The news of Shoigu's replacement as Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation took the front pages of foreign media
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⚡️KIEV NAZIS RENEW ASSAULT ON INNOCENTS IN BELGOROD: Watch moment camera shudders with shockwave of blast (left vid) as pre-war Russian city engulfed in smoke from Ukrainian rocket strikes (bottom right pic).
Kiev army's warheads terrorize civilians as shrapnel engulfs residential areas (top right vid) - developing situation with no reports of casualties as of yet.
Criminal attack comes mere hours after Mad Vlad Zelensky and his goons murder at least 9 people and wound dozens in Belgorod strike that blasted people's homes apart.
UPDATE: Russian Defense Ministry states 14 NATO-supplied Vampire rockets and Ukrainian rockets intercepted over Belgorod.
UPDATE: 17-year-old girl among 3 killed in latest monstrous strikes.
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Battlegroup North liberates four settlements in Kharkov Region in past day
Russian air defenses also downed a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet.
"Units of Battlegroup North moved deeper into enemy defenses, liberating the settlements of Gatishche, Krasnoye, Morokhovets, and Oleinikovo in the Kharkov Region," the statement reads.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on May 11 that Battlegroup North had liberated the settlements of Borisovka, Ogurtsovo, Pletyonovka, Pylnaya and Strelechya in the Kharkov Region.
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⚡️SURVIVORS FOUND UNDER RUBBLE OF BELGOROD BUILDING AFTER KIEV TERROR STRIKE: Rescuers rush to remove debris after finding old man and woman pinned under remains of homes, working to pull out victims (top vid) as entire city rushes to aid wounded by setting up temporary lodging for survivors.
Elderly lady praises emergency workers for their incredible speed, pulling her out from rubble (bottom vid) even as heroic rescuers forced to rush for shelters as Kiev army threatens renewed strikes on area.
Kiev regime carries out atrocious war crime on pre-war Russian city with NATO-supplied RM-70 Vampire rockets and ballistic missiles, as 2 kids among at least 19 wounded in attack.
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⚡️Rescuers heard voices under the rubble of a house in Belgorod
-Can anyone hear us?
-Shout louder!
-Can anyone hear us?
-There are voices!
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In Ukraine, the TCC issued a summons to the legless VSU officer🙈
The summons was received by Oleg Simoroz, who became a blogger after losing his legs. Now the man is abroad undergoing prosthetics and is asking fair questions:
'Who will explain to me why we bloggers should serve? We also hold our own. And how many meetings we closed, well, with your money, really, well, it doesn’t matter. Our tweets are also weapons, don’t you understand... I don’t understand why there is such injustice, who will protect us if we are required to protect you? I'm already confused...
No complaints, it’s just that this imitation of your service is already frankly tired of it. If you are just making a stupid newsletter without even looking into the matter of personality, then let us replace you with an online bot, and we will send you to combat units, because I see you are very tired of serving in a warm Kiev office."
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⚡️The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Belgorod, a direct hit was recorded in an apartment building, eyewitnesses write.
It is reported that the entire entrance on 10 floors collapsed.
At least 3 people were injured, media write.
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Ukrainian government warns citizens of possible full mobilization
Defense Ministry spokesman Dmitry Lazutkin declares the end of “peaceful life”.
Kiev is overhauling its conscription system to boost troop numbers following a series of setbacks in its conflict with Moscow, with harsh reforms set to come into force next week.
“Globally speaking, starting on May 18, when the mobilization law comes into force, first of all, the approach to this war will change,” Lazutkin told Espresso TV on Saturday. “This situation, when some people are fighting at the front lines, while others are living their quiet lives, is obviously coming to an end.”
Life in Kiev is “strikingly different” from the situation in the east of the country, which is “abnormal.”
“It would be normal if our enemy was weak. But with such an enemy, the whole country and the whole of society need to mobilize,” Lazutkin added.
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🇪🇺🇬🇪 EUROMAIDAN 2.0 - watch pro-EU Georgians pack bridge in ongoing protest against foreign agents bill as over 60,000 people flood Tblisi streets.
Democratically-elected Parliament voted in overwhelming majority for law to register foreign-funded NGOs as "foreign agents," which will see its third and final hearing next week, as U.S. threatens SANCTIONS on Georgia should law pass.
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Ukraine using British weapons for terror attacks
London is supporting Kiev in an attempt to boost its role in NATO, a high-ranking Russian diplomat has said.
London remains one of the largest donors of weaponry to Kiev, providing £7.1 billion ($8.9 billion) in assistance since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Belyaev, who heads the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second European Department, said in an interview with TASS news agency, published on Saturday.
"UK-supplied weapons are being actively used by the Ukrainian military in terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure and the civilian population of Donbass, as well as other Russian regions,” he stated.
