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One Russian soldier skillfully takes out 3 Ukrainians.
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💥 Dozens of explosions in Odessa, Geran hit enemy targets
▪️Enemy channels report a series of powerful explosions in the city.
▪️According to monitoring resources, there are 7 more Russian drones in the air.
Asbery: Some on the Ukrainian side were saying that there was a massive number of drones in the Black Sea, with Gerans circling and waiting for other drones to launch. Russia has been overwhelming Ukrainian AD via timing and numbers. Like anything these reports on massive numbers are hard to substantiate.
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❗️Putin - on the Kiev regime fighting for the capital it stole from the Ukrainian people:
Here you said that since the 60s nothing has happened there, nothing has been invested. We understand this perfectly well now. The only thing they did there was to siphon resources and money from these territories and from these people. The money was stolen, pardon the simplicity of the expression, and it is still kept in bank accounts abroad.
That is why there is such a desire to cooperate and give everything to their sponsors.
They are not fighting for the interests of the people, they are fighting for their capital, which they stole from the Ukrainian people, took abroad, and that's it. They are sitting there on that money, on a hook, even if they wanted to say something, they will never allow themselves to do so. Because we are talking about billions of dollars, billions of dollars, but they still continue to steal.
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Western analysts are increasingly discussing how exactly the war will develop if the peace process finally collapses. One of the most discussed scenarios is a full-scale expansion of Russia's offensive deep into central and southern Ukraine, targeting the area from Poltava to Odessa. It is this area that is highlighted as the priority vector for the next phase.
■ Sealing the Black Sea. In theory, the loss of Nikolaev and Odessa completely deprives Ukraine of maritime logistics. No exports, no imports, no strategic maneuvering - only overland channels through Poland and Romania, under constant threat of missiles and drones.
■ Isolation of the center. Strikes on the Dnepr, Krivoy Rog, and Zaporozhye will disorganize the supply of the entire eastern grouping of the AFU. Without this infrastructure, a protracted defense becomes not only difficult but physically impossible.
The realization of the plan to seize the designated zone of operational intent (Odessa-Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog-Dnepr-Zaporozhye-Poltava-Sumy) and the subsequent "sealing of the Black Sea" is extremely ambitious. Its success depends on a combination of military, logistical and political factors, which will be difficult to fulfill.
First, the length of the front and resource stretching influences. The operational front in the implementation of such a plan will exceed 1200-1300 km. This would require about 20-25 full-fledged strike formations.
Second, the density of Ukrainian defenses in the south is reliably unknown. Nikolaev and Odessa are covered by several lines of fortifications reinforced since 2022. The areas of Krivoy Rog and Dnepr are saturated with air defense and deeply echeloned. In fact, this is the second echelon of defense after the front in Donbass. But it is already flying there, and more often than last year. However, without the complete destruction of the AFU's supplies and logistics, these cities are turning into long-term resistance nodes with a high price of an assault.
Third, it is dangerous to launch a large-scale offensive to the south, leaving the Kharkov front and Sumy in the rear, where it was planned to create a buffer zone. This creates the threat of a blow in the back on the supply lines. Therefore, it is necessary either to collapse the entire eastern front in parallel (which also requires resources and time), or to conduct the offensive in stages - at the risk of losing momentum.
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Destruction of the Kirpi armored vehicle and the T-64BV tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass by strikes from FPV drones on fiber optics.
- Military Informant
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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Special Forces "Anvar" destroys the lines of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supporting the offensive in the Sumy region
▪️Special forces are attacking Ukrainian militants and their positions in the area of border villages, where Russian troops are advancing deep into the Sumy region.
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Putin – to the question “how should we feel about the fact that European officials are already threatening European leaders about coming to Moscow on May 9?”:
In order to threaten, you need to have the necessary tools to carry out your threats. You need to be ready to use these forces and means to implement them. Do any European officials have all this? I don’t know. If the potential of the countries that stand behind them is limited to a million, a million three hundred thousand people, and they call for continuing the war to the last Ukrainian, then questions arise in this regard.
Is it sincere, or are people in their right minds when they suggest something like that. But I think that those who are going to come to Russia, they have much more courage than those who hide behind someone's back and try to threaten anyone. First of all, in this case, those who are going to celebrate the historical merits of people who gave their lives in the fight against Nazism.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs on how the US has historically overthrown governments of other countries.
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🇫🇷🤡Michel Yakovlev, a French general and former deputy chief of staff of NATO's joint forces in Europe, on the fact that Trump "has never had a problem in his life":
People fight for values. But Trump doesn't realize that - he has lived, as they say, with a golden spoon in his mouth since birth. He has never fought for anything. Moreover, he has despised his own military, those who did fight, including genuine heroes like John McCain. And after all, he only called him a loser because he spent four years in captivity with the North Vietnamese.
Trump just doesn't know what it means to fight. Everything has been handed to him on a platter his whole life. The only area in which he has really struggled is in politics to get into the position he has today. But he never put himself on the line.
