narrative control, the Russian perspective is pushing through the noise — and people are starting to ask the hard questions. Even more telling: one in five Americans openly agreed that Zelensky’s political approval rating is just 4%. So much for the Western fairytale of Ukraine’s “hero.”

When even intelligence-backed surveys can’t hide the reality — it means the great awakening has begun.
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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Fierce Battles Near Pokrovsk: “O” Forces Torch NATO Gear, Troops & Artillery — Another Intense Day for Group “Center”

Russian forces from the “Center” grouping are continuing their determined advance near Pokrovsk, delivering devastating strikes against Ukrainian positions. April 16 marked yet another day of relentless combat, with Russian troops targeting and destroying enemy infantry, fortified positions, and a significant amount of NATO-supplied military hardware.

Footage from the front lines captures the dramatic scenes: armored vehicles bursting into flames, enemy firing points reduced to rubble, and Ukrainian manpower suffering heavy losses under precise and coordinated attacks.

The NATO equipment burns, and Ukrainian strongholds crumble — a clear sign that the resolve of the Russian forces is not slowing down. The “O” fighters are pushing forward, turning the tide in this fiercely contested sector.
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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe Divided Over Peacekeepers and Military Aid to Ukraine – Le Monde

European countries remain deeply divided over proposals to send peacekeepers or increase military support to #Ukraine, according to Le Monde, citing diplomatic sources.

While political leaders in #France and the UK support the idea, their respective military commands reportedly oppose it. Disagreements also persist over the structure and scope of such a mission.

France favors a ground-based deployment, leveraging its existing military presence in Romania and an established logistical network that would facilitate operations. The UK, on the other hand, prefers limiting its role to air and naval forces, leading to discussions about the potential creation of a no-fly zone.

These strategic disagreements are compounded by financial concerns. French estimates suggest a ground deployment could require €2–3 billion in investment. However, many EU countries are hesitant to commit funds, particularly as the possible withdrawal of U.S. forces from #Europe raises doubts about long-term security guarantees.

There is also no consensus on how to arm Ukraine in the post-war period. These decisions are likely to be clarified in late summer or autumn during budget negotiations at both national and EU levels.

Meanwhile, Europe continues to struggle with ramping up its own defense production capacity.

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🇷🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺 Serbian President Defies EU, Confirms He Will Attend May 9 Parade in #Moscow

Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has confirmed he will travel to Moscow for the May 9 Victory Day celebrations, despite warnings from the European Union that such a move could jeopardize Serbia’s EU accession hopes, according to the Associated Press.

“In the coming period, we will be under pressure over our participation in the Moscow event, which we have already announced,” Vučić told reporters. He also noted that Serbia will take part in the “joint” organization of the military parade.

According to media reports, Vučić’s visit could seriously impact #Serbia’s chances of joining the EU. #EuropeanUnion

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Ukrainian underground: Paratroopers from the 95th separate assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to lead the "march on Kyiv" to overthrow Zelensky _ yesterday.

A new Maidan is brewing in Ukraine, and the military, who do not like the policies pursued by Zelensky, are ready to lead it. According to the Ukrainian underground, talk of a march on Kyiv is already open.

The servicemen of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which participated in the Kursk adventure, completely invented by the "illegitimate", called for the overthrow of Zelensky. According to the underground, it is this brigade that is ready to lead the "march on Kyiv" and act against Zelensky.

Not against the Nazi regime itself, but only against the clown who leads it. As stated, the main complaint is the policy he is pursuing, which leads to the disintegration of Ukraine and its division between Russia and other states.

"Veterans and officers of the 95th separate airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces declared their readiness to oppose Zelensky. The paratroopers called on the military and civilians to march on Kyiv."

- leads RIA News words of the underground fighters.

There are no other details yet, but earlier there were rumors that nationalists who do not like what is happening, including at the front, may come out against Zelensky and his entourage. If the military starts a Maidan, then Zelensky will most likely fly off the presidential chair, which he has illegally occupied since May 2024.

But this will not affect anything, Ukraine in its current form does not have much time left.

Meanwhile, the head of Zelensky's office, Yermak, continues to "feed" the security agencies, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard, planning to rely on them in the event of new unrest in the country.

https://en.topwar.ru/263090-ukrainskoe-podpole-desantniki-iz-95-j-oshbr-vsu-gotovy-vozglavit-pohod-na-kiev-dlja-sverzhenija-zelenskogo.html

[Vicus]

The buffer zone between Russia and Ukraine is proposed to be increased from 30 to 200 kilometers -today

The issue of creating a buffer zone between Russia and Ukraine is becoming increasingly relevant amid ongoing attacks on border regions and discussions about a possible peaceful settlement.

