1/ Rampant corruption is reported to have rendered Russia's ballistic missile early warning system virtually useless. Scams by contractors are said to have led to unsuitable foreign-made components being used on a wide scale. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/VBSutWwNHD
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If this is true, now is our chance to launch a nuclear first strike and catch the Rooskies with their pants down. Finally, the decisive battle of the Cold War. Launch every ZIG! For Great Victory!
On the other hand, this might simply be yet another bit of agit-prop from western intelligence sources. In which case, never mind!
[Telegraph - Faux paywall at Yahoo] Russian soldiers are deserting their positions in Bakhmut, the head of the Wagner mercenary group has claimed as he told the Kremlin that Moscow was incapable of defending its country.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose influence has risen hugely in Moscow's Ukraine offensive, has in recent days released a series of scathing videos attacking Russia's military leadership.
"Today one of the units of the defence ministry fled from one of our flanks... exposing the front," Prigozhin said in a video. He has threatened to pull his fighters out of Bakhmut on May 10 if he did not receive badly needed ammunition.
The mercenary group has spearheaded Moscow's fight for the east Ukrainian city.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been increasingly unhinged with his criticism of Russia’s military leadership, on Tuesday blasted Russian generals for fighting a war "on television" and leaving his fighters hanging with no ammunition.
Mr Prigozhin’s press office put out his video statement just as President Putin wrapped up the annual Victory Parade on Red Square and claimed that Russian troops were successful in "carrying out their tasks" in Ukraine.
Mr Prigozhin last week offered the Kremlin a de-facto ultimatum, threatening to pull out thousands of his troops fighting outside Bakhmut by Wednesday unless the Russian defence ministry increases their supplies.
For all of its motion, the whole work is restrained, reserved, well-behaved while the music emotes, soft-focused even after the scrim lifts, letting both the dancers and us gaze at it in wonder, as we might behold a glorious dawn. The moment resonates, though it’s a bit of a choreographic cop-out. Some might be moved to call it, derivative.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Russia sent out just one aged tank for its Victory Day parade on Moscow's Red Square today as Vladimir Putin's depleted military continues to suffer losses in Ukraine.
In his speech, watched by scores of uniformed soldiers, military officials and leaders of former Soviet nations, Putin claimed that Russia wants peace while accusing the 'western elite' of waging a 'real war' against his invading troops. It came just hours after another barrage of cruise missiles hit several sites across Ukraine.
'Civilisation is once again at a decisive turning point. A real war has been unleashed against our motherland,' he said in a reference to his ongoing invasion that the Kremlin portrays as being a proxy conflict with the West.
With snipers watching the crowd closely, he welcomed soldiers fighting in Ukraine who were present at the parade, and framed his on-going illegal invasion as being akin to the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany in the Second World War, which came to an end 78 years ago - a false narrative that has nevertheless resonated at home.
'To Russia! To our brave armed forces! To Victory!' Putin concluded in his speech.
As the Russian President's address came to a close, cheers rang out across Red Square, with a gun salute and the Russian national anthem, though with a much slimmed down show of military hardware - and no aviation.
And in a stark contrast to previous years which have seen Moscow roll out its latest and most sophisticated war machines, today saw just a single tank took part - a Second World War-era T-34.
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The Fulda Gap represented the shortest route (through the cities of either Fulda or Giessen) from the border between East Germany and West Germany to the Rhine River. Throughout the Cold War, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Warsaw Pact military forces remained heavily concentrated in the area.
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...And that tank - I kid you not - was a single T-34.
The old parade units used to have even fairly recently a company or so's worth of tanks, but it was understood that these were strictly showpieces; with a lot of equipment missing or mocked up, not to mention those gorgeous parade colors. Would love to have been a fly on the wall when those showed up at the front...
[ZERO] 99-year old Henry Kissinger has raised eyebrows among the Washington establishment which has long revered him, this time once again with some unexpected commentary on the Ukraine war.
He said in a fresh interview with CBS News' Ted Koppel which aired Sunday that he sees China has being a positive force for bringing peace between Russia and Ukraine. "Now that China has entered the negotiation, it will come to a head, I think, by the end of the year," the former Secretary of State said. "We will be talking about negotiating processes and even actual negotiations."
Newsweek summarized some of the remarks by saying "he believes the Russia-Ukraine war is coming to a turning point and expects negotiations by the end of the year thanks to recent efforts made by China."
This is in reference to China's 12-point peace plan, as well as the fact that President Xi Jinping joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a one-hour phone call in April. This after Xi's trip to Moscow where he met with Putin.
Also interesting is that the elderly diplomat offered his services:
Kissinger also told Koppel that he believes both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin would speak with him if he telephoned them.
When asked by Koppel if he would meet with Putin in Moscow if asked to do so by a president, the retired diplomat said: "I would be inclined to do it, yes. But I would be an adviser, not an active person."
Both Ukraine and the US have on different occasions rebuffed China's plan. In March Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba described it as a ploy to allow Moscow time to strengthen its forces.
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Kissinger also told Koppel that he believes both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Putin would speak with him if he telephoned them.
Of course they would take his call. The odious monster is an old and trusted friend. His negotiation and peacekeeping prowess in Vietnam are legendary.
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The war must not be allowed to end. The military-industrial complex is making a mint, the DC deep state is making a mint, and it's supremely beneficial to the powerful.
Even if Kissinger pulls it off, they'll just start a new war somewhere else.
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[LB] There are wounded civilians.
Iryna Lysohor
The Rosin attacked the Kyiv region with drones that night. Air defense was working. No hits were recorded. Previously, as a result of falling debris, the grass in several communities of the region was overgrown. The fires have been extinguished. A car was damaged. Power lines were damaged in one of the communities. There are no casualties, according to the message from OVA as of this morning.
In the city of Kyiv, as a result of falling debris, houses and objects of social infrastructure were damaged in several districts. There are victims.
In Sumy at night, the enemy carried out four shellings of the border. 23 explosions were recorded. Settlements of Seredino-Budska, Znob-Novgorodska, and Novoslobidska communities were shelled. Seredyno-Budsk community: shelling from barrel artillery (20 explosions) on Staraya Huta. Two households, a school building, and a tractor were damaged. There was an airstrike in the Znob-Novgorod community, three civilians were wounded, and non-residential premises were destroyed.
Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 16 shelling of the border. 106 explosions were recorded. Settlements of Krasnopilska, Velikopysarivska, Znob-Novgorodska, Esmanska, Seredino-Budska, Novoslobidaska, Bilopolska, Yunakivska communities were shelled.
There were 14 shellings per day in Chernihiv , Novgorod-Siversky, Chernihiv districts. Shelling from mortars, launching of rockets from helicopters, from artillery, guided aerial bombs from an airplane were recorded. One of the settlements of the Chernihiv district is without electricity due to damage, in Novgorod-Siversky, a hangar was damaged by the impact of a guided air bomb. No victims.
In Zaporizhzhia, 21 peaceful settlements withstood 99 blows. The Russians conducted 89 artillery barrages, seven from MLRS, two from aviation and one from UAVs. Gulyaipole, Novodanilivka, Tavriyske, and Novoyakovlivka came under fire again. There are new destructions. A family was injured in Komyshuvas: a woman born in 1952. and husband born in 1982 And in Stepovo, a man born in 1957 was injured.
In Dnipropetrovsk , a 43-year-old man was injured as a result of yesterday's shelling of Nikopol. The enemy hit the city with heavy artillery. A gas station, a transport company, a power line, cars and trucks were mutilated. The night passed without shelling.
In Luhansk, the enemy fired 97 rounds (415 shells) during the day. The enemy attacked to the south of Bilogorivka, namely near Spirny. Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Nevske, and Bilogorivka were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling.
In Donetsk, the enemy fired 24 times during the day: Geran-2 UAV, artillery, Grad anti-aircraft missile defense system, tank, rockets (type not established). 14 settlements were shelled: Druzhkivka, Komar, Chasiv Yar, Semenivka, Nelipivka, Kurakhove, Shcherbynivka township, Velyka Novosilka township, Petrivka township, Katerynivka village, Zoryanye, Avdiivka township, New York township, Kramatorsk.
A total of 16 residential buildings (three of them multi-apartment buildings), a market, five garages, an NKMZ shop, and a furniture shop were damaged. In the region, two wounded per day.
In Kharkivskain the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy carried out mortar and artillery attacks on the settlements of Uda, Vovchansk, Pletenivka, Bochkove, Mala Vovcha, Nesterne, Budarki, and Stroivka. In the direction of Kupyansk, the enemy carried out airstrikes on the areas of Hryanivikka and Vilshan settlements. The settlements of Krasne Pershe, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Zapadne, Liman Pershey and Berestov were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling.
Yesterday morning, the enemy shelled the town of Balakliya, Izyum district, the territory of VCh-1352, the arsenal, the fleet, and the military town. The S300 missile hit was previously recorded. Six people were injured. A 52-year-old paramedic of the emergency medical team, who was working on the spot, was injured during the second rocket attack (previously S300) on the city of Balaklia. He did not need hospitalization.
