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Северный ветер reports:
On March 11, the North group of troops continued to carry out tasks to liberate the Kursk region
During the course of fierce battles, the Fearless liberated Kazachya Loknya, the village of Mirny, the farmsteads of Dmitryukov and 2nd Knyazhiy, as well as the settlement of Zamostye .
At night, fighting continued for the regional center, Sudzha, the eastern part of which is already under the control of Russian troops.
▪️Several thousand Ukrainian occupiers are still in the district center, the cleansing of which will continue even after the raising of the flag: the Ukrainian Armed Forces are mainly located in the basements of residential buildings, at strongholds in the industrial zone, many do not know about what is happening not only at the front, but also on the neighboring street.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces Command completely lost contact with its troops in the occupied territories a few days ago. Some Ukrainian units are trying to flee on foot in the direction of Yunakovka, but all roads are under fire control of the Severians.
▪️An attempt by neo-Nazis from the Aidar battalion, as well as units of the 225th "death regiment" to carry out a counterattack on our marines in the south of the Sudzhansky district was unsuccessful - the Fearless destroyed several units of the occupiers along with military equipment.
▪️The Northerners also continue to clear the forests of the Sudzhan border area, where scattered groups of occupiers continue to resist, not fully aware of the situation at the front. After clearing the forests of occupiers, the Northerners will have to perform an equally important task of demining the liberated territory.
▪️It is worth highlighting the feat of our air defense crews, who shot down over 200 enemy attack UAVs launched at civilian targets by the Ukrainian fascists.
Zelensky's "Kursk adventure" is coming to its logical conclusion. The Fearless have liberated almost all occupied territories, having ground up tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers from the most combat-ready units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, victorious reports will be heard only when the last fascist is driven out of Russian soil.
The total advance of the Northerners in the Kursk region was over 17,000 meters , and 20 units of enemy armored vehicles were destroyed.
In March , the Northerners liberated 244 square kilometers, and 138 square kilometers remain to be liberated in the Sudzhan border area.
In the Liptsovsky direction, our scouts discovered, and artillerymen and UAV operators destroyed, an enemy stronghold along with personnel and vehicles.
Several groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers received orders from Liptsy to be transferred to Volchansk, after which they disappeared in an unknown direction. The local command is trying to hide the desertion.
In the Volchansk direction, our assault units continued to clear the outskirts of the city, driving the enemy out of several strongholds and advancing up to 80 meters into the urban area.
Our artillerymen and UAV operators struck the enemy's manpower concentration, destroying eight combat groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along with their vehicles.
Northeners' air defense crews shot down two enemy reconnaissance UAVs and twelve copters of various types.
Source: Северный ветер
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🇮🇷🇾🇪 🇮🇱Yemen's radar is already on and the search for Israeli ships has begun.
The radar will remain operational until food, medicine and water arrive in Gaza.
We will not allow Gaza to be deprived of humanitarian aid.
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The Yemeni Armed Forces announced the resumption of the ban on the passage of all Israeli ships in the designated operational area of the Red and Arabian Seas, as well as Bab al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden:
Statement of the Yemeni Armed Forces regarding the resumption of the ban on the passage of all Israeli ships in the Red and Arabian Seas, Bab al-Mandab, and the Gulf of Aden - March 11, 2025
In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful
God Almighty said: {And if you return [to sin], We will return [to punishment], and We have made Hell a prison for the disbelievers.} God Almighty is Truth.
In support of and victory for the oppressed Palestinian people and their dear Mujahideen, and after the expiry of the specified period of the deadline granted by Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, may God protect him, to the mediators to push and pressure the Israeli enemy to reopen the crossings and bring aid into the Gaza Strip, and in view of the inability of the mediators to achieve this, the Yemeni Armed Forces confirm the following:
First: Resuming the ban on the passage of all Israeli ships in the designated operational area of the Red and Arabian Seas, as well as Bab al-Mandab and the Gulf of Aden.
Second: This ban shall take effect from the time of announcing this statement.
Third: Any Israeli ship attempting to violate this ban will be targeted in the declared area of operations.
Fourth: This ban will continue until the crossings to the Gaza Strip are reopened and aid and food and medicine supplies are allowed to enter.
The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and affirm that, with God's help, they will stand by the valiant Palestinian resistance.
Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs. He is the best Master and the best Helper.
