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(only on youtube)
'come and see'
- a partisan film
Watch this film --- and you
will - finally - understand.
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w
Some in the West are fond
of a loose use of words...
''stunning'', for example, to describe
a work of art... but believe me
when I say - this film about a
lad of 14 - made me laugh
and cry and - by the end
- I was left stunned.
A recent attempt on youtube by an obvious anti-Russian, to pour scorn on this film's historical accuracy, tries to point out that the nazi troops state they are members of a unit that was not there.. but can't bring himself to see that they might have been lying!
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St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox
SpiritualCare Centre
THE TRAGEDY IN UKRAINE
"Veterans and children of the Great PatrioticWar: to the Government andpeopleof Germany".
By events in Ukraine
Today, when the German government decided
to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, the
world has changed — the silhouettes of a
new world war are more than clearly
outlined! And again - Germany!
But there are honest people in Germany, anti-
fascists, and we hope that this Message will
fall into their hands. People born between
1927 and 1945 have the status of "war
children" in Russia.
All those who survived that war can subscribe to this letter. We think that actual signatures are not necessary, we suggest that veterans(or "war children") read them this letter, independently or with someone's help,
and send us (at the coordinatesindicated below) something like the following:
Moscow, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, 90 years old, disabled war veteran (or otherwise), Hero of the Soviet Union (or Holder of the Order of Glory... or otherwise), was repatriated to Germany during the war (or otherwise).
Or just the city, full name, and age. The
main thing, is that they should be real
people who are familiar with the text.
MESSAGE TEXT
We, the last veterans and all the peoples of
Russia who survived that great and terrible
war, are now on the verge of death! Our
time is already running out. For a huge
part of our lives, we hoped we would
come to the end of it, in peace -
without all-destroying hatred!
For the painfully long decades after the Second World War, we overcame our righteous anger! I long for retribution for the innumerable wounds, spiritual and physical, that we still carry in our bodies and our hearts! And most of us have forgiven! And not in a small way due to the fact that Germany for many years has demonstrated its repentance its understanding of what it has done! And we have overcome, not only ourselves, but also the voice of the blood of our barbarically exterminated relatives! By whom? Germans ...fascists!
We have forgiven... following the laws of human
coexistence! So it was... until 2014. And then,
in 2014, when everything began in Ukraine...
we looked with hope at Germany and at the
then Chancellor Angela Merkel. We couldn't imagine that after all that the Germans did
in Ukraine, after Babi Yar, after mountains
of mutilated corpses, they would still look
with lust at the Ukrainian fields that can
feed Europe today! Or they, the Germans,
who have covered the Crimea they once
promised with blood, will still somehow be interested in turning the Crimea into an American and in general a NATO base, ideal for aggression against Russia! Which would be clearly
aimed at afuture war.
After all, only fools do not understand the meaning and goals of the entire coup inUkraine... in the conditions of which Russia behaved in the only possible way! But the Germans are not fools! We the Russians, know for certain your psychology, as "brothers in blood" - our blood, which you "prudently" shed in rivers!
We remember your "systematic methods of
population reduction"! Our population! Until
now, in different parts of our once united
Homeland, where the boot of German
fascism was trodden, we find hidden
mass graves of our civilians: in the
Novgorod region, in the Kuban, in
the Rostov region, in Karelia. In
Belarus, in 2021... hundreds of
civilian remains... were found
in Brest ...on the site of the
Jewish ghetto the Trostenets
concentration camp.... near
Minsk terrible in its tragedy
revealed the secret of the
remains... of thousands of
tortured and killed people!
We are talking about tens of thousands of newly discovered victims of Nazism! This blood - still cries out for revenge - and for decades the memory of the barbarously destroyed
Russian people, and monuments to Russian soldiers, liberators, have been desecrated with impunity!
And the new Nazis are marching in the Baltic
States and Ukraine, in front of the entire
"civilized" world! But in 2014, we were
sincerely convinced -- that in this new
Nazi demarche it's the Germans who
will be our associates in preventing
this meanness!
We hoped that, guided by an elementary
conscience, the Germans would not
participate.. in an obviously fascist
anti-state coup in Ukraine! After all
...the subsequent catastrophe of
modern Ukraine was committed
by direct descendants of those
who were special bastards in
the German army! Clearly,
openly!
Americans and Canadians have only hidden and preserved this diabolical heritage, feeding thisgeneration, but the product of this evil... is Germany! Hitler's Germany! And it was impossible for us to believe that it was Germany that would again give a "road map" to these inhumans! But we were wrong! Germany has once again allowed these fascist geeks to enter the world!
The support of modern Germany - in the face of
the new government of Ukraine-Bandera, the
heirs of the SS division " Galicia ", the thugs
of the UPA OUN and all other abominations;
is simply unthinkable for us! This is beyond
all that is human! But you, Germany, have already done it and continue to do it! You
have, once again, set your sights on the
Slavic world and these geeks are blood
from the blood of German Nazism! And
again to Russia!
Only, even more despicable: inciting our closest Ukrainian brothers against us! And you know it! You know this as well as we do! You killed one nation in that Great War! Yes, we are one people!
The truth is written and often spoken about
by your own Steinmeier, who at the same
time viciously took a direct part in the
Kiev coup of 2014 — fascist in fact!
This American may not be clear about some-
thing, but it's more than that, for you! And
after all, it was your vykormysh.. that got
ready.. for their torchlight processions in
Kiev! The living shadow of Nazi Germany
is behind all this. It was only temporarily
covered up by sly diplomacy — "helmets
instead of guns"! But that's it, "masks
are reset"! Your supply of German
weapons to Ukraine today, is
natural, it is in the logic of
your policy of recent
decades.
Today it is clearly pro-fascist! You have taken
this step: German weapons will kill Russians
again! Keep killing. During the years of the
conflict in the Donbas, your professional
killers have already killed Russians, at
least by teaching them... "how to kill
correctly"! Only now -- it's even more
despicable — you're teaching this to
- your blood brothers! Donbass is on
your conscience! Thousands of lives
of its peaceful citizens --- again your
handiwork! We do not care about the
role of Americans, in everything that
happens: there, is money-God! We,
veterans of that war, its children,
are concerned about the role of
the Germans! Because it is you
who know -- exactly -- who the
Ukrainian "national battalions"
consist of --- and could have
prevented and stopped, this
new fascism ! But they did
not do it! And just by doing
this — you are once again,
responsible to history!
And you are definitely participating -- in the
preparation of Ukraine for war with Russia!
You can't help but understand the purpose
of everything that happened --- from the
unconstitutional coup in Kiev ....to the
bloodshed in the Donbass! But, in fact
this is preparation for the Third World
War! And again, you are Germans...
Germany! We hear from the high
German rostrum in Berlin today:
"Russia will pay a high price"!!!
This is the German Chancellor's
speech! Unthinkable! We have
already paid the price — 27
million of our lives! Isn't that
enough for you?! What price
are you still talking about?
There is no home --- in Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus - where "this price" isn't paid! And
there is no home in Germany, that did
not participate in that terrible, bloody
barbarism! It's scary! It's wild! And
today, there are, already, more than
13 thousand dead Russian people
in the Donbass at the hands of
the new Nazis!
The German Chancellor's public mockery of the
Russian genocide in the Donbas is a crime in
itself! How much can the lessons of history
be misunderstood and discredited! The
scariest story in the world! Do you want
to be even scarier?! After all, this new
"Dranch nach Oschtern" ..may lead to
the fact that the 2nd Nuremberg trial
over you will no longer be - there will
simply be no humanity! You won't be
here! But a special Ecumenical trial
of you Germans is inevitable! Over
all aggressors — but over you
ESPECIALLY!
World justice will be served! And we, the last
veterans of that terrible war, are leaving this
world as witnesses! Witnesses for the
PROSECUTION! And today the victory
will be ours, but those who died
yesterday, or those of us who
will die today, already bear
witness to the role of the
German people, in the
history of the human
world — a bloody
history!
German weapons are back in the
hands of Nazi thugs! Please stop!
Email addresses for information:
veterans1945@yandex.ru
https://t.me/Veteran_v_stroy_chat
- Russian Union of Veterans: organizing
questions and collecting signatures of
veterans and children of the Second
World War
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veteran1944@yandex.ru -questions about
this publication to its author: Monk John (Adlivankin), Deputy Head of the Russian Orthodox Church. head and ved.
specialist of the St. Peter's
Orthodox Counseling Centre.
St. John of Kronstadt.
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If you want the truth about the massacre of civilans in Bucha - paste the web address below into your browser
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ZHPL2pTuadJ/
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THE LATEST NEWS
In the Bryansk region, a bridge was blown up,
a passenger train crashed. There are victims and injured
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 31st, 11:25pm
(Lenta.ru)
In Bryansk Region the bridge under which the train
passed -- collapsed. According to unconfirmed
information, an explosion occurred,
dozens of people were injured,
there are victims.
The train derailed after a section of the bridge collapsed
on it. A number of channels published footage from the
scene, passengers helped other people get out of the
cars, screams - were heard at the scene. Rescuers
had to cut the car open for those trapped inside.
Official information about the accident is being clarified,
and rescue operations are continuing at the site. The
main task -- remains the search for and release of
passengers, the Ministry of Emergency
Situations said.
A number of channels reported that the cause of the collapse
could be an explosion, Shot noted that 4 explosive devices
were laid on supports and sleepers. Officially, the story
of the explosion has not yet been confirmed.
An improvised explosive device (IED) could have been planted
in the bridge structure, Mash channel specified. According to
him, an IED could have been laid under the bridge span in
the Bryansk region.
The collapse of the bridge occurred due to
"illegal interference in the activities of
transport," the press service of the
Moscow Railway reported.
Recovery trains were sent to the site to eliminate the
consequences of the derailment. Information
about the victims is being clarified.
The MZhD clarified that the situation does not affect
the movement of other trains. An operational head
quarters has been set up to coordinate the work.
The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office
organized an inspection, after an emergency with a
passenger train.
The Governor of the Bryansk Region, Alexander
Bogomaz confirmed reports of an incident.
According to him, as a result of the incident, there
are victims. No casualties.. were reported. Now
representatives of emergency services and
authorities --- are working on the site.
Bogomaz added -- that specialists
are doing everything necessary
to help the victims.
Additional forces were sent to the area, as well as emergency
rescue equipment and lighting devices for carrying out work
in the dark.
The victims of the incident were four people,
more than 40 were injured.
The number of victims of the bridge collapse in
the Bryansk region could exceed 40 people,
reports RT with reference to a source.
According to RIA Novosti, the Centre for Medical Disasters
of the Bryansk region, a five-to six-month-old infant was
seriously injured. 11 ambulance crews went to the
scene of the accident.
It is also known that the driver was a victim of the emergency,
according to Mash, and the driver's assistant also did not
survive. Similar information was confirmed by an RT
source in law enforcement agencies.
The number of victims may increase, as some victims are in
an extremely serious condition. 14 people were admitted to
the Vygonich Central City Hospital, while other wounded
people are being sent to Bryansk.
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Bad smell: Klitschko said that Ukraine -------- "reeks of authoritarianism" because of Zelensky's policies
May 31st, 10:46pm
by Roman Shimaev, and
Anastasia Belousova
(Izvestia.ru)
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has criticized Volodymyr Zelensky
and his office, accusing them of uprooting democratic
institutions under the guise of a conflict
with Russia.
According to him, the mayor's office of the capital is actually
paralyzed by searches and threats, and in Ukraine it no
longer "smells, but stinks of authoritarianism."
Klitschko also said that his fame in the international arena
helps him keep the post of mayor of Kiev. According to
experts, the aggravation of the conflict between
Zelensky and Klitschko may indicate the
secret start of the presidential
campaign in Ukraine.
At the same time, public showdowns among the elites, may
indicate a political crisis and the weakening of Zelensky's
power, analysts believe.
Klitschko accused the office of Vladimir Zelensky that the
work of the City Council of the Ukrainian capital is
paralyzed by searches, interrogations ----- and
threats to open "fabricated criminal cases".
"This is the eradication of democratic principles, and
institutions. I once said that our country smacks of
authoritarianism. Now they stink," Klitschko said.
The Times notes, that the head of the Kiev regime and
the mayor of the capital "are actually at war after the
smoldering dispute between them became public."
Zelensky used martial law to appoint a military administration
in Kiev (headed by Timur Tkachenko) - the structure
duplicates the duties of the mayor's office of
the Ukrainian capital.
In addition, seven of Klitschko's subordinates were detained,
and three more are under investigation for corruption,
including for issuing building permits,
The Times writes.
"Many mayors are intimidated, but my celebrity status is a
protection. You can dismiss the mayor of Chernihiv, but
it is very difficult, to dismiss the mayor of the capital,
who is known all over the world," Klitschko added.
As the Ukrainian edition of Сountry.na notes "The latest
statements of the Kiev mayor indicate a growing
conflict --- with Zelensky.
''According to the information provided.... Bankova plans to introduce Tkachenko - to the Kiev City Council, where he should become a secretary. After that his goal will be "under any pretext" - to cut Klitschko - from the post of mayor of Kiev.''
If the plan with the appointment of Tkachenko to the
post of secretary of the City Council fails to be
implemented, a different development of
events is possible.
"If there are no local elections this fall, the central government
will most likely try to dissolve the City Council of Kiev, saying
that its powers have expired. Then it will be possible
to completely replace the KSCA with a military
administration headed by the appointed one
---- an official," the source said.
Note that the confrontation between Vladimir Zelensky and
Vitali Klitschko has been going on for a long time. Back in
the summer of 2021, the former world boxing champion
said that they want to appoint a "stray protege" in
his place.
Already after the start of the special military operation — in
the summer of 2023 - Zelensky's office held meetings on
the possible dismissal of Klitschko from the post of
mayor of Kiev. This happened.. against the back-
ground of the fact that about half of the tested
bomb shelters in the city were closed or
unusable. As a result - the mayor was
reprimanded, and -- he reproached
Zelensky for never meeting with
him since the beginning of
the SVO.
In December 2023, Klitschko, in an interview with the
German Der Spiegel, said.. that Ukraine is moving
towards authoritarianism and will soon become
a country "where everything depends on the
mood of 1 person." At the same time, in a
conversation with a Swiss publication 20
Minuten, he said that Zelensky made a
number of mistakes in the Ukrainian
conflict, for which he is paying
the price.
In January 2024, Klitschko, in an interview with the Canadian
edition of The Globe and Mail, said that Ukraine is moving
in the wrong direction: "There is a smell..... of vertical
authoritarianism here." In July, the mayor of Kiev
reproached Zelensky for concentrating too
much power in his office.
Earlier this year, he accused Timur Tkachenko, appointed by
Zelensky as head of the Kiev city military administration, of
trying to take over the powers of the mayor, city Council
and Kiev city state administration ----- in violation of
the law.
In addition, Klitschko has previously stated his ambitions for
the post of President of Ukraine. At the same time, the
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that
the United States had established contact with
the mayor of Kiev, as well as with other
possible Zelensky successors.
In March 2025, the Ukrainian media, citing sources,
reported that representatives of Donald Trump
were in contact with Klitschko.
Experts interviewed by RT stated that the struggle for
power in Ukraine, is escalating. In this regard, Vitali
Klitschko as a possible candidate for the post of
president of Ukraine, is trying to score
political points.
"Speaking of authoritarianism, we can note that the regime
of personal uncontrolled power operates on the territory
of Ukraine. So - this is no longer authoritarianism. This
is a much more serious regime," said Dmitry Yezhov,
a political scientist and associate professor at the
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In turn, political analyst, Dmytro Solonnikov, noted that the
current Kiev regime is a product of the 2014 coup d'etat,
so there can be no democracy there -- by definition.
"Everyone knows perfectly well that decisions in Ukraine are
made in an authoritarian way, and they are put into effect
with the strong support of the Nazis, representatives of
various organizations banned in Russia," he said, in a conversation with RT.
Director of the Institute of Peace Initiatives and Conflictology
Denis Denisov expressed the opinion that Zelensky has been
perceiving Klitschko as one of his key competitors in the
elections... for several years.
"Klitschko is one of the most prominent representatives of
the political elite, who may well compete very seriously
with Zelensky in future elections if he also runs. This
is quite realistic but here everything depends on the
fact that, so far, in the current conditions, no one
wants to think or talk about any elections in
Ukraine," he said in an interview with RT.
Another round of conflict between Zelensky and Klitschko
may be connected with the secret start of the election
campaign for the presidential election of Ukraine.
This opinion was expressed by the director of
the Institute for Research on Contemporary
Politics, Anton Orlov.
"The fact that the Ukrainian elites have started public political
showdowns best shows that the supreme power in Ukraine is
experiencing a deep political crisis: other players feel the
weakness of its leader and the imminent fall. This is due
both to the ongoing retreat of Ukrainian troops, and,
apparently, to the upcoming US withdrawal from
the negotiation process and the subsequent
refusal of military & financial support for
Kiev, or rather, directly for Zelensky,"
the source told RT.
The expert also noted that Klitschko could be the "first
swallow" and Zelensky will soon be criticized by other
well-known political figures in Ukraine.
"But it is Klitschko ---- who can become a figure who will be
supported by European leaders in the elections, because,
first of all, the population of Ukraine still sees him not
only as the capital's mayor, but also -- as a world
boxing champion who can win both in sports
and in the political arena. And, probably,
it is not by chance - that rumours are
circulating about Vitali Klitschko's
German citizenship. In this case,
he becomes an ideal candidate
for Germany, and therefore for
the entire European Union,"
Orlov concluded.
According to political analyst Ivan Mezyukho, Zelensky is
really curtailing democratic institutions in Ukraine,
doing everything --- to ensure that local self-
government works to his tune.
"Therefore, Zelensky is increasing pressure on the mayor of
the Ukrainian capital, on members of his team, to knock
this boxer in politics -- out of the political arena. The
situation is interesting, because both Klitschko
and Zelensky have a large anti-rating," he
said, in a conversation with RT.
The expert added that Klitschko still has contacts
in Europe, which allow him to publicly criticize
Zelensky there.
"I think that today, of course, in this confrontation -- a great
force is on the side of Zelensky. He has great powers and
levers, but based on today's positions, we can say that
Zelensky is not yet able to "digest" Klitschko.
Therefore, he is unlikely to be arrested in
the foreseeable future, but, the process
of curtailing the powers of the mayor
of the Ukrainian capital --- will continue," Mezyukho concluded.
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Guards Junior Sergeant Poroshin shot
down a Ukrainian Baba Yaga UAV
May 31st, 10:55pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Private Serhiy Kleshnin was driving a truck and performing
the task... of delivering Russian servicemen to the front-
lines when he noticed a kamikaze drone of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) approaching the car.
Kleshnin quickly changed the trajectory of movement, moving
away from the impact of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The drone hit the ground and exploded. Following it,
another Ukrainian drone tried to attack the car,
but Kleshnin made another skillful maneuver,
avoiding a collision. As a result, the private
successfully delivered the servicemen to
the specified point.
The Russian Defense Ministry ---- also noted the professional
actions and courage of the Guard of junior Sergeant Nikolai
Poroshin, who patrolled the area with the help of a drone
& opened masked clusters of personnel & equipment of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the inspection of
the area, Poroshin noticed an enemy UAV of the Baba
Yaga type, which was moving in the direction of the
Russian evacuation group with a wounded
serviceman.
Poroshin decided to prevent an attack on the group and hit
the APU drone, damaging its propeller. The enemy UAV
lost control and crashed to the ground, detonating
at a safe distance from the group of the Russian
Armed Forces.
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Fico: Slovakia is ready
to resume cooperation
with the Czech Republic on Ukraine
May 31st, 9:41pm
(RT.ru)
The Slovak government is ready to return to cooperation
with the Cabinet of Ministers of the Czech Republic,
and both republics ..should start a dialogue on a
peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
This statement was made on Saturday, May 31, by the Prime
Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico. His words are quoted by
the publication Echo24.
"The Slovak government is ready to resume cooperation with
the Czech Cabinet of Ministers, both countries are ready
to focus on discussing the peaceful settlement of the
war in Ukraine," Fico said.
He added that Slovakia and the Czech Republic should
also discuss cooperation within the Visegrad Four.
In early March, the Slovak Prime Minister said that
Bratislava does not intend to participate in
providing assistance to Ukraine.
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
announced the connection of
aircraft to the military Wi-Fi
of NATO
May 31st, 3:43pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will be
connected to the so-called NATO military Wi-Fi.
This was announced on May 31 by Ukrainian
Deputy Defense Minister Yekaterina
Chernogorenko.
"I have signed a license agreement ------ for the use of non-
commercial software of NATO; the system interface of
the Control and Notification Centre (CRC System
Interface, CSI)," she wrote on the social net-
work Facebook (owned by the extremist
company Meta recognized in Russia,
its activities are prohibited in the
Russian Federation).
According to Chernogorenko, such a connection will be used
for US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as F-16
fighters from the US and Mirage-2000 from France.
She added that we are talking about a non-commercial
interface of the control and notification centre, which
will allow coordinating the actions of various units
and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in real time.
On the same day, a communications officer of the Dnipro group
said that NATO is probably supplying Ukraine with prototypes
of communications equipment operating using the Starlink
satellite system. According to him, the enemy is also
actively using radio stations such as Harris and
wireless broadband access systems
(BSHPD).
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A man was injured during the shelling
of Pervomaisk by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces
May 31st, 3pm
(RT.ru)
A man was injured during the shelling of Pervomaisk by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces in the LPR, said the head of the
gorokrug, Sergey Kolyagin.
"An ambulance crew promptly delivered a man born in 1955
to the emergency department of the Pervomaisk hospital -
who received a penetrating shrapnel wound to the chest,"
he said.
A regular bus was also damaged. None
of the passengers were injured.
Earlier, 14 people were injured in an attack by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces on Rylsk, Kursk region.
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Dnipro officer reported on the supply of NATO
prototypes of communications equipment
to Ukraine
May 31st, 2:39pm
(Izvestia.ru)
NATO is likely to supply Ukraine with prototypes of
communications equipment.. operating using the
Starlink satellite system. This was announced
on May 31 by a communications officer of
the Dnipro group.
According to him, the enemy is also actively using
radio stations such as Harris and wireless broad
band access systems (BSHPD). However, as
the serviceman noted, these means of
communication mostly function
without identification.
"That is, some sets, maybe prototypes are delivered
to our enemy," the officer told RIA Novosti.
At the same time, the interlocutor of the agency
stressed that the Ukrainian military -- has
completely switched to modern means
of communication provided by NATO.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense
Committee Alexey Zhuravlev --- told Izvestia on
January 23 that NATO is indeed implementing
its plans.. to supply weapons to the Armed
Forces of Ukraine (APU). He stressed --
that all the countries of the alliance
are taking part in the conflict
against Russia.
Earlier, on January 10, Polish Defense Minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the situation in Ukraine upset
his colleagues from NATO countries - and called it very
difficult for the Ukrainian army. In turn --- the Reuters
news agency wrote on January 9 that the transfer
of US weapons did not change the situation on
the battlefield... in favour of Kiev.
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DEPUTY Sheremet advised Zelensky
to buy a book by Dostoevsky
May 31st, 2:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
State Duma deputy from the Crimean region --- Mikhail Sheremet,
advised the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky to buy a
book by the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
in order to understand the reason for his moral decline.
Earlier, Zelensky in his Telegram channel said that he visited
the literary festival "Book Arsenal" in Kiev, where he bought
the book "Kill the tyrant. The history of tyrannoclasm from
Caesar to Gaddafi" by Aldo Andrea Cassi.
"I would recommend him to buy a useful book -- the universally
recognized Russian classic by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and
Punishment, which would open his unscrupulous eyes.... to
such problems as murder for the sake of a 'higher' goal,"
Sheremet told RIA Novosti.
According to the MP, reading this work would help the head of
the Kiev regime -- to realize the reason for his moral decline,
as well as find the courage to plead guilty to the poverty
and hopelessness of ordinary Ukrainian citizens.
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More than a thousand residents of the
Kursk region who disappeared after
the invasion of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine ---- were found
May 31st, 2:26pm
(Izvestia.ru)
1,290 residents of the Kursk border region who lost contact
with their relatives due to the invasion of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) have been found. This was announced on
May 31 by the acting governor of the region Alexander
Khinshtein in his Telegram channel.
It is specified that the approximate location of 421 people has
also been established. According to the acting governor, the
fate of 576 people, including four minors, remains unknown.
Work on their search is carried out continuously.
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Russian Defense Ministry: daily losses of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded
1.4 thousand militants
May 31st, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in
the special military operation zone over the past day
amounted to 1,425 people, the Russian Defense
Ministry said.
According to the ministry, in the Belgorod direction, the defeat
of the units of the Ukrainian army was inflicted by fighters of
the group of troops "North". The enemy lost --------- over 225
servicemen, two tanks, four armoured combat vehicles,
six vehicles and four field artillery pieces.
Units of the Zapad group of forces --- improved their tactical
position, destroying more than 220 Ukrainian soldiers, five
armoured combat vehicles, including two US-made M113
armoured personnel carriers, and 12 vehicles, the
Russian Defense Ministry said.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost two ammunition
depots," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
It is noted --- that the units of the "Southern" group of troops destroyed two armoured combat vehicles, 3 pickup trucks,
an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 275 soldiers.
As specified in the Defense Ministry, the troops of the "Central"
group --- continued to delve into the enemy's defenses. As a
result of the coordinated actions of Russian fighters,
Ukrainian units lost up to 440 personnel, five
armoured combat vehicles, 11 vehicles
and three field artillery pieces.
The report also says that units of the "Eastern" group of troops
----- destroyed up to 185 militants of the Kiev regime army, two
armoured combat vehicles, eight vehicles and an electronic
warfare station.
Units of the Dnipro group of forces --- hit nine vehicles, five field
artillery pieces and five electronic warfare stations. Also in
this area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than
80 servicemen, according to the report.
Earlier it was reported ---- that the Russian military liberated the
village of Novopol in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also inflicted a defeat
on the APU's personnel and equipment in the areas of several
settlements in the Zaporozhye region.
On Friday, the defense Ministry reported that over the past
week, from May 24 to May 30, the Russian army liberated
13 settlements in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions,
as well as in the DPR.
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Guards Lieutenant Petrushevsky evacuated
two seriously wounded soldiers of
the Russian Armed Forces
May 30th, 10:58pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Radio telephone operator of the communications platoon
of the assault squad, Private Alexander Sumarokov, was
given the task of restoring a communications repeater
which was damaged as a result of artillery fire from
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
Sumarokov quickly moved to the place of damage to the
repeater, despite the ongoing shelling from the enemy.
During the repair of equipment, he noticed that an enemy FPV
drone.. was approaching him. The radiotelephonist destroyed
the unmanned aerial vehicle -- with targeted fire from small
arms and managed to complete the repair work, restoring uninterrupted communication between Russian units.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the decisive and
selfless actions of the Guard Lt Alexey Petrushevsky,
who led the group, whose tasks include the timely
delivery of food and ammunition to the military,
as well as the evacuation of the wounded
from the line of contact for medical care.
During one of the trips, the group overcame a difficult
route, despite regular attacks by enemy artillery.
Arriving at the destination point and unloading ammunition
and food, Petrushevsky received information about two
wounded Russian servicemen who were injured as
a result of artillery shelling by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.
Petrushevsky immediately moved to the wounded, who
could not move independently. Having provided first
aid to the servicemen, the guard lieutenant
ensured their evacuation and delivered
them to a medical facility.
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Davis: continuation of the conflict
will cost Ukraine more than
the world
May 30th, 9:53pm
(RT.ru)
Attempts by Western allies to provide the Kiev regime
with more weapons will lead to losses for Ukraine.
This was stated by retired US Army Colonel
Daniel Davis.
According to him, attempts to beg for more ammunition,
armoured vehicles or long-range missiles... will delay
the inevitable military defeat of Ukraine.
''...It will increase the price of the senseless sacrifice
of more Ukrainian men for the sake of a defeat that
cannot be avoided," he wrote on his X social
network account.
Davis added - that the advantage in the
Ukrainian conflict remains on the side of Russia.
Russia's permanent representative to the world
Organization, Vasily Nebenzia, said that the
supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine will
draw Germany .....deeper into the war with Russia.
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The Russian Armed Forces attacked
Ukrainian Armed Forces' positions
in Volnovakha district with
four FAB-500s
May 30th, 5:07pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops launched an air strike on the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
Volnovakha district, Donetsk People's Republic.
For this attack - the Russian Armed Forces used
FAB-500 bombs, Russia's Defense Ministry said.
According to the military department, the 141st
brigade of the Ukrainian army was located
near the village of Komar.
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Nebenzia: Russia is ready for dialogue
with those who are not motivated by Russophobia
May 30th, 4:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russia is ready to conduct a dialogue and discuss
options for cooperation with those who are not
subject to Russophobia. This statement was
made by the Permanent Representative of
the Russian Federation to the United
Nations (UN), Vasily Nebenzya.
During his speech... at the headquarters of the world
organization, he noted that against the background
of many loud statements about the protection of
human rights - not a single step was taken to
protect millions of people --- whose rights
are systematically violated in Ukraine.
"Political expediency... makes our Western colleagues deaf and
dumb when it comes to the rights of the Russian – speaking
population, the Russian language, canonical Orthodoxy,
the glorification of Hitler's henchmen and the spread
of neo-Nazism in Ukraine," Nebenzia said.
"Now.... it's up to those who were behind the anti-Russian project
in Ukraine. Have you realized your mistakes and the futility of
defeating and isolating Russia? If you are driven solely by
Russophobia -- then we probably have nothing to talk
about with you. If... you are still ready to discuss
some options for coexistence and, even more
so, cooperation, then we have something to discuss," Nebenzia added.
He recalled - that Russia has never abandoned
dialogue ...and is still open to discussions.
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Nebenzia: The Russian Armed Forces are
able to increase combat operations
as much as necessary
May 30th, 4:12pm
(Vesti.ru)
The goals of the special military operation of the Russian
Federation in Ukraine - can be achieved both peacefully
and militarily, and, in the second case, Russia is ready
to fight ---- for as long as necessary.
This was stated at a meeting of the UN Security Council by
the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation
to this international organization - Vasily Nebenzya.
His speech was broadcast by the TV channel "Russia 24".
The diplomat recalled -- that Russia has always emphasized its
commitment to the political and diplomatic regulation of the
Ukrainian crisis. At the same time, even the most biased
military reports show --------- that Russian troops are
successfully advancing along almost the entire
front line, Nebenzia noted.
"We have repeatedly said - and want to repeat - that the goals
of our special operation can be achieved both peacefully
and militarily. Our Armed Forces --- are capable of
continuing and escalating combat operations
for as long as necessary," Nebenzia said.
The diplomat recalled that..... in 2014, as a result of an
unconstitutional coup supported and sponsored by
the United States and the EU, a regime came to
power in Ukraine - determined to exterminate
everything Russian, which in all subsequent
years trampled on the rights of residents of the east and south of Ukraine ---- as well as other regions of the country.
"We cannot - and will not - stand idly by while millions of
Russian-speaking people remain under the rule of a
regime -- whose policies blatantly violate their
fundamental rights and freedoms. Leaving
everything as it is, means deliberately
ignoring the norm of international
law and the provisions of the
UN Charter.
''Let me remind you --- that the first article of the Charter
clearly states the need ----- to respect human rights,
regardless of language, race, gender or religion.
Today, in Ukraine, we see the opposite," the
Russian permanent representative said.
In 2022, Russia has made its choice and will not leave
its compatriots in the lurch, Nebenzia stressed.
"If --- necessary, we will fight for this as long as necessary.
And we will no longer allow any threats on our borders,
any anti-Russian, neo-Nazi formations.. in the area
of our neighbourhood," he said.
Vasily Nebenzya also stressed: that Russia --- will
not be satisfied with a situation that will allow
Ukraine ..to catch its breath.
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Nebenzia: Russia will consider all options
to respond to possible deliveries of
Taurus to Kiev
May 30th, 3:42pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russia will consider "all options" for an adequate response
in case of delivery of German Taurus missiles to Kiev.
This was stated by the Permanent Representative of
the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya.
During his speech at the UN headquarters, he noted
that recently European countries have taken a
number of steps to escalate the Ukrainian
conflict in order to derail all efforts to
establish peace.
"Friedrich Merz recently announced the lifting of restrictions
on the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine by Britain,
France, Germany and the US. He even specified: that
it happened... a few months ago. Experts directly
linked these words ---- to the supply of Taurus
missiles to the Kiev regime, which it begs
...for a special military operation," the
permanent representative said.
Nebenzia noted that Merz's attempts to "win back" everything
and convince everyone that Germany will only help Ukraine
establish independent missile production will not be able
to mislead anyone. He stressed - that the assembly of
Taurus --- as well as unmanned British boats ---
"does not make them Ukrainian."
So... the Russian permanent representative is convinced,
Germany will only be even more involved in the conflict
with the Russian Federation.
"This will give us the right to consider all options for an
adequate response to this unfriendly step," he added.
In conclusion, Nebenzia said that Russia is forced to recognize
Germany's actions --- as part of Europe's campaign to disrupt
the process of peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
According to him, Berlin is trying to provoke Moscow into
retaliatory actions, which could then be presented as
evidence of Russia's unwillingness to negotiate.
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Russian Defense Ministry:during the week,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more
than 9,420 militants
May 30th, 11:24am
(Vesti.ru)
Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost
more than 9,420 militants. This follows from the weekly
summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation. The enemy suffered the greatest
losses in the area of responsibility of
the Center group.
"Enemy losses totaled over 3,060 soldiers, a tank, and 39
armoured combat vehicles. 57 vehicles and nine field
artillery pieces were destroyed."
At the same time, the enemy lost at least 1,265 servicemen in
the Vostok area of responsibility. Thanks to the efforts of the
units of the "Southern" group of the Armed Forces of Russia
more than 1,615 militants were lost, and the forces of the
"West" eliminated more than 1,495 enemy soldiers.
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Russian Armed Forces liberated
13 settlements- in a week
May 30th, 11:07am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces liberated 13 settlements in
the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, as well as the DPR,
in a special operation over the past week,
he Russian Defense Ministry said in
its summary. The summary... is
devoted to --- the course of
military operations from
May 24 to May 30.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, control over
the villages of Loknya, Vladimirovka, Belovody and
Konstantinovka was established in the Sumy
region during the week. This was done, by
the efforts of the group of troops "North".
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the
Zapad group of troops, the settlements of Stroevka
and Kondrashovka in the Kharkiv region were
liberated," the military department said.
In the DPR, the "Southern" group of troops -- liberated the
villages of Stupochki, Staraya Nikolaevka, Romanovka
and Gnatovka, and the "Center" group of troops
liberated the village of Shevchenko Pervoe.
Vostok troops liberated the villages of Zelenoe Pole
and Otradnoye, which are located in the DPR,
the Defense Ministry adds.
According to Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, the Russian
Armed Forces are currently solving the problem of creating
a buffer zone along the border with Ukraine.
Military expert Andrey Marochko noted that with the capture
of Konstantinovka in the Sumy region, Russian servicemen
cleared a section of the administrative border of the
Russian Federation .....and drove out the AFU
militants from it.
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Rogov announced the withdrawal of
Russian troops to the border with
the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 30th, 9:30am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops have reached the junction of the borders of
the Donetsk People's Republic( DPR), Zaporizhia region
and Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
This was announced to RIA Novosti by Vladimir Rogov,
Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber
of the Russian Federation on sovereignty and co-
chairman of the Coordination Council for the
integration of new regions.
Vladimir Rogov noted that after the liberation of Green Field 1,
Russian troops "intensified offensive actions --- and actually
reached the junction of the borders of the DPR and
Zaporozhye region, with the Dnepropetrovsk
region of Ukraine."
According to him, control of Green Field 1, opens up the
possibility: for the Russian army to attack the northern
part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Ukrainian
forces, both from the south --- and from the east.
On May 28, the Russian Defense Ministry announced, that units
of the Vostok group had taken control of the village of Zelenoe
Pole in the DPR. This locality is near the administrative border
of the Zaporizhia region, in the direction of the village of
Temirovka, held by the Ukrainian military.
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Kellogg: Russia's concern about NATO
expansion to the east,is natural
May 29th, 10:43pm
(RT.ru)
From the point of view of Russia, its concern about the
expansion of NATO to the east is natural, said the
US Special Representative for Ukraine,
Keith Kellogg.
"This is a natural concern," he said on ABC News.
Kellogg also added, that the United States is not
currently considering Ukraine's entry into NATO.
"And - we are not the only country that thinks so.
I can name four more such countries from the
alliance. And joining NATO requires the
consent of all 32 countries,"
Kellogg said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that
the West's desire to draw Ukraine into NATO and
the alliance's expansion to the east ----
had caused the conflict.
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APU drones hit a church and
a hospital in a Russian city
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 29th, 10:39pm
(Lenta.ru)
The drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kursk crashed
into the city hospital No. 1 and the church of the Icon of the
Mother of God "Joy to All Who Grieve". This is reported
by the Telegram channel "Typical Kursk".
As a result of the hit of the drone debris in the building
of a medical institution, windows were broken -- there
are victims. The driver of a car near the church was
also injured.
Local residents claim that at least four enemy drones
were destroyed in total. At the site of the fall of one
of them, a fire started.
The first explosions in Kursk were heard on May 29 at
about 23: 20 Moscow time. They were followed, by
several more at different intervals. In the region,
the danger of a UAV attack ---- has not yet
been removed.
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In Khmelnitsky region,hundreds of people
blocked a shopping centre car and
cut its tires
May 29th, 10:10pm
(RT.ru)
In Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine,
hundreds of people blocked the car of the territorial
acquisition centre (TCCC) and cut its tires.
About it, writes "Country.na".
"About a hundred people have already gathered around the shopping centre car, into which the military commissars
forcibly dragged a man," the report says.
It is not specified whether he managed to escape
from the employees of the shopping centre.
It is noted that the car is surrounded
by a police cordon.
Earlier, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
was attacked by a man armed with a knife in
the premises of a shopping centre in the
city of Pryluki, in Chernihiv region.
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Nebenzia: Ukraine faces a choice —
peaceor defeat on the battlefield
May 29th, 9:50pm
(RT.ru)
At the moment, the choice is up to Ukraine — peace
as a result of negotiations, or imminent defeat on
the battlefield --- with different conditions for
the end of the conflict.
The corresponding statement was made by the
Permanent Representative of Russia to the
United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya.
Earlier, Nebenzia said that the United States
administration has opened its eyes to the
regime of Vladimir Zelensky.... in
recent months.
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Military commander Kukushkin
on the offensive of the Russian
army: Sumy --- is 20 kms away
May 29th, 12:53pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military ---- is advancing on a broad front in the Sumy
region. To the outskirts of the regional centre remains about 20
kilometres, military commander Pavel Kukushkin said, on the
air of "Russia 1" .
According to him, the intensification of fighting is observed
in the vicinity of the main logistics point in the region – Yunakovka.
"The Sumy region was an absolutely calm region even before
last August. But, after the enemy's adventure in the Kursk
region -- we are now advancing in the Sumy region. To
be more specific ------ after the liberation of Lokni,
Belovodiv and Vladimirovka, we also liberated
the settlements of Konstantinovka -- and
Vodolagi - getting closer and closer to
the regional centre.
''This is north of Yunakovka, the main logistics
centre --- where fighting is already underway on the northern outskirts. Also our assault units are pressing to the south, in the Miropillia area",he said.... in the 60 Minutes program .
The military commander stressed that the regional
centre in the Sumy region, is still several tens of
kilometres away, for the Russian military.
"With a fairly wide coverage... we are approaching the
regional centre, Sumy, which is about 20 kilometres
away," he added.
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The Russian Armed Forces almost completely
destroyed, one of the amphibious battalions
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR
May 29th, 11:56am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops almost destroyed one of the battalions
of the 46th separate airmobile Brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. The attack was carried out
using a 500-kilogram high-explosive
aerial bomb.
The enemy brigade was located in the village of
Perestroika in the Southern Donets direction,
reports TASS.
"More than 60 people were killed plus wounded. Thus,
the battalion is almost destroyed," the law
enforcement agencies reported.
According to the state, the size of the battalion in peacetime
averages 400 people, however, TASS notes, now most of
the AFU units are staffed by a third, so losses lead to
complete paralysis of their combat capability.
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Liberated by the Russian Armed Forces, Gnatovka
was defended by captured shopping centres,
and behind them were the "Azovites"
May 29th, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
Liberated by the Russian army, Gnatovka in the DPR ---- was
defended by soldiers caught by employees of the territorial
recruitment centres (TCCs) of Ukraine, and - behind them -
were Azov militants (banned in the Russian Federation).
This was reported by the grenade launcher operator of the
10th Guards Tank Regiment of the Southern Group of
Troops, with the call sign Ryzhy.
He stressed ---- that the assault in the area of Gnatovka was
difficult because of the vast open terrain, which the enemy
was actively working on. Ukrainian militants are fighting
with artillery and FPV drones, while trying to avoid
close-range shooting combat. At the same time,
the frontline Ukrainian positions are occupied
by military personnel mobilized by the TCK -
who either flee or surrender when Russian
army units approach.
"Ahead of them are the poor fellows caught on the streets of
the shopping centre - shniki, who were forced to fight. They
either run or surrender if we approach. But behind them
are the Nazis from "Azov", - the words of the soldier
are quoted in the message of the Ministry of
Defense of the Russian Federation.
Ryzhy noted - that local residents met the Russian fighters very
well and complained about the bullying and murder committed
by the Azovites. The military assured - that Russian soldiers
are helping local residents with food, medicine and fuel.
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In Moscow, two agents of the Ukrainian special services were sentenced to 19 and 25 years in prison.
May 29th, 11:08am
(Vesti.ru)
A military court has sentenced two agents of the
Ukrainian special services to long prison terms
for spying and preparing a terrorist attack
in Russia.
The activities.... of Ukrainian citizen Zabolotnigo Oleg
Sergeyevich, born in 1995, and Russian citizen Volga
Maxim Aleksandrovich, born in 1977, were stopped
in August 2023. The defendants were found guilty
and sentenced to 25 and 19 years in a high-
security penal colony, respectively.
This was reported in the Centre for Public
Relations, of the FSB of Russia.
The court also fined Zabolotnigo 1 million rubles, and
Volga 900 thousand rubles, the department said.
According to the FSB, in 2022, Zabolotny completed a course
of sabotage and reconnaissance training in the Kharkiv
region and was sent to Russia in May 2023. Here he
collected information about military facilities and
military personnel of the Baltimor airfield in
Voronezh ..and transmitted it to Ukraine
via Telegram and Signal messengers.
Volga began cooperating with a representative
of the Kiev special services, in January 2023.
"In August 2023, on the instructions of the curator, he seized
firearms with ammunition, more than 10 kg of explosives
and electric detonators intended for Zabolotnim from a
cache in the Smolensk region and delivered them to
Voronezh, after which..... he was detained,"
the report says.
Later, from the received components, Zabolotny assembled
an improvised explosive device - with which. he planned to
eliminate a high-ranking serviceman of the Russian Armed
Forces by laying a self-propelled gun in the entrance of
the house. The person involved, could not implement
the plan and was detained on the way to the place
of the terrorist attack.
The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.
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Defense Ministry: during the day, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost up to 1,245 militants
in the free defense zone
May 29th, 10:49am
(Vesti.ru)
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost
up to 1,245 militants in the free zone. This follows
from the summary of the Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation.
The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the area of
responsibility of the Center group, whose units
liberated the village of 'Shevchenko First' -
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
"The enemy's losses amounted to more than 390 servicemen,
two Kazak armoured combat vehicles, seven vehicles and a
field artillery gun," the Defense Ministry said in a summary
of the success of the Center group.
