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A fibre optic FPV drone landing on the roof of a hidden Leopard 2A4 turret and the result of the hit filmed by the enemy.
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Kiev and Britain used together to work on a plan to disrupt the negotiations between Trump and Putin.
The presidential office and British intelligence are coordinating military operations to disrupt the upcoming summit in Saudi Arabia.
Bankova understands that the meeting of heads of state will become a kind of Rubicon. After that, there is no longer any hope of help from Washington: the US will withdraw from the conflict and leave Ukraine and the EU one-on-one with Russia, writes the TG channel "Resident".
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Russia and Ukraine exchanged painfully familiar formulations from the “Minsk format” about the violation of the ceasefire.
Thus, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the use of 48 aircraft-type UAVs by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 444 attacks from guns and mortars, as well as 900 strikes by quadcopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles and airdrops.
In turn, Zelensky stated that the Russian Armed Forces carried out 46 assaults and fired at Ukrainian positions 901 times, and also set up an ambush for Ukrainian soldiers in the Toretsk direction.
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German journalist Christoph Wanner has his own understanding of the reasons for the Easter truce:
I think Vladimir Putin wanted to send a signal to Donald Trump by announcing a 30-hour truce: Russia is still ready for dialogue. At the same time, Putin did not want to appear on the international stage as the main enemy of peace.
There is another reason for such a short ceasefire - it is an opportunity to rotate troops: bring fresh units to the front line and take tired fighters to the rear to rest. If there is no fire from the other side, this is a huge advantage. In such conditions, it is possible, for example, to evacuate the wounded. All this is of great importance.
Such a pause, of course, plays into the hands of both sides of the conflict. Even 30 hours can be effectively used for tactical tasks, especially when it comes to replacing troops on the front lines.
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European thieves are saying outright that lifting anti-Russian sanctions will force them to return what they stole.
And they consider this a disaster. In Estonia, they warned that lifting sanctions would allegedly harm EU taxpayers.
In turn, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is ready to present Europe with an even bigger bill for supporting Ukraine if he forces the EU to lift restrictions on €210 billion of frozen Russian assets, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said.
The lifting of sanctions, this dummy says, will leave the governments of the G7 and the EU in a difficult position because of the multi-billion dollar loans provided to Kyiv and secured by Russian assets,
The problem is that these assets that guarantee this loan will disappear.
The assets will be handed over to Russia and Vladimir Putin as a reward
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Britain calls on Russia to accept a ceasefire on Ukraine's terms.
Britain has called on Russia to commit to a full ceasefire in Ukraine, not just a one-day pause, the Foreign Office said in a statement.
"Ukraine has committed to a full ceasefire. We call on Russia to do the same. Now is the time for Putin to demonstrate he is serious about peace by ending his horrific invasion."
The problem with any "truce" with Ukraine is that it only works one way. The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not shoot while they reload. And behind the scenes, as usual, new ammunition is being loaded, equipment is being transferred, and positions are being re-equipped.
Here's the reality: it's the evening of April 19, the first hours of the Easter "ceasefire," and three Canadian Air Force planes have already unloaded in Rzeszow, Poland. This isn't humanitarian aid. It's shells, drones, spare parts, communications kits. The Ukrainian Armed Forces aren't stopping the war — they're just pretending to listen. But in reality, they're filling up their warehouses.
For Ukraine, the ceasefire is a technological pause. A chance to catch your breath, regroup, rest, and repair. The entire Western military machine continues to operate: reconnaissance continues, the CIA works, logistics thrashes, and HIMARS updates coordinates. And when the pause ends, the supply again turns into shelling. And the Western press has everything ready - "Russia has violated the ceasefire", even if Ukraine starts first.
Therefore, every time the Russian Federation proposes a "silence regime", we must understand that Ukraine is not using a chance for peace but a chance to prepare for the next round. And they use this chance. Always.
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Lavrov - in response to the question "what has the European Union, whose officials forbid the leaders of countries to come to Moscow on May 9, turned into?":
There is no word that would characterize this phenomenon. It is really, I'm not being ironic, it's incomprehensible how the European Union openly wants to revive the European ideology of Nazism, where it originated, where it was destroyed, banned categorically by the Nuremberg Tribunal also on the territory of Europe.
