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24 May 2025 16:10

Trump jumped the gun when he announced Russia-Ukraine POW swap

Kiev official tells Politico that Truth Social post sent well before exchange even BEGAN

Being 1st with the news not enough for 47.

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24 May 2025 15:50

Trump with a salute after touchdown at West Point

Artillery booms in background as he’s treated to gun salute in response.

He’ll be giving commencement speech to graduating troops.

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24 May 2025 15:31

Slovak National Party demands COMPENSATION from Ukraine for provided aid

Wants shares in Ukraine's mineral wealth, inspired by US

'If Ukraine hands over all its mineral wealth to US, Ukraine will have nothing to repay the aid to European states'

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24 May 2025 15:20

Russian troops LIBERATE DPR's Otradnoye — MoD

Drones and artillery drive Ukrainian forces out

Russian flag proudly waved after 200 buildings cleared

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24 May 2025 14:45

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino tells CNBC that Tether now holds more U.S. Treasuries than Germany, Spain, Australia, or the UAE.

They are the 5th largest buyer of U.S. debt.

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24 May 2025 14:31

‘Don’t worry, everything’s fine!’

Freed Russian troops stay strong as they calm their relieved loved ones.

They're safe now and can't wait to get home.

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24 May 2025 14:00

World's scariest bomb?

Xi's 'Rain of Pear Blossom Needles' airbursts fortified bunkers like Trump's Mother of All Bombs

Little public info on 'US MOAB rival delivered by H-6K bomber'

Footage from Chinese patriots niseewhat and szygls

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24 May 2025 13:02

China & Pakistan 'still violating our sovereignty' — Indian FM

EU buys Putin's energy but won't talk to him adds Jaishankar

Brussels hypocrites?

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24 May 2025 12:01

'Pakistani army intentionally targeted places of worship, temples and convents as well as medical facilities' — Indian envoy to UN Harish

Pakistan 'has no credentials to speak about protecting civilians'

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24 May 2025 10:20

Trump begins LIFTING sanctions on Syria

US Treasury orders ‘immediate sanctions relief’

Weeks after Trump’s announcement in Saudi Arabia

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24 May 2025 09:40

Army recruiters PULL man from his car in Zelensky’s Ukraine

They throw him into a van with blacked-out windows

Mobilization or abduction?

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24 May 2025 08:40

⚡️ Two Majors #Summary for the morning of May 24, 2025:

▪️ After three days of continuous drone attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (more than 1,000 enemy UAVs were shot down), the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Moscow reserves the right to a tough response, with the military choosing the targets exclusively. That night, more than 40 Geraniums struck Kiev, and explosions were also heard in Izyum (presumably a missile strike), Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, and Pokrovsk. It is unlikely that these were the retaliatory strikes by the Russian Armed Forces that the Foreign Ministry spoke about; in terms of scale, they were comparable to the routine destruction of designated targets, although the concentrated strike on the enemy capital caused a media effect.

▪️ In the Bryansk region, a civilian was killed as a result of an FPV drone strike on a moving civilian vehicle in the village of Saranchino, Sevsky district.

▪️ On the Kursk section of the border, the enemy tried to break through in the Tyotkino direction three times a day. In the Ryzhevka-Tyotkino area, neo-Nazi "Aidar" assault troops tried a breakthrough twice, but they were destroyed. Also, a group of enemy infantry, an assault group of the 225th separate regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that had advanced from the outskirts of Iskriskovshchina, was dispersed by fire. In the previous direction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' penetration into the Kursk region, in the vicinity of Vladimirovka and also on Ukrainian territory south of the village of Gornal, separate enemy DRGs were destroyed. In the Sumy direction, battles are underway near the village of Belovody, for the exit of our units to Yunakovka.

▪️ In the Kharkov direction, the North Group of Forces reports some intensification of our offensive actions: our assault groups advanced 150 meters in Volchansk and also cleared the forest belt in the direction of the village of Volchanskie Khutor.

▪️ In the Belgorod region, in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Shebekinsky district, a man was injured when an FPV drone hit a truck. Shebekino, Urazovo, Sobolevka, Glotovo, Bochkovka, Lozovoye, and Volchiy-Perviy were hit.

