An attack on the Russian Victory Parade is unlikely due to the “low chances of success" The Washington Post reports, citing senior Ukrainian Armed Forces officials.
"As you can see, all of Russia's air defense systems have been redeployed to protect Moscow. Even if there is an attempt, it will not be successful. Ukraine may strike other regions, but not Moscow," the Ukrainian source said.
Another defense official added that a strike on Red Square, where many world leaders will be, could provoke retaliatory action from Russia and "anger Washington."
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During a campaign appearance, Polish presidential candidate Grzegorz Braun removed the EU flag and wiped his shoes with it, stating, “This is Poland, not Brussels,” in an apparent challenge to Brussels' influence.
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Putin's initiative for a truce during the holidays is relevant, and the relevant instructions have been given. But if the Ukrainian Armed Forces try to strike at the positions of the Russian military, an adequate response will be given immediately, the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov emphasized at a briefing. The main thing:
🟥 Vladimir Putin is preparing for a marathon of bilateral meetings and negotiations that will take place over the next four days;
🟥 A reception is planned in the Kremlin in honor of the heads of foreign delegations and guests of honor on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory;
🟥 Russia closely monitors the international situation; excessively high or low oil prices have a detrimental effect on the global economy;
🟥 The Kyiv regime continues to demonstrate its position aimed at continuing the war, and is trying to strike at peaceful infrastructure facilities;
🟥 The work of Russian air defense is effective;
🟥 Russia's work with the American side on the Ukrainian issue continues;
🟥 On Tuesday, the Russian President will hold two international telephone conversations and receive the chairman of Delovaya Rossiya, Alexei Repik, in the Kremlin.
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🖥️ The economic interests of the military-industrial complex played a significant role in provoking the conflict in Ukraine, American businessman Ben Cohen said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
“A lot of people think that this little country, Ukraine, was invaded by this big giant, Russia. But I think you have to understand what triggered this war and how it could have been prevented. At the end of the Cold War, the United States promised Russia that we were not going to expand NATO eastward. And then we went ahead and expanded NATO eastward. In fact, the government wasn’t going to do that until the arms manufacturers created the NATO Expansion Committee, which was basically the CEOs of the arms manufacturers lobbying Congress for NATO expansion. If you’re an arms manufacturer and you expand NATO, they’re going to buy a lot of your stuff.”
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My friend Tony the Colombian, who found instant fame today — likes to collect themed metro cards.
This Victory Day one is particularly exciting 😄
🖥️ "Ukraine is the largest bribery system in the history of mankind," Elon Musk's father Earl said in an interview about the Kiev regime, something that they try to keep silent about in the West.
“Zelensky is a figurehead. He is known as a comedian, a rather mediocre one, as far as I can tell. I saw him become famous by playing the piano with his penis or something like that. But he has proven to be a useful tool for forces across the Atlantic. And I think we need to be aware that there is much more going on here than meets the eye. With Zelensky, he is clearly a very determined opponent. As far as we know, almost all the representatives of the opposition parties in Ukraine have been jailed, and so I have no doubt that there is much more going on here than meets the eye.”
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⚡️China has demanded that France and Great Britain prevent attacks on Moscow from Ukraine during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Russian capital.
The United States also notified Ukraine and its sponsors in Paris and London of the inadmissibility of actions that could even potentially endanger foreign leaders during a visit to Moscow. The corresponding demands have been communicated to all European and Ukrainian intelligence services.
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Eight people, seven of whom are Iranian nationals, have been arrested in a series of raids in British cities on suspicion of plotting large-scale terrorist attacks.
The footage shows one of the episodes in which fighters from the elite counter-terrorist unit SAS were involved.
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🇺🇦 In the UK, two student unions have suspended the activities of their Ukrainian groups after it was discovered that drones were being deceptively purchased for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The student unions of University College London and Lancaster University suspected Ukrainian members of violating fundraising rules, Financial Times reports.
Under British law, student unions are considered charitable organizations. They are prohibited from providing assistance to any foreign armed forces.
However, the Ukrainian group at University College London was found to have used donations raised during a club event—illegally—to purchase drones for the Ukrainian military.
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Pakistan has run out of artillery ammunition due to deals with Ukraine and will only be able to fight India for four days.
In response to rising tensions with India, Pakistan has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council.
India today cut off water supply to the Baglihar Dam, a move Islamabad had previously equated to a declaration of war
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🖥️ India unilaterally suspended a treaty with Pakistan that governs the distribution of water from six rivers in the Indus basin and closed a dam that was funneling water into Pakistan.
This comes amid a terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which killed 26 people, mostly tourists. Indian authorities blamed Pakistani militants for the attack.