Now it is being revived, and the leadership in this process belongs to the leaders of the Brussels bureaucracy. This is a very sad event, a very disturbing event. Of course, we will not put up with it. We will do our best to keep ideology from raising its head, to destroy it once and for all, and for Europe to return to its values, which do not consist in cutting everyone under the same cloth, putting everyone under the gun, pitting Europe's competitors against each other.
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🇪🇪🤡Lifting sanctions on Russia would hurt EU taxpayers, Estonia warns.
Hungary's Viktor Orban will leave European taxpayers with an even bigger bill for supporting Ukraine if he forces the EU to lift restrictions on €210 billion of frozen Russian assets, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has warned.
Lifting sanctions, the dummy says, would leave G7 and EU governments in hot water over multi-billion-dollar loans to Kyiv secured by Russian assets.
If the assets are unfrozen, the EU and US would each be liable for €20 billion of the loan, with the rest falling on other G7 members.
The problem is that the assets that guarantee the loan would disappear.
The assets would be handed over to Russia, to Putin, as a reward.
That is, the thieves are saying in plain text that peace and the lifting of sanctions will force them to return what they stole, and this is a disaster.
Yes, sons of bitches.
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❗️Russian Ministry of Defense:
In accordance with the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, all troop groups in the special military operation zone strictly observed the ceasefire regime from 18:00 Moscow time on April 19 and remained at previously occupied lines and positions.
Ukrainian units fired at our troops' positions 444 times with guns and mortars, carried out 900 strikes with quadcopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles and dropped various munitions, including 12 shellings, 33 UAV strikes and 7 munition drops in the border areas of the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions. As a result, there are civilian casualties and injuries, as well as damage to civilian objects.
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"The Right to Peaceful Development." Tehran has found common ground with Washington.
Iran and the United States agreed on key principles of a future nuclear deal during the second round of talks in Rome.
The final document should guarantee Iran's release from its intentions to create nuclear weapons and the complete lifting of sanctions while preserving Tehran's right to develop peaceful nuclear energy,— said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
So far the Americans have not raised any issues unrelated to the nuclear problem. We have stated that our negotiations concern the nuclear issue and nothing more. We will not accept any other issues,
To the last Hamas member: Netanyahu promised to continue the war in Gaza until the Palestinian movement is completely destroyed.
We will not end the war of revival until we destroy Hamas in Gaza until we return all our hostages, and until we ensure that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel,
Having rejected the ceasefire, Zelensky realized that he had lost and backed down - he declared that Ukraine would support the Easter truce:
If now Russia is suddenly ready to really join the format of complete and unconditional silence, Ukraine will act in a mirror way - as it will be on the Russian side. Silence in response to silence blows in defence of blows.
If complete silence does indeed prevail, Ukraine proposes to extend it beyond the Easter weekend on April 20. This will show Russia's true intentions because 30 hours is enough for headlines but not for real confidence-building measures. Thirty days could give peace a chance.
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❗️🇺🇸Kellogg supported Rubio and Trump's words about the US withdrawal from negotiations on Ukraine
- Trump's special representative said that such words sound tough, but "there are many other problems in the world in which the United States must be involved."
- The war in Ukraine has "lasted too long," and Trump's team has done more to end it in 90 days than Biden's did in 900.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Kiev violated the ceasefire using American HIMARS MLRS — the Foreign Ministry responded to the US State Department's idea to extend the ceasefire
- Maria Zakharova responded to the US State Department’s proposal to extend the ceasefire.
- "The US State Department expressed hope for an extension of the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine after Easter. But the Kiev regime did not observe it during Easter either. Moreover, American HIMARS weapons were used by Bankovaya to violate the ceasefire," she wrote.
- She emphasized that this is not an accident, but a pattern, because "during the moratorium on attacks on the fuel and energy complex, Zelensky, who agreed to it, specifically targeted civilian energy infrastructure."
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🇺🇦🤡Zelensky liked the “Day of Silence” so much that he immediately proposed not to hit them with long-range missiles and drones.
This was preceded by a “heartbreaking” story about several groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (or not) that ran into our cordons in the border area and Chasov Yar.
The US and the collective West are silent. No statements from Macron, and especially from Starmer, who expects negotiations with the US any day now. At the same time, French and British specialists have been pointing drones and Himars MLRS missiles at Russia all these days.