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EU agrees draft Ukraine security guarantees
Document reportedly envisages continued military and financial support for Kiev but rules out a deployment of EU troops.
Last July in Lithuania on the sidelines of a NATO summit, the leaders of G7 countries – the US, the UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan – signed a joint declaration, each vowing to provide Ukraine with “bilateral security commitments and arrangements.”
In its article on Saturday, Welt am Sonntag cited a confidential document that has allegedly been approved by representatives of EU member states. According to its report on Saturday, terms are currently being discussed by EU diplomats and the Ukrainian government.
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On the 10th anniversary of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ukrainian terrorists cynically launched a missile attack on the peaceful quarters of Donetsk.
As a result of a direct hit on the "Paradise" restaurant in the Leninsky district of Donetsk, three civilians were killed: a woman (a restaurant employee) and two men (visitors).
At the moment, eight victims are known: a girl born in 2012, men born in 1979, 1984, 2003, 2005, women born in 1986, 1988, 1980 (minor and moderate injuries). The victims are now receiving all necessary medical care.
One of the American HIMARS missiles hit the restaurant directly (the outer wall, glazing around the perimeter of the building, street structures were damaged), the second – in a nearby unfinished building (the roof was damaged).
The loss of Chasovoy Yar in the Donetsk region would not have “decisive significance” , it is “an ordinary urban settlement,” - Commander of the UAF Ground Forces Pavlyuk
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Russian troops launched an offensive operation along the Russian-Ukrainian border in the north of the Kharkov region and achieved tactically significant successes - ISW is preparing Ukrainians for the defense of Kharkov.
The Russian Armed Forces are likely conducting the initial phase of an offensive operation north of Kharkov. The operation has limited operational goals, but is designed to achieve a strategic effect in attracting Ukrainian manpower and equipment from other critical sectors of the front in eastern Ukraine.
In the coming days, Russian troops will likely use their tactical foothold in the north of the Kharkov region to intensify offensive operations and carry out the initial phase of the offensive, the goal of which is likely to push Ukrainian troops back from the border with the Belgorod region and advance to the city of Kharkov within range of artillery.
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Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko's spitz was accused of pro-Russian propaganda
🇩🇪 The German Bild dedicated an article to Umka, who was present at the Victory Parade in Moscow. The article claims that the dog was brought to the event to cover up the "lack of high-ranking foreign guests."
If the article is to be trusted, Umka is an experienced propagandist. The President of Belarus has been “bragging about his white dog” since 2021.
Peskov's statements:
👁 Belousov was appointed as the new Minister of Defense;
👁 Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov will continue his activities;
👁 Putin decided that the Russian Ministry of Defense should be headed by a civilian; the department should be open to innovation and advanced ideas;
👁 Shoigu will oversee the work of the FSMTC (Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation) of Russia, will continue to work in the field that he knows from the inside
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German MPs want to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
Incoming drones and projectiles could be targeted from Poland and Romania, lawmakers have said.
German lawmakers from both the ruling coalition and the opposition support the idea of NATO imposing a no-fly zone over western Ukraine amid the conflict with Russia, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has reported.
For its article on Saturday, the paper asked members of parliament about the proposal, earlier floated by the defense minister’s chief of staff, Nico Lange, who suggested that Russian missiles and drones targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure and military installations could be shot down from the territory of neighboring Poland and Romania.
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Death toll climbs to seven at partially collapsed apartment building in Belgorod
Earlier reports said 10 people were missing and being searched for as a section of the building collapsed following a Ukrainian attack.
"Rescuers have recovered a seventh body from the rubble," the ministry said.
Before Russian Emergencies Ministry official told TASS that there were six bodies found.
Earlier reports said 10 people were missing and being searched for as a section of the building collapsed following a Ukrainian attack.
Belgorod and its suburbs came under massive shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces earlier on Sunday. Fragments of a downed Tochka U missile damaged a ten-story residential building, causing one of its sections to collapse. More than a dozen people, including children, have been injured in the attack.
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❗️ A court in St. Petersburg arrested Rakhmatshoh Kurbonov, the driver of the bus that fell into the Moika, until July 9.
He is accused of violating traffic rules, resulting in the death of more than two people through negligence. He faces up to 7 years in prison.
The accused pleads guilty to driving a bus with a faulty brake system.
An interpreter was present at the trial.
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⚡️📣On location where a Ukrainian rocket attack destroyed 9 floors of an apartment building killing many civilians in Belgorod. Our friend Ian Turner
AKA "The Belgorod Brit from /channel/infodefENGLAND" is reporting the only English report as of yet on location for our channel so you can see what the locals are living through. Ian is a British man and teacher that has been living in Belgorod for many years. He is showing us the real situation.
