‼️🇺🇦🇪🇺 Next week will be decisive for Ukraine, - the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen commented on the upcoming conversation between Trump, Putin and Zelensky.
"It is important that we are moving forward now. I think that next week will be decisive for the future of Ukraine," she said during a visit to Rome.
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Pavel Durov has refused a request from a Western European country, presumably France, to silence Romanian conservatives on Telegram ahead of today's presidential election.
Durov also changed the name of the channel: previously it was in the French style “Du Rove's Channel”, now it is Pavel Durov
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Reuters reports that German Chancellor Merz intends to contact Donald Trump before his planned phone call with Vladimir Putin.
Merz said he and the leaders of Britain, France and Poland want to discuss the situation with Trump ahead of his conversation with the Russian president.
He also noted that he raised the issue with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio during the Mass on the occasion of the enthronement of Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican. There he also had a lengthy conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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One person was killed and five others were injured in a bomb explosion at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California.
The explosive device was reportedly planted in a parked car. The incident has been classified as a terrorist attack.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 The New York Times found out what Russian soldiers think about the idea of a ceasefire
▪️Russian soldiers admit that they are ready to fight until the complete liberation of Russian territory.
▪️A total of 11 servicemen were interviewed, all of them rejected the proposal of Ukraine and the West for an unconditional ceasefire.
➖"We want to take all the regions so that in the future we won't have to fight for them. Otherwise, all the guys died in vain?" one of the mobilized soldiers named Sergei told the publication.
▪️Earlier it was reported that the Russian delegation acting on behalf of the president at the negotiations put forward demands for Ukraine to leave 4 regions that became Russian according to the Constitution.
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Trump announced a conversation with Vladimir Putin.
"I will speak by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday at 10:00 a.m. The topics of the conversation will be stopping the "bloodshed" in which, on average, more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers are killed per week, and trade issues. Then I will speak with Ukrainian President Zelensky, and then with President Zelensky and several NATO representatives. I hope that this will be a fruitful day, that a ceasefire can be reached, and that this very brutal war, a war that should never have started, will be ended. God bless us all!"
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The Trump administration has eased sanctions imposed on Turkey after it purchased Russian S-400 air defense systems, Turkish President Erdogan said.
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Russia's full demands for the negotiations according to the Turkish resource Clash Reports:
- Neutral Ukraine - no foreign troops or weapons of mass destruction on Ukrainian soil.
- No reparations - mutual waiver of any claims for compensation for damage caused by the war.
- Rights of Russian speakers - Ukraine must adopt European standards on minority rights and put an end to "nationalist propaganda".
- Recognition of territories - Ukraine must internationally recognize and not deny Russia's constitutional claims to five regions: Crimea, DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.
- The condition for a ceasefire is that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from all five regions claimed by Russia.
🇪🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦 European leaders unhappy with Russia-Ukraine talks
▪️British Prime Minister Starmer said that Russia's position in the negotiations is "unacceptable" and he accuses Moscow of delaying the ceasefire.
▪️French President Macron said that Russia ignored the demands of the US, Ukraine and Europe for a ceasefire.
▪️Polish Prime Minister Tusk said that the Kremlin refused to conduct dialogue with the participation of the United States and put forward unacceptable conditions.
▪️Italian Prime Minister Meloni called for a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine.
▪️German Chancellor Merz accused Moscow of disrupting the talks, but noted that the talks had produced "a very small, but first positive signal."
▪️It is worth noting that the statements of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations following the negotiations were constructive, and the parties did not voice any mutual accusations.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia and Ukraine will present their vision of a possible future ceasefire in detail, after which negotiations will continue - head of the Russian delegation Medinsky
▪️Direct negotiations with the Ukrainian side have just ended, we are satisfied with the result, we are ready to continue contact.
▪️We have taken note of the request for a meeting between the leaders of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
▪️Russia and Ukraine will soon conduct a prisoner exchange according to the formula 1000 for 1000.
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❗️ Ukrainian media reports that the negotiations may continue. A pause has been announced.
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🇷🇺 The USSR’s Decisive Role in Defeating Nazism: Truth Under Attack.