Long live Yemen, free, honorable and independent
Victory to Yemen and all the free people of the nation
Sana'a, 11 Ramadan 1446 AH
Corresponding to March 11, 2025
Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces
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Aviahub writes,
I read news, contracts, negotiations, Trumps, Fucking MPs.
Today they fraternize, tomorrow they say that nothing of the sort happened.
Remember once and for all.
While the fighting continues, you all have no one to rely on except for the fighters with the Russian flag chevron on their shoulders and weapons in their hands.
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I've noticed that everyone is rushing to react to the latest news of a possible ceasefire agreement being forced upon Russia. I'd like to remind everyone to wait and see. We've already been on a rollercoaster ride these past few weeks since Trump took office. Tomorrow, everything can change.
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Kursk, August 7th, 2024 to Present (actually, this information is a little old, since it is the Ukrainian resource "Deep State").
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Be careful, violent footage!
Russian soldiers have discovered the bodies of brutally murdered civilians, most of whom are pensioners, in the Kursk village of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, liberated from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the military group of the "North" forces reported to RIA Novosti.
The video provided to the agency shows at least five bodies of civilians. According to the fighters, all of them show visible signs of violent death. Some pensioners are missing limbs, others have traces of gunshots to the head.
Source: Russian media
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Permanent representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzya on Kaja Kallas.
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It is going to end on the Russian terms. Like it or not.
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A fire started in Dnepropetrovsk after a series of explosions, Ukrainian media write and publish this photo.
Damage to infrastructure reported. Air raid alert issued.
Source: Russian media
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Smells like ceasefire 😏
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The European Union supports the results of the talks between the US and Ukrainian delegations in Jeddah, including the proposal for a ceasefire and Washington's decision to resume military aid and the provision of intelligence to Kyiv, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
This is a positive development that could be a step towards a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for Ukraine. The ball is now in Russia's court. The EU stands ready to play its full role together with its partners in the upcoming peace talks.
"I hope Russia will agree to a ceasefire," Trump said.
The US President also said that he is ready to invite Zelensky to the White House again.
Also, the stop in aid and intelligence sharing with Kiev has been lifted. Although, I don't believe it made much of a difference anyway. Ukrainian forces had months of supplies already stockpiled, and a few days without Intel support probably didn't impact AFU operations to any degree. The Kursk bulge was already on the verge of collapse, as the RF had fire control over the Ukrainian logistics. It would have taken considerably longer to witness a decline in the defenses of the AFU.
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Ukraine has accepted the US proposal to immediately introduce a temporary, 30-day ceasefire , which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, wrote the head of Zelensky's office, Yermak, following the negotiations between Ukraine and the US in Jeddah.
Other statements by US and Ukrainian representatives following the meeting:
‼️ The United States is immediately lifting the pause in intelligence sharing and restoring military aid to Ukraine, Yermak said. This information was confirmed by Waltz;
‼️ The United States and Ukraine have agreed to conclude an agreement on mineral resources as soon as possible, according to a statement following the talks published by Kiev;
🔜 “The United States will communicate to Russia that reciprocity on the part of Russia is the key to achieving peace,” Yermak wrote;
🔜 The US will convey to Russia through several channels proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine, hoping for a positive response - Marco Rubio;
🔜 Trump's national security adviser Waltz said he would speak with a Russian representative in the coming days.
Source: Russian media
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So, they want the ceasefire, yet they resumed supply of intelligence data.
Rubio may hope for anything he wants, I doubt he will get positive answer from the Russian side.
Actually, I thought they were smarter. But this administrations seems to be the same as the previous one.
Anyway, their supply of intelligence data will not affect Russian troops. Russia fought in this conflict for three years and may sustain more.
In general, it would be stange to expect anything different than this.
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More about this then...
I spoke about the article yesterday and, earlier today, the webpage was down. Seeing how Elon Musk claims Ukrainians attacked X, I see no reason to assume that this wasn't a deliberate attack on the website as well.
The fact that Ukraine is attacking the Trump administration can safely be considered a fact. It was corroborated by Daniel Baldwin for the One America News Network (OANN), who was present at the meeting Zelensky had with Trump, as well as George Papadopoulos. Before the meeting, Zelensky was instructed to "play hardball" by the Democrats and to refuse any kind of concessions.
In other words, Zelensky and his goons are directly attacking the US administration now and it is being done under orders from Zelensky. If I only had one part of the story, I wouldn't report it. If I had two, I'd hesitate. But putting all the pieces together creates a pretty clear picture, as far as I'm concerned.