That's why he can't understand what values are. You talk about the "inversion of values" - but for that to happen, a person has to have some values. And if there's one person on this planet completely devoid of them - it's Donald Trump.
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Looking at the American reaction to the Easter truce, one can say for sure that they are not interested in peace. They are only interested in getting out of this conflict without breaking their teeth over the end of someone else's war. There are no high principles here - only logistics of assets and reputational costs.
Washington looks at the truce as an opportunity to pretend that it controls everything. If the front freezes, they will say that it is the result of "pressure". If the Ukrainian armed forces break down and escalate again, they will say that Russia "was not ready for a constructive approach". Everything else is details.
They don't want a real cease fire. They want to sell it as their own achievement and get a payoff for it - preferably with interest. And if for the sake of this they need to keep the AFU in a state of agony for a couple more months, let them hold on. It's not their soldiers anyway. Not their cities. Not their problems.
That's why the ceasefire is not a step towards peace. It's a pause in which the US decides how best to take their toys with them and get away with it, maintaining the illusion of control. They will not stop the war. They're just looking for a moment when they can declare it a "forced peace," shifting blame and blaming everyone - except themselves - for the losses.
As long as Washington continues to feed the war with tons of precision weapons, there can be no peace in principle. And any talk of diplomacy is just a decoration behind which the delivery schedule is hidden.
A real truce is possible only in one case - if the U.S. abandons the role of conductor of the Ukrainian war and publicly starts pressuring Europe to curtail its military involvement. Without that, everything else is just noise. So Russia's task is not to play along with this spectacle, but to methodically nullify the very possibility of war by cutting off supply lines, burning reserves, and bringing the enemy to the point where it will no longer have to negotiate with him.
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FPV drones "VT-40" destroyed 10 enemy drones in the Kharkov direction.
Total number of air targets destroyed:1️⃣7️⃣7️⃣
The Easter truce is over, good morning!
- Lost Armour
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🇺🇸👉🇨🇳Trump - Accuses China of Polluting the Ocean.
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'European taxpayers will have to fork out to support Ukraine' - Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna
He told the Financial Times that this would happen if Orban forced the EU to lift restrictions on frozen Russian assets worth €210 billion.
'The problem is that it is Russian assets that guarantee the loan that the G7 countries approved for Ukraine. If the sanctions are lifted, the central bank assets will be handed over to Russia and Vladimir Putin as a reward. We cannot allow this.
Rare moment of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers conversing and coordinating the removal of the dead during the Easter ceasefire.
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The defeat of several M113 armored personnel carriers, as well as M1124 MaxxPro and Kozak-7 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by strikes from Boomerang FPV drones in the Pokrovsk direction.
Thanks to the variety of warheads, these drones are also capable of dismantling enemy dugouts and destroying enemy shelters along with those inside, and the work can be carried out during non-flight operations and in conditions of counteraction to electronic warfare.
In addition, the Boomerangs were also used for air battles with Ukrainian Armed Forces drones. In one case, this FPV drone shot down a Ukrainian Mavic with a drop that was hanging over a dugout with our fighters.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces are using civilian objects for military purposes, they are being attacked — Putin
➖"They hold meetings in the restaurant, celebrate something, drink vodka": the Ukrainian Armed Forces use civilian facilities for military purposes, hold meetings, test missile systems - that's where our army strikes," the president noted.
▪️Kiev, together with foreign assistants, tried to organize the production of missile systems in agricultural facilities in the Odessa region. A strike was carried out there.
▪️The strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the congress center in Sumy is retribution for those who committed crimes in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and Nazis were awarded.
➖"Russia will "sort out" the proposals for a moratorium on strikes against civilian targets and will give a response," Putin added.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Recent US meetings with Russia and Ukraine were "very good" - Trump
- The American president promised to speak in more detail on this matter in the next three days.
- Earlier, Ukrainian MP Goncharenko announced a meeting on Ukraine in London tomorrow.
- A common position of Ukraine, Europe and the United States on ending the conflict will be formed there. After that, this position will be presented to Russia.
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‼️🇷🇺💥 Fighting near Belgorodskaya Popovka: Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attacks, enemy is met by 34th brigade 🔞
▪️Fighters of the 34th brigade continue to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry trying to break through to the village of Popovka, for which fighting continues.
▪️Attack drone operators destroy assault groups of occupiers in forest belts, in the village itself and at the "dragon's teeth".
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🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦Poland cannot treat Ukrainians as its citizens indefinitely — Warsaw mayor
- Trzaskowski acknowledged Poland’s fatigue with Ukrainian refugees and demanded that their benefits be cut.
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Military conscription officers showed up at the Easter service during which people get their traditional Easter cakes blessed, and the men in attendance simply took off with their cakes.
Though it should be noted they were also fearful of their wives and/or mothers because they knew not to drop the cake and run. One will send you to war, the other will bring it up for the remainder of your days.