Thanks to the actions of the "Southern" group of troops --- the
village of Gnatovka in the DPR, passed under Russian control,
the enemy lost 240 soldiers - as well as 2 electronic warfare
stations, 3 ammunition depots and a warehouse of materiel.
In the area of responsibility of the Zapad group, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost more than 200 servicemen, two armoured
vehicles and four ammunition depots. Soldiers of the group
liberated the village of Stroevka, Kharkiv region.
Earlier it became known - that Russian troops attacked the
location of the US' MLRS HIMARS. The Iskander-M missile
strike and the Geran-2 UAV destroyed the command post
of the special operations centre "South", of the MTR of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the Mykolaiv region.
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Ministry of Defense: The Russian Armed Forces
liberated Stroevka village, in the Kharkiv region
May 29th, 10:35am
(Vesti.ru)
Under the control of the Russian army, passed the village
Stroyevka, in the Kharkiv region. This is stated in the
summary of the Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation.
The settlement was liberated by the forces
of the group of troops "West".
"As a result of active actions - units of the Zapad
group of troops liberated the village of Stroevka
in the Kharkiv region," the Defense Ministry
said, in a summary.
Two days ago, war correspondent Alexey Gavrish said that
the Russian Armed Forces had stepped up their offensive
in the Kharkiv direction. According to military expert
Andriy Marochko, AFU units... abandoned their
positions.. near Volchansk, in the Kharkiv
region - after a fire raid and an attack
by Russian troops.
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The Russian army liberated Hnatovka
and Shevchenko 1 ---- in the DPR
May 29th, 10:34am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops - liberated the localities of Gnatovka
and Shevchenko I in the DPR, the Russian Defense
Ministry said in a summary.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the village
of Gnatovka was liberated by the "Southern" group
of troops, and the village of Shevchenko 1 --- by
units of the "Center" group of troops.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 soldiers, three
armored fighting vehicles, an artillery piece and 6 pickup
trucks near Hnativka, the Defense Ministry said. Three
ammunition depots, a material storage facility and 2
electronic warfare stations, were also destroyed.
Near Shevchenko, the first loss of Ukrainian troops amounted
to more than 390 soldiers, the report says. Also, the
Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two "Cossack"
armoured vehicles, field artillery guns,
and seven cars.
A day earlier, the Ministry of Defense informed
about the liberation of the village of
Zelenoe Pole, in the DPR.
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Prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Belyakov: tattoo with a swastika
became a brand -for life
May 29th, 7:31am
(RIA News)
Ukrainian prisoner Serhiy Belyakov said in a video published
by the Russian Defense Ministry that he went to fight from
prison, where he made a tattoo with a swastika.
According to him, the tattoo has become
a brand for life.
Belyakov .....was captured by fighters of the
Russian group "Center", RIA Novosti writes.
According to the prisoner, he served three terms
in prison and "stopped by" on the fourth.
"I was a janitor, cooked food, an errand boy.
I didn't like doing it, so I decided to sign a
contract," Belyakov said.
He said that during his first term in prison, he got a
swastika tattoo, even though his grandfather
fought for the USSR.
"If he had been alive, he would have strangled me
on the spot, or shot me. This tattoo, this eagle,
this swastika became a brand for me.
A brand for life," said the captured
soldier of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine.
Belyakov said that he ended up in the 72nd brigade of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, signing a contract in
the expectation... of a later amnesty.
According to him, the presence of a tattoo in the form
of a swastika was a plus, in the 72nd brigade they
began to "support and encourage" him.
The prisoner clarified that the brigade consisted mainly
of drug addicts, alcoholics and criminals, who were
sent "one way", to the assault, fraudulently.
Belyakov complained about Major Andrey Kasovsky, who, according to him, collected money from soldiers, played
certain games and took out his anger on subordinates,
when physical punishments were practiced.
As the prisoner noted, Kasovsky "swells constantly"
----- and forces soldiers to go out for runs - at night.
On Wednesday, TASS posted a video with another
captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, Yevgeny Bespartochny, who, after
a conversation with his relatives, asked
to be granted Russian citizenship.
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The expert --- declared readiness of the
Russian Federation to respond to the
Taurus strike with a"good product"
by Sergey Grekhov (Night Line Editor)
May 28th, 10:03pm
(Lenta.ru)
Russia - has a wide range of weapons as a response to a
potential strike by a German long-range Taurus missile,
military expert Alexey Leonkov told RIA Novosti.
He stressed: that it is possible to use options ranging
"from conventional weapons... and up to the most
extreme measures."
"We have a good product called
"Hazel", " the expert said.
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The State Duma commented on
threats to the Medinsky family
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 28th, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs,
Leonid Slutsky, commented on RIA Novosti -- information about
threats against the family of Russian presidential aide Vladimir
Medinsky, saying that attempts to put pressure on the Russian
side, by Ukrainian radicals --- cannot be ruled out.
"But I am sure - that our negotiators will stand firmly on the
position, of protecting Russia's national interests," the MP
stressed. He also noted that it is impossible to intimidate
the representatives of the Russian side.
In addition, Slutsky added -- all necessary measures will
be taken to ensure the safety of the Russian delegation.
Earlier it became known that the Medinsky family is being
threatened from Ukraine. In the State Duma - this was
considered an attempt to disrupt the negotiations,
but the head of the Ministry of Defense of
Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, said that
"Nazis" were involved in this,
which "do not influence".
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Zakharova:There were no agreements
on the participation of the US - in the
exchange of memoranda with Kiev
by Ivan Sysoev
May 28th, 5:10pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
The official representative of Russia's Foreign Ministry,
Maria Zakharova, pointed out ---- that there were no
agreements on the mediation of the US, or other
countries in the exchange of draft memoranda
with Kiev.
Earlier, the US President's special representative for
Ukraine... Keith Kellogg, said that Washington had
received a list of terms of the peace agreement
from Kiev and was waiting.......... for a similar
document from Moscow.
Commenting on this statement, Zakharova pointed out
that Russia "does not know what the Ukrainian side
handed over and to whom." She recalled that the
agreements reached in Istanbul, on May 16,
presuppose the preparation by Moscow
and Kiev of "their own vision of the
modalities of the settlement
and ceasefire."
"After that, the parties will exchange the relevant
documents, directly.... and discuss them at the
next round," Zakharova said.
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Medvedev announced the replenishment
of the Russian Armed Forces since the
beginning of the year by 175 thousand
contract soldiers
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 8th, 4:10pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, held a meeting on the
issues of the re-supply of the Armed Forces.
He said that since the beginning of the year, almost
175 thousand servicemen, have arrived in military
units under the contract. More than 14 thousand
people were accepted to volunteer units.
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council noted that
the situation of Russia's opponent - in Ukraine - looks
fundamentally different, which shows the real state
of affairs.
Medvedev called on all these trends to consolidate, and
work further - on recruiting the Russian Armed Forces
Because of the provocation on the Kursk border... the Kiev
regime risks losing those regions that the Russian troops
- initially - did not consider to be priority areas of the
special operation. This was announced, by the
military correspondent of VGTRK Evgeny
Poddubny on the air of the program
"60 Minutes" on the TV
channel "Russia".
He noted that the Russian army is expanding control over
the territory of the Sumy region: the village of Belovody
was taken under full control by Russian paratroopers.
These territories were not considered priority areas of
a special military operation, before the Kiev regime
invaded the territory of the Kursk border area,
the military commander says.
"In fact, Kiev provoked such a reaction, and now risks losing several more regions --- that were not on the priority list --- to our own actions" Poddubny said.
He stressed that the Russian army enjoys an advantage
and has the initiative along the entire line of contact.
"There is an active offensive in the Pokrovsky direction. And
we can already say that the Konstantinovsky direction, has
appeared. The city of Konstantinovka -- is now the centre
of attention, because the fighting is going on around it,"
the military commander added.
Poddubny also expressed the opinion that the formation
of a security zone on the border area --- is a necessity
--- to protect local residents.
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It became known about the liquidation
of the leader of the "Right Sector"
by Anastasia Dubova (Editor
of the BSSR department)
May 26th, 3:56pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Ukrainian nationalist, one of the leaders of the "Right Sector"
organization (recognized in Russia as an extremist and
terrorist organization and banned), Vladimir Sklyar,
was liquidated by the Armed Forces of Russia
near Kursk.
This is reported by Argumenty I Fakty with reference to
the military correspondent, Ruslan Tatarinov.
"On May 21, Sklyar was killed in the border area,
in the Kursk direction," the publication says.
Earlier, TASS, citing a source, announced the liquidation
of the Right Sector nationalists by the Russian army.
The head of the National Medical Research Centre for High
Medical Technologies – Alexander Esipov on the air of
"Russia 24" said that -- in 2022, wounded Ukrainian
soldiers were brought to the hospital, which our
doctors treated as their own. According to the
Major General, such cases occurred at the
beginning of the special operation.
"But a wounded enemy, when he is wounded, he is no longer an
enemy – he is sick. There are also not all Nazis there, they are
different. There, and on the streets, they are caught and some students are pushed there. But what does it have to do with them? Therefore, we provide assistance both to our own ....and not our own," Esipov explained.
He also spoke about how the level of complexity of operations
in the hospital and the rehabilitation of military personnel in
connection with the use of new types of weapons in the
free zone... has changed.
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Russian Defense Ministry: 46 Ukrainian soldiers
surrendered to Russian Armed Forces in a week
May 23rd, 12:01pm
(Vesti.ru)
46 Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily surrendered
to the Russian military in the period from May
17 to May 23, 2025, the Ministry of Defense
of the Russian Federation reported.
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian
Armed Forcesnarrow a semicircle around
Konstantinovsky garrison of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine
May 23rd, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are narrowing the semicircle formed
around the Konstantinovsky garrison of Ukrainian troops. This
was announced on the air of the program "60 minutes" on
the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Pavel Kukushkin.
Commenting on the situation in the Konstantinovsky direction,
the military commander noted that Russian troops are
pressing the APU from three sides. In the west, the
Russian Armed Forces... are very close to the
village of Yablonovka, and - in the east, the
Russian army is advancing.. in the area
of Chasova Yara -- as well as near the
village of Stupochki, Kukushkin said.
"From the south, our assault units are also pressing in the area
of the village of Kleban-Byk, from which about 8.5 kilometres
to Konstantinovka are located from the south. Thus, we
narrow this semi-ring around the Konstantinovsky
garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,"
he concluded.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian
Armed Forces violated the control system of the AFU units in
the area of Konstantinovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces
deployed Polish mercenaries and an elite battalion of
Magyar Birds drone guides to Konstantinovka - to
patch up the holes in the defense caused by
Russian strikes.
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Russian Defense Ministry: during the week,
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about
9 thousand militants
May 23rd, 11:38am
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian army lost about nine thousand soldiers in the
special military operation zone during a week of fighting.
This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation.
According to the Defense Ministry, the weekly losses of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of responsibility of the
group of troops "West" of the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation amounted to more than 1,585 militants. In
addition, 13 armoured combat vehicles, three tanks,
11 field artillery pieces and 65 vehicles
were eliminated.
The group of forces "North" hit 13 Ukrainian formations and
five tanks, 34 field artillery pieces and other equipment
were also destroyed.
In the area of responsibility of the "South", the enemy lost
more than 1,665 militants, 24 armoured combat vehicles,
two tanks and three M113 armoured personnel carriers
manufactured in the United States.
Units of the Center group of forces eliminated 2,875 soldiers
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vostok – 1,185 soldiers
and two tanks, Dnipro - 415 militants and a tank.
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian
Armed Forces control most of the village
of Orekhovo in the DPR
May 23rd, 11:16am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces control most of the village of
Orekhovo in the Donetsk People's Republic, military
correspondent Pavel Kukushkin said on the 60
Minutes program on the Rossiya TV channel.
According to Kukushkin, Ukrainian troops have gained
a foothold on the western outskirts of the village.
"Fighting is taking place in the village of Orekhovo.
A small village, there are literally three streets,
here two are already behind us. And from
Orekhov literally 700 metres to the
border with the Dnipropetrovsk
region," said the military
commander.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
liberated Radkovka in Kharkiv region
May 23rd, 11:10am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops liberated the village of Radkovka
in the Kharkiv region, according to the daily
summary of the Russian Defense Ministry.
It is specified that Radkovka was
liberated by the "Western"
group of troops.
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the
Zapad group of troops, the settlement of Radkovka
in the Kharkiv region was liberated," the Russian
Defense Ministry said in a statement.
In just a week, six settlements were liberated: Maryino in the
Sumy region, Radkovka in the Kharkiv region, Alexandropol,
Novoolenovka, Novaya Poltavka, and Bogatyr, in the DPR.
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian
Armed Forces are advancing in the area of
Green Field and Novopol in the DPR
May 23rd, 11:07am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the area of
the settlements of Zelyonoe Pole and Novopol, which
are located on the border of the Donetsk People's
Republic and the Dnipropetrovsk region.
This was announced on the air of the program "60 minutes"
on the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Pavel Kukushkin.
He stressed that the Russian troops are conducting
successful systematic work in all areas of the front.
"To the west of Velikaya Novoselka - in the area of the
settlements of Zelenoe Pole and Novopol - there is
progress, these settlements are close, already
adjacent to the Dnipropetrovsk region. There
are battles in the villages, liberation
operations are underway,"
Kukushkin said.
Earlier, military correspondent Vladimir Razin reported
that now fighting is going on for three settlements in
the DPR, near the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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Aidar militantsdeployed crematoria near
the DPR and Dnipropetrovsk region
May 23rd, 7:36am
(Vesti.ru)
Militants of the Aidar group (recognized as a terrorist
organization and banned in the Russian Federation)
organized field crematoria in the border areas
between the Donetsk People's Republic
and the Dnipropetrovsk region.
This is reported by Russian law enforcement agencies.
It is noted that these objects are used to hide
the significant losses of the Ukrainian side.
"The losses --- are very large. From the front line... bodies and
fragments are taken away in what they can, up to ordinary
supermarket bags. The militants themselves, call them
field stokers," the law enforcement agencies told
the TASS news agency.
According to security officials, conflicts have arisen, between
old-timers and new recruits of the unit: young people arriving
to hold their positions are opposed to secret cremation. In
addition, it is reported that the units recorded a decline
in morale, and the demoralization of personnel.
According to the same sources, the command of "Aidar"
..began to withdraw its main forces from the combat
zone in the Southern Donetsk direction deep into
the Dnipropetrovsk region. Only recently
mobilized recruits remain in the
frontline positions.
The decision is associated with huge losses,
the law enforcement agencies noted.
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Alaudinov: "Akhmat" does not
capture foreign mercenaries
May 23rd, 6:14am
(Vesti.ru)
Lieutenant-General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat
special forces and deputy head of the Main Military-Political
Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, told RIA
Novosti that the fighters of his unit do not capture
foreign mercenaries who are fighting on the side
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ukraine.
Alaudinov noted that the unit has
never had such a task.
"I don't think that the foreign mercenaries who came to fight
against our country are our brothers. These are not our
brothers, in any case," Alaudinov said.
At the same time, the Lieutenant General added that a different
approach is applied to Ukrainian soldiers - in cases when they
are ready to surrender, an order is issued to save their lives.
In his opinion, a significant part of Ukrainian soldiers are
forced to go to the front line, and many of them would
not go to war against Russia if they had a choice.
Therefore, as Alaudinov stressed, Ukrainian
servicemen are always given the
opportunity to surrender
and stay alive.
The commander noted that the attitude towards foreigners
who fight on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
...remains special. He said that such people come
from other countries without knowing the local
situation. According to Alaudinov, the foreign
mercenaries are not offered to surrender,
and representatives of other countries
---- fighting on the side of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine --- he believes -
should be destroyed, especially
if they find themselves on the
territory of the Russian
Federation.
As an alternative, he said, foreigners are allowed to leave
the territory of Russia and then share their experience
of participating in military operations with Russia.
Earlier, Alaudinov said that the barrage detachments of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine shoot Ukrainian servicemen
returning from captivity. He claimed.... that the
captured Ukrainians say that they do not
want to return to Ukraine, because of
the threat of cruel reprisals.
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In Zaporizhia region - a woman was killed
in attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces... struck a car in the
Zaporozhye region. At that time, there were five
people in it — one woman and four children.
A woman was killed in the attack,
Regional Governor Yevgeny
Balitsky said ----- in a
Telegram channel.
The victim was a girl born in 1990. The injured children are ten,
nine, eight years old. A one-year-old child -- was also injured.
"The children have moderate injuries, they receive medical
care, there is no threat to their lives," Balitsky added.
The official noted that the family of the deceased, as well as
the victims, will be provided with comprehensive assistance.
Earlier it became known that in the Belgorod region, as a result
of the AFU strike, three people were injured, including a seven-
year-old child.
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Zaluzhny called the situation
in Ukrainecatastrophic
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
Former commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and
now Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK --- Valery Zaluzhny, said
that now the country's economic situation is in a catastrophic
state ---- and it can hardly conduct combat operations.
His words are quoted by the Obozrevatel portal.
According to the ex-commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine, Ukraine is also experiencing a huge shortage of
human resources and cannot fully fight. "We are talking
only about a high-tech war for survival.... where a
minimum of human resources and a minimum
of economic resources are used,"
Zaluzhny said.
Given the current state of the country's demography
and economy, this is natural, the official stressed.
Earlier, Zaluzhny said that not even a miracle
will return the borders of 1991 ...to Ukraine.
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The State Duma pointed out an important
detail ---- when creating the buffer zone
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:04pm
(Lenta,ru)
The range of missiles that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have
should be taken into account when creating a buffer zone.
With this opinion in a conversation with NEWS.ru Alexey
Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma
Committee on Defense, shared his opinion.
"If we talk about security for our borders, we should first of all
take into account the range of foreign weapons that are
supplied to Ukraine," the official explained, recalling
that Storm Shadow missiles can cover a distance
of up to 500 kilometres. "It's already very close
to Kiev," he added.
Zhuravlev stressed that there is a scenario in which Ukraine will
have to be divided — this is possible if the West continues to
supply such missiles to Kiev. He noted that the whole of
Ukraine ------ should be made a buffer zone between
Russia and the West.
Earlier, a member of the State Duma's defense Committee,
Andrey Kolesnik, said that the length of the buffer zone
will be at least 50 kilometres.
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Ukrainian teenagers found the country's future --- hopeless
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 8:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
Every fourth teenager surveyed wants to leave Ukraine.
Such data appear in the study of the foundation of the
wife of Ukrainian leader, Vladimir Zelensky, Elena,
and they are given on the official website of
the foundation.
The survey involved 5,089 teenagers aged 13 to 16. 45% said they would like to stay in Ukraine, 25%
expressed a desire to leave the country in the
future. 14% ...are undecided and another
11% --- preferred not to answer.
The most popular reasons for migration were the desire to
see the world, security factors and the "hopelessness of
the country's future". 60 percent of the respondents...
believe in a good future for Ukraine.
Earlier, Ukrainian officials expressed doubts that
refugees will return to the country, after the
conflict ends.
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Columnist Kornev: the sky of Ukraine will
become a checkpoint yard --- without
foreign air defense systems
May 22nd, 8:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
If the West stops supplying Kiev with anti-aircraft missile
systems( SAMs), the sky of Ukraine will become a
"checkpoint yard". This opinion was expressed
to the TV channel "Russia 24" by military
observer Dmitry Kornev.
He noted that a number of countries can stop the supply
of air defense systems to Ukraine if the United States
strictly stops military assistance to Kiev.
"If the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems from outside
to Ukraine stops, then, of course, the sky of Ukraine will
become a passing yard, and sometimes we see signs
of such a state," Kornev believes.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian
Armed Forces --- with an Iskander strike destroyed two enemy
Patriot air defense systems near the village of Ordzhonikidze
in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Earlier, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said at a hearing
of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that none of
Washington's NATO allies..... wants to transfer Patriot
complexes to Kiev.
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Marochko: soldiers of the Russian Armed
Forces almost cut the AFU grouping
in Krasnoarmeysk
May 22nd, 6:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army practically cut off the AFU troops
stationed at Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and
Konstantinovka. This was announced by
military expert Andrey Marochko, in
a conversation with TASS.
It is specified that the advance of Russian troops occurred
due to the liberation of the settlement of Novaya Poltavka
in the DPR, by units of the Center group of troops.
"With the capture of Novaya Poltavka, the Armed Forces of
the Russian Federation practically cut off the grouping of
Ukrainian militants who are located in Krasnoarmeysk
and in Konstantinovka," Marochko said.
In late April, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky,
said that the most difficult situation for Ukrainian militants
--- was in the Krasnoarmeysky direction. As previously
reported, the command transfers there detachments
of foreign mercenaries who are armed with NATO
weapons and are much better prepared than
Ukrainian servicemen.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also sending untrained
fighters to Krasnoarmeysk, in an attempt to contain
the advance of Russian troops.
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Professor Artamonov predicts a sharp change
in the situation at the front, in favour of
the Russian Federation
May 22nd, 6:02pm
(Vesti.ru)
In the next month and a half, there will be a sharp change in
the situation at the front in favor of Russia. This forecast
was made by Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of
the Russian Foreign Ministry, a specialist in NATO
armies, Alexander Artamonov.
He believes that the Ukrainian command, by its unprofessional
actions, provokes the AFU militants and the civilian population
to react negatively.
"There will definitely be a reaction from the population, from the
military, that is, those who put on a uniform --- and realized that
they were being killed, that they were sent to the front in order
to be killed there. And I think it will be right now, when they
see that America's aid is weakening, and that no one is
trying to support them abroad. Therefore, yes, indeed,
I foresee a sharp change in the situation at the front,
in the next month & a half. In our favour, of course,"
Artamonov said.
The professor noted that the accompanying factors may
also be an increase in the density of Russian fire and
the realization that the United States is no longer
on the side of Ukraine.
"All this, of course, should lead to panic moods against the
background of the constant, even, unhurried advance of
the Russian army. Accordingly... further, as they say,
when a person is cornered, he has only two ways
out. More precisely, maybe even three. Either
surrender, or run away, become a deserter,
or, as I said, turn your weapons against
your own commanders --- and those
who give thoughtless and insane
orders," Artamonov said.
Earlier, he suggested that the Ukrainian Armed Forces
would begin a panicked retreat, and Russian troops
would advance to the city of Dnepropetrovsk
within two months.
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Professor Artamonov suggested that
the Russian Armed Forces --- will
advance to Dnepropetrovsk
May 22nd, 6:03pm
(Vesti.ru)
Alexander Artamonov, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy
of the Russian Foreign Ministry and a specialist in NATO
armies, suggested that Russian troops will advance to
the city of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukrainian name-Dnipro)
within two months.
In his opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will start a panic
retreat and try to detain the Russian military, only at the
turn of Dnepropetrovsk.
"I fully foresee that the front will roll back, and, most likely, it is
primarily in the south, to the Dnieper. I think that within about
two months we will see a panicked retreat of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces, who will really try to detain us further at
the turn of the Dnieper," Artamonov said.
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Putin: Russian Armed Forces -- solve
the problem .......of creating a buffer
zone along the border with Ukraine
May 22nd, 4pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian armed forces are working to create a
buffer zone along the border with Ukraine. This
was announced by the Russian President,
Vladimir Putin.
At a meeting with members of the government, the head
of state recalled the decision taken earlier... to create the necessary security buffer zone along the border.
"Our armed forces -- are now solving this problem, the
enemy's firing points are being actively suppressed,
and work is underway," Putin said.
Earlier, military correspondent Alexey Gavrish on the air of
the program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia",
reported that the Russian armed forces continue to
create a buffer zone in the Sumy region. In his
opinion, its depth should be about 60 km.
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"The situation is disappointing." What the
Ukrainian Armed Forces say about the
breakthrough of Russian troops to
the Dnipropetrovsk region
by Yuri Leonov (senior editor of
the Former USSR department)
May 22nd, 1:59pm
(Lenta.ru)
The situation in the area of the breakthrough of the
Russian Armed Forces (AF) to the border of the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) --- and the
Dnipropetrovsk region, is disappointing,
said a lieutenant of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) with the call sign
Alex, in his Telegram channel.
Ukrainian military commander, Bohdan Miroshnikov, spoke about the collapse of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the area of the village of Novopol - located at the junction of the DPR, Zaporozhye & Dnepropetrovsk regions' borders.
According to him -- high-intensity fighting is taking place in all areas of the Novopavlovsky direction.
Miroshnikov was also skeptical about the prospects of Ukrainian
defenses in Bogatyr village. According to him ----- the Russian Armed Forces, after taking the village, can pass along the
Volchya River to the rear of the APU..... to a depth of
15 kilometres to the village of Yalta -- and create
a threat of encirclement of the APU group in
the area of the settlements of Otradnoye
and Komar.
The military commander stressed that the Russian military's
access to the Filia-Hrushevske-Yalta triangle, will be key
for the entire Ukrainian defense in this direction.
''I don't think that [the Ukrainian Armed Forces]
will be able to stay in Bogatyr for a long time.''
The Ukrainian authorities - refused to recognize
the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military Administration,
Serhiy Lysak, said ---- that reports of the Russian Armed Forces
entering the territory of his region do not correspond to reality.
At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, has not officially commented on the situation.
The only official representative of the AFU command who
commented on the information... was Artem Mokhnach,
the Head of the Communications Department of the
Donetsk Operational and Tactical Department.
He also refused to admit the fact -- of the breakthrough of
the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Novonikolaevka.
In Lviv, a man in military service sprayed pepper gas
-- on employees of the shopping centre (territorial
recruitment centre, the Ukrainian equivalent of
the military enlistment office) while trying to
escape a check of military registration
documents. This.. was reported on
May 21, in the press service of
the regional shopping centre.
"Today, at about 10:00, military personnel of one of the Lviv
RTCC and SP, together with police representatives, were
alerting citizens liable for military service. A citizen
..upon request to provide military registration
documents for verification, began to run
away. Already - when he was almost
caught up, the man turned sharply
and sprayed pepper gas," the
Telegram channel says.
It is specified that the injured employee was hospitalized
with serious eye injuries. It is noted that the man was
detained. The attacker was a citizen of Ukraine,
who is wanted.
Currently, measures are being taken
to initiate a criminal case.
Earlier in the day, a citizen of Ukraine in Odessa ---- climbed
a tree, fleeing from the employees of the shopping centre.
He was removed from the tree........ six hours later. It is
specified that after the incident, the man was taken
to the military enlistment office.
Trenches --- and emptiness: what will the new
tightening of mobilization in Ukraine lead to?
They started looking for draft dodgers
in universities.
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Lavrov: there will no longer be a truce
in Ukraine....... with vague prospects
May 21st, 2:05pm
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has ruled out
the possibility of establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine
without working out further steps ------ to resolve
the conflict.
So the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the
words of European politicians who insist on the position
"first a truce – and then we'll see."
"No, guys, we've been in these stories before, we don't want to
do this anymore. And the Macrons, the Starmers, the von der
Leyens & other European figures who are now hysterically
demanding that the United States join the anti-Russian
actions ....give them away completely," Lavrov said,
speaking at the Russian-Armenian University.
He recalled the situation with the Istanbul talks in April 2022,
when the proposals proposed by the Ukrainian side were
initialed, but then the West forbade Kiev to sign the
agreement on the basis of these conditions.
Lavrov also stressed that Russian President Vladimir Putin and
US President Donald Trump during a telephone conversation
on May 19 agreed to prepare concrete steps that will lead
to a long-term settlement of the Ukrainian conflict.
Earlier, the Axios portal reported that Trump, during a call to
European leaders, said that it was a bad idea to introduce
new sanctions against Russia. He also said that the
Kremlin is ready ---- to immediately start direct
negotiations on a cease-fire.
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Kilinkarov predicts an early change
of political elites --- in Ukraine
May 21st, 12:16pm
(Vesti.ru)
In the near future... Ukraine may see a change of political elites.
This forecast was made by the former deputy of the Verkhovna
Rada, Spiridon Kilinkarov, live on the program "60 Minutes"
on the TV channel "Russia".
In his opinion, after that - all the current
Ukrainian politicians will flee to Europe.
"Now there will be a change of the political elite in Ukraine,
and it will happen. And the Europeans will see how groups
of people ----- will run all over Europe, looking for these
officials -- who led this country for six years and
killed ---- hundreds of thousands of people.
They will be hunted all over Europe,"
he said.
Earlier, the director of the Institute for Research on
Contemporary Politics, Anton Orlov, expressed
the opinion that the head of the Kiev regime,
Vladimir Zelensky, may flee Ukraine --- to
Poland, Israel, Turkey ...and Australia.
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Military commander Gavrish:
fighting is taking place near
Volchansk - and in the
eastern part of the
Kharkiv region
May 21st, 11:38am
(Vesti.ru)
Fighting in the Kharkiv region is currently continuing in
the eastern part of the region, as well as in the city of
Volchansk located in the north-east of the region.
This was reported on the air of the program "60 minutes" on
the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Alexey Gavrish.
Thus, he answered the question to what extent
Russian troops control the Kharkiv region.
"Fighting is taking place in the area of Volchansk, also in the
eastern part of the Kharkiv region. I would probably say
that we control it [the region] in depth -- due to our
unmanned aircraft. Our density of unmanned
vehicles is always increasing, and their range is increasing," Gavrish said.
Earlier, military expert Andrey Marochko said that
Russian troops occupied two strongholds of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces ----- near Volchansk
and Liptsov.
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Mayor Morgun: Mariupol will become one
of the most beautiful cities in the Southof Russia
May 20th, 11:53pm
(RT.ru)
The Mayor of Mariupol Oleg Morgun said in an interview
with RIA Novosti that..... in 5-10 years, Mariupol will
become one of the most beautiful cities in the
South of Russia.
He stressed that hardworking and loving people live here.
"We hope that, as soon as possible, if the industry is restored
and the housing stock is restored, people will live happily
ever after... I think it will soon be a demonstration city,
in the South of the Russian Federation," said Morgun.
Earlier, the mayor said that caches of weapons belonging
to the Armed Forces of Ukraine are still being discovered
in Mariupol.
He also noted that the Azovstal plant was badly damaged and
there is nothing to restore there. According to him, a post-
industrial park.... may appear on the territory.
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Medvedev accused European politicians - of seeking a global conflict
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 20th, 3:33pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry
Medvedev, revealed the true plans of the so-called
European "coalition of those willing" to send a contingent of their troops to Ukraine for peacekeeping purposes.
Behind the beautiful words - lies the desire to expand, establish
an occupation regime on the territory of the remaining Ukraine,
and ultimately draw all parties into a new, much larger military
conflict, the size of which --- can become global and the consequences fatal, the politician said, at the
St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council recalled -- that the
mandate for maintaining peace and security is usually linked to
a UN decision. It has principles that presuppose the consent of
the parties to the conflict, the impartiality of the mission, and
the non-use of force, except in cases of self-defense. These
conditions exclude any presence in Ukraine of the armed
forces of those states -- that sent it money, weapons,
mercenaries and took one side in an undisguised
hybrid war against Russia, Medvedev said.
"The appearance of troops in the conflict zone ------ in violation of
these principles will be considered as a relapse into a military
threat ---- with all the ensuing consequences ------ up to their
recognition as a legitimate military target," he warned.
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Medvedev: Many in Russia like
Ukraine's capitulationmore
than negotiations
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 20th, 3:04pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
For the Kiev regime, there is a way to resolve the conflict through unconditional surrender.. Deputy Chairman of
the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said.
Such a formula of peace also exists in international law, he
recalled, speaking at the St. Petersburg International
Legal Forum. The politician noted, that many
people in Russia like it ...much more.
At the same time, today's Ukraine has one last opportunity to
preserve some kind of statehood under certain conditions,
after the end of military operations and gain a chance for
peaceful development, Medvedev believes. According
to him --- Russia is ready for negotiations without
preconditions --- but taking into account the
realities on the ground and the proposals
that were formed earlier --- and such
negotiations can make it possible
to find peace.
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Medvedev explained what is fraught with the preservation of Ukraine
within certain borders
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 20th, 2:54pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Any agreements with puppet regimes are always doomed to
failure, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council
Dmitry Medvedev said, at the St. Petersburg
International Legal Forum.
He calls --- for taking this into account
when resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
If the Ukrainian state remains within some borders, acts
committed by representatives of the current political
regime in Kiev, may be recognized as insignificant
by the new authorities, the deputy chairman of
the Security Council said. Then the war will
start again, he warned.
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Russian armoured vehicles
received 3-layer protection
by Daniel Irinin (Editor of the
Science & Technology Dept)
May 20th, 2:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
Specialists of the repair battalion in the rear area of the special
military operation zone (SVO) - equip armoured vehicles with a
3-layer protection against drones. The battalion commander,
Lt Colonel Yevgeny Chepanko, told Krasnaya Zvezda
about this.
He noted that specialists are restoring 2S7M "Malka" self-
propelled guns and 2S19 "Msta-S" howitzers at the site
for the repair of self-propelled artillery units (self-
propelled guns). Also in rembat, vehicles
receive anti-drone protection.
"The first layer is an anti-drone chain-link mesh reinforced with
rubber-technical products, the second is sand, and the third is armoured plates. All this... helps to save the life of the crew," the battalion commander explained.
In April, Izvestia reported that soldiers of the tank division of the
Russian army group Center, equipped the T-72B3M tank with
a design --- to protect the upper hemisphere from drones.
The "grill" with dynamic protection, was supplemented
with a "dome" made of fibreglass reinforcement. The
drone may become entangled in the nets -- or spring
back from them.
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"Warming up both body and soul"
Izvestia's report on the reconstruction of
Avdiivka ---- liberated by Russian troops
by Sergey Prudnikov
May 20th, 8am
(Izvestia.ru)
Renovated houses and nearby ruins after shelling. Freshly
painted monuments and mine-prone areas. A minibus
three times a day and attacking Ukrainian UAVs.
Avdiivka is recovering, but it is too early to talk about the return
of a full-fledged peaceful life. The main reasons for this are the
colossal destruction (up to 90%) and the proximity of the front
line — about 20 km. The locality itself remains closed — the
entrance inside is only with a local registration. About how
the city rises from the ashes, no matter what, — is in the
report of the special correspondent of Izvestia.
We enter Avdiivka.. by winding broken roads through the very
"promka" where Ukrainian militants have settled since 2014. The first thing we hear with the driver, crossing the city line,
is a loud bang. Immediately behind the trees grows a black
pole --------- probably the result of the arrival of a drone. As
representatives of the administration explained to me in
advance, a rare day goes by without a visit from enemy
UAVs. But -- in general, it became calmer. Suddenly ---
there are unexpected massive raids like a few weeks
ago when 20-25 kamikazes attacked Avdiivka at the
same time, and a civilian car also came under fire.
But this is an exception. The number of strikes
has decreased significantly ---- including,
presumably.. because the APU, as a
result of its withdrawal, chooses
higher priority targets - on
the line of contact.
The role of the administration - as a year ago - is performed by
the premises of one of the former shops, tightly covered with
sandbags ----- here the authorities, humanitarian aid, and any
questions and answers. The representative of Yasinovataya Marina Aseeva is in charge of civil affairs. The last time I
saw her was in the summer of 2024, so she gives me a
brief introduction.
''The number of residents today is almost 700 people,
100 more than last year (in 2023, Avdiivka had
1,600 people, until 2014 - 32,000 -Ed.).
Including nine children,"
the woman says.
''Almost everyone got their passports. The pension was issued
to 483 people. Ukrainian workbooks are being closed. 170
people are employed, of which 80 work in Avdiivka, the
rest mainly in Yasynuvata.''
According to Marina Aseeva -- the city has a Ministry of Internal Affairs' territorial department, a pharmacy receives customers 3 times a week, a paramedic team arrives twice, from Donetsk ----- and representatives of one of the banks - once a week.
15 retail outlets have been opened. Once every seven days -- each resident is given a free loaf of bread, once a month 36 litres of drinking water. There is no centralized power supply, but 49 private homes are powered by an industrial generator of "Electric Grids".
54 individual buildings --- have been
renovated. Multi-family residential
buildings --- are being restored.
Help from chefs
My guide around the city...... is a local activist, Pavel. He has 25 years of underground experience: he worked as an electrical mechanic in a mine. Twice he witnessed accidents - methane explosions, where his comrades died. In 2014 like other fellow countrymen he had to learn how to survive in new conditions: to stock up water for the future - save food, have solar panels, don't wait for manna from heaven (that someone will come and solve your problems), lend a shoulder to your neighbour.
In his four-story building there is no basement, ''all
the years... I had to hide between the floors, after
the start of a special military operation, I hung
the front door - taken out by the blast wave -
five times, on its hinges. I pulled bodies
out of the rubble. I was burying....
a friend.''
In February 2024, after Russian troops entered Avdiivka, he
spent three months with other children clearing shops for
administrative premises - and helping to distribute
humanitarian aid. He continues to work in
the volunteer team, even now.
"After the capture of Avdiivka, we finally exhaled"
The house in which he lives -- is in disrepair, with cracks, broken
windows and collapsed balconies. The entire four-story building
has four residents. On the first floor lives the same activist Rita,
today, she was just handing out bread and during the break she
ran to feed her cat. Instead of a front door.... Rita has plywood.
In the next abandoned apartment a woodcutter. In the kitchen
there is a stove with a pipe through the window. Immediately,
a red cat meows, to which she crumbles cucumbers into a
bowl — the tailed one immediately begins to crunch with
appetite. Rita gave 32 years to the Avdiivka coke plant,
and now she works part-time, at two retail outlets --- as a cleaner.
But the neighbouring house has been restored. Plastic windows,
painted walls, fresh railings. In the apartments ---- linoleum,
plumbing, boilers, electric stoves, refrigerators, furniture,
mattresses, everything is free. Water comes from a well,
electricity from a generator in the yard. And the same
house is being prepared for commissioning nearby --
both objects are being repaired in the Chelyabinsk
region. And nearby apartment buildings ---- are
being restored by another chef ----- the
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
From basements to apartments
New residents of renovated houses — fire victims. Housing
was given to them for temporary use. Given the current
difficult realities, no deadlines have been set: live!
In one of the apartments, the couple Anatoly and Svetlana ...open
the door for me. He is a metallurgist - with more than 40 years of
experience, and she is a former nurse. They spent two years —
22 and 23 - in the basement. Last year a shell landed there, and
a fire started. ''We got out. For several days we spent the night
on a bench, covered with blankets. We were lost somewhere.''
And - last December, they were given the keys to a two-room
apartment. New Year's Eve was celebrated in a warm place,
with water, with electric light. "We are still warming up -----
both body and soul," says Svetlana.
Together with Pavel ------ we visit several other sites. On the
outskirts the Church of Mary Magdalene is being repaired.
The small belfry dome.... is being covered with gold leaf.
Next to it -- is a restored and painted memorial to the
soldiers of the Great Patriotic War with a MiG plane
soaring into the sky (after 2014, nationalists filled
this memorial place with paint). There is also a
bell installed in honour of the current heroes.
On a construction site close to the centre
...is the sheathed box of the future
administration. It will house, an
MFC, a pension fund, a bank,
and a civil registry office ---
under one roof. You don't
have to go to Donetsk.
The building is expected to open.., soon.
In the afternoon, on Gagarin Street, among the soldiers hurrying
in different directions, I notice a group of elderly women - they
are waiting for the same minibus -- the only channel of
communication with the "mainland", so far. The cost
to Donetsk is 60 rubles, the journey time is almost
two hours (you have to go by a roundabout route).
One resident goes to work --- she got a job as a concierge in a
high-rise building in the republican capital. The other goes to
a student-grandson. The third..... is to go to the pharmacy in Yasinovataya: not all drugs are available at the local point. The fourth one, wants to get to the market --- in time.
Please note that both civilians and military personnel --- are very similar, and seem to merge into one, on these streets. Because of the forced neighbourhood, everyone has long belonged.. to each other. Everyone has a work or field uniform. And... on the faces of indelible fatigue and concern - neither one nor the other can calmly exhale and rest, unfortunately, there is
Thus, he answered the question of which provisions of the
Istanbul agreements of 2022 ....remain relevant today.
"One key point remains relevant: the ceasefire regime should
not be used... for regrouping and re-escalating military operations -------- which, in fact, Ukraine insists on. The key issues are the supply of weapons and the movement of armed formations.
That is, all of these nuances... should be ---- excluded,"
Miroshnik stressed.
According to Rodion Miroshnik, if the Ukrainian side really wants
to establish a ceasefire, it will take a number of steps that will
be offered to it. If Kiev refuses the proposed solutions, the
Russian diplomat added, this will indicate - that Ukraine
has no desire to move towards a peaceful settlement
of the conflict.
Earlier, the Ambassador-at-large said that the Ukrainian
leadership, despite public statements, in fact.. did not
give orders to reduce the intensity of shelling in the
combat zone.
On May 19, at 17 hours Moscow time, a telephone conversation
is scheduled between the Presidents of Russia and the United
States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The key topics of
discussion ---- will be the settlement of the conflict in
Ukraine and the restoration of trade relations.
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TASS: Aidar militants are fleeing from positions
on the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 19th, 6:37am
(Vesti.ru)
Militants of the Aidar battalion (the organization is recognized
as a terrorist organization & banned in Russia) in Ukraine are
trying to leave their positions in the village of Novoukrainka
of the DPR, which is located on the border with the
Dnipropetrovsk region.
This is reported by the TASS news agency - with
reference to Russian law enforcement agencies.
The reason for the flight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
was panic ---- after a series of precise strikes on their
place of deployment.
"After a series of precise strikes on the locations of Aidar in
Novoukrainka, the surviving militants made an attempt to
escape en masse from the settlement. This attempt
turned out to be dead and wounded for them,"
the agency's sources said.
It is noted that those who remained on the ground
and survived --- refused to perform further tasks.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian military destroyed part
of the Aidar militants, who were transferred to the Donetsk
People's Republic. It is specified that - in Novoukrainka -
newly arrived members of the battalion were hit by
airstrikes of the FAB, as a result of which -- 15
people were killed, and about 20 militants
were injured.
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Fighter of the "East": on the outskirts
of Bogatyr village found a lot of
foreign equipment
May 19th, 4:46am
(Vesti.ru)
Fighters of the group of Russian troops "Vostok", found foreign
equipment near the village of Bogatyr in the DPR. This ---- was
reported by one of the military "East" on the air of "Russia 1".
Fighters of the Vostok group - liberated Bogatyr village. It was the most important fortified area of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine. Now the Russian army has direct
access to the border with Dnipropetrovsk region.
Along with this, foreign weapons,
were left by Ukrainian militants.
"Closer to the village itself, there is a cemetery of foreign
equipment, foreign weapons," the Russian military said.
Also, in the "East", they said that they struck ---- at the
enemy's military rear during the liberation of Bogatyr.
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Deputy Commander of the unit, Markov:
soldiers should see officers
on the front line
May 19th, 4:40am
(Vesti.ru)
Senior Lieutenant, deputy commander of the detachment for
military and political work, Ivan Markov, in the program
"Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" spoke about how
to raise the morale of military personnel in the
free defense zone.
According to him, the fighters are constantly being
interviewed - about how to overcome panic. They
encourage them with a kind word, and also, by
personal example.
"I must also be present with the personnel on the front line, so
that they can see that the officers are not only in the rear, but
also on the front line. We constantly talk to people and say
that: the victory will be ours. There's no other way. We
must defeat this bastard. We are moving confidently
to the west. We know --- that we will win,"
said Markov.
Four Russian military men were able to resist a company
of Ukrainian militants, near Alexandropol, in the DPR.