In the village At least three private houses and a car were damaged in Vovchanski Khutory of Chuguyiv district. Yesterday, near the village of Bugaivka of the Chuguyiv district detonated charges (cassette rocket launchers). The victim is a 67-year-old woman. Hospitalized in moderate condition.
The enemy launched a missile attack on Odesa from strategic aviation planes. X-22 rockets were directed at the warehouse of one of the food enterprises and at the recreation area on the Black Sea coast. Information about the victims is being verified.
In Khersonskaduring the day, the enemy carried out 42 shellings (282 shells), of which seven (19 shells) were fired at Kherson. Areas of 21 settlements of the region were affected by enemy fire. Among them are Mykhailivka, Zolota Balka, Havrylivka, Antonivka, Kozatske, Vesele. Dniprovske, Youth, Engineering, Kherson. Enemy aviation continues to destroy Kizomys of the Belozersk community. Five "arrivals" of guided aerial bombs were recorded.
As a result of the impact, the gas pipeline and about seven local houses were damaged, three of them were completely destroyed. There were no casualties. Russian artillery also struck near the village of Yantarne, injuring a 62-year-old woman. A Russian mine blew up a tractor in Vysokopolsk community. The tragedy happened in a field near the village of Olhyne. While cultivating the land, a 54-year-old man ran over an anti-tank mine left by the Russian army. Now doctors are fighting for his life. In just one day, two civilians were injured due to Russian aggression. Seven people were evacuated from the de-occupied territory of the region.
We will remind you that this night the Russians released 35 attack drones over Kyiv and the region . All were destroyed by anti-aircraft defenses.
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[Vesti] May 8 is the 439th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, losses, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
07:00 . Russia has once again massively attacked Ukraine - 35 strike UAVs attacked peaceful cities from the north. All drones have been destroyed.
Odessa region. Around midnight, the Russians attacked the Odessa region from Tu-22m3 bombers . A total of eight launches were carried out from the Crimea. Some of the missiles were shot down. The Russians hit the warehouse of one of the food enterprises and the recreation area on the Black Sea coast. There are no data on casualties yet.
08:00 . Kyiv region. As a result of a night attack on Kiev, five people were injured . In the Svyatoshinsky district, fragments of an UAV fell, damaging the facade of a residential building and a car. In the Solomensky district, a diesel fuel tank and cars in a parking lot were damaged. Also in the capital, probably due to debris, a gas pipe was damaged - a fire broke out, which has already been extinguished.
09:00 . Kharkov region. During the day, Russia launched air and missile strikes, fired artillery and mortars at the settlements of Kharkov, Kupyansky, Chuguevsky and Izyum regions. Seven civilians injured.
Donetsk region. At night, the Russians fired six missiles at the industrial zone of Kramatorsk - without casualties. Two civilians injured.
Kherson region. Russia fired 42 times at peaceful settlements in the Kherson region, firing 282 shells from artillery, MLRS, mortars, tanks and aircraft. During the day, two people were injured.
10:00 a.m. Odessa region. As a result of a missile attack on the Odessa region, three warehouse workers received minor injuries, they were treated on the spot. One person is considered missing, rescue work continues.
11:00 am . Odessa region. In the Odessa region, under the rubble of a warehouse destroyed as a result of an attack, they got the body of a security guard. Previously, he was considered missing.
12:00 . Kherson region. A 54-year-old woman, wounded during the shelling of Kherson on May 3, died in the hospital. The number of those killed as a result of massive shelling in the Kherson region that day increased to 24 people.
13:00 . Kherson region. The Russian army hit Antonovka: two people were injured - a 67-year-old woman and a 42-year-old head of the district. They were hospitalized. As a result of the shelling of Stanislav, 6 people were injured , including a child.
14:00 . Odessa region. In Odessa, a Russian rocket destroyed a Red Cross humanitarian aid depot. The fire completely destroyed the humanitarian aid that was in the warehouse. The work of the organization in the region was suspended.
15:00 . Nikolaevkskaya area. Due to rocket attacks on May 7, the mobile hospital of the Nikolaev regional organization of the KX was damaged. Part of the medical equipment, technical facilities and furniture that was there became unsuitable for further use. At present, the liquidation of the consequences of the shelling is underway. Over time, the hospital will work as usual, but in a different location.
16:00 . Odessa region. According to preliminary information, the shelling in the region was carried out by X-22 cruise missiles.
17:55 . In Odessa, the commander of a branch of one of the military units posed as a military commissar. For $2,500, he promised to make documents for the military man so that he could go abroad. After receiving a bribe, the commander was detained.
18:27 . Poland transferred 10 MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Defense Mariusz Blashak
18:49 . Ukraine's downing of the Kh-47 Kinzhal missile by the American Patriot indicates that this weapon has more noise than hypersonics. The Jerusalem Post writes about it.
19:20 . The Berlin Administrative Court upheld the complaint of the local police and banned the May 9 demonstration of Russian flags and symbols.
19:54 . In the Odessa region, as a result of Russian shelling on the night of May 8, a recreation center in the Belgorod-Dnestrovsky district was destroyed. This is reported by the prosecutor's office of the region. Five neighboring bases and more than 20 private country houses were damaged.
20:30 . Russia Sends Museum Pieces to War in Ukraine - CNN. We are talking about tanks of the T-55 model, which were first adopted by the Red Army of the Soviet Union in 1948. Satellite images taken April 21-22 show that Russia was moving dozens of tanks from a warehouse at a base in Arsenyev in the country's Far East. They show that one of the tanks stored at the base is the T-55.
21:00 . The Russians launched a missile attack on the Pavlogradsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region . This was announced by the head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk
21:26 . In the temporarily occupied Skadovsk and several villages of the Kherson region, there is a curtailment of the activities of the occupation administrations. This is stated in the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:47 . Explosions are reported in Kharkov. Information is being verified
22:14 . The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published a video of the air defense operation during the drone attack on Kyiv on the night of May 8. According to the mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko, Russian troops launched about 60 drones in Ukraine at night, 36 of them flew to Kyiv. All drones were shot down.
22:48 . Zakhar Prilepin's health condition remains stable, but he is still in the hospital, according to Russian media, citing his press secretary. The victim Prilepin also stated that the fact of the assassination attempt would not affect his activities and the decision to serve under the contract.
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[Korrespondent] 22:29 The Russians fired at Kharkov and the region with S-300 missiles. According to preliminary information, at least six hits were recorded, including in the Kharkiv region. Information about the victims and the scale of destruction is being specified, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
22:24 In Melitopol, the Russian military dress up in civilian clothes and try to leave under the guise of evacuation, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov. According to him, because of this, the occupiers check the cars of evacuees in search of disguised military men. Fedorov also said that Russian passports were taken away from those who participated in the pseudo-referendum in the fall, certificates were issued instead of them, and everyone was told to leave the city, but they did not say where exactly.
22:06 Zelensky spoke about the meetings he held on Monday, May 8. In particular, this is a meeting with the Minister for Strategic Industries, Alexander Kamyshin, regarding ammunition. "There is good news on this score. Of course, now is not the time to make it public," the president added.
The head of state also said that he had held a meeting on demining in Ukraine: “As of now, more than 170 thousand square kilometers of our territory are contaminated with unexploded mines and ammunition. deal with such a threat. We must do it much faster."
Another meeting concerned the development of a "fundamental, new concept of security" for Ukraine. "We will provide comprehensive answers to all issues of the country's security. At the legislative level, at the level of government decisions, in specific practical issues ... From border protection to new security conditions for schools, from the infrastructure foundations of economic security to the real possibility of guaranteeing our people such protection from terror which the most advanced states of the world have," Zelensky said.
21:57 Zelensky said in an evening video message that at today's meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the reports of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Alexander Litvinenko were "particularly thorough and very relevant". "Based on them, we will take certain steps - steps that will strengthen our defense," the president added.
21:08 The main pride of the Russian defense industry could not stand the meeting with the American Patriot complex under the control of the Ukrainian military. About how Ukraine shot down the Dagger - in the material Impossible is possible .
21:02 The draft of the 11th package of EU sanctions against Russia involves a ban on access to European ports for ships trying to circumvent already imposed restrictions on Russian oil, writes Bloomberg.
20:31 The European Commission welcomes Ukraine's decision to celebrate Europe Day on May 9 instead of Victory Day, said Dana Spinant, spokeswoman for the EC press service: "We welcome Ukraine's decision to celebrate Europe Day on May 9 - this is a reflection of the European identity of the Ukrainian people."
20:23 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Pavlograd district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. According to preliminary data, the enemy released Iskander at the Mezhirich community. The consequences are being clarified, people were not injured, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk.
19:42 Lukashenka also arrived in Moscow on the eve of the May 9 parade, Russian media report.
19:20 Poland handed over ten MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said.
