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    Quote Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
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    Dear Mr. Joe Biden, President of the United States of America!

    As Russian Warriors, we want to express you most sincere gratitude for the Abrams tanks that the US is supplying to Ukraine now.

    As you probably know, we are paid bonuses for destroying such tanks. We would like to ask you to, please, send more tanks, because, right now, there are so few tanks that is not going to be enough for all of us. We have to spend a lot of time and effort to find them.

    Wish granted:


    FIRST US ABRAMS TANK DESTROYED HOURS AFTER IT WAS FIRST DEPLOYED NEAR AVDEEVKA

    The tank was destroyed only a day after the Ukrainian military shared a pompous video of the tank riding near the frontlines in the Avdeevka region. Russian soldiers are ruining the myths of the almighty Western equipment.

    Confirmed. The first American Abrams MBT with BRAT active armor system was destroyed on the Avdeevka frontlines.

    The Abrams tank was first spotted by Russian forces near the village of Berdychi. It was moving under close control of the Russian reconnaissance UAV.

    The tank was reportedly destroyed by the servicemen of the Russian 15 Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade. The tank was first attacked by the small and cheap FPV drone, and then finished off with a light anti-tank grenade launcher. The additional active armor did not save the tank from the usual attack of small forces.


    While the Frogs can't find Paris:


    On the afternoon of March 5, three French military aircraft attempted to violate the Russian airspace. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the ‘interception’ foreign warplanes over the the Black Sea.

    The French warplanes included an E-3F long-range radar detection and control aircraft and two Rafale—C multipurpose fighters of the French Aerospace Forces. They were ‘welcomed’ by the Su-27 fighter jet of the Russian air defense forces on duty, which was immediately lifted into the air “in order to prevent violations of the state border of the Russian Federation.”

    As soon as the Russian fighter approached the French aircraft, they immediately turned back, flew away from the Russian state border and left the airspace over the Black Sea.



    Au revoir.

    The sound investment of millions in an Abrams vehicle is assuredly to prove that Ukraine is next to nothing:






    The situation on the frontlines near Avdeevka is changing very rapidly. As soon as official sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed control over the entire first line of Ukrainian defense west of the city, reports from the front announced the fall of the second, main line of Ukrainian defense in the region.

    In the afternoon of February 28, both Russian and Ukrainian sources reported that the advancing Russian forces had seized control of three villages on the Berdych-Orlovka-Tonenkoe line.

    The reports from the front varied slightly. Some settlements have reportedly come under full Russian control, while fighting continued on the outskirts of the other villages. Any footage from the villages is yet to confirm the control by any of the warring sides, and the Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet declared control over the new settlements. However, it is already clear that the Ukrainian defense line west of Avdeevka has fallen.

    Reports of the liberation of the villages of Orlovka and Tonenkoe by Russian forces came almost simultaneously.

    Just a couple of weeks ago, Orlovka was one of the most important supply hubs for the Ukrainian garrison in Avdeevka. After the defeat in the city, the Ukrainians claimed that they had retreated to “the newly prepared defense lines”, where Orlovka appeared to be the central stronghold of the retreating Ukrainian garrison; but it turned out that Ukrainian defense was completely unable to contain the Russian offensive.

    After the victory in Lastochkino, Russian troops continued their offensive in two directions, west to Orlovka and southwest, cutting the line of communication between Orlovka and Tonenkoe and took control of an important road junction in the southern part of Orlovka.

    On the eve of another defeat, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrsky, ordered his troops to maintain control of Orlovka; but rapidly advancing from two directions, Russian forces managed to repel the Ukrainian grouping from the village in a couple of days.

    According to the latest data, the village came under full Russian control on the night of February 29. The final mop up and deming operations continue on the streets.

    The remnants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated to the west towards Umanskoye, forced to move in an open area under fire from Russian artillery. According to reports from the front, the retreating Ukrainian forces were also shelled by friendly fire from Ukrainian artillery. Probably, the Ukrainian command made a mistake, but it is possible that this is how Ukrainian officers punish the retreating units.

    The Ukrainian line of defense was supposed to lay in villages along the small river Durnaya. The river itself does not a significant obstacle to the advancing Russian troops, but it brought problems for the Ukrainian soldiers. The settlements on the river banks are located in the lowlands comparing to the Russian positions on the outskirts of Avdeevka. As a result, the retreating Ukrainian garrison was under constant close fire control of the Russian artillery and suffered heavy losses.