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Australia....sends decommissioned
Abrams tanks.. to Ukraine
May 19th, 3:57am
(Vesti.ru)
Australia -- has sent decommissioned M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
has said. Australia will continue to provide military
assistance to Ukraine, Albanese said.
"We are ready to consider any proposal of the coalition of the
willing to send a peacekeeping contingent to Ukraine, after
peace is established there," TASS quoted the Australian
Prime Minister as saying.
According to him, Australia has imposed
more than 1,400 sanctions, against
Russian citizens and companies.
"We are studying what else can be done to
put pressure on Russia," Albanese said.
Since March 2022, Australia has been supplying Ukraine with
weapons and ammunition, including Bushmaster armoured
The total amount of Australian aid to Kiev has exceeded
$1 billion, of which, $880 million was spent on the
purchase of weapons and ammunition.
Almost 90 military instructors from Australia are taking part in
the training of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)
in the UK. From October 2023, an Australian Air Force E-7A
Wedgetail reconnaissance aircraft and up to 100 Australian
troops will be stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
The media reported, about 48 Australian citizens
who participated in the fighting against Russia
on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 58 UAV control points - and 10 Starlink stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
during the day
May 19th, 3:01am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops destroyed 58 control points for unmanned aerial
vehicles over the past day, of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
reports the Ministry of Defense.
In particular -- the Zapad group destroyed 46 UAV control points
and 10 Starlink satellite communication stations of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, the head of the group's press centre, Ivan
Bigma, told media representatives.
"12 UAV control points were destroyed in the area of operations
of the Vostok group," said the group's official representative,
Alexander Gordeev.
The head of the press centre of the Center group -- Alexander
Savchuk, clarified that an Israeli-made tactical radar system
designed to detect air targets, was destroyed.
In general, the Russian Armed Forces attacked a military airfield,
ammunition and fuel depots, UAV storage sites, radar stations
and other objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 139
districts of Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said, in a
Telegram channel.
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Sergeant Chernovalov restored the
operation of the repeater under
Ukrainian Armed Forces
artillery fire
May 17th, 10:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Sergeant Eduard Chernovalov organized communication
between the command post and the assault units of the
Russian Armed Forces (AF). The Ministry of Defense of
the Russian Federation reported on the exploits of
Russian servicemen in the zone of a special
military operation (SVO).
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) conducted a mortar attack
on Russian positions, as a result of which ----- a repeater was
damaged. Chernovalov, realizing that communication needs
to be restored as soon as possible, moved to the place of
damage, despite the ongoing shelling from the enemy
and attacks by FPV drones. Having reached the
repeater, the serviceman successfully
repaired it and promptly restored
communication.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the bold and decisive
actions of Lance Corporal Vasily Vidishev, who was at the
observation post at the moment when the positions
of Russian troops ----- were attacked by enemy
kamikaze drones.
Vidishev ordered the servicemen to open fire on the drones.
The lance corporal himself eliminated several drones.
When one of them did not detonate in the air, but fell on
the territory of the Russian positions, Vidishev got to
the drone ---------- and personally defused the
explosive device.
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Stormtrooper with the call sign Cook:
my mother's prayer keeps and
protects me
May 17th, 8:03pm
(Vesti.ru)
In an exclusive interview with the Rossiya TV channel,
a stormtrooper with the call sign Cook said that his
mother's prayer protects him.
A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces shared that his
mother does not show her feelings, but constantly
thinks about her son and prays for him.
"My mother's prayer... preserves and protects.
She never shows it, but she experiences it,"
the stormtrooper said.
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Stormtrooper of the Russian Armed Forces
spoke about hand-to-hand combat with
an AFU militant - near Alexandropol
May 17th, 2:28pm
(Vesti.ru)
During the liberation of Alexandropol, in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) ---- a soldier of the 242nd regiment of the Center group of Troops had to engage in hand-to-hand combat with an Armed Forces of Ukraine militant.
Dmitry Borodavko --------- an attack fighter of the Russian Armed Forces, told reporters about the circumstances of the battle.
A soldier in the group was sent to storm the dugout of militants
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the evening, the fighters of
the Center group made small dashes, hiding from drones,
and reached the enemy's location.
"Flew in, it turns out, I'm the first, three friends behind,
dismantled the passage, went in, there is a carpet
hanging. I see a machine gun resting against it,
then a second one, and they [AFU fighters],
start working on us," Borodavko told the
TASS news agency.
Caught in the crossfire, the soldier found shelter in the corner
of the dugout, continuing to fight. A grenade exploded, and
Borodavko and his comrades --- were injured. The fighter
decided to continue the assault, even after he ran out
of ammunition.
"He[the AFU militant]jumped out, I grabbed him by the machine
gun, pulled his bulletproof vest and cut him down, because I
was doing judo. I hold him with my knee, I hold his hand,
he is trying to get up," Borodavko explained.
The assault -- was successful. After the main forces of the
Russian Armed Forces gained a foothold on the new line,
the Borodavko group - was assigned a new task. They
spent three days in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, coordinating artillery strikes.
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The Russian Armed Forces
liberated Alexandropol
in the DPR
May 17th, 10:13am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military liberated Alexandropol village
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
This is reported by the Russian
Defense Ministry.
"The settlement of Alexandropol of the Donetsk People's
Republic has been liberated by the decisive actions of
the Center group of forces units," the report says.
It is specified that the Russian Armed Forces defeated the
formations of the AFU brigades in the areas of a number
of settlements of the DPR. The enemy lost 490 soldiers,
a tank, two armoured combat vehicles, including a
Turkish-made Kirpi armoured car -- 14 vehicles,
an artillery piece and an ammunition depot.
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In Ukraine,they will begin to detain those who are only fit for service to a limited extent
by Nikita Khromin
(night line editor)
May 16th, 9:45pm
(Lenta.ru)
Ukrainians who are considered to be only partially fit
for military service, must re-pass the military
medical commission. Those who do not
show up for it on their own, will be
taken to the district territorial
recruitment centre (TCK,
analogous to a military
enlistment office) by
the police.
This is stated on the website of the
Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
"Police officers will carry out administrative detentions
on the basis of appeals from the shopping centre and
deliver citizens liable for military service --- to the
nearest district shopping centres," the
military department said, in
a statement.
We are talking about those who are liable for military
service between the ages of 25 and 60. It is noted
that those who are taken to the shopping centre
by the police will be brought to administrative
responsibility. They face a fine of $ 409 to
$ 615 (33,130 to 49,817 rubles).
Earlier..... it was reported that a 53-year-old man
with a microinfarction was mobilized in Ukraine.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces have begun to
retreat in the Konstantinovsky direction
by Nikita Khromin
(night line editor)
May 16th, 9pm
(Lenta.ru)
On the Konstantinovsky direction, the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (APU) ...are at risk of being surrounded.
In this regard, they began to retreat, writes the
Telegram channel "Whisper of the Front".
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have big problems with Staraya
Nikolaevka and Gnatovka," the report says. It clarifies that
Russian fighters are actively advancing, trying to encircle
enemy troops.
Earlier, it became known, that the soldiers of the Russian Army
managed to almost completely dislodge the APU ---- from their
positions in Bogatyr village of the Donetsk People's Republic.
"We continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense": Russian Armed Forces liberate
six settlements in the DPR in a week
by Roman Shimaev
May 16th, 1:25pm
(RT.ru)
Over the past 24 hours, Russian servicemen have liberated the
settlement of Volnoye Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic.
This was reported in the summary of the Ministry of Defense
of the Russian Federation on the progress of a special
military operation.
"Units of the Vostok group of forces --- continued to advance into
the depth of the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlement
of Volnoye Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic,"
the report says.
According to the Defense Ministry, in the period from May 10 to May 16, the localities of Torskoye, Kotlyarovka, Mirolyubovka, Mikhaylovka and Novoaleksandrovka (DPR) were also liberated in the SVR zone.
In addition, during the specified period, fighters of the Vostok group of troops -------- hit the manpower and equipment of 3 mechanized, jaeger, airmobile, amphibious assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, two teroborona brigades -- and a National Guard brigade.
The enemy lost more than 1,130 servicemen, 15 armoured combat vehicles, 41 vehicles, 22 artillery pieces, and five electronic and counter-battery stations.
Footage of the combat work of the assault units of the 5th Guards Combined Arms Army of the Vostok group of
Troops, which cleared the firing points & command
& observation posts of Ukrainian militants in the
locality of Volnoye Pole, was also published.
As follows... from the message of the Russian Defense Ministry, units of the North group of troops: defeated concentrations of tank, 5 mechanized, 2 amphibious assault brigades, 4 assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and four teroborona brigades in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
The enemy lost more than 1,330 militants, five tanks, 20 armoured combat vehicles, & 81 vehicles. A US-made
HIMARS multiple launch rocket launcher, 36 field
artillery pieces, two radar stations, nine
electronic and counter-battery warfare
stations, and seven warehouses of
ammunition, fuel, and materiel
were destroyed.
Fighters of the Zapad group of forces defeated formations of five mechanized, airmobile, two assault, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four territorial defense brigades, a National Guard brigade and a special purpose unit, "Stugna".
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,490 servicemen, three tanks, 12 armoured combat vehicles and 64 vehicles.
Two multiple launch rocket launchers, 18 field artillery
pieces, including five Western-made ones, four
electronic warfare stations, as well as 13
ammunition depots, were destroyed.
Units of the Yug group of forces occupied more favourable lines
and positions ---- and also hit the manpower and strength of six
mechanized, assault, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the teroborona brigade.
In this direction, the enemy lost more than 1,400 servicemen,
a tank, 23 armoured combat vehicles, 50 vehicles, 23 field
artillery pieces, 11 electronic warfare stations, as well
as 12 ammunition and material depots.
Fighters of the Center group of troops, defeated the formations
of eight mechanized, two jaeger, two assault brigades of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine, two marine brigades and four
National Guard brigades. The enemy lost more than
3,040 soldiers, 26 armoured combat vehicles,
66 vehicles and 14 field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnipro group of forces, defeated formations of three
mechanized, infantry, mountain assault brigades, three coastal
defense brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine
brigade and three teroborona brigades. Up to 380 military
personnel, 39 vehicles, eight field artillery pieces, seven
electronic warfare stations, and five ammunition and
property depots, were destroyed.
Six group strikes
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that --- in the period
from May 10 to May the 16th, the Armed Forces of the Russian
Federation launched six group strikes with high-precision
weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against the
objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the ministry - an enterprise of the military-industrial
complex of Ukraine engaged in the production of components of
Units of the "Western" group of forces --- improved their tactical
position, destroying up to 240 Ukrainian soldiers, 2 armoured
combat vehicles, 11 vehicles, and 4 artillery pieces, the
Russian Defense Ministry said.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost three ammunition
depots," the Defense Ministry said, in a summary.
It is noted ---- that the units of the "Southern" group of troops
destroyed a tank, five armoured combat vehicles, including
a US-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, 8 cars and 5 field artillery pieces. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 245 soldiers.
As specified in the Defense Ministry, the troops of the "Central"
group continued to delve into the enemy's defenses. As
a result of the coordinated actions of Russian soldiers,
Ukrainian units lost: over 515 personnel, 6 armoured
combat vehicles, 10 vehicles and 3 artillery pieces.
The report also says that units of the "Eastern" group of troops
destroyed more than 160 militants of the Kiev regime army,
3 armoured combat vehicles, 4 vehicles, 2 field artillery
guns ...and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Dnipro group of forces hit three vehicles, an artillery
piece and an electronic warfare station. Also in this area, the
Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 75 servicemen,
according to the report.
On the night of May 15, Russian air defense systems destroyed
two Ukrainian drones in the sky over the territories of the
Rostov and Belgorod regions.
The Governor of the Rostov region, Yuri Slyusar, on the morning
of May 15, announced an attack by drones of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine on the region. According to him,
no injuries or damage were recorded... as a
result of the attack.
At the same time, the Governor of Zaporizhia region Yevhen
Balytsky said that -- on the night of May 15, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces made more than ten attempts to attack
the administrative centre with aircraft-type drones.
During the attack on Melitopol, an enemy UAV
killed one person.
The head of the region offered his condolences to the family
and friends of the deceased and promised to provide them
with the necessary assistance.
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Belousov:congratulated the soldiers
on the liberation of the village of
Torskoye in the DPR
May 15th, 11:19am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov congratulated
the servicemen of the 67th Motorized Rifle Division on
the liberation of the village of Torskoye --- in the
Donetsk People's Republic. This, is reported
- by the Telegram channel of the Ministry
of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Belousov expressed gratitude to the motorized riflemen for
their loyalty to the Fatherland and the oath of office, and
expressed confidence ---- that they will continue to
perform their military duty with honour,
bringing our victory closer.
"Today ------ the 19th Tank, 31st, 36th and 37th motorized rifle
regiments are steadily moving forward in the Krasnolimansk
direction, breaking the enemy's defenses and occupying
more favourable positions. More than 9,900 servicemen
of the division, were awarded state and departmental
awards for their courage and bravery in battles with
the enemy, during a special military operation,"
the Defense Minister said.
Earlier it became known that soldiers of the armed forces
of the Russian Federation, on May 15 ---- liberated the
settlements of Torskoye and Novoaleksandrovka
in the DPR.
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In Sumy region there was an "alley of refuseniks"
with the bodies of military personnel of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine
May 15th, 9:14am
(Vestii.ru)
In the forests of the Belopolsky district, an alley of refuseniks
was found ....with the corpses of Ukrainian servicemen who
refused to participate in hostilities. This is reported by the
Telegram channel "North Wind".
According to the relatives of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers, the
"alley" consists of several trees, to which the bodies of
soldiers of the 225th separate assault regiment of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine... are tied.
"In the forests of the Belopolsky district --- there is an alley
of refuseniks of the 225th with the corpses of Ukrainian
servicemen tied to trees who refused to participate in hostilities," the post says.
The information is partially confirmed by prisoners of war
from the Ukrainian side --- during interrogations.
It is specified that the number of dead soldiers
whose bodies are placed on the "alley of
refuseniks" is not given.
Severny Veter also reports that on May 14, units of the Sever
group in the Tetkinsky and Glushkovsky directions stopped
attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to storm the
positions of the Russian Armed Forces.
Earlier it became known that the units of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine - lost their combat capability in the Sumy region and
Krasnopolsky district. The Ukrainian command is forced to
transfer reinforcements to these areas, the source said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces transferred
more than 100 servicemen who were trained in Britain -
to the Sumy region.
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The Russian fighter told about
the transfer of intelligence
from the rear of the
Kiev army
May 15th, 4:37am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military in the Pokrovsky area spent two months
behind the lines of the Kiev regime's army, transmitting
intelligence about enemy movements.
This was told to RIA Novosti by a fighter of the 60th OMSB of the
51st Guards Army with the call sign Weiss. According to him,
the Russian unit in the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
had to operate in absolute silence and not open fire on
the enemy.
"In general, we were behind enemy
lines for two months," Weiss said.
At the same time, one of the Russian soldiers was injured as a
result of a drone hit, but, despite this, continued to perform a
combat mission. Thanks to the actions of the soldiers,
colleagues fighting on the front line with the forces
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received timely
information about the enemy's location,
the fighter noted.
Earlier, a fighter with the call sign Firs single-handedly
took an APU support vehicle, near the village of
Bogatyr in the DPR.
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Lance-corporal Pashkov destroyed
a Ukrainian kamikaze drone
in the SVO zone
May 14th, 10:45pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Lance Corporal Alexander Pashkov..... was serving at an
observation post when he noticed an unmanned aerial
vehicle approaching the Russian positions in the air.
Pashkov immediately contacted the command to establish the
identity of the drone. He will find out, that the drone was sent
from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine... the corporal
opened fire on the target - from small arms. The kamikaze
drone detonated in the air --- without harming Russia's
military personnel and equipment.
The Defense Ministry also noted the competent and professional
actions of Private Nikita Zelenin, who was given the task of
delivering ammunition to Russian servicemen at a point
not far from the line of contact with the Armed Forces
of Ukraine.
On the way, Zelenin's car came under artillery and mortar fire
from the enemy. After performing a series of maneuvers, the
private managed to get the transport out of the danger
zone and deliver the cargo to its destination...
in a timely manner.
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Looking up to the sky: how people live -- in
Selidovo ---liberated by the Russian army
Despite the shelling by the Ukrainian Armed
Forces, peaceful life..... is gradually ...returning to the city
by Dmitry Astrakhan
May 14th, 10:01pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Cities and towns liberated by the Russian army remain front-line
for a long time after the end of active fighting. Gradually, when
the situation begins to allow, the civil authorities and the law enforcement agencies appear here — harbingers of a return.. to a peaceful life. But the first units of the military police start their work immediately after the sweep. About how people live today in the liberated Selidovo in the DPR --- and who ensures the safety of roads - and the city itself - in the Izvestia report.
Front-line roads
Enemy attacks - with the help of kamikaze drones - today, have become the main problem for the Russian frontline
territories. Now.. checkpoints are not.... just a place where documents are checked, but a full-fledged shelter from drones with their own air defense and electronic warfare systems.
They stand --- every 20-30 km of the way.
Before leaving, our driver takes a long time..... to decide which
route is the safest to take today. According to him, if you
haven't been driving for several days..... you should
definitely check the situation with colleagues -
the situation on the roads here is constantly
changing. It is pointless -- to rely on the
navigator, it is not an assistant here
— satellite signals are jammed.. in large areas.
Armoured vehicles of various models, including new medical
vehicles, are constantly encountered on the road. Although
the vast majority of cars here -- are pickups, jeeps, cars and UAZ "loaves" ...that have become workhorses.
Previously, anti-drone nets and conveyor belt screens ----- were
mandatory attributes of such machines. Now, many cars have lost their roofs - in whole or in part, to provide a platform for our shooters to fire at the air targets. According to the fighters, today --- only they are considered.... a reliable protection.
Usually shooters work in pairs and at least one of them ------ with a hunting rifle.
It seems that this new military specialty, which Izvestia previously wrote about, is with us..... for a long time.
''We monitor the sky, work - together with the electronic warfare
team. In particular, it is their equipment - that gives us signals.
In the event of an attack, we use all possible means to repel
the enemy's UAVs. The road is fully controlled by different
departments --- in cooperation. Grids over certain road
sections, also help. This allows you to move more
safely in the front-line areas," ..a soldier of the
security battalion --- Sergeant Nikolenko,
told Izvestia, at a checkpoint at one
of the entrances to Selidovo.
The situation inSelidovo
''After the liberation of Selidovo --- we made a tour of the territory
and examined the houses. Based on the condition of people or
at will, they were evacuated to other settlements, where they
were provided with assistance. But at the same time, we
had to clear the houses of the remaining "sleeping"
enemy groups in the city," recalls a fighter on
duty at the checkpoint...... with the call
sign - Artist.
Together with the soldiers, we enter the city itself, reach a busy
large intersection - and hear the "air alert" signal. Immediately,
the shooters run to their positions, and the military policeman
commands -- not to linger in the area. Therefore, we decide to
drive off to the ruins, which are far away from this place, to
hide the car.
In the centre of Selidovo, we go together with a foot patrol of the
commandant's office. It's daytime, and local residents with bags
and bottles of water in their hands are moving along the street
in small groups. After talking to some of them, we found out
that most of them have already issued Russian documents
and pensions, but they cannot withdraw money, as well as
use Internet banks: there is no electricity, no Internet.
The local economy here is based on cash payments,
so many of the residents are interested in... when
the banks in the city will start working.
People congratulate the servicemen accompanying us
on Victory Day ---- and wish them a new victory soon.
What are people afraid of...in frontline cities
When I talk to people, I find out that not everyone is ready to talk
on camera. When asked why --- they say they are afraid. One is
that the video fragments of their interviews are then used by
Ukrainian propaganda, which cuts out scenes with civilians
and twists them in its own way. Others — that the enemy's
artillery will purposefully destroy the homes of those who
are identified by the stories, and they will be hunted -----
by UAVs.
But the daredevils are still there. Irina is the first person in the
group of four to speak. According to her, shooting occurs
almost every day, and she feels the apartment shaking.
Following her example, others - quickly - join in with
the conversation.
"The warriors give us food and medicine, and help us. And we
don't have any electricity or water. Fortunately, we have a
spring in Selidovo — as they say, "Lord's Water", krynitsa.
People have made wells, and it saves,'' --- explains
pensioner Lyubov.
Military policemen... lead us to a building destroyed by several
corrected aerial bombs. It was the main centre for issuing aid
and receiving the population in the city --------- which was
deliberately destroyed by Ukrainian militants.
Selidovo in the DPR ---- what it is known for
and why it is important for its own defense
At the time of the liberation of the city, more than 2,000 civilians
remained in Selidovo. Of these, about 1 thousand immediately
expressed a desire to evacuate to the rear areas of the DPR,
and about 1 thousand more.. continue to be in the city, said
the military commandant of the 5th military commandant's
office, Lieutenant Colonel Polishchuk.
''You see the first point of delivery --- of humanitarian aid. The
Ukrainian villains spent two bombs on it. Two soldiers of the
commandant's office.... who were engaged in issuing the
humanitarian aid, were killed here," he recalls bitterly.
Now hundreds of civilians remain in the city, for whom a
pension fund, civil administration, police and migration
service departments have already been opened.
Peaceful life..... is slowly returning here.
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"Country.na": Umerov, Sibiga, Ermak
and Zhovkva ---- will go to Istanbul
for the negotiations
May 14th, 9:25pm
(RT.ru)
The Ukrainian authorities have decided on the composition of
the delegation that will go to talks with Russia in Istanbul.
This was reported by the publication "Country.na",
with reference to the Ukrainian media.
The Ukrainian delegation will include the head of Volodymyr
Zelensky's office Andriy Yermak, Deputy head of the office
Ihor Zhovkva, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and
Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga.
"But the decision on the format of negotiations and whether
they will be held... will be made personally by... (Zelensky)
tomorrow in Turkey," the publication quotes the source
as saying.
Earlier, President Vladimir Putin approved the composition
of the Russian delegation ------- for the talks in Istanbul.
The delegation includes Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky,
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Chief of the Main
Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed
Forces Igor Kostyukov and Deputy Defense Minister
Alexander Fomin.
The Kremlin ----- also published the composition of
experts for negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul.
The First Deputy Chief of Information ---- of the General Staff
Department, Alexey Zorin, Deputy Head of the Presidential Department for State Policy in the Humanitarian Sphere, Ekaterina Podobreevskaya, Director of the Second
Department of CIS Countries of the Russian
Foreign Ministry, Alexander Polishchuk,
and Deputy Head of the Main Dept of
International Military Cooperation
of the Ministry of Defense...
Viktor Shevtsov -- were
named as experts.
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The State Duma... reacted to the approval
of the 17th package of EU sanctions ---
on the eve of negotiations
May 14th, 7:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The approval of a new sanctions package on the eve of
negotiations between Russia and Ukraine suggests
that the EU countries - do not want the Ukrainian
conflict to end. This opinion.. was expressed
by the first Deputy Chairman of the State
Duma Committee on International
Affairs, Alexey Chepa, on
Wednesday, May 14.
"They organized this conflict ----- and they are doing everything
to ensure that the conflict continues and goes, as they say,
to the last Ukrainian," the parliamentarian said, in an
interview with Lenta.Ru.
Earlier, on May 14, the AFP news agency reported that
the ambassadors of the EU countries agreed on the
17th package of sanctions against Russia.
The sanctions will include vessels that belong to the Russian
"shadow fleet", as well as companies from China, the United
Arab Emirates, Turkey, Serbia, Vietnam and Uzbekistan
that help to circumvent the (illegal) restrictions on
energy trade.
On May 13 --- the Handelsblatt newspaper reported, that EU
countries - will not be able to agree on tough measures in
the new package of anti-Russian sanctions - as this may
lead to protest from some countries that are part of the
association. It is specified, that the list of sanctions
did not include controversial proposals ----- as this
could cause a veto from Hungary or Slovakia.
Head of EU diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, at a press conference
following the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Warsaw
on May 8, said that the EC intends to adopt the 17th
package of sanctions against the Russian
Federation... by May 20.
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MP: Zelensky's inappropriate behaviour
at the talks ...will cause rejection
May 14th, 3:10pm
by Anastasia Rumyantseva
(RT.ru)
The course of negotiations in Istanbul will depend on who
Vladimir Zelensky will listen to, Viktor Vodolatsky, first
deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on
CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations
with Compatriots, said in an interview
with RT.
As the MP noted, today the world's
attention -- is focused on Istanbul.
"Everyone hopes that the agreement that was agreed (in 2022
in Istanbul. - RT), will acquire new features --- new points will
be added that will allow first of all to stop hostilities on the
basis of this document," the parliamentarian believes.
At the same time, the very course of negotiations will depend
on who Vladimir Zelensky will listen to, the source believes.
"Whether Zelensky listens more to the American leader, Donald
Trump or the four inadequate politicians [the leaders of France,
Poland, Germany and Great Britain], the development itself ---
will depend on this," Vodolatsky said.
The MP also recalled that former British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson dissuaded Ukraine from signing any
peace agreements with Russia, in 2022.
"Just as Johnson once disrupted these negotiations, so
now the UK will try to disrupt them because it needs
military action," he added.
As the parliamentarian predicted, Zelensky's
inadequate actions at the negotiations,
will cause rejection -- in Ukraine.
"Because Ukraine is tired of the devastation, tired of the
collapse.. that exists there. Naturally, the people are
waiting for those conditions that will allow them
to continue --- not to die out, but to survive,"
the source concluded.
Earlier, Russian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov
and Hakan Fidan discussed issues related to the proposal
of Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold direct talks
on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine
in Istanbul, on May 15.
In November 2023, the head of the Servant of the People party
faction in the Rada, David Arakhamia, gave an interview to
the 1+1 TV channel, in which he admitted that it was
former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson who
dissuaded Ukraine from signing any peace
agreements with Russia.
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Il Fatto Quotidiano: Zelensky admitted
that he is ready to contact Putin
May 14th, 2:45pm
(RT.ru)
Vladimir Zelensky admitted - that he will have to make
contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This
was reported by the Italian newspaper,
Il Fatto Quotidiano.
"Zelensky has admitted that he will have to deal with Putin.
This is a step forward, because for three years he swore
that this would never happen," the authors of the
material emphasized.
At the same time, the journalists noted that the balance of
power at the upcoming talks in Istanbul, will be shifted...
and not in favour of Ukraine.
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RIA Novosti: a fighter who defected to
the Russian side spoke about hatred
in the ranks of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine
May 14th, 2:38pm
(RT.ru)
In the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is an ideology
of hatred for Russia, said a former serviceman of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine with the call sign Prometheus,
who defected to Russia.
"The only ideology in the Armed Forces of Ukraine --- is
hatred of Russia," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to him --- if there is no such education of
hatred, the fighters will not go "to the front to die."
Earlier, the portal 19FortyFive called on Ukraine to agree
to a deal with Russia, otherwise - the Kiev regime risks --- a direct military defeat.
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Military commander Gavrish: the Ukrainian
Armed Forces;are still lacking artillery
..near the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 14th, 12:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
Ukrainian militants are experiencing problems with artillery
near the Dnipropetrovsk region, which is approached by
the Russian army. This was reported on the air of the
program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia"
by military correspondent Alexey Gavrish.
The journalist noted that the distance to the Dnipropetrovsk
region is already less than a kilometre, and the militants of
the Kiev regime, have practically nothing to defend
themselves with. Meanwhile, according to him -
the Russian military is working very actively.
"On the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in fact, the only
deterrent that they actively use is a large number of UAVs,
because everything is tight with artillery. With rockets, of
course, too. With heavy armour, everything is bad, it is
destroyed by our troops even on the approaches,
there is no rotation. So now they can fight,
mostly, with the help of drones,"
Gavrish explained.
The military commander also noted that
the Ukrainian army will try to justify
its retreat by reproaching Russia.
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Russian Defense Ministry: The Ukrainian Armed
Forces lost two tanks and about 1.4 thousand
soldiers... during the day
May 14th, 11:31am
(Vesti.ru)
The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the
special military operation zone over the past day amounted
to 1,395 people, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
According to the ministry, in the Belgorod direction, the defeat
of the units of the Ukrainian army was inflicted by fighters of
the group of troops "North" of the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation. The enemy ---- lost over 185
servicemen, a tank, two armoured combat
vehicles, six vehicles, and four field
artillery pieces.
Units of the "Western" group of forces improved their tactical
position, destroying up to 220 Ukrainian soldiers, a tank, 10
vehicles, two artillery pieces, and a Croatian-made
RAK-SA-12 multiple rocket launcher, the
Russian Defense Ministry said.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces - have lost two
ammunition depots," the Defense Ministry
said in a statement.
It is noted, that the units of the "Southern" group of troops
destroyed three armoured combat vehicles, five vehicles
and a field artillery gun. The Ukrainian Armed Forces
- lost up to 220 servicemen.
As specified in the Defense Ministry, the troops of the "Central"
group continued to delve into the enemy's defenses. As a
result of the coordinated actions of Russian soldiers,
Ukrainian units lost more than 525 personnel,
11 pickups and two artillery pieces.
The report also says that units of the "Eastern" group of troops
destroyed more than 175 militants of the Kiev regime army,
two armoured combat vehicles, 10 vehicles, two field
artillery guns and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces --- hit five vehicles, a 155 mm
Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, manufactured in the
UK, an electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots.
Also in this area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 70
servicemen, according to the report.
On the night of May 14, Russian air defense systems destroyed
12 UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the Black Sea
and the Belgorod region.
The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said
that - as a result of a night attack by Ukrainian drones on the
region, 16 people were injured, including four fighters of the
Orlan unit. According to him, eight of the wounded are in
hospitals, doctors assess the condition of one of them
- as extremely serious.
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MP Kolesnik believes------that the SVO
can be completed by military means
within a year
May 14th, 6:48am
(Vesti.ru)
A special military operation (SVO) by military means
may end within a year. This forecast was given by
a member of the State Duma Committee on
Defense, Andrey Kolesnik.
In his opinion, the turning point this year was the
liberation of Sudzha town --- in the Kursk region.
"In fact, it will be decided, I think, within a year,
because we have certain restrictions," the
parliamentarian said.
He noted that even if the SVO itself does not last long, it
will take some time to finish off pockets of resistance.
Russian troops in the war zone move carefully and
try not to touch civilians, the deputy explained.
"As a member of the defense committee, I will say that there
is a progressive movement, that is, our army is constantly
pushing on the offensive. The most important thing is
that the enemies have broken down morally, and
this is even more terrible.... than the lack of
weapons," Kolesnik believes.
At the same time, it is impossible to relax
in any case, the parliamentarian noted.
On May 11, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, offered the
Kiev regime direct talks to be held in Turkey on May 15.
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Vladimir
Zelensky to accept Putin's proposal - and not miss the
opportunity for a peaceful settlement.
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A military expert pointed out
the vulnerability of NATO -
identified during the SVO
May 13th, 12:20pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Russia's special military operation in Ukraine has exposed
the vulnerability of NATO. This was stated to Izvestia
on May 13 by military expert Alexey Leonkov.
"[During the SVO]it turned out that those types of weapons that
were considered an indisputable advantage did not work from
the word go --- "at all". First of all, there is a shortage of air
defense equipment," Leonkov explained.
According to him, when participating in local conflicts, NATO has
always had a technical advantage. For example, in Iraq, Libya
and Serbia, the alliance had more military equipment and
personnel. However, the SVO, the expert emphasized,
changed this situation.
"The NATO countries had created an integrated, distributed
air defense system on the territory of Ukraine. It lasted a
little more than a year and was finally opened and
almost destroyed --- by the actions of our
aerospace forces," the expert noted.
The fire advantage of NATO in the form of high-precision
projectiles of the HIMARS system or ATACMS missiles
also turned out to be limited, Leonkov added. Also,
Ukraine did not have enough drones, which it
received from the military bloc.
"The number [of drones in NATO countries] -- wassomewhere in
the region of 15 [thousand] - a maximum of 20 thousand. And in
the three years of its operation, more than 56 thousand drones
were destroyed in the sky on the line of contact. Their rapid
reproduction required titanic efforts on the part of the
NATO countries," the expert said.
At the same time, the level of reproduction of military equipment
of the North Atlantic Alliance states -- turned out to be unviable.
"This local conflict, if you can call it that, in the zone of a special
military operation showed that they(NATO countries. - Ed.)
do not cope with the volume of replenishment of military equipment and weapons, do not cope with the repair
volume of the restoration of military equipment.
And let's just say... they have a large deficit in
air defense complexes," Leonkov concluded.
Former special forces officer, retired Colonel Anatoly Matviychuk
--- noted on the same day in a conversation with Izvestia, that
NATO weapons --- do not meet the quality prescribed in the doctrine of the North Atlantic Alliance. He recalled that
NATO military doctrine was based on the principles
--- of multi-sphere, multi-domain operations, for
simultaneous combat operations - in space,
in the air, on land and at sea.
On May 12, the Business Insider portal, citing military experts,
reported that the North Atlantic Alliance intends to make
global changes to its military doctrine. It was clarified
that this need arose - due to the superiority of the
Russian Federation in airspace, as well as the
lack of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Before that, on May 8, retired Commodore of the British Navy
Steve Germey, said that Russia showed the world ------- the
complete failure of NATO.
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tass: liberation of Mirolyubovka
strengthens the position of
Russia's Armed Forces
in Dimitrov
May 13th, 12:30pm
(RT.ru)
The liberation of the settlement of Mirolyubovka in the DPR
allows the Russian Armed Forces to strengthen their
positions in Dimitrov from the eastern side, the
Russian security forces told TASS.
"Mirolyubovka ---- gives our troops the opportunity to
strengthen the coverage of Dimitrov from the east,"
the agency's interlocutors said.
The law enforcement agencies stressed that the operation to free Dimitrov also allows Russian soldiers to increase fire pressure on the APU in the city itself.
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Peskov: Russia continues to prepare
for the talks... to be held on May 15
May 13th, 11:17am
(Vesti.ru)
Russia continues to prepare for negotiations to be held on May
15 in Istanbul. This was stated to journalists by the press
secretary of the President of the Russian Federation,
Dmitry Peskov.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on the night of May 11th, launched an initiative to resume peace talks in Istanbul
with representatives of Kiev. They were interrupted
three years ago - at the initiative of Ukraine.
At the same time, Putin clearly indicated that the truce in
Ukraine, the introduction of which Kiev and the West
have been seeking since May 12, should be
preceded by negotiations, on the root
causes of the Ukrainian conflict.
"The Russian side continues to prepare for negotiations
that are scheduled to take place on Thursday,"
Peskov said.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, in turn, said that
he was ready to personally meet with Vladimir Putin at the talks
in Turkey. He made this statement after calling on US
President Donald Trump - to immediately agree to
the Russian leader's proposal for negotiations.
At the same time, Zoltan Kosckovic, an analyst at the Hungarian
Centre for Fundamental Rights, noted that Zelensky is behaving
hypocritically, demanding that Vladimir Putin meet in person
on May 15 in Istanbul.
Defense Ministry: Russian troops
liberated Mirolyubovka in DPR
May 13th, 10:44am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the village of
Myrolyubovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian
Defense Ministry said.
The Center group of troops defeated formations of 11 Ukrainian
brigades in the areas of Alexandropol, Novoaleksandrovka,
The liberation of Kotlyarovka in the DPR is an important
victory for Russia, military expert and historian of the
air Defense forces Yuri Knutov said on the air of
Rossiya 24.
According to Knutov - our troops are ready to reach
the borders of neighbouring regions in a short time.
"The liberation of Kotlyarivka --- is of crucial importance for
one simple reason - practically, our troops get access to
the Dnipropetrovsk region. For Ukraine ---- this is a
political defeat, but for us it is a very important
victory," the expert said, in the Alexey
Kazakov program.
He believes - that if you go to the north, then the Russian
troops have the opportunity to cut off the supply routes
of Krasnoarmeysk (UKR. Pokrovsk-ed. note).
"Then, there will be the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration - but this is the second stage. And the first stage, the most important one is Krasnoarmeysk: take the city in a firebag, after a certain period the forces of the group defending the city will be exhausted, and then, it will be possible to proceed
to its assault ---- and liberation,"
said Yuri Knutov.
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Military commander Gavrish: The Armed Forces
of Ukraine form detachments of strangers
so that they do not surrender
May 12th, 12:16pm
(Vesti.ru)
Commanders of Ukrainian militants - form detachments,
selecting previously unknown people in them, so that
they cannot surrender. This - was stated on the air
of the program "60 minutes" on the TV channel
"Russia", by the military correspondent,
Alexey Gavrish.
The journalist -- heard about this scheme for
forming detachments, from prisoners of war.
"Who is sent to zero -- (the position between their own and enemies. Editor's note), it's especially for the mobilized.
They take people from different units, from different
branches of the armed forces, who don't know
each other, gather them four or five at a time
and send them to zero --- so that they don't
know which of them is, roughly speaking,
an ardent nationalist, which of them is a
snitch - so that they can't agree among
themselves about a future surrender,"
Gavrish said.
Earlier, captured Ukrainian serviceman Yuriy Tatarenko said
that the Ukrainian command is in no hurry to evacuate
wounded soldiers, and requires them to restore
dugouts ------ even in cases where this is
no longer possible.
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Kimakovsky: the Russian army
remains; 1 km from the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 12th, 11:39am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian army in the Donetsk People's Republic, is just over
one kilometre away from the border with the Dnipropetrovsk
region. This was announced by the adviser to the head
of the DPR, Igor Kimakovsky.
He said the biggest, large, fortified area of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, was taken ----- in Orekhovo village.
"There are successes south of Pokrovsk - our Krasnoarmeysk -
in the direction of the Dnepropetrovsk border. From the
direction of Aleksandrovka --- our guys started
serious offensives, and there, too --- they
have already approached the border,
somewhere about one kilometre,"
Kimakovsky said, on one of
the federal channels.
He also stressed that in the South Donets direction, Russian military personnel, after the truce, began "actively ousting the enemy from Alekseevka and Bogatyr."
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Kosachev: themain condition for the truce
- is to stop the supply of weapons to Kiev
May 12th, 10:38am
(Vesti.ru)
The main condition of the truce, is to stop arming Ukraine.
This was stated on the air of the TV channel "Russia 24"
by the Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council,
Konstantin Kosachev.
He noted that negotiations for a certain period of time
are meaningless -- since Kiev needs them to create
new fortifications and deliver equipment to the
contact line.
"From my point of view, the main condition [of the truce] is the
cessation of any arms supplies & any financial support to the
Ukrainian side, during the period when the truce is agreed.
And then, of course, the coordination of all subsequent
actions," Kosachev said.
The senator stressed that -- for a truce, it is necessary to raise
a number of issues to be discussed at the professional level,
primarily in the military sphere. ''That's what negotiations..
are for.''
Kosachev also called the statement of the head of the Kiev
regime, Vladimir Zelensky, about a trip to Istanbul... ''a performance --- a spectacle''.
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The Russian Armed Forces --- liberated
the village of Kotlyarovka in the DPR
May 12th, 10:13am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military liberated Kotlyarovka village
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This is
reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
"The settlement of Kotlyarovka in the Donetsk People's Republic
has been liberated by the decisive actions of units of the Center
group of troops," the military department said in a statement.
It is specified that the units of the "Central" group, also defeated
the formations of five mechanized, jaeger, two assault brigades
of Kiev regime militants, as well as a marine brigade and two
National Guard brigades in the areas of a number of
settlements of the DPR.
The Ukrainian military lost more than 440 people,
three armoured combat vehicles, 14 vehicles
and two artillery pieces.
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In Ukraine, they began to massively
block the accounts ----- of evaders
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 10th, 10:48pm
(Lenta.ru)
In Ukraine, they began to massively block the accounts of
evaders, in the case of non-payment of fines for violating
the rules of mobilization, citizens may lose money and
housing, the Obozrevatel newspaper reports with
reference to the Ministry of Justice
of the Republic.
In the event that a Ukrainian does not pay the penalty, after 15
days in the framework of enforcement proceedings, the bank
accounts of the offender are blocked, a double fine is
collected, and in the absence of funds, other
property, including cars, real estate and
household items, is seized.
It is noted that as of May 1, territorial recruitment centres
(TCCs, analogous to the military enlistment office)
issued 1,500 decisions against residents - just
in the Poltava region.
Earlier, the head of the recruitment centre for recruiting
volunteers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the
116th separate mechanized brigade --- Yuriy
Maksimov ----- admitted the failure of the
mobilization. According to the official,
the Ukrainian authorities completely
failed, in the mobilization process.
One of the reasons for the negative experience, Maksimov
called: ''unclear terms of service'' in the Ukrainian army.
explained to the APU the reason for her refusal to evacuate
by Alexey Komolov
May 8th, 1:19pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
A resident of the frontline city of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk)
in the DPR --- refused to evacuate to Western Ukraine
because of the ban on speaking Russian there.
A video of it was published by "Country.na".
The footage shows people in military gear and weapons
talking to two women -- who are sitting on a bench
near the entrance of an apartment building.
"I speak Russian and I won't go to Western Ukraine,"
one of them reportedly tells the volunteers, when
asked to evacuate.
"So... they don't allow it there. They banned
speaking Russian, altogether," she
explained her position.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian troops in
Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov (Mirnograd), in
the Donetsk People's Republic are actually
in a fire bag.
At the same time, the command of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine continues to transfer
reserves to this area.
Through Krasnoarmeysk ---- pass all the routes that supply the
nearby sections of the front in this direction. The liberation of
the city will open the way to the DPR border. Krasnoarmeysk
is located 66 kilometres northwest of Donetsk.
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In the border town of Glushkovo, a
woman was killed and the Interior
Ministry building was damaged...
due to a strike by the Ukrainian
Armed Forces
May 8th, 12:22pm
(RT.ru)
The Ukrainian army launched "vile strikes" on the village
of Glushkovo in the Kursk region, where a local 61-year-
old resident was killed, acting Governor, Alexander
Khinshtein, said.
"I express my most sincere condolences to her family
and friends, this is an irreparable loss," Khinshtein
said in Telegram.
As a result of falling downed air targets, the second floor
of the police station building was destroyed. Now.... the
information about the consequences is being clarified.
The day before, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked
two districts of the Kursk region, a sugar factory's
motor transport shop and a broiler shop at a
poultry farm... were damaged.
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Zakharova: the guests of the parade
have no doubts about Zelensky's
terrorist nature
May 8th, 12:06pm
(RT.ru)
Guests of the Victory Day Parade in Moscow
have no doubts about the terrorist nature of
Vladimir Zelensky, Russian Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
"Everything that was said by the Kiev regime,
such as threats to the parade and ....to all
the guests of these events has only one
qualification, namely, terrorism and
terrorist threats. I think no one
doubts this anymore,"
she told TASS.
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India and Pakistan ------- fought one of the
biggest battles in the history of aviation.
100 fighters fought for over an hour
by Alina Goncharova (editor of
Operational Information Dept)
May 8th, 12 midday
(Lenta.ru)
India and Pakistan fought one of the biggest battles in modern aviation history. More than a hundred fighter jets exchanged blows for about an hour, CNN writes, citing a source in the security service of Pakistan.
The air battle between Pakistani and Indian fighters was one of
the "largest and longest-running in recent aviation history."
According to Pakistani officials, 5 Indian planes were shot down.
According to the source of the TV channel, 125 fighters fought
for more than an hour, while neither side left its airspace.
The exchange of missile strikes took place... at a
distance exceeding 160 kilometres.
