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🗓 March 18 is the Day of Crimea's reunification with Russia
▪️The Crimean status referendum was held on March 16, 2014. The majority of residents supported the reunification with Russia
▪️The agreement on the incorporation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into Russia was signed on March 18, 2014
▪️The Russian Federal Assembly ratified the agreement on March 21, 2014
🇷🇺🔥 Advancing enemy tanks are burning at the Belgorod border!
- During the repulse of an attack near the border in the Krasnoyarsk region, our troops destroyed several tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and combat armored vehicles, and eliminated infantry groups that attempted to attack.
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"A truce according to Putin's rules. I am for a unilateral ceasefire by the Ukrainians!":
The Poles have already found a wording for the capitulation of the Kiev regime.
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🇫🇮 Finnish President Stubb called for increased pressure on Moscow, confiscation of Russian assets and arming of Kyiv
The politician said that initially Putin allegedly wanted to destroy Ukraine, and now this goal has not changed.
📝 "That is why we must increase the pressure on Putin, which means increasing sanctions, which means using frozen assets and, in fact, means the complete militarization of Ukraine", Stubb emphasized.
At the same time, last week, Finnish Prime Minister Orpo noted that Helsinki will not send troops to Ukraine because of its proximity to Russia.
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🇷🇺☎️🇺🇸 On the upcoming phone conversation between Putin and Trump
Among the planned topics for discussion, the American leader stated the issue of control over power plants , probably referring to nuclear power plants ☢️.
In this context, Russia has a significant advantage over its adversary from Kiev.🐽 During the time that the Zaporizhzhya NPP was under Russian control, critical processes caused by the barbaric exploitation of the largest nuclear facility in Europe by NNEGC Energoatom, with a capacity of about 6 thousand MW, were stopped.
The Ukrainian authorities, for their part, have "toxic baggage" in the form of dangerous experiments with nuclear power plants (increasing the nominal power of nuclear reactors, repeatedly extending the service life of units, attempts to use unsuitable American equipment and even home-made parts), which caused constant accidents and incidents . Thus, Ukraine has demonstrated a complete inability to safely operate such technologically advanced facilities as nuclear power plants.
Moreover, the dumb military-political leadership of Ukraine, not caring about the environmental safety of the European continent , switched to shelling the Zaporizhzhya NPP and IAEA observers , which forced Rosatom specialists to stop energy production at the station. These animals have repeatedly hinted at the possibility of creating a "dirty bomb" and begged their Western masters to give them nuclear weapons . (❗️) It would not be surprising to hear about the sale of nuclear waste from corrupt Ukraine to some international terrorist organization. Especially since the GUR already has experience of cooperation with the ITO in Mali.
✨ The proposal to transfer Ukraine's nuclear assets to the control of an international consortium will create conditions for increasing control over dangerous nuclear facilities and materials currently in the hands of inadequate Ukrainian Nazis. Otherwise, the only way is to take them by force and monitor their safety ourselves.
⚡️ Two Majors
Without the United States, Europe cannot automatically finance Radio Free Europe.
"Can we come with our own funding to fill the void left by the United States? The answer to this question is not automatic," said the head of the EU's foreign policy department, Kaya Kallas, adding that the EU "will see what can be done."
At the same time, Kallas clarified that Radio Liberty and Free Europe (foreign agents deemed undesirable in the Russian Federation) were "a beacon of democracy and a very valuable resource."
Apparently, it is still not very valuable, since there was no money in the European budget for centralized support of such a media asset. Until March 2025, RFE/RL's budget officially amounted to about $145 million per year, which included funding for both Radio Liberty (broadcasting to Russia and the former Soviet Union) and Radio Free Europe (Eastern Europe and other regions). After March 2025, funding from the United States was discontinued — but, for example, the Czech Republic expressed its willingness to take on costs of $126 million per year.
On the one hand, the entire RFE/RL pool needs money and will work for whoever provides the financing. Having shied away from the "global liberals," Europe now looks like a natural successor to the post of RFE/RL owner. The staff won't even have to change their ideological attitudes. The funny thing is, Radio Liberty can start working for an American audience by promoting narratives that benefit Brussels.