    Berdychi, Orlovka and Tonenkoe are mostly located on the eastern bank of the river; unlike Semenovka, which remains under Ukrainian control on the western bank. Russian forces already control territories on the western bank to the north near Berdychi and to the south in the Orlovka area. If the Ukrainian command continues to resist, Ukrainian forces in Semenovka may soon be surrounded. Most likely, the remnants of the Ukrainian army there will retreat to save the military personnel and the village will soon come under Russian control.

    The rapid Russian offensive showed that the defeat of the Ukrainian army was not an “organized withdrawal to more advantageous lines,” as it was declared by the Ukrainian military command, but it was a chaotic escape that had devastating consequences for the defense in the entire Donetsk direction.

    Attempts by the Ukrainian military to hastily build a new line of defense along the eastern bank of the Durnaya River have failed. The remnants of the Ukrainian garrison are now forced to retreat to a new line of defense on the Netailovo-Umanskoye-Novoselovka Persha line, where their maneuverability will be significantly limited by the Karlovskoe Reservoir behind their backs, and the strongholds in these villages are located at a considerable distance from each other. There are no significant fortifications there, and the Ukrainian military is unlikely to have time to build them, since the pace of the Russian offensive is not slowing down.

    Now, Ukrainian soldiers are forced to retreat across the fields under Russian fire. Anticipating the imminent retreat, the Ukrainian forces did not mine the fields. This gives the advancing Russian forces the opportunity to immediately continue their attacks to the new line of Ukrainian defense.

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    Guide To Ukraine's Long Range Attack Drones

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    Quote Posted by Michel Leclerc (here)
    However. The “media-that-be” do not insist on repeating to us that “Israel”’s Matsadah myth (defending the fortress up to the last suicidal samurai) is actually a Samson myth (the suicidal samurai collapses the palace or temple roof onto the “zombies”) for nothing: yes, the Empire will fail, but it will follow the Zionihilist example and take the entire world with it.

    Yes, of course it will--that is, it will drag down anything it can reach.

    It's like the Israeli modification of martial arts, Krav Maga. It may be similar to Russian Samba, but, it emphasizes what do do when you lose control of motor functions from anger and fear.

    You will be so insane that you will attack someone with your stomach, for example.

    It certainly is an obsession with death.

    I do not think the long-term future will allow this mental disease to continue, however, actually stopping it comes at a horrible, painful price. As of months ago, we have seen the confessions it goes on "even if the whole world turns against us"--what kind of a victory would that be, if you took over a few miles that is the Gaza strip and lost all your special treatment?

    With still hundreds of miles of angry Arabs still going after you?

    Either the Zionist entity is stopped, or, this conflict never ends.

    Again, it is trivial, like a flea, in the sense that eliminating it would not damage anybody in the wider spheres. Ukraine was much more "hooks in" to the world economy, which is why the British would like to keep it. Israel has nothing but grandstanding statements and artificial beliefs that are an excuse for hatred.

    As to what they can do to someone who is not corralled in an open-air prison, regarding Lebanon, they just get their rumps handed back to them. That is a prime example because the Lebanese government *is* a narrow oligarchy of western favoritists, who, of course, do not build a national military that can compete. Hence, private forces take over.

    So, yes, the overall Plan is a complete and total failure because it can't possibly work, but, it can definitely destroy a lot of life while proving its inadequacy.

    Ukraine is something more like The Rock of capitalism and theoretically divisive to Russia; Zion is little but Arab genocide. However the neighboring puppet governments may have been used divisively, we do, indeed, see a trend of shifts that let us know they have seen through it. "Something" will remain in the Middle East, although, yes, it might be along with a vast de-population.

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    Quote Posted by Tintin (here)
    Ashkenazi Khazars (93% of the world “Jewry”) are fake “Jews.” They are the Turks from the Russian great mother, according to their own genetic research. They are not even Semites (half-black-half-white).


    I have to harp on this whenever I see it, because, no, Ashkenazis are not Khazars.

    Fantasy.

    Roughly put, Israel was destroyed by Assyria. Around the 1600s, French and British Israelists decided "there must be Lost Tribes" and then on to "some of those tribes are us". But, let's face it, in the 1600s, the French and English were dumb as a box of rocks.

    The remnants are the Mountain Jews of Iran and the Caucasus. who have been sitting there the whole time. They have never been a source of civil strife. Probably because they were not under Catholic laws that heavily suppressed them.

    The remainder, or, the southern part was the kingdom of Judea, however, this was taken over by Edom around 200 B. C. E., resulting in forced marriages, and ritual contamination of their holiness by non-Jews. It must be these Edomites that have steered the dialogue since then, because the Mountain Jews keep to themselves mostly.

    It would be more correct on a mental and genetic basis to say that Jews are Edomites. That may not be remarkable on a DNA basis, such as a northern Turkish component would be, if it existed, which it does not.