Pakistan had previously warned that blocking water supplies would be seen as an act of hostility.
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Preparations for the Victory Parade on May 9th are underway in Moscow
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The son of a Finnish politician signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and went to fight in Ukraine, where he died 4 months later - Finnish Yle tells his story.
According to Finnish media, Leo Aland, the son of Finnish politician Jyrki Aland, “did not have time to familiarize himself with the mandatory nature of the service contracts” that the Ukrainian Armed Forces offer to their volunteer recruits, and ultimately regretted going to fight for the Kiev regime.
Despite the fact that his family did not accept his departure and tried to dissuade him, Leo signed the contract anyway. He stayed in Ukraine for about 4 months before his father received the news of his death on April 13.
Aland learned that his son had signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, obliging him to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces for at least six months, three weeks after his son's departure. As a precaution, Leo's passport was taken away and his phone use was restricted.
In early February, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published instructions for volunteer fighters, which also talk about the specifics of the service contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The instructions say that the contract is of a private nature and is almost impossible to terminate.
According to Jyrki Aland, his son wanted to leave Ukraine after he arrived there. “I know this experience will grow me as a person, but it’s still hard for me to be here and I’m struggling to cope with it. Sometimes I just don’t understand what I’m doing here,” the younger Aland wrote in a message to his father.
Yurka says he contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and asked for help to get his son to safety. They did everything they could to bring his son home, but the plan failed.
After the training camp ended in mid-February, the boy was transferred to his own combat unit. Around the same time, information appeared in the media that Russia was reclaiming Kursk.
Aland sent his last message to his son on April 9. Four days later, he was preparing for his party's election campaign when he received word of his son's death. The information came from comrades in arms. Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed anything.
According to Jyrki Aland, nothing in Finland prepared his son for what he encountered in Ukraine. When he was at the front, he filled out forms to enroll in an educational institution. The 20-year-old boy had no idea that he would die.
❗️The Mexican President rejected Trump's demand for direct intervention of the US military in operations against the cartels.
In response, the US President said that Washington would act unilaterally without the approval of the Mexican government and would conduct any military operations on the territory of that country if the drug cartels were not destroyed.
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Medvedev commented on Zelensky's refusal to agree to a ceasefire on May 9:
"The green unshaven asshole said that he rejects Putin's proposal for a three-day truce on May 9 and cannot ensure the safety of world leaders in Moscow"
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❗️ The European Commission (EC) has officially proposed that the European Union completely abandon Russian gas by the end of 2027 and calls on Europeans to stop buying Russian oil and uranium.
The main provisions of the new plan:
🟥 A ban on the purchase of natural gas from Russia, including liquefied gas, under new and spot contracts is proposed by the end of 2025. A full ban is expected to come into force by the end of 2027;
🟥 The European Commission also proposes to take measures against the import of fuel for nuclear power plants from Russia;
🟥 The EC plans to step up the fight against the so-called shadow fleet, including by starting to work on organizing naval missions;
🟥 Brussels will require EU countries to prepare national plans to abandon Russian gas, oil and uranium by the end of 2025. A special schedule will be provided for each country;
🟥 According to the European Commission, Russia's share in European oil imports has decreased from 27% to 3%, gas - from 45% to 19% (13% is predicted by the end of 2025). Nevertheless, over the past year, ten EU countries continued to purchase Russian gas, six - nuclear fuel, three - oil;
🟥 Hungary will not be able to block the plan to ban gas and nuclear fuel from Russia, it is approved by a qualified majority of votes in the EU, the European Commissioner said.
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Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany on his second attempt.
325 deputies voted for it, with 316 required.
CDU/CSU leader to lead coalition government with SPD and become tenth chancellor in German history
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Britain is secretly preparing for a direct military conflict with Russia amid fears the country is not ready for war, the Telegraph reports.
Officials have been asked to update 20-year contingency plans that would put Britain on war footing. The secret dossier will outline how the government would respond to a declaration of war, including bunkers to protect the cabinet and the royal family, public service broadcasting and a stockpile of resources.
Ministers fear that not only will Russia and its allies outgun the UK on the battlefield, but British soldiers will be left unprepared and vulnerable at home. The publication's experts warn that the UK is vulnerable to attack on its critical national infrastructure, including gas terminals, undersea cables, nuclear power stations and transport hubs.
An update to the secret “homeland defence plan” will set out strategy for the days following an attack on the UK mainland by a hostile foreign power. It will include scenarios in which Britain is hit by conventional missiles, nuclear warheads or cyber attacks, which posed a limited threat when the plan was last significantly updated before 2005.
