Putin Recognizes Donbass Republics, Sends Russian Military to 'Denazify' Ukraine

[Laurentien2]

There could be no more doubt, for those with some neuron still functioning, that the US is dictating the war policies in Ukraine after reading this article. The hubris of the American war hawk is shared by the Ukrainians leadership.

Ukrainian Leadership: No Peace Treaties With Russia, Only Capitulation Of Moscow

Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Secretary Danilov made several doctrinal statements. Among them he said that there can be...

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UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP: NO PEACE TREATIES WITH RUSSIA, ONLY CAPITULATION OF MOSCOW​

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Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Secretary Danilov made several doctrinal statements. Among them he said that there can be no peace treaty with Russia – only its capitulation is possible. At the same time, he believes that the war will not end quickly.
The secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, Danilov, has made several doctrinal statements. Among them he said that there can be no peace treaty with Russia – only its capitulation is possible. He believes that the war will not end quickly.
Earlier, Danilov also made loud statements – “as soon as Ukraine has such an opportunity, it will strike at the Crimean bridge (which connects mainland Russia with the Crimean peninsula)” or that “Germany owes Ukraine a debt from World War II”.
However, in his latest series of statements he has not expressed his fantasies, aimed at meeting the needs of domestic propaganda, but the new official course of Kiev.
On May 2, Ukrainian presidential adviser Arestovich said that Danilov’s statement was legitimate and agreed with Ukrainian President Zelensky.
In his turn, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry, Budanov, said that there were now only two ways to end the war:
“The first is to divide Russia into three or more parts. The second is the relative preservation of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation with the change of the country’s leadership. In the latter case, the new leader will say that the Russian Federation had nothing to do with all these processes, it was a sick dictator. In this case, Russia will give up all its occupied territories – from the islands of Japan to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), previously (before the 2nd World War) belonging to Germany”.
Similarly, the rhetoric in the West has changed. They are less likely to talk about the need for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia and more and more likely to emphasise that Russia needs to inflict utmost military damage, up to and including complete unconditional surrender in the war. The U.S. leadership has stated that the emphasis is shifting from doctrine of maximum economic damage to Russia to total military defeat on the battlefield. This is now the official policy of Washington.
The reason for these processes is obvious – official Moscow continues to act as if it is not in a state of de facto indirect armed conflict with the entire NATO military machine, but rather is conducting a limited military operation thousands of kilometres away from its borders.
Today, the Russian Armed Forces deployed in Ukraine do not have a head of manpower strength on the battlefield. At the same time, Ukraine is preparing for another, fourth wave, of mobilization. Kiev announces this step despite the thousands of mercenaries and NATO soldiers already taking part in combat operations. For its part, Russia has not even carried out a partial mobilisation exercises. There is an explanation for this. Moscow seeks to minimise losses, while Kiev ignores their size.
Meanwhile, the situation is exacerbated by the lack of a clear public message on what the Kremlin is pursuing in the military operation. Is it to denationalise and demilitarise Ukraine, is it to ensure control over the entire territory of the former Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, or is it, after all, the war to secure Russia itself?
Such uncertainty, combined with the full military support of a number of NATO countries, is inspiring the Kiev regime, whose statements are becoming increasingly aggressive. The Ukrainian leadership is already declaring not only Moscow’s capitulation, but also, apparently, Budapest’s one. The very same Danilov stated that Hungary must and will be held responsible after Russia’s defeat, as it is its ally

 

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Has the final showdown for Azovstal begun? A Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson described...

“They have left the bunkers and assumed defensive positions on the territory of the plant. Currently, the DPR troops and the Russian armed forces are starting to destroy those positions with artillery and aviation," Astafiev said.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians defending Mariupol steel plant say Russian forces are storming the facility.

Final Showdown For Azovstal: Firefights Break Out As Azov Fighters Briefly Emerge From Steel Plant | ZeroHedge

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[ApotheosisMMC.]

There could be no more doubt, for those with some neuron still functioning, that the US is dictating the war policies in Ukraine after reading this article. The hubris of the American war hawk is shared by the Ukrainians leadership.

Ukrainian Leadership: No Peace Treaties With Russia, Only Capitulation Of Moscow

Ukrainian National Security and Defence Council Secretary Danilov made several doctrinal statements. Among them he said that there can be...