    The Protocols *do* address the right ideas, but they are ahistorical, it is not real information. More than likely, it was composed by the Tsarist Okhrana or Secret Service to expose/discredit this line of thinking.

    That did not work, so, as the line continues, with ever-more misinformation tucked under its wing, then this does indeed become real:


    Quote Dumb Slavic people do not realize that the worst fascists are those who never and in no place proclaim fascism aloud, but, instead, organize it all supposedly according to the most democratic standards. On the contrary, we will make the very word “fascist” a dirty word.

    Exactly.

    Take out "Slavic" and you have the card that has been played on all of us.

    The Slavs figured it out for themselves, the hard way. The Bolsheviks were perhaps not "democratic" enough, so the disguise was tuned up, and voila, the democratic Ukraine of Nu-land and perfidious contention that "Jews can't be Nazis".

    Well, we can easily take some 150 years of Zionist deception and vaporize it with almost no effort.

    Dismantling its War Industry is another matter, especially since many millions of my countrymen adore it. That alone is reason enough to say we cannot live under the same government. Might need to put New York in toxic bubble wrap. Anyone care to justify union with that state?

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    Quote Posted by shaberon (here)
    I have to harp on this whenever I see it, because, no, Ashkenazis are not Khazars.

    Fantasy.
    ...and I'm glad you have

    And thanks for the historical reminders here too: your entire response to this is (typically) very good, and thankyou
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    Today I post this to celebrate!

    Because this weapon was the ukros favorite to massacre the civil folk from Donbass...

    Watching this video in full display made my day!

    Ukrainian HIMARS destroyed in Donbass (VIDEO)

    One of the US-supplied systems has been destroyed by a Russian high-precision strike, drone footage shows

    A Ukrainian US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher has been destroyed in Russia’s Donbass, footage circulating online shows.

    The video, shot by a surveillance drone, emerged on Tuesday. The HIMARS launcher was reportedly knocked out in the vicinity of the Ukrainian-controlled town of Dobropolye, more than 40km from the front line.

    The launcher, as well as two other Ukrainian vehicles, was detected near a wooded area just as it apparently was being readied to fire. It was hit by an unspecified projectile, which caused the detonation of its ammo stock, as well as the uncontrolled launch of its missiles, the images show.

    The explosion sparked multiple fires in the vicinity and completely obliterated the vehicle itself.

    The systems have been widely celebrated by Ukraine as an ultimate weapon of sorts, given their ability to carry out high precision long-range strikes, while being able to promptly relocate to avoid counter-battery fire.

    The launchers have been systematically used by Kiev’s forces against civilian targets and critical infrastructure in Donbass and elsewhere, including with controversial anti-personnel shrapnel munitions.

    https://swentr.site/russia/593829-uk...stroyed-video/
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    Quote Posted by Tintin (here)
    And thanks for the historical reminders here too: your entire response to this is (typically) very good, and thankyou


    I try not to be too harsh, since I think most posts are well-intentioned, but the internet is flooded with low-hanging fruit. Such as this whole Khazarian thing. At the bottom of all this, we have one basic contention:


    In the Diaspora, Jews have been subject to repressive laws for basically all time.

    So, it is not surprising they might have been a bit rebellious in Europe, as was the case under Roman governors of Palestine.

    European reactions were so severe, the Jews mostly abandoned western Europe, and became numerically stronger in Ukraine around the 1600s. Those are Ashkenazis. It's not a Khazarian Black Nobility hiding under the radar for 500 years. More like a human cattle drive.

    Only at that point do you find European sympathy towards Jews, as if they did have human rights and ought to be treated like normal people, and this sympathy engendered most of the conflicts since then. Then from Ukraine, to Israel, starting in the late 1800s as a fairly transparent social engineering.

    The whole premise backing it--before the big move--is simply called Israelism, a belief in the significance of the Lost Tribes.


    Wiki is somewhat convoluted here, since the page for French Israelism lacks:


    ... the French Huguenot magistrate M. le Loyer's The Ten Lost Tribes, published in 1590, provided one of the earliest expressions of the belief...



    which is posted on the page for British Israelism.

    That is simply hand-in-glove with the first Bible translations coming from Switzerland in the 1560s. New Bible translations = Protestant injections of Israelism that are not possible for Catholicism. So this festers on the private side for a while, until it gets the attention of governments who put it right to work.

    It doesn't come from any government, and it doesn't come from the Jews. It's nothing but a speculation, based on nothing, some 1500 years after the distant events on which it claims to be based.

    Orthodox counties are clean, they don't have this problem.