As explained, neither of the conflicting parties was ready to send
their pilots across the border, remembering the consequences of
the air battle in 2019. Then, the pilot of the Indian Air Force was
shot down on the territory of Pakistan, it was broadcast on TV.
This time, neither side "wanted such humiliation."
On May 6th, India launched Operation Sindoor, hitting
Pakistan. According to the Indian side, the attacks
were aimed exclusively at terrorist camps. The
country's Defense Ministry said that "terrorist
attacks on India, were planned and directed
from Pakistan." In total, the missile strikes
were carried out on 9 sites in Pakistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif called India's attack
an act of war that needs to be responded to. Khawaja Asif,
the country's Defense Minister..... did not rule out new
responses to India's actions. He called the attack
from India a "cowardly act", and allowed the
cessation of hostilities only after the
complete curtailment of
Operation Sindoor.
Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar,
meanwhile, said he did not want an escalation,
but warned of the consequences.
''We do not intend to escalate the situation. However,
if there is a military attack on us, there should be no
doubt that there will be a very, very tough response.''
Trump called what is happening a disgrace
President of the United States, Donald Trump..... said that he
considers the strikes between India and Pakistan shameful.
He added.... that he hopes that the conflict between the
parties will end, very soon.
Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, also said
that the situation between India and Pakistan is a cause
for concern, and Moscow calls on the parties to the
conflict, to negotiate.
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Miroshnik: Ukraine - has turned into
a concentration camp from which
...you can't escape
May 7th, 5:05pm
(Vesti.ru)
The violent Ukrainian mobilization, has turned the
country into a concentration camp from which it
is impossible to escape. This was stated by the
Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-
Large, Rodion Miroshnik, in an interview
with Rossiya 24 TV channel.
This situation has developed... among other things,
because of the actions of employees of territorial
recruitment centres (TCCs ----- an analog of the
military enlistment office), Miroshnik notes.
"Ukraine --- has turned into a kind of concentration camp,
from which it is impossible to leave in one direction or
the other. That is, someone is drowning in the Tisa
River, trying to escape from forced mobilization,
someone is trying to escape simply from war,
from death, to cross the front line, to be
where the Russian troops are, where
Russia is. And ---- they are being
hindered - in every possible
way," he said.
Earlier, political commentator Roman Golovanov
said that the residents of Ukraine are in shock
from the madness that the employees of the
territorial recruitment centres arranged.
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In Kharkiv - the chief engineer
of the company that supplied
drones to the Armed Forces
of Ukraine was eliminated
May 7th, 4:29pm
(Vesti.ru)
Chief engineer of the KNK Scientific and Technical
Stormtrooper Alexander with the call sign Black returned from
Ukrainian captivity the day before. TV channel "Russia 24"
showed the first call of a military man to his mother after
returning home.
The fighter admitted that he could barely hold back tears.
"Honestly, Mom, I am so happy for our Russia that...
indescribable feelings. I love you very much.
I can't hold back my tears, Mom," said
the stormtrooper who returned
from captivity.
Alexander served in the Donetsk sector. He was captured in
Ukraine near the village of New York, when his unit was left
without communication.
On May 6, as a result of the negotiation process, Ukraine and
Russia exchanged prisoners of war.. under the 205 - for - 205
formula. The Russian Defense Ministry noted that mediation
efforts in the return of Russian fighters..... were provided by
the United Arab Emirates.
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Kartapolov announced a
turning point in the SVO
May 7th, 5:55am
(Vesti.ru)
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Andrey
Kartapolov, said in the program "Evening with Vladimir
Solovyov" --- about the turning point at the front.
He also called for making every effort to help
the units that are on the line of contact.
According to him, it is important to do this right now, when it
is "difficult". It is at a critical moment --- that we must finish
off Ukrainian Nazism, Kartapolov pointed out.
"Now, more than ever, we need to exert all our strength here
in the rear, to help the guys at the front. Now it is, because
it is difficult now, now, is the turning point when we need
to go ahead and finish off this abomination in its lair,
as our ancestors did," Kartapolov said.
He stressed - that Russia is ready for this.
"We are ready for this. You just need to know
it --- and do it --- for everyone," the MP said.
Kartapolov also said that the pace of the offensive
has increased, and the depth of the advance of
Russian forces in the defense of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, has increased.
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Fighter of the Russian Armed Forces:
APU hiding behind civilians in Bogatyr
May 7th, 5:40am
(Vesti.ru)
The operator of the UAV of the Far Eastern Winds detachment
spoke on the air of Russia 1 about the nuances of working in
the vicinity of the village of Bogatyr in the south of the DPR.
According to him, the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
make it necessary to exercise special caution. Neo-Nazis
seek to equip their positions in the residential sector,
hiding behind civilians.
"They, as they like to do, disappeared into the houses. We work
carefully, as on jewelry, because.... there are also civilians. We
worked on the enemy's manpower, worked on the equipment;
lightly armoured, transported ammunition," the UAV
operator said.
Judging by the power of the explosion, the truck was carrying
a significant amount of ammunition, explained his colleague.
"The explosion was such a detonation that at first, they thought
that the FAB (high – explosive aerial bomb-Ed.) had arrived. But
then we were informed that the blast wave was caused by the
fact that the Ural detonated. Because... it contained a large
amount of ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine,"
the serviceman said.
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Fighters of the Russian Armed Forces
reinforced the "Lightning" mines ---
to oust the APU from Bogatyr
May 7th, 5:33am
(Vesti.ru)
Soldiers of the Far Eastern Winds detachment of the 29th
Guards Army equip Molniya attack drones with anti-tank
mines. This is done in order to push the enemy more
effectively in the vicinity of the village of Bogatyr
in the DPR.
This was told on the air of "Russia 1" by
one of the fighters of the detachment.
The drone is brought to the positions in disassembled form.
Operators carefully assemble the mechanism themselves.
This takes about half an hour.
"There was not enough strong charge to carry everything.
So we decided to try a mine. It took off, it flew. Well, that's all, so they began to work," the serviceman said.
The charge of the reinforced structure is 7 kilograms.
This is enough to demolish a house, said the fighter.
Earlier, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that
in Bogatyr there are hot clashes between Russian
servicemen - and militants of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine.
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A soldier of the Russian Armed Forces
who returned from captivity: I still....
can't believe it
May 7th, 4:40am
(Vesti.ru)
205 Russian soldiers returned to their homeland from
Ukrainian captivity. The IL-76 plane with fighters on
board..... landed on the evening of May 6 in the
Moscow region. On the air of the Rossiya 1
TV channel, the servicemen shared
their emotions.
Some of them were held captive by neo-Nazis for
several months, others ----- for more than a year.
"I still can't believe it – I spent 8 months
in captivity," said one of the fighters.
According to his colleague, the most
important thing, is to return home...
healthy.
"The most important thing ----- was to return
home safe and sound and see my family,"
the soldier said.
Two hundred fighters are united by one thing --- all
were lucky enough to return to Russia on the eve
of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the
Victory. The servicemen voiced their wishes:
patience .....and a new, great victory.
A convoy of buses.... with servicemen who have returned to
their homeland has been sent to hospitals of the Ministry
of Defense, where the soldiers will be diagnosed.
If necessary, they will receive medical assistance, and
then they will be sent home to relatives - to celebrate
the anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
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The Zapad group -- has destroyed 33
UAV control points of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces in the past 24 hours.
May 7th, 3:05am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian group of troops "West" over the past day
destroyed 33 control points of unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) Armed Forces of Ukraine,
said the head of the press centre of the
group, Ivan Bigma, to representatives
of the media.
Zapad tankers destroyed the crew of the AGS-17
installation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
which was located 10 km from the
Russian position.
"Six field artillery pieces were also destroyed, including
five Western-made ones, 12 mortar crews, three
Starlink satellite communication stations and
three field ammunition depots," Bigma said.
Units of the Zapad group have taken up new positions
in the area of four settlements in the Kharkiv region.
Meanwhile, communications specialists of Zapad
restored memorials in honour of the heroes of
the Great Patriotic War ----- in the Luhansk
People's Republic (LPR).
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Pakistan reveals losses
--- after India strikes
by Evgeny Silaev
(Night Line Editor)
May 7th, 12:24am
(Lenta.ru)
Eight Pakistanis were killed as a result of strikes by
the Indian army on the territory of the country. This
was reported by Reuters ---- with reference to a
representative of the Pakistani military.
"Eight Pakistanis were killed, 25 wounded,
and two are missing," the source said.
The Ministry of Defense of Pakistan - reported a missile
strike on the territory of the country from India on the
evening of May 6. Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif
Chaudhry, Director General of the Interagency
Public Relations Service (ISPR) -- called the
Indian attack "despicable and cowardly."
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Sobyanin: the attack of seven drones
flying to Moscow ---- was repelled
May 6th, 11:36pm
(RT.ru)
The Defense Ministry's air defense forces - repelled an
attack by seven drones flying at Moscow, the mayor
of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, said.
According to him, emergency services specialists
are working at the crash site.
Also, an enemy UAV was shot down by electronic
warfare over the territory of the Roslavl district
of the Smolensk region.
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The Russian Defense Ministry told about
the exploits of the Russian military in
the free defense zone
May 6th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The ministry noted the actions of the commander of
the artillery gun of the Guards, foreman Yevgeny
Varlamov. During the battle with the Ukrainian
militants - who attempted to reach the flank
of the advancing units of the Armed Forces
of the Russian Federation in order to cut
them off from the main forces, he
provided.. continuous firing. It
was his gun that was given
the task of disrupting the
enemy's plan.
So, thanks to the competent and quick actions of
Varlamov, as well as the coordinated actions of
the artillery crew, the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(AFU) lost two armoured vehicles and a large
number of militants, which is why.... they
decided to retreat.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry pointed out
the merits of Private Vasily Ryabokonov, who at the
observation post -- calculated and transmitted the
coordinates to the control point of the locations
of the main firepower - the routes and time of
the changing posts of Ukrainian militants
---- in advanced defensive positions.
After clarifying - the coordinates of the location of the
enemy infantry ---- the calculation of a self-propelled
artillery installation destroyed a group of Ukrainian
militants with a well-aimed salvo. Thus, thanks to
the actions of Ryabokonov ---- an attempt by
Ukrainian militants to rotate on the line
of contact ----- was stopped, the
ministry stressed.
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"They --- are up to their ears in it": Orban admits:the EU is waging a proxy war --- against Russia
by Alina Kochneva
May 6th, 7:18pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
The leaders of the EU member states openly finance
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, train the military and give advice to the commanders of the
Ukrainian army. The Europeans --- are
waging a proxy war against Russia.
''For the first time, in many years,
they are now on the losing side''
the Hungarian Prime Minister,
Viktor Orban, admitted -
speaking in Ratskev.
As the politician noted, the EU has started a proxy
war, the principle of which, is to influence the
parties. European officials themselves , are only indirectly involved.
"They used the Ukrainian conflict -- to turn against the
Russians, and they lost the war... the EU is up to its
ears in it. This, is their war. And it is fraught with
huge dangers, not to mention the fact that one
of the parties to the conflict -- is a nuclear
power," Viktor Orban ----- stressed.
According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman,
Maria Zakharova, Europe is preparing for a full-scale
war with Moscow, as the Third Reich once did.
The EU only covers itself... with language
about ''threats from the East''.
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Alexander Lukashenko:the Russian military
on the SVO are fighting against Nazis, and not sparing themselves
May 6th, 6:29pm
(Vesti.ru)
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko noted that
the Russian military personnel participating in the
special military operation, are ready to fight
selflessly against Nazism and show a
high level of courage.
He made this statement at a solemn event dedicated
to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great
Patriotic War, the official website of the
Belarusian leader notes.
According to Lukashenka, he is closely following the
progress of the special military operation and is
completely immersed in it.
"Imprisoned Russian soldiers --- are fighting against
Nazism and do not spare their lives. Why? Where
does [this] come from? From there... (since the
Great Patriotic War - editor's note). This is
what those who are rattling weapons on
our borders today are most afraid of,"
the Belarusian president said.
The Belarusian leader reminded that --- during the war,
Soviet soldiers sometimes deliberately went to their
deaths, realizing the inevitability of death, and
acted without fear.
Lukashenko warned ---- that the forces that want to start
a war against Russia and Belarus - are trying to discard
the historical memory of the inhabitants of both of the
countries. The Belarusian president ---- repeated the
words he said during his speech in Volgograd.
Then, he noted that --- to start a war ------ first of all, it is
necessary to take away people's memory and deprive
them of their sanity. In his opinion ---- as soon as the
enemy forces achieve this - and this, in his opinion,
may happen after he leaves office – we should
expect a new war.
The Belarusian President, visited Volgograd, on April 29. At a meeting with the Governor of the Astrakhan region, Igor Babushkin, he said that the campaign "Belarus Remembers" ....is being held in Belarus.
In shape, it resembles the procession of the "Immortal
Regiment" in Russia, but instead of the St. George
ribbon, red and green are used.
Alexander Lukashenko explained --- that participants
can choose either traditional ribbons or Belarusian
ones - which is more convenient for them - and
stressed --- that Belarusians do not wear
swastikas, as in Ukraine.
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Russian Missiles Will Wipe Kyiv
Off the Face of the Earth
--- Should Ukraine Strike
Moscow on Victory Day
May 6th, 3:20pm
(Pravda Report)
If Ukraine attacks Moscow on May 9, Russia will strike
a devastating counterstrike on Kyiv within minutes,
military analyst and retired Colonel, Mikhail
Khodarenok believes.
Russia's long-range cruise missiles such as the
Kh-101 and Kh-555, Kalibr-PL and Kalibr-NK
naval cruise missiles, drones --- and the
Iskander-M missile systems could be
used; for a retaliatory strike. The
analyst also suggested, that the
strategic missile forces, could
be involved with conventional
warhead delivery systems.
"The retribution strike" could overshadow everything
that has happened so far in the conflict, Mikhail
Khodarenok also said.
According to him, the centre of the Ukrainian capital
could be turned into ruins. Additionally, he believes
that government buildings, including the office of
the President of Ukraine, may come under fire.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said
that Kyiv could not guarantee the safety of foreign
leaders ....who would come to Moscow for the May 9 celebrations.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria
Zakharova called his words --- a classic
international terrorist threat.
According to Yevhen Dykyi, the former commander
of the Aidar Battalion (recognized - as a terrorist
organization -- and banned in Russia), said that
Ukraine would refrain from attacking Moscow
due to the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Russian capital.
"One elderly Chinese man will do what Russia's air
defense cannot do. He will make sure we don’t
strike this parade," he said.
Russia Details Security Measures
in Moscow for May 9
The Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense
Committee, Yuri Shvytkin, assured that the
Russian Armed Forces and the Ministry
of Defense were taking all necessary
measures to ensure the complete
safety of both the Victory Day
parade participants, and
Moscow's guests.
"Efforts will be made ------- by law enforcement and the
Ministry of Defense, air defense systems, and other
various forces and means --- to maintain security.
Preventive operational activities ------- will be
conducted ahead of May 9th -- as well as
direct public order & safety measures,
with a focus on air defense --- in the
potential directions of an attack
on our capital," said Shvytkin.
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Pyatnashki commander Avidzba:
The Russian Armed Forces will
crush the APU with resources
May 6th, 11:34am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian troops - will eventually "crush" the Armed
Forces of Ukraine with resources, Ahra Avidzba,
commander of the Pyatnashka international
brigade, said in the 60 Minutes program
on the Rossiya TV channel.
The military man noted that in modern conditions,
in the presence of drones, there is a difficult
long-range struggle to deplete the
enemy's resources.
"Previously, it was possible to stick EW (electronic
warfare system. - Editor's note) and try to break
through some area there, but today, the so-
called -- as we like to say -- "fiber-optic
trolleybuses", our drones --- they do
not give such an opportunity. Well,
that is why.. we are working to
deplete resources. But --- the
point is ----- that we will still
crush them with resources
& they will not be able to
do this for a long time,"
Avidzba - expressed
his confidence.
Earlier, the commander of the Pyatnashka
brigade said that the Kiev regime wants
to "kill all the information" on the
upcoming Victory Day ------- by
making attempts to transfer
the fighting to the territory
of the Kursk region.
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Moscow will respond - if Kiev continues
strikes ...during the days of the truce
on Victory Day
May 6th, 11:29am
(Vesti.ru)
Russia will give an adequate response if the Ukrainian
side continues to attempt strikes on the territory of
the country on the armistice days during the
Victory Day celebrations. This was stated
by the press secretary of the Russian
President, Dmitry Peskov.
The Kremlin spokesman stressed: that the proposal for a truce remains in force, but if Kiev tries to continue the strikes, a response will be given.
"The fire will be stopped, but --- if there is no reciprocity
on the part of the Kiev regime, and attempts to strike
at our positions and facilities continue, an adequate
response ---- will be given immediately,"
Peskov stressed.
On April 28, it was reported that Russian President
Vladimir Putin -- declared a truce in the special
operation zone during the celebration of the
80th anniversary of Victory in the Great
Patriotic War. According to the
Kremlin's press service this
decision was made --- for
humanitarian reasons.
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Russian Defense Ministry: daily losses of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded
1.4 thousand militants
May 6th, 11:06am
(Vesti.ru)
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 1,425 soldiers
in the special operation zone over the past day, the
Russian Defense Ministry said.
Units of the Russian group of forces "North" destroyed
up to 225 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
fighters of the "Western" group of forces – more
than 250 Ukrainian militants, "Southern" –
more than 275 militants, "Central" –
more than 425 enemy soldiers,
"Eastern" – up to 200 soldiers
of Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Units of the Dnipro group
also eliminated up to 50
Ukrainian servicemen.
The daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also
include a tank, seven ammunition depots, five field
artillery pieces made in Western countries, a self-
propelled artillery installation Braveheart, made
in Great Britain and the French Caesar, as well
as two M198 howitzers made in the US.
Earlier, the Defense Ministry announced
the liberation of Lysovka, in the DPR.
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Tsybulsky: Arkhangelsk region handed
over 296 vehicles and 3 thousand
drones to the SVO fighters
May 6th, 9:19am
(Vesti.ru)
The Arkhangelsk region handed over 296 vehicles and
more than 3 thousand quadrocopters to the frontline
servicemen. This was stated in an interview with
the TV channel "Russia 24", by the governor of
the region, Alexander Tsybulsky.
According to him, the region provides
national assistance to participants
of the special operation.
"I know for sure, that we have already sent 296 cars, more than 3,000 different kinds of quadrocopters
and, accordingly, drones. We sent hundreds of
thermal imagers and night vision sights. I'm
not even talking about the help that our
people are collecting. I know that now
they are preparing to send --- in my
opinion, seven or nine more cars,
which will also be in the Kursk
region in the coming days,"
Tsybulsky said.
Earlier, the governor of Pomerania said that 4.5 billion
rubles had been allocated to help the fighters since
the beginning of the SVO. In total, according to
him, in the region there are 23 measures of
social support for the military --- and for
their families.
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Underground worker --- Lebedev:
UAV assembly shops have been
liquidated in the Kharkiv region
May 6th, 8:30am
(Vesti.ru)
In the vicinity of Kharkiv ---- a strike was carried out on
objects related to the production of drones, as well as
on one of the headquarters of the Ukrainian forces.
This was reported by the coordinator of the
Nikolaev underground, Sergey Lebedev.
According to the underground coordinator, during the
attack, a hangar was also hit, in which the APU
equipment was located.
"On the night of May 6….. Two workshops related to
the production of UAVs were destroyed. One of the
headquarters and the military personnel present,
were hit, 11 were seriously wounded, two were
killed," he said.
In addition, a warehouse where mortar shells
and ammunition were stored was hit in one
of the suburbs.
Earlier, the underground informed about
...the destruction of about 20 foreign
mercenaries as a result of a strike
on the military infrastructure of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine
in Kharkiv.
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Marochko --- The Russian Armed Forces
knocked out the enemy from positions
near Makeyevka
May 6th, 6:52am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian fighters have driven out the Ukrainian Armed
Forces (APU) from their positions near the village of
Makeyevka in the LPR and gained a foothold on
the western bank of the Tekuch River, the
military expert Andrey Marochko, said.
He clarified that the Russian Armed Forces
---- crossed the river in several places.
"During active combat operations, our advanced units
managed to dislodge Ukrainian militants from their
positions south-west of the village of Makeyevka
in the LPR," the expert said, in a conversation
with TASS.
As a result, the Russian fighters improved their
position ......and expanded the control zone.
Earlier, expert Marochko reported on the deployment
of additional Russian forces in the direction of
Chasova Yar. Thus --- the Russian Armed
Forces have increased their grouping
in this area.
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Russian military Avangard - most of the Ukrainian Baba Yaga drones, are made in the EU
May 6th, 6:40am
(Vesti.ru)
A significant part of the heavy UAVs of the Baba
Yaga type - used by the Ukrainian forces in the
Kherson area is of European origin. This was
stated by a Russian serviceman from the
UAV laboratory of the 18th combined
Arms army of the Dnepr group of
troops --- call sign Avangard.
According to the operator, during the study
of captured drones, experts repeatedly
recorded the presence of markings
indicating manufacturers from
Germany and other
EU countries.
"In the Kherson direction there are a lot of UAVs that
are supplied from abroad. How many of them, we
had to study. In general --- there are a lot of
stickers from the German manufacturer,
on the "hedgehog grandmothers". Yes,
basically it's all German, European,"
he summed up, in an interview
with RIA Novosti.
Earlier it was reported that the Baba Yaga
drone obtained on the battlefield.... was
tested in the special operation zone.
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A fighter with the call sign Firs
single-handedly took an APU
support vehicle near the
village of Bogatyr in
the DPR
May 6th, 6:35am
(Vesti.ru)
58-year-old Russian assault trooper with the call sign
Firs, single-handedly took an enemy stronghold near
Bogatyr village, in the DPR. Details of the fighter
were told in an interview with the TV channel
"Russia 24".
According to the military man - he could not
retreat back, otherwise he would have died.
"I threw a grenade [into an enemy trench]. I covered
them with an explosion. Well, I jumped into the
opornik, checked, cleaned up, took up the
defense," said the fighter with the call
sign Firs.
After a while, the Russian soldier decided to move
on, and in a nearby enemy trench, he also single-
handedly captured two Ukrainian militants.
"There, their position was probably about fifteen
metres away from me. They didn't expect this.
They couldn't even raise their weapons,"
said soldier Firs.
Caught off guard, the AFU soldiers came out to
the Russian fighter .....with their hands raised.
Last night, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin,
said ---- on the air of the TV channel "Russia
24... that ---- ''in Bogatyr village, in the
Velikonovoselkovsky direction ------
there are now "serious clashes".
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Senator Nikonorova: the West has no levers
of pressure on the Russian Federation
on the issue of Ukraine
May 6th, 5:48am
(Vesti.ru)
Russia -- will not give up its demands on the Ukrainian
issue, the West has no levers of pressure on Moscow,
said the senator from the DPR, Natalia Nikonorova.
According to her, all possible sanctions against
Russia ....have already been introduced.
"It is unlikely that there is anything left in
the storerooms that will force Moscow
to abandon its clear position[on the
Ukrainian issue -Ed. ]," Nikonorova
told RIA Novosti.
The senator believes that talk of new anti-Russian
restrictions is aimed at a "wide audience", but
they do not play any real role in resolving
the Ukrainian conflict.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump announced his
readiness to ''sign a law'' on new restrictions on
Russia if peace cannot be achieved in Ukraine.
He proposed to introduce protective duties of
500% for those countries that continue to
buy energy resources from Moscow.
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Shoiguannounced:the launch of a
NATO program - to prepare for
conflict with Russia
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 5th, 10:51pm
(Lenta.ru)
NATO and the EU have launched programs aimed at
preparing the collective West for a direct military
conflict with Russia. This is stated in an article
by Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu,
published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
He noted that this is happening ------- against the
background of statements by European elites
about the need to inflict a strategic defeat
on Russia.
"These aggressive steps, as well as the continued
advance of NATO to the east, to the borders of
Russia ---- in the best traditions of Goebbels'
propaganda, are justified by Russophobic
fabrications," Shoigu stressed.
He added that --- in this regard, the role of the Security
Council of the Russian Federation in the organization
of state and military administration, is increasing.
Earlier it became known that the UK began to developan updated action plan... in the case of war with Russia.
According to The Telegraph, the document
will contain several scenarios of war —
conventional, nuclear and cyber.
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation reported on the exploits of
Russian servicemen in the free zone
May 5th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The Ministry noted the merits of Junior Sergeant
Sayyn Khomushka, who, acting as part of a
motorized rifle unit, performed tasks to
provide medical care to the wounded
Russian servicemen --- & transport
them to medical institutions.
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, seeking to
occupy Russian positions, attempted an offensive.
During one of the attacks, a junior sergeant risked his
own life and provided emergency medical care to
two wounded Russian servicemen ----- under
artillery fire, after which he carried them
to safety.
After the battle ended, Khomushu loaded the wounded
into a car and took them to a field medical hospital,
where they received all the necessary assistance.
Thanks to the selfless actions of the junior
sergeant, the lives of the victims
were saved.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry ------- drew
attention to the actions of Junior Sergeant Alexey
Oleynikov, who, in a special military operation,
performed tasks - to organize stable and
uninterrupted communication in the
interests of a battalion tactical
group of servicemen of the
Armed Forces.... of the
Russian Federation.
During combat duty ---- in one of the difficult areas,
Oleynikov was repairing an antenna device, and a
repeater damaged by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
under artillery shelling. Because of this damage,
part of the main radio network of the Russian
military personnel - failed.
Thanks to the professional actions of the junior
sergeant, all problems were eliminated, which
contributed to a successful implementation
of the unit's tasks.
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''Lithuania''launches Iron Wolf 2025-I and
Storm Defender 2025 exercises
May 5th, 5:07pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The Iron Wolf 2025-I field tactical exercise and
the Storm Defender 2025 coastal exercise
have kicked off in Lithuania.
The Lithuanian Armed
Forces were informed
about this, on May 5.
On the page of the army of the Baltic Republic in
the social network Facebook (owned by Meta
Corporation - recognized as extremist and
banned in the Russian Federation), it is
reported that about 3,700 NATO troops
will take part in Iron Wolf 2025-I.
During the exercise, it is planned to check the level of
training of the Prince Vaidotas infantry battalion and
the 17th multinational combat group.
As part of Storm Defender 2025, the Port and
Coastal Defense Service -- will work out
actions aimed at ensuring the port's
operation ------- in the case of
crisis situations.
On May 2nd, the Etaplius portal reported, that the Griffin
Lightning 2025 international military exercise will be held in Lithuania - from May 3rd to May the 23rd.
It is specified, that about 30 German-made military
helicopters will be deployed during the exercises,
in particular --- TIGER attack helicopters, NH90
transport helicopters, CH-53 heavy transport
helicopters - as well as EC135 light multi-
purpose helicopters.
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Expert Kazanin: The Ukrainian Armed Forces... are trying to prevent the creation of a buffer zone in the Sumy region
May 5th 3:45pm
(Vesti.ru)
Attempts by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(AFU) to break into the territory of the Kursk border
area, are aimed at disrupting plans to create a
buffer zone.... in the Sumy region. This was
stated by military expert Maxim Kazanin
in an interview with the Rossiya 24
TV channel.
Earlier it was reported that Ukrainian militants
attempted to break through the state border
near Tetkino village, in the Kursk region.
"Here ---- the goal is to prevent the creation of a so-called
buffer zone in the Sumy region, which was repeatedly
mentioned ---- by the Russian President, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. In other words - we need
a buffer zone that would allow our citizens
to live in peace... and stay on the border
territories --- so as not to be subjected
to shelling from Ukrainian long-range
artillery. Naturally -- the Ukrainian
military will try to thwart these
plans," Kazanin said.
According to the military expert, Ukrainian militants
will constantly make similar attempts with the
help of FPV drones, artillery and multiple
launch rocket systems (MLRS).
Earlier, the military correspondent of VGTRK
Alexander Sladkov reported that in Russia,
they knew in advance about the attempt
to break through the APU from Tetkin.
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The commander... of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told how, through a group in Telegram, he agreed to surrender
May 5th, 3:34pm
(Vesti.ru)
The commander of a unit of the 21st mechanized
Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)
with the call sign Kara, told the Rossiya TV
channel that, together with 12 colleagues
he agreed to surrender to Russian troops
via the Telegram group -- to "Save Life".
According to the prisoner, he and his unit
moved to the village of Miropolye in
the Sumy region.
"We decided to turn to the Telegram-public
"Save your life". And we agreed with the
Russian military to surrender," he said.
Another Ukrainian prisoner of war --- Dmytro Karanfilov, added that, by prior agreement the AFU unit....... stopped fighting, after which the militants were captured.
Earlier it was reported that some prisoners of war of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine --- who surrendered in
the Sumy direction, declared their desire to stay
in Russia.
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
hit the military airfield of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine -- and several
ammunition depots
May 5th, 11:18am
(Vesti.ru)
The Russian military in the special operation zone
attacked the infrastructure of the Ukrainian
military airfield, plus ammunition depots,
militants - and mercenaries - during
the day, the Russian Defense
Ministry said.
In addition, a repair enterprise of the Ukrainian
aviation industry was hit, as well as locations
of Ukrainian militants and mercenaries...
in 142 districts.
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Defense Ministry -- The Ukrainian Armed
Forces lost about 1.4 thousand soldiers
in the special operation zone - during the day
May 5th, 11:08am
(Vesti.ru)
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) --- lost 1,395
militants in the special military operation zone
during the day, according to the Russian
Defense Ministry's summary.
The enemy suffered the greatest losses ---- in the area
of responsibility of the Center group - in the areas of
Udachny, Dimitrov, Novopavlovka, Novosergeyevka
and Grodovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
There, the Ukrainian army lost up to 465
servicemen, a tank and four
armoured vehicles.
In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more
than 315 militants in the area of responsibility of
the Southern group of Russia's Armed Forces.
At the Donetsk settlements of Serebryanka,
Druzhkovka, Seversk and Zarya, the enemy
also lost two armoured combat vehicles
and eight field artillery pieces.
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Grab the goodies and
keep the war going
May 3rd, 2025
(Moon of Alabama)
The U.S. may already be back to being fully committed to
the war. As soon as the mineral deal was signed --- the
State Department gave notice to Congress about a
$50+ million weapon sale to Ukraine.
During the night, from Thursday to Friday, a large scale
drone attack from Ukraine took place in Crimea. Last
night another, even larger attack took place. During
the attack ---- Ukraine used Storm Shadow cruise
missiles --- which need U.S. intelligence based
coordinates..... to reach their targets.
(machine translation):
For the first time since January, Russia announced
a strike by British Storm Shadow missiles. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The ministry announced the downing of eight
such missiles over the Black Sea.
The last time the Russian Federation officially
reported on a Storm Shadow strike ----- was
almost three months ago - on January 15.
Also in Russia, a mass drone raid was reported on the Crimea (96 were shot down) and the
Krasnodar Territory... (47 UAVs were
shot down). In addition - it is stated
that 14 Ukrainian unmanned boats
were destroyed in the Black Sea.
Recall that on the night of May 2 , the Crimea
was also under a massive drone attack.
Explosions were, in particular, in the
areas of military airfields.
Without U.S. (and British) intelligence support
--- the recent attacks by Ukraine would not
have been possible.
This points to a (not yet public) Trump decision
to continue the war - even though the U.S. has no chance to win.
Michael Brenner explains how Trump's
'malignant narcissism' has led to
this outcome.
When Russia launches its big Summer offensive,
after Victory Day on May 9, it will become very
obvious that making peace with Russia would
have been the more difficult -- but also more
promising -- way to proceed.
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Employees of the shopping
centremobilized a courier
by Evgeny Silaev
(Night Line Editor)
May 3rd, 9:29pm
(Lenta.ru)
In Lutsk, employees of the territorial recruitment
center (TCC, the Ukrainian equivalent of military
enlistment offices) forcibly mobilized a courier
who was engaged in food delivery. This was
announced by the military blogger, Boris
Rozhin, in his Telegram channel.
The published video shows how military commissars
stopped a courier on a bicycle, with a large bag
...hanging on the young man's back. Then, a
minibus pulls up, the doors open, and the
three employees of the shopping centre
try to push him into the minibus.
The courier put up a fierce resistance and almost
escaped. A fourth military commissar came to
the aid of his colleagues, after which -- the
delivery service employee was shoved
into the minibus, with the bag. The
bike... was left lying on the road.
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In Britain, they told about: the
reluctance of Ukrainians
to go to the front
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 3rd, 9:15pm
(Lenta.ru)
Most Ukrainian citizens are ready to leave their
country, rather than go to the front. This was
written by The Guardian.
"The population of Russia is about four times larger
than the remaining population in Ukraine. Most of
the Ukrainians who were ready to join and fight
....did so long ago," the article says.
At the same time, many others who were not called
up would rather leave the country than risk their
lives, British journalists wrote.
Earlier, a former Ukrainian fighter said that the number
of "ideological" servicemen in the ranks of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, has practically disappeared, and
Ukrainians have begun to realize why there are so
many deserters in the army. The man himself
said --- that the turning point, for him, was
the failure of the counteroffensive of
Ukrainian troops in the summer
of 2023.
At the end of April, Polish media reported that --- since
the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, 100 thousand
soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine voluntarily
left their positions. The conscripted Ukrainians
desert.. even before they reach the front.
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Calculation chief, Mammadagayev: Tor air
defense system can hit high-grade targets
May 3rd, 8:56pm
(Vesti.ru)
The Tor surface-to-air missile system, can shoot down
high-grade targets. This was reported to the Rossiya
TV channel, by the head of the calculation,
Omar Mammadagayev.
He noted that the complex can shoot down anything,
so the enemy ---- is trying to destroy the Tor.
"The speed is high, Storm Shadow flies low, and if the
complex captures the target then the probability is
very high ----- that it will be hit. The Tor [downs] even high-speed targets in a modern war,"
Mammadagayev said.
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Kadyrov --- Russian fighters prevented an
attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
to enter the Kursk region
by Sergey Gapchuk
May 3rd, 4:23pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
The Russian military --- prevented an attempt by the
Armed Forces of Ukraine to enter the territory of
the Kursk region. This was announced by the
head of Chechnya ---- Ramzan Kadyrov, posting a corresponding video.
"Sumy direction… In the footage, the Kashtan
detachment --- of the Akhmat special forces
of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian
Federation, in cooperation with assault
groups -- of the 2nd Special Forces
brigade, the 15th tank regiment
of the 1st mcr -- prevented the
penetration of bandits of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
from the Ukrainian side
..into the territory of
the Kursk region,"
Kadyrov wrote.
According to the head of Chechnya ----
the "poor devils" - will not calm down
after their shameful expulsion from
the Russian land.
Kadyrov stressed --- that the enemy group was
defeated with precise strikes and now these
Nazis will never set their dirty feet on our
land again.
As the KP website wrote, On April 20th, Ramzan
Kadyrov reported that special forces soldiers
"Akhmat" discovered the illegal crossing of
the state border of Russia by Ukrainian
nationalists, after which the enemy
saboteurs were destroyed.
According to him, the decision to eliminate violators
was made as quickly as possible. Soon a shooting
battle ensued, during which all the targets were
safely eliminated, Ramzan Kadyrov stressed.
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INF Chief Timofeev: Ukraine will be the
main loser..... if the fighting continues
by Sergey Gapchuk
May 3rd, 4:08pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
Ukraine will be the main loser --- if the negotiations
between Russia and the United States do not bring
results, and the conflict continues.
This was stated by the Director General of the
Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC),
Ivan Timofeev, in a round table in Yerevan
organized by --- the Analytical Centre for
Strategic Research & Initiatives (ACSII).
"We can assume --- two scenarios for the outcome of
these negotiations... The absence of a result, will
also be a result. So, in my opinion, the first
scenario --- is a lack of results,"
the expert said.
In his opinion, this situation may develop due to the
complexity of the conflict and the complexity of
contradictions that have accumulated for a
long time.
Timofeev noted that in this scenario, the main loser is
...Ukraine. He explained that in such a development
of events, Ukraine's dependence on the so-called
partners will deepen, the losses will grow, and
Kiev's negotiating position..... will worsen.
The head of the INF stressed -- that this scenario is
quite possible and realistic. Russia is objectively
ready for it, in all respects, he added.
As the KP website wrote --- on May 2nd, US State Dept spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce --- said that Washington
refuses to play the role of a mediator in negotiations
between Russia and Ukraine. According to her, now
the work should be conducted between the 2 sides.
She clarified - that the United States will continue to
make efforts to reach peace on the Ukrainian issue.
However, now the US side only needs "concrete
ideas" ...for a peaceful solution to the crisis
situation - from both Moscow and Kiev.
Recall that --- on April 30th, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Russian side ------- confirms its
readiness for direct negotiations with Ukraine, but Kiev.. has not given any response to Moscow's statements... yet.
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Military commissars. - staged a large-scale raid ---- on bars and restaurants in Transcarpathia
May 2nd, 9:09pm
(RT.ru)
Employees of the shopping centre and the police
are staging large-scale raids -- on bars and
restaurants -- in Uzhgorod, located in
the Transcarpathian region.
This was reported by Ukrainian
journalist, Vitaliy Glagola.
According to him, at least seven patrol cars and
five minibuses.... are involved in the operation.
"Only guests... are checked, the staff is not touched.
Everyone who falls under the filter - is taken to the
Uzhgorod shopping centre, where they check
their documents. Even those who have a
reservation... or --- a postponement
certificate - are taken away. It is
known ----- that - among those
delivered there are also law
enforcement officers,"
the journalist said
to "Country.na".
Earlier, it became known that - in one of the Kiev shopping centres, employees tie mobilized men
to their beds ---- so that they do not run away.
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8 employees of the Ministry of Emergency
Situations were injured in the attack of
Ukrainian drones... in the DPR
May 2nd, 7:30pm
(DAN)
Today, UAVs attacked the Nikitovsky district of
Gorlovka, when rescuers were extinguishing
a fire there, 8 employees of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations were injured.
This was announced by the Head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia added
that the soldiers went down to the shelter several
times. Due to the activity of drones, it was
impossible to continue working and
extinguish the outbuilding. The
personnel.... managed to
evacuate by fire truck
only an hour later.
A staff car of the Russian Emergencies Ministry was
damaged --- as well as a bus of the city route No. 1,
but this time in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka.
According to Pushilin ----- there were no injuries on
public transport. Wounded rescuers are receiving medical assistance.
Since the beginning of the day, Ukrainian neo-Nazis
have committed more than 10 armed attacks.
Barrel artillery of 155 mm calibre and
attack UAVs - were used.
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Kolesnik: The US - opened a
second front -only in 1944
May 2nd, 1:44pm
(RT.ru)
The United States joined the winners of World War II,
by opening a second front only in 1944, State Duma
deputy, Andrey Kolesnik, recalled.
So he commented on the statements of US President
Donald Trump that the US, allegedly, did more than
others ...to defeat the Third Reich.
"He forgot - that, during the landing in Northern France,
they were crushed to smithereens by 'total' German
divisions... of 15-year-olds and 60-year-olds. And
Roosevelt asked Stalin to launch an offensive
on the Eastern Front — Operation Bagration-
so that the Americans could at least leave.
And then, they landed in friendly Italy in
Sicily - where they prepared areas for
landing without combat operations,"
Kolesnik said -- in a conversation
with NEWS.ru.
President Vladimir Putin, in his speeches, noted that
in Russia --- the memory of the defenders of the
Fatherland - is sacred, the Russian people
pay tribute, to the soldiers of the allied
armies... of the United States, Great
Britain, and other states - and also
remember and honour the feat of
Chinese soldiers -- in the battle
against Japanese militarism.
In 2020, he stressed that politicians and historians in
the West "know perfectly well" who "finished off the
fascist reptile ---- in its lair" and stormed Berlin.
He also recalled that the Red Army "ground"
over 80% of the enemy's equipment and
manpower ---- on the Eastern Front.
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Russian Defence Ministry reports
on the progress of the special
military operation (26 April–
2 May 2025)
April 2nd, 10:45am
From 26 April to 2 May ----- the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation carried out -- 7 group strikes
with high-precision weapons & attack drones
- to hit enterprises of the Ukrainian defence
industry, and the infrastructure of military
airfields, weapons & ammunition depots,
locations of electronic recon systems,
the sites of production & storage of
attack unmanned aerial vehicles -
uncrewed surface vehicles... the
temporary deployment areas of
Ukrainian armed formations ---
and foreign mercenaries.
The units of the Sever Group of Forces - completed the
defeat of the AFU units on the territory of the Kursk
region. In the course of intensive offensive actions,
Gornal in Kursk region was liberated. It was the
last settlement under the control of Ukrainian
militants. The creation of a security belt
continues on the territory of Sumy
border areas, Ukraine.
In the Belgorod & Kharkov directions, Russian troops
hit units of two mechanised brigades, one motorised
infantry brigade, 1 air assault brigade of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, & 3 territorial defence brigades.
Over the week - more than 1,530 militants have been
neutralised in the area of responsibility of the Sever
Group of Forces. Moreover, the enemy lost 2 tanks,
32 armoured fighting vehicles, 104 motor vehicles
-- 52 field artillery guns, 4 electronic warfare and
counter-fire stations ------ as well as six
ammunition depots.
As a result of resolute actions of the Zapad Group of
Forces, the settlements of Kamenka, Doroshovka
(Kharkov region) and Novoye (Donetsk People's
Republic) were liberated.
Russian troops inflicted damage on the manpower
and military hardware - of one tank brigade, four mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade, one
airmobile brigade, one assault brigade of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine ---- and three
territorial defence brigades.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 1,630 troops,
2 tanks, 7 armoured fighting vehicles, including one
Turkish-made Kirpi armoured vehicle, a U.S.-made
M113 armoured personnel carrier, 53 motor
vehicles, and 28 field artillery guns,
including 16 manufactured by
NATO countries.
Six electronic warfare and counter-fire stations, as
well as 27 ammunition depots, were neutralised.
The Yug Group's elements took more advantageous
lines and positions. They hit the formations of six
mechanised brigades, two assault brigades, one
motorised infantry brigade, 1 airmobile brigade,
one air assault brigade of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, two territorial defence brigades, and
one National Guard brigade.
Over the past week, Ukrainian armed formations
sustained losses of more than 1,790 militants,
13 armoured fighting vehicles, including one
M113 armoured personnel carrier, three
HMMWV armoured vehicles, and one
U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured
vehicle, in this direction.
Thirty-nine motor vehicles, 13 field artillery guns,
six electronic warfare and counter-fire stations,
as well as 13 ammunition depots ----
were neutralised.
The Tsentr Group's units improved the situation along
the front line. They hit the manpower and military hardware of 2 heavy mechanised brigades, 7
mechanised brigades, one assault brigade,
one jaeger brigade, one UAV brigade, one
assault regiment of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, 1 marine brigade, 1 territorial
defence brigade, and three National
Guard brigades, were hit.
The enemy losses ------- amounted to more than 2,970
troops, 20 armoured fighting vehicles, including one
HMMWV armoured vehicle and one U.S.-made M113
armoured personnel carrier. Thirty-six motor
vehicles and 20 field artillery guns ------
were neutralised.
The Vostok Group's units - continued to advance to the
depths of the enemy's defence. Strikes, were inflicted
on the formations of three mechanised brigades, two
jaeger brigades, one airmobile brigade, one assault
brigade, 1 air assault brigade of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine, 1 marine brigade, and two territorial
defence brigades.
The enemy lost ----- more than 1,220 troops and 16
armoured fighting vehicles. The enemy suffered
losses -- of 64 motor vehicles, 15 field artillery
guns, including French-made 155-mm Caesar
self-propelled artillery system, German-made
155-mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled
artillery system, six electronic warfare
stations, and 3 ammunition depots.
