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Operation of FPV drone operators of the aircraft-type "Molniya" with an incendiary warhead against enemy shelters.
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Ukraine has the worst PR people….
I get wanting access to right wing America but Shapiro is not the ticket. Zelensky just throwing air balls these days.
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The Ukraine has three further days of provinces left to conduct the war. (c) The Guardian et (c) Arestovich.
Yeah, this is intentionally sardonic.
Victory will come. It will arrive when it does, no earlier.
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European countries ready for deal in which Ukraine will cede territories - Financial Times
▪️Britain, France and Germany are “trying to find space for a deal that does not result in Ukraine being forced to violate all its red lines, but could entail some movement by Kiev towards ceding territory as an end point of the talks,” the FT writes, citing sources familiar with the talks.
▪️At the same time, Europeans are against the official recognition of Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea, and Kiev relies on this.
➖“Zelensky, having secured the support of European capitals, consistently refuses to officially recognize Russia’s sovereignty over any territory.”
Photo of that man baby pouting, too perfect. 😂
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Trump dodges question on recognizing Crimea as Russian
Says he’s got NO favorites between Russia and Ukraine
He just said Zelensky's been harder to deal with than Putin
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India's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said it would suspend a key water-sharing treaty with Pakistan and close a key border crossing as part of a suite of diplomatic measures against its neighbour.
New Delhi said Islamabad needed to end "cross-border terrorism" after an attack in the Kashmir region that killed 26 civilians.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said "cross-border linkages" to the terrorist attack had been revealed in a security cabinet meeting, before citing a raft of measures that India would be taking against Pakistan.
The secretary said the Indus Water Treaty would be halted with immediate effect.
"The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 will be held in abeyance with immediate effect, until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism", Misri told reporters.
Pakistan is heavily dependent on the water from the Indus River and its tributaries for agriculture and drinking water. The treaty's suspension could mean Pakistan faces severe water shortages.
Misri also said India would close the main land border, at Attari-Wagah, "with immediate effect."
Pakistan relies heavily on the Attari-Wagah crossing for trade and is more dependent on it than India.
Meanwhile, he said, Pakistani nationals would not be allowed to travel to India under a regional visa exemption scheme — and that Pakistani nationals in India traveling as part of it had 48 hours to leave the country.
Misri said there would be diplomatic consequences with defense advisors to the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi being declared persona non grata and having a week to leave India. India would be withdrawing its advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, he added.
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar announced that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would hold a meeting of the National Security Committee on Thursday.
The committee of senior civil and military officials is summoned in cases of external threat or major terror attack.
The Resistance Front (TRF), an affiliate of the banned terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack on social media, according to local reports.
The TRF group reportedly formed after the Modi government scrapped the special status that granted special privileges to the people of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
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Trump: I WILL meet with Putin
But probably not during Trump's Saudi Arabia mid-May trip
He says it's likely to be 'shortly thereafter'
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7-10 Iskander hits in Kiev, will update when we get more exact numbers. More missiles are coming.
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Ukrainian AD missile in Kiev: Swing…. and a miss
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“There is always a chance for a deal.” (c) Naryshkin
Yes, there always is. Except that, unless one “takes the chance,” there is no deal.
There is no deal.
Are we clear yet?
It's been a long time since this happened - the entire territory of Ukraine is red from air raid sirens.
It is reported that several Kalibr missiles were launched from the Black Sea, which are now actively maneuvering between several regions of Ukraine, as well as Geran-2 kamikaze drones.
Tu-95’s are also in the air but there is still no indication they’ve launched.
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‘Emotions’ ran ‘HIGH today’ — admits Zelensky in a damage-control post on X
Zelensky realizing he messed up again.
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Crimea should be the easiest concession for Zelensky — US presidential adviser
▪️David Sachs explained why Ukraine should give up Crimea:
▪️For the last decade it has been part of Russia.
▪️The overwhelming majority of the population are ethnic Russians, who (as Western polls show) want to be part of Russia.
▪️Ukraine has no military way to get it back. The disastrous summer counteroffensive of 2023 made that clear.