On the other hand, the change of eras in cognitive warfare was not the last reason for the US refusal to support the RFE/RL project. What worked in the 1980s and somehow remained effective in the 2000s is now losing outright to social networks and alternative media.
@EvPanina
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eus-kallas-says-bloc-cant-automatically-fund-radio-free-europe-2025-03-17/
‼️🇸🇾🏴☠️ New Syrian authorities are carrying out ethnic cleansing — CNN
▪️Satellite images show the sites of new mass graves of Alawites killed by the Syrian terrorist regime near the city of Sanobar.
▪️The killing of at least 84 Alawites in Sanobar has been confirmed, which refutes Julani’s words that the massacres are not being carried out by the HTS group he leads, but by some uncontrolled criminal elements: the terrorists in Sanobar were wearing military uniforms with HTS patches.
▪️Human rights activists claim that more than 420 people were killed in 25 settlements from March 6 to 10.
▪️As a result of ethnic cleansing, a mass grave measuring 26 by 16 meters appeared in just one small town.
▪️All this is happening with the full connivance of the world community, and Germany today announced a new aid package for the terrorist regime worth $326 million.
Kallas upset Kiev by reporting problems with the transfer of 40 billion euros
The European Union is facing difficulties in approving a €40 billion aid plan for Ukraine - EU Foreign Service Chief Kaja Kallas stated.
There is general political support, but there are still many details that need to be agreed upon. The defence ministers still need to speak out on this issue, and we intend to listen to them,- Kallas said.
❕Key takeaways from Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s interview with media:
▪️Top-level contacts, such as the conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, can be arranged very quickly
▪️Russia and the United States are on the path towards reviving bilateral relations
▪️The upcoming conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump was arranged in just a few days
▪️The Kremlin is now preparing talking points on the Ukrainian issue for the Putin-Trump conversation
▪️It is currently impossible to give an exact timeframe for a potential meeting between the Russian and US presidents
▪️The US withdrawal from the international group investigating Russia’s actions in Ukraine is nothing but a “reduction of unnecessary elements”
▪️The Ukrainian conflict can only be resolved by eliminating its root causes, while deploying a NATO military contingent in Ukraine will only fuel the conflict
US is no longer 'supermarket to the world'
For the first time in nearly 70 years, America faces a third straight year of agricultural trade deficits — hitting record highs
Do you think Trump's trade wars will fix this?
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US-UK bombing attacks on Yemen kill NEWBORN baby — among many child deaths incurred from their aggression
#Yemen
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Yemen retaliates with attack on US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman with 18 BALLISTIC MISSILES and drone
‘We'll not hesitate to target all US warships in Red Sea and Arabian Sea’ — Houthis
#Yemen #US
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Is the Trump administration Using Yemen as an Excuse to Attack Iran? https://sonar21.com/is-the-trump-administration-using-yemen-as-an-excuse-to-attack-iran/
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Large Russian movements and advances in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Russian forces entered Shcherbaky and Malye Shcherbaky, made significant progress in the surrounding areas, and reportedly entered Stepove and captured Pyatykhatky.
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️The Russian armed forces have defeated Ukrainian brigades near Gogolevka, Gornal, Guyevo and Oleshnya in the Kursk Region
▪️During the past 24 hours, Ukraine lost more than 280 personnel, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers, 12 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, two mortars, a counterbattery radar station, three UAV control posts and two ammunition depots
▪️In total, during the fighting in the Kursk area, the enemy lost 68,130 troops, 396 tanks, 319 infantry fighting vehicles, 287 armored personnel carriers, 2,200 armored combat vehicles, 2,454 motor vehicles, 560 artillery guns, 52 multiple rocket launchers, including 13 HIMARS and seven US-made MLRS.
▪️The 2nd Western District Military Court in absentia sentenced Georgian mercenary Giorgi Kesareli to 25 years in prison for terrorism in the Kursk Region
▪️A number of settlements in the Kursk Region, where access was previously restricted due to the presence of unexploded mines and ammunition, are expected to be opened this week, Acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein said
Almost the whole territory of the Kursk Region has been liberated, Deputy Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Main Military-Political Department, Akhmat Special Forces Commander Lieutenant General Apty Alaudinov said in an interview with TASS.