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That is because they fantasize and cling to the idea that if this goes on long enough Russia will break, which so far is only happening in the media... a new example of psychopathic thinking is that according to the Russian defense ministry, the Russians would have shelled the Azovstal metallurgical plant again because the truce to evacuate civilians was taken advantage of by the Ukrainian troops to resume defensive positions. ... honestly I think it should be quite clear to Russia by now that the Ukrainian side hardly ever respects ceasefires or takes advantage of them and simply because of the difficult situation and humanism, Russia must continue to establish corridors... I wonder what the UN will say this time about all this... after all they partly oversaw this evacuation; surely something dodgy which in turn will drown in the tide of disinformation.
well, after all this is a struggle between an irresistible force and an immovable object... at some point the Ukraine "will be over", but somehow the struggle will continue in various ways and the victory will not be made to look so clear for the winning side in the media, and after all it may not be at all in many aspects... The United States is now at war with Russia until one of the two is finally destroyed and for that to happen, there is still a way to go and show for that from what is seen.

 

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Looks like they can't make their minds up Parkinson's, cancer... whatever next

‘Unsteady and distracted’ Putin fuels Parkinson's rumours after Easter event

Experts have raised fresh concerns over the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin, 69, who has been accused of falling ill with Parkinson's and cancer amid several ongoing theories about the state of his health

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Whether I like it or not, my office browser takes me to MSN home page, that shows MSM headlines. They became very funny recent times. If Russia withdraws troops, it is considered as Ukrainian's taken back from Russia ( as if they defeated Russia). Now, any equipment Russia uses it is "stealing". Nothing new, but it is becoming very funny as people have limited attention span to actually read.

Video Appears to Show Russian Convoy With Stolen Ukrainian Equipment

Amid recent reports that Russian forces have stolen "several hundred thousand tons" of grain in the areas of Ukraine they occupy, Telegram channel 1ADAT released a clip that it says shows equipment being taken by Kadyrovites—Chechen militias—to the territory of the occupied Chechnya. The video shows a long line of carrier vehicles and agricultural equipment, including tractors and spare tires.

"As you can see in the video, [it] is being taken to the territory of the occupied Chechnya under the protection of the local traffic police," the channel said.

Days earlier, on April 20, Iuliia Mendel, the former spokesperson to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter that Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, stole agricultural equipment in Ukraine: three combines, a tractor, three seeders, and 20 tons of brand-name lubricants.

"The equipment is in Chechnya in the village not far from Grozny," she wrote, citing Ukrainian investigative journalists. "Judging by the address, the combines and tractor were brought to the territory of the liquidated 'Zakan-Yurt State Farm,' which is affiliated with the Kadyrov Foundation."

Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister, Taras Vysotskiy, in a television address on April 30 accused Russian forces of stealing grain in occupied territory. The Kremlin denied Ukraine's allegations.

The anonymous 1ADAT Telegram channel was created in April 2020 and serves as a platform for opposition information and propaganda, according to Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. It often publishes reports that criticize Kadyrov and his associates.

The channel is often criticized by Kadyrov, a staunch supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Telegram.

 

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Deteriorating Israeli-Russian Relations: A Cautionary Message For The UAE, Saudi Arabia, And Turkey

Written by James M. Dorsey Israel’s rapidly deteriorating relations with Russia contain a message for other Middle Eastern powers: attempting...

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DETERIORATING ISRAELI-RUSSIAN RELATIONS: A CAUTIONARY MESSAGE FOR THE UAE, SAUDI ARABIA, AND TURKEY​