The Dnepr Group's units ------- inflicted losses on the
manpower & hardware of 1 mechanised brigade,
one mountain assault brigade, three coastal
defence brigades.. of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine & 2 territorial defence brigades.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 600 troops,
two armoured fighting vehicles, 22 motor vehicles
six field artillery guns, t10 electronic warfare and
counter-fire stations, and 9 ammunition depots.
Russian Aerospace Forces: shot down one
Su-27 aircraft ...of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Over the past week, air defence systems have shot
down 36 JDAM guided aerial bombs and five U.S.-
made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, two S-200 anti-
aircraft guided missiles redesigned to engage
ground targets, as well as 1,306 fixed-wing
unmanned aerial vehicles.
Black Sea Fleet's naval aviation ----- destroyed one
U.S.-made Willard speedboat and three uncrewed
surface vehicles and damaged one vehicle in the
Black Sea waters.
In total --- since the beginning of the special military
Soldiers of the 91st engineer-sapper regiment of the
Center group of troops ---- have restored a memorial
complex in the village of Alekseyevo-Orlovka in the
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). After that --- the
grand opening of the already restored monument
"Mass Grave of Soviet soldiers and monument to
fellow countrymen" took place. This was
announced on Friday, May the 2nd, by
the Russian Defense Ministry.
"The monument -- was significantly updated — St.
George's ribbons were applied to the obelisks -
the memorial plaque was made of modern
composite materials for durability. The
military completely put the territory
in order --- they cleaned the walls,
restored the paths, restored the
figures of soldiers and painted
all of the elements... of the
memorial," the military
department said.
The opening ceremony of the renovated memorial was
attended by the head of the Shakhtersky Municipal
District of the DPR Alexander Shatov, the head of
the engineering troops of the Central Military
District, Major General Andrey Gandzyuk,
the commander of the 91st engineer
Regiment Viktor Kuhalsky, as well
as residents of the village.
The participants of the event ....observed a minute of
silence in memory of the fallen heroes... and laid
flowers at the memorial complex.
The servicemen who took part in the restoration work,
were presented with letters of thanks ---- in honour of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic
War. Patriotic songs - performed by local artists -
complemented the festive atmosphere.
The updated memorial "Mass Grave of Soviet Soldiers
and monument to Fellow countrymen" --- not only
preserves the memory of the feat of Soviet
soldiers, but also ------- symbolizes the
connection between generations.
The restoration works now carried out -- emphasize the
importance of preserving the historical heritage and
respect ------- for those who gave their lives, for the
freedom of the Fatherland, the Russian Defense
Ministry added.
"It is very important - that such events take place in the
country. We have, in Shakhtersk especially, a mining land full of heroes, full of many monuments. I think
the restoration of the monument and its opening
is very important --- because the soldiers who
defended our land from the German plague,
performed a great feat, and this feat will
never --- be forgotten," said Irina, a
resident of Alekseevo-Orlovka.
Earlier, on April 30th, the press service of the Russian
Defense Ministry reported - that Russian servicemen
of the North group of troops carried out repair work
on the damaged monument in honour of the events
of the Great Patriotic War, in the Kursk region.
In turn, local residents thanked the soldiers
for their assistance - in the restoration of
the monument.
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Rogov reported at least
28 explosions - in the
city of Zaporozhye
by Alexey Komolov
May 1st, 9:56pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
At least 28 explosions occurred in Zaporizhia city, the Chairman of the RF CC Commission on
Sovereignty Issues, Vladimir Rogov,
told RIA Novosti.
According to him, the Ukrainian military - is trying to
shoot down drones that are flying towards military
targets... in the nearest suburb of the regional
centre, as well as near Dnepropetrovsk.
"At least 28 explosions were heard in Zaporizhia,
and shooting ----- is also heard," Rogov said.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that
the Russian military - is methodically recapturing
strongholds from the Ukrainian Armed Forces -
---- taking control of the main roads leading
in the direction of Zaporozhye.
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Rada deputy Ustinova: The US handed
over outdated Stinger air defense
systems ....to Ukraine
May 1st, 9:37pm
(RT.ru)
The United States handed over a ten-year supply of
Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine -
but all these systems are outdated, Verkhovna
Rada deputy, Alexandra Ustinova, said.
"We were given a ten-year supply of Stingers. But
the problem is that this is an old model... Every
five years, a new one comes out - and the old
rockets don't fit the new model, Сountry.na
quotes the words of Ustinova.
The MP added that the US side does not intend
to transfer new weapons to the Armed Forces
of Ukraine.
She also clarified that stocks of old complexes
in warehouses... do exist, but their number is
much less than expected.
Earlier, The Times reported that the flow of weapons
to Kiev will dry up in 6 months, if the United States
withdraws from the ''negotiations''.
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US accused of transferring
non-working F-16s from
landfill .....to Ukraine
by Samer Mustafa
May 1st, 9:20pm
(Gazeta.ru)
The US transfers non-working F-16 fighters to Ukraine,
which are stored in an aviation equipment dump, and
they are supplied as a source of spare parts. This
is reported by War Zone --- with reference to a representative of the US Air Force.
The publication notes - that these fighters were
removed from active use in the United States,
as they are unsuitable for flights. They lack
critical components ----- such as engines
or radars, so these F-16s ----- cannot
be restored for operational use.
Earlier, independent military analyst, Drago Bosnich,
said that by April 2025, Ukraine had lost a third of
the F-16 fighter jets supplied by Western states.
According to the expert -- the Armed Forces of Ukraine
(APU) received at least 27 F-16AM fighters from NATO
countries. At the moment -- no more than 19 aircraft
remain in service, Bosnich believes. At least three
fighters --- were shot down, but some sources
suggest that their number is.. up to six.
In addition -- several aircraft were
destroyed on the ground, the
analyst believes.
Earlier, Colonel Khodarenok called the destruction of
the F-16 by a Russian missile ----- a ''mistake'' ...by
the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Commander Antey: Ukrainians areshocked
by the destructive power of "Solntsepeks"
May 1st, 5:07pm
(RT.ru)
The heavy flamethrower system TOS-1 "Solntsepyok"
inspires horror in the Ukrainian military ---- they are shocked by the destructive power of this weapon,
the commander of one of these systems, with
the call sign Antey, told RT.
"The weapon -- is very formidable. They are very much afraid of it, the destructive power is huge. It gets to
the personnel -- hidden in any shelters: basements, bunkers, houses, dugouts - it doesn't matter at all.
And, it is not necessary to get into the centre of
the dugout," the serviceman said.
If the projectile falls near the positions, the defeat of
enemy personnel is guaranteed, he stressed - in the
story of RT military correspondent, Hassan Nassr.
The warheads of the Solntsepek missiles, consist of
two components: a fuel mixture -- and a detonator.
When the missile hits the target the fuel mixture
is sprayed in the air.. and forms a cloud.. that
penetrates all cracks. After the explosion -
a fireball is formed and a powerful shock
wave occurs ----- creating super-strong
pressure ....over a vast area.
Rostec previously compared the updated heavy
flamethrower systems, "Solntsepek", and
"Tosochka" -- in terms of their striking
effect -- with heavy aerial bombs.
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The deputy of the Rada - announced
the mass unauthorized withdrawal
of military personnel --- from the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
May 1st, 4:52pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Half of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) deserted
or left their units - without permission. This was
announced on May 1 -- by the deputy of the
Verkhovna Rada, Mariana Bezuglaya.
"Half of our army ''participating in combat operations''
is really in an unauthorized abandonment of the unit,"
she wrote in her Telegram channel.
According to the parliamentarian, this situation was
the result of the violations of the rights of military
personnel. She assigned responsibility for this
to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky,
and the Minister of Defense of
Ukraine, Rustem Umerov.
Another Verkhovna Rada deputy, Nina Yuzhanina,
said on April 21, that against the background of catastrophic losses & desertions of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, it is extremely necessary - to ''step up'' mobilization. At the expense of what ----- is it necessary to strengthen the mobilization process, she did not specify.
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The number of victims of the AFU
strike on Aleshki in the Kherson
region has increased to 11
May 1st, 1:04pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The number of victims as a result of the strike of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the market in
Alyoshki, Kherson region - has increased to
11 people. This was reported to Izvestia
on May 1, by the press service of the
regional Governor, Vladimir Saldo.
"As of 14:30, it is known about 12 victims, one
person died on the way to the hospital,"
the press service said.
It is specified that, among the wounded, there are
men and women of different ages; some of them
are in a serious condition.
The press service of the regional governor, reported
that UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue
to attack Alyoshki, which creates difficulties for
the evacuation of local residents. Despite the
danger, medical workers, military personnel
....and employees of the Ministry of
Emergency Situations, continue
their work to save people.
"The evacuation is carried out, under the cover of
electronic warfare. The seriously wounded are
being transferred to the Skadovskaya CRH,"
the press service added.
The attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the
market in Alyoshka, Kherson region, became
known earlier in the day. The governor of
the region, Vladimir Saldo, said that as
a result of the Ukrainian attack, 20
people were injured, and seven
more ...were killed.
The Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia opened a
criminal case on the fact of the attack. A three-day
mourning period was also declared in the Kherson
region ...for those killed in the AFU strike.
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Russian Defense Ministry:Ukrainian
Armed Forces lost up to 1,375
militants in 24 hours
May 1st, 11:02am
(Vesti.ru)
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the
special military operation zone during the day... amounted to 1,375 militants. This is reported
in the summary of the Ministry of Defense
of the Russian Federation.
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A large group of foreign mercenaries has
been deployed to the south of the DPR
May 1st, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
A large group of foreign mercenaries ---- has been
deployed to the south of the part of the Donetsk
People's Republic (DPR) .... occupied by the
Kiev regime. This is reported by TASS
with reference to a source in the
law enforcement agencies.
It is noted that the militants include citizens
of Italy, Colombia, Chile and Lithuania.
"Foreign mercenaries -- have been deployed to
the front line in the South Donets direction,"
the source said.
All mercenaries take part in military operations as part
of the 23rd separate mechanized brigade of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine. These data are
confirmed by the Ukrainian militants
who surrendered.
Earlier, the commander of the 60th separate motorized
rifle battalion with the call sign Myth, reported that
mercenaries from Portugal are participating in
the battles in the DPR, on the side of the
Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Pensioner saved his beloved from the wreckage
after the arrival ofthe Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Natalia Kristioglo
May 1st, 7:48am
(RT.ru)
Pensioners Mikhail Zapisnoy from Leonidovka and
Antonina Romanova from Lebedevka met at the
Sudzhansky boarding school, where civilians
were held during the occupation of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On February 1, a Ukrainian shell flew into the building,
and Antonina was under the rubble. Mikhail saved the
woman with broken legs and took her to the doctors.
In March, they were taken to Kursk by the Red Cross.
Now Antonina is being treated in the hospital, and
Mikhail visits her every day. After Antonina's
recovery, they plan to get married.
69-year-old Mikhail Nikolaevich Zapisnoy... and Antonina
Nikolaevna Romanova, met in the Sudzhansky boarding
school ------ which was hit by the APU on the evening of
February 1. Mikhail was in the basement at the time of
the explosion, where they were going to have dinner.
Antonina was on the first floor charging a flashlight
while sitting on the couch.
"I can hear them shouting that Tonya is still upstairs.
I'm running. Everything is destroyed there. Dust
standing on end, screams, around ten people
already dead. I shout:"Tonya!"----- and she
says to me:"Misha, I'm here!"The stove
had pinned both her legs," recalls
Mikhail Nikolaevich.
"We broke down a thick wall with axes ------ until three in the morning to get - at least somehow - to Tonya. Our
strength was failing us. We took a break. We waited
for Ukrainians to bring the jack, but only lost time.
In the morning --- they continued to sort out the
rubble. Ropes and improvised pieces of iron
were used to lift these slabs, to free their
legs," the man explains.
All this time, Mikhail was close to Antonina -- and
supported her in every possible way. "She says:
'Go away, Misha, leave me.'And I'll tell her:
"I love you, I won't leave without you."
After 20 hours, Mikhail, with the help of other refugees,
was able to pull the woman out from under the rubble.
Antonina's condition was severe ----- open fractures,
multiple wounds, severe blood loss. The Ukrainian
military refused to evacuate the victim ---- and
Mikhail took her to a hospital in Sumy
in his own car.
"The roads are broken... drones are whistling, there are
no landmarks. But we got there. In Sumy, the doctors
immediately took her away. Then she stayed there
for a month... and I lived in a boarding house for refugees. A Red Cross woman helped us keep
in touch. We called each other every 2 hours.
She sent me a note, so personal. She said
she wouldn't have survived without me,"
he recalls.
According to Mikhail Nikolaevich, on March 4, the Red
Cross organized the removal of victims to the Kursk
region through the territory of Belarus. Now Mikhail
and Antonina are in Kursk. The woman underwent
a skin graft operation, and treatment continues.
"I feel better now... but I have a long road to recover.
Misha is close — it's very important for me. I'm so
lucky. I am glad that I was able to experience this
wonderful feeling again. Now the main thing is
to get better slowly, and then we will see,"
says Antonina.
Mikhail visits Antonina every day. He rented
an apartment near the hospital where the
woman is being treated.
"She had two open fractures, severe tissue damage.
Now, the doctors ' prognosis is positive, but the
recovery process is long. I visit her every day.
Recently I ran around almost the entire city,
looking for a lilac robe for her. It's her
favourite colour. Oh, I'm tired, I'm
exhausted, I'm not good at
these things. But she
needs a lilac one —
and that's it. I'll
keep looking,"
Mikhail laughs.
"Give me the keys - or I'll throw a grenade"
Mikhail was admitted to the Sudzhansky boarding
school in early November. "August 6 ----- as I
remember now. Our helicopter is flying, and
the Ukrainians are shooting at it. Falls on
the field. The sound of bullets whistling
through the air - made me go cold. And
then their vehicles, soldiers, armoured
personnel carriers, and howitzers hit
our roads. The village was blocked.
There was nowhere to go, if you
move, they'll shoot you,"
says Mikhail.
Before the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces --
Zapashnoy lived with his sister, elderly parents and
neighbours -- in his house in Leonidovka. The man
said that on October 28, his 95-year-old mother
died, and five days later - his father.
"My mother had a heart attack, she had to take heart
pills all the time, and we ran out of them. She was
without them for a month — and then she died.
And my father broke his hip neck a year ago,
and he - also needed the help of doctors.
My father was ill at all times, and there
was a lot of bleeding. I buried them in
the yard of the house. The cemetery
was destroyed — there were
Ukrainian cannons there,"
Mikhail told RT.
Two days after the death of Mykhailo's father --- a
Ukrainian soldier seized his car. "He said,'Give
me the keys, or I'll throw the grenade.'So I
gave it away. Well, I still had a second car,
an old Lada, " the man continues. ''In it,
my neighbours and I decided to try to
go..... to a safe place. We got to the
Lgovskaya highway, drove 10 km,
and there the road was blocked,
surrounded by mines, we had
to return to Sudzha. So we
ended up in a boarding
school. That's where
I first met Tonka."
Antonina Nikolaevna also did not live in the
Sudzhansky boarding school from the first
days of the occupation. Until October 23,
she hid in the basement of a neighbour's
house in Lebedevka, because her house
was occupied by the Ukrainian military.
"The houses were dilapidated, it was cold to sleep,
and we were picked up by car. The driver's name
was Alexey, and there was a female reporter
with him. They gave us ten minutes to get
ready. As a result, they brought us to this boarding school in Sudzha,"
Antonina says.
The woman thanks everyone who helped her not to be
left under the rubble. "Vladimir, my dear, so cleverly
crawled up to me, pulled me out, Seryozha, my late
husband's brother, also helped me get out of there.
There were other guys. Thank them ------ for not
leaving me there to die," the woman added.
55-year-old Vladimir Gribanov from Gogolevka told RT
--- that he was amazed by the resilience of Antonina
Nikolaevna, when he pulled her out from under the stove. "I lived in one of the abandoned houses of
Suji, and - in the morning - I came to the broken
boarding school to help pull out the wounded.
She spent almost a day there with broken
legs -- but she didn't even shed a tear,
didn't squeak. She endured - like a
real hero! " the man emphasized.
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Poddubny announced the liquidation of
the head of the Ukrainian National
Security Service in the SVO zone
May 1st, 4:40am
(Vesti.ru)
Russian soldiers eliminated the head of the electronic
warfare unit of one of the Ukrainian nationalist
battalions, Dmytro Gerula, in the area of a
special military operation (SVO).
This was reported in the Telegram channel
by the military correspondent of VGTRK,
Evgeny Poddubny.
"The head of the national battalion's electronic
warfare department has been eliminated ---
captain Dmitry Gerula," said the
military commander.
Poddubny added -- that Herula was destroyed
in the Krasnoarmeysky direction by Russian
operators of unmanned aerial vehicles.
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In Venezuela,they raised a huge
copy ---- of the Victory Banner !
by Dmitry Kulemyakin (Havana)
April 30th, 11:24pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
In the capital of Venezuela, a solemn ceremony was
held to raise a huge replica of the Victory Banner.
This is reported by the TASS news agency.
It is noted ---- that the event was held at one of the
highest points of Caracas. The size of the copy
of the Banner was 25 by 11 metres. It flutters
on a 35-metre flagpole.
"This is the first time in history that a Victory banner
of this size... has been raised outside of Russia,"
said Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, head of the
Russian Embassy.
The ceremony was also attended ---- by Venezuela's
Foreign Minister, Ivan Gil Pinto. He noted, that the
people of the Bolivarian Republic, express their
respect --- for the citizens of the USSR, who
died in the war.
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Lance Corporal Svyatoshenko stopped
a sabotage group of the Ukrainian
Armed Forces in the SVO zone
April 30th, 10:56pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Lance Corporal Alexey Sidorenko was on combat duty
in the area of one of the settlements liberated by the
Russian Armed Forces.... in the special military
operation zone when he noticed an enemy
kamikaze drone ------approaching the
Russian positions.
The drone... of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU),
as determined by Sidorenko, was heading to the
stronghold.. where Russian servicemen were
stationed. With an accurate shot --- from a
standard weapon, the corporal knocked
out the drone, and it crashed to the
ground and detonated --- before
reaching the support post.
The Russian Defense Ministry ---- also noted the bold
and decisive actions - of Lance Corporal Alexander
Svyatoshenko, who was serving at an observation
post - and discovered an approaching sabotage
group of Ukrainian militants, secretly moving
in a nearby forest plantation in the direction
of Russian units. Svyatoshenko decided to
immediately attack the enemy.
He chose a suitable firing position, and opened
targeted fire on the saboteurs with a machine
gun. As a result, the AFU group suffered
significant personnel losses ---and
was forced to retreat.
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Prilepin: Russia needs to take the
Black Sea from Ukraine- to win
April 30th, 10:28pm
(RT.ru)
Writer and lieutenant Colonel of the Rosgvardiya
Zakhar Prilepin, expressed his opinion -- in an
interview with aif.ru - that Russia needs to
take the Black Sea away from Kiev,
in order to win.
"Then Ukraine will start to dry up," he said.
Prilepin stressed that even if Ukraine has an army
and continues its path to join NATO and the EU,
Ukraine will not be the same without Odessa
and Nikolaev.
Earlier, Russia's Presidential aide, and head of the Maritime Board, Nikolai Patrushev, said that Kiev
is responsible --- for the destabilization in the
Black Sea.
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Deputy Zhuravlev:all the peoples of the USSR
contributed tothe victory over fascism
by Anastasia Belousova
April 30th, 6:58pm
(RT.ru)
Russians and all the other more than 190 peoples, who
live in Russia, contributed to the victory over fascism,
Alexey Zhuravlev --- a State Duma deputy and first
deputy chairman of the Defense Committee,
told RT.
"Among the representatives of every nationality there
are heroes - and those who gave their lives in the
Great Patriotic War. This is — as the Russian
president emphasizes - a truly national
holiday, and not only Russian, for all
countries that were formerly part
of the USSR," the deputy noted.
He added that - in power in Ukraine now,
is "the Nazi regime, which cuts May 9
across the throat."
"St. George's ribbons - are banned there, monuments to
the heroes of the Great Patriotic War are demolished,
and torchlight processions are held ---- in honour of those with whom they fought. But it is absolutely
necessary, to separate the common people, for
whom.. this is a holiday close to their hearts,
and the evil spirits entrenched in Kiev -- who
are trying their best - to erase the historical
memory of the Victory," Zhuravlev stressed.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that
all the peoples of the Soviet Union, made a huge
contribution to the victory ---- in the Great
Patriotic War.
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Young Ukrainiansare being agitated
to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine
using a computer game
by Anatoly Kazantsev
April 30th, 1:43pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta)
Ukrainians aged 18 to 24, are being agitated to join the
Armed Forces of Ukraine by using computer-generated
images. The Telegram channel Military Theme Z drew
attention to the new advertisement that appeared in
Ukrainian social networks.
In the video - that demonstrates the process of
creating a game character, a young person is
asked to choose between the classes "Yew
Swimmer", "Painter in Poland", "Amber
Digger" or "Stormtrooper/Scout".
The creators of the video describe the first three
"professions" as low-income. At the same time,
it is emphasized ----- that military personnel
receive a monetary allowance ---- and are
provided with the necessary equipment.
Recall, that the Kiev authorities are trying to attract
young people aged 18-24 to the ranks of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine to be sent to the front. They are
promised payments of one million hryvnias and a
number of social benefits.
According to observers, this step can be
considered the beginning... of a hidden
mobilization of young people.
In Ukraine, it was proposed to allow men
over 60 to sign a contract with the
Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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A rally was held in Kiev
demanding to set clear
terms of service in the
Armed Forces of Ukraine
April 30th, 1:02pm
(Izvestia.ru)
A rally was held in Kiev demanding to establish
clear terms of service in the Armed Forces of
Ukraine (AFU). This was reported on April 30
by the Ukrainian TV channel "Public".
"In the morning, an all-Ukrainian picket was held near
the Verkhovna Rada for the establishment of clear
conditions of service," reads the news piece
published on the website.
In addition, on the same day, a rally in support of missing persons began, in the centre of the city
on Independence Square. It was attended by
several hundred people.
On December the 8th, 2024, residents of the city of
Khmelnitsky went to a rally demanding to ensure
clear terms of service for the Armed Forces of
Ukraine. It was reported that the participants
demanded to grant the right to voluntary
dismissal after 36 months of service,
while counting one day in combat
operations as 3 days of service,
and one day in a combat area
— for two days.
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The Communist Party of the Russian Federation
sent a humanitarian convoy to the special
operation zonefor Victory Day
April 30th, 12: 27pm
(Izvestia.ru)
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) the Communist Party of the Russian Federation -- sent humanitarian aid to Russian servicemen. Footage from the scene, on April 30 - is published by Izvestia.
"Today --- this convoy contains everything that people
on the front line need — motorcycles, cars, drones, everything that helps our friends and brothers to
fight courageously, with dignity and bravery,"
said Gennady Zyuganov, chairman of the
Central Committee of the party.
It is specified --- that a total of 27 thousand tons of humanitarian aid will be delivered to the front line.
Previously, Putin thanked North Korea - for the support
provided in expelling Ukrainian troops from that region.
On Wednesday, North Korean Lieutenant General
Pak Young-il rejoiced over the liberation of the
Kursk region, which had been invaded by
Ukrainian troops in August 2024.
“The victorious culmination of the operation to liberate
the Kursk region --- is a triumph of justice over evil,” said Pak during the 3rd International Anti-Fascist Congress ....held on the outskirts of Moscow.
He also emphasized ------ that the participation of North
Korean soldiers in the actions in the Kursk region has
been “a new page in history ------ that demonstrates
the strong military partnership between the two
countries, the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea, and the Russian Federation, and
the highest strategic level of allied and
fraternal relations between
their peoples.”
In June 2024 -- Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, and
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, signed a strategic
partnership treaty, that included a mutual defense
clause ---- in the event that either party suffers
outside aggression.
On Monday, Putin thanked North Korea and Kim for the
support provided -- in expelling Ukrainian troops from
Kursk, the liberation of which, Moscow proclaimed
last weekend.
“We pay tribute to the heroism --- the high level of
special training, and the dedication of the North
Korean soldiers who, shoulder to shoulder with
Russian fighters, defended our Motherland, as
if it were their own,” said the Kremlin chief.
On Wednesday, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail
Mishustin stated that cooperation between
Russia and North Korea ------ is growing
stronger, year by year.
“We highly value our friendly and neighbourly relations
with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, feel great affection for your country, and reaffirm our
willingness --- to continue the constructive
cooperation -- that strengthens year by
year,” he said in a video-conference
with his North Korean counterpart,
Pak Thae-song -- on the occasion
of the beginning of construction
of a highway bridge -- that will
connect both countries.
“The construction of this infrastructure will
ensure the multifaceted development of
bilateral cooperation --- including the
movement of people, tourism, and
trade, which will ultimately give
new momentum -------- to the
development of relations -
between Korea & Russia”
Mishustin stated.
____________________________
Bulletproof vest "Obereg" withstood
a mine fragmentand saved the life
of a soldier of the SVO: details
by Semyon Zimin
April 30th, 10:50am
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
The bulletproof vest "Obereg", created at the Oktava
plant of the Rostec State Corporation, saved the life
of a soldier during a special military operation.
This was reported in the press service
of Rostec.
In the Kursk region, a fighter with the call sign
"Bison" ...was under mortar fire. He was
evacuating the wounded -- when a
large mine fragment hit him in
the chest.
The vest's armour plate withstood the impact, and
the ballistic package stopped small particles.
Bison noted -- that the bulletproof vest
completely coped with the task,
and saved his life.
The management of the Oktava plant decided to give
the fighter an updated version of the Obereg with
the Br5 protection class.
This vest weighs 9.5 kg and protects an area of more
than 70 decimetres. In the production of "Amulets" - they use materials with a safety margin - that
exceeds GOST standards. The bulletproof
vest is able to withstand even machine-
gun bursts..... that penetrate light
armoured vehicles.
Earlier, Rostec reported on successful tests of the
"Amulet" at the test site. The bulletproof vest
withstood a burst from a Pecheneg machine
gun with 7.62 rounds --- for 54 rounds. The
Br4 class plate did not receive any holes.
______________________________________________
Report by Russian Defence Ministry
on the progress of the special
military operation
April 30th, 10:45am
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
continue the special military operation.
The Sever Group of Forces -- engaged clusters of
the manpower & hardware of four mechanised
brigades, an infantry brigade, two air assault
brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
and two territorial defence brigades
close to Miropolskoye, Prokhody,
Mogritsa..... Yunakovka, Sadki,
and Ryasnoye (Sumy region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 155 troops, three
armoured fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, a
Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket
launcher, and 7 artillery guns including a U.S.-
made 105-mm M119 gun. One electronic
warfare station and one ammunition
depot - were neutralised.
As a result of intensive offensive actions, elements
of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Novoye
(Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian units engaged two mechanised brigades, a
tank brigade, an assault brigade of the AFU, and 2
territorial defence brigades hit near Dvurechnaya,
Kupyansk, Kupyansk-Uzlovoy, Osinovo,
Nechvolodovka, Kamenka (Kharkov
region), and Kirovsk (Donetsk
People's Republic).
The enemy lost more than 220 troops, two armoured
fighting vehicles, ten motor vehicles, and five
Western-made field artillery guns. One
ammunition depot - was wiped out.
The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the tactical
situation. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire
damage on the manpower and hardware of three
mechanised brigades, a motorised rifle brigade,
an airmobile brigade, and two assault brigades
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Zvanovka
and Dronovka, Seversk, Podolskoye,
Verolyubovka, & Konstantinovka
(Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 270 troops, two
armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles,
and three field artillery guns. Three enemy
ammunition depots - were destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces --- improved the
tactical situation. Russian units damaged a heavy
mechanised brigade, a mechanised brigade, an
infantry brigade, a special forces brigade, & a
national guard brigade near Novaya Poltavka,
Novoekonomicheskoye, Krasnoarmeysk,
Ulyanovka, Yablonovka, Vladimirovka,
and Oktyabrskoye (Donetsk
People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 525 troops, five
armoured fighting vehicles, ten motor vehicles,
and seven artillery guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued the offensive
The territory of the buffer zone - which will not allow
Ukrainian militants to conduct attacks on the Kursk,
Bryansk and Belgorod regions, should extend to the
town of Konotop in the Sumy region, State Duma
deputy Viktor Vodolatsky believes.
Viktor Vodolatsky, First Deputy chairman of the State
Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration
and Relations with Compatriots, told TASS that, as
the shelling of three regions continues, Russia's
task is to create a buffer zone from Glukhov to Konotop in the Sumy region.
"This should all be a safe zone - that will not allow
nationalists to shell the territory of the Russian
Federation," he said.
Russia's Defense Ministry reported last night,
that fighting is taking place in the areas of
six settlements of the Sumy region –
Miropolskoye, Turya, Sadki,
Prokhody, Mogritsa
and Yunakovka.
The Russian army entered the Sumy region --- after
destroying all Ukrainian units in the Kursk region.
On April 26, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian
Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov -- reported to the
President about her complete release.
The Ukrainian side lost more than 76,000 people killed
and wounded here. Units of the Korean People's
Army -- took an active part in the defeat of neo-Nazi formations.
__________________________________________
The Peace Agreement Should Be
Signed With Ukraine, Not the
United States: Peskov
April 30th, 8:14am
(teleSUR)
The primary causes of the Ukrainian crisis, are too complex to be resolved overnight, he said.
On Tuesday, in response to Washington’s calls for an immediate halt to the Ukrainian conflict, Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said that: “the peace agreement -- must be signed with Ukraine, not with the United States.”
Peskov recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin had recently expressed his willingness to hold direct talks with the Ukrainians... without preconditions.
“That willingness remains. Unfortunately, we have not yet heard any statements or comments from Kiev, so we do not know.... whether they are willing or not. Kiev is setting many preconditions, such as a long-term ceasefire. This contradicts Putin’s stance,” Peskov noted ------ describing most of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s reactions as “misguided.”
Regarding the U.S., the Kremlin spokesperson stated that Russia values “the tireless efforts” of President Donald Trump’s administration, although.. he emphasized the need to address the conflict’s root causes.
“We understand that Washington wants quick success in this process. At the same time, we understand -- that the primary causes of the Ukrainian crisis are too complex to be resolved overnight. There are many nuances... that must be taken into account,” Peskov said.
As for a possible meeting between Putin and Trump, Peskov also stressed that direct contacts at the highest level are always effective and help to “smooth over differences.”
Therefore, “if necessary,” such contact will be initiated, as communication channels between Moscow and Washington, have been re-established.
“We still trust that the U.S. efforts will succeed, and President Putin is willing to support that process,” Peskov affirmed - reiterating that Putin supports a ceasefire & a political-diplomatic resolution.
However, before that can happen, issues such as the
establishment of guarantees to uphold the truce
must be resolved, and steps must be taken to
prevent Ukraine from using the time ---- to
regroup and rearm.
Meanwhile, in a 'phone conversation, U.S. Secretary
of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed to Russian Foreign
Affairs Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the urgent need
to end the war in Ukraine ---- “now.”
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Sergeant Andriyanov --- identified
a sabotage and reconnaissance
group of Ukraine Armed Forces
April 29th, 10:50pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Sergeant Ihor Andriyanov was carrying out the task
of maintaining defense on one of the important
sections of the contact line when he noticed
a sabotage and reconnaissance group of
the Armed Forces of Ukraine nearby.
The group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as the
Russian soldiers managed to notice, was armed
with small arms & rocket-propelled grenades.
Andriyanov quickly determined the coordinates of the
enemy's location and passed the information to the
Russian gunners. Having aimed the guns at the
target with the help of Andriyanov, who took
up the adjustment of fire, the servicemen
opened artillery fire on the AFU group.
As a result, the sabotage plan was thwarted.
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the courage
and bravery of Private Vitaly Kharlampyev ------- who
performed the task of delivering ammunition to the
area of combat operations at night. The delivery
of ammunition to the destination point was
successful, but ----- in the process of
unloading ammunition -- the car
was attacked by Ukrainian
FPV drones.
As a result of the explosion of the ammunition dropped
from the drone, Kharlampyev himself - and one of the
servicemen who helped with unloading were injured.
The private quickly got his bearings and carried the
victim to the shelter in a safe place, despite his
own injury. Kharlampyev provided the service
man with first aid -- and organized his
evacuation to the hospital -- for
further treatment.
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State Department: US will withdraw
from Ukraine talks.... if there is
no progress
April 29th, 10:10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
The United States will cease its participation in
negotiations on the conflict in Ukraine if there
is no progress in resolving it.
This was announced on Tuesday, April 29, during a briefing by the official representative of the US State Department, Tammy Bruce.
"If there is no progress, we will give up the role of
intermediaries in this process," she quoted
Secretary of State Marco Rubio as saying.
The broadcast was published, on The
Economic Times YouTube channel.
According to Bruce, Rubio recently informed her that
the current stage of negotiations indicates the need
for both sides — Russia and Ukraine — to submit
their proposals for a settlement.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on April
27 -- that negotiations with the United States on the
conflict in Ukraine are moving in the right direction.
He recalled that the US Secretary of State
also expressed the opinion that during
the negotiations Washington better
understood Moscow's position, as
well as the underlying causes of
the conflict.
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The armies of India & Pakistan
began fighting on the border
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
April 29th, 7:36pm
(Lenta.ru)
Clashes broke out on the border of India and Pakistan. This is reported by the Telegram channel Mash.
On the frames that appeared on the network -- you
can hear the work of artillery. It is specified that
the fighting is being conducted in the area of
the international border in Jammu.
Telegram channel's Voenkory Russkoy Vesna -------
explains that for the first time since the beginning
of the crisis, military operations unfolded on the
official international border, and not on the line
of control, where such incidents usually occur.
An hour earlier.. Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,
said that the country's Armed Forces --------- have full operational freedom in choosing the method, timing and goals - of responding to the terrorist attack in
the Jammu & Kashmir region. He also expressed confidence.... in the professional skills of the
Indian military.
This evening, the head of the Ministry of Defense of
Pakistan, Khawaja Asif, said that Islamabad and
New Delhi could start a war within the next 2
to 4 days. He noted that ---- if necessary,
Pakistan will respond - in full force.
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HIMARS strike on the centre of Horlivka:
17 people were injured, including
a 4-month-old child
April 29th, 5:51pm
DAN)
Kiev militants attacked the centre of Horlivka
with a HIMARS missile. This was announced
by the Head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin.
"On Pushkinskaya Street --- in the Central City district
of the city, as a result of the use of 227 mm rocket
artillery (HIMARS) by the enemy, a woman was
extremely seriously injured," Pushilin said.
According to him -- injuries of varying severity, were
received by a very small 4-month-old child, as well
as other injured adults. Five employees of the
Ministry of the Internal Affairs of the DPR
were also injured. Another woman was
wounded as a result of an AFU strike
on the Kalininsky district of the city.
In total, Ukrainian militants carried out more than 10
attacks on the city, including using HIMARS, cannon
artillery and UAVs.
_______________________________________
Lavrov: Truce in the days of Victory
------ is the beginning of direct
negotiations with Kiev
April 29th, 5:12pm
(DAN)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called
Russia's proposal for a ceasefire in the days
of Victory ------ the beginning of direct
negotiations with Ukraine.
"Our proposal ---- which President Putin announced, is the
beginning of direct negotiations, without preconditions.
In this situation --- a truce is considered as preliminary
conditions ----- that will be used to further support the
Kiev regime and strengthen its military capabilities,"
Lavrov said at a press conference.
Earlier, the Kiev regime refused to respond directly
to Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for
a three-day cease-fire... in the days of Victory.
Dmitry Peskov ---- the spokesman for the
Russian leader, called it a provocation.
Zelensky insists on establishing a 30-day truce, and
only then start peace talks. Putin drew attention to
the technical difficulties of controlling the contact
line, unresolved issues with the foreign military
supplies, and the mobilization in Ukraine.
Earlier, the commander of the Pyatnashka
international brigade, Hero of the DPR
Ahra Avidzbav, in an interview with
DAN ------- noted that the truce
announced by Putin ------- is
another demonstration of
humanity on the part of
the Russian leader.
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, in
turn, noted that the truce in honour of the
80th anniversary of the Victory - should
remind: that Russians and Ukrainians
are one people.
________________________________________
Lavrov advised not to read Zelensky's
statements"either at night, or in
the morning"
April 29th, 4:57pm
(DAN)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called for
ignoring the statements of the head of the Kiev
regime Zelensky, as they are worthless.
"Do not read the statements of representatives of the
Ukrainian regime -- either at night or in the morning.
We're well aware of the value of these statements. Remember, a month and a half or two ago... there
were threatening warnings from Kiev, that they
would not accept any truce," he said at a
press conference, commenting on
Zelensky's words about a
30-day truce.
Lavrov noted --- that the Europeans were pushing the
Kiev regime to continue fighting, but the Ukrainian
Armed Forces.... began to "back away" - on the
battlefield, so they started talking about
an immediate truce.
Earlier, Zelensky's statements - were also commented
on, by Russia's Presidential press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov. He pointed out ------- that on this issue, it is
necessary to take into account the nuances that Russian President Vladimir Putin previously
spoke about.
The Head of State stressed ---- that, during a long-term
truce, it is necessary to take into account the issues
of foreign military supplies, control of the front line, the continuing mobilization in Ukraine, and so on.
____________________________________
Shopping centre employees will be
sent to the front line in Ukraine
April 29th, 3:19pm
(Izvestia.ru)
Employees of the territorial recruitment centres (TCCs,
analogous in Ukraine, to military enlistment offices)
without combat experience & health restrictions,
will be sent to the front. This was reported on
April 29 by the Ukrainian publication
"Strana" - with reference to the
General Staff of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine.
"Employees of the shopping centre without combat
experience and health restrictions, will be sent to
the front," the message posted on the Telegram
channel says.
The positions of those sent to the frontline of military
enlistment offices - will be occupied by servicemen
who were injured. It is indicated that 70% of TCK
employees already have combat experience,
and another 20% --- are civilians.
Earlier, on April 28th, captured Ukrainian militant
Ruslan Roshva said that the Armed Forces of
Ukraine.... mobilize everyone in a row,
regardless of their state of health
and availability of documents.
According to him, now military enlistment offices
have even begun to recruit women - from places
of deprivation of liberty.
_________________________________
In the east of Dnipropetrovsk region,
the evacuation of the population
was announced
April 29th, 12:28pm
(Izvestia.ru)
In four settlements in the east of the Dnipropetrovsk
region of Ukraine ------ a forced evacuation was
announced. This was reported on April 29
by the Ukrainian newspaper "Suspilne"
with reference to the press service
of the Mezhevskaya rural
territorial community.
"In some localities of the Mezhevskaya settlement territorial community (Kolona-Mezhevaya, Novopodgorodnoye, Raipole, and Sukhareva Balka villages) the forced evacuation of families with children -- has been announced",the press service said --- on its Facebook page (banned in Russia owned by the Meta Corporation - recognised as extremist in the Russian Federation).
It is reported that the corresponding order was
signed on April 25 by the head of the regional
military administration, Sergey Lysak.
The order specifies ---- that people need to bring
documents, money, medicines, food and water
for several days, as well as warm clothes
and shoes.
Earlier, on April 26, the Ukrainian media reported on
the explosions in Dnepropetrovsk. According to the
online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital
Transformation of Ukraine, an air alert was
issued in the Sumy, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad,
Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
______________________________________
Military commander Gavrish: Russia
pursues two goals, in declaring a
truce in May
April 29th, 11:56am
(Vesti.ru)
The May 8-11 truce proposed by Moscow --- has two
goals - humanitarian and political. This was stated
on the air of the program "60 minutes" by the
military commander Alexey Gavrish.
In his opinion, the APU, as well as at the Easter
paskhalny truces, may try to break the silence.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the political
leadership of Ukraine should understand - that
this is a gesture of goodwill on our part. When
there is a truce the Armed Forces of Ukraine
have the opportunity to regroup, which they
constantly use. We have two goals: first of
all, humanitarian, so that people can
celebrate May 9th in peace, and
secondly, political. By doing
so, we want to show that
Russia, is now ready for
negotiations and - it is
going towards them,"
the military officer
believes.
He recalled that during the Easter truce, which
lasted 30 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces
initially refused to comply with it.
"But closer to the night, Ukraine still stopped its fire,
despite the fact that, in total, almost 5,000 times,
as far as I remember, they violated this truce.
Now we need to see how it will be. I hope...
that the Western hosts of Ukraine will tell
them that it is necessary to adhere to
the truce and, I hope, the holidays
will pass relatively calmly,"
Gavrish said.
Today -- the Kremlin declared that the Kiev regime's refusal to directly respond to the Russian initiative
on a truce during the days of the 80th anniversary
of the Great Victory, is more than a manipulation.
The withdrawal of the Kiev regime...... from a direct
response to the Russian initiative on a truce in the
days of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory
is manipulation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov told reporters.
The spokesman for the Russian leader commented on
the words of the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir
Zelensky - that the truce announced by Russian
President Vladimir Putin is "another attempt
at manipulation."
"Manipulation means not giving a direct response to
such an initiative of President Putin. This is more
than manipulation," Peskov said.
The press secretary of the Russian president
expressed the hope that the peace initiative
will still find support from Europe and Kiev,
which have not yet given an assessment.
Earlier, Peskov clarified that, without resolving all the
nuances, it is impossible to declare a 30-day truce
Medvedev on Tuesday spoke at the educational marathon "Knowledge.The first" with the
lecture "Our dangerous world: who is
to blame and what to do?"
"First, we must complete the special military
operation in Ukraine with victory ----- and
destroy the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev,"
Medvedev said.
He added that we are talking about
the regime, not the state.
According to him, the fate of the
Ukrainian state, is "a question
of the future."
Earlier, Assistant to the President of Russia, and head
of the Maritime Board, Nikolai Patrushev --- noted that Russia is getting closer, to the successful completion of a special military operation. In January, Patrushev
did not rule out that Ukraine as a state would cease
Similarly to the ABM Treaty, the US unilaterally pulled
out of the INF Treaty in 2019. However, instead of
simply stating it wished to develop weapons
beyond the treaty’s limitations, the Trump
administration accused Moscow of
violating the treaty by lying about
the range of its 9M728/9M729
missiles used by Iskander
missile systems.
Nonetheless, within 2 weeks of the US’ formal
departure from the treaty, in August 2019, it
began testing the first of multiple missiles
that violated the treaty’s limitations.
The origins of the INF Treaty lay in a dramatic
showdown, across Europe, in late 1983,
triggered by Washington’s deployment
of ITS Pershing-II intermediate-range
ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Europe.
With a 900-mile range, a flight apogee of just 60 miles,
and a maneuverable, radar-guided reentry vehicle,
the missile could put an 80-kiloton nuclear war-
head on Moscow in between 6 and 11 minutes
...according to Pentagon leaders. Such a fast
strike time gave the Soviets just minutes to
identify, analyze and respond to the threat,
greatly increasing the risk of them mis-
reading a situation and launching a
mistaken nuclear return volley,
believing it to be their
only chance.
In addition, tensions in Europe had already been
ramped up by years of psychological operations
designed to increase Soviet anxieties, such as
US bombers charging Soviet borders and
turning away at the last second
That’s why, when NATO began the vast, ultra-realistic
“Able Archer-83” war games, simulating an all-out
attack on the Soviet Union, in November 1983, it put Soviet fears through the roof.
