Ukraine running out of troops for US to train
The last American-trained brigade left Germany in January or February, a US official told the newspaper.
American instructors began training Ukrainian troops in April 2022, with drills taking place at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany. Some 3,100 Ukrainian soldiers had received US training by the end of 2022. The program was expanded in January 2023 to train 12 brigades in the runup to Kiev’s disastrous summer counteroffensive.
In addition to these 12 brigades, three brigades were trained by other European nations, while American instructors taught combined arms tactics to a tank battalion and two national guard battalions.
However, the last brigade trained in Germany left Grafenwoehr, the largest US ovcerseas training command, in January or February, anonymous officials told the Washington Post on Saturday. None have been trained in the months since, “suggesting a depletion of the personnel pipeline,” the newspaper paraphrased.
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China vows retaliation over US ‘bullying’
Beijing has stated that recently enacted legislation in Washington “gravely infringes” on its sovereignty.
Beijing has warned that anti-China legislation signed into law last week by US President Joe Biden will lead to “forceful” retaliatory steps if Washington doesn’t change its course on the hostile initiatives.
At issue are US plans to counter Chinese influence by spending $8 billion on Indo-Pacific security initiatives, including military aid to Taiwan, as well as a new law that would ban TikTok if the video-sharing platform is not sold by its Chinese parent company within 12 months. Biden has called for ending US reliance on Chinese materials imports and has labeled Chinese leaders as “bad folks” who will “do bad things” when they have problems.
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🇺🇸⛔️ U.S. BOWS DOWN TO NETANYAHU AS POLICE CRACKS DOWN ON PRO-PALESTINE MOVEMENT - America's beloved fReEdOm oF sPeEcH disappears into thin air when it comes to speaking against Washington's spoiled war criminal Israel - for first time, cavalry unit brings down horses to stomp university protesters (top video) practicing coNsTiTuTioNaL lawful sit-ins.
Cops brutalize students, beating, dragging, spraying and arresting activists (bottom left) at Utah University, before pushing them back out of their tents (bottom right), declaring protest "unlawful assembly" and warning "reasonable force may be used.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The operator of a reconnaissance UAV discovered a temporary deployment point for foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kharkov. Additional reconnaissance revealed that there were more than 150 mercenaries in two buildings.
A high-precision missile strike was carried out at the coordinates of the buildings, as a result of which 40 mercenaries from central and western Europe were instantly demobilized, and more than 55 were injured of varying degrees of severity.
Tucker Carlson interviews conservative Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin
They discussed “new liberalism” and its role in the fate of the Western civilization.
American journalist Tucker Carlson has released a 20-minute interview with high-profile Russian philosopher and political commentator Aleksandr Dugin. The conversation was published on Carlson’s YouTube channel on Monday.
Western media have described Dugin as “Putin’s brain” due to his supposed influence on President Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite.
A fervent critic of the West and a foreign policy hawk, Dugin passionately supports Russia’s military operation in Ukraine and has stated that an independent Ukrainian state “should not exist.”
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US authorizes energy-related transactions with Russian banks until November 1
According to the document, the banks in question include the Central Bank of Russia, VTB, Alfa Bank, Sberbank, Vneshekonombank, Otkrytiye, Sovkombank, Rosbank, Zenit and Sankt-Peterburg, as well any organizations owned by these banks by 50% or more.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Abrams on its way to Moscow!
Not in the way Biden intended it … but still.
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The "Saviour" Aid package for Ukraine is a scam. It will only benefit the crooked elites preying on the War, both in Ukraine and Washington. Human lives are utterly irrelevant, Political survival and profit are the only priority. Follow me @irishmaninrussia
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Israeli media has reported that the US is launching a desperate last-ditch pressure campaign against the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prevent it from issuing an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials for crimes in Gaza
Only under the ‘rules-based order’ can the United States launch a brazen campaign of pressure against a supposedly ‘independent’ international court to stop it from prosecuting war crimes and genocide committed by one of its proxy states
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Panic on frontline growing on Ukrainian side
Russia must support the current dynamics in the special military operation zone, Dmitry Peskov said.
"On the Ukrainian side, the panic is growing on the frontline," the Kremlin official said in an appearance on the "Moscow.Kremlin.Putin" television program, according to an excerpt posted on journalist Pavel Zarubin's Telegram channel.