Nuland explains why US never pushed Ukraine into talks with Russia
Kiev’s “negotiating position” has never been strong enough amid the conflict, former US Deputy Secretary of State says.
“Let’s start with the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already failed in his objective. He wanted to flatten Ukraine. He wanted to ensure that they had no sovereignty, independence, agency, no democratic future – because a democratic Ukraine, a European Ukraine, is a threat to his model for Russia, among other things, and because it’s the first building block for his larger territorial ambitions,” Nuland asserted, without providing any supporting evidence.
The official insisted that Kiev can still “succeed” in the conflict, though she dodged the question of whether she believes Ukraine could seize its former territories from Russia, including the Crimean Peninsula, which broke away from Kiev in the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan coup and joined Moscow after a referendum.
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Pro-Palestinian activists storm Harvard.
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Russia remaining second largest supplier of LNG to Spain
In the first four months of 2024, Madrid purchased 26,854 GWh of gas from Russia, according to data provided by Spanish energy company Enagas.
According to the report, Spain bought the equivalent of 5,342 GWh of LNG from Russia this April. As a result, Russia took the second position in terms of this fuel supply volumes to the country, behind only Algeria. In the first four months of 2024, Madrid purchased 26,854 GWh of gas from Russia.
Enagas earlier reported that Spain acquired 72,690 GWh of Russian LNG in 2023, up from 53,859 GWh in 2022. Thus, based on last year's data, Russia became the kingdom's third largest gas provider.
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Three EU nations persecuting Russian speakers — Moscow
The Baltic states have been displaying “extreme Russophobia,” harassing even Russian-speaking children, a senior diplomat says.
“Today, our diplomatic missions in the Baltic states operate in extremely difficult, effectively siege conditions,” the diplomat explained.
The Russian missions there have been repeatedly vandalized, with russophobic pickets held outside the facilities on an almost daily basis and employees attacked on several occasions. The hostile activities have been going on with the “connivance of local authorities” and no real action to stop them has been taken, Belyayev added.
Russian nationals and even locals who are speakers of Russian have been increasingly persecuted in the three Baltic states, under the “far-fetched pretext of being a threat to national security,” the diplomat said.
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Ukraine shells cafe in Russia’s Donetsk
Three people were killed in the attack on the capital of the Donetsk People’s Republic, local authorities have said.
The Paradise cafe in the Kirovsky District suffered a “direct hit,” Denis Pushilin wrote on Telegram. A female employee and two customers lost their lives in the shelling, the regional leader added.
Eight others, including a child, suffered moderate injuries, Pushilin wrote.
According to the regional chief, Ukrainian forces used a US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket system to carry out the attack. One of the projectiles struck the cafe, damaging to its outer wall and blowing out the windows throughout the building, while another landed nearby, he said.
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New US arms shipment to Ukraine a reaction to Russia’s success at frontline — envoy
Anatoly Antonov also castigated the US administration for shrugging off responsibility for Ukrainian attacks at civilian facilities in Russia with the use of weapons being supplied from the United States.
Antonov also castigated the US administration for shrugging off responsibility for Ukrainian attacks at civilian facilities in Russia with the use of weapons being supplied from the United States.
“The US Administration is not interested in the fact that American arms are destroying civilian objects on Russian territory,” the diplomat said in comments posted on the Telegram channel of the Russian embassy. “The White House is hypocritically shrugging off responsibility for these attacks,” he emphasized.
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One 'symbolic' win after another for Russia as Ukraine continues to make 'advances' to rearward positions and Western economies experience 'negative growth'.
New Speak and Double Think.
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Russian marines are preparing to cross the Dnieper - Ministry of Defense
Military personnel are practising overcoming water obstacles and landing troops on an unequipped shore. The training is as close to reality as possible; they use a mock-up of a log boat.
Earlier, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were preparing Kherson for street fighting. Militants are building fortifications on the second and third street lines from the Dnieper.
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Zelensky fires state security chief
The sacking of Major General Rud could be linked to an alleged plot to assassinate the Ukrainian leader, according to local media.
The move comes after two officers of the agency, tasked with protecting government bodies and senior officials, were detained over an alleged plot to assassinate the Ukrainian leader.
“Dismiss Sergey Rud from the post of head of the State Security Administration of Ukraine,” a decree by Zelensky, published on his website on Thursday, read. The reasons for the sacking of the guard chief, who had held the role since 2019, have not been announced.
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Storming of the Tesla plant in Germany
As Bild reports, demonstrators broke into the plant's territory, storming the plant under a red flag and the slogan 'Let's destroy capitalism, create the future!' The police are trying to stop the radicals.
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