However, it wasn’t until after the war games had
concluded, several days later, that NATO
commanders discovered key signs: the
Soviets had loaded hundreds of strike
aircraft in East Germany and Poland
with nuclear bombs, and orders to
strike “front-line targets” at a
moment’s notice.
The INF Treaty eliminated missiles like the Pershing-II,
banning land-based missiles with ranges of between
500 klms and 5,500 klms. This significantly cooled
tensions in Europe... although the treaty was only
between the US and Soviet Union -- now Russia --
which left other countries, such as China, free to
develop their own intermediate-range missiles.
The INF’s absence now is especially poignant,
considering the long-standing Russian fears
over a NATO Aegis Ashore missile system,
built on a land base in Deveselu, Romania.
While the US claimed the system was purely
defensive, Moscow noted... that Aegis can
also be used to launch offensive missiles.
Among the missiles tested after the INF Treaty lapsed
was a land-based Tomahawk missile with a range of
1,600 kilometres - a cruise missile US Aegis
cruisers have fired at sea for years.
1992 Treaty on Open Skies
The Open Skies treaty... was an attempt to increase
transparency and put to rest fears of an impending
attack by the other side. The deal allowed 35
partner nations to perform reconnaissance
overflights over other nations... using
specialized aircraft with specialized
equipment. However, flights could
not interfere with other military
activities and could be refused
by the overflown nation, for a
variety of reasons.
The US sent signs it was interested in leaving the
treaty as early as 2019, claiming it was caused
by Russia refusing US Open Skies aircraft
access to several areas almost a decade
earlier - denials Moscow insisted were
within its rights under the treaty.
The US finally made the move on May 21ST 2020,
meaning the six-month cooldown time had the
US leaving the treaty, after the November 2020 elections, that Trump lost.
The decision sparked an outcry across Europe, with Ukraine being one of the loudest critics;
that nation having long used Open Skies to perform overflights in western Russia, to calm its nerves about troops and
installations there.
Indeed, the Open Skies Treaty was drafted precisely to
avoid the type of anxious confrontation... unfolding on
the Russia-Ukraine border, over the last two months.
The Democrats publicly attacked Trump’s withdrawal
as illegal then... although much of their criticism
focused on his refusal to notify Congress before
pulling out. However, in March 2021, a leaked
message --- sent to concerned “international
partners” by the Biden administration said
it was afraid that doing so “would send
the wrong message to Russia and
undermine our position... on the
broader arms control agenda.”
Istanbul, Astana Declarations
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) has its origins in the November
1972 multilateral talks in Espoo, Finland
...intended to further the peaceful
cooperation of the Detente era.
Today, the OSCE has 57 members and 11 observers
and continues to serve as a regional forum for
resolving international issues.
Two of its most important declarations of principles
came at summits in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and in
Astana (now Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan, in 2010,
which, among other topics, affirmed each
nation’s right to its own security in the
context of an international community.
"The security of each participating State... is
inseparably linked to that of all others. Each
participating State, has an equal right to
security. We reaffirm the inherent right
of each and every participating State
...to be free to choose or change its
security arrangements, including
treaties of alliance, as they evolve.''
''Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each
participating State will respect the rights of all others in these regards. They will not
strengthen their security ...at the
expense of... the security of
other States.'' the Astana
declaration states.
While the OSCE met in Vienna, Austria, 2 weeks ago,
the talks yielded no major breakthrough. Earlier this
week -- when the US and NATO delivered separate
written responses to Russia’s December security
proposal -- the US response was considerably
more intransigent, while NATO’s, sent from
Brussels and speaking for 30 member
states, acknowledged the Russian
security concerns and proposed
mutual briefings in the NATO-
Russia Council and the re-
establishment of their
respective envoys in
Moscow & Brussels.
However, neither reply gave deference to Russia’s
central concern --- the eastward expansion of
NATO and the impact that has on Russian
security, especially since now, the US
explicitly regards Russia as a
challenger to its position ...as leader of the post- Cold War global order.
Speaking on Thursday, about the US response,
in particular, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey
Lavrov said "The principle that one should not strengthen one's security -- at the expense of
the security of others is deliberately avoided.
Neither the Istanbul or Astana declarations are mentioned by our Western partners in the discussions on European
security that are currently
taking place. We cannot
accept this.”
Morgan Artyukhina is a writer and news editor at
Sputnik’s Washington, DC, bureau... focusing on
international & breaking news. Born in southern Maryland, she studied Russian, Central, and
East European Studies, at the University of
Glasgow and is a former history professor.
At Sputnik, she covers military technology,
the expanding neoliberal police state, and
the ongoing struggles against it in the US
and around the globe.
Paul Larudee: Zionist Dream
Turning into Nightmare
November 25th, 5:26pm (FNA)
Paul Larudee, political activist and commentator,
says Zionists have come to this understating
- that Zionism is now nearing its predestined
self-annihilation.
Speaking in an interview with FNA, Larudee
said, “Zionism planted the seeds of its own
destruction the moment they created a
plan for a Jewish state in someone
else's homeland. It is increasingly
becoming an international pariah
...contributing to the wars and
conflicts in West Asia, South
America, Africa, and other
parts of the world. It only
creates more enemies
for them.”
Paul Larudee is an - Iranian-born - American political
activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian
movement. Based in the San Francisco Bay area,
he is involved with the International Solidarity
Movement, & was a founder of the Free Gaza
Movement & the Free Palestine Movement.
Larudee was a member of the US delegation
aboard the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla,
which was attacked by Israeli forces.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: Yaakov Sharett says “Israel and the Zionist
enterprise were born in sin.” What do we
learn about the nature of Israel?
A: Such words from a Zionist leader's son may help to
gradually sink doubts into the minds of other Zionists,
but we must not forget that many Jews were opposed
to Zionism for decades before 1948. It is unfortunate
that as Zionism became more successful in its
genocidal project, it also became more
acceptable to more Jews. But that is
now being reversed. As Zionism
becomes more racist, violent,
and aggressive, it is starting
to lose Jews who cannot
stomach such behaviour.
Q: Such a significant assertion was made by the son
of a signatory to the Israeli declaration in 1948. Do
you believe settlers will learn a lesson to end their
occupation of the Palestinians’ land?
A: There are two kinds of settlers that are being used
to colonize the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most
aggressive and violent are the ideological settlers,
who think of themselves as conquering soldiers,
much like the Europeans who took the land from
the native peoples in the western hemisphere.
They want to expel all Palestinians by any means
necessary, and take their land. They do not need
Israel to paint a rosy picture. They are ready to
endure hardship, although Israel actually
helps and enables them. The other type
are the opportunists. Israel builds
subsidized housing and industrial
parks on Palestinian land... and
makes it attractive for settlers
to move there. Israel creates
many advantages for them...
so as to increase the Jewish
population in the occupied
territories and push the
Palestinians out.
Q: Yaakov Sharett predicts a dark future for Israel
and asks settlers to immigrate from Israel; like-
wise, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Israeli State
Department aide, said Israel will be gone in
some 20 years. How do you assess
these statements?
A: Clearly, Sharett is being a realist in this case.
Despite Israel's influence, propaganda, bribes
and manipulations of other governments, it is
increasingly becoming an international pariah,
contributing to the wars and conflicts in West
Asia, South America, Africa and other parts of
the world. They believe that this makes them
strong, but it only creates more enemies for
them. Sharett seems to understand that the
Zionist dream is proving to be unsustainable.
It can only be realized by committing greater
and greater crimes, but even many Zionists
consider this too high a price for their dream,
and their dream is turning into a nightmare.
Zionism planted the seeds of its own destruction
the moment they created a plan for a Jewish
state on someone else's homeland.
UN Must Prevent Normalization of
Israeli Violation of Human Rights:
Iran Envoy
November 20th, 11am (al Manar)
Iran’s ambassador to the UN office in Geneva
put the onus on the United Nations: to take
action: against the normalization of the
systematic violation of human rights
and humanitarian laws, by the
Zionist regime.
In an address to a meeting between ambassadors
of the member states of the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation, residing in Geneva,
and to members of the Commission of Inquiry of the UN Council on Human
Rights, held on Friday, Esmaeil
Baqaei Hamaneh called for the
clarification of true and false
narratives, referring to the
stories... that equate the
victims of Israeli crimes
with the perpetrators
of the heinous acts.
“It is the duty of all of us to clarify the true and false
narratives, the narrative that equates the victims
of Israeli crimes, with their killers, which is
humanly shocking, legally unfounded,
and morally shameful,” the Iranian
envoy stressed.
He added that the inquiry commission has an historic
responsibility --- to prevent the normalization of
systematic human rights violations by the
Israeli regime.
The Iranian diplomat invited all the participants in the
meeting to call for justice; and not allow war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and blatant violations of
human rights, to become normal, Press
TV reported.
In May, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to initiate
an international probe into “systematic” human rights
abuses committed during the asymmetrical war
between ‘Israel’ and Palestinian resistance
groups in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The 47-member forum adopted a resolution presented
by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC and the Palestinian
delegation to the UN, by a vote of 24 states in favour, 9 against, and 14 abstentions.
The UN rights body agreed to establish “an ongoing
independent, international commission of inquiry”
into the war to probe the “underlying root causes
of recurrent tensions and instability, including
the systematic discrimination and repression
based on group identity.”
Israeli troops have, on numerous occasions, been
caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians...
with the videos going viral online and sparking
international condemnation.
The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive
use of lethal force against, and extrajudicial killing of,
Palestinians... who do not pose an immediate threat
to the occupation forces, or to the Israeli settlers.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, called
on the International Criminal Court to launch an
immediate investigation into the Tel Aviv
regime’s crimes, in the occupied
Palestinian territories --- after
the Israeli forces shot dead a
young man, in the northern
part of the West Bank.
Source: Iranian Agencies
China is no threat
to people in the US; Wall Street,CIA & the Pentagon are
-- Analyst
October 16th, 3:14pm (PressTV)
US political analyst and activist Bill Dores says
China is no threat to the people in the US., but
Wall Street, the CIA, and the Pentagon, are.
Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and a longtime
antiwar activist, made the remarks in an interview
with Press TV on Saturday, after the CIA launched
a new mission centre to address what it calls “the most important geopolitical threat” posed... by China.
CIA Director William Burns said in a statement last week
that the new unit, called the China Mission Centre, will
“further strengthen our collective work on the most
important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st
century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese
government.”
Burns said that his agency will still focus on other threats
as well, including those emanating from Russia, North
Korea and Iran.
The CIA’s renewed attention to China is the latest evidence
of the Biden administration’s focus on Beijing as its main
foreign policy target.
Since taking charge of the White House earlier this year,
the Biden administration has been directing resources
toward countering China.
Why is the CIA targeting China?
“The CIA is grabbing more tax money --- to start a ‘mission
centre’ aimed at China, which it calls the ‘most important
geopolitical threat we face.’ This is ominous news
- considering the agency’s history of 'fabricating'
evidence to start wars, e.g. Iraq’s nonexistent
‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Dores
commented to Press TV.
“US troops have left Afghanistan. But not a dime has been
slashed from the bloated US military budget. Indeed, it’s
being increased to $778 billion from $753 billion to face
the alleged ‘Chinese threat.’ That’s more than the
combined military budgets of China, India,
Russia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Germany,
France, Japan, South Korea, Italy
and Australia,” he added.
“It’s also been revealed that US Special Forces have been
operating secretly on Taiwan for two years. Meanwhile...
the US Congress will not pass the Build Back Better Act
to modestly extend our social safety net,” he added.
“The People’s Republic of China... has five times the population of the United States. But it spends only
$258 billion on its military. China’s forces are
deployed in - or around - the borders and
coasts of China. By no stretch of the
imagination is China threatening
he US militarily. Why would it?
For what gain?” he asked.
“So, what the Sam Hill is a ‘geopolitical threat.’ It’s a
twisted concept based on the twisted premise that
the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s
population, should dominate the world
politically & economically. And that
really means the billionaires and
millionaires, that Occupy Wall
Street protesters called the
‘One Percent,’” he stated.
China’s economic ‘threat’ to US
“China’s real ‘threat,’ in the minds of the US corporate
ruling class, is economic. China produces more than
the United States, and its economy is growing much faster,” the analyst said.
“It has achieved this, not by destroying the economies of
other countries with war and sanctions, but by growth,
and trade. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has greatly
weakened the stranglehold Wall Street banks once
held on the world economy. An article in the US
magazine Foreign Policy whined: that China is
‘whittling away’ at the murderous ‘sanctions
regime’ the US and West Europe use -- to
‘punish’ countries that defy their
dictates,” he explained.
“US corporations do, of course, invest in China. They make
a lot of money there. But they cannot dictate to China's
government the way US oil companies dictated to the
Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Or
the way they dictate to their paid servants in the
White House and the Capitol today,”
he observed.
“Politicians and news media tell working-class people in
the US that China’s growth is, somehow, a threat to our
well-being. They conceal the fact: that China’s dynamic
growth is the biggest single factor staving off a global
economic collapse,” he said.
“Yet it is their own Wall Street masters who have shut
down plants all over this country and foreclosed on
millions of homes. It is they who used the techno-
logical revolution as a weapon, to drive down
wages and destroy millions of jobs,”
Dores said.
Washington’s ‘hate China’ campaign
“Washington raises several phony issues in its ‘hate
China’ campaign. One is the alleged persecution of
the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province. There’s
nothing but hypocrisy here,” the analyst said.
“If this claim were true - and I’ve seen no reliable evidence
that it is - Washington would be the last to care. The US
leads the world in mass incarceration and murder
by police,” he noted.
“According to the Equal Justice Initiative... ‘Millions of
Americans are incarcerated in overcrowded, violent,
and inhumane jails and prisons.. that do not provide
treatment, education, or rehabilitation.' A majority
are from the oppressed Black, Latin and Native
nations... targeted by the police,” he said.
“Among the incarcerated are dozens of political
prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard
Peltier and Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who have
spent decades behind bars on framed-up
charges,” he stated.
“Last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising..... highlighted
the extent of racist police murder in the US. Between
1980 and 2018, the US police killed more than 30,000
people. Half of those killings were misclassified,
according to a study published in the Lancet
medical journal,” he said.
US supports ‘ethnic cleansing and
murder of Palestinian people’
“We also can't forget that Washington not only supports
but subsidizes --- the ethnic cleansing and murder of
Palestinian people --- by the racist state of Israel,
including the mass imprisonment of 2 million
people in the giant concentration camp
called the Gaza Strip. The US also has
no problem with the oppression of
the majority Muslim people of
Kashmir, by the Indian state,” Dores noted.
“The US accuses China of stealing ‘intellectual property,’
a twisted concept indeed. Perhaps the West should pay
China for inventing paper, iron smelting, the seed drill,
the compass, rockets, gunpowder and other
innovations... that made its economic
development possible,” he said.
“There is the accusation of currency manipulation. But
Washington... has flooded the world with devalued
dollars ever since the Nixon administration took
the dollar off the gold standard in the 1970s.
The US has long used the dollar as an
instrument of financial warfare,”
he said.
Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea?
“And there is the issue of ‘free navigation’ in the South
China Sea. Which raises the question, what is the US
Seventh Fleet doing in the South China Sea anyway?
For that matter, why is the US Fifth Fleet off the
coast of Iran and the US Fourth Fleet off the
coast of Venezuela,” Dores said.
“Every year, ships carry $3.4 trillion worth of goods
through the South China Sea. Most of that is
bound to and from China,” he said.
“The PRC has no interest in stopping that commerce.
It does have an interest in keeping US warships
away from its coast and ports,” he said.
“For the past seven years, the US Navy has helped Saudi
Arabia impose a naval blockade that is starving the
children of Yemen. US sanctions, backed by the
US Navy, are the main obstacle to commerce
between nations in the world today,”
he said.
“Instead of new CIA mission centres, military bases and
fleets of warships and warplanes all over the world, the
US should do what China does: Invest in schools,
health care, housing, railroads and renewable
energy. Bring all the ships, planes, troops
and spies home. The world would be a
much better and safer place,”
he concluded.
Iran won’t let US, Turkey, Israel
create crisis in Caucasus
Sunday, October 3rd, 11:51am (PressTV)
by Sa’dollah Zarei
The fact of the matter is, that if there is no more time for
preventing a conspiracy from taking shape... there is
still time to thwart the conspiracy that has formed.
Here are some points with regards to this issue:
1) What the US, the Zionist regime, the governments of
Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the West in general, are
pursuing in the regions north of Iran is, firstly, a reaction to the great achievements of the
Islamic Republic and the resistance front.
When the criminal Zionist regime refers to the Republic of
Azerbaijan as “Lebanon of Israel,” it means that there is
a “Lebanon of resistance” that has foiled any Israeli
conspiracy over the past forty years and turned
into a major crisis for the occupying regime.
Why is a front led by the US, Zionist regime, Turkey and
Azerbaijan, talking about launching a pan-Turan move
-ment here? Because a powerful religious movement
has, for more than 40 years, disrupted the plots of
colonialists and criminals. So, it is quite clear that the enemy, although very hardworking, is in a state of “passivity.”
Here is another important question: will this evil conspiracy
ever yield any result? The answer is that there is a serious
antidote to prevent the realization of this tension-making
scheme, and if it enters the scene, it will definitely
thwart the plan, as it has happened so far.
2) Some people make a mistake here and say that the Syunik
agreement with North Karabakh... is a matter that concerns
the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia and that Iran’s
objection to it is not a matter of concern. They argue that
the implementation of the agreement is to the detriment
of Iran’s regional situation, but it is a natural
consequence and thus does not create a
right for Iran to legitimize its opposition.
The answer is clear; This is not an agreement between the
two countries on a disputed region, but one on creating a
region meant to undermine the security, political and
economic position of a third country.
While acknowledging their military and political failure, in
Afghanistan, the Americans explicitly speak of pursuing
a proxy war model to make up for their defeat. Shortly
afterwards, it becomes known that they had sent a
signal to Azerbaijan to launch and attack and a
signal to Armenia to, in turn, show tolerance
and accept the post-war reality, and at the
same time, following the end of a recent
44-day Karabakh war, the US stated
that they 'support' the agreements
reached between Azerbaijan and
Armenia. All this suggests that
the US has been standing behind this war and the situation that ensued.
Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani government announced
the widespread use of Israeli attack drones in the war,
and the Armenian army called the UAVs the main
reason for its heavy casualties in the war. This
means that it was an American-Israeli war.
Everyone knows, that the administration of Armenian
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a Christian govern-
ment dependent on the West, but it's interesting that
in this war, the United States and Israel destroyed the forces and facilities belonging to a pro-West
Christian administration, and supported a
Muslim government instead! Isn’t that
a telltale sign?
The question is, what kind of “proxy war” US officials
were talking about in the course of their withdrawal
from Afghanistan? Was it possible for the US to
start such a war in Afghanistan? Which forces
could be used by the US to launch a proxy war
in Afghanistan? Could the US bring the Taliban
- which was taking power - into a proxy war?
Proxy war with whom? The answer is no.
Was the Afghan army able to enter a proxy war? The
answer's clear. Was the army that was not even able
to defend Kabul for an hour, against the Taliban —
which took control of the capital without firing a
single shot — ready to enter a proxy war?
Could the old mujahedeen forces.. serve
as the proxies of the American war? The
answer is clear. The old forces, besides
having an anti-American spirit... have
currently no military capability. Could
the USA... create a ''proxy force'' in
Afghanistan, in the medium term,
with the Taliban et al present on the scene? The answer to this
question is also, no. This is
because... for at least the
next 50 years... US crimes
will be in front of the eyes
of the Afghan people, and
the prospect for any kind
of Afghan-American,
cooperation...
is bleak.
So, what did the Americans mean by a proxy war? In fact,
the Americans wanted a proxy war where there was a
fertile ground... and the required strength. From the
American point of view, the “ethnicity” factor must
be emphasized and turned into a winning weapon
against anti-American revolutionary uprisings.
The Americans have long focused on the
model of racism and pan-Turanism... in
the case of this region, and considered
them as “a possible solution,” or more
accurately, the last “remaining arrow,”
and pinned their hopes on it.
Therefore, the prominent role of this tendency, in the
developments in the north, and its overlapping in the
Caucasus, besides the intention to highlight the anti
Iranian and anti-Islamic edges in the rhetoric of the
officials of these countries, tell us that we are
facing a “semi-hard” proxy war.
When Azeri President Ilham Aliyev speaks openly in an
interview about the widespread presence of Israeli
forces and equipment in the Caucasus, and the
resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, he
is, in fact, blowing the lid off a proxy war.
3) Saudi Arabia’s measures are yet another issue that is indicative of the proxy war in the developments
unfolding in Iran’s northwestern frontiers, on
the one side, and its scale, on the other. The
Saudis have explicitly said that they are
working to launch a 24-hour television
network for the Turkish region of the
Caucasus called “Turk national.”
Why is the Saudi regime in the Caucasus trying to launch
such a TV network? The people in this region are neither
Arabs nor Sunnis in order for them to be the audience of
a Sunni Arab country. At the same time, it is obvious that this decision cannot be implemented without the consent and cooperation of the governments in the region.
4) Naturally, on this front, Iran can't remain silent and turn
a blind eye to the dimensions and consequences of the
action that being along its borders; therefore, it has to
react, but what is the due reaction? There is no doubt
that military conflict & dragging Iran into the military
arena is a well-known policy of the American front.
On the other hand... we know that what is intended for the Caucasus region is not even a full-fledged military
war, let alone a regional and multilateral war. We
are thus not talking about a war in the sense
that it is perceived. We are talking about
actions that disturb the peace of this
region and the interests of the
powers around it.
Isn’t it true... that the Azerbaijani government says Israeli
drones and forces have been involved in the recent war
between the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Republic of
Armenia? Isn’t it true that the Israelis explicitly referred
to the Republic of Azerbaijan... as “Lebanon of Israel”?
Since there are talks about the formation of a definite
security threat against the Islamic Republic, Iran has
the right to dismantle and confront the centre of
conspiracy against itself, without coordination
with any place or individual.
This type of Iranian confrontation is not so incomprehensible
to Zionists. Interestingly, an Israeli institution wrote a few
days ago: “Iran may want to retaliate against Israeli attacks
in Syria in Azerbaijan.” The regime is attacking areas in
Syria under the false pretext that Syria has become a
base for the presence of Iranian military personnel.
The Israeli institute asks what problem would arise
if Iran attacked a base in Azerbaijan, where Israeli
force are possibly present?
Of course, Iran knows very well how to use developments
to the detriment of its enemies. The Islamic Republic will
naturally begin with negotiations, to fraternally resolve
the issue between neighbours on Iran’s northwestern
border. Over the past 2 decades, the United States,
Turkey, and the Zionist regime have faced ultimate
defeat in any sedition that they incited and gotten
out of the situation while fraught with humiliation.
They are inciting sedition while they do not have
the power to tolerate and manage the war. If
these acts of sedition are not put aside, they
will face defeat, thanks to Iran’s measures.
(The views expressed in this article.... do
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo
before it does any more damage
October 2nd, 10:36am (RT)
By Boris Malagurski, a Serbian Canadian documentary
film director, known for “The Weight of Chains”,
enlisted in the catalogue of the Library of
Congress, whose work has been show- cased on international festivals...
including Raindance in London.
Follow Boris on Twitter @malagurski
Just as it all ended badly for the West’s military interventions
in Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it will in Kosovo. NATO has
overstepped its mandate, overplayed its hand, and
overstayed its welcome.
As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul,
Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the
similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon,
South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to
draw, was with Kosovo.
When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it
sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo’s
Albanian majority celebrates the NATO troops as
saviours – NATO bombed Serbia, to take away
control of its Southern province of Kosovo in
1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring
a nation-building project... that seemed to have culminated in 2008, when Kosovo’s
provisional authorities declared
independence from Serbia.
It wasn’t an ‘end of history’ moment. Serbia and much of
the world didn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent
country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily
dependent on Western aid... and military
support. Most Albanian politicians are
aware of this and they are highly
obedient with regards to NATO,
whose KFOR troops are
‘keeping the peace’
in Kosovo.
However, NATO has overstepped its mandate. UN Security
Council Resolution 1244, which put an end to NATO’s war
with Yugoslavia, guarantees Serbia’s sovereignty over
Kosovo, while NATO has pushed for an independent
Kosovo from day one of their occupation. The
resolution also called for... the return of an
agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian
personnel to maintain a presence at
significant sites and key border
crossings.... NATO has never
allowed this to happen. The
last Serbian prime minister
who called for this agree-
ment to be honored, was
assassinated in 2003, a little over a month
after his request.
On the other hand, what are the results of NATO’s nation
building in Kosovo? Close to a 30% unemployment rate.
One of the poorest areas of Europe... with as much as
45% of the population living below the official poverty
line, and 17% being extremely poor. Former Kosovo
Liberation Army terrorists, some accused of
trafficking weapons and human organs,
replaced their military uniforms with
politicians’ suits and are governing
the entity. The previous president
of Kosovo, nicknamed ‘The Snake’
...is currently being tried for war
crimes, and crimes against
humanity, at The Hague.
He’s the one who unveiled the Bill Clinton statue in
Kosovo’s capital. Bill then came to celebrate with
‘The Snake’.
Kosovo’s recent license plate row with Serbia was just
the latest example of a leadership in Kosovo incapable
of dealing with real issues, but rather... going into
conflict... to cover its incompetence. Instead of
negotiating with Belgrade, Kosovo unilaterally
used force --- to implement the removal of
Serbian license plates. And all that NATO
was willing to contribute to deescalate
the tensions... was to offer its KFOR
troops, to replace Kosovo’s special
unit, without even trying to resolve
the essence of the dispute. What
is NATO still doing in Kosovo?
Probably the same thing it was doing in Afghanistan.
Hoping a bad decision to go in, will eventually pay
off somehow. But it won’t. It didn’t in Vietnam, it
didn’t in Afghanistan, and it won’t in Kosovo.
So it’s time for NATO to start packing
its bags.
The statements, views and opinions expressed
in this column, are solely those of the author,
& don't, necessarily, represent those of RT.
“Normalization":Betrayal of Palestineby Arab despots no easy road
by Iqbal Jassat
October 1st, 11am (PressTV)
Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh
measures of violent repression -- accompanied
by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists
given free reign to attack and plunder -- is a
notorious game Israel has elevated to a
daily ritual.
In fact the routine of inflicting war crimes has all
the hallmarks of a rogue regime entirely caught
up in a misplaced belief --- that to engage in ethnic cleansing, is a religious obligation.
Conflating Judaism with a racist political ideology
of Zionism has been part of a strategy designed
to deceive, distort and divert. It has its roots in
the first Zionist congress held on the eve of
the 19th century.
That this is well documented and widely known is
not in dispute. Indeed... awareness of Zionism's
goal to dismember and dislodge Palestinians
from their centuries old homeland and
forcibly impose thereon a foreign
entity known as Israel, has
always been a bedrock
for resistance.
Israel has thus always been considered an enemy
thrust upon a native population through the most
horrific forms of terrorism. The memories of Deir
Yassin remind the world of bloody massacres
committed by Zionist terrorists which didn't
spare hundreds of villages... to
colonize Palestine.
That more than seven decades later the expansionist
goals of Zionism are still being pursued at great
human cost to successive generations of the
indigenous Palestinian population, is
reflected in daily atrocities.
None of these facts, as attested to by historians, as
well as organs of the United Nations, are contested.
Though of course Israel and supporters of it seek
to distort and malign commentators who speak
truth to power, as anti-Semitic.
Yet against this background of terrorism and current
conditions siege, occupation, killings and mass
imprisonment - recorded and broadcast via
mainstream media for all the world to
witness - it is bizarre that a handful
of Arab regimes, have broken rank
with Palestine's freedom struggle.
And at a time when even Haaretz describes
the atrocities by Israel, as a pogrom:
"Residents of the Palestinian communities in the south-
eastern West Bank have experience of settler attacks
- when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or
even have a picnic on their own land.... But they
cannot recall an attack like the one experienced
Tuesday -- by the small communities of Khirbat
al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz and al-Tuwani. On Simhat
Torah, dozens of young Jews, most of them
masked, conducted what can only be
described as a pogrom."
The treachery associated with what has become known
as "normalization" is an outrageous manifestation of
betrayal and collaboration. Limited to the UAE,
Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco,.. these regimes
have in effect confessed that the protection
of their shaky thrones... counts for more...
than legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
As unelected self-imposed despots fearful of democratic
values, they have bargained that "normalization" with
the usurper of Palestine will "guarantee" safety and
protection for them. In other words, just as Egypt
has done, these oligarchs have outsourced their
intelligence networks and security apparatus to Israel, knowing full well that in doing so, they have abandoned Palestine.
Though the abnormality of the implicit recognition of an
illegal colonial enterprise, has been in sharp contrast
to countless Arab League resolutions... the deal of
"normalization" pushed by Trump and vigorously
backed by the Biden administration... has exposed these leaders - as surrogates of western imperialism.
The case of Bahrain's role in the "Abraham Accords"
reveals the soft underbelly of Arab dictatorships.
Besides being financially dependent on its
neighbours especially the UAE and Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain’s alliance with Israel is
designed to entrench its power and
crush any resistance to author-
itarianism or efforts towards
freedom and democracy.
In 2011, during the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings,
Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to suppress anti
-government protests. This trend continues today
by Israel --- equally committed to maintaining the
status quo, and preventing the success of any
popular uprisings.
In this context, one may justifiably condemn Bahrain’s gross insensitivity and abject abdication of Palestine's freedom struggle... as treacherous.
Showcasing Israeli war criminal Lapid’s visit to Manama
where he is set to open the embassy flying Israel's flag
is utterly outrageous. This follows the opening of a
Zionist embassy in Abu Dhabi, and will likely be
establishing one in Rabat. Sudan thus far has
reportedly said that it has no plans yet to
open an embassy in Khartoum.
Not surprising therefore that the Arab street across these
capitals have vowed to end "normalization". The iron-
fisted grip held by Arab despots notwithstanding,
human rights movements (many banned and
leaders exiled) have declared their outright
rejection of America's much-vaunted
Abraham Accords.
Stirrings in Sudan are becoming more vocal despite
Khartoum's attempts to silence critics. In Bahrain
the main opposition group, al-Wefaq National
Islamic Society declared Lapid’s trip as a
"threat", saying, "This is provocative
news and this trip is completely
rejected, and he (Lapid) should
not set foot on Bahraini soil."
Their message is clear: "Any (Israeli) presence on Bahraini soil --- means incitement."
Iqbal Jassat is an executive at the Johannesburg-
based Media Review Network (MRN), a socio-
political advocacy group, that concerns
itself with media and political analysis.
(The views expressed in this article do
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
Greece And FranceTake First Step
Towards European Independence
Following AUKUS Debacle
September 28th (South Front)
by Paul Antonopoulos,
independent geopolitical analyst
Signing of Franco-Greek Agreement is the
beginning of supplanting NATO in Europe.
Of the 30 NATO member states, Greece is one of the few
to spend well over 2% of its GDP on defense, as agreed
upon by NATO Defence Ministers, in 2006. However,
Greece’s high spending (relative to GDP), is not
because it is positioning itself as a buffed-up
military state opposed to Russia, as per the
aims of NATO, but rather, to defend itself
against the threats of another NATO
member, Turkey.
With NATO consistently downplaying Turkish aggression
against Greece and the new AUKUS pact creating
distrust between the Anglosphere and the
Europeans... Greece has ensured new
extra security assurances against
its long-time enemy.
Greece’s strengthened partnership with France highlights
that the immediate consequences of the AUKUS alliance
are already being felt, as the two countries are making
the first serious steps towards a Europe independent
of Washington.
Alexis Papahelas, one of Greece’s top journalists, explained
that the Franco-Greek security pact is Macron’s “revenge”
against the Americans as it will strengthen European
autonomy. He also confirmed persistent rumours
that a defensive pact between France and
Greece was almost reached last year,
but ultimately broke down at the
last minute for “unknown
reasons.”
To put the situation in context, Greece for a year and a half-
received bids from six countries, including France, the U.S.
and UK for brand new navy frigates. The finalization of a
deal was continuously delayed... due to Greece’s
insistence, that a frigate purchase must include a defense agreement.
Greece signed its 12-month Mutual Defense Cooperation
Agreement (MDCA) with the US last year, but ultimately
did not decide on which frigate bid to accept. With
negotiations for a Franco-Greek defence pact
last year stalling, Athens ultimately decided
to sign the MDCA... with Washington. This
was rumored to be partially motivated
as part of 'negotiations' to pressure
the French to accept Greek terms.
However, with the sudden emergence of AUKUS, European
trust in the Anglosphere quickly diminished, and thus
galvanized Franco-Greek discussions on European
independence. And finally, a deal to purchase
three brand-new French Belharra-class
frigates, was stricken.
For his part, Mitsotakis said on Tuesday morning at the
signing of the agreement that:- “It is an historic day for Greece and France. Today’s development is an
initiative that responds to the demands of the
times on our continent. It paves the way for
an autonomous and strong Europe of the
future. Whether there is a timetable for
creating a European army: the debate
on European military autonomy,
evolves. Options such as this
corporate defense partner-
ship, move to this central
strategic choice.”
Effectively, Greece and France are advocating for a pan-
European military that would likely drive out NATO, as
the premier defensive pact in Europe.
Another demonstration that this pact is aimed at
supplanting NATO... is its careful wording.
Although Turkey was not mentioned
explicitly, there is little doubt that
part of the motivation for the
Franco-Greek defense pact
was Turkey’s unilateral
aggression in the
Mediterranean.
Even just minutes after the signing of the Franco-Greek
agreement, former Dutch diplomat Fons Stoelinga
tweeted: “EU autonomy in security and defense.
NATO still does not address the problem of
NATO-member Turkey destabilizing the
whole Eastern Mediterranean region.
France and Greece now react and
signed a security bilateral pact.”
The mutual defense assistance clause of the agreement
ensures that if Greece or France is attacked on its
territory, the other will come to assist, even if the
attacking country is part of other alliances.....
including NATO. This is an obvious message
directed towards Turkey, a NATO member
that on a daily basis violates Greek air-
space and threatens to invade its
Aegean islands.
These violations and threats receive no repercussions from
NATO as individual members are unwilling to risk their
economic relations with the country, whilst many
NATO leaders still believe that Turkey is a
bulwark against Russia.
France for most of its modern history, but especially
galvanized under President Emmanuel Macron.. had
an ambition of creating a more independent Europe.
The European experience under former U.S.
President, Donald Trump, and the recent
snub from President Joe Biden, with the
AUKUS debacle... has only increased the urgency of achieving European
independence from Washington.
Despite this ambition, as well as warning Europe that it will
become secondary in world affairs, if it does not become
independent, it appears that France can finally kickstart
its project alongside Greece.
Achieving EU unity is a difficult prospect, because minnow
states like Lithuania prioritize the interests of Washington
rather than the continent, but as Paris and Athens have
shown --- they will move ahead, in changing the geo-
political balance in the Mediterranean and will not
wait, while member states continuously bicker
amongst themselves on foreign policy issues.
If France and Greece can create strong foundations for an
independent Europe, it will only be inevitable before more
EU member states become interested in also being
integrated into a continental structure that is
independent of transatlantic alliances.
Why did the Taliban win against
the Americans in Afghanistan?
by Eric Zuesse
August 21st, 2021
Why did the communists win
against the Americans in Vietnam?
Why did the communists win
against the capitalists in the
Russian Revolution?
Why did the American Revolutionists
win against the British Empire?
I shall here propose an answer to all of them, because that answer applies to all such cases, as I'll explain:
When an imperialistic society is as corrupt as Britain has been since the creation of the British East India Company in 1600, and as America has been since the end of World War II in 1945, with its takeover and control by the MIC (military-industrial complex), which has inevitably produced the cancerous growth of America’s permanent-warfare state, what, then, is the reason to continue living by staying merely as a colonist or a vassal-regime (or even as the imperialist regime itself), which means, when the imposed regime is so profoundly corrupt --- as any
imperialist power necessarily is --- to accept such corruption, as this?
There’s something that is worse than dying... and it is to continue
living under a regime that one utterly despises. That’s a dragged
-out death, instead of a quick death. A regime which is as
corrupt as any imperialistic regime inevitably is, will be
intolerable for a significant number of the residents in
any one of its vassal-nations or “colonies.” Death, for
them, isn’t such a bad choice, if it means that they'll
go down fighting to overthrow it. They are driven by
the motivation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
This is a motivation that few, if any, of the imperialistic regime’s hired
soldiers (regardless of whether conscripted or not) can match. And
when they are foreigners who are fighting on a foreign soil (instead
of locals who are defending their land’s own locally determined
rulers), they especially and certainly cannot match such
motivation, because only the locals can be fighting with
a patriotic spirit. This is an intrinsic weakness in any
empire. And imperialist leaders tend to ignore it,
because they don’t want to understand how
repulsive they are, to virtually anyone but
their own boot-lickers.
Ultimately, the demoralization of a hired soldier’s continuing to place
his very existence in jeopardy so as to continue the war to enslave
and control the resisting local subject-population will mount high
enough to produce self-contempt, desertion, and sometimes
even suicide, in the oppressing power’s forces, especially if that’s a foreign power.
No longer will the rationalizations(that “We are protecting the residents here”) be able to continue fooling the invading-force’s soldier, and the imposed stooge- regime’s soldier. They both (the foreign regime, and its imposed local stooge-government or colony) are there really, to control the local subject-population; and, ultimately, enough of the oppressor’s forces will know this to cause the imposed stooge-government, to be conquered by those indigenous residents there - people who will be recalled as heroes, by the other
residents in that land.
This is an advantage that any revolutionists
have, against the imposed regime.
This is the real meaning of “martyrs,” in the deeper sense than
merely of a religious type — it is instead of the patriotic type; it
concerns the land -- and not necessarily any religion -- such as
Christianity, Islam, or Marxism. Their loyalty is to Afghanistan;
or it is to Vietnam; or it is to Russia; or it is to China; or (before
America became imperialistic) it was to America. And so forth.
It is to the local land, not to any dictators. It is to the country
that the foreign invader’s forces are occupying. The
invader’s forces and their imposed stooge-regimes
can’t match this motivation.
Similarly, when the American invaders were conquered by the
residents of Vietnam, the winners were the Vietnamese, not
really the communists; and, in fact, the Marxist philosophy
(or ‘religion’) subsequently has waned there. America, in
Vietnam, as in Afghanistan, was the invader, in a land
which had not invaded their own.
That similar situation exists in Afghanistan. The Sauds had invaded
America on 9/11, with the assistance of G.W. Bush, Condoleezza
Rice, and perhaps others in the Administration. And so, the U.S.
-imposed soldiers in Afghanistan couldn’t even possibly have
been fighting against Afghanistan for any authentically
patriotic real (factually true) reason, at all. Therefore,
lies were constantly needed by the U.S. regime, not
only against Iraq, but even against Afghanistan.
(Furthermore, if Bush’s objective had really been to identify whom
and how was actually behind the 9/11 attacks, then he would have
pursued that at the U.N. Security Council and would have gotten
unanimous backing for it, which would quickly have isolated
and led to the destruction of Al Qaeda. It could all have been
done without any war between nations, and also fully in
accord with international law. To the extent that 9/11 was state-sponsored terrorism, it was actually being
sponsored by the Governments of the U.S. and
Saudi Arabia.
George W. Bush, who was buddy-close with the Sauds, used 9/11 as
an excuse to trash both the U.S. Constitution and international law
so as to hoist yet higher his own tyranny, his own power - not only internationally but also.. in his own nation. An imperialist would,
of course, like to trash both, and to hoist his personal power as
high as possible. And GWB had the boldness to do it, and -
because America has been imperialistic ever since 1945
(i.e., international aggressions... have been America’s
culture since 1945) — he has been able to enjoy the
success of getting away with doing it. However,
everyone else, and especially outside America’s MIC, suffers from it.
What have the mere soldiers of invading and occupying
imperialist powers actually earned by having placed
their own lives at risk? Maybe a tombstone back
home, in the country that had invaded and
occupied that colony.
By contrast, even if a defending soldier has died as a
hero among the locals in a failed revolution against
the imperialist power, any tombstone will be
unnecessary to be that person’s memorial,
because the true memorial is in the heart,
and in the mind, of the locals there, not
in anything that is in the land of the
invading foreign power.
And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that,
whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes
(because their war was just), today’s Americans are
waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust
- imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic
defenses against an aggressor). Between
America’s founding and the present time,
America has switched from doing war
against military occupiers, to doing
war as military occupiers.
And this, I maintain, is the reason why: “The Taliban’s 80,000
troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like
dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces,
better equipped and trained, mostly melted and
surrendered with no will to fight.”
What today’s Taliban are to today’s Afghanistan is therefore what
the 1776 American Revolutionists were to the America of that era.
It’s not the ideology; it is the love of that land there, which has
motivated the residents’ forces to victory, against the forces
of the invading-and-occupying foreign power. This can
happen in any land, at any time.
America went into Vietnam focused on the “body counts.” That’s
how stupid America’s imperialistic leaders were, back then. The
only motivation they really understood was fear: “body counts.”
They’ve evidently learned nothing since. That is how corrupt
America is.
Right now in America, the ‘debate’ about Afghanistan is about Joe
Biden, who is basically irrelevant. He wanted to end America’s
military occupation there, just as Trump did, and just as
Obama did. He acted on it, whereas they did not — they
didn’t want to be accused by their political opponents
of having ‘lost Afghanistan on their watch’, but Biden
was evidently willing to risk it.
His only failure in the matter is that he kept lying to the American
people (and probably also to himself) about how chaotic the
evacuation would inevitably be, and about how collapsed
Afghanistan is, and has been, ever since the Soviets
invaded there in 1979.
Throughout America’s imperialistic era, the U.S. Government has
routinely been lying to the American people. Imperialism isn’t as
bad for the imperialistic nation’s public as it is for the conquered
land’s people, but it is very bad, even for them. The only people
who benefit from it are the billionaires, who control companies
such as Lockheed Martin, and ExxonMobil, and Amazon.
Those are the people (the owners), who hire the leading
politicians, including the members of Congress, and the
Presidents, to spread their empire, and their control.
They also hire the ‘journalists’ who shape their nation’s public
to support these invasions and military occupations. The
Government officials of an imperialistic regime represent
not the nation’s public - but its aristocracy - who hire and
appoint millions of the rest, the many agents (employees,
etc.) of the few billionaires. The billionaires really control
their country. After all: America is a thoroughly corrupt
country, just as any imperialistic country is. (All
imperialistic countries, are controlled by their
aristocracy. And every aristocracy is corrupt.)
The public in Afghanistan have long known this fact about America -
that it is corrupt. And this is the main reason why the Taliban now
rule that country. They represent that land. Not this land. It’s a
different culture, and a different place. To most Afghans,
America represents only corruption. There is nothing
unique about what is now happening in Afghanistan.
It has been happening for thousands of years, and
it’s just replaying an ancient script, but in that
particular location.
However, instead, the U.S.-and-allied media are focusing on Biden’s
bit part (which was always in a supporting role) in America’s
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. So, probably
nothing will be learned from America’s invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan, just as nothing was
learned from America’s invasion & occupation
of Iraq, and from America’s invasion and
occupation of Vietnam, and from the
many other such post-WW-II
American foreign disasters.
For America’s billionaires, these have all been great successes
(very profitable); and, so, probably nothing that’s useful to the
American people will be learned from history; and, instead,
the myths will continue that have caused “The Military” to
be either the highest-respected or the second-highest-
respected of all of the 19 named institutions in America - the world’s permanent- warfare state.
The American military wastes the most money and the most blood
of any institution in America, but Americans nonetheless respect it
enormously. That, too, is a mark of an imperialistic country. The
way to control a public is to sustain the myths. U.S.-and-allied
billionaires make sure that it is done - however much it costs.