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Kosachev: Any agreements on Ukraine will be implemented on Russia's terms
Real agreements are still being written at the front, says the Vice Speaker of the Federation Council
MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/.
Ukraine agrees with what the US is telling them, "bows and fawns," but any agreements will be implemented on Russia's terms. This opinion on the results of the US-Ukrainian talks in Jeddah was expressed by Vice Speaker of the Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev.
The conditions are American, not Ukrainian. The Ukrainians agree to what they are told. And at the same time they bow and fawn - what is the formula alone worth "we will sign an agreement on resources when it is convenient for Washington," - he wrote on his Telegram channel . - Russia is advancing, and therefore it will be different with Russia. Any agreements (with all understanding of the need for compromise) - on our terms, not American. And this is not boasting, but an understanding that real agreements are still being written there, on the front. Which should be understood in Washington too
🇮🇷 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressing Trump:
"They say if you don't come to negotiate, we will do this and that.. We will not come, do whatever you want."
"We may die, but we will not live in humiliation."
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Zin Note: Perhaps he isn't a Gorbachev after all.
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Archived video:
Heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek" and rocket artillery of the "East" group of the Russian Armed Forces working on the positions of Ukrainian formations in the settlement of Konstantinopol of the Donetsk People's Republic.
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Научпопик writes,
Somebody wrote to me: "You say that humanity will have enough nuclear fuel for the foreseeable future. But this is not true. The production of plutonium from uranium-238 in fast reactors is relatively slow: if we get down to business in 50 years, there will not be enough fuel for the ignition of "fast" reactors. Maybe that is why Rosatom is in such a hurry with fast neutron reactors?"
I have encountered this point of view more than once, so it seems that some clarification is needed here.
All this is not true at all. According to all existing estimates, unenriched uranium dioxide from sea water (0.7% uranium-235) at market price will not be more expensive than uranium dioxide enriched in uranium-235 to a "reactor useable" 3-5%.
Meanwhile, the world has long ago come up with reactors capable of operating on natural uranium, without any enrichment. Only in the 2020s, India commissioned a couple of such reactors (using heavy water).
That is, if tomorrow all the uranium on land evaporates, along with all the reserves and enrichment capacities, nuclear power will not disappear. Because there are literally billions of tons of uranium in seawater. Moreover, its reserves there are constantly being replenished (seawater "eats" uranium from the rocks of the seabed). Nuclear power plants will simply gradually move to heavy water. And even the share of fuel in the price of an atomic kilowatt-hour will not deviate much from the current five percent (rough estimate).
Rosatom is building sodium and lead fast-neutron reactors not because in 50-100 years there will be nothing to run these fast reactors on. It is doing this because the corporation believes that the radiation from radioactive waste from nuclear power in the future should not be higher than the radiation from the ore that this power industry extracts from the ground.
From a commercial point of view, this approach does not make much sense. Uranium from other sources is still cheaper. Reducing the volume of nuclear waste will not affect the economics of nuclear power plants or the public's perception of nuclear energy (Rosatom thinks otherwise, though).
This will not influence the public because its nuclear fears, as I have noted many times, are not rational in nature. Therefore, they cannot be defeated by rational arguments such as "new nuclear power plants will not produce nuclear waste."
If you want to control the minds of society, you don't need to focus on its brain. You need to focus on something completely different. Rosatom is simply good at nuclear energy, not at managing the mood of the masses.
Despite all this, the transition to fast reactors should be welcomed. Again, not even because of waste (the exorbitantly inflated problem of which I discussed here ). And not because of the fuel shortage, of which, frankly, there is no shortage at all.
Here's why it should be welcomed: practical slow-neutron reactors cannot use gas turbines. Because their coolant is water. And water cannot be heated to temperatures high enough to fit a gas turbine to such a reactor.
Civilian fast neutron reactors today also use water as a coolant (BN-800, under construction in BREST). This means that economically they also have no chance to equal gas thermal power plants in price.
Why is that? Both nuclear power plants and gas thermal power plants are essentially thermal power plants. And if one of them uses a compact, light and cheap heat-to-electricity converter (gas turbine), and the second one uses a bulky, heavy and expensive one (steam boiler + steam turbine, like at a nuclear power plant), then the second one will not have a chance of equal price. The laws of physics cannot be fooled. Although entire design teams regularly try to do this.
But sodium fast reactors are still one step closer to being competitive with conventional thermal power plants. Their coolant is so hot that it can be "mated" with a gas turbine instead of a steam turbine.
