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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 ))
Sourced from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on X:
🇷🇺🇺🇸 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
- Russian Frontline Combat Assault On Last Ukrainian Forces In Kursk:
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.
- FRWL
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1910332272261136400
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:
More footage here of Ksenia Karelina who was exchanged with Artur Petrov in a reciprocal US-Russia agreement this week:
..and footage of Artur Petrov on board the aircraft:
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 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.
https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1910683720081703358
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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
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1910740205822242850
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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.
- FRWL
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1910739820634141121
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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.
rybar
https://x.com/dana916/status/1910720370144924068
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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.
https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1910742136393244858
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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
https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1910712791603749181
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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.
BALTNEWS
https://x.com/dana916/status/1910719646728175978
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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.
Archangel of Spetsnaz
https://x.com/dana916/status/1910717889373524000
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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.
https://x.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1910736896566743095
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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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https://x.com/dana916/status/1910739285592203298
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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.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1910721688075198510
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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.”
Must be psychic.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1910551917216096471
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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.
https://x.com/mazzenilsson/status/1910673930609664162
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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
https://x.com/ug_chelsea/status/1910742498294514137
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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.”
nowosti_news24
https://x.com/dana916/status/1910640074825310329
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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."
BALTNEWS
https://x.com/dana916/status/1910640314693382517
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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.
https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1910756763680526346
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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.
https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1910934443084152837