As regards the future of Afghanistan itself: On August the 19th,
the most reliable geostrategic reporter and analyst, Alexander
Mercouris, headlined at The Duran, “US Freezes Afghanistan
Reserves, Threatens Economic Crisis. Russia Works to
Establish New Government”, and he explained why the
Taliban will either cooperate with Russia, China, and
Iran, or else will degenerate yet further into a failed
state, especially because the U.S. and its allies will
do everything possible to strangle the fully looted
Government of Afghanistan — the new Islamic
Emirate of Afghanistan. So: even after the US
and its allies have all left that land, the war
against the people there will continue, in
full force, from the same people, though
with different methods.
PS: The philosopher Zizek headlined at RT on August 20th, “The
true enemy for Islamists is not the West’s neocolonialism or
military aggression, but our ‘immoral’ culture”, and he said
“it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism,
this fundamentalism grew up in a reaction to the influence
of Western liberal secularism and individualism.”
He did not understand that though religious fundamentalists
(including the Taliban) focus especially on sexual and gender
issues, a person didn’t have to be at all religious in order to
consider the financial and economic corruption of the
imperialists and of their stooges to be disgusting.
Americans didn’t invade & occupy Afghanistan, in order to
spread “liberal secularism and individualism,” but in order
for US-and-allied billionaires to expand their wealth, their
empire, and their global control. Even if the Taliban and
other religious persons might object only (or even just
mainly) to the sexual and gender issues... a broader
segment of the Afghan population were repelled by
the rampant financial and economic corruption of
the imperialists, and of their stooge-rulers.
This was not a defeat for “secularism and individualism.”
It was a rejection of imperialism: a rejection of it even by people who don’t understand what “imperialism” means.
(Source: Strategic Culture Foundation)
Israel is committed to
aggressively pursuing
'Zionist colonialism',
says analyst
August 14th, 9:38am (PressTV)
A political commentator says Israel is relentlessly
following its "Zionist colonialism" in the occupied
Palestinian territories, and the evacuation orders
handed out to indigenous Palestinian families in the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds, are in line with the regime’s land
expropriation policies: to build more illegal settler homes.
“Israel aggressively pursues Zionist colonialism, which
has been the bedrock of the regime’s illegal ethnic-
cleansing agenda for the last seventy or more
years,” Iqbal Jassat, an executive member
of Johannesburg-based Media Review
Network, told Press TV, in an
exclusive interview
on Saturday.
He lambasted the Tel Aviv regime’s systematic theft of
Palestinian property as “a reprehensible disregard
for the inalienable rights of indigenous
Palestinians to their own lands
and homes.”
“The racist practice of evacuation, is a misleading
interpretation of forced expulsion, illegal under
the international law. It is also indicative of
the Group Areas Act [of 1950], under the
former apartheid regime of South
Africa,” Jassat noted.
The South African analyst also criticized the United Nations
and the International Criminal Court (ICC), for their
“impotence” ...to prevent Israel's unjust and
blatant violations of international
conventions and principles.
“It also raises serious questions about the inherent biases
existing within these institutions. These biases prevent
the exercise of law --- to halt land grabs, home demolitions, expulsions and incremental genocide,” he pointed out.
Jassat went on to say that Western countries’ decades-long
guilty conscience has prevented these states from
criticizing Israel, for its barbaric and brutal
practices, as such denunciations would
be treated as anti-Semitic.
“The US and its allies in NATO view Israel as a bulwark of
their interests in the heart of the Muslim world. They,
therefore, place their so-called security goals
above injustices against Palestinians,”
the analyst said.
“Moreover, the Arab world is mainly made up of unelected
despots, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab
Emirates and Bahrain. Their collective view, pivots
on the false notion... that their security is tied
to Israel. That explains the close proximity
between their notorious intelligence
services and Israel's Mossad
and Shin Bet.”
Jassat further noted that the controversial normalization
agreements that several Arab states have struck with Israel, have stifled opposition to the Tel Aviv regime’s colonialist and expansionist policies.
He said the unacceptable betrayal of the Palestinians'
struggle for liberation from the Israeli occupation,
has even resulted in the regime being granted
observer status, at the African Union.
Peak hypocrisy: US is ''concerned'' aboutChina's nukes
by Daniel Patrick Welch
August 7th, 11:45am
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of
China's nukes, on the anniversary of his own
country dropping the only one ever.
The US empire never disappoints in its endless quest
to project the behavior of a true sociopath. As with
Goebbels’ Big Lie (which he stole from the US's
Bernays anyway), the tried-and-true strategy,
is to attack others, for actions it has itself
performed on a regular basis.
Hence the whole Russiagate charade about foreign
interference in sacred elections by a country other
than the US —reigning and uncontested champion
of regime change campaigns. Now comes Blinken,
the US talking head du jour on the world stage, to
warn Asia about China’s nuclear weapons. Huh?
If irony wasn’t dead, Blinken and crew (Winken, Nod
et al) would track it down and strangle it with their
bare hands. On August 6th, the State Department
announced Blinken’s warning... to China’s
neighbours: THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
OWN COUNTRY’S DROPPING OF A
NUCLEAR BOMB on Hiroshima.
I would say “not to put to fine a point on it,” but it just
can’t possibly be sharpened any further. Run that
back, with the reverse tape noise and all.
The ONLY country EVER to drop a nuclear bomb on another,
the United States, chooses the very anniversary of the first of those two genocidal crimes against humanity, to express grave concern about China’s nuclear
arsenal. I guess you could just drop the mic
here — there really is so little left to say.
What comes after tragedy and farce?
Even Old Man Marx didn’t mention
a third, though I might venture
Cynicism Made Flesh?
Of course, Blinken--I just can’t stop saying the name… it’s like
DICK Cheney and COLIN Powell, or that library cop Bookman
from Seinfeld—Blinken isn’t to blame for the blasphemy of
rewriting history. He and his cohorts have a generational
head start on stupid. Seventy-five years of relentless
assault on Americans’ knowledge of history and
political consciousness, has left a populace
with a Hollywood understanding of WWII
that has almost no relation to reality.
Even Eisenhower knew (and said) that the bombings were of no
military use. Lost to Americans’ history—but importantly, not
the world’s—is the cold truth that Truman knew as well and
didn’t care. Perhaps the meanest, and most small-minded
of US presidents, he offed a hundred thousand Japanese
in one fell swoop, just to scare the Russkies. And by his
own admission, never lost a night’s sleep. Brrrrrrrr.
But Back to the Future: Blinken’s degenerate idiocy also further
exposes the infantile disorder of the Lesser Evilists and the rest
of the Harm Reduction menagerie. He is himself, of course, no
more than a cardboard clown, or more likely made entirely of
wood, spouting vituperations like a useful ventriloquist’s
dummy while sitting on the knee of whoever plays Edgar
Bergen in this cynical farce. The masters who pay
Blinken, Biden, (O)Bama, Bush and Bacchus
keep them on a short leash. The sociopaths
in charge make the real decisions.
The notion that “getting back to normal” would yield anything other
than a smooth return to the endless killing machine was not just
wishful thinking, but deliberate self-delusion, a lazy and selfish
need to play pretend and self-soothe while the world burns.
Unforgiveable, really. From Iran to Venezuela, Russia, China and
beyond, and with clockwork precision, the Enemies of Humanity
are ramping up war fever, concocting lies & manipulating truth
and fear like never before. The New York Times’ perversion of
the Tokyo medal counts, to pretend the US won, is more than
instructive: it is the stock in trade and lifeblood of the
predator class, honing its exceptionalist rhetoric to
wield when needed. Dark days ahead.
Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and
analysis. Also a singer and songwriter, he lives and writes
in Salem, Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together
they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled
widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian
History and Literature at Harvard University.
Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio
channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political
analysis--around his day job. He can be available for
interview requests as time and scheduling permit.
Despite the price of being outspoken against US foreign policy
and military adventurism -- which can be steep, in today's
circumstances -- he believes firmly, as did Rosa
Luxemburg, that "It will always be the most
revolutionary act, to tell the truth out loud."
Welch wrote this commentary for the Press TV website.
Russia-Chinathe Endgame
by Finian Cunningham
July 3rd, 1:41pm (Sputnik)
The consolidation of the Russia-China alliance this week
spells the endgame for Western imperialism and the
never-ending wars that it spawns.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi
Jinping celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-
Russian Treaty of Friendship, first signed in July
2001. The hallmark of that historic accord is a
mutual commitment to peace, prosperity
and global stability.
As Putin commented, the alliance between Russia and China
is a vital source of “stability at a time of increasing geo-
political turbulence”. The latter remark is an oblique
reference to the US-led Western states which are
driven by ratcheting up antagonism and
tensions with Moscow and Beijing,
using all sorts of spurious
complaints.
The attempt by Washington (whether Republican or Democrat)
and its Western minions to make trouble with Russia and
China has become almost frenetic. Step back from the
daily headlines in Western media and it is glaring just
how much the agenda has become irrationally
hostile towards Moscow and Beijing.
Week after week there are unfounded allegations about
Covid-19, & so on. It’s like a mad cacophony to wind
up tensions. Nevertheless, the deranged attitude of
Western ruling cliques is but the death throes of a
world order that has reached its expiration.
Russia and China’s partnership has hugely transformative
geopolitical significance. Both these giant nations straddle
the continents of Asia and Europe, connecting the Pacific
with the Atlantic, ranging from the Arctic to the
Mediterranean. Both are committed to a vision
of a multipolar world where nations cooperate
for mutual development.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) linking Eurasia with
Africa and the Americas is the vision of the future, and
Russia is a key partner in implementing that
ambitious win-win project for global peace
and prosperity.
This vision stands in stark contrast to the prevailing Western
capitalist paradigm which operates through dominance,
control and exploitation for American and European
profiteering. That kind of centuries-old system
necessarily involves imperialist conduct ...
whereby the natural resources of foreign
nations are commandeered by brute
military force, conflict, subjugation,
subterfuge, skulduggery and
other machinations.
The multipolar vision of global relations advocated by Russia
and China is the nemesis of the Western imperialist system.
And that explains why the Americans and their European
vassals make every effort to demonize and distort
Russia and China.
But the geopolitical potential of Russia and China is
unstoppable. There is a force of natural justice that
all nations will inevitably subscribe to as the only
reasonable, feasible & sustainable way forward.
It’s about people-centered development ...
versus profit-driven disorder.
Moreover, the partnership between Russia and China is a
geographer’s wonder study. Russia is the world’s largest
national territory by landmass. With over 17 million sq.
kilometres, it covers 11 time zones out of the world’s
total of 24. The abundance of natural resources that
Russia possesses is astounding, from reserves of
natural gas, oil, metals and minerals, to forestry,
agriculture and fisheries. It also can boast of
highly advanced technology in multiple
sectors. And... it shares a long land
border with China, for easing trade.
Meanwhile, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, ten
times that of Russia. With highly advanced technology and
manufacturing, China is not only a vast market for Russian
resources, it is also a gateway to the world economy.
China has already become the world’s biggest
economy over the United States, according
to some measures.
The US and Europe are post-industrial economies that are
also post-peak of their prime. Their “prime” was always
based on an extractive predatory relationship with the
rest of the world that was predicated on inflicting
conflict and poverty on others.
As China and Russia build on their strategic partnership for
mutual prosperity and peace the upshot will inevitably
entail the endgame for Western imperial powers,
which are atrophying from massive inequality,
indebtedness, moral decadence and
social decay.
Fortunately, too, and this is crucial, Russia and China have
military defenses from new generations of hypersonic
weaponry that make them impregnable against any
warmongering notions by the United States. A
failing empire like the US and its Western
satellites is always a dangerous time, as
it tries to prevent the inevitable collapse,
but starting a war with Russia & China
...is not an option.
The views & opinions expressed in the article
do not - necessarily - reflect those of Sputnik.
Barry Grossman:US, Israel
Adopting Bullying Tactics
for ICC War Crimes
Investigation in
Palestine
June 30th (FNA)
Barry Grossman is an international lawyer and political
commentator focused on human rights related issues.
He has been extensively published, on various legal
subjects and is a frequent commentator on political
affairs. He has taught law at the University of
Melbourne’s Faculty of Law and Monash
University’s Faculty of Law.
Below is the full text of the interview:
Q: How do you see the ICC ruling and the
issue of anti-Semitism raised by Israel?
A: To be sure, Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that
“when the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes,
this is pure antisemitism”.
There can of course be no doubt that antisemitism is real;
indeed, every bit as real as Islam-phobia. But the long
standing ruse of conflating antisemitism with any and
all criticism of Zionism or Israel, is no longer taken
seriously, by a growing and very substantial
minority of people in the wider population.
Meanwhile the tactic of tarring everyone who resists Zionism
or criticises Israel with the antisemitism brush is having the
unfortunate, though not necessarily unintended
consequence of discrediting even the most
genuine efforts to draw attention to those
people whose speech is, indeed,
motivated by little more than
hatred for Jews.
Q: There are huge media attacks towards ICC’s probe to
Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Do you believe the ICC
can make a correct ruling under this media hegemony?
A: Propaganda about the ICC case published by the
Atlantic World’s Corporate Media Cartel is of course
preceded by pressure and instructions from think-
tanks, as well as the security/policy making
apparatus, which are, of course, fully
infiltrated by individuals promoting
Zionist agendas.
In that regard, both the US and Israel have openly declared
their hostile intentions towards the ICC and there is already
clear evidence that they're deploying all their usual tactics,
including intimidation, extortion, bribery and garden variety
corruption, to get politicians around the world, lawyers
involved in making Palestine’s case, and members of
the ICC to fall into line.
That said, if the myriad jurisdiction related technicalities
raised by Israel can be overcome, I am quite sure the
ICC is capable of reaching what many of us consider
the correct position regarding ubiquitous war crimes
and other violations of international law, perpetrated
by the occupation.
The real problem is that the ICC is quite limited in its ability
to enforce any ruling against responsible individuals and
Israeli organizations, so long as the key Atlantic World
nations continue to provide unqualified support for
the occupation, or, at the very least, to remain
neutral, in the face of clear evidence of the
occupation’s crimes.
A second very significant strategic issue arises from a
prevailing political reality which dictates that, in order
to make a reasonable finding about the occupation’s
crimes, the ICC will also have to use its authority to
investigate violations of international law alleged
against Hamas and other Palestinian groups ---
bearing in mind that the law of armed conflict
does not concern itself with the order in
which things played out and any finding
against Palestinian groups will certainly
receive far more traction, both in the
international community as well as
in occupied Palestine, than any
finding of culpability on the
part of the occupation.
Indeed, from where I sit, I do not see Palestine as
having much to gain from this process, but it
does stand to lose no small part of the
standing in public opinion, which it
has taken decades to develop, at
the cost of thousands of
Palestinian lives.
Q: Is it hypocrisy that Israel says Palestine is not
a sovereign state to have a delegation at ICC?
A: Hypocrisy hardly even begins to cover it. No nation
is in a position to dictate that Palestine is not a
sovereign nation-state, even if the UN has not
yet extended Palestine’s observer nation
status to full membership --- the way it
quickly recognized Israel’s existence
as a full member, in 1949.
It is also worth remembering that
31 UN member nations still do
not recognize Israel.
Of course, none of this is relevant to the Palestinian
delegation’s participation in ICC proceedings
investigating allegations of war crimes and
other violations of international law
committed against Palestinians by
Israeli nationals & organizations,
even though Israel is not, itself,
a party to the ICC treaty.
On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA),
whose statehood and sovereignty has been
subject to intense dispute across the
international community... is a
signatory to the Rome Statute
(that is, the ICC Treaty), so it
would be bizarre, if it was
not permitted to have a
delegation present, at
the ICC proceedings.
US Encirclement of China:
A 'Progress' Report
by Brian Berletic
May 22nd (The Saker)
We post this long-read article in full -
as the New Eastern Outlook site has
been down for a number of days.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely
the recent results of former US President Donald Trump’s
time in office – but rather, just the latest chapter in US
efforts to contain China, that stretch back decades.
Indeed, US foreign policy has, for decades, admittedly aimed at encircling and containing China’s rise, and maintaining primacy over the Indo-Pacific region.
The “Pentagon Papers” leaked in 1969 would admit in
regards to the ongoing US war against Vietnam that:
…the February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the
July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only
if they are in support of a long-run United States policy
to contain China.
The papers also admitted that China, “looms as a major
power threatening to undercut [American] importance
and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but
more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against
[America].
The papers also made it clear that there were (and still are),
“three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China: (a) the
Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c)
the Southeast Asia front.”
Since then, it is clear that from the continued US military
presence in both Japan and South Korea, the now two
decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan on both
Pakistan’s and China’s borders, and the emergence
of the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” aimed at over-
throwing Southeast Asian governments friendly
with China and replacing them with US-backed
client regimes – this policy to contain China
endures up to today.
Assessing US activity along these three fronts reveals
the progress and setbacks Washington faces -- and
the various dangers to global peace and stability
Washington’s continued belligerence poses.
The Japan-Korea Front
Military.com in their article, “Here’s What It Costs to
Keep US Troops in Japan and South Korea,” reports:
In all, more than 80,000 US troops are deployed to Japan
and South Korea. In Japan alone, the US maintains more
than 55,000 deployed troops — the largest forward-
deployed US force anywhere in the world.
The article notes that according to the US Government
Accountability Office (GAO), the US spent “$34 billion
to maintain military presences in Japan and South
Korea between 2016 and 2019.”
The article cites the GAO providing an explanation as to
why this massive US military presence is maintained in
East Asia:
“…US forces help strengthen alliances, promote a free
and open Indo-Pacific region, provide quick response
to emergencies and are essential for US national
security.”
“Alliances” that are “strengthened” by the physical
presence of what are -- essentially, -- occupying US
forces, suggests the “alliance” is hardly voluntary and claims of promoting a “free and open Indo- Pacific region” is highly subjective – begging the question of, to whom, is the Indo-Pacific “free and open”.
And as US power wanes both regionally in the Indo-
Pacific as well as globally, Washington has placed
increasing pressures on both Japan and South
Korea to not only help shoulder this financial
burden, but to also become more proactive
within Washington’s containment strategy
toward China.
Japan is one of three other nations (the US itself,
Australia, and India) drafted into the US-led
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – also
known as the “Quad.”
Rather than the US solely depending on its own military
forces based within Japanese territory or supported by
its Japan-based forces, Japan’s military along with
India’s and Australia’s are also being recruited to
take part in military exercises and operations
in and around the South China Sea.
India’s inclusion in the Quad also fits well into the US
3-front strategy that made up Washington’s contain-
ment policy toward China as early as the 1960s.
The India-Pakistan Front
In addition to recruiting India into the Quad alliance, the
US helps encourage escalation through political
support and media campaigning of India’s
various territorial disputes with China.
The US also targets Pakistan’s close and ongoing
relationship with China – including the support of
armed insurgents in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province.
Recently, a bombing at a hotel in Quetta, Baluchistan
appears to have targeted China’s ambassador to
Pakistan, Ambassador Nong Rong.
The BBC in its article, “Pakistan hotel bomb:
Deadly blast hits luxury venue in Quetta,”
would claim:
Initial reports had suggested the target
was China’s ambassador.
Ambassador Nong Rong is understood to be in Quetta
but was not present at the hotel at the time of the
attack on Wednesday.
The article also noted:
Balochistan province, near the Afghan border,
is home to several armed groups, including
separatists.
Separatists in the region want independence from the
rest of Pakistan and accuse the government and
China of exploiting Balochistan, one of
Pakistan’s poorest provinces, for its
gas and mineral wealth.
Absent from the BBC’s reporting is the extensive and
open support the US government has provided these
separatists over the years and how – clearly – this is
more than just a local uprising against perceived
injustice, but yet another example of armed
conflict-by-proxy waged by Washington
against China.
As far back as 2011 publications like The National
Interest in articles like, “Free Baluchistan” would
openly advocate expanding US support for
separatism in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province.
The article was written by the late Selig Harrison
--- who was a senior fellow at the US-based
(corporate-financier funded) Centre for
International Policy --- & would claim:
Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the
heart of Baluch territory. So an independent
Baluchistan... would serve US strategic
interests, in addition to the immediate
goal, of countering Islamist forces.
Of course, “Islamist forces”... is a euphemism for US-
Persian Gulf state sponsored militants used to both
fight Western proxy wars, as well as serve as a
pretext for Western intervention. Citing
“Islamist forces” in Baluchistan,
Pakistan - clearly - serves as an example of the latter.
In addition to op-eds published by influential policy
think tanks, US legislators like US Representative
Dana Rohrabacher, had proposed resolutions
such as (emphasis added),
“US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution
104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that
the people of Baluchistan, currently divided
between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan,
have the right to self-determination and
to their own sovereign country.”
There is also funding provided to adjacent, political
groups supporting separatism in Baluchistan,
Pakistan, as listed by the US government’s
own National Endowment for Democracy
(NED) website under “Pakistan.”
Organizations like the “Association for Integrated
Development Balochistan” are funded by the US government and used to mobilize people
politically, constituting clear interference
by the US, in Pakistan’s internal
political affairs.
The Gwadar Port project is a key juncture within China’s
growing global network of infrastructure projects, as
part of its One Belt, One Road initiative. The US
clearly opposes China’s rise & has articulated robust strategies to counter it; everything up to and including, open war, as seen in the Pentagon Papers, regarding the Vietnam War.
The recent bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan demonstrates
that this strategy continues, in regards to utilizing local
militants to target Chinese-Pakistani co-operation, and
is one part of the much wider, region-wide strategy:
of encircling and containing China.
The Southeast Asia Front
Of course the US war against Vietnam was part of a wider
effort to reassert Western primacy over Southeast Asia
...and deny the region from fueling China’s inevitable rise.
The US having lost the war and almost completely retreating
from the Southeast Asia region saw Southeast Asia itself
repair relations amongst themselves and with China.
Today, the nations of Southeast Asia count China as their
largest trade partner, investor, a ''key partner'' in infra-
structure development, a key supplier for the region’s
armed forces, as well as providing the majority of
tourism arrivals throughout the region. For
countries like Thailand, more tourists
arrive from China, than from all
Western nations combined.
Because existing governments in Southeast Asia have
nothing to benefit from by participating in American
belligerence toward China, the US has found it
necessary to cultivate and attempt to install
into power various client regimes. This has
been an ongoing process, since the
Vietnam War.
The US has targeted each nation individually for years.
In 2009 & 2010, US-backed opposition leader-in-exile,
Thaksin Shinawatra, deployed his “red shirt” rioters
in back-to-back riots - the latter of which included
some 300 armed militants and culminated in city-
wide arson across Bangkok, and the death of
over 90 police, soldiers, protesters, and
bystanders.
In 2018, US-backed opposition groups took power in
Malaysia after the US poured millions of dollars, for
over a decade, in building up the opposition.
Daniel Twining of the US National Endowment for Democracy subsidiary – the International
Republican Institute – admitted, during a talk by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, that same year, that:
…for 15 years working with NED resources, we worked
to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties -- and guess
what happened 2 months ago after 61 years? They won.
He would elaborate on how the NED’s network played a
direct role in placing US-backed opposition figures into
power, within the Malaysian government, stating:
I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders
the new leaders of this government, many of whom
were just our partners we had been working with
for 15 years and one of the most senior of them
who’s now one of the people running the
government said to me, ‘gosh IRI you
never gave up on us even when we
were ready to give up
on ourselves.’
Far from “promoting freedom” in Malaysia ---- Twining
would make clear the ultimate objective of interfering
in Malaysia’s internal political affairs, was to serve
US interests, not only in regards to Malaysia, but
in regards to the entire region and specifically
toward encircling and containing China.
Twining would boast:
…guess what one of the first steps the
new government took? It froze Chinese
infrastructure investments.
And that:
[Malaysia] is not a hugely pro-American country. It is
probably never going to be an actual US ally, but this
is going to redound to our benefit, and and that’s
an example of the long game.
It is a pattern that has repeated itself in Myanmar over
the decades --- with NED money building a parallel
political system within the nation and eventually
leading to Aung San Suu Kyi and her US-backed
National League for Democracy (NLD) party
taking power in 2016.
For Myanmar, so deep and extensive is US backing for
opposition groups there, that the elections virtually
guarantee US-backed candidates win.. every single
time. The US National Endowment for Democracy’s
own website alone... lists over 80 programs and
organizations receiving US government money
- for everything from election polling, and
building up political parties - to funding
media networks and “environmental”
groups used to block any Chinese-
initiated infrastructure projects.
The move by Myanmar’s military in February this year,
ousting Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the NLD, was meant to correct this.
However, in addition to backing political groups
protesting in the streets, the US has – for many
decades – backed and armed ethnic rebels
across the country. These rebels have now
linked up with the US-backed NLD and are
repeating the US-backed regime change
tactics used against the Arab World in 2011 --- in nations like Libya, Yemen,
and Syria – including explicit calls
for “international intervention.”
A US-Engineered “Asia Spring”
Just as the US did during the 2011 “Arab Spring” – the US
State Department, in a bid to create synergies across
its various regime change campaigns in Asia, has
introduced the “Milk Tea Alliance” to transform
individual US-backed regime change efforts in Asia, into a region-wide crisis.
The BBC itself admits in articles like, “Milk Tea
Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-
democracy activists,” and that:
The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing protesters, in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with pro-democracy campaigners in Thailand and Myanmar.
Omitted from the BBC’s coverage of the “Milk Tea Alliance”
(intentionally) is the actual common denominators that
unite it – US funding through fronts like the National
Endowment for Democracy and a unifying hatred
of China - based exclusively on talking points
pushed by the US State Department itself.
Circling back to the Pentagon Papers and recalling the
coordinated, regional campaign the US sought to
encircle China with – we can then look at more
recent US government policy papers like the
“Indo-Pacific Framework” published in the
White House archives from the Trump
administration.
The policy paper’s first bullet point asks:
How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific
region, and promote a liberal economic order, while
preventing China from establishing new, illiberal
spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of
cooperation to promote regional peace
and prosperity?
The paper also discusses information campaigns designed
to “educate” the world about “China’s coercive behaviour
and to influence operations around the globe.” These
campaigns have materialized in a propaganda war
fabricating accusations of “Chinese genocide” in
Xinjiang, China, claims that Chinese telecom
company Huawei is a global security threat,
and that China – not the US – is the single
largest threat to global peace and
stability today.
In reality US policy aimed at encircling China -- is
predicated upon Washington’s desire to continue
its own decades-long impunity upon the global
stage, and the continuation of all the wars,
humanitarian crises, and abuses, that
have stemmed from it.
Understanding the full scope of Washington’s
“competition” with China... helps unlock the
confusion surrounding unfolding individual
crises like the trade war; the ongoing
violence and turmoil in Myanmar;
bombings in southwest Pakistan;
students mobs in Thailand; riots
in Hong Kong; and attempts by
the US to transform the South
China Sea, into an inter- national conflict.
Understanding that these events are all connected - then
assessing the success or failure of US efforts - gives us a clearer picture of the overall success of Washington in encircling China. It also gives governments and
regional blocs a clearer picture of how to manage policy, in protecting against US subversion: that threatens national, regional, and global peace
and stability.
Brian Berletic, is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
Australians should be ashamed that they have a regime propped up to serve US racist agendas!
How Exceptional America Is
by Eric Zuesse
September 30th, 2020
America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes
at the UN General Assembly - the Assembly of nations - only
Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and
all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to
prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other
nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions,
the U.S. arm-twists other delegations -- in order to get
them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark,
and less embarrassing, America’s international
isolation. But America is also extraordinarily
exceptional in other ways, which have
nothing to do with the UN.
America is truly an exceptional nation. As the
Republican Party magazine National Review
stated, on September 15th, “Last week,
the US and Israel were the only states to vote against a General Assembly resolution on the coronavirus response. Some have seized upon that vote to paint the
USt as a bad faith actor that stands alone in the world.”
However, this vote wasn’t about only “the global
coronavirus response.” It was — perhaps even
more importantly - about U.S. sanctions against
Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China, and other
countries that the U.S. regime considers to be
its enemies. (None of these countries ever
invaded or even threatened to invade
the USA; all of those sanctions are
100% U.S. aggression.
They are target-countries that America’s aristocracy
wants to take over. (The world’s U.S.-sanctioned
countries are marked in red -- on the map of the
world below.) Israel strongly supports sanctions
against both Syria and Venezuela, and routinely
invades and bombs Syria just for good measure.
So, it joined America’s position on that.
That UN General Assembly vote was held on September
11th. America’s Associated Press bannered the next day,
“UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel
object”, and reported that, “The 193-member world body
adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2, with Ukraine
and Hungary abstaining. It was a strong show of unity
by the UN’s most representative body, though many
countries had hoped for adoption by consensus.”
The AP further stated:
It calls on governments and international financial institutions
“to provide more liquidity in the financial system, especially
in all developing countries.” It supports recovery plans that
“drive transformative change towards more inclusive and
just societies, including by empowering and engaging all
women and girls.”
And it urges UN member nations “to adopt a climate- and
environment-responsive approach to COVID-19 recovery
efforts”, including by aligning investments and domestic
policies with the UN goals & the 2015 Paris agreement
to combat climate change. …
By a vote of 132-3, the assembly amended the resolution to
urge all countries “to refrain from promulgating and applying
any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in
accordance with international law and the Charter of the
United Nations that impedes the full achievement of
economic and social development, particularly in
developing countries.”
The United States was then overwhelmingly defeated in
attempts to remove 2 paragraphs from the resolution,
one referring to women’s rights to “sexual and
reproductive health” --- and the other --- to
“promoting global sustainable transport.”
In addition to arguing against the language on sanctions,
the United States opposed all references to the World
Health Organization, which the US administration had
stopped funding, accusing the UN agency of failing
to do enough to stop the virus from spreading
when it first surfaced in China.
Nowhere in the AP’s article was any mention made that
in the “vote of 169-2,” the two nations which had voted
against the Resolution were the US and Israel, but only
that there had been “objections from the United States
and Israel,” regarding attachment, to the Resolution, of
the Amendment that added the anti-sanctions provision
to it. This omission was not an error. It is a type of
omission that is common in propaganda. America
was more isolated than that ‘news’-report
made clear.
This vote was about only a “Resolution,” a statement of
the various nations’ values, to work toward, not about
any nation’s policy, but the U.S. and Israel don’t share
those goals — not even rhetorically. This opposition
to that Resolution’s goals, was truly exceptional.
In particular, nothing is more abhorrent to the US regime
--- than to stop or impede its sanctions. These sanctions
include, for example, punishments against any company
or government that will, in any way, assist in Russia’s 96%
completed NordStream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany,
for the EU to buy Russia’s pipelined natural gas instead of
America’s fracked, canned, shipped, natural gas. The U.S.
regime insists that EU nations buy the far costlier trans-
Atlantic-shipped fracked US liquefied natural gas (LNG).
That insistence upon the EU’s wasting money, in order to
prop-up America’s fracking industry, is, indeed, exceptional,
because European nations haven’t customarily been treated
as being mere colonies of other powers. America is treating
purchasers from, or cooperators with, that competitor (Russia),
as being its enemies. The way the U.S. Representative stated
this (after a lengthy diatribe which blamed China for Covid-19
and said that the U.S. had quit the World Health Organization
because WHO lacked “independence from the Chinese
Communist Party”) was: “Economic sanctions are a
legitimate means to achieve foreign policy, security,
and other national and international objectives, and
the United States is not alone in that view or in that
practice.” (That exact same sentence had, earlier,
been stated by the US regarding a different matter,
on 18 November 2019.) Actually, the U.S. regime is
very “alone” on it. Furthermore, the other part was
also a lie: the U.S. regime asserts that coercing
corporations and countries to not buy from the
lowest-cost supplier, is within its sovereign
right to do.
However, as Professor Alfred de Zayas, who until recently was
the UN’s top expert on this topic, explained in depth on 27th
June 2019, that assertion is blatantly false, on many clear
grounds concerning international law. It is a blatant lie, no
matter how many times the U.S. regime asserts it (and
asserts that the US regime isn’t “alone” in asserting it).
Even back when Barack Obama (the man who repeatedly
claimed that “The United States is and remains, the one
indispensable nation”) was America’s President, the US
was exceptional at the United Nations. For example, on
24th November 2014, I headlined “U.S. Among Only 3
Countries Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-
Denial”, and reported that - “In a UN vote, on
November 21st, only 3 countries - the US, Ukraine, and Canada — voted against a resolution to condemn racist fascism,
or nazism, and to condemn denial of Germany’s World War II Holocaust against, primarily, Jews.''
This measure passed the General Assembly, on a vote of 115
in favour, 3 against, & 55 abstentions (the abstentions were
in order not to offend U.S. President Obama, who was
opposed to the resolution).” Then, on 21 June 2015,
I headlined “America’s UN Ambassador Continues
Standing Up for Nazis” and noted that, again,
Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power,
had stood up for nazism; she had just
delivered an address -- in Ukraine --
rallying that country’s supporters
of nazism to war against Russia.
Then, on 21 November 2017, I headlined “Trump
Continues Obama’s Support of Nazism”, and
reported that:
On November 16th, US President Donald Trump, acting
through an agent of his agent, UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley, voted at the UN against a resolution that
condemns bigotry, and especially condemns
nazism & all forms of racism. He thus, yet
again, continues in the tradition from his
predecessors, Presidents Obama, and
Bush, each year, placing this nation in
the company of only one or two U.S.
allies throughout the world who join
with the US in refusing to commit to
opposing and doing everything to
reduce, not just political Nazism
(which, of course, is past), but
ideological nazism, racist
fascism - institutionalized
bigotry (which, sadly, is
not past).
But, be that as it may, the U.S. is also exceptional in
many other ways. I listed some of those on July 13th.
There are two main reasons why the U.S. regime is able
to coerce other nations to not violate its will. One is that
although publicly available reports allege it spends
approximately 37% of the entire world’s military
expenditures, the U.S. regime actually - spends
around 50% of the entire world’s military costs,
and therefore, it possesses an extraordinary
physical capacity to impose its will, if and
when merely economically blockading an
‘enemy’ country (via sanctions) fails to do the job of getting it to comply.
And the other main reason is that, since the US government
is at least as corrupt as the average “third-world” country is,
but is instead one of the world’s richest countries, arranging
pay-offs to other world leaders, in order to obtain their
cooperation, is easily affordable... (These payoffs are
being paid by all US.taxpayers, not by only America’s
billionaires, who reap all of the profits from the
empire that is imposed.)
American exceptionalism is real. It’s not the type of
exceptionalism that the regime’s propaganda claims
to be the case, but, nonetheless, it is real.
(Strategic Culture Foundation)
Please watch the video above... We have never existed in such peril, and yet almost no-one is able to act.
Nuclear words: Putin's FINAL warning:
(People DO need reminding -- unless US, UK and French policy changes, and stops being so 'exceptional' -- that is, outside the UN legal Charter and thus, criminal --- there will be a reaping.)
BREAKING: Russia's State TV Advising Russian Citizens on how to survive a World War ! WAKE UP NOW - AND STOP THE WAR ON CHINA/RUSSIA !
The Doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists website now has the final singular moment that will bring civilization to final nuclear annihilation, at 90 seconds to midnight.
This is the closest it has ever been. Scott Ritter says it should be 2 seconds
World Will Not Survive the US' Neocons' Doctrine of US World Hegemony - Paul Graig Roberts Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
"The government of the United States is clearly in demonic hands. We are overflowing with proof", writes American well known analytist and ex- official Paul Graig Roberts in his website.
Take today (2-2-18) for example. A report from the House Intelligence Committee was released that is proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice --- and the Democrat National Committee, are now in a conspiracy against American democracy and the President of the United States, with the full support of the presstitute media.
As if that is not enough, also released today, is the Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear posture review specifies a country’s attitude to nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture reviews, nuclear weapons were regarded as unusable except in retaliation for a nuclear attack. The assumption was that no one would use them. There was always the chance that false warnings of incoming ICBMs would result in a nuclear button being pushed - setting off Armageddon.
There were many false warnings during the Cold War
President Ronald Reagan, was very concerned about a false warning, ending in mass death & destruction.
This is why his principal goal was to end the Cold War, which he succeeded in doing. It did not take successor governments long, to resurrect the Cold War.
The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible, and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part of the existing arsenal of the United States would be sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture review calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear weapons as “usable,” and justifies their use in First Strikes, even against countries that do not have nuclear weapons.
This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that the US government, believes in the first use of nuclear weapons against any & every country. Nuclear powers such as Russia & China must see this to be a massive increase in the threat level from the US.
Those responsible for this document should be committed to insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they can put it into action.
The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators. Most neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel. Some are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of US world hegemony, specifying that the chief goal of US foreign policy, is to prevent the rise of any other power that could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.
As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this explains US hostility toward Russia and China and also the neo-conservatives’ use of the US military to remove governments in the Middle East, seen by Israel as obstacles to Israeli expansion. For two decades --- the US has been fighting wars for Israel in the Middle East. This fact proves the power and influence of the insane neo- conservatives. It is certain, that people as insane as the neoconservatives, would launch a nuclear attack on Russiaand China.
The Russian and Chinese governments seem to be completely unaware of the threat that the neo- conservatives pose to them. I have never experienced in interviews with Russians and Chinese, any awareness of the neo- conservative ideology. Possibly, it is too insane for them to grasp.
Ideologues such as the neoconservatives are not fact-based
They are chasing their dream of world hegemony. Russia & China are in the way of this hegemony. Having learned the limits of conventional military power—after 20 years the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan—the neo-conservatives know: conventional invasions of Russia or China, would lead to the total defeat of US forces.
Therefore, the neoconservatives have elevated nuclear weapons to a First Strike, usable, arsenal that in the neoconservative dream of world hegemony can be used to destroy Russia and China.
Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts create a virtual world for themselves. Their belief in their ideology blinds them to the risks for them- selves and others that they impose on the world.
Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the entirety of the world is faced with a far more likely nuclear demise than ever threatened us during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
By its collaboration with the military/security complex & the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left has forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every thinking person worldwide as an insane propaganda ministry --- for the neoconservatives’ plan to use nuclear weapons to eliminate constraints on US unilateralism.
The liberal/progressive/left has endorsed “hegemony or death.”
They will get death. For all of us.
(Source - DONi News Agency)
According to: PaulGraigRoberts.org
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Full Text: Official Declaration of the Malorossiyan Federation
Zakharchenko announces a new federal state, Malorossiya, (means ''Little Russia'') as the legal successor of Ukraine. DONi News Agency
On 18.7.2017 the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, declared the creation of a new federal state, Malorossiya, which will become the legal successor of 'Ukraine'. The new state formation, will consist of 19 regions of the former Ukraine with the capital in Donetsk city. Kiev remains a historical and cultural centre, without the status of capital city.
Here is the full English translation of the declaration:
Political Declaration
The project of the state of "Ukraine", formulated 150 years ago and implemented in different versions during the 20th century, has reached its logical conclusion --- and led to the country's disintegration, civil war and the death of tens of thousands of people, including children, women, and elderly people.
And this process is irreversible. An attempt to turn the story back will result in "balkanization" of the conflict, expansion of chaos, escalation of civil war and even bigger numbers of casualties.
To stop the civil war and avoid new victims, we representatives of the majority of the regions of former "Ukraine" assembled in Donetsk on July 18, 2017, discussed the current situation and came to the following conclusions:
- the state of "Ukraine" has revealed itself as a failed state and demonstrated its being incapable of granting its inhabitants a peaceful and prosperous present and future;
- the current authorities – elected in Kiev, after the coup d'etat, against the backdrop of political terror and the absence of elections in the Crimea and Donbass, are illegitimate;
- the state of "Ukraine" is on the brink of economic catastrophe and depopulation;
- an ultranationalist coup is brewing in Kiev, as a result of which outright neo-Nazis will come to power insteadof "Banderites with a European face";
- the Ukrainian nationalistic project (the Galician one) has discredited itself, by the shedding of civilians' blood in the country;
- the ideology of "Ukrainism" has proved to be misanthropic, mixed with xenophobia (Russophobia, anti-Semitism, Polonophobia) and neo-Nazism (the ideology of national exclusivity and superiority);
- resulting from historical development and due to the Maidan, the word "Ukraine" is forever associated with the names of the Nazi accomplices, Bandera and Shukhevich, with the tragedies of the Baby Yar, the Volyn massacre & Khatyn, and, nowadays, with the mass murder of people on the Maidan, in the Trade Unions' House in Odessa, and Genocide of the Donbass people.
On the basis of the above, we believe that the state of "Ukraine", in the form it was established, after the collapse of the USSR, is UNSERVICEABLE.
We, representatives of the regions of the former "Ukraine", propose to re-establish the state and to proclaim the state of MALOROSSIYA, under an historical background, out of the former "Ukraine". In this case, it is of fundamental importance to rename the country, since "Ukraine" as a state, is guilty of war crimes, mass terror and the genocide of its own people.
In turn, the new name of the country, based on historical traditions, will enable us to reunify those pieces of the former "Ukraine" that seemed to have parted ways forever, including because of participation in the civil war, on different sides of the front line.
We must turn the page of our people's history, which is flooded with the blood of our brothers and sisters.
Malorossiya is an INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN state, with a new name, a new flag, a new constitution, a new state structure, new principles of social and economic development, and new historical prospectives.
But this is NOT A REVOLUTION ! This is a return to history. This is a novelty that restores, not destroys.
In view of the economic plight of the country, the chaos & disintegration potential, and regarding the possibility of launching a "war of all against all", we consider it necessary to declare a state of emergency for the transition period – up to 3 years. During this time, the process of adoption of the new Constitution and the establishment of the rule of law, should be completed.
Under a state of emergency, a ban on the activities of political parties and foreign funds is to be introduced, & penalties for criminal offenses, especially against the person, are to be increased. The fight against corruption will be toughened, as well as the penalties for it.The shadow arms market is to be eliminated, including by registering weapons in accordance with the new law.
In the same period an investigation is to be carried out, with the involvement of foreign specialists –- from Russia, Belarus & the European Union –- into the crimes committed by the Maidan Kiev regime: the murders on the Maidan, the murder of Odessa citizens in the Trade Unions' House on May 2nd, 2014, and the war crimes in Donbass, in the so-called ATO.
In the same period, the People's Tribunal is to be prepared to charge the state criminals who have led the country into disintegration and civil war: V.F. Yanukovich (with a request to Russia for his extradition), P.A. Poroshenko and his clique: Turchinov, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Paruby, Nalivaichenko and others.
We are sure that, having recovered from the criminal neo-Nazi ideology of "Ukrainism", we will be able to build a new society on the basis of friendship and mutual assistance -- but not hatred and envy. The creative genius of our people will manage to bring Malorossiya to the forefront of global civilization and play a role in history. The role of Good, and Truth.
Official translation by the DONi Donbass News Agency, 07/18/2017
(Source - Russia Insider)
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Nato – A Dangerous Alliance May 24th
As Nato ends its summit in Brussels, Rae Street explains why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace
When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism, some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up too. After all, the Labour Party in Britain had been opposed to Nato in the mid-1980s. But that was not to be. The US, which had always dominated Nato, quickly began to reinvent Nato and furthermore, to expand it.
Following the end of the Warsaw Pact many central and east European governments wanted to join Nato. This, of course, was music to the ears of the US military manufacturers. Indeed, the chair of the expand Nato committee, Bruce Jackson, was technical director of Lockheed Martin, the largest military manufacturer in the world. So, for the new Nato members because of the policy on “interoperability,” that is Nato personnel being able to use the same military equipment, it was out with the old Soviet military hard- ware and in with sales of, for example, Lockheed’s military aircraft ,costing millions of dollars.