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Israel’s rapidly deteriorating relations with Russia contain a message for other Middle Eastern powers: attempting to remain on the sidelines of the conflict in Ukraine risks falling in between the cracks.
Like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, Israel has sought to maintain good relations with the United States and Russia despite Washington and Moscow’s principle of ‘you are either with us or against us.’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has good reason to apply the same principle even if Israel and Turkey have sought to use their good offices to mediate between the Ukrainian leader and President Vladimir Putin. They used their mediation to justify their failure to join US and European sanctions against Russia.
Mr. Zelensky this week called out his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Turkey announced plans to encourage as many Russian holidaymakers as possible to visit. The announcement came as a senior Russian tourism official said that less than half the 4.7 million Russians who travelled to Turkey in 2021 were likely to visit the country this year.
“This is not entirely fair, and that is why I draw Turkey’s attention to such processes. There is a need to choose,” Mr. Zelensky said a day after meeting in Kyiv with Ibrahim Kalin, one of Mr. Erdogan’s closest advisors.
So far, the Biden administration has been restrained in its response to a Saudi and Emirati refusal to increase oil production to reduce prices and help Europe ween itself off its dependence on Russian energy. However, there is little doubt that the administration will remember who its friends were in a time of need and who was not.
It’s a message that may be registering in Abu Dhabi. In late April, France’s TotalEnergies chartered a tanker to load Abu Dhabi crude in early May for Europe, the first such shipment in two years.
Despite hubristic remarks by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in an interview in March with The Atlantic, relations between the kingdom, the UAE, and the United States have steered away from acrimonious public exchanges.
That has not stopped former officials from trading swipes.
Responding to former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that the US should use a carrot-and-stick approach to get the Saudis to boost oil output, former Saudi intelligence chief and ex-ambassador to the United States Prince Turki al-Faisal quipped: “We’re not schoolchildren to be treated with a carrot and stick. When we’re dealt with fairly and squarely, we respond likewise”.
Striking a less belligerent tone, Mohammed Khalid Alyahya, a Hudson Institute visiting fellow and former editor-in-chief of Saudi-owned Al Arabiya English, noted that “Saudi Arabia laments what it sees as America’s willful dismantling of an international order that it established and led for the better part of a century.”
Mr. Alyahya quoted a senior Saudi official as saying: “A strong, dependable America is the greatest friend Saudi Arabia can have. It stands to reason, then, that US weakness and confusion is a grave threat not just to America, but to us as well.”
Israel has not been afforded the luxury of more layered exchanges in its increasingly harsh tit-for-tat official verbal swaps with Russia.
In the latest incident, Israel this week condemned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s assertion that Adolf Hitler had “Jewish blood.”
Mr. Lavrov used that to justify describing as a “Nazi” Mr. Zelensky, who is of Jewish descent. The foreign minister went on to say that “the wise Jewish people said that the most ardent antisemites are usually Jews.”
In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, said in a tweet that “Lavrov’s remarks are both an unforgivable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible historical error. . Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust. The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of antisemitism.”
Subsequently, Mr. Lapid added that “we are making every effort to maintain good relations with Russia, but everything has a border, and this time it was crossed. The Russian government should apologize to us and to all the Jewish people.”
Doubling down, the Russian foreign ministry accused Israel a day later of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The ministry said Mr. Lapid’s statements were “anti-historical” and “explaining to a large extent why the current Israeli government supports the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv”.
Mr. Lavrov and the ministry’s remarks were the latest salvo in the Israeli-Russian spat. A day earlier, a Russian television station disclosed the identity of ten Israeli consular officials and security guards who were on the Polish-Ukrainian border to help Israeli nationals escape from the war-torn country and described them as mercenaries.
“Their names + passports are compromised. It can help Israel’s enemies such as Iran intel,” tweeted Israeli national security reporter Yossi Melman.
The disclosure came a day after media reports said that Israel had foiled an attempt to assassinate an Israeli consular employee in Turkey, an American general in Germany, and a journalist in France.
Israel has walked a fine line in crafting its management of the Ukraine crisis.
It rejected Ukrainian requests for arms sales, including its acclaimed Iron Dome anti-rocket system, and access to Israeli surveillance technology, while providing humanitarian assistance to the war-torn country.
Israel has also shared intelligence, voted for a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning the Russian invasion, and convinced the United Arab Emirates to do likewise. Furthermore, Israel voted for an Assembly resolution suspending Russian membership in the UN Human Rights Council.
Under pressure to get off the fence, Mr. Lapid sparked the deterioration of relations when in early April, he asserted that Russia had committed war crimes.
In a statement at the time, the Russian foreign ministry charged that Mr. Laipd’s remarks were “a poorly camouflaged attempt to take advantage of the situation in Ukraine to distract the international community’s attention from one of the oldest unsettled conflicts – the Palestine-Israeli one.”
Shortly after that, Russia’s ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, told an Israeli television station that Israel and Russia were “still” friends but that Moscow expected a “more balanced (Israeli) position.”
To increase pressure on Israel, Admiral Oleg Zhuravlev, the deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, disclosed that a Syrian-operated, Russian-made Buk M2E air defense system had recently intercepted a guided missile fired from an Israeli F-16 fighter jet in Syrian airspace. The disclosure constituted a warning that Russia may no longer tolerate future Israeli strikes against targets in Syria.
“Israel risks falling off its carefully construed balancing act. Others in the Middle East still have some rope left. How much is the $64,000 question,” said a Western diplomat.
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[Ryan]