19:18 The SBU warned that on May 9, it would carry out counter-sabotage measures in one of the districts of Kharkiv. Their goal is to increase the safety of the civilian population, strengthen the security of critical infrastructure facilities, as well as identify and detain possible sabotage groups. In the course of counter-sabotage measures, it is possible to restrict passage or travel along some streets of the city, check the documents of citizens, and inspect motor vehicles.
18:57 In Skadovsk, Kherson region, the district and city administrations have stopped working. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of May 7, the invaders loaded documents, office equipment and other property of state institutions into cars, and in the morning a significant part of the Russian occupation administration left the city with their families. A similar situation is observed in other settlements of the region - such as Mikhailovka, Petrovka, Shevchenko, Shirokoe, Ulyanivka and Krasnoe.
Given the many kilometers of traffic jams that have recently formed at the entrance to the Crimea and in the area of the Kerch bridge, the Russians plan to export documents and stolen property from state institutions of the Kherson region by sea using a dry cargo ship through the port of Berdyansk.
18:39 The Russians are planning to establish the production of Shahed drones in Belarus, reports the Center for National Resistance under the MTR, citing information from the Belarusian underground. In order to organize such production, the Gomel Radio Plant was visited by a working group consisting of Iranian engineers, organized by the FSB of the Russian Federation and the KGB of the Republic of Belarus. Earlier, the underground reported that drones were being completed on the basis of the Gomel plant.
18:03 The number of wounded as a result of the Russian strike on the village of Stanislav in the Kherson region has grown to ten people, including a nine-year-old child, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
17:39 The office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights and representatives of the State Duma of the Russian Federation began joint activities on monitoring visits to places of detention of civilians from both sides and the transfer of sets of essential items to them, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said.
He said that on April 23, the Russians visited Ukrainian citizens in places of detention in the Lugansk region (17 people), and representatives of the Office of the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights made a visit on May 3 together with the NGO Nadezhda and handed over the previously agreed set of essential items to 17 accused who are being held on the territory of Ukraine. Lubinets expressed hope that this practice would lead to the unblocking of the procedure for the release of civilian hostages and convicts.
17:18 Pushilin signed a "decree" according to which three days a year Donetsk will be called "Stalino": May 9, June 22 (Day of Sorrow and Commemoration of the Memory of War Victims), September 8 (Day of the Liberation of Donbass from German troops).
17:04 Eight new UAV strike companies are ready for battle - pickup trucks, impact copters and FPV drones were handed over to them, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said. He specified that the drones for the Army of Drones were purchased within the framework of the UNITED24 platform and at the expense of the state budget. All drones are Ukrainian made. The minister also said that the three strike companies that were launched a few months ago already have successful results at the front.
16:27 Journalists of the Sistema NV project and Radio Liberty called the phone numbers of PMC Wagner under the guise of wanting to sign up as "volunteers". They found out that they were ready to take on the "service" people with an outstanding criminal record, who are wanted, with a Nazi tattoo.
At the same time, recruitment continues not only in Ukraine, but also in Africa. Recruiters admitted that in Africa "the survival rate is better." The journalists were directly told that "the Ukrainian prize will be spent by relatives, and the African one - by himself."
15:58 The presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, as well as the Prime Minister of Armenia, will come to Putin for the traditional parade on May 9, Russian media reported.
15:51 After receiving the promised equipment from Western partners, Ukraine will have one of the best air defense systems in the world, Yuriy Ignat, speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said: "We will have one of the best air defense systems when we get everything that our partners promised us and replace a completely old fleet of Soviet equipment: both air defense systems and an aviation platform. At the same time, he added that F-16 fighters are also needed for this.
15:16 As a result of night rocket attacks on civilian and tourist infrastructure in Odessa and Belgorod-Dnestrovsky districts, a recreation center was completely destroyed, and at least five neighboring bases and more than 20 private country houses were damaged, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
15:09 Russia again actually stopped the work of the grain initiative, refusing to register ships for entry and conduct their inspections. According to the Ministry of Reconstruction, such a destructive policy of the Russian Federation makes it impossible to draw up an inspection plan in accordance with the procedures of the coordinating center, which provide for the daily coordination by all parties of the inspection plan, both at the exit and at the entrance.
As of May 8, 90 ships are awaiting inspection in the territorial waters of Turkey, of which 62 are ships going for loading. Inspections of both incoming and outgoing fleets are suspended. The export of Ukrainian agricultural products through the grain corridor in April did not even reach 3 million tons.
15:05 Last week, the European Commission sent proposals to EU member states on the 11th package of sanctions against Russia, said EC Speaker Eric Mamer. According to him, on Wednesday, May 10, the first discussion of a new package of sanctions is expected at a meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives.
14:57 An investigation by a group of European publications found that Moscow is trying to conduct an influence operation in European countries in order to worsen relations between Turkey and the EU, as well as weaken support for Ukraine. According to documents obtained by journalists, the Russian special services actively set to work after anti-Turkish protests in Sweden and Denmark against the backdrop of Ankara blocking the entry of these countries into NATO. Russia saw this as an additional opportunity to embroil the allies.
In particular, the Russian secret services offered to organize actions that would further aggravate the situation, such as burning the Turkish flag and portraits of Erdogan in The Hague, a campaign with offensive graffiti against Erdogan in major European cities. It follows from the documents that some of these staged actions were organized with hired "protesters", and in some cases they were also used against Ukraine.
So, in one of the documents it is noted that the demonstration on March 5 in Paris was staged. Allegedly, "representatives of the Ukrainian community" unfurled an anti-Turkish banner and shouted "stop Erdogan" at the camera. This video then appeared on Facebook and YouTube. The purpose of the provocation was to “show the ingratitude” of Ukrainians and alleged indifference to catastrophic earthquakes in Turkey, “to emphasize the destructive nature of pro-Ukrainian activists and Ukrainian society under Zelensky’s rule as a whole.”
14:28 In Odessa, as a result of a nighttime missile attack and a fire in a warehouse, the humanitarian aid of the Red Cross completely burned down, the organization reported.
Besides, objects of the Red Cross in the Nikolaev area suffered also - the organization's mobile hospital is damaged there. As a result, part of the medical equipment, technical facilities and furniture became unsuitable for further use.
13:53 The Russians hit the village of Stanislav in the Kherson region - six people were injured, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. Among the wounded is a nine-year-old child.
13:39 Peskov said that Budanov's words about the murder of Russians confirm the correctness of Putin's decision to start "SVO". According to him, Moscow will "closely monitor" the reaction of the capitals to such statements, including the United States, and "wait for condemnation."
Earlier, Budanov, in an interview with journalists, refused to confirm or deny information about the alleged involvement of the Ukrainian special services in the elimination of a number of Russian public apologists for the war against Ukraine, and said only that "we killed Russians and will kill Russians anywhere in the world until the complete victory of Ukraine."
13:34 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will arrive in Kiev on Europe Day, May 9, to meet with Zelensky, the press service of the EC reported.
13:23 The Russians hit Antonovka, Kherson region, two people were injured, the OVA reported.
12:51 Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the presidential press service reported. Among other things, the participants discussed the impact of the recent air attacks and the possibilities for strengthening the protection of the population and civilian and critical infrastructure. Separately, we heard a report on the supply of artillery ammunition and rockets of all types for the needs of the Ukrainian army this year.
12:33 Prigozhin's statements about the alleged "shell shortage" are due to the fact that he cannot fulfill his obligations, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Cherevaty: "He assumed military obligations, is not able to fulfill them, including the capture of Bakhmut, and comes up with this nonsense about shell hunger. According to him, in fact, Prigozhin's main problem is the loss of personnel and the inability to replenish it.
12:24 Ukraine has nothing to do with the "attack" of drones on the Kremlin, and there is no point in wasting time and effort on this, Andrei Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. And this event certainly cannot be interpreted as an attempt on Putin, as Russian propaganda very quickly filed, he added.
"What was it? It could be different scenarios - from the activity of local resistance forces to showdowns between the "towers" of the Kremlin. Because in any case, if this is interpreted as an internal Russian confrontation (and it is), then this is an event that works to delegitimize the Putin regime and shows that he is not in control of the situation... When we talk about the Kremlin, we must remember that it has different "towers" and different people live in them, often with different, and sometimes even opposing interests , so the inhabitants of certain "towers" could well be involved in this," Yusov believes.
11:46 Night attack by drones did not cause damage to the main energy infrastructure of Ukraine, Ukrenergo reported. However, due to Russian shelling along the front line and shelling of border areas, distribution networks in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy and Chernihiv regions have again been damaged.
Electricity production fully covers consumption. Exports to Moldova continue at night and daytime, and exports to Poland have also resumed today. There is no import to Ukraine.
11:42 In the Kherson region on May 6, nine pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service were killed during demining, and several more people were injured. The cause of the tragedy was not the negligence or lack of professionalism of the sappers, but the work of Russian intelligence. For more details, see the material The death of sappers in Chernobaevka: what is known .