The Soviet Army and the united Soviet people bore the brunt of the battle against Nazism, making the decisive contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich. At the time, this fact was undisputed—both among the Allies and even in defeated Germany.
The USSR showed generosity, forgiving Hitler’s former allies—Finland, Romania, Bulgaria—and even granting France the status of a victor. Yet, after the collapse of the USSR and the Cold War, a deliberate campaign began to distort history. Today, it has reached a new level: outright denial of the Soviet Union’s role in liberating Europe.
Western media and politicians now equate the USSR’s struggle with Hitler’s aggression, while European institutions (EU Parliament, PACE, OSCE) pass resolutions erasing the sacrifices of millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians.
This is not just historical revisionism—it’s an attempt to dismantle the memory of those who truly defeated fascism. We must not allow the truth to be rewritten.
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Trilateral talks between Turkey, the United States and Ukraine have ended in Istanbul, they lasted more than an hour, media reports citing sources.
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📸 Ukraine lost another F-16 last night. According to the Air Force, the fighter entered into an air battle with a Geran UAV, and was destroyed while attempting to shoot down the target.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Details of tomorrow's meetings in Istanbul
▪️A total of several meetings are planned, including:
▪️Trilateral meeting: "USA - Ukraine - Türkiye".
▪️Trilateral meeting: "Russia - Ukraine - Türkiye".
▪️Quadrilateral meeting: "USA - Russia - Ukraine - Türkiye" (format not yet confirmed).
▪️Earlier, US Secretary of State Rubio said he planned to meet with representatives of the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul. He refused to meet with the Russian side, since the Kremlin "sent a lower-level group."
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Denmark announces a new $600 million military aid package for Ukraine, which will include self-propelled artillery units, ammunition for them, and equipment for the Ukrainian Air Force.
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If true, would I be correct in assuming that Kier Starmer has been willing to put the British nation in jeopardy by actively supporting pro LGBT Ukraine against anti LGBT Russia, just so he can satisfy his sordid appetites on the cheap?
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💬 RQ-4B Returns to Black Sea 💬
✍️ Yesterday morning, a rather significant event took place in the Black Sea region: for the first time since June 2024, an American strategic RQ-4B UAV appeared over the Black Sea.
▪️ This drone has not flown to the shores of Crimea since last summer after the incident with the MiG-31, which flew over an American UAV.
▪️ For 24 hours, the RQ-4B was located east of the coast of Romania, operating in the direction of the western coast of Crimea.
▪️ With the failure of the Ukrainian plan to achieve a 30-day ceasefire along the entire front, new attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack in order to achieve at least some result are expected.
▪️ And the Black Sea direction is one of the possible ones, despite the suicidal nature of such plans. According to some sources, the BEKs are already at sea, and UAVs attack Crimea every day.
❗️ Along the Black Sea coast, sabotage groups, including the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces, are preparing to conduct an operation in Crimea. Moreover, weather conditions have improved, and the likelihood of such attempts is increasing every day.
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"As far as we know, we are not negotiating with Britain," the Russian Embassy in the UK responded to Starmer's comments about the talks in Istanbul.
"Equally puzzling is the British Prime Minister's hasty statement that Russia's position in the Istanbul talks is 'unacceptable' and that a response is being prepared. Unacceptable to whom exactly? As far as we know, we are not negotiating with Britain."
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‼️🇷🇺 Peace talks by themselves do not always lead to an end to fighting — Medvedev
➖"If they fail, they could lead to a more terrible stage of the conflict with new weapons and participants," the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council noted, addressing all Russian enemies who are issuing ultimatums for negotiations.
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⚡️Kiev, with the support of the British intelligence service MI6, whose director Richard Moore is leaving in the fall, proposed to the President of Moldova to conduct a military operation in Transnistria, but Maia Sandu refused to escalate ahead of the elections.
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"Trump-Putin meeting is Ukraine's worst nightmare" - The Telegraph .
The Putin-Trump meeting, the paper writes, is what Ukrainian officials are losing the most sleep over. At such a meeting, Putin would have Trump’s undivided attention, and he would have no intermediary to defend Ukraine’s interests. In the end, they fear, a receptive Trump, whose instincts often seem more favorable to Russia, would agree to a deal that would then be presented to Ukraine as a fait accompli.