    Of course, Talmudic Judaism may contain various dirty tricks which are understandable after many episodes of conflict, but, it has no policy of mass emigration, and it has no power base whatsoever. All of that was handed over by complicit, supposedly Christian power structures. As we know, yes, the best thing is to be able to enslave someone on a voluntary basis. That is why I think these are very dangerous beliefs that have no scriptural basis.

    And yes, the British formulation interprets Germans and Russians as racial enemies, Christianity notwithstanding.

    This is extremely popular in America. We just had a spat of John Birch in the Israeli thread. Yes, of course, anyone can shape a mountain of data and statistics to give voice to whatever they want--but if the thesis is flawed, the data are irrelevant and misleading.

    Does this lead to anyone re-evaluating their beliefs?

    Again, the disturbing thing is not just what is believed, but the rigor mortis of the mental grasp on it. That is totally my experience every time I have encountered this camp.


    Russia, at least, has the capability to de-Nazify Ukraine. Elsewhere, I am not so sure.

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    From The Moon of Alabama. (And well said, too)
    Ukraine - Cookie Monster Retires

    A big fat rat is leaving the ship.

    One might interpret this as the State Department's admittance of defeat in the U.S. war against Russia in Ukraine:

    On the Retirement of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland - Anthony Blinken / State Department, Mar 5 2024
    Victoria Nuland has let me know that she intends to step down in the coming weeks as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs – a role in which she has personified President Biden’s commitment to put diplomacy back at the center of our foreign policy and revitalize America’s global leadership at a crucial time for our nation and the world.
    ...
    [I]t’s Toria’s leadership on Ukraine that diplomats and students of foreign policy will study for years to come. Her efforts have been indispensable to confronting Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, marshaling a global coalition to ensure his strategic failure, and helping Ukraine work toward the day when it will be able to stand strongly on its own feet – democratically, economically, and militarily.
    ...
    President Biden and I have asked our Under Secretary for Management John Bass to serve as Acting Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until Toria’s replacement is confirmed.
    Victoria Nuland, a member of the neo-conservative Kagan clan, is only 62 years old - too young to retire regularly.

    She will be remembered for handing out cookies to anti-government demonstrators in Ukraine and for installing the 2014 coup regime.

    That has been her main project in the State Department. But the 2014 Maidan putsch that turn the Ukraine into a battering ram against Russia, has ended in a complete failure.


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    Neither was Russia 'weakened' by the war nor has Ukraine any perspective to survive but as some Russian controlled land-locked backwater country in Europe's east.

    Given that billions were spent on Ukraine with little controls and nothing to show for Nuland, and her family, have certainly made a bit on the side. One wonders if any of the ongoing and coming investigations into the black hole Ukraine will leave them unscarred.

    As even Guardian commentators are now waking up to the mess they helped create it is high time for European politicians to also finally accept this reality:
    Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of Ukraine. As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process. Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s.
    The crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military interventions should have taught us some lessons. Apparently not.

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    It is difficult to know what really are the aims of the neo-con/ Kagan cult inside their minds. I'm sure that weakening Russia is one of these aims, and that plan has failed.

    But... I suspect that they are absolutely delighted by the annihilation, crippling, suffering, and removal abroad of so many millions of those Slavic, Orthodox Russian-ethnics and cousins of the Russians, who (until recently) inhabited Ukraine - and similarly pleased the absolute destruction of Ukraine as a viable nation.

    So it seems likely that VN is regarded as a major success and a great heroine among those whose good opinion she most craves.

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    What Helped Russia's T-72B3 Tank Destroy Ukraine’s Abrams? 23 minutes ago



    The T-72B3’s performance characteristics added significantly to the tank's ability to make Ukraine’s Abrams bite the dust on the battlefield, Russian military expert Alexander Bartosh told Sputnik.

    A US-supplied M1Abrams tank was recently destroyed in Ukraine by a single shot from Russia’s T-72B3 tank, the third such armed vehicle that has been obliterated in the special military operation zone in the past several weeks.

    Several major factors, including the crew’s skill and intelligence work, added to the T-72B3 winning a first duel against the Abrams, Russian expert Alexander Bartosh at the Center for Military-Diplomatic Analysis and Assessments of the League of Military Diplomats said in an interview with Sputnik.

    Another aspect is Russian military technical specialists, who very accurately identified the Abrams' vulnerabilities and calculated how and where the T-72B3 should fire, according to Bartosh.
    He explained that “it’s necessary to hit the Abrams’ area between the turret and the hull, so that the tank can suffer severe and irreparable damage, after which it will be unable to run on the battlefield or carry out combat missions.”