The Duran just aired another analysis of the latest news with Gonzalo:

This is a few days old now, but I took some notes summarising this. Here are the key points from the discussion:

* Putin's comments about "lightning strikes" are directed at Poland.​

* The gas for rubles scheme allows Russia to control the EUR/RUB exchange rate.​

* UK/EU financial circles starting to realise they can’t do anything, in chaos.​

* Algeria warned Spain about reselling gas onward to other European countries.​

* EU can’t sanction Russian oil without driving prices up massively.​

* Russian neon gas exports to Taiwan are crucially necessary for semiconductor manufacture.​

* Russia hasn’t retaliated against the EU yet.​

* The intellectual elite in Russia are very angry, and Putin is holding them back.​

* Canada & US talking about seizing the private assets of resident Russian citizens.​

* US talking about giving Russia’s sovereign reserves to Ukraine - $300 billion.​

* US trying to remove the rights to legal representation for resident Russian people; even Jeffery Dahmer got legal representation!​

* Partitioning of Ukraine seems increasingly likely - Russians are preserving railway lines for after the war.​

* US GDP in Q1 = -1.14%; Russian GDP in Q1 = +3%.​

* Liz Truss making ridiculous statements as a play to take over from Johnson?​

* The Ukrainian military are actually the best-trained, best-motivated NATO force with combat experience, and yet are still getting their ass whooped by Russia.​

* Gonzalo Lira predicts western MSM going to pivot massively away from Ukraine in the next 7-14 days.​

* Gonzalo Lira thinks Washington may intervene militarily in Saudi Arabia to preserve the petrodollar status. ​

* Russian expert team working on a commodities-backed Ruble (including gold).​

* Rumours of a relocation of the UN HQ from New York?​

* Military victory will provide a huge psychological boost to Russian culture and the internal economy. Russians will have more pride in their products and services.​

* Russia no longer looking for a negotiated peace with current Ukrainian government; they know the Zelensky regime is incapable of it.​

 

[Iggdrasil]

To be honest, I like very much the posts from Orda TG, because they are very impressive. Excuse my Google Translate.

In our opinion, it is very characteristic that no one has taken it upon himself to judge what the specific benefit of Estonia is, at least for the Estonians themselves. No one came and said: the Estonians have united on their territory and are working with might and main to create a powerful economy, a powerful culture that would be competitive at the world level. Or a powerful army. Or a powerful complex scientific program. In short, something that would give meaning to the existence of a particular flock in time.

For example, although we do not like the modern gestures of the USA, France, Italy and Germany, we understand what these players are potentially able to give (and have already given) to their population. Their actions run counter to ours, but we are able to understand their logic in the context of the general geopolitical confrontation.

The question of the uselessness of these players cannot even arise for us in the near future, because we are talking about large established political, industrial and cultural centers capable of independently projecting their will inside and far beyond their own geographical perimeter.

But with Estonia the situation is different.

Estonia has a consistently negative foreign trade balance.

Estonia is a country unable to make independent foreign policy decisions. And even domestic ones, because Estonia is being danced by the European Union and NATO - and the money flows there will dry up at the click of a finger, if it suddenly stops marching in step.

Estonia is a country that has destroyed the Soviet industrial backlog in thirty years of independence.

Finally, Estonia is a country with a rapidly declining population (a significant part of which, moreover, are Russians). Now its population is approximately 1.33 million people. In comparison with 1991, it has decreased by about 15% and further growth forecast there is very pessimistic. Over the next forty years, Estonia is expected to decrease in number of people by about a quarter.

