Wagner will pull out of Bakhmut on May 10, Prigozhin says
Blames lack of ammunition, says army will have to step in
Video shows Prigozhin with corpses he says are his men
Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would pull out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying in vain to capture since last summer.
Prigozhin said they would withdraw on May 10 - ending their involvement in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war - because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. He asked defence chiefs to insert regular army troops in their place.
"I declare on behalf of the Wagner fighters, on behalf of the Wagner command, that on May 10, 2023, we are obliged to transfer positions in the settlement of Bakhmut to units of the defence ministry and withdraw the remains of Wagner to logistics camps to lick our wounds," Prigozhin said in a statement.
"I'm pulling Wagner units out of Bakhmut because in the absence of ammunition they're doomed to perish senselessly."
It was not clear if his latest statement could be taken at face value, as he has frequently posted impulsive comments in the past. Only last week he withdrew one statement he said he had made as a "joke".
Earlier on Friday he appeared in a video surrounded by dozens of corpses he said were Wagner fighters, and was shown yelling and swearing at Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
"We have a 70% shortage of ammunition. Shoigu! Gerasimov! Where is the ******* ammunition?" he shouted into the camera. His tirade contained a torrent of expletives that were bleeped out by his press service.
KEY MOMENT IN THE WAR
The Kremlin declined to comment on Prigozhin's statement, citing the fact it was related to the course of its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
The written statement - addressed to the head of general staff, the defence ministry, and Putin as supreme commander - was accompanied by a video from Prigozhin in which he appeared in full combat gear in front of dozens of his fighters, an automatic rifle dangling from his shoulder.
"Because of the lack of ammunition, our losses are increasing exponentially every day," the statement said.
"My lads will not suffer useless and unjustified losses in Bakhmut without ammunition," Prigozhin added in the video.
"If, because of your petty jealousy, you do not want to give the Russian people the victory of taking Bakhmut, that's your problem."
Prigozhin said he was asking Gerasimov to replace Wagner units in Bakhmut with regular troops, and to specify when this would happen.
The stated withdrawal date of May 10 gives defence chiefs just five days to fill the gap a Wagner pullout would create. It also threatens to overshadow national celebrations on May 9, when Russia commemorates victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two and Putin is due to address the nation from Red Square.
Prigozhin said he expected to face criticism.
"After a while, there will be clever people who say that we should have stayed in Bakhmut longer," he said. "Whoever has critical remarks - come to Bakhmut, you're welcome, stand up with guns in your hands in place of our killed comrades."
He also promised that Wagner would be back: "We will lick our wounds, and when the Motherland is in danger, we will rise again to defend it. The Russian people can count on us."
[NYPOST] Russia’s former president called for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed on Wednesday after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack aimed at assassinating the country’s current leader Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... Ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, who is now a top security official, called for the "physical elimination" of Zelensky in a Telegram post on Wednesday following the purported Ukrainian drone attack on the Kremlin.
"After today’s terrorist attack, there are no options left but the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique," Medvedev wrote.
The former president noted that Zelensky was not necessary for Ukraine’s "unconditional surrender," the independent Russian news outlet Meduza reported.
"Hitler, as we know, didn’t sign [a surrender agreement] either," Medvedev wrote.
"There will always be some replacement, like figurehead president Admiral Dönitz," referencing the German admiral who briefly was head of state after Hitler.
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#1
Won't stop the war at this point. Earlier in the first days, maybe. But not now. The population is all in.
#4
No need to worry. Z has turned tail and is out of Ukraine. Some say 10 days. 400 feet down bunker destroyed with about 300 NATO and Key Ukrainian personnel killed. Z was supposed to be there. Crickets only sound in western media.
#8
Medvedev is turning into a little fireball lately, calling for tac nukes and assassinations. When he was Prime Minister under Putin, there was a popular joke referred to him as The Vegetable.
Zelensky was in Finland for a meeting, but did go back.
Zel was in Finland for a one day summit when the event occurred. Then he went to the Netherlands to visit the ICC. Still there, last I heard.
The NYT says it is rare for Zelensky to leave the country, but then mentions he was in Poland last month and has plans to visit Germany soon. /eye roll
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#4 No need to worry. Z has turned tail and is out of Ukraine. Some say 10 days. 400 feet down bunker destroyed with about 300 NATO and Key Ukrainian personnel killed. Z was supposed to be there. Crickets only sound in western media.
Posted by: Dale 2023-05-05 08:18
Dale,
It didn't happen. Period, full stop, end of story. There's exactly one type of weapon that could have killed a 400 foot deep bunker (which doesn't exist either) and it wasn't used. The whole world would have known it.
If you want to claim that the Soviets Russians are the victorious good guys here, and the Allies/Ukranians are actually the fiendishly evil/clever bad guys whose every word is false, fine. There's better ways to argue it than this.
#10
Zelensky missed the Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023. He's managing his deposits, now that airport ramp space is available, the Davos crowd is gone and the tellers have caught up on foreign client deposits.
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It didn't happen. Period, full stop, end of story. There's exactly one type of weapon that could have killed a 400 foot deep bunker (which doesn't exist either) and it wasn't used. The whole world would have known it.