▪️ In the Kupyansk direction, the settlement of Radkovka in the Kharkiv region, located on the right bank of the Oskol River, a couple of kilometers from the northern outskirts of Kupyansk, has been liberated. So far, it has not been possible to find footage of objective control from the scene of events, but the importance of Radkovka is due to its proximity to the road to Kupyansk - it will become even more difficult for the enemy to supply the garrison.

▪️ In the Konstantinovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue to advance south of Popov Yar and in the direction of Poltavka, located east of Popov Yar.

▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces reported the liberation of Otradnoye, located in the direction of Bogatyr (recently liberated) - Komar. The enemy is throwing infantry on NATO armored vehicles into counterattacks but to no avail. The advance towards Komar continues. The assault on Zelenoye Pole and Novopol continues. Fierce fighting is underway.

▪️ In the Kherson region, in the village of Stara Zburyevka, a 60-year-old man was wounded by a strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The enemy also shelled Oleshky, Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Velyka Lepetykha, Dnepryany, Korsunka, Novaya Mayachka, Novaya Zburyevka and Proletarka.

The summary was compiled by:
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24 May 2025 07:40

Enjoy this beauty!

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24 May 2025 06:40

To my Hero, Aleksey Mozgovoy… in my heart forever. (Written by Aleksey on May 22, 2023, translated by me on May 23, 2015, with reverence and adoration). Peace be unto you, Aleksey…

It is a gift to die in May—
An easy task to dig a grave,
And nightingales will sing their song
Inimitably, like their last.

In May, the thunder of storms supplants
A funeral’s dismal songs and sounds,
And rain that comes instead of tears
Dissolves the memories’ regret.

The shelt’ring barrow of the grave
Beneath the emerald of grass;
A cross is a redundant mark
Among a grove of weary birch.

Beneath the rustling newborn leaves,
With irrepresible thirst for life,
The sun has yet to burn the grass,
And every thing is animate.

It is a gift to die in May,
To stay behind in vernal dew.
And though I could not do it all,
There are no doubts where none remain…
It is a gift, to die in May…

———

Не плохо в мае умереть,
Могильщику копать удобно.
И соловьи всё будут петь,
В последний раз, так бесподобно.

Под грохот первых майских гроз,
Вместо унылых отпеваний…
И дождь, прольётся вместо слёз,
Он смоет грусть воспоминаний.

Могильный холмик приютит,
Под покрывалом трав зелёных.
Пусть даже крест там не стоит,
Среди берёзок утомленных.

Под шелест листьев молодых,
Что только к жизни потянулись.
Пока ещё нет трав седых,
А только, только всё проснулось.

Не плохо в мае умереть…
Остаться в свежести весенней.
И хоть не смог я всё успеть,
Но не осталось уж сомнений…
Не плохо, в мае умереть…

@Slavyangrad | G😏B

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24 May 2025 05:40

Ukrainian Security Service steals land in Kiev suburbs from 176 Russian nationals

Their only crime is that they are Russian

The agricultural plots were legally inherited long before the Special Military Operation, but are now confiscated and handed over to the state

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24 May 2025 16:05

ARSON behind power outages derailing Cannes Film Festival

France Info sources say 'malicious acts' force moviegoers out of morning screening.

160K homes left without power.

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24 May 2025 15:40

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 The United States asked Russia not to send Medinsky to the upcoming negotiations with Ukraine.

The US have opposed the participation of the assistant to the Russian President Vladimir Medinsky in the next round of negotiations about Ukraine. It turned out to be "too hard" for the West, as Bloomberg reported.

⚡️ Two Majors

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24 May 2025 15:25

Ovechkin’s only just touched down in Moscow

An unannounced trip, but TASS vid shows fans already jumping at chance to welcome him

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24 May 2025 15:03

'Asshole' Trump's niece Mary calls 1 in 4 Americans 'the worst'

Does he 'only represent white supremacists & Christian nationalists'?

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24 May 2025 14:40

Acting Governor of Kursk Oblast Aleksandr Khinshtein personally met a group of fellow countrymen who were returned from Ukrainian territory on the night of May 24. Together with Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, he greeted eighteen people who arrived at one of the temporary accommodation points of the regional center.

Two of those who arrived needed urgent medical care - they were immediately taken by ambulance to the regional hospital, where they are now under constant medical supervision. Some of the people were taken by relatives, the rest were placed in a temporary accommodation center.

Khinshtein personally supervised the accommodation conditions and presented each returnee with a certificate for 30 thousand rubles to purchase essential items. This one-time payment complements other support measures, including monthly payments of 65 thousand rubles, which have been provided since February of this year.