11:36 The death toll due to the Russian strike on Kherson on May 3 rose to 24 - one of the victims died in the hospital, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
11:31 Prigozhin's statements about the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are, in particular, part of the preparation of the Russian elites for defeat in the war, Andrei Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine: "People like Prigozhin, if he says something, then speaks not only on his own behalf, but also on behalf of his partners, patrons, who allow such statements.Part of the Russian so-called political, power elite are considering various scenarios, including planning some kind of life after Putin, after the defeat in the war with Ukraine. Therefore, they are preparing for various apocalyptic (and in fact - realistic) scenarios for Russia."
Yusov called Prigozhin's statement about the withdrawal of the Wagnerites from Bakhmut a preparation for a "search for the extreme" in the future - in this way he wants to absolve himself of responsibility.
11:22 As a result of a missile attack on the Odessa region, a warehouse guard was killed, Natalia Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. Earlier it was reported that three people were injured, one is missing.
11:07 Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalyn called the war in Ukraine a war between Russia and the West: "This is a war between the Russian Federation and the West, this is Cold War 2.0. Russia offered the West to build a new security architecture 30 years after the Cold War, but no agreement was reached."
In his opinion, for Ukraine the war will not end with "getting any positional gains", but it will end "due to a new security agreement between the two global blocs." At the same time, Kalyn added that as long as the parties have no desire to negotiate, they want to fight - he came to this conclusion after talking with Putin in Moscow.
10:46 The 11th package of EU sanctions against Russia is planned to include seven companies from China, writes the Financial Times, citing a copy of the sanctions list. It included two companies from mainland China - 3HC Semiconductors and King-Pai Technology, as well as five companies from Hong Kong - Sinno Electronics, Sigma Technology, Asia Pacific Links, Tordan Industry and Alpha Trading Investments. Some of them have already come under US sanctions for supplying Russia with electronics for the military-industrial complex.
Prior to this, the European Union avoided sanctions against China because they allegedly did not see evidence of arms supplies to Russia. The restrictions require unanimous approval by all 27 EU member states before they go into effect.
10:35 Russia has once again launched a massive strike with missiles and drones on Ukraine. As a result, Kiev and Odessa regions suffered the most. At the same time, the air defense forces showed very good work. About the restless night that the Russians "organized" for us - in the material At gunpoint Kiev and Odessa .
10:23 British intelligence writes that Russia is actively recruiting labor migrants from Central Asia for the war in Ukraine. In particular, Russian recruiters visit mosques and immigration offices. Radio Free Europe reports that recruiters are offering signup bonuses of $2,390 and salaries up to $4,160 per month. Migrants are also offered accelerated acquisition of Russian citizenship: from six months to a year instead of five years.
Intelligence notes that in this way the Russian Defense Ministry is trying to fulfill the plan to attract 400 thousand people for the war in Ukraine. The Russian authorities are keen to delay any new open mandatory mobilization as long as possible in order to minimize domestic discontent, analysts say.
09:54 In the Sumy region, Russians fired at the settlements of the Seredino-Budskaya, Znob-Novgorod and Novoslobodskaya communities at night. A school, non-residential premises and private households were damaged, three people were injured, OK Pivnich reported.
09:50 "Authorities" of Transnistria appealed to Russia with a request to increase the military contingent in the region "taking into account the growth of security risks." The representative of Pridnestrovie in the Russian Federation, Leonid Manakov, recalled that initially the Russian contingent consisted of six motorized rifle battalions, but in 1995 Moscow decided to reduce its number to two battalions, that is, to 450 people. At the same time, the regular number of "peacekeepers" is 3,100 people, Manakov said. In his opinion, the military contingent can be increased at the expense of the Russians living in Pridnestrovie.
09:46 As of the morning of May 8, Odessa rescuers extinguished a fire that broke out after a X-22 missile hit one of the logistics infrastructure warehouses located in the Odessa region. Three people, warehouse workers, received minor injuries, another person is considered missing, operational and rescue work continues, said the head of the Odessa regional military administration, Yuriy Kruk.
09:29 After the announcement of "evacuation" from the occupied settlements of the Zaporozhye region, the Russians are transporting heavy equipment and air defense systems to Mariupol for the second day, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city. In particular, today the movement of tanks and air defense systems from the Berdyansk direction towards the MMK im. Ilyich and Novoazovsky district.
09:08 Zelensky said that he had submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada, which proposes to establish May 8 as the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945: "We are returning to our state an honest history without ideological impurities. It is on May 8 that most peoples of the world remembers the greatness of the victory over Nazism. It is on May 8 that the world honors the memory of all whose lives were claimed by that war. It was on May 8 that the Act of Unconditional Surrender of the Wehrmacht came into force. "
He also compared World War II with Russia's current war against Ukraine: "Just as we destroyed evil together then, so now we are destroying similar evil together. Unfortunately, evil has returned. Although the aggressor is now different, he has the same goal - enslavement or destruction And just as then we relied on the common strength of free peoples, so now we are fighting against evil together with the free world, together with free Europe."
Zelensky also signed a decree according to which every year from tomorrow, May 9, "we will honor our historical unity - the unity of all Europeans who destroyed Nazism and defeat rashism." He recalled that many years ago a tradition was established on the European continent to celebrate the Day of Europe on May 9 in order to celebrate the achieved peace and unity. "Today, unity on our continent brings us closer to the celebration of the first day of our peace. And it would be right to celebrate Europe Day together with all free Europe," the President stressed.
08:56 As a result of yesterday's missile attack on the town of Balakliya, Izyumsky district, Kharkiv region, seven people were injured, the territory of the car park was damaged, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Also, one person was injured as a result of Russian shelling with. Bugaevka, Chuguevsky district.
In the Donetsk and Kherson regions, two people were wounded over the past day, according to the IVA.
08:38 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 8.
personnel - about 194,970 (+540) people liquidated,
tanks - 3730 (+7),
armored combat vehicles - 7253 (+5),
artillery systems - 3018 (+8),
MLRS - 554 (+0),
air defense systems - 306 (+0),
aircraft - 308 (+0),
helicopters - 294 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2614 (+42),
cruise missiles - 947 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5958 (+6),
special equipment - 384 (+4).
08:19 The Russian army is concentrating its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions, there are heavy battles for Bakhmut and Maryinka. Over the past day, 55 enemy attacks were repulsed in the indicated sectors of the front, the General Staff reported in the morning report.
The invaders are "evacuating" local residents from the occupied Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, in the direction of Berdyansk. Representatives of the so-called local "authorities", collaborators, children, teachers and educators are being evacuated. At the same time, parents are threatened not to count the academic year in case of refusal to "evacuate" the child. There are queues for fuel at the gas station, all drivers have been informed that no new deliveries are planned.
In the village of Vesele, Zaporozhye region, the local "police" department is closed and does not work. The day before, the occupiers destroyed documentation there.
07:31 At night, the Russians attacked the Odessa region from Tu-22m3 long-range bombers. In total, there were eight launches of X-22 missiles from the area of Cape Tarkhankut in Crimea, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk. Some of the missiles did not reach their targets, some hit the warehouse of the food company and the recreational area on the coast. There are no data on casualties.
07:17 At night, the Russians fired 35 Shahed-136/131 attack drones in the Kiev region, all of them were shot down, the Air Force command reported. The UAVs attacked from the northern direction - from the Sescha airfield in the Bryansk region.
07:04 At night, more than 30 enemy drones were detected and destroyed in the airspace of Kiev, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko. According to preliminary information, in the Svyatoshinsky district, cars and a residential building were damaged due to falling debris, in the Solomensky district, a tank (5 tons) with a diesel fuel leak was damaged, without ignition. A residential building, cars, and a high-pressure gas pipe were also damaged. Five people are injured.
03:59 The United States does not doubt the veracity of Ukraine's statement about the successful use of the Patriot air defense system to intercept the Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile and regards this as an important event, CNN reports citing sources. The publication notes that although the Patriot air defense system successfully counters ballistic missiles, its ability to stop air-launched hypersonic missiles has recently been theoretical, and the Kinzhal interception in Ukraine has actually demonstrated this ability.
The fact that the interception was carried out by Ukrainian crew trained in Oklahoma but without American advisers on the battlefield is considered a significant return on investment by the Pentagon.
02:36 The Russians attacked Kiev with drones: as a result of the fall of debris in the Solomensky and Svyatoshinsky districts, five people were injured, Klitschko said.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:03 Moscow airports are taking new security measures amid a sharp increase in reports of unauthorized drone flights -informsTAS. 22:51 There is information that APU completed preparations for a strike on the southern front.
20:27 Video- A special forces soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went to pee and was destroyed along with the unit.
On the southern front, a pissing saboteur of the Armed Forces of Ukraine betrayed his position, our intelligence discovered him and destroyed the position along with the entire group.
The hunt for UAF fighters on the southern front continues: the fighters are setting up positions, firing points and observation posts in houses near the line of contact, but our scouts are watching them.
20:02 Video- How we eliminated and sent into space the enemy and his opornik last night.