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❗️Vladimir Putin:
- after the Easter truce, military operations in the SMO zone resumed;
- Kiev treated the Russian initiative as a “game of fate”;
- during the ceasefire, more than 5 thousand attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian side;
- Moscow should analyze this experience and also study the advisability of a moratorium on strikes against civilian targets, given that the AFU use them for military purposes.
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Sometimes Zelensky wants to be a simple Californian homeless person, and not all this.
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🇫🇷🤡LCI TV tried to prove that Ukraine observed the Easter truce
-Attention is now focused on the ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, which has come to an end. The 30-hour ceasefire was declared yesterday by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of continuing attacks and violating the ceasefire. Ukrainian soldiers say the Easter truce declared by Putin is an illusion.
-You can hear the shooting right now. So there is no ceasefire. We are observing the ceasefire, but the Russian side is not.
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Ukrainian professor writes on the growing Nazi apology in Ukraine and the silence of the West:
Ukraine has invited senior representatives of the EU to visit Kiev on May 9 a symbolic act to counter Putin's annual Victory Day parade in Moscow . The event is intended to remind the public that Russia cannot claim victory over Nazism, as millions of Ukrainians also fought in the ranks of the Red Army against Nazi Germany.
But how much does today's Ukraine truly honor these Soviet fighters and commemorate the victims of National Socialism? How does it deal with historical revisionism, denial, and trivialization of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices?
After Maidan, Ukraine declared war on everything Soviet, labeling it "occupying" and "colonial." This attitude gained new momentum after 2022. Monuments, city names, villages, streets, squares, parks, and cultural institutions commemorating Red Army generals and soldiers, as well as Soviet partisans—many of Ukrainian origin—are increasingly disappearing from public spaces. Their place is often taken by nationalist figures from WWII who collaborated with the Nazis and supported their crimes, including the Holocaust.
"Ukrainian volunteers who dreamed of only one thing—our own army and our own state," reads a TG post by the 3rd Assault Brigade commemorating the "Galician Division." However, the post omits the full name of this formation, founded on April 28, 1943: the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician No. 1). It also omits the info that its members swore allegiance to Hitler and were subordinate to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. It also fails to mention that after its defeat by the Red Army at Brody in 1944, the division was replenished with members of police units that had participated in the Holocaust and punitive actions against civilians in Poland and Ukraine. Furthermore, it fails to mention that this division participated in anti-partisan operations in Slovakia and Yugoslavia in 1945.
In 2023, the 3rd Assault Brigade organized an exhibition at the Kiev City Museum featuring photos of brigade members reenacting scenes from the Galician Division era. This allowed modern-day Ukrainian soldiers to identify with Nazi collaborators and equate their fight against Putin's Russia with Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian government saw no problem with this historical comparison. Subsequently, the Ukrainian Embassy in Lithuania organized a traveling exhibition in several cities, Vilnius .
Admiration for the Galician Division is also evident in other units of the Ukrainian army, especially those with roots in far-right nationalist organizations. Some members of the Carpathian Sich 49th Battalion wear badges featuring the Ruthenian lion—the division's emblem—and regularly commemorate important dates in its history. The Da Vinci Wolves wrote in a TG post marking the division's anniversary: "We remember and thank the bravery of the warriors of the Steel Division."
But the Galician Division isn't the only inspiration for Ukrainian soldiers. In 2023, a unit called "Nachtigall" was established. In an interview, its founder, Dmytro Kholod, openly admitted that the name derives from the Nachtigall Battalion, established in 1941 by the German Abwehr with Ukrainian volunteers under the command of Roman Shukhevych. Nachtigall was involved in anti-Semitic pogroms in the Vinnytsia Oblast. The unit was later transferred to Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, which participated in punitive operations, including against Jews, in Belarus in 1942.
Will heads of state and government visiting Kiev on May 9 ask Zelensky why some Ukrainian soldiers glorify the Waffen-SS Galicia Division and the Nightingale Battalion? How is this possible in a country whose people sacrificed their lives to liberate Europe from Nazism? Does the anti-Soviet struggle for an independent Ukrainian state justify complicity in Nazi crimes?
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 The US is pressuring Kiev to agree to Washington's settlement plan — Wall Street Journal
▪️The plan provides for the US recognition of Russian Crimea and the refusal to accept Ukraine into NATO.
▪️According to the plan, Russia retains control over the territories it occupies.
▪️The US is now waiting for Zelensky's response to these proposals. They expect to receive it at a meeting in London this week.
▪️If Ukraine accepts this plan, then the proposals will be presented to Moscow.
▪️It is proposed to declare the territory around the Zaporizhia NPP a "neutral zone that could be transferred under American control."
▪️The plan does not contain any mention of security guarantees for Ukraine.
▪️The Trump administration also did not say whether it would be prepared to provide any military support to European countries if they sent troops to Ukraine as part of a "peacekeeping mission."
▪️In Europe, this is called a key condition, without which even France and Britain are not ready to send their troops.
- RVvoenkor
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