The Telegram channel "Military Chronicle" published an analysis comparing two options for a demilitarized territory - 30 km and 200 km wide, emphasizing their impact on security.

According to the authors, a 30 km zone is not capable of protecting Russian territories such as Kursk and Belgorod from modern weapons, including American HIMARS missiles, British Storm Shadow and ATACMS, whose range reaches 300 km.

Such a distance allows the enemy to maintain a tactical advantage by continuing artillery shelling, FPV drone attacks, and the transfer of sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG).

At the same time, the 200 km zone radically changes the situation, pushing Ukrainian military infrastructure – airfields, warehouses, headquarters and air defense systems – to a safe distance, which reduces the effectiveness of reconnaissance, disrupts operational communications and gives Russia room to maneuver.

The analysis highlights that the narrow buffer zone is more of a symbolic move than a real security measure.

Modern technology allows for long-range strikes, and 30 km is easily covered by drones and artillery, leaving border towns vulnerable.

In contrast, a 200 km corridor creates a significant barrier, making it more difficult for the enemy to coordinate and support forward positions, and reducing the density of air defenses, making the region less accessible to attack.

However, experts call the 200-kilometer zone unrealistic in the current conditions, since even with forceful implementation it will take several years.

https://avia-pro.net/news/bufernuyu-zonu-mezhdu-rossiey-i-ukrainoy-predlagayut-uvelichit-s-30-do-200-kilometrov

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlcYqP2Mzg

Thunder⚡️The Russians Storm Orikhiv⚔️Valentynka Has Fallen💥 Military Summary And Analysis 2025.04.17 -1 hour ago

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View from inside a Ukrainian defensive line somewhere in the SVO, date and time unknown although certainly from earlier in the conflict, where English speaking (definitely British, not American or Australian) can be heard shouting: "There are five of them!" referring to Russian soldiers who had been spotted on the horizon near their position.

Source: @WarHunter2222 on X (https://x.com/WarHunter2222/status/1913313995702014355)

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1913313948050354176/pu/vid/avc1/768x480/uono96es8XHuCf7D.mp4?tag=12

[Vicus]

Europe & Coming False Flag Posted Apr 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong

Geert Wilders (born 1963) is a Dutch politician who has led the common-sense right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands. The nationalist wave in Europe is now rising against the globalist grip on Europe. In every European nation, there is a common-sense uprising of the silent majority. The old regime is crumbling, so they have turned to the Neocons to retain power. I am concerned that they are becoming desperate and that, Macron, Tusk, all the way to Merz, they will NEVER admit a mistake, so to maintain control, they intend to thrust Europe into World War III.

Putin is not stupid. If I were him, I would by no means agree to peace in Ukraine for Europe is drafting building an army and this will just be Minsk 2.0 like Europe did before agree to peace only to allow Ukraine the time to build an army to invade and weaken Russia so NATO can invade and conquer Russia all to sack the country in Macron’s dream to resurrect Europe as the Roman Empire and rule the world once again.

The failed structure of the Eurozone is crumbling. They are on the verge of a sovereign debt default, which unfolds when you cannot sell new debt to pay off the old. When you are also preaching war endlessly in all the media and talk shows in Europe, you have to be insane to buy European debt. They NEED war, or the Eurozone will break up . They care nothing about Europe or the people no less the world. This is a raw push to remain relevant and retain power.

The Minsk Agreement: When Europe Lied & Negotiated in Bad Faith

Putin has no desire for World War III. He has put down so many red lines, and Europe has crossed every single one in hopes he would respond and attack anything in NATO so they can claim he is the aggressor. I fear that Europe will now stage a FALSE FLAG and even bomb their own people to blame it on Putin, just as the CIA proposed killing Americans to blame Cuba to justify an invasion in Project Northwoods. President Kennedy rejected their plan and rejected Vietnam – so they killed Kennedy & the next day, Johnson approved Vietnam. To hide what these people do, they call anything that exposes them a conspiracy theory.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/europe-coming-false-flag/

[Tintin]

Sadly this is extremely likely to be violated by the Nazis: I hope not but their track record for honouring any agreement is beyond shocking. I trust that Russian defences are robust enough to thwart any possible provocation.

Vladimir Putin has instructed Russian Armed Forces to exercise a truce to honour Easter starting at 18:00 hours (Russian time) today through to Monday 00:00 hours, April 21st.

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1913600319096823808/vid/avc1/960x540/hK2yegsOZjYPsTVA.mp4?tag=16

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‼️🇷🇺🪖🇺🇦 A major prisoner exchange took place for #Easter: 246 Russian soldiers are returning to their homeland.