The country's population is shrinking. The flock living in this territory - in its noticeable part - does not see any reason for itself to stay there.

Hence our question about the senselessness of such a state as a whole, dear friends.

The fact is that “I was born here”, “to live comfortably” and “You don’t choose your homeland”, from the point of view of the argumentation theory, the answers to the question and the meaninglessness of Estonia are not. They are a substitution of the original thesis for a more convenient one and shift the focus from the goals of the collective to the aspirations (supposed) of the individual.

But the state is not an individual. The state is a collective instrument for upholding common interests. And if it is not capable of performing this function on its own, if its will is imposed by an external government from Brussels or Washington, then we repeat: what is the point in this state?

We have already been accused of chauvinism, but there is no chauvinism here. We do not propose to destroy or capture Estonia, but there is no need to poke at us with small cozy streets. These streets were small and cozy even under Soviet rule, and will remain so if Estonia ever decides to become part of Finland or the Russian Federation.

However, as an independent player in the long run, she has no chance. So far, there are not even prerequisites for these chances, to be precise.

You can live in it, you can earn money, you can have real estate, you can adapt to its laws, but as a geopolitical association, according to all available statistical data, this country is meaningless today. It is fading - and this is reflected in the official figures. Her only dilemma in the future race is under whom is it more comfortable to lie down so as not to disappear completely?

Fictitious chauvinism and imperial aggression have absolutely nothing to do with it, dear friends.

So we have nothing against beautiful houses and clean lakes.

[Horde] - native, evil, yours

Орда in Чат Орды

 

[Väega]

To be honest, I like very much the posts from Orda TG, because they are very impressive. Excuse my Google Translate.

In our opinion, it is very characteristic that no one has taken it upon himself to judge what the specific benefit of Estonia is, at least for the Estonians themselves. No one came and said: the Estonians have united on their territory and are working with might and main to create a powerful economy, a powerful culture that would be competitive at the world level. Or a powerful army. Or a powerful complex scientific program. In short, something that would give meaning to the existence of a particular flock in time.

For example, although we do not like the modern gestures of the USA, France, Italy and Germany, we understand what these players are potentially able to give (and have already given) to their population. Their actions run counter to ours, but we are able to understand their logic in the context of the general geopolitical confrontation.

The question of the uselessness of these players cannot even arise for us in the near future, because we are talking about large established political, industrial and cultural centers capable of independently projecting their will inside and far beyond their own geographical perimeter.

But with Estonia the situation is different.

Estonia has a consistently negative foreign trade balance.

Estonia is a country unable to make independent foreign policy decisions. And even domestic ones, because Estonia is being danced by the European Union and NATO - and the money flows there will dry up at the click of a finger, if it suddenly stops marching in step.

Estonia is a country that has destroyed the Soviet industrial backlog in thirty years of independence.

Finally, Estonia is a country with a rapidly declining population (a significant part of which, moreover, are Russians). Now its population is approximately 1.33 million people. In comparison with 1991, it has decreased by about 15% and further growth forecast there is very pessimistic. Over the next forty years, Estonia is expected to decrease in number of people by about a quarter.

The country's population is shrinking. The flock living in this territory - in its noticeable part - does not see any reason for itself to stay there.

Hence our question about the senselessness of such a state as a whole, dear friends.

The fact is that “I was born here”, “to live comfortably” and “You don’t choose your homeland”, from the point of view of the argumentation theory, the answers to the question and the meaninglessness of Estonia are not. They are a substitution of the original thesis for a more convenient one and shift the focus from the goals of the collective to the aspirations (supposed) of the individual.

But the state is not an individual. The state is a collective instrument for upholding common interests. And if it is not capable of performing this function on its own, if its will is imposed by an external government from Brussels or Washington, then we repeat: what is the point in this state?

We have already been accused of chauvinism, but there is no chauvinism here. We do not propose to destroy or capture Estonia, but there is no need to poke at us with small cozy streets. These streets were small and cozy even under Soviet rule, and will remain so if Estonia ever decides to become part of Finland or the Russian Federation.

However, as an independent player in the long run, she has no chance. So far, there are not even prerequisites for these chances, to be precise.