This continues to this day in countries which can ill afford it, with struggling economies. The latter includes Greece. Think of the situation in Greece today.
Expanding Nato up to the borders with Russia, was a provocative policy. The dangers were pointed out but the military industrial complex and the “hawks” in the West, took no notice.
To this day, this helps President Vladimir Putin: more and more of the Russian people believe that “the West” is against them.
Decades later, we read: “British troops have arrived in Estonia, as part of a major Nato mission in the Baltic states, to deter Russian aggression.”
From the start, Nato has always held a nuclear armed policy. It continues to claim that nuclear weapons “preserve peace.” Manifestly, nuclear weapons do not deter conflict.
Governments, including Britain’s, now analyse the main threats to security as cyber warfare and terrorism. Remember September 11th 2001, when New York was attacked by terrorists in planes, brandishing knives?
The US then had and still has, 13 nuclear armed Trident submarines, of which several will be roaming the seas fully operational. Britain has four, with one constantly on alert at sea.
Were these any use in the madman’s attack on Westminster, or in any terrorist attacks?
Trident is “integrated” into Nato. Even worse, Nato still has a policy of “first use of nuclear weapons.”
When the then minister of defence, Geoff Hoon, was asked in Parliament why Britain has a policy of “first use,” he replied: “Because of our obligations to Nato.”
Under the direction of the US administration, with its policy of global domination, Nato has established a string of nuclear-armed bases across Europe, in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey, at Incirlik.
The latter is now causing deep problems as relations between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the US, become more and more fractious.
There is now a real problem for Nato, as Erdogan is a repressive dictator — how can Turkey remain in Nato?
Nato states are supposed to uphold principles of human rights and democracy, notably lacking in Turkey today.
The nuclear-armed bases come under Nato’s “nuclear sharing policy” — in effect a violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Nato continues to expand. The policy of not acting “out of area” was dropped long ago. “North Atlantic” simply means, a domination of policies by the US.
Nato claims in its “strategic concept” that “the promotion of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organisations around the globe.”
In 1994 Nato established the Partnerships for Peace across Europe, extending as far as Uzbekistan.
Nato surrounds Russia from the west and east. These Partnerships for Peace (note the language again) now include 22 states, including “neutral” Ireland.
Then there is the ''Mediterranean Dialogue,'' with ''arrangements'' with countries in the Middle East. Few people realise that Nato carries out military exercises with Israel.
Nato has also established bilateral relations — named individual partnerships — with Afghanistan, Australia, Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand and Pakistan.
In this part of the globe, where Nato carried out a military exercise in 2014 with Japan, named Ocean Shield, they are surrounding and menacing China, as the enemy.
Then there was the statement by Nato that “co-operation between Nato and the United Nations continues to make a substantial contribution to security in operations round the world.
“The alliance aims to deepen political dialogue and practical co-operation with the UN, as set out in the Nato/UN declaration, signed in 2008.”
This seems like Nato bidding to be the UN's military arm.
This hardly accords with the UN Charter. It was the Organisation for Security & Co-operation in Europe, set up under Chapter 8, of the UN Charter, to prevent and resolve conflict by non-military means and to promote co-operation in humanitarian and other fields.
The 54 member states stretch from Iceland to Kyrgyzstan and include Russia. Alas, how many times do you read of their work in the press, compared with the times you hear about Nato?
Nato is sold to us as a peace-making body. After all, the US is home to the finest PR companies in the world.
To summarise, Nato is pursuing yet more militarism and war:
- All Nato states are required to increase their military budgets to 2 per cent of GDP. That means stealing more money from social needs. Readers of the Morning Star know those all too well: the NHS, education, adult social services; the list is endless.
- Nato member states will have to spend 20 per cent of defence budgets on military equipment: warships, war planes, drones, bombs. By fuelling the arms race, Nato makes a mockery of moves for conflict resolution.
- Nato and its member states multiply interventions outside their territory and increase their presence through world- wide partnerships and “coalitions of the willing.”
- Nato extends its nuclear policies as a supreme “guarantee for the allies’ security,” notwithstanding that the majority of countries in the world are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. In the meantime, nuclear weapons in Europe — under the guise of Nato — and elsewhere, are being modernised at a cost of many tens of billions of dollars and pounds. Think of Trident at a cost of £205 billion.
The Nato summit will be held and activists will beholding a “counter-summit” with protesters organising workshops and a demonstration.
CND activists will be there from the UK, but -- we also need people to raise the issues with their MPs, write letters to the press and raise awareness on social media.
Let’s put pressure on the government to invest in social welfare, not Nato, not war.
(Source - Morning Star)
Legendary memorial at Saur-Tomb ''restored by May 2017''
DPR authorities have finished restoring the Saur-Tomb by May 2017. It was announced by the Building Minister, Sergey Naymets.
‘Saur Tomb has been being restored since November, and we planned to finish this by May 2017’, the Minister said.
He said "many people contributed to this project of restoration of the memorial damaged by shelling," Naumets noted.
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[Eng Subs] Children of Donbass, "Toys for Poroshenko" Music Video by Artem Grishanov
POWERFUL - PUT THIS ON HEADPHONES. I guarantee you will cry - and if you don't - please seek psychiatric help.
In 2017 in the Donbass - give the children Peace!
Ethnic Ruthenes of sub-Carpathian Ukraine demand autonomy
Activists of a Slavic ethnic group known as Ruthenes -- or Rusyns -- who reside in the Trans-Carpathian (sub-Carpathian) region of Ukraine, have turned to President Pyotr Poroshenko with a demand:
recognize the results of 1991's regional referendum --- when 78% of the region's residents, voted in favor of granting it the status of a self-governing region.
"We have two main demands - to recognize the Rhuthenes as an ethnos and to acknowledge the regional referendum of 1991, where 78% sub-Carpathians voted for the region being a self-governed territory within Ukraine," Vesti quoted Ivan Palinkash, the leader of the Ruthene movement & a member of the People’s Council's presidium of Sub-Carpathian Ruthenes.
Natalya Magalina, a deputy of Uzhgorod district council, told the meeting of leaders of Ruthene ethnic organizations it is important to maintain the Ruthene language by establishing minimal norms for broadcasting in the native tongue, over the state regional TV Channel Tisa-1.
This isn't the first time that the Ruthenes of the sub- Carpathian area have asked the Kiev government to recognize the outcome of the referendum held 25 years ago. The Coordination Council of Ruthene Organizations of the Trans-Carpathian Region turned to the central authorities with the same requirement, the previous time, in the summer of 2015.
It was also in the summer of 2015 that the activists of Ruthene organizations adopted an appeal to the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe & the UN, as well as to the parliaments of Hungary, the Czech Republic, & Slovakia, to wield pressure on President Poroshenko and force the Ukrainian government towards accepting the result of their referendum.
The Ruthenes are an indigenous sub-Carpathian people. Ukrainian authorities do not consider them to be a separate ethnos, and continue calling them Ukrainians, although the UN has issued recommendations more than once, to recognize their status as a separate ethnos.
More than that, Kiev accuses the leaders of Ruthene organizations of making appeals for encroachments on the territorial integrity of the country.
(source - TASS)
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Zionist lobby preventing West from criticizing Israel: Analyst Fri Dec 16, 2016
The European Union has censured the Israeli regime for destroying Palestinian shelters and structures in the occupied territories. According to a statement by the European bloc, the Tel Aviv regime has demolished 866 structures so far in 2016 in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli military control.
Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of the American Herald Tribune from Alberta, says that the European states have been under the influence of the Zionist lobby to go along with Israeli interests - and thus refuse to slam crimes against the Palestinian people.
“Every government within the EU has a very strong Israeli lobby, and this is one of the dilemmas that the Western people are facing,”Hall explained.
“Not only the governing parties but the opposition parties as well, are constraining discussion and discourse within a very narrow range, that puts Israeli priorities at the top of the list in all our Western countries,”he added.
The professor also called on Western citizens to“intervene directly and make contact with the Palestinian people, directly.”
“We, as the citizens in the EU, citizens in Canada, & citizens in the US, have to find ways to bypass the constraints of our governments & the biases and power of this lobby over our governments,” he noted.
Hall criticized the EU for its forensic accounting of homes demolished in Palestine.
“This type of numerical accounting fails to really describe the nature of this destruction of homes in its broader context ------ where thousands of Palestinian people are in dungeons and being tortured in Israeli incarceration facilities,” he said.
“The reality: that the world is letting this happen is very discouraging,” he added.
Hall warned that the prospect of a Palestinian state is no longer viable, given the emphasis on building up settlements, and destroying the structures of the indigenous people of Palestine.
"This goes beyond apartheid,” he said.
The Israeli policy of demolishing houses in the West Bank to build illegal settler units has affected 5,704 Palestinians, of whom, 1,221 have been rendered homeless, including 586 children.
(source - PressTv)
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UN Adopts"Paper Tiger" Resolution, on Israel's Withdrawal from the Syrian Golan
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi -The UN General Assembly adopted yet another resolution demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, in line with a resolution of June 4, 1967.
However, UN General Assembly resolutions are non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, with- out a unanimous decision by the permanent UN Security Council members, to enforce them; A highly unlikely prospect.
In its latest resolution, the UN General Assembly again condemned Israel's non-compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981).
The General Assembly reiterated that Israel's decision from December 14th, 1981, to impose Israeli laws, administration & custody on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is null and void -- and has no legality at all.
The latest UNGA resolution was adopted by an overwhelming majority of UN member States.
The resolution --- reaffirmed the illegality of acquiring territories ----- through the use of military force. The General Assembly also repeated that Israel's continued occupation & enforcement of Israeli law & administration violates international law, the UN Charter, & the Geneva Convention's principles on the protection of civilians during war.
During the UNGA session, a number of states condemned the Israeli practices in occupied Syrian Golan, calling on Israel to withdraw from Golan, in line with June 4th, 1967.
37 states proposed the now adopted draft resolution. However, UNGA resolutions are non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, unless permanent Security Council members are willing to put their money where their mouth was, when they adopted UNSC Resolution 497 (1981) - decades ago.
Moreover, none of the permanent UNSC members - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - took any tangible steps when the now former Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, defiantly declared that "Israel and the Golan are part and parcel" and that "the international community should get used to facing the fact that Israel will permanently annex the Syrian territory".
Most favourite scapegoat
The favorite scapegoat among permanent UNSC members, with regard to supporting Israel and neglecting Israel's illegal occupation of Golan is the US. However, Russia is in no way more actively pursuing Israel's adherence with UNSC Resolution 497 (1981) -- than any other -- of the self-anointed permanent UNSC members. In April 2016, Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin, were ominously silent about the Golan when Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited Moscow.
Russia failed to respond to what Netanyahu had declared "a red line" - occupation of the Golan.
A brief review of recent history pertaining to the Israeli occupation, international affairs & Israel's use of the Golan to wage war on Syria, suffices to show that the UN System has failed, utterly, and that it is perverted to the point that many analysts call for abolishing the UN altogether.
In June 2013 an Austrian UN Disengagement & Observer Force (UNDOF) officer told the press that Israel is -- running a joint operations room with the insurgents in Syria in the Golan.The UNSC failed to respond and more importantly, failed to take action. In July 2013, the Syrian permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, noted how Israel, since it occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967, has displaced about half a million of the Golan´s original inhabitants.
Also in Feb. 2014, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu preempted a public relations quagmire by visiting a field hospital for "Syrian Freedom Fighters" in the Golan to show how much Israel cares and does, on the humanitarian front. It turned out that the "Freedom Fighters" belonged to the Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.
In March 2014, Israel launched one of many military attacks against Syrian military and security forces, from the Golan, while the UNSC and most media were "silent".
In April 2014 The Director of Israel's Military Intelligence, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi, a protegé of the now deceased Ariel Sharon, was appointed to head the Israeli Defense Forces Northern Command.
NSNBC international editor-in-chief, Christof Lehmann, reported that the appointment of Kochavi, indicated that Israel was planning large-scale military operations in the Golan in the near future and the widening of the Syria war. Lehmann was right on the money.
In May 2014 Israel denied Syrians in Golan the right to participate in Syrian elections. The UN was "silent". In mid-April 2016, ahead of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that Israel would hold on to the Golan.
A UNDOF withdrawal has left a 12-16 km wide corridor uncontrolled by the UNDOF... In 2013, it transpired that Israel was giving support to Jabhat al-Nusrah, such as a joint intelligence and military operations room in the Israeli occupied Golan, plus logistical support, weapons, field hospitals, and direct combat support.
In September 2014, Israeli machinations, resulted in the displacement of UNDOF troops from a 12-16 kilometer-wide corridor in the disengagement zone in the Golan by Jabhat Al-Nusra.. The corridor has since been used to supply Al-Nusra and the other terrorists and to launch attacks against Syria.
All permanent UNSC members with the exception of Russia were "silent". Russian diplomats tentatively spoke out against terminating the peace keeping mission in the Golan. The UNSC failed to act.
In 2015 it came out that Israel planned a major hydrocarbon extraction project in the Golan. Partners in crime include Genier Energy.
On the board of directors? Dick Cheney, James Woolsey, Bill Richardson, Jacob Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Larry Summers and Michael Steinhardt, among others. Other players involved include the Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil and Gas, American Shale, French Total and BP. Thus, there exists a broad and powerful nexus of US, British, French and Israeli interests: at the forefront of pushing for the break-up of Syria and control of what's believed to be potentially vast untapped oil and gas resources in the country.
On April 20th, 2016, NSNBC international editor- in-chief Christof Lehmann -- said Netanyahu's "Red Line" would be a litmus test for Russia, as a permanent UNSC member. On April 21st, after talks between Netanyahu and Putin in Moscow, it could be concluded that Russia failed -- spectacularly.
In September 2016, Israel started a wave of home demolitions in the Golan. The UNSC was "silent".
In October 2016, Israel announced plans to build 1,600 settlement units in the Golan, & none of the permanent UNSC members took any action.
So much for the latest UN General Assembly paper tiger.
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The UK Labour MPs who didn’t back the Yemen vote have blood on their hands by David Wearing
Presenting the motion in the Commons, Thornberry was subjected to a series of ill-judged interruptions by Labour MPs, such as Kevan Jones, Toby Perkins and John Woodcock. Indeed, Thornberry received more vocal support in the chamber from the SNP group than from her own supposed comrades.
According to subsequent reports, some Labour members even tried to work with their Tory counterparts, in order to defeat their own party’s motion.
Woodcock, a former 'Progress' Chair, claimed that British support is “precisely focused on training the Saudis” to improve their targeting - so as to “create fewer civilian casualties” - parroting the official government line. The idea that the Saudis’ “widespread & systematic” attacks on civilian targets are just a series of well- meaning errors, is one that, to put it as gently as possible, lacks credibility.
And if decades of training provided by the British to the Saudi pilots hasn’t prevented these supposed errors by now --- it seems rather unlikely that it will in the near future.
In any case, this misrepresents the true nature of the UK's role. When the intervention began, the foreign secretary Philip Hammond, vowed to “support the Saudis in every practical way short of engaging in combat”, including “spare parts, maintenance, technical advice, resupply” and “logistical support”. The reality is that the Saudi Air Force, roughly half UK-supplied and half US-supplied jets, could barely function, without this ongoing assistance from Washington and London.
If there is Yemeni blood on the hands of the Saudi-led coalition - then that blood is also on the hands of the coalition’s western backers, enablers and apologists.
The Saudis and their allies can only wage this war because the Anglo-American suppliers of their air forces are providing active, material support. And British and American politicians can only collude in these outrages, because the political cost on them, so far, has been low. However, it is in the gift of their constituents – you, the reader – to change that equation.
(source - The Guardian)
This could be defeated --- with a UNITED LABOUR PARTY !!!
But unfortunately, there are "entryist" MPs who, for decades, have been groomed by CIA cold war relic organisations -- like the Atlantic Council -- and are now trying to misdirect the Labour Party towards cuts, a militarised police, and a US war agenda... and their anti-peace MPs are hobbling Labour.
129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The vote was defeated by a majority of 90.
The motion called for ---- support to be withdrawn from the Saudi government until a United Nations investigation could determine whether the Saudi bombing had breached international law.
The motion didn't explicitly include a suspension of UK arms sales.
100+ Labour MPs didn't vote on the motion. If all of them had voted to support it, the government would have been defeated.
The following, are the Labour MPs who abstained, or weren't present to vote.
Adrian Bailey Andy Burnham Angela Eagle Angela Smith Ann Clwyd Ann Coffey Anna Turley Barry Sheerman Ben Bradshaw Bridgit Phillipson Caroline Flint Catherine McKinnell Chris Bryant Chris Elmore (Teller) Chris Evans Chris Leslie Clive Lewis (ill) Connor McGinn Dan Jarvis David Crausby David Lammy Diana Johnson Fiona MacTaggart Frank Field Gareth Thomas Gavin Shuker Geoffrey Robinson George Howarth Gerald Kaufman Gill Furniss Gisela Stuart Gloria De Piero Graeme Jones Graham Allen Graham Stringer Heidi Alexander Helen Jones Ian Austin Ian Murray Ivan Lewis Jamie Reed Jim Fitzpatrick Joan Ryan John Mann John Spellar John Woodcock Judith Cummins (Teller) Julie Elliott Kate Hoey Keith Vaz Kevan Jones Kevin Barron Liz Kendall Luciana Berger Lucy Powell Madeleine Moon Margaret Beckett Margaret Hodge Maria Eagle Mark Hendrick Mary Creagh Meg Hillier (Paired) Melanie Onn Michael Dugher Mike Gapes Natascha Engel Neil Coyle Nia Griffith Pat McFadden Paul Flynn Peter Kyle Phil Wilson Rachel Reeves Rob Flello Rob Marris Roberta Blackman-Woods Rosie Cooper Rushanara Ali Ruth Smeeth Shabana Mahmood Siobhain McDonagh Stephen Kinnock Susan Jones Toby Perkins Tom Blenkinsopp Tom Watson Tracy Brabin Tristram Hunt Vernon Coaker Wayne David Wes Streeting Yasmin Qureshi Yvonne Fovargue
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‘How Can I Deselect My Labour MP?’ A Short Guideto Reselection and Democratic Accountability by Eric Sim, excellent free advice here:
Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. He also wrote the chapters on “Obama at War” in Grading the 44th President: a Report Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a Progressive (Lol) Leader.
In the past weeks, Burundi and S. Africa have joined Namibia in declaring their intention to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They are likely to be followed by a parade of other African countries, jeopardizing the future of an international court, which has prosecuted 39 officials from 8 African countries, but has failed to indict a single person who is not African.
Ironically, African countries were among the first to embrace the ICC, so it is a striking turnaround that they are now the first to give up on it.
But it is the United States that has played the leading role in preventing the ICC from fulfilling the universal mandate for which it was formed, to hold officials of all countries accountable for the worst crimes in the world: genocide; crimes against humanity; and war crimes - not least, international aggression, which the judges at Nuremberg defined as “the supreme international crime”, from which, all other war crimes follow.
As the ICC’s founding father, former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, lamented in 2011: “You don’t have to be a criminologist to realize that if you want to deter a crime, you must persuade potential criminals that, if they commit crimes, they will be hauled into court and be held accountable. It is the policy of the US to do just the opposite as far as the crime of aggression is concerned.
"Our government has gone to great pains --- to be sure that no US citizen will be tried by any international criminal court, for the supreme crime of illegal war-making.”
The US has not only refused to accept the jurisdiction of the ICC over its own citizens. It's gone further, pressuring other countries to sign Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIA), in which they renounce the right to refer US citizens to the ICC for war crimes committed on their territory.
The US has also threatened to cut off US aid to countries that refuse to sign them. The BIAs violate those countries’ own commitments under the ICC statute, and US pressure to sign them, has been rightly condemned: as an outrageous effort to ensure impunity for US war crimes.
Resistance to US Impunity
To the credit of our international neighbours, this US strategy has met with substantial resistance. The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution, stating that BIAs are incompatible with EU membership, and urging EU- member states and countries seeking EU membership not to sign them.
Fifty-four countries have publicly refused to sign BIAs, and 24 have accepted cut-offs of US aid as a consequence of their refusal. Of 102 countries that have signed a BIA, only 48 are members of the ICC in any case ----- and only 15 of those countries are on record as having ratified the BIAs in their own parliaments.
Thirty-two other ICC members have apparently allowed BIAs to take effect without parliament- ary ratification, but this has been challenged by their own country’s legal experts in many cases.
The US campaign to undermine the ICC is part of a much broader effort by the US government to evade all forms of accountability under the laws that are supposed to govern international behaviour in the modern world --- even as it continues to masquerade as a global champion of the rule of law.
The treaties US policy systematically violates today, were crafted by US statespersons and diplomats, working with foreign colleagues, to build a world where all people will enjoy some basic protections... from the worst atrocities, instead of being subject only to the law of the jungle or “might makes right.”
So current US policy is a cynical betrayal of the work and wisdom of past generations of US citizens, as well as of countless victims over the world to whom we are effectively denying the protections of the UN Charter & Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and many other multilateral treaties our country ignores, violates or refuses to ratify.
Avoiding jurisdiction in international courts is only one of the ways that the US evades international accountability for its criminal behaviour. Another involves an elaborate, well-disguised, public relations campaign that exploits the powerful position of US corporations in the world of commercial media.
Major Propaganda Funding
The US government spends a billion dollars per year on public relations or, more bluntly, propaganda, including $600 million from the Pentagon budget. The work of its PR teams and contractors is laundered by US news- papers --- and repeated and analyzed ad nauseam, by monolithic, flag-waving TV networks.
These profitable corporate operations monopolize the public airwaves in the US, and also use their financial clout, slick marketing, and the support of the US State Department to maintain a power- ful presence in foreign and international media markets.
Foreign media in allied countries provide further legitimacy and credibility to US talking-points and narratives as they echo around the world. Meanwhile, Hollywood fills cinema and TV screens across the world with an idealized, glamorized, inspirational version of the US that still mesmerizes many people.
This whole elaborate “information warfare” machine presents the US as a global leader for democracy, human rights and the rule of law, even as it systematically and catastroph- ically undermines those same principles. It enables our leaders to loudly, persuasively, demonize other countries and their leaders as dangerous violators of international law, even as the US and its allies commit far worse crimes.
Double Standards
The phrase “aggressive war” is also a no-no in the Western media - when the US government launches wars, across international borders. In the past 20 years, the US has violated the UN Charter to attack at least eight countries (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya & Syria), and the resulting wars, have killed about two million people.
A complex whirlwind of conflict and chaos rages on in all the countries where the US and its allies have lit the flames of war since 2001, but our US leaders still debate new interventions ---- and/or escalations as if we are the fire brigade not the arsonists. (By contrast, the US government and the Western media are quick to accuse Russia or other countries of “aggression” --- even in legally murky situations, such as after the US-backed coup in 2014, that ousted the elected president of Ukraine.)
Systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions are an integral part of US war-making. Most are shrouded in secrecy: the propaganda machine spins the atrocities that slip through into the public record, as a disconnected series of aberrations, accidents and “bad apples,” instead of as the result of illegal rules of engagement and unlawful orders from higher-ups.
The senior officers and civilian officials who are criminally responsible for these crimes in US & international law -- systematically abuse their powerful positions to subvert investigations, cover up their crimes, & avoid any accountability whatsoever.
Pinter’s Complaint
When UK playwright Harold Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he bravely and brilliantly used his Nobel lecture to speak about the real role the US plays in the world, and how it whitewashes its crimes. Pinter recounted a meeting at the US Embassy in London in the 1980s in which a senior embassy official, Raymond Seitz, flatly denied US war crimes in Nicaragua ---- for which the US was in fact, convicted of aggression by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Seitz went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of State, US Ambassador to the UK, and then Vice-Chair of Lehman Brothers.
As Pinter explained: “this ‘policy’ was by no means restricted to Central America. It was conducted throughout the world. It was never-ending. And it is --- as if it never happened.
“The United States supported - and in many cases engendered every rightwing military dictatorship in the world, after the end of the Second World War. I refer to:- Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged, & can never be forgiven.
“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did... they take place? & are they in all cases, attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is 'yes', they did take place, and are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.
“It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happ- ening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to the US. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power, worldwide, while masquerading... as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant - even witty - highly successful, act of hypnosis.”
If, in 2016, the world seems to be more violent and chaotic than ever, it's not because the US lacks the will to use force or project power, as both major party candidates for President, & their military advisers appear to believe, but because our leaders have placed too much stock in the illegal threat and use of force, and have lost faith in the rule of law, any international cooperation and diplomacy.
After a century of commercial dominance, & 75 years of investing disproportionately in weapons, military forces & geopolitical schemes, perhaps it is understandable that US leaders have forgotten how to deal fairly and respectfully with our international neighbours. But it's no longer an option, to muddle along, leaving a trail of death, ruin and chaos in our wake, counting on an elaborate propaganda mach- ine, to minimize the blowback on our country and our lives.
Sooner, rather than later, US citizens & our leaders must knuckle down and master the very different attitudes & skills that we will need to become law-abiding global citizens in a peaceful, sustainable, multipolar world.
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Russia ends treaty limiting plutonium production in response to recent US escalation of hostility Fort Russ News - Topwar.ru - Lenta - News.Ru - translated by J. Arnoldski
TopWar: On October 3rd, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on suspending compliance with the agreement with the US on disposing weapons-grade plutonium. The main reason for this decision was pointed out as the “unfriendly attitude of the US towards Russia.”
Sources from the State Duma have reported that Russia is ready to resume the agreement, if the US cancels all the anti-Russian sanctions. Plus, Russia demands that the US reduce its military contingent in Europe, before Russia resumes compliance with the protocols. The State Duma’s statement reads:
“Acting according to the agreement and the protocols of the agreement can be resumed after the US eliminates the reasons which led to this radical change in circumstances: after the US reduces its military infrastructure and the number of its troop contingents deployed on the territory of the NATO countries having joined NATO after September 1st, 2000, down to the level at which they were on the day that the agreement and its protocols entered force.
"Since then NATO has grown to encompass 9 states of Eastern Europe. Just around the corner is NATO’s 10th state to be included since 2000 - Montenegro.”
In addition, Russia has demanded, as one of its conditions, that Washington cancel the so-call- ed Magnitsky Act.
We await a reaction from the US.
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Popov: Russia can and should withdraw from 1997 treaty with Ukraine By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ - translated by J. Arnoldski -
The other day, the disturbing news came from Lvov, the unofficial capital of Ukrainian Galicia, that the Lvov regional council has filed a lawsuit to forcibly evict the Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre. As the head of the regional council, V. Girnyak, said in his statement, organizations tied to the Anti-Terrorist Operation are preparing to transfer the building on Korolenko Street. The Lvov deputies hardly expect to earn more money from these “ATOers.” Rather, the eviction of Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre is explained by a different motive: once again, punishing anyone ideologically representative of an “enemy” Russian culture.
This centre’s building was leased to the Russian community of Lvov, in 1990. In 1999, the then mayor Vasiliy Kuybida, set the symbolic rent fee of 5 hryvnia (around $1 back then).
Let us quote one founding document signed by Ukraine, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine from May 31st, 1997. Point 12 of the agreement reads: “The High Agreeing Parties shall protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious identities of national minorities on their territory and create conditions for the fostering of their identity….they will contribute to creating equal opportunities and conditions for studying the Russian language in Ukraine and the Ukrainian language in the Russian Federation, training pedagogical staff for teaching these languages in educational establishments, and for these purposes, provide equal state support.”
Points 1-2 of the agreement are based on the recognition of the friendly relations between the countries and their territorial integrity. Hence why the agreement is often called a border treaty. For Ukraine, whose territorial sovereignty over some territories (including Galicia, which was part of the Second Polish Republic until September 1939) is quite disputed, this agreement was a real gift. It is no coincidence that a number of patriotic politicians in Russia, demanded that this document not be signed.
Russia’s recognition of Kiev’s sovereignty over territories included in the Ukrainian state is founded on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of its Russian- cultured citizens. After the coup d’etat in 2014, Ukraine began pursuing a policy of cultural genocide (ethnocide) against the Russian-cultured population.
Now Ukraine is discussing the initiative of the scandalously infamous politician Irina Farion, to deprive Russian residents in Ukraine of civil rights.
In fact, this measure is already being implemented. The number of Russian schools has rapidly declined while Russian organizations are being prosecuted and their activities are under close surveillance by Kiev’s intelligence services.
In accordance with the 1997 treaty, an entire network of federal & regional organizations of Ukrainians is funded in Russia. For example, in the Rostov region there is a city-level and regional national-cultural autonomy of Ukrainians.
The organization receives funding from the city and regional budgets. Its head, the businessman Makarchuk, is a member of the Public Chamber of the Rostov region and is proud of his friendship with Rostov governor Vasili Golubev. Meanwhile, Makarchuk is published on the website of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Svoboda party and frequently makes Russophobic statements.
Unfortunately, Russia is largely to blame for the fact that the civil rights of Russian-cultured people in Ukraine are being massively violated. An example of this is the patronizing policy of Rostov region's authorities. But on the federal level as well, the state does not make sufficient (or any) efforts to defend the Russian population of Ukraine (nearly half of the country’s total population).
Meanwhile, a more responsible attitude towards obligations would lead to discussion of the 1997 treaty. In a situation in which the second country (Ukraine), massively violates the treaty’s basic premises, then Russia has the right to withdraw from the treaty with all the legal and political implications. I see no reason for the Russian budget to support the activities of Ukrainian organizations in Russia, or recognize the territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.
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WHITE HELMETS -- SHAM
The Ron Paul Institute has pointed out: “We have demonstrated that the White Helmets are an integral part of the propaganda van- guard, that ensures obscurantism of fact and propagation of Human Rights fiction that elicits the well-intentioned and self righteous response from a very cleverly duped public. A priority for these NGOs is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone scenario which has already been seen to have disastrous implications for innocent civilians in Libya, for example.”
What better chance to push “the No Fly Zone scenario” than arriving within “moments” of the convoy tragedy, filming it and creating a propaganda scenario before any meaningful forensic investigation could even be started, since the trucks were still burning. And of course, the “White Helmets”, aka “Syrian Defence Force”, were filming, rather than attempting to put out the fire and rescue those in the burning trucks.
[Ed. Yet the UK's Guardian, that snivelling wreckage of a "Liberal" newspaper, lies, & describes them as "the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group," quotes their accusations of Syrian & Russian "constant bombing of civilians" and calls for a "no-fly-zone" now --- as in Libya.]
The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently caused outrage by claiming that their Drone footage: “shows the bombed Syrian aid convoy included a truck full of militant fighters carrying mortar guns.”
However: “The footage emerged as the United Nations rowed back from describing the attack on the aid convoy as air strikes, saying it did not have conclusive evidence about what had happened.”
It must be asked, why on earth, after long and protracted negotiations over the convoy would Syria and or their Russian ally risk the wrath of the US & “coalition”, and of further decimation of the country, by laying themselves open to accusations of bombing aid convoys?
The tragedy has emphatically achieved 1 thing, however. Wiped from the headlines, is another atrocity - the US bombing which killed over 60 Syrian soldiers and wounded over 100 others, just two days earlier, on Saturday 17th Sept. - causing Russian Foreign Ministry spokes- woman Maria Zakharova, to comment: “We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that”, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
Again - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?
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US prepares an Islamic army in Kosovo
Pravda.Ru - The US is preparing a reserve echelon in the territory of its Kosova enclave. But to keep a secure strategic space, the Southern Serbian provinces may be separated from Kosovo. Given the total apathy of the authorities of Republika Srpska... this plan is inching closer to its implementation.
The goal of the Americans is clear: if Berlin's discontent ousts US bases from Germany, after all, the US will have a spot in Kosovo. It's no secret that the crime and terrorist mayhem plaguing Kosovo, is under the patronage of the US.
Yelena Guskova, a Senator, and member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), honoured with many Russian and Serbian state awards, commented to Pravda.Ru on this matter, in an interview.
Former Commander of the French foreign legion in Kosovo -- General Jacques Ogar, has recently confirmed to Pravda.Ru, evidence obtained from confidential US sources -- that there are at least five ISIS training camps in Kosovo, which are preparing suicide bombers and an army of Islamists to conquer Europe.
Having found no evidence that proved Milosevic was guilty, the Hague tribunal exonerated him. What do you think of it?
Slobodan Milosevic is a very significant historical person in Serbia's modern history, and the whole of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s he was seen as the last communist in Europe -- who should be annihilated. His own country turned him over to the Hague; the so-called new government -- after the colour revolution of 2000.
However he was a leader who defended his country and the truth. He combated a large amount of lies at the Tribunal, which tried to prove that only the Serbs were guilty of all the events of the 1990s, as they were charged with collective crimes.
No leader of the Muslim territories of Yugoslavia was convicted, only Serbian ones. The figure of Milosevic was very important, but they didn't manage to find any evidence.
His brother Borislav Milosevic says they secretly took some samples of food and water Slobodan had been given and tested it in Moscow. And it turned out that poison had been added. And it was difficult to breathe for him, which means that something was infiltrated into the air.
Then he stopped eating, but the process had been launched. His death is mysterious but the Tribunal admitted that he was not responsible for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Colonel Jacques Ogar, who was Commander of a foreign legion in the territory of Yugoslavia in the UN group admits that they were ordered to stand for the Kosovars against the Serbians... Western troops openly supported separatists and participated in punitive actions against the Serbians. Do you have such data?
Surely. I'm a Head of the Centre for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan Crisis at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Our main task is to collect documents and publish them. There occur more and more documents on the events since 1990, which confirm it.
It's absolutely clear that international organizations were biased. The Albanians approach their dream - to create a big country with an Albanian population only. The US has worked a lot to support this movement, as Kosovo is a project of the US.
And they would have got independence long ago, unless it was for Russia. Russia said No to their plans in 2007. it disturbed them, and now they do not influence Russia, but try to govern the Serbian authorities. But I think the process hasn't been completed, & there's a chance to return Kosovo to Serbia.
As they say, there are 8 ISIS training camps in the territory of Kosovo. It is reported that they train suicide bombers to carry out acts in the Western Europe and create a whole army to conquer it. How can you comment on this?
When huge flows of refugees were going across the Balkans in Europe, there were mainly young men and almost no couples. They were well- dressed, were going by three, and had enough means to live in decent hotels. It is clear that there are those among them who should stay in the Balkans & orchestrate implementation of their leaders' aims.
As the Serbian officials struggle to join the EU, they implemented all the terms. And they were told, to not only to let in these refugees, but also to build camps for them. Many stayed in the South, where the population is majority Muslim . A great quantity went to Kosovo and Metohija.
And there's an uncontrolled NATO base Bondsteel there, where enormous resources are deployed. This territory is not controlled by anyone. And when questions of the US military camps in Europe occur, no one speaks of Kosovo.
In Kosovo's camps, where terrorists are trained, they are set absolutely free. It's very dangerous for the whole of Europe, and the Balkans first of all. The US, though, wants to whip Serbia into submission and recognize the independence of Kosovo and Metohija.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, and Serbians who reside there, are hampering these plans.
There is evidence that, as early as in the mid- 1990s the US aimed to go down to the Balkans when the agreement with Germany terminated if they had to leave. They need a territory in Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Kosovo, Metohija, Montenegro, Serbia & Macedonia. Republika Srpska hampers implementation of this plan today.
They need to annihilate the Republic and make the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina a unitary state. They didn't manage to conduct a colour revolution in the Republika Srpska, while the terror acts, which may be backed by Muslims in other territories, may be fruitful.
These plans may come forward in the nearest future, and it's a threat for the whole of Serbia. As there is a plan to separate the Southern regions of Serbia, where a lot of Albanians and Muslims reside. Today Serbian officials regard these refugees calmly, as well as capable of possible terrorist acts. But it should be paid 'special attention'.
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US/UK elite bankrolled A. Hitler
Germans were paid in company shares for loans that managed Germany's war reparations -- thus US capital began to actively integrate into the German economy.
The total amount of foreign investment in German industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers from the US, and most banks were from JP Morgan.
As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of the USA's leading financial-industrial groups.
"Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie", main supplier of the German war machine, financed 45% of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was under the control of Rockefeller's "Standard oil".
Morgan, through "General Electric", controlled the German radio and electrical industry, via AEG and Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG were owned by "General Electric") and through the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the 'phone network in Germany.
In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the air- craft manufacturing company "Focke-Wulf".
"General Motors", belonging to the DuPont family, established control over "Opel".
Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of Volkswagen. In 1926, with the participation of the Rockefeller Bank, Dillon, Reed & Co, the second largest industrial monopoly in Germany, after I.G Farben, merged with metals group, "Vereinigte Stahlwerke" (Steel trust) plus Thyssen, Flick, Wolff, Feglera etc.
US co-operation with Germany's military- industrial complex, was so intense and pervasive, that by 1933, the key sectors of German industry, & large banks such as the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Donat Bank, etc, were all under the control of US financial capital.
The political force that was intended to play a crucial role in the Anglo-American plans was being simultaneously prepared.
We are talking about the funding of the Nazi party and A. Hitler personally.
As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in his memoirs, from 1923, Hitler received large sums from abroad. Where they went, is not known, but they were received through Swiss and Swedish banks.
It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a meeting took place between A. Hitler and the military attache of the US to Germany -- Captain Truman Smith -- who compiled a detailed report for his Washington superiors (in the office of military intelligence), in which he spoke highly of Hitler.
Through Smith's circle of acquaintances, A. Hitler was introduced to Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl, (Putzie), --- a graduate of Harvard University who played an important role in the formation of A. Hitler as a politician, rendered him significant financial support, and secured for him, acquaintance & communication with, senior British figures.
Hitler was prepared politically, but, as Germany reigned in prosperity, his party remained on the periphery of public life... The situation changed dramatically with the beginning of 'the crisis'.
In the autumn of 1929, the collapse of the US stock exchange was triggered by the Federal Reserve, and the next stage of the Anglo-US financial circles' strategy, had started.
The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan, decided to stop lending to Germany --- inspired by the bank crisis & economic depression in Central Europe.
In September 1931, England abandoned the gold standard, deliberately destroying international payments systems and completely cutting off "financial oxygen" to the Weimar Republic.
But a financial miracle occurred for the Nazi party: in September 1930 as a result of large donations by Thyssen and I.G. Farben --- the party got 6.4 million votes & took 2nd place in the Reichstag;- after this, more generous investments from abroad were activated.
The main link between the major German industrialists and foreign financiers, became H. Schacht.
On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held with the largest English financier, a Mr M. Norman, A. Hitler, and von Papen, which concluded a secret agreement on the financing of the NSDAP.
This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers, the Dulles brothers --- something their biographers do not like to mention.
On January 14th, 1933, a meeting between Hitler, Schroder, Papen & Kepler took place, where Hitler's program was fully approved. It was here that they finally resolved the issue of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on 30th January, A. Hitler became Chancellor.
The implementation of the next stage of the strategy thus began.
The attitude of Anglo-American ruling circles to the new government was very sympathetic. When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which naturally called into question the payment of war debts, neither the UK or France pressed their payment claims.
Moreover, after a visit to the US in May 1933, H. Schacht was placed, again, at the head of the Reichsbank, and, after his meeting with the President and the biggest bankers on Wall Street, the US allocated Germany new loans --- totalling $1 billion.
In June, during a trip to London & a meeting with M. Norman, Schacht sought an English loan of $2 billion and a reduction and then the cessation of payments, on old loans.
Thus, the Nazis got what they could not achieve with the previous government.
In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo- German transfer agreement, which became one of the foundations of British policy towards the Third Reich, &, at the end of the 30's, Germany became the main trading partner of England.
Schroeder Bank became Germany's main agent in the UK & in 1936 his New York office teamed up with the Rockefellers, to create Schroeder, Rockefeller & Co. investment Bank, which the Times magazine called the Berlin-Rome "economic propagandist axis".
As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his 4- year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans, so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.
In August 1934, US Standard oil acquired 730,000 acres of land in Germany... then built large oil refineries which supplied the Nazis with oil.
At the same time, Germany secretly took delivery of the most modern equipment for aircraft factories, from the US, which would begin producing German planes.
Germany gained large numbers of military patents from US firms Pratt and Whitney, Douglas, and Curtis Wright --- and it was US technology, building the Junkers-87.
In 1941 --- as world war ll was raging --- US investments in Germany's economy amounted to $475 million. Standard oil invested - 120 million, General motors - $35 million, ITT - $30 million, and Ford - $17.5 million.
The close financial & economic co-operation of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles, was the backdrop against which, in the 30's, a policy of appeasement led to world war II.
Today, as the world's financial elite begins to implement the 'Great depression 2' plan with its subsequent transition to the "new world order", identifying its key role in the organization of crimes against humanity, becomes a priority.
Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical sciences, academician of the Academy of military sciences, & a member of the International Association of historians of world war II.
FREE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER NOW!!!
Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier,
in prison in the US for 38 years, received the first international human rights prize of Uruguay's Mario Benedetti Foundation.
At a ceremony in Montevideo, where the winner was announced, the human rights group calls Peltier the longest-serving political prisoner in the Americas, AFP reports.
Peltier, a Native American activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977 for the alleged murder of two US FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.
He was sentenced to 2 consecutive terms of life imprisonment.
"Leonard Peltier, who on September 12th, 2014, turned 70, has spent over half his life in prison. He's a symbol of resistance to repressive state policies by the US, where there are people in jail for ethnic, racial, religious & ideological reasons," the foundation's statement says.
Ricardo Elena, a member of the foundation's honorary board, says Peltier's case "is one that is repeated over and over: violation (of rights), persecution, eviction, invasion and expropriation of indigenous people, from the time it was 'discovered', until now.
"It doesn't just happen in the United States; it is happening in southern South America, with the (indigenous) Mapuche people, and with indigenous people in North America," he states.
Elena says the United States "likes to think it's the seat of democracy, but it has political prisoners just like a dictatorship might have."
The Mario Benedetti Foundation was founded to support human rights and cultural causes in line with the work of the Uruguayan writer after whom it was named, who died in 2009.
Peltier is incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
James Swan, the head of the Black Hills chapter of the United Urban Warrior Society - a nonprofit group that helps Native Americans fight racial discrimination and injustice - describes Peltier as a political prisoner whose case needs to be reviewed by an independent body.
"What we want people to realize is that this is an injustice," AP quotes Swan as saying.
Peltier, 66, was given two life sentences in '77, on false charges of killing 2 FBI agents.
Peltier asserts that he is innocent and the FBI framed him for political reasons, especially for his activities as a member of the Native American Movement. He has lodged numerous appeals against the conviction - but all unsuccessfully.
He's been denied parole again and again, and will not be eligible for it again until 2024, when he turns 79.
Peltier's relatives say he suffers a number of health problems such as diabetes, arthritis, and the loss of vision in an eye after a minor stroke.
Many activists say Leonard Peltier is the most important political prisoner in the US.
In a review of the US' human rights record, at a United Nations Human Rights Council UPR conference in Geneva, a group called for a new trial for him.
The US Human Rights Network filed a 423-page submission to the Geneva meeting about him.
One item, entitled “Political Repression - Political Prisoners,” about 1970's cases, indicts the FBI: accusing COINTELPRO of “maiming, murdering, false prosecutions and frame-ups, destruction and mayhem throughout the country.”
It cites the FBI for targeting the Puerto Rican Independence Front, the Black Panther Party, the Weather Underground, the American Indian Movement, the Black Liberation Army, as well as “peace activists and everyone in between,” and says “many of today's political prisoners” in the US were jailed indefinitely as a result.
Repression has grown since 9/11, it says.
The political repression paper demands an “immediate criminal investigation into the conspiracy,” and also new trials for two aged activists jailed on murder charges, Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.