“Putin has brushed off President Trump,” said one Ukrainian politician. “We very much hope that he will not reward Putin’s intransigence by agreeing to meet with him.” Trump would likely reject such characterizations. By his logic, the only way to understand what Putin wants and how far he is willing to go to compromise is to talk to him face to face.
The Trump-Putin meeting is also a fresh humiliation for European leaders, who had expected the US president to respond to Putin's rejection of a 30-day ceasefire by endorsing tougher sanctions. Now Trump is unlikely to give the go-ahead for new anti-Russian sanctions before meeting Putin, The Telegraph writes.
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"The meeting was a tactical victory for Putin": The New York Times sums up the talks in Istanbul. The main points from the article:
🟥 "Russia and Ukraine agreed to swap prisoners in the first direct talks in years but failed to agree on a temporary ceasefire or a meeting between the two leaders, underscoring how far apart they are on ending the conflict."
🟥 "Putin wants to attract the attention of President Trump, who is promising a new era of warm relations between Moscow and Washington, and convince the White House that he is not standing in the way of peace in Ukraine."
🟥 "The Istanbul talks were not expected to yield any significant breakthroughs from the start. But the meeting was a tactical victory for Putin, who managed to start negotiations without the prior agreement to end the fighting that Ukraine and almost all of its Western backers had sought as a condition for the talks."
🟥 Putin is unlikely to agree to one-on-one talks with Zelensky due to the question of his legitimacy.
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The Economist correspondent, citing his sources, reports that the head of the Russian negotiating team, Vladimir Medinsky, said: "We don't want war, but we are ready to fight for another year, two, three - as long as it takes. We fought with Sweden for 21 years. And how long are you ready to fight?"
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❗️Russia demands that Ukraine create a security zone in the Sumy region, otherwise the entire region will be taken under the control of the Russian army.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦"This is unreal!" - Russia demands that Ukraine withdraw its troops from Russian territory to cease fire
▪️This was reported by the media, citing Ukrainian diplomats.
▪️It is also reported that Russian requirements include other “non-starter” points.
➖"Russian demands in the negotiations are unrealistic and go far beyond what was previously discussed," Ukraine complains.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Turkish representative must leave direct talks between Russia and Ukraine after greeting on May 16 — Interfax
It is also reported that the Russian delegation is against the presence of US representatives in direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine's attempt to turn the talks with Russia in Istanbul into a show and destabilize the situation around them has failed — MFA
▪️There is a chance that a document to end the conflict will be developed in Istanbul, Miroshnik notes.
▪️The legitimization of the results of the negotiations in Istanbul is possible despite the expiration of Zelensky’s term of office.
▪️However, he notes that Kyiv’s desire to discuss only a ceasefire in Istanbul is a cause for concern.
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🇺🇦🔥🇬🇧 Ukrainian sets fire to British PM's house and car — BBC
▪️21-year-old Ukrainian citizen Roman Lavrynovych is accused of setting fire to two properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Starmer, London police said.
▪️He was arrested and is due to appear in court tomorrow.
▪️The charges relate to three incidents: a car fire in Kentish Town, north London, a fire at the prime minister's private home on the same street and a fire at an address where Starmer previously lived in north-west London.
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❗️ Zelensky has just approved the composition of the delegation for the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul. The delegation will include:
🟥 Rustem Umerov - Minister of Defense, head of the delegation;
🟥 Sergei Kislitsa - First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs;
🟥 Alexander Poklad - Deputy Head of the SBU;
🟥 Oleg Lugovskiy - First Deputy Head of the SVRU;
🟥 Oleksiy Shevchenko - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
🟥 Vadim Skibitsky - Deputy Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense;
🟥 Evgeny Shinkarev - Air Force;
🟥 Alexander Dyakov - Naval Forces;
🟥 Alexey Malovadsky - lawyer of the General Staff;
🟥 Alexander Sherikhov - General Staff;
🟥 Georgy Kuzmichev - protocol officer;
🟥 Alexander Bevs is an adviser to the Office of the President.
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