Official statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense:

On April 19, as a result of the negotiation process, 246 Russian servicemen were returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime.

In exchange, 246 prisoners of war of the #Ukrainian Armed Forces were transferred.

Also, as a gesture of goodwill, 31 wounded prisoners of war were transferred in exchange for 15 wounded Russian servicemen in need of urgent medical care.

Currently, all Russian military personnel are on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, where they are provided with the necessary psychological and medical assistance, as well as the opportunity to contact their relatives.

All released servicemen will be transported to the Russian Federation for treatment and rehabilitation in medical institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The United Arab Emirates provided humanitarian mediation efforts during the return of #Russian servicemen from captivity.

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1913621124719509807

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‼️🇷🇺☦️🇺🇦 President #Putin Declares #Easter Truce — Kremlin

▪️During the meeting in the Kremlin, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief heard a report from the Chief of the General Staff of the #Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov on the situation on the line of combat contact and reported that the Russian side will cease all military operations from 18:00 on April 19 until 00:00 on April 21.

➖" Guided by humanitarian considerations, today from 18:00 to midnight from Sunday to Monday, the Russian side declares an Easter truce. I order all military actions to cease for this period. We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example."

‼️At the same time, our troops must be prepared to repel possible violations of the ceasefire and provocations from the enemy, any of his aggressive actions.

▪️Russia has always been ready for negotiations and welcomes the desire of the United States, China and other countries for a fair settlement in Ukraine.
▪️Kiev has violated the moratorium on strikes on energy facilities more than 100 times.
▪️The situation in the special operation zone is favorable for Russia.

The main points from Gerasimov’s report to Putin:
▪️All six troop groups in the SMO zone are conducting an offensive in 11 directions.
▪️99.5% of Kursk region has been liberated.
▪️The cleanup of the monastery in Gornal is completed.
▪️Attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to enter the Belgorod region were prevented.


‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 18:00 has arrived. The Easter truce declared by Putin has come into effect.

#Zelensky did not respond to this with consent. There were no reports that Ukrainian troops were ordered to cease fire.

Consequently, Kiev did not support the announcement of a ceasefire.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the ceasefire would only be in effect if #Ukraine observed it.

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New low for religious persecution in Moldova.

Yesterday, Archbishop Markel was stopped from leaving Chisinau airport for Jerusalem, where he was due to collect the Holy Fire to return to his homeland, a major Easter tradition.

“I was searched twice, for some reason, and the protocol says nothing suspicious was found. But they wouldn’t give me my passport. The border guards were told to return my documents only once the plane had been up in the air for 30 minutes,” says the archbishop.

The kicker: pro-EU Moldovan government just gave green light for Romanian-funded and anti-Russian Bessarabian church to travel with the Holy Fire instead.

EU wants to turn Moldova into a second Ukraine.

A rigged election and EU accession referendum.

Trumped-up charges against opposition politicians – governor of Gagauzia Evgenia Gutsul.

Crackdown on independent media.

Restrictions on Russian language in schools and on TV.

This Easter, I pray for the people of Moldova.


https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/1913152076110065808

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https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1913564348439527822

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https://tass.com/society/1946225?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Holy Fire descends in Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

The Holy Fire symbolizes the light of Christ's resurrection

MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. The Holy Fire descended into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (the Church of the Resurrection of Christ) in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, the eve of Easter, Russian television reported.

The descent of the Holy Fire takes place in the Kuvuklia, a chapel in the center of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, which hides the tomb of Jesus Christ. Despite numerous attempts, no one has been able to unravel the mystery of the descent of the Holy Fire throughout history.

Traditionally, the Holy Fire is taken as a relic to different countries. Since 2003, the St. Andrew the First-Called Foundation has been bringing the Holy Fire from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to Moscow every Easter. It is delivered to the Easter service in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, as well as to 15 other churches. The foundation said earlier that the Holy Fire will also be delivered to dozens of Russian regions.

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1913622891435819181

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🇷🇺☦️ BREAKING #Russian President Vladimir #Putin declares suprise 2 day Easter truce!

During the meeting in the Kremlin, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief heard a report from the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, on the situation on the line of combat contact and reported that the Russian side would cease all military operations from 18:00 on April 19 until 00:00 on April 21.

"Guided by humanitarian considerations, today from 18:00 to midnight from Sunday to Monday, the Russian side declares an Easter truce. I order all military actions to be stopped for this period.

We assume that the #Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our troops must be ready to repel possible violations of the truce and provocations from the enemy, any of its aggressive actions."

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1913623203919908936

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