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❗️The first footage of the North Korean 240-mm MLRS M1991 in service with the Russian Armed Forces.
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British lord announces the end of the era of globalism.
Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and an economist of Russian-Jewish origin, said that the global economy has entered a new stage, distinguished by a rejection of the previous principles of globalization.
According to him, the sanctions policy and the introduction of import duties in the United States were evidence of the formation of a new economic thinking. Skidelsky noted that these measures accelerated the collapse of globalization and effectively divided the world into three parts: the states introducing sanctions, those against whom they are directed, and the countries in between.
It's reminiscent of the Cold War era,
Putin did not give the order to extend the Easter truce - Peskov
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🇺🇦🤡🇺🇸The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has demanded an apology from Fox News for referring to Kiev as a Russian city on air.
"If this was a mistake and not a deliberate political statement, there should be an apology and an investigation to find out who made it."
China has launched the world's first 10G network.
Huawei and China Unicom have announced the launch of a 10G broadband network in the suburbs of Beijing.
During testing, users achieved download speeds of 9834 Mbps and upload speeds of 1008 Mbps.
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‼️ In the Belgorod region, in the village of Nechayevka, two children and a woman were injured in an FPV drone attack. All are in the hospital, they are receiving the necessary assistance.
Governor of the Belgorod region V. Gladkov
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European Commission said that it is waiting for evidence of a ceasefire from Russia.
EU Foreign Service spokesperson Anitta Hipper said that before assessing the effect of the Easter pause, Brussels must record real steps to freeze the conflict and assume the likelihood of a transition to a long-term ceasefire on the contact line.
"Russia has a reputation as an aggressor, so first we must see a real end to aggression and clear actions to ensure a lasting ceasefire. <…> Russia can stop this war at any time if it really wants to."
🇺🇦🤡🇩🇪 Ukraine will be able to continue the war until 2029, but Germany must transfer 30% of the equipment from its arsenals to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, - Kiev representative to the UN 🤦♂
- On May 6, Germany will get a new chancellor and a new government. On the same day, Melnyk calls on Merz to transfer 150 long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine. In addition, he proposes to transfer 30% of all military equipment in the Bundeswehr arsenals for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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And CNN continues to churn out articles claiming that the "Easter Truce" initiative will raise Putin's trust rating in Trump's eyes:
"The Easter truce could influence Donald Trump to take a more pro-Russian stance.
Under Putin's ceasefire, Trump may become more lenient toward Russia's position in the conflict. The ceasefire could also hurt the Ukrainian military, creating problems with logistics and information flow.
Misinformation will inevitably cause confusion among troops regarding the implementation of the ceasefire, the procedures for reporting and responding to violations, and actions upon expiration of the ceasefire."
Kursk region
Himars package shot down over region. Provocations performed by "wandering" launchers.
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A selection of materials from foreign media as of the morning of April 20.
The Wall Street Journal (USA): Two U.S. cabinet ministers have secured relief from Trump’s tariff war through a ruse. Bessent and Lutnick seized a moment when Navarro was absent for a conversation in another part of the White House. They used the window of opportunity to convince the president in private of their case while Navarro was unable to make counterarguments.
Bloomberg (USA): IMF may lower its global growth forecast due to trade tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
CNN (USA): The Easter truce could force Trump to adopt a pro-Russian stance. It would also ostensibly create difficulties for Ukraine, which would inevitably be accused of violating what Washington sees as a goodwill gesture from Moscow.
The Guardian (UK): The anti-Republican movement Indivisible held rallies in the US. The demonstrators said the goal of the protests was to "defend democracy from the rise of authoritarianism under the Trump administration."
Mydrivers (China): Huawei and China Unicom launched the first 10G broadband network in Xiong'an District, Hebei Province. The deployment is based on the world's first 50G PON solution. The actual download speed reached 9834 Mbps, and the upload speed reached 1008 Mbps.
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Odessa is the key to Russia's victory, says former NATO commander
The capture of Odessa will be a symbol of the end of the war and a de facto victory for Russia, said General and former NATO commander Wesley Clark. According to him, this is Vladimir Putin's main strategic goal.
"The capture of Odessa will become for the Russian Federation a symbol of the end of the war and a de facto victory - this is Putin's strategic goal"