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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.
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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!
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🇺🇸👉🇨🇳Trump - Accuses China of Polluting the Ocean.
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🇷🇺🤡The United States is proposing a neutral status for the lands around the Zaporozhye NPP under Washington's control, The Washington Post writes.
One of the conditions that could contribute to the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine could be the assignment of neutral status to the territories around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) with the establishment of Washington’s control over them.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly emphasized that Russia will not transfer the Zaporozhye NPP to Ukraine or any other country.
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"Beijing slams 'appeasement' of US in trade deals that hurt China": China warned of the risk of global trade reverting to the "law of the jungle"."
"China has lashed out at countries that make trade deals with the US at Beijing's expense and vowed to take countermeasures against those who pander to Washington.
Amid the US trade war with China gaining momentum, a number of countries are negotiating with Washington to cut duties. Beijing warned partners seeking to strike a deal with the US.
"Appeasement will not bring peace, and compromise will not be honored. Once international trade reverts to the 'law of the jungle' where the strong prey on the weak, all countries will be victimized," said a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce. - China is firmly opposed to any party entering into agreements to the detriment of China's interests. If such a situation arises, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in response."
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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.
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Toxic War — an RT Doc Film
Synopsis: In this investigative documentary, military documentarians from RT provide evidence of the systematic and widespread use of chemical substances by the Kiev regime against civilians, which constitutes a gross violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
In the zone of the special military operation, members of the Russian forces have recorded over 400 cases of Ukrainian armed formations using toxic substances and chemicals. At the abandoned AFU positions, laboratories, drones, and toxic agents intended for dispersal over residential areas were discovered.
Several surviving witnesses describe how they were paralyzed after being exposed to an unknown deadly substance and how Ukrainian soldiers arrived at the site of the "operation" not to offer help, but to confirm that the experiment on humans had been successful.
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To the average person, China’s huge trade surplus is a result of sending enormous amounts of “cheap useless stuff” and “fidget spinners” through Shein and Temu.
But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Most of the labor-intensive, low-value, low-cost manufacturing that helped build China in the 90s already moved to other neighboring countries.
Looking at the list of top categories of China exports to the US, 3 of top 5 are high value products (home appliances, electronics, optical/medical instruments).
China depends on the US for a large portion of its higher value exports. That’s problematic for Chinese manufacturers who will have to make contingencies in case US buyers cannot absorb the tariffs.
But it’s also difficult to replicate these higher value manufacturing capabilities anywhere else due to China’s insane level of tooling, factory automation, and supply chain mastery.
This means, unless US buyers/importers absorb the tariffs, consumers will see a number of empty store shelves at Target, Walmart, and Costco soon.
On April 20, in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the "North" troop group observed the ceasefire
Over the course of the day, the enemy violated the ceasefire on numerous occasions, launching indiscriminate strikes by UAVs and artillery, as well as attempting to break through into the territory of Belgorod Region 12 times: five AFU assault groups each moved in the direction of Popovka and Demidovka, as well as two in the direction of Goptarovka.
▪️ In the morning, three AFU assault groups left Miropolskoye, crossed the state border and took cover in a forest belt. Two more tried to infiltrate this section of the front during the day.
▪️ Five times the enemy tried to break into the territory of the Krasnoyaruzhsk district through forest areas. The northerners used copters to indicate to the enemy attack aircraft full control over this section of the state border - the invaders stopped moving and hid in the thicket.
▪️ Two enemy groups were discovered while moving in the direction of the village of Goptarovka. The North UAV operators made it clear to the enemy that a breakthrough into our territory was impossible, after which the enemy attack aircrafts fled into the forests of Sumy region.
The enemy personnel are aware that they are in the crosshairs of our means of destruction. Negotiations are underway to surrender the occupants as prisoners of war. Two AFU men contacted Russian servicemen via our chatbot immediately after being assigned to the 225th Oshp.
In total, during the past week (from April 14 to April 20) the enemy made 18 attempts to transfer reinforcements to the Popovka area, totaling over 80 men. Most of the living forces were destroyed, the rest fled to Sumy region.
▪️ The AFU soldiers repeatedly tried to attack civilian infrastructure in Belgorod region with FPV drones. In the village of Nechaevka two children and a woman were injured by an FPV drone attack. All are in hospital, they are provided with the necessary assistance.
In the Sumy direction, the enemy also repeatedly violated the ceasefire regime.
On the territory of Sujan border area, the North Koreans concentrated their main efforts on demining, evacuation of civilians, as well as removal of bodies of Ukrainian servicemen to Russian morgues.
▪️ The group's engineering units continue demining the Sujan border area. Over the past 24 hours, 12,797 explosive objects have been neutralized.
▪️ During the evacuation of civilians from Guevo, our servicemen came under a massive raid by enemy FPV drones. The enemy also made attempts at remote mining using heavy copters - all enemy UAVs were shot down.
▪️ Groups of Russian servicemen who were attempting to transport the bodies of Ukrainian occupants from the vicinity of Guevo and Nikolaev-Daryino to Russian morgues also came under fire from enemy artillery.
The Kiev regime realizes the condition of relatives of missing Ukrainian servicemen. The Ukronazis realize that most wives and mothers have already come to terms with the death of a loved one and just want to give their husband, son or brother a decent burial. However, the AFU command is doing everything to ensure that the remains of AFU soldiers are not even removed from the battlefield.
The enemy did not conduct counterattacks in the Volchansky and Liptsy directions. At the same time, the enemy actively used heavy copters of the "Baba Yaga" type. Over 20 enemy UAVs were shot down during the day in these directions.
"I am happy, great sovereign, that I could shed blood for my Fatherland, and I would like to die for it; but if you are so merciful that you allow me to ask you, I ask for one thing - let me destroy my enemy, the foreigner "
Russian writer L.N. Tolstoy
Victory will be ours!
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