➖"If Zelensky won't give up this, he won't give up anything, so there's no deal with him. The Secretary of State is right to leave," Sachs writes.
From the very beginning Crimea has been attempting to leave Kiev control. It was never an oblast of Ukraine.
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Stoltenberg reluctantly admitted that Ukraine would have to give up its territories and join NATO.
'We all have to admit that sometimes you have to settle for the second best option. That's what the negotiations are about. But if I start saying now that the second option is better, that Ukraine needs to give up points A, B and C, including, for example, giving up NATO membership or part of its territory... I don't know. Then I will undermine Ukraine's position, and I will never do that. What I will say is that we must make Ukraine as strong as possible on the battlefield, because the stronger it is on the front line, the stronger its position at the negotiating table. Ideally, Ukraine should not give up anything, but if it does have to give up something, it should be as small as possible.'
You cannot come up with DEAL that the Russians and Ukrainians will both accept, it’s just IMPOSSIBLE — Professor John J. Mearsheimer
'There’s HUGE opposition from others… Rubio on one side, Witkoff on the other'
'This is all a CHARADE'
@DKulko report on the capture of the Gornal Monastery in the village of Gornal in the Kursk Region, held by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, by landing groups of marines who crossed the Psel River in motorboats. Simultaneously with the landing on the southern side, an offensive was launched on the monastery from the north.
The monastery stands on a hill, which offers a “beautiful view” of the low-lying area of Sumy Oblast with the border village of Miropolye, from where the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched their offensive.
The village of Gornal itself remains the last settlement in the Kursk region that the enemy continues to hold. At the moment, Russian units are storming it.
- Military Informant
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Kharkov being hit with what is reported to be cruise missiles.
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🇺🇦🤷♂ Ukrainian Nazis pose with Nazi salute at Holocaust memorial in Drobitsky Yar, Kharkov
- More than 17 thousand Jews from Kharkov and the region were shot at this place during the Great Patriotic War.
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Trump says it’s been HARDER to deal with Zelensky than with Putin
'But that's ok, it's alright' he adds like he doesn't really mean it
Also confident 'Russia is ready' for peace
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US Treasury Secretary Bessant said that not everyone who wants to will be able to make money from Ukraine's restoration
'I want to send a clear, and I stress, very clear, message regarding procurement policy towards Ukraine: no one who financed or supplied the Russian military machine will be entitled to funds allocated [by the World Bank] for the reconstruction of Ukraine.'
The US plans to establish two new military bases in Kurdish-controlled Syria where it will relocate troops as part of a drawdown of its forces in the country, Rudaw reported on Monday.
Bassam Ishaq, a US-based member of the political wing of the US-backed SDF, said the US would establish one new base near the Tishreen Dam in northern Syria and another in the southeastern Deir Ezzor province near the Iraqi border.
The Tishreen Dam has been the site of heavy fighting between the SDF and the Turkish-backed SNA. Under an integration deal, the SDF is handing over the dam to the Syrian government, which is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
Ishaq said that the US plans to leave 400 troops in Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria. The US also has bases in areas not controlled by the SDF, including at Al Tanf in southern Syria. From Al Tanf, the US helped a militia it backs to join in on the HTS offensive that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Pentagon announced last week that it would be pulling more than 1,000 troops out of Syria as part of a “consolidation” of its forces in the country. “This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the US footprint in Syria down to less than a thousand US forces in the coming months,” said Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell.
For years, the Pentagon claimed there were only 900 US troops occupying Syria, but the Biden administration revealed late last year that the real number was 2,000.
Video from today shows withdrawal from Lashdadi base, south of the city of Hasakah
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Another veteran of World War II has appeared in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces - the 155-mm howitzer M114, developed in 1941.
The howitzer served in the US Army throughout the war, and then served (and continues to serve) in the armies of dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The stated maximum firing range is 14.6 km.
Earlier, the 105-mm howitzer M101, which also entered service with the American army in 1941, was spotted in the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
- Military Informant
Russia has destroyed armies worth of Ukrainian artillery but what should be remembered is western militaries tended to make use of far less artillery then Russia, so have limits on what they can provide and manufacture.
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