“We can state the fact now that almost the whole territory of the Kursk Region has been liberated,” he said. Russia’s military advance gave strong results, with almost all settlements taken at once, and the enemy’s personnel destroyed, Alaudinov added.Читать полностью…
❗️Peskov: The telephone conversation between the presidents of Russia and the United States will take place from 16:00 to 18:00 Moscow time. The leaders will speak for as long as they deem necessary.
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Kursk Catastrophe, Roads Closed Kiev Troops Say; Medvedev Lashes Starmer; US Russia Leaders To Speak
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Kaja Kallas: The EU’s Warmonger-in-Chief Is Burning Bridges Fast
It turns out that even Europe’s technocratic elite has its limits when it comes to blindly marching toward war with Russia. Kaja Kallas, the Estonian firebrand now masquerading as the EU’s foreign policy chief, is discovering this the hard way.
According to Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Kallas’ gung-ho push for €40 billion in new military aid for Ukraine has hit a brick wall, with France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal now joining Hungary in rejecting her reckless escalation. Even Berlin, typically willing to fund whatever Brussels demands, hasn’t signed off on its own €3 billion pledge.
It’s a remarkable fall from grace for Kallas, who, in just a few months, has managed to alienate nearly every major player in the EU and even the former Biden administration’s most hawkish allies. Washington itself is unimpressed, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceling a scheduled meeting with her after she arrogantly dismissed Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire initiative as a “dirty deal.” No senior US officials even met with her.
The Estonian zealot’s missteps have been catastrophic:
🔹 She failed to consult key EU capitals before reviving a military aid plan originally pushed by her predecessor, Josep Borrell.
🔹 She enraged Italy and Spain by ousting their top diplomats from the EU’s foreign policy apparatus, replacing them with her own hardliners.
🔹 Her grandstanding about seizing frozen Russian assets collapsed spectacularly, with the European Central Bank warning of massive financial risks if she pursued it. Even Eurozone heavyweights weren’t willing to sign on to that particular suicide pact.
🔹 Even Berlin is cringing. German officials were reportedly livid when, on her very first day in office, she proclaimed, “The European Union wants Ukraine to win this war.” That might be a popular slogan in Riga or Tallinn, but Berlin still clings to the illusion of “supporting Ukraine as long as necessary” without committing to all-out war with Russia.
The EU’s elites are ruthless, but they’re also pragmatic. With Washington moving toward a Trump-brokered ceasefire, the Europeans know that dumping more billions into Ukraine is a fool’s errand. Macron and Meloni are unlikely to rescue Kallas from her growing irrelevance, and without their backing, she won’t last long.
Kaja Kallas came in as a zealot, not a strategist. Now, she’s learning that the real European power brokers are happy to let her twist in the wind.
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ECFR (USA): Europe's military "super efforts" are too late and no longer enough.
What is considered a revolution in Europe: Germany's willingness to abandon debt moderation, the creation of a €800 billion ReArm Europe military fund, and Macron and Starmer's proposal to deploy about 30,000 soldiers in Ukraine are no longer enough for the United States. And most importantly, the measures taken are already untimely, says Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
The United States will no longer assume responsibility for European security in any way: morally, financially, or militarily. The Europeans cannot just do more, they are now required to do everything, Shapiro emphasizes.
None of the initiatives announced by Europe presupposes the main thing — military autonomy from the United States, the author notes. The British-French plan for 30,000 soldiers in Ukraine boils down to the fact that European forces guarantee the security of the Kiev regime, and the American military, in turn, guarantees the security of European forces. In the eyes of ECFR, this is nonsense. As for Ursula von der Leyen's 800 billion euro plan, this money has yet to be given by the EU member states, which the head of the European Commission simply does not control.