Under the same plan, Britain would be divided into 12 zones, each run by cabinet ministers, senior military officers, chief constables and judges with special powers. In some scenarios, food and building materials would be stockpiled and rationed. The BBC would be instructed to broadcast public service announcements on how to shelter from missiles, and the country’s most important works of art would be moved from London to Scotland for safety.
⚡️US President Donald Trump said that Russia has nothing to do with the Nord Stream explosions and is ready to reveal the true perpetrators of this terrorist attack.
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On Red Square, special services practiced techniques for protecting guests in case of emergency situations during the parade
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The meeting between Putin and Trump is necessary in many ways, but it must be prepared accordingly; the Russian president's schedule for mid-May does not currently include a trip to the Middle East (which was listed as a possible meeting location), said the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov. The main thing:
🟥 The Russian Federation does not interfere in the situation with the recognition of AfD as an extremist party, since this is an internal matter for Germany;
🟥 The Kremlin will inform in the event of Putin's contacts with the leaders of India or Pakistan;
🟥 A meeting between Putin and Trump is necessary, but it must be well prepared;
🟥 The Kremlin is not familiar with the content of the agreement between Ukraine and the United States on minerals;
🟥 Russia will look at the actions of the new German Chancellor Merz, but he has shown no desire to normalize relations;
🟥 The Kremlin is watching the tense atmosphere on the Indian-Pakistani border with great concern;
🟥 In Europe, there are quite significant manifestations of neo-Nazism, many in the EU understand this and are afraid of it;
🟥 Putin does not yet have a trip to the Middle East scheduled for mid-May;
🟥 The Russian Federation is ready for mutually beneficial relations with all countries, including Germany;
🟥 Vladimir Putin will meet with Moscow Mayor Sobyanin on May 5.
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📸 In Romania, after 100% of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections have been counted, the leader of the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians party, George Simion, is in the lead (40.96%), followed by Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, and the ruling coalition candidate, Crin Antonescu, is in third place. Simion dedicated his victory to Calin Georgescu, whose results in the previous elections were annulled by the Constitutional Court.
Let us recall that Simion advocates stopping aid to Ukraine, as well as for Moldova to join Romania. He was recognized as an undesirable person by the Kiev regime.
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It's not often that Zelensky makes statements grounded in truth and reality. In this one, he proclaims his own downfall and the reasons for it. 🤡🤡🤡
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British politician George Galloway called Keir Starmer a war criminal for supporting Zelensky and for provocations that could lead to war with Russia.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez has arrived in Russia. He was met at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport by Governor Alexander Beglov.
As part of the visit, Diaz-Canel will take part in celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory and the 65th anniversary of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Havana and Moscow.
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🇸🇰🇺🇦🇺🇸 "Deal with the Devil" — Slovakian PM on Ukraine-US subsoil agreement
▪️Fico drew parallels with the Slovak government's decision in the 1990s to allow the bombing of Belgrade in exchange for the prospect of joining NATO.
➖"Similar agreements with the Devil have already been signed. Why did Mikuláš Dzurinda and his government agree to the bombing of Belgrade? They agreed because they were offered membership in the North Atlantic Alliance in exchange for this," the Slovak Prime Minister emphasized.
▪️Such agreements often have non-obvious consequences.
▪️Fico recalled the closure of Slovak nuclear power plants and mass privatization upon joining the EU.
➖"Zelensky bought himself a war. He is very interested in its continuation," Robert Fico said.
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‼️British counterintelligence MI5 has begun an active search for translators from the Chechen language.
The specialists will work in London, where MI5 headquarters are located, and in Cheltenham, where the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the main British organization in the field of electronic intelligence, is based.
The reasons for the increased interest in specialists in the Chechen language are still unknown.
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The Castellum service, which tracks and analyzes sanctions lists, calculated the total number of restrictions imposed on Russia. The result was 24,311 sanctions - five times more than Iran, which accounts for about 5,000.
The United States remains the leader in the number of anti-Russian measures: it accounts for 30.4% of all restrictions, or 7,384 sanctions. Next come: Canada - 3,639 (15%), Switzerland - 3,266 (13.4%) and France - 2,423 (10%).
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The health condition of Serbian President Vucic, who interrupted his visit to the United States and underwent a medical examination in Belgrade, is stable and satisfactory, said Dragan Dincic, a doctor at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade.
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Fico, who survived an assassination attempt a year ago, refused to take part in May Day celebrations and other events - the reasons have not been officially disclosed.
He has previously mentioned health problems.
Fico and Vucic planned to attend the Victory Parade in Moscow on May 9
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