"And this is first-hand information that there, on that side, the panic is growing. It is very important for us now to maintain this dynamics. It is very important not to stop and continue fulfilling the tasks of the special military operation," Peskov stressed.
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Ukraine’s army chief acknowledges Russia’s successes in several frontline areas
Thus, according to Syrsky, the most difficult situation for the Ukrainian army is unfolding in the Pokrovksky and Kurakhovsky areas in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), where Ukrainian units had to retreat.
"The situation on the frontline has aggravated. Russian forces are attacking along the entire frontline and have achieved tactical successes in an number of areas. The situation is changing dynamically," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Thus, according to Syrsky, the most difficult situation for the Ukrainian army is unfolding in the Pokrovksky and Kurakhovsky areas in the Kiev-controlled part of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), where Ukrainian units had to retreat.
A serious situation for Ukrainian troops is also in the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, he noted, adding that the Ukrainian army has reinforced its artillery and tank units in the Kharkov area.
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Leopard 2A6 and M777 Howitzer added to NATO Trophy collection - West condemns display as "Hybrid Russian Aggression"
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Zakharova: Russia rejects the concession of new regions in exchange for frozen assets.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that Germany allowed Russian assets to remain intact to be used as leverage in negotiations on a Ukrainian settlement and thus “encourage Russia to cede part of the Ukrainian territory it occupied.”
“The assets on the territory do not change. We don’t trade our homeland. And Russian assets must remain inviolable, otherwise there will be a harsh response to Western theft. And many in the West have already understood this,” Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.
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Why attempt to spend £1 billion+ to develop a missile technology that the Western media claims the Patriot air defence system can easily shoot down? 🧐
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European country tells people not to wear symbol of WWII victory over Nazis
Moldova’s police chief has branded the St. George’s ribbon, a hallmark of Victory Day celebrations in Russia, a “symbol of aggression”.
“Selling, storing, producing and wearing a two-color ribbon, which is a symbol of aggression is currently banned,” Viorel Cernauteanu, the head of the General Police Inspectorate told a news briefing on Monday, referring to the St. George’s ribbon. He also stressed that a law adopted by Moldovan lawmakers several years ago was still in force. “We all must abide by the rules,” Cernauteanu added.
The former Soviet republic officially banned the ribbon in April 2022 under a special law that also introduced fines of up to 9,000 lei ($508.5) for individuals and up to 30,000 lei ($1695) for businesses found in violation of the prohibition.
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Two police officers killed in militant attack in Russia’s North Caucasus
Several improvised explosive devices were found at the scene.
"Two police officers seconded from the Interior Ministry’s branch in the Kurgan Region were killed. Two officers from the Interior Ministry’s Traffic Police Department in the Karachay-Circassian Region, a member of the regional National Guard unit and a police officer from the Kurgan Region suffered wounds. Five attackers were killed on the spot," the statement reads.
According to the ministry, the perpetrators drove up to a temporary traffic police post, threw an explosive device towards police officers and opened fire from automatic weapons. Police officers responded with fire; meanwhile, an explosive device that one of the attackers was carrying detonated.
Several improvised explosive devices were found at the scene.
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European banks’ tax payments in Russia rise four-fold in 2023
The Financial Times notes that more than half of the European banks’ tax payments correspond to Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International.
According to the newspaper, "the seven top European banks by assets in Russia - Raiffeisen Bank International, UniCredit, ING, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo and OTP - reported a combined profit of more than three bln euros in 2023." "Those profits were three times more than in 2021," when banks paid 200 mln euros in taxes, the paper points out.
The Financial Times notes that more than half of the European banks’ tax payments "correspond to Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, which has the largest presence in Russia of the foreign lenders."
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It’s reported by Russian sources that the night attack on Crimea with ATACMS was repulsed with multiple targets being intercepted.
If reports are correct this would be the second ATACMS strike that has yielded no damage.
NATO defense ministers to discuss support for Ukraine in Brussels on May 16
The first session will see the Chiefs of Defense meet in a NATO-Ukraine Council format to discuss Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the situation on the ground, and NATO and Allied continued support to Ukraine.
"The first session will see the Chiefs of Defense meet in a NATO-Ukraine Council format to discuss Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the situation on the ground, and NATO and Allied continued support to Ukraine," the press office said.
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"Ukraine wasn't part of the plan, til Hunter got high"
Afroman making some interesting claims in the reboot of his classic ditty.