19:33 In the meantime, people around the world will celebrate Victory over the fascists, Nazi invaders in the Second World War and honor their heroes who stopped the Nazi and fascist hydra, Hitler's Germany - in Dnepropetrovsk they open the "Course of the young Bandera".
Dnepropetrovsk information publications write about it with pride. For example, city.dp.ua,
“A new project is being implemented at NTU “Dniprovska Polytechnic”. “This course will provide answers to pressing questions. And also to understand how you can be useful to Ukraine in this difficult period.”
There are no words. What are you doing? And why not open a young Satanist club for children and an LGBT club to boot? Then everything would be perfect...
Why don't the organizers of this club tell what the accomplice of the Nazis, the Nazis, Bandera, did against Ukraine? How they killed, chopped, hanged, raped, shot their relatives, because they were Jews, Poles, Russians, communists. This was very recently.
If you are such “wide” patriots, then tell the children the real truth, and do not teach them about Nazism and its glorification.
When will denazification, these organizers under the tribunal!
Since their activity is very dangerous, they distort history, destroy historical memory, putting hatred for their brothers, for people, Russians, into children's minds.
And what can be expected from the authorities of the Dnieper, who themselves glorify Bandera.
19:29 When Ukraine will lose war, and the last American plane will leave Boryspil with Nazis clinging to its chassis, we will see Trukhanov and Shariy changing shoes in the air. I'll just write it down so I can remember later.
18:32 In Bakhmut destroyed The Nazi killer, sentenced for brutal murder for 15 years and released by Zelensky,
Viktor Panasko “Iranian” was an ideological neo-Nazi from the “Right Sector *” and the National Corps.
The fascist participated in the first battle of the “Right Sector*” against the militias near Sloviansk in April 2014.
In 2019, Panasco stabbed a man in a fight and sat down for 15 years. In 2022, the Nazi killer was released from prison and sent to fight.
18:30 In the course of a long and persistent surveillance of the movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Velikaya Novoselka, our guys have figured out the point of temporary deployment of the enemy on the lower floors in one of the high-rise buildings -video
The fools thought they were well hidden, but the 500-kg UMPC decided otherwise
Zaporozhye direction
17:28 Neo-Nazis prepared series of provocative images. Photos of Hitler, Nazi criminals and Ukrainian terrorists are inserted as part of the events traditional for the Immortal Regiment action.
They will actively throw in the comments of patriotic communities today and tomorrow. Be carefull
17:26 In Zaporozhye, the Russian 122mm BM-21 “Grad” washed away the echelon of Nazi equipment —video
An echelon of equipment of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell under the Russian 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" near Orekhovo.
16:29 Destruction of neo-Nazis by the crew of the loitering ammunition "Lancet" of the Ivanovo Airborne Forces unit. This is the maneuverability of the Lancet -video
16:27 In Bakhmut denazified commander of the “Azov*” department Dmitry Yudenko from the Poltava region.
As part of the Nazi organization, the militant has been fighting since 2014.
In Poltava, the Nazi created the Unity and Brotherhood paramilitary movement, which trained volunteers for the war in the Donbass.
15:43 Meanwhile, mass graves of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in full swing in Ukraine -video
The policy of the West to “fight to the last Ukrainian” is being steadily implemented
Unfortunately, the realization of the "stupefaction" of the population by the leadership of Ukraine comes to the Ukrainian resident only with the loss of his loved ones
15:41 Highlights new Briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
Russian troops destroyed up to 70 Ukrainian soldiers in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
The RF Armed Forces inflicted defeat on units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Krasny and Bogdanovka, Stupochek and Chasov Yar in the DPR;
The troops of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 70 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoliman direction in a day;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Verkhnekamensky and Kramatorsk in the DPR;
Over 380 Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries were killed in the Donetsk direction in a day;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv region struck a warehouse with weapons and military equipment of a group of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
Russian air defense systems destroyed 15 drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day.
14:17 “Bakhmut is on fire. Fuck our boys here ”:“ the road of death ”of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is replenished with piles of destroyed military equipment -video
The VSUshnik showed a bunch of different military equipment from T-64BV tanks, armored personnel carriers, MT-LB, BTS-4 tractors, armored vehicles and many different vehicles.
The road to Bakhmut through the settlement Krasnoe/Ivanovskoye under the fire control of our troops.
14:10 Russian troops, along the entire front line, continue to work on the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from all cannon artillery of various calibers, leaving them no chance -video
13:52 Denazification in action -video
“Estimate, in this car 16 people died ... and six three wounded”
13:31 In the Lviv region Nazis "defeated" another monument to the Soviet soldier: the history of the city requires attention
In Glinyany, a monument to a Soviet soldier was destroyed. Let us turn to the history of this city during the Great Patriotic War.
In 1939, 4,563 people lived in the city, including 1859 Jews (41%), 1573 Ukrainians (34%), 1121 Poles (25%) and 10 other nationalities. Almost all Jews and Poles were killed by Ukrainian nationalists during the Holocaust in 1941-1943.
The Soviet soldier liberated the city, saved the remaining inhabitants... However, today the Ukrainian nationalists, receiving aid from Poland and Israel, destroyed the monument.
12:47 Chubovoin came under fire, and a fragment of a mine flew into his leg. Denazification in actionvideo
12:46 Such a picture is now all over Ukraine -video
Because of Zelensky's criminal orders, every day Ukraine's cemeteries are replenished with fresh graves of those who refused to lay down their arms and raise their hands up.
12:00 Large-scale air raid announced in Ukraine
According to monitoring groups, the air raid is associated with the activity of a potential carrier of the Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, the MiG-31K.
11:27 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) through the eyes of the enemy -video
Assault units and artillerymen of PMC “Wagner” continue to hit positions and fight against the Nazis who had taken refuge in the city
11:10 Air Raid announced in Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, as well as areas controlled by Kyiv in Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
10:33 The Russian military opened and destroyed two Ukrainian DRGs and thwarted three attempts to rotate units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction.
This was announced by the head of the press center of the group of troops "West" Colonel Sergei Zybinsky.
10:30 Footage of the “heroic retreat” of Ukrainian militants from another building in the western districts of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) —video
This is how gradually, house by house, divisions of PMC “Wagner” liberate the city from the Ukrainian Nazis. Those who were lucky enough not to go to Bandera prefer to flee to save their skins.
09:32 Russian aviation destroyed enemy manpower and positions with guided bombs -video
The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the temporary deployment point and the manpower of the Ukrainian Nazis in the Avdiivka direction with air strikes
08:10 "Air raid sirens sounded at night in a number of Ukrainian regions. Local residents reported explosions in Kyiv, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Chernihiv regions. A warehouse of an industrial enterprise caught fire near Odessa, the arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the Zaporozhye region ”: One of the most massive missile strikes was carried out in Ukraine
08:04 In the battles for Bakhmut eliminated the head of the Kharkiv Children's Theater Dmitry Kravets, who chose the path of a militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:49 Video- Bahmut right now. 23:33 The outskirts of Konstantinovka (Donetsk region, occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine) was subjected to shelling from MLRS.
23:20 In Kharkiv and six Ukrainian regions explosions.
23:07 Russia raised in the air 8 strategic bombers TU-95.
23:04 Work “Geranium” fixed in the Zaporozhye region.
23:01 In Belgorod and the region, massive I let go "Iskanderov".
22:40 The head of the Belgorod region said that the Valuysky urban district is under shelling APU.
22:30 reported about explosions in Dnepropetrovsk.
22:25 Kharkiv local authorities confirmed six arrivals in the region.
22:20 Reported on the work of strategic and long-range aviation of the forces of the Russian army. An air alert has been declared in a number of regions of Ukraine.
22:15 Video- the work of the forces of the Russian army from Belgorod. An air alert has been declared in the Kharkiv region.
21:50 Fixed shelling from the VFU.
22:00 Video- The Russian army inflicts a new blow on enemy targets before the offensive: missiles hit objects in Kharkov
The eastern regions of Ukraine are covered by air alert.
21:21 Video- How will such robots react to enemy electronic warfare? A good thing is to leave the trench, shoot the ATGM and come back.
20:42 Video- The Russian soldier, to the last drop of blood, calmly holds the position from the superior airmen. Even after death, they are afraid to approach and first throw a grenade at him alone, but they themselves do not fit. Known to all for many centuries, the stamina and endurance in battle of Russian soldiers is still alive today, which the SVO regularly demonstrates.
20:25 Video- Dumps from the copter to the voices of the airmen.
20:02 Video– Launches of 122mm BM-21 Grad of the Eastern Military District against targets in the Zaporozhye region.
19:40 Video– Mowing the dryers out of their dugouts made in the forest belt.
19:26 Video- Sad vushniki in Bakhmut under fire.
19:12 Video- In the Belogorovka area, the artillery of the 4th Brigade of the Donetsk 2nd Army Corps contributed to the negative growth in the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:54 Video- The Russian army is ready to hold back the onslaught of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, - Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region Evgeny Balitsky.