You can live in it, you can earn money, you can have real estate, you can adapt to its laws, but as a geopolitical association, according to all available statistical data, this country is meaningless today. It is fading - and this is reflected in the official figures. Her only dilemma in the future race is under whom is it more comfortable to lie down so as not to disappear completely?

Fictitious chauvinism and imperial aggression have absolutely nothing to do with it, dear friends.

So we have nothing against beautiful houses and clean lakes.

[Horde] - native, evil, yours

Орда in Чат Орды

I am Estonian, I deal with medicinal plants, I grow medicinal roses, I live in the forest, my blog: Valgussaare Looduskool

 

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War In Ukraine Day 69: Steady Offensive Of Allied Troops (Photos, Videos)

On May 3, 2022, the situation in Ukraine did not change significantly. However, there are noticeable successes in the advance...

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WAR IN UKRAINE DAY 69: STEADY OFFENSIVE OF ALLIED TROOPS (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)​

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On May 3, 2022, the situation in Ukraine did not change significantly. However, there are noticeable successes in the advance of Russian and LDPR military forces in some areas.
Northern direction:
The Russian Armed Forces conducted retaliatory strikes against Ukrainian military facilities in the Sumy region. These actions were revenge for the sabotage of late April and early May.
In the Kharkiv direction, an attempt by the Ukrainian military to push the front line further north and east of Kharkiv ended in failure: Russian forces repulsed attacks by the AFU, and carried out their own artillery and air strikes. The Russian Armed Forces also foiled attempts by the AFU to destroy crossings in the vicinity of Izyum. Thus, the counterattack promised by Alexey Arestovich ended in failure.

Furthermore, in Kharkiv Region, Members of the Russian National Guard servicemen prevented an attack by Ukrainian militants on a convoy of Russian troops. They discovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition of a Ukrainian saboteur’s group in the Izyum region. Among other things, they found two Turkish, two Swedish and three American anti-tank grenade launchers. The cache also contained a large amount of combat gear and food supplies for several days.

Members of the Russian National Guard prevented a strike on a convoy of Russian troops.
Luhansk direction:
An offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and the LPR military forces to the south of Izyum continues. The main successes are in the area of Liman, Donetsk Region. Allied forces blocked the Ukrainian grouping in this area, forcing them to blow up the Seversky Donets River crossings. Thus, they actually sacrificed their lives and left themselves only one way to retreat along the road leading through Sviatogorsk, Donetsk Oblast, which is already practically under the control of Russian troops. With the defeat of the Liman garrison, the entire left bank of the Seversky Donets River will be cleared of the AFU. A large amount of military equipment was repulsed.

Ukrainian tank repulsed by the LPR’s People’s Militia

Ukrainian APC repulsed by the LPR’s People’s Militia

Killed Ukrainian soldier near Liman

Killed Ukrainian soldier near Liman
In the city of Popasna, Allied forces continue to mop up the southeastern districts of the city. Once this operation is completed, the Russian and LPR Armed Forces will be left to clear only the northwestern districts of the city. Then they will reach the boundaries of the Lisichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration. The LPR People’s Militia released 20 hostages, civilians held in basements by Ukrainian radicals. The punishers used the people as human shields, and not only that, Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko of the MN LNR told Donbass Resolves.

“Young people were used as slave labor: forced to build fortifications. Under the fear that close relatives would be shot, they were given weapons. Hostages were forcibly armed and forced to shoot. In this way the Ukrainian Nazis covered their escape.”

Donetsk direction:
Compared to the previous days of May, the fighting in the vicinity of Gorlovka has subsided. However, shelling of the city by the Ukrainian military continues. According to the Mayor of Horlivka, 39 shelling of the city’s territory has been recorded to date.
In the southern districts of Avdeevka, there is an intensive exchange of blows. The DPR units (including “Somali” detachment deployed to that area) are effectively fighting against the Ukrainian fortified areas. However, in response to the intense attacks by the Donetsk people, the Ukrainian forces are literally razing the outskirts of Yasinovataya, DPR.

Near Mariupol, a new UN and Red Cross convoy was formed under the protection of allied DPR and Russian forces. It includes 48 buses and several ambulances, as well as escort vehicles.
It is reported that the storming of Azovstal has begun. Russian Army and DPR forces began to destroy Azov’s firing positions after the militants came out of hiding, taking advantage of the silence regime.