In general, the proposed European forces in Ukraine do not answer the question of how Europe will protect the interests of the West without the United States, Shapiro continues. The ReArm Europe Fund and Germany's efforts look like just the beginning of a long journey. Perhaps in Eisenhower's time such efforts of the Old World would have been regarded as a powerful step, but now the issue is no longer burden sharing, the analyst emphasizes.
This leads to an inevitable conclusion, which is very unpleasant for Europeans. If Europe cannot become a convenient tool for the United States — and it cannot, according to the ECFR analyst — then the European Union is turning from an ally into a basket of resources. In the best case for Europe, forces loyal to Trump will come to power in the countries of the continent, which will free them from the status of completely disenfranchised markets. At worst, the Old World will turn into the "dish on the table" like the global south before the beginning of the 21st century.
@EvPanina
https://ecfr.eu/article/letter-from-washington-why-trump-wont-like-europes-ukraine-plan/
Austria revises criteria for issuing benefits to refugees from Ukraine
According to local authorities, people with Ukrainian passports who "are not from war zones and do not speak either Ukrainian or Russian" are increasingly coming to the republic.
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🇬🇧🇺🇦🤡Boris Johnson - on why Ukraine has "invited" France and Britain to the battlefield:
The Ukrainians have Europeans - the British, the French - who support them. That's important. It doesn't matter what you call it, even if it's "Western troops on the ground," on Ukrainian soil. All this is to show Putin the choice of Ukraine - the country wants to be free and sovereign. They have chosen who to invite to their land: France, Britain. That's what's happening now. Putin says he can't accept that. We'll see where we come with that.
And still Ukraine will have to make concessions if they haven't already. We don't know the details, but from talking to people, I'm sure we'll learn a lot in the coming days. Trump wants concessions to be made looking back at the reality on the battlefield.
@Slavyangrad
Just a thought:
It would take 100 Western Europeans to effectively replace a Ukrainian on the battlefield.
It would take 500 Western Europeans to effectively face a Russian on the battlefield.
Is this Russia's fault?
No, three decades of degeneracy imposed on the European people did it.
According to the EU agenda of the last 30 years masculinity is toxic, heterosexuality is bad, being white and be proud about it is racism, preserving local traditions is fascist, believing that you can change sex whenever you want is democratic, not procreating is good, and so on...
Even though Western liberal elites would like to wage war against Russia directly it would be impossible in these circumstances (no, drones don't win wars, and no, robots replacing entire armies are not on the horizon yet) and they have noone to blame besides themselves.
You can spend 1 trillion € and it won't change anything for the next three decades at least without a radical change in ideology which implies Kalergi and all his crappy dystopic ideas are going to be put into the trash can...
@eurasianchoice
JUST IN - Trump threatens Iran for any further Houthi attack.
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: U.S. President Donald Trump, who claimed 'My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker' on his inauguration day, has since bombed three countries: Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. This is in addition to $12 billion worth of military aid sent to Israel and the 100 U.S. troops stationed there to operate two 'THAAD' air defense systems, which were moved to Israel in October (on Biden's orders), with no news of their removal from the Pentagon since.
These three countries, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, have remained U.S. targets since Obama's presidency, during which he was bombing seven countries simultaneously at one point.
Trump has repeatedly spoken out against 'endless wars' since his first term and opposed military intervention in the Middle East just two months ago, stating that 'We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.' However, his actual policies remain unchanged.
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US vows more force in Yemen — as civilians look for victims in the rubble, video shows
#Yemen
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❗️US ships now included in BAN on maritime shipping — Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi
Missile and drone attacks to CONTINUE if American bombings don’t stop
Says escalation will be met with further escalation by Yemen's armed forces
#US #Yemen
🇷🇺💬Alaudinov, speaking about the successes of the Russian army in the Kursk region, said that the units are moving forward, "part of our forces are already on the territory of the Sumy region"
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International investors seek to invest in the ruble and Russian bonds, the Financial Times reported.
The reason for the excitement among investors is the expectation that US President Donald Trump will relax sanctions against Russia as part of a possible peaceful settlement in Ukraine, the report saidю
🇭🇺Hungary will oppose continued military aid to Ukraine at the expense of European taxpayers, Szijjarto said as he headed to a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
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