    Last but not least, the performance characteristics of the T-72B3, which is equipped with "an excellent gun and special equipment, made it possible to destroy the Abrams with the first shot," the Russian expert pointed out.

    The T-72B3's ability to obliterate the "miraculous Abrams" with one shot shows the professionalism of the Russian military and "the inability of America and Western countries to endanger Russia," Bartosh stressed.
    When asked whether the destruction of the third Abrams will affect the West’s drive to send more similar armed vehicles to Ukraine, Bartosh said that Western countries’ resolve "has already been shaken," not least because the destruction of the Abrams and the Leopards is “a serious blow to the competitiveness of Western firms."

    On the whole, the Russian military-industrial complex shows its superiority - when it comes to both tanks and aircraft – over Ukraine’s Western-supplied equipment, the expert pointed out.

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    Codename: Operation Golden Fish | The Full Front Scenario of Russia's Upcoming Summer Offensive

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    Just speculations,what IF...this way or that way... etc... but interesting...
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    Quote Posted by Bruce G Charlton (here)
    It is difficult to know what really are the aims of the neo-con/ Kagan cult inside their minds. I'm sure that weakening Russia is one of these aims, and that plan has failed.

    But... I suspect that they are absolutely delighted by the annihilation, crippling, suffering, and removal abroad of so many millions of those Slavic, Orthodox Russian-ethnics and cousins of the Russians, who (until recently) inhabited Ukraine - and similarly pleased the absolute destruction of Ukraine as a viable nation.

    So it seems likely that VN is regarded as a major success and a great heroine among those whose good opinion she most craves.
    Yes.

    A victory camouflaged as defeat camouflaged as victory.

    Queen Victoria!

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    Military recruiters want to mobilize a lumberjack from a horse in Chernivtsi, but his buddy arrives in Lada and crashes into the recruiters!

    He then attacks them with the axe!

    You can hear cursing and phrases like “Recruiters took one son from us and he’s now MIA”

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    Rus Destroys Odessa Drone Base,
    Novomikhailovka Falling;
    NATO Plays w/ Fire,
    EU Saudi & Sudan Shells


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    https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1765792759426764967



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    Former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny has been appointed as Ukraine's ambassador to the UK, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its official website.

    "On Thursday, March 7, [Volodymyr Zelensky] approved the candidacy of Valery Zaluzhny for the position of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland," the statement read.

    There had been much speculation regarding General Zaluzhny's next steps following his ousting from command last month. Many interpreted his removal as stemming from Zelensky's disappointment over the Ukrainian forces' unsuccessful counteroffensive last summer. Additionally, concerns over Zaluzhny becoming a political rival given his popularity in Ukraine were also thought to have played a role.

    https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765853288275005492

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    Which 2023 event was the most vivid and memorable for Vladimir Putin?

    At a meeting with female pilots of the Krasnodar Higher Military Aviation School, the Russian president explained that for him, that the most significant things happened on the battlefield in the special operation zone.

    https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765726243494724093



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    Moldova is planning to arrest the head of the autonomous region of Gagauzia, Evgenia Gutsul, after her return from Russia, according to opposition politician Ilan Shor.

    "We have insider information that they are preparing to arrest Yevgenia Gutsul right at the airport," Shor said.

    https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765747358514524475



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    Moldova's threats to the head of the Gagauz autonomous region, Yevgenia Gutsul, show that Moldovan President Maia Sandu is using the rule of law for political settling of scores and pressure, Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

    "Sandu is no longer even ashamed of her actions, although everyone understands perfectly well that she uses the rule of law for exactly the opposite purposes of the law... as an element of political settling of scores, pressure", Zakharova said.

    According to Zakharova, under the guise of democracy, the Sandu administration is trying to build a dictatorship on its territory.

    https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1765781546366112116



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    The head of Moldova's autonomous region of Gagauzia, Evgenia Gutsul, intends to raise the issue of infringement of the rights and freedoms of the Gagauz people at the UN.

    “I raised the question of the possibility of discussing at the UN the infringement of the Gagauz people and pressure from the central authorities of Moldova. We need to draw the attention of the international diplomatic community to the arbitrariness occurring in our so-called 'democratic' country,” Gutsul wrote on social media.

    Earlier, during the meeting with Russian senior lawmaker Valentina Matvienko, Gutaul said the rights of Gagauzians are being suppressed by Moldova's central government.

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    🇺🇦 Kharkov Region has announced forced and mandatory evacuation from a number of settlements in the Kupyansk direction

    This was reported by the local governor Sinegubov.

    Parents with children must leave 18 settlements in Velikoburluk and Olkhovatska communities. And all residents must leave another 55 settlements, the names of which are not given.

    @ukraine_watch
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