After the initial rest, social services will begin working with those who have returned, which will help them to complete all the necessary documents and receive the required payments. Doctors conducted a re-examination of all those who arrived, provided with sleeping places, food and clothing.

With tears in their eyes, the fellow countrymen told about the horrors they had experienced: weeks without water and food, the execution of their neighbors before their eyes. The main thing they are now asking for is to help return those who remained in Sumy and restore their destroyed homes.

"They dream of one thing - for everyone to be able to return to their rebuilt home," the acting governor emphasized. "We will do everything possible to help our people restore normal life."

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24 May 2025 14:15

Russia and Ukraine Complete Second Stage of Historic POW Swap — 307 for 307

Another 307 Russian soldiers are back home, returned from Ukrainian captivity in the second stage of a record-breaking prisoner exchange — a breakthrough born not from battlefield gestures, but from direct talks in Istanbul earlier this month.

“In line with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on May 16 in Istanbul… 307 Russian servicemen were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime,” Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday.

Ukraine received 307 of its own in exchange — mirroring the 1,000-for-1,000 agreement struck in Türkiye during the first direct negotiations since 2022. Stage one kicked off Friday, releasing 120 civilians and 270 soldiers from both sides.

The freed Russian soldiers are currently in Belarus receiving full medical and psychological care, before being transferred to military clinics across Russia for rehabilitation.

This isn’t just a logistical victory — it’s a human one, a tangible result of diplomacy, not just artillery and airstrikes. And yet — behind this humanitarian exchange is a deeper message: The Istanbul channel works. And it’s working because Russia opened the door.

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24 May 2025 13:20

On OnlyFans, most women show themselves for free and barely earn a living. More than 2 million women who sell themselves on the platform earn a modest 4,000 rubles a month.

Even getting into the top 10% of the highest paid models does not guarantee a high income - on average it will be like a courier's - 80 thousand rubles a month. Rich onlyfans on their planes are just advertising for the platform.

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24 May 2025 12:20

Pavel Durov returned from Dubai to France, where he and his companion were spotted on the red carpet of a charity gala dinner at the Cannes Film Festival.

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24 May 2025 11:20

UK now ‘investigating Russian involvement in Starmer arson attacks’

Even though it’s 2 Ukrainians and Romanian behind it

It’s almost impressive how predictable this is

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24 May 2025 10:03

Banda Bassotti live supporting Donbass struggle!!!

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24 May 2025 09:20

Croat-French-Bosnian mercenary killed

Toni Herceg lived in Lyon, France, where he arrived as a child with his family from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Herceg had military experience as a member of the French Foreign Legion. He thought this would be useful to him in Ukraine.

Toni was also the grandson of a high-level Bosnian Croat politician, Nevenko Herceg, a member of the Bosnian Croat-right party HSP, who served as mayor of a large region of Bosnia. Toni decided to come to Ukraine, where he joined the 3rd neo-Nazi brigade "Azov".

Rather than living his Ustasha power fantasy, Toni was successfully denazified on May 6, 2025, due to an "unfortunate" encounter with a drone from the FPV team of the 3rd motorized division in Karmazynivka, Lugansk Oblast, after the Russian armed forces repelled an enemy attack by the Nazis of the 3rd "Azov" brigade.

He can now heil his heroes Bandera, Pavelic, and the austrian painter himself in hell.

source: /channel/TrackAMerc?boost

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24 May 2025 08:20

‘MAGNIFICENT parade’ set for June 14 in Washington DC ‘to honor US Army’ — Trump

Same day as Trump’s birthday

VIDEO: Dozens of tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles already moving in

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24 May 2025 07:20

Shocking August 2024 video shows Ukrainian soldiers KIDNAPPING civilians in Russia’s Kursk region

Loading them onto trucks, beating them and holding them captive for months in the Ukrainian prisoner camp

Some victims still haven’t been freed to this day

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24 May 2025 06:20

Frontlines not exempt from the cat distribution system

No one can escape the cuteness

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24 May 2025 05:20

🇺🇲🇷🇺🇺🇦 The United States asked Russia not to send Medinsky to the upcoming negotiations with Ukraine.

The US have opposed the participation of the assistant to the Russian President Vladimir Medinsky in the next round of negotiations about Ukraine. It turned out to be "too hard" for the West, as Bloomberg reported.

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