Southern direction:
There is fierce fighting in the vicinity of Gulyaypole, Zaporizhzhia region, according to Ukrainian media. The Ukrainian Armed Forces in this direction have to repel attacks by the Crimean grouping of the Russian Armed Forces.
In the Odessa region, the bridge in Zatoka was hit for the 3rd time today. At this point, according to both the Russian and Ukrainian media, confirmed by military sources, the crossing has been permanently destroyed. Reconstruction will be complicated. There have also been strikes against military (AFU and territorial defense) positions concentrated in and around Odessa.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, high-precision airborne missiles struck 38 military facilities in Ukraine overnight. Among them: four command posts, 30 strongholds, areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, and three missile and artillery weapon depots in the areas of Pervomayskoye and Illichivka settlements (Donetsk region). They also destroyed an Osa AKM surface-to-air missile system and a battery of multiple rocket launchers near Arkhangelivka (Kharkiv region).
Russian air defenses destroyed three Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles near Snake Island. Four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also shot down in the areas of Chervony Oskol and Nevskoye (Kharkiv region), as well as Veseloye (Donetsk People’s Republic). In addition, five Smerch rockets were intercepted in the districts of Izyum, Topolskoye and Malaya Kamyshevakha.
However, according to the command of the AFU, two Russian Raptor boats were destroyed by Bayraktar TB2 UAV strikes near Snake Island at dawn today.

Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Danilov accused Hungary of attempting to annex Ukrainian territory
In a broadcast of the Ukrainian telethon, Danilov said that Hungary had been warned by Moscow about an attack on Ukraine and was planning to annex part of Ukrainian territory.

“Hungary was warned by Putin that there would be an attack on our country. You saw her position. She thought she could take some of the territory away. Well, we’ll see what the consequences will be for this country,” Danilov said.

According to the Pentagon, the U.S. has sent 14 planes with military aid to Ukraine in 24 hours, and another 23 flights were made by five other countries. Moreover, there were announced deliveries of another 5,000 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.
Thus, the allied forces continue a steady offensive in several directions. Moreover, as of today it is clearly visible that the AFU grouping in Donbass is gradually falling into encirclement. At the same time, Kyiv is sending more and more forces to the blockaded areas. Kyiv’s concept, imposed by Western countries, of conducting a war “to the last Ukrainian” continues to be enforced. The increase in arms deliveries is a consequence of this.

 

[Adobe]

The Russian military is ramping up efforts to thwart Western arms deliveries into Ukraine, on Monday striking at least six railway stations and facilities. In a statement late in the day the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed it attacked the locations, including taking out train tracks and transport lines, as they were being used "to supply Ukrainian forces with foreign weapons," according to state RIA.

Earlier in the day Ukrainian Railways authority head Oleksander Kamyshin had confirmed that five of the stations were hit, saying there were at this point uknown numbers of casualties, during what was described as an "unusually long" continuous air raid that lasted a reported two hours Monday morning.

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#Russia "has hit an "infrastructure facility" in the mountains of Zakarpattia Oblast, the governor says. The 1st strike in the westernmost region.
Tonight targeted railways system. I'm afraid, they hit the Beskydy Tunnel in the Carpathian between Zakarpattia and Lviv Oblasts." https://t.co/jbWkhY8rP0

"And further attacks on railway and power infrastructure are being reported into the Tuesday night hours in various parts of the country."

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[Joe]

The Russian military is ramping up efforts to thwart Western arms deliveries into Ukraine, on Monday striking at least six railway stations and facilities. In a statement late in the day the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) confirmed it attacked the locations, including taking out train tracks and transport lines, as they were being used "to supply Ukrainian forces with foreign weapons," according to state RIA.

Earlier in the day Ukrainian Railways authority head Oleksander Kamyshin had confirmed that five of the stations were hit, saying there were at this point uknown numbers of casualties, during what was described as an "unusually long" continuous air raid that lasted a reported two hours Monday morning.

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#Russia "has hit an "infrastructure facility" in the mountains of Zakarpattia Oblast, the governor says. The 1st strike in the westernmost region.
Tonight targeted railways system. I'm afraid, they hit the Beskydy Tunnel in the Carpathian between Zakarpattia and Lviv Oblasts." https://t.co/jbWkhY8rP0

"And further attacks on railway and power infrastructure are being reported into the Tuesday night hours in various parts of the country."