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Азартная геополитика writes:
🈁The US-Ukraine talks in Jeddah have ended. Yermak promised that the Rare Earths Agreement would be signed soon (it looks like Zelensky will visit the White House again), Waltz is trying to impose the narrative on Moscow "we have already agreed with Ukraine, now try to refuse."
At the same time, it was announced that the US is lifting its temporary suspension of military and intelligence aid to Ukraine (as if it had been stopped at all).
The Russian Foreign Ministry cautiously reported that contacts between representatives of the Russian and American diplomatic departments are possible in the near future. Obviously, our foreign policy department first wants to receive reliable and clearly understandable materials on the results of the meeting in Jeddah before giving any assessments.
In our information environment, pseudo-patriots are gradually starting to whip up a hysteria of "well, that's it, they've given it up!" To be honest, I don't remember anyone in the Kremlin declaring that they would unquestioningly fulfill any agreements between Kiev and Washington.
Let's wait for more detailed information on the results of the American-Ukrainian meeting and carefully study the response of our Foreign Ministry and the Kremlin.
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Series of explosions after ballistic missile strikes in Odessa and its environs
Right now, there are at least 30 Geranium-2 kamikaze drones flying over Ukrainian territory.
UPD. Ukrainian TG channels report missile launches by TU-160 aircraft at targets in Ukraine.
Source: Позывной "Кацман"
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This is because the Russian army has no access to Telegram. If they had, they would have known that Trump and Zelensky agreed on ceasefire.
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Telegram channel ПЯТНИЦА:
🈁Let me just remind you of the balance of power:
Vice President Vance : "We are at a point where neither Europe, nor the United States, nor the Ukrainians can continue this war indefinitely."
German Defense Ministry : " We have reached the limit of our ability to transfer weapons from our arsenals to Ukraine"
NATO Secretary General Rutte : "According to some data, Russia produces as much weapons in 3 months as NATO does in a year"
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Russia is interested in a settlement in Ukraine, but will not allow itself to be deceived. This was stated to TASS by Mikhail Sheremet, a State Duma deputy from the Crimean region and a member of the Security Committee.
Source: TASS
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Foreign leaders react to the ceasefire proposal in Ukraine.
🔜 Emmanuel Macron said this was significant progress in the negotiations and "the ball is now clearly in Russia's court."
🔜 British Prime Minister Keir Stramer congratulated Trump and Zelensky on the "wonderful breakthrough", adding that he would hold a summit to discuss next steps on Saturday.
🔜 Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schof called the news positive, noting that it could be the first step towards sustainable peace.
Source: Russian media
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- Did your sister help you to do the homework?
- No, she did all of it.
Minding everything that was said by EU leaders lately, guess what the Russian answer would be.😏. I tend to agree with Trukhan - if nothing changes, year 2025 will be fully military year. And looks like nothing is going to change.
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‼️ Putin named the conditions for starting negotiations with Kiev [June 14th, 2024]:
❗️ Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the territory of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions;
❗️ Ukraine's commitment not to join NATO;
❗️ Neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear status of Ukraine.
Video: TASS/Ruptly
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Memory pill. Judging by happy Europeans, supporting the initiative, it's not something that Russia will agree to. Russia knows the West too well.
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Putin's conversation with Trump will take place on Friday, and it will be "more than just a phone call."
This was reported by Kremlin pool journalist Dmitry Smirnov.
Trump previously said he would speak with Putin this week.
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Позывной "Кацман" comments:
Another issue is that no truce on the agrarian world of Porcus will suit the Empire. And Ambassador Imperialis has spoken about this more than once. In general, this is all about nothing.
Why is everyone so excited about the "truce"? As if it has already happened or is even possible. The usual political football has begun and until some consultations with the Russian side are held, one can of course dream and declare a lot.
P.S. But the fact that Ermak today once again set up Ze, portraying him as a crazy and uncooperative speedball drug addict living in his own world, for some reason they don’t talk about it very much.
Ukraine expressed its readiness to accept the US proposal to immediately introduce a temporary, 30-day ceasefire, which could be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, Yermak wrote following the talks.
"The United States will communicate to Russia that reciprocity on the part of Russia is the key to achieving peace," Yermak wrote.
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They'll think about it...
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🇷🇺 The 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 40th Marine Brigade liberated the settlement of Dneproenergia.
🗺 Map: divgen.ru
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Lavrov on peacekeepers in the Ukraine:
<...> they are going to protect what? the remains of Nazi Kiev regime?