Evgeny Balitsky's statements:
- About 3,000 residents of the Zaporozhye region have already been relocated from the shelled front-line cities deep into the region;
– There is no need to export residents of the Zaporozhye region to other regions of Russia;
– Units are suspended at Zaporozhye NPP to avoid provocations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
18:38 Video– Reliable rear of Russian troops.
The commander of the logistics unit with the call sign "Pskov" talks about the tasks that his personnel perform in the Zaporozhye direction. Among them: catering for soldiers and officers at the forefront, holding bath and laundry activities and supplying active troops with material resources.
The serviceman went to the zone of a special military operation at the call of his heart: “It was a voluntary decision, that is, a meaningful one. And accordingly, here, too, I arrived meaningfully. Because the Motherland must be protected. If not us, then who?
18:23 Video “The truth is with the local guys. They are reclaiming their lands, their homes!”
The call sign “Kazan” is the commander of a tank platoon of the 10th Nizhny Novgorod Tank Regiment, who repeatedly risked his life for the Donbass, for Russia, speaks proudly of the locals.
“The fact that we made our way forward - I am very happy for our guys, for the infantry!”
Get well soon heroic tanker!
18:00 Video- Attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the zone of the NWO.
17:39 Video– New footage of an airstrike on Ukrainian warehouses in Berislav on May 4th.
17:22 Video- Destruction of the Ukrainian 105mm howitzer L119, together with ammunition, during a counter-battery fight by Donetsk 2nd Army Corps artillery forces in the Seversky direction. Surveillance is conducted from the Zala drone.
17:08 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, units of the "Center" grouping of forces inflicted fire damage on the areas of concentration of manpower and firepower of the enemy.
- Bomber aircraft of the Russian grouping attacked strongholds and an ammunition depot of the enemy.
- Calculations of heavy flamethrower systems inflicted fire damage on the objects of the nationalists.
On the Nevsky site and in the area of Serebryansky forestry, the forces and means of intelligence of the Center group revealed the movement of personnel of 63 and 66 Mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 5th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. As a result of fire damage to aviation and artillery of the "Center" grouping, the enemy suffered losses in personnel.
16:52 Video- Russian artillerymen with 122mm D-30 howitzers, as well as 57mm S-60 autocannons, are hammering at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:33 Guards sergeant Nikolai Yarotskov is the driver of the BTR-82A armored personnel carrier.
In that video there are shots: what his “workplace” looks like. In such conditions, during an attack by enemy artillery, one needs iron self-control and real courage to take the combat vehicle out of the fire, saving himself and his comrades.
His Medal of Valor is a reminder to us of the risks our boys put themselves in fighting for our country.
16:20 Video “Meanwhile, mass graves of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in full swing in Ukraine.
The policy of the West “to fight to the last Ukrainian” is being steadily implemented.
Unfortunately, the realization of the "stupefaction" of the population by the leadership of Ukraine comes to the Ukrainian resident only with the loss of his close people.
16:01 Video- Artillerymen of the Southern Group of Forces are destroying enemy manpower in the Donetsk direction.
15:44 Video- The arrival of air bombs from the UMPC to the Armed Forces in the Avdeevsky direction.
15:30 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (05/08/2023)
- In the Kupyansk direction, air strikes, artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops hit units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoe, Stelmakhivka of the Luhansk People's Republic and Sinkovka of the Kharkiv region.
- In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka and Berestovoye of the Kharkiv region, the actions of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped.
During the day, up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, three tanks, five armored combat vehicles, seven vehicles, as well as a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed in this direction.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the group of forces "Center" defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, Terny, Torskoye and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
More than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, and two 152mm D-20 howitzers were destroyed.
- In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments continued to conduct an offensive in the western part of the city of Artemovsk of the Donetsk People's Republic. The airborne troops supported them and pinned down the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the flanks.
- The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Southern" group of forces hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoe, Bogdanovka, Stupochki and Chasov Yar of the Donetsk People's Republic. Over the past day, aviation carried out five sorties in this area, and the group's artillery completed 69 fire missions.
During the day, the enemy’s losses amounted to more than 380 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, one tank, four armored combat vehicles, six vehicles, a 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, two 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one 122mm D-30.
- Also, in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnekamenskoye and Kramatorsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, two ammunition depots of the 54th Mechanized and 80th Air Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, air strikes and artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Ugledar, Shevchenko, Vremevka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Malinovka, Marfopol, Belogorye and Novodanilovka of the Zaporozhye region.
During the day, up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, and a 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed in these areas.
- In addition, two ammunition depots of the 72nd Mechanized and 128th Mountain Assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Vodiane of the Donetsk People's Republic and Kirovo of the Zaporozhye region.
In the Kherson direction, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, seven vehicles, as well as a 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed as a result of fire damage.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation per day hit 96 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 107 districts.
- In the area of the settlement of Balakliya, Kharkiv region, a warehouse with weapons and military equipment of a group of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit.
- During the past day, 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense means in the areas of the settlements of Novovodyane, Kremennaya of the Luhansk People's Republic, Kirillovka, Petrivske, Yegorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vasilyevka of the Zaporizhia Region and Peschanivka of the Kherson Region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 418 aircraft, 230 helicopters, 4,042 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 anti-aircraft missile systems, 9,033 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,096 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,764 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 10,059 units of special military vehicles.
15:00 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the “South” group
- In the Lisichansk operational direction, the aviation of the "Southern" group of forces attacked the reconnaissance control point and the ammunition depot of the 81st mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Serebryanka.
The calculation of the multiple launch rocket system "Tornado-S" of the formation of the group "South" destroyed the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the enemy in the area of the settlement of Aleksandrovka. Also in this direction, missile strikes were carried out at the points of temporary deployment of 50th and 30th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlements of Druzhkovka and Chasov Yar.
- The forces of the assault and army aviation of the Southern Military District defeated the manpower of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vesyoloye and Bakhmut.
- Artillery units of the "Southern" group of troops carried out fire raids on the points of temporary deployment of 53rd and 110th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lastochkino and Avdievka.
Also in the Avdeevka direction, the enemy attempted to conduct reconnaissance in force. The assault group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was forced to retreat with losses.
- In the Verkhne-Toretsky area, the crew of the Osa-AKM anti-aircraft missile system destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the Fury type.
14:39 Video- The work of the tankers of the 1st Slavic Brigade on the positions of the enemy in the residential area of Avdievka.
14:21 Video- Russian snipers destroyed a Ukrainian fire spotter in Marinka in the DPR.
How this happened, in an interview with RIA Novosti, one of them with the call sign “Alpha” told.
13:58 Mon operational On May 8, as of 14:00, the lines of the JCCC DPR received additional information about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kiev region):
artillery attack at 11:20:
- st. Panas Mirny, 4, 6 - private residential buildings, a gas pipeline and a car were also damaged;
- st. Deputatskaya, 51, 53 - private residential buildings;
- per. Obsky, 9, 10, 11 - private residential buildings;
- st. Menzhinsky, 10 - an apartment building, the car was also damaged.
artillery attack at 12:50:
- st. Putilovskaya, 86 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of artillery attack continues to arrive.
13:39 Video- "The fight against fascism, the victory over fascism - it's all relevant now!"
Callsign "Highlander" at the Kremlin walls about his feelings:
"And sad, and warm, and reverent"
13:22 Video- Exclusive RT with the front line.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are unlikely to launch a counteroffensive on the Maryinsky Front, but even if so, they are ready to meet them, said the commander of the assault group with the call sign Compass.
“If suddenly they go here, 90% that they will not move further than the avenue. We are waiting, ready, God forbid, they will come - let's see who is stronger, ”he told RT military envoy Vlad @vandrytsa Andritsa.
Russian forces have already taken all the high-rise buildings in Maryinka, leaving only the private sector, with which there are still difficulties.
“We come out of a wide street and come under fire right away. Not all positions can be viewed by us, which they are viewing, ”says the fighter.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have no problems with ammunition here, according to Compass. Silent Polish mines are also used: “No exit or arrival is heard. You already see a flash and an explosion.
12:44 Photo- The destroyed object of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.
12:34 Video- Tanks of the 1st Slavic Brigade support the advance on Avdiivka.
Tank crews of the 1st Slavic Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps continue to destroy the fortified areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka direction. So today, strikes were made on enemy positions in the former Avdeevsk air defense military unit, as well as to the north of the settlement. Water.
Tanks fire both direct fire and from covered positions in order to hit the enemy as efficiently as possible at all available distances.
12:12 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the West group.
- In the course of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the military personnel of the Zapad group of troops opened and destroyed two enemy DRGs from the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade and 103rd Artillery Regiment. Timkovka, Kislovka, Novomlynsk.
- The crew of the Su-34 fighter-bomber, using universal modules for planning and correcting air bombs, struck at the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the area of ??the settlement. Ivanovka.
- In addition, a special purpose group in the area of ??the settlement. Veliky Burluk discovered and destroyed the Osa-AKM enemy air defense system using the Lancet loitering ammunition.