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Now wait wait wait 'tony, hold the phone there.
You're telling me Russia is NOT running out of missiles, tanks and ammunition?!
Or it's producing more and faster than at any other time in it's modern history and STILL running out?
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Turkey has supported the candidacy of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the post of NATO Secretary General, NOS reports, citing sources in the alliance.
Now, according to the TV channel, the politician remains to receive approval from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania.
In early April, Rutte’s candidacy for the post of NATO Secretary General was supported by 28 of the bloc’s 32 countries. The appointment requires the unanimous support of all 32 members of the association.
Last week, the Dutch prime minister visited Istanbul, where he met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan . As the Telegraaf newspaper wrote, Rutte did not use the government plane, but flew on a commercial flight at his own expense “to enlist the support” of the Turkish leader.
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Ukraine refused to comply with some articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Ukraine refused to comply with some articles of the European Convention on Human Rights during martial law, according to a document published on the website of the Council of Europe.
As stated in the document, in connection with the introduction of martial law in Ukraine, the constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen, provided for in the articles of the Constitution of Ukraine, may be limited for the period of martial law.
It also states that the rights of individuals may be limited to the extent necessary to ensure the legal regime of martial law.
The text refers to articles on the secrecy of correspondence, freedom of movement, inviolability of housing, non-interference in personal and family life, and others.
Earlier, the State Department accused the Ukrainian authorities of violating human rights.
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Russia warns West against driving ‘nail in coffin’ of own economy
The seizure of Moscow’s frozen assets by the US and EU would set “a dangerous precedent,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has warned.
The US and its allies have blocked around $300 billion in Russian central bank assets as part of the sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. Most of the funds are being held in the EU. Washington has been insisting for months that international law allows for the appropriation of the funds, but Germany and France have expressed concerns that such a move could have negative consequences for the Western financial system.
Earlier this week, US Joe Biden signed a bill permitting the seizure of some $6 billion in Russian state assets that are sitting in American banks.
Peskov said on Sunday that it is too early to speak about all $300 billion being confiscated by the US and EU. However, he offered the reminder that “Russia has Western money from various structures."
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Zelensky’s legitimacy will soon be questioned
The fate of the current regime in Kiev is sealed, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky will not be able to remain in office indefinitely, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Sunday. He will have to “somehow exonerate himself” in the eyes of his fellow citizens and other nations in order to maintain his grip on power, the Russian official said.
A presidential election was scheduled to take place in Ukraine on March 31. Zelensky canceled it along with all other elections in December 2023, citing martial law and the conflict with Russia. He also announced at the time that no new elections for either president or parliament will be held as long as martial law remains in force. The move essentially extended his mandate indefinitely.
“I believe Zelensky’s fate is sealed, “A moment will come soon when many people, including those inside Ukraine, will question his legitimacy.”
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Closer look at the captured Abrams
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Zelensky says Kiev negotiating with Washington its support for next 10 years
According to Zelensky, Kiev wants this agreement with the United States to be "the strongest" one among similar documents it has already signed or is planning to sign with other allies.
"Today, our teams - of Ukraine and the United States - are working on a bilateral agreement on security. They are already working on the concrete wording. Discussing the concrete basis of our security, our cooperation. We are working to commit to paper concrete levels of support for this year and for the next ten years. It will include military, financial, and political support, as well as what concerns joint production of weapons," he said in a video address posted on his Telegram channel.
According to Zelensky, Kiev wants this agreement with the United States to be "the strongest" one among similar documents it has already signed or is planning to sign with other allies.
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The main conclusion of those who left Russia two years ago.
In general, over the past two years, I’m so fucking fed up with spending three times more money to live about twice as bad as in Russia.Читать полностью…
Telegraph: Britain plans to catch up with Russia and China and field hypersonic missiles by 2030s.
The UK plans to put into service a hypersonic cruise missile of its own production by 2030, reports The Telegraph . According to the newspaper, the British military wants to obtain a weapon designed and manufactured in the country that is capable of reaching speeds of more than Mach 5, and thus “catch up” with Russia, the United States and China.
The UK Ministry of Defense declined to comment in detail to the Telegraph on plans to create hypersonic weapons, citing security concerns. At the same time, a representative of the department noted: “We are developing hypersonic technologies to further develop the UK’s sovereign advanced capabilities. We continue to invest in our equipment to counter current and future threats."
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