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Yeah, seems the Ruskies are taking action ahead of the planned major shipments of US and EU weaponry, especially artillery, to Ukraine.

 

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Military correspondent Semyon Pegov (WarGonzo) tracked down a NATO biolaboratory in Mariupol.

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⚡️Лабораторию НАТО в Мариуполе сожгли в день начала СВО⚡️ Об этом проекту @wargonzo сообщили источники с спецслужбах ДНР, владеющие ситуацией, связанной с расследованием деятельностью «Донецкого областного лабораторного центра», расположенного в Мариуполе и формально находившегося под...

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So far posted, in DeepL translation:

Exclusive️NATO bio-lab in Mariupol️

The @wargonzo managed to find a biolaboratory project in Mariupol, which was used by NATO specialists, among other things, for bacteriological research. Despite the fact that neo-Nazis tried to destroy the facility, we were able to learn a lot of interesting things.

NATO laboratory in Mariupol was burned on the day of the start of the SMO [Special Military Operation]

This was reported to the @wargonzo by sources in the DNR intelligent services with knowledge of the situation related to the investigation of the "Donetsk Regional Laboratory Center," located in Mariupol and formally under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Health Ministry.

The building was set on fire by the Ukrainian security forces back on February 24 (the day the SMO began), before that they removed a large number of samples and materials from the biolaboratory. In other words, they acted on the principle that this facility was a military facility, a security facility, and that data with increased secrecy was stored there.

Other mysteries of this strange Mariupol laboratory are discussed in our exclusive and special report.

Urgent️DRG [Diversion and reconnaissance group] attacked a NATO laboratory in Mariupol️

The incident occurred 3 days ago. The @wargonzo learned about it from Donbas fighters who were nearby at the time.

Despite the fact that the object had long been in deep rear, saboteurs approached it under cover of snipers using foreign 308 caliber rifles and tried to penetrate into the guarded territory.

Information about the incident with DRG appeared during the filming and then required verification.

️How the AFU's DRG tried to infiltrate the bio-lab in Mariupol️

[...]

Apparently, the saboteurs were tasked with destroying evidence left behind by Western handlers or local NATO wards of the laboratory. Western weaponry was used in the attack, and the fighters were extremely skilled.

In general, it is obvious that the facility, long in the rear, is still of great interest to Kiev. All the details can be found only here.

 

[Joan]

This strikes me as what the C's have mentioned several times in the transcripts, as "Strategic Enclosure".

This reminds me of a true leader that is aware of strategic enclosure, protect the nation from interference from so called as Putin has stated "unfriendly nations". But also his people, and by all media reports and interference by suspect persons infiltrating into Russia coming from the West, It seems to be working. They are the only country that is not suffering massive sociopolitical and economic crisis, counter to the western propaganda, that are suffering massively, and are like a deer in the headlights, stunned, where is the next move on the chessboard coming from, they don't have a clue! They sing from a sheet that goes back to the cold war. They have no historian to guide them.The ones that could guide them are are dead or banned.

They are all part of the the "new crop" so steeped in ideology, imprinted in their minds by universities, they can't even think for themselves, they have been indoctrinated.

In fact Russia, as some analyst have suggested. Russia is thriving with a glot of Rubles, shelves are stocked, nothing to be concerned about. They have the ability with all this wealth creation, thanks o the West, To creat a whole new reality, for those that forget the nihilistic ideology of a monopolar world, the world is waiting in expectation (the peoples of the world) of a multi-polar world, and if this happens, I suspect the whole world would breath the largest sigh of relief in mankind, for the past two centuries at least. Those are my thoughts.

 

[Joan]

To make a point from my above post, Listen to Dr. Stephen F Cohen. This video from 2015, the audio is low and needs to be adjusted.

Stephen F. Cohen: The Ukrainian Crisis - It's not All Putin's Fault (Recorded in 2015)​

 

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'The neighborhood is warming up.'

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Poland massively pulls together 152-mm. artillery on the border with Belarus (video)​

2022-05-04

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Finland is moving dozens of heavy tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to the Russian border (video)​

2022-05-04