- During the counter-battery fight, the fire of the 152mm Msta-S self-propelled guns destroyed the enemy's 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer in the area of the Shevtsov Yar beam.
11:52 Video- Shots from the helmet camera of the orchestra stormtrooper in Bakhmut.
11:38 Video– The consequences of a shell hitting the T-90M “Breakthrough” turret.
The crew is alive, though the machine gun was blown away.
11:10 Video- Footage from the "chambers of persuasion" of the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices, where convincing conversations were held before being sent to the front.
10:55 Video- A VSU opornik near Kremennaya happily met a Russian tank and voluntarily underwent denazification.
10:37 Photo- A Russian UAV "Orion" was seen with a payload in the form of a UPAB-50 guided glide bomb.
10:18 Video– Crews of 152mm self-propelled guns “Msta-S” of the “O” group are working in the Svatovo-Kremennoye direction.
10:03 Frontline summary on the morning of 08.05.2023
- In the Uludar sector, Russian troops continued artillery attack almost along the entire line of contact. In addition to the city itself, Novopol, Novosyolka, Volnoye Pole, Burlatskoye, Zolotaya Niva, Prechistovka and Vodyanoye (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northeast of Donetsk) were under attack.
- On the Donetsk front, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued assault operations in Maryinka. With artillery support, they attacked in the New York area. Everywhere without promotion. Russian troops shelled Pobeda, Georgievka, Karlovka, Netaylovo, Pervomayskoye, Severnoye (a settlement west of Avdiivka), Avdeevka, Berdychi, Yuzhnoye, Toretsk and Severnoye (a settlement northeast of Gorlovka). The Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out strikes on Donetsk, Makiivka and Horlivka.
- Southwest of Bakhmut, Russian troops again launched a ground attack in the direction of Predtechin. No result. PMC "Wagner", with the support of artillery, conducted assault operations near Ivanovsky, in the southern, western and northern regions of Bakhmut. Slight progress on the last section.
At Khromovoe, the Ukrainian army counterattacks. Also, Wagner operators tried to advance near Bogdanovka. The Armed Forces held their positions. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, supported by artillery, attacked in the area of Spornoye. They didn't have success. Russian troops shelled Aleksandro-Shultin, Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, Markov, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Minkovka and Vesyologo. The Ukrainian army hit the positions of Wagner PMC in Bakhmut.
- In the Lugansk direction, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, attacked in the area of Belogorovka, Nevsky, Makeevka and Sinkovka. No promotion. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novoselovsky, Peschany, Zapadny, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Mitrofanovka and Krasny Pervy.
09:51 Video– Dear veterans, your feat is immortal!
Participants of the special military operation from the Western Military District congratulate veterans of the Great Patriotic War on Victory Day.
09:38 Video- We will definitely be back. Wait for us to win!
In the Kherson direction, the commander of the unit with the call sign "Don" pays tribute to the veterans of the Great Patriotic War, whose military labor won the great Victory.
The serviceman notes: “We took over this far from easy watch from them and with honor and dignity we carry out all the tasks that are assigned to us.”
“Don” sends a big hello to his family and friends and promises them: “We will definitely return. Wait for us with victory!
09:26 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 07.05.2023 to 00:00 08.05.2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 40 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 17 artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 18 artillery attacks from 152mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoe five artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
Having fired 187 units of various ammunition.
The region of seven settlements of the Republic came under enemy fire: Horlovka (Nikitovsky district), Shirokaya Balka, the capital city. Donetsk (Kyiv, Kuibyshev, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeivka (Chervonogvardei district), Blagodatnoe, Olhinka, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
A total of 18 residential buildings were damaged in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Horlivka, as well as four civilian infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 59 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
09:23 Last day, the criminal Kiev regimereleasedon the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region 78 rounds from cannon artillery, including 50 rounds during the day, of which in settlements:
During the night, the Ukrainians continued artillery attack civilian infrastructure in the cities of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Tavriysk, town. Gornostaevka, Nechaevo village, firing a total of 28 rounds from cannon artillery.
08:32 In the South Donetsk direction, the Russian army stopped the attempt of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct reconnaissance in force -video
This was announced by the head of the press center of the Vostok group, Alexander Gordeev. According to him, the Osa complex in the Konstantinovka area and a howitzer in the Katerynivka area were destroyed by artillery fire and MLRS. The Lancet drone, in turn, destroyed an M777 howitzer near Shakhtyorsk.
In the Zaporozhye direction, during the course of aerial reconnaissance, a reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was opened and destroyed by motorized rifle units with the support of artillery. Two drones were shot down there, and an enemy howitzer was destroyed in Novoselovka.
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[REGNUM] If Russia is perceived as a savior, then how to build pan-European unity due to the presence of a "threat from the East"? How to maintain the integrity of NATO - the most important instrument of the American military-political presence in Europe? No way. Therefore, Russia in the eyes of the Europeans must remain an enemy. A barbarian land to which the Old World owes nothing.
It doesn’t count as saving if, after driving out the enemy, you stay on as equally rapacious conquerors as your first step toward the goal of conquering the rest of the world.
On May 9, Russia celebrates the next, 78th anniversary of the Victory Day over Nazism. The anniversary of the Great Victory in the war, where not only the existence of the Russian (then called Soviet) state, but also of our entire people was at stake.
Not surprisingly, Victory Day is one of the two - along with the New Year - the most important holidays for all Russians. Yes, this is a holiday with tears in the eyes (since more than 26 million Russians died in that war), but still a holiday.
For us, but not for the descendants of our former allies in the anti-Hitler coalition.
The fact is that for the West this day has a slightly different meaning. This is not Victory Day, but Unity Day. Or Europe Day, as they call it. The day when European peoples overcame differences, forgave each other and united.
"For the West, the Second World War is a secondary war, much less important than the First World War. Now Europe lives in a single European Union, uniting the former losers and winners," says Russian political scientist Oleg Bondarenko.
Yes, you can understand them to some extent. It was for the Soviet Union that Hitler and the Nazis were mortal enemies who waged a war to destroy the Soviet people, who were considered “inferior” by the Nazis. And for Europe, it was just another occupation cabal inside.
The French, Czechs, Slovaks were not burned in furnaces and were not shot simply because they are French, Czechs and Slovaks, that is, peoples who do not have the right to live. And the Nazis considered Soviet citizens as such and were going to eliminate them as part of the Ost plan.
Slavs were considered Untermenschen, as unter as Jews. As were non-Aryan and so-called “mixed race” peoples of all sorts, a common attitude among Westerners since the 18th century or so.
Moreover, some Europeans felt quite comfortable within the framework of this cabal. The same French in the Nazi troops served many times more than participated in the Resistance. That is why they overcame differences relatively easily, that is why they do not see anything strange in the fact that marches of SS veterans are organized in the same Baltic states.
Ditto white nationalist groups in the Slavic countries, who consider the paleness resulting from long winters spent indoors proof of their natural superiority to their more tanned neighbours. But I have a Bangladeshi friend who went to military school and university in Moscow back in the Soviet days, and he said the natives were dreadfully racist then as well.
Russia does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries,
*snicker* ...Oh wait — are you serious??
so Moscow does not teach its neighbors the correct perception of Victory Day. However, the problem is that Europe is trying to teach us the wrong thing. He does not advise, he does not say - no, within the framework of Western "soft power" and with the help of pro-Western forces in Russia, a course was set for the systemic reforging of Russian consciousness regarding the events of the Great Patriotic War.
A real information war was launched against the historical memory of Russians, already weakened due to the ideological weakness of the state and the so-called "reforms" of the domestic education system.
WASHING OUT THE MEMORY
The methods were quite technological. For example, Western propagandists carried the idea that the Soviet Union could not be proud of the victory over Nazi Germany - after all, he, in fact, gave birth to it.
Not France or England, which fed Hitler Czechoslovakia in the hope of directing his expansion to the east. Namely, the USSR, which helped to restore the industry of Germany in the 20s and 30s.
It did?
The USSR, which concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler after the Poles and the British disrupted all projects to create a collective security system in Eastern Europe.
A confusing sentence. Perhaps if I read it a few more times I’ll understand...
Therefore, they say, there is nothing to be proud of - you have to repent, and then forget.
In addition, Western propaganda and its Russian promoters downplayed the role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism. To do this, they exalted the participation of the West (through lend-lease - a really important, but not critical contribution to the victory),
....it’s kind of hard to wage war without trucks, tanks, and uniforms, but go on...
and also said that the main merit in Hitler's victory over Moscow belongs to General Frost, and not to Soviet commanders or Stalin.
Every military unit had its officers and its political commissars, and the commissars outranked the officers. This has an impact on war fighting effectiveness, or so it seems to me.
They said that all our subsequent victories were Pyrrhic, that we “threw the Germans with meat” (which is not true - the ratio of military losses was approximately 1.3 to 1 in favor of Germany, which is quite parity, given the disastrous first year of the war for the USSR and the massive extermination of Soviet prisoners in German camps).
A fair point, though the extermination of Soviet prisoners in Soviet camps was also an issue.
In addition, the West struggled with the perception of Hitler as an absolute evil. Of course, it is extremely difficult to wash away the image of a person on whose hands the blood of tens of millions of people is. But you can lower to his level another leader who was the conqueror of evil. That is why, within the framework of Western ideology, they began to equate Stalin and Hitler, even to some extent identify them.
Stalin killed more, though less efficiently, and Soviet Communism more still over roughly two full generations. But Stalin also had years more than Hitler to work on the project. On the other hand, Mao tse Tung killed even more, so there’s that.
Well, at the same time, to identify the Nazi repressions, which took place according to the biological principle, that is, by blood, regardless of the actions of a person, and the Soviet ones, where they nevertheless punished based on political views or actions. Identify the Nazi regime (misanthropic, denying the right of "others" to exist) and the Soviet regime (focused on the collective development of all peoples, the principles of indivisible security and cooperation of nations).
One identified and judged people deserving of mass death based on ethnicity, the other by economic class. Both were murderously totalitarian, so there is no virtue in choosing the latter over the former.
And, of course, they tried to cover up Nazi war crimes on the territory of the USSR (the physical destruction of entire regions, for example, during Operation Winter Magic) with tales of "millions of German women raped by Soviet soldiers."
As a result, Soviet soldiers were to be perceived not as the liberators of Europe, but as new occupiers.
Because they were still there, occupying and enforcing the Communist system on unwilling nations.
Despite the fact that, as the deputy head of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev correctly noted, more than a million Soviet soldiers gave their lives for peace and freedom from fascism in Europe -
...liberation from national socialism, only to enslave them to international socialism. Yay...
of which 600 thousand in the process of liberating Poland, 380 thousand in the Czech Republic and Hungary, 100 thousand in Germany.
EUROPEAN AND ANTI-RUSSIAN GOALS
In this war with memory, the West has invested a lot of resources - human, intellectual, financial. And he did not try because he was jealous of our perception of Nazism (European forgiveness has already led to far-right parties winning elections, threatening the local liberal order). And not even because he is aware of the ambiguity of his participation in the common Victory. And not even because now the descendants of collaborators rule in the West.
No, the goals are much more rational. And they concern both intra-European moments and the conflict with Moscow.
So, Europe is trying to forget about the war. “ Within the framework of the new concept of European unity, it is extremely important to minimize attention to the events of the Second World War. Which from a European point of view seems quite reasonable and rational ,” says Oleg Bondarenko.
The EU authorities are proud of their pan-European project, which seems to have united almost the entire European space peacefully for the first time in centuries-old European history, and they are afraid of the appearance of any split lines like fire. Including those based on historical disputes or territorial claims.
That is why they are trying to extinguish any Russian initiatives reminiscent of the Second World War. And the best instrument of redemption is, of course, washing the Russian narrative about the Great Patriotic War out of the minds of citizens.
Another important goal was the demonization of Russia. The West does not want and is not ready to recognize the fact that the Russian Federation is part of a large European civilization and at least three times saved this civilization at the cost of its own - from the Mongols, Napoleon and Hitler.
If Russia is perceived as a savior, then how to build pan-European unity due to the presence of a "threat from the East"? How to maintain the integrity of NATO, the most important instrument of the American military-political presence in Europe? No way. Therefore, Russia in the eyes of the Europeans must remain an enemy. A barbarian land to which the Old World owes nothing.
As for maintaining the conflict with Moscow, here the West needs to force the Russians themselves to consider their state barbaric. The one that can break out of its barbaric state only through "Euro-Atlantic integration." That is, in other words, turning into a vassal.
And for this it is necessary to wash out from the memory of Russians all the objects of pride in their national history. Make you forget about all cultural achievements, about literature, music, exploits - and, of course, about the people's victory over the most powerful military machine in all of human history. over the Wehrmacht.
Finally, washing away the memory of the Victory serves the purpose of Russia's disintegration. The point is that Russia is a multinational, multicultural and multiconfessional country. This diversity brings a huge number of benefits (humanity has always developed through the interaction of cultures), but also great risks.
If the authorities of such a state fail to create and consolidate the supranational identity of citizens (when they consider themselves a single whole, one civil nation), then the state begins to crumble. We need common meanings, common values, common achievements.
And the Victory over Nazism is one of the most important common achievements. As the well-known song says, "one for all", achieved by all the great supranational Soviet people. It has become the most important bond supporting first the Soviet, and now the Russian statehood.
Exactly the same bond that is now becoming common to all the peoples of Russia in the fight against Nazism in the spaces of the former Ukraine.
That is why Russia is fighting to preserve the historical memory and truth about that war. And then, after 78 years, it will fight to preserve the memory and the truth about the present.
May 9, 2023
Gevorg Mirzayan
According to MEMRI, Mr. Mirzayan is “Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Mass Communication of Financial University and a prolific columnist.” Also, in the photo they share here, he has beautiful hair and speaking eyes.
#3
"Not France or England, which fed Hitler Czechoslovakia in the hope of directing his expansion to the east. Namely, the USSR, which helped to restore the industry of Germany in the 20s and 30s."
That includes 1933-1941. You were saying?
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It’s a pity that True German Ally is no longer with us. He had the dubious pleasure of having survived both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet stalags, and so would have had interesting things to say on this.
#5
I remember the words of an historian who said: The main difference between Nazi camps (the regular ones like Dachau, not the extermination camps) and Stalin's GuLag was that the Nazis wanted you to die by working to death. The Soviets wanted you to work and just didn't care whether you died or not.
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Punctiliously observed, European Conservative. And extendable to the two totalitarianism socialisms as a whole as well..
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[ColonelCassad] Military correspondent Sergei Shilov about the realities of the battles for the western outskirts of Artemovsk.
We run with a distance of 30 meters, jumping over the railroad tracks. You need to run quickly to the nearest shelter. Our guide warned that a sniper had recently appeared here, though it is not at all clear where he was shooting from. In addition, on this trail, in addition to the 120th mortar, a kamikaze drone can also strike. A machine gun is working on the side of the building - it covers our sprint over bumps.
We get to the right house. There is time to smoke a little before the next jerk. While we are resting, the entrance of the five-story building opposite is simply crumbling before our eyes, raising a huge cloud of dust.
- It's good that the address was not mistaken - the conductor jokes. “They took this house out of the tank for several days, and everything there burned to the ground.
And again a jerk. More precisely dive into the basement. Somewhere you can hear the sounds of arrivals, but you can already exhale. In the dim light, the guys meet us. All strong, bearded. In appearance, they look like the Vikings, who, by some miracle, were brought into this ass by their longship.
These guys the day before took a whole block of high-rise buildings on the move in a day. They worked hard and well-coordinated, well, as they say, luck helped. We get out of the basement and see a huge building, which everyone here calls "The Book" because of the characteristic roof. It can be seen from almost every point of Bakhmut - it is located at the highest point in the west.
We'll have to take it soon. We are thinking how to approach it now. So our guys are already in front of him, about forty meters away. But until the “book” is outflanked, we will not turn our backs. It will most likely be mined - and this is a trap and a mass grave - Viking explains to us. “But once we take it, it will be much easier to burn them out of the Nest.”
"Nest" is a quarter with a dense multi-storey building. In fact, the last stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city. But they got on well with him. Unlike the city center, trenches have been dug between the buildings from basement to basement, pillboxes are located. There is almost no enemy on the upper floors. He fires from machine guns, preventing the attack aircraft from advancing.
While there is time, I ask Viking how he and his fighters maintain such good physical shape in these. He jokes that there are enough calories in dry rations. I ask him to say something from himself to the camera for the film.
- Now is not the time to pump iron and hit a pear, although I fought a lot. But now is the time for real men to be here. Our task is to take Bakhmut. And this task will be completed - he straightens the belt of his machine gun and I notice the rune of a warrior on his body armor.
The Viking group took the "Book" in a couple of days. The Armed Forces of Ukraine wanted to undermine it, but their sappers were cut off the path. Already after the assault, Viking and one of his fighters were wounded. As they said, he will be back in service in a couple of months.
Over the next week that I was in Bakhmut, I noticed an increased density of Ukrainian fire. They began to hit planned targets in the quarters of the city, to conduct a counter-battery fight. Apparently, they were given good radars to determine the coordinates of our artillery. Therefore, she has to actively maneuver in order not to be “covered”. Outside the city, something constantly bangs and smokes - apparently, these are our guns working along the supply roads of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where fierce battles are taking place.
The “nest” has to be literally burned out with fire. With RPGs, ATGMs, "boots", infantry mortars, Wagner attack aircraft alone, it will be difficult to take this fortified area and smoke the enemy out of pillboxes and basements. We need dense and accurate suppressive artillery fire, which actually caused a problem. But, as Viking said, the task will still be completed. Get better if you or your comrades read this.
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