Not even Russian socialist media says it happened.
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The difference, then, between Zelensky and Yanukovych would be that Yanukovych is still alive. Both, however, would have been forcibly removed from office. Sauce for the goose...
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Looks like Big Volo (oh, and the Ukrainian people) will be awarded the Charlemagne Prize on 14 May. These guys at Gates of Vienna (in English) seem to scoff at this idea (as well they should).
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[LB] These are Kyiv, Chernihiv, Luhansk, Odesa, Zaporizhzhya, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kherson, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
In the Kyiv region, as a result of an attack on the territory of one of the communities, three non-residential buildings were damaged. Fortunately, there are no victims or victims. The information is being clarified, says the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Chernihivska, the Russians conducted three shellings during the day: from mortars and aircraft. As a result of an airstrike at night in Ivanovka, Novgorod-Siversky district, one person died, and two private houses were damaged.
In Sumy at night and in the morning, the enemy carried out 17 shelling of the border. 108 explosions were recorded. Settlements of Yunakivska, Myropilska, Bilopolska, Krasnopilska, Khotynska, Znob-Novgorodska, Seredino-Budska, Shalyginska, Esmanska communities came under fire. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 11 shellings of border communities. 67 explosions were recorded. Settlements of Myropilska, Yunakivska, Znob-Novgorodska, Bilopolska, Vorozhbyanska, Seredino-Budska communities were shelled.
In Zaporizhzhia, the enemy made 112 attacks on 20 settlements: Orikhov, Gulyaipol, Stepnohirsk, Yurkivka, Malynyvka, Kamiansk (one missile attack, three aerial attacks, five UAV attacks, one from a salvo missile system and 101 artillery shells). He visited civil infrastructure: residential buildings, life support facilities, social institutions. The Stepnohorsk community remained without electricity. A man born in 1951 who was wounded during the attack on Stepnohirsk is in the hospital.
During the Dnipropetrovsk night, the Russian army attacked Nikopol with artillery and drones. A 32-year-old man was injured. He is in the hospital. In the city, 11 private houses and nine commercial buildings, gas pipelines and power lines were damaged. There is destruction at one of the industrial enterprises, the rescuers have already extinguished the fire.
Yesterday, Nikopol experienced two artillery barrages in one day. An 86-year-old woman was injured. 13 private houses were damaged. One of them caught fire, rescuers extinguished the fire. Two farm buildings were completely destroyed, nine were mutilated. Enemy shells also hit two medical facilities, solar panels, power lines, and cars.
In Luhansk, Makiivka and Bilogorivka came under artillery fire from the Russians. During the day, the enemy fired 103 shots (446 shells) at the positions of our troops, mortars – 45, MLRS – 12, artillery – 33, tanks – nine, UAV – three, aviation – one.
In Kharkivskain the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy shelled the settlements of Sotnytskyi Kozachok, Gur'iv Kozachok, Baranivka, Chervona Zorya, Strelecha, Gatishche, Vovchanski Khutory and Mykolaivka with artillery and mortars. On the Kupyansk direction, Topoli, Kamianka, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Lyman First, Kislivka, Krokhmalne and Berestov came under enemy fire. As a result of the shelling of the village A private residential building was damaged in Bochkove, Chuguyiv district.
In the village Vilkhuvatka of the Kupyansky district damaged a private household. Yesterday, during the additional inspection of the transmission line in the village of An explosion of an unknown explosive object occurred in Grakove, Chuguyiv district. Two pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service were injured, one 31-year-old sapper died in the hospital from his injuries. Yesterday, near the village of Pogonivka, Izyum district, an MTZ-82 tractor was blown up by an unknown explosive device. The 58-year-old driver was hospitalized with multiple injuries. The tractor blew up while driving near a field on a dirt road.
In Donetsk, the Russians shelled 19 settlements in the past day: Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Kurakhove, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, Velika Novosilka, Zarichne, New York, Vesely Hay, Vremivka, Hannivka, Netaylov, Novoukrainka, Umanske, Uspenivka, Khromov, Shakhtarske , Kramatorsk. 61 residential buildings (of which 11 are multi-apartment), workshops of PJSC "AKHZ", a workshop of a motor vehicle enterprise, five civilian cars, two garages, a former dentistry building, two farm buildings, a non-working gas station, premises of a building materials base, a water pipeline were damaged. Kurakhivskaya TPP, warehouse of Kurakhivskaya TPP, gas pipe, local water supply, two educational buildings of Kramatorsk College. In a day in the region: two dead, nine injured.
At night , the enemy directed an attack on Odesa by 15 Shahed-131/136, 12 of which were destroyed by anti-aircraft defense forces and mobile fire groups. Three drones hit the dormitories of one of the educational institutions of Odessa. The fire was extinguished promptly. People were not injured. Information about the consequences is being clarified.
In Khersonska during the day, the enemy mercilessly attacked the regional center, raiding the places where the most people are. Three people died during the shelling of the "Epicenter", two - in the station square, four - in the ATB store, one man - died in his own car near the railway crossing, four - in the residential quarters of the city, three more - energy workers who were killed by the Russians when they worked near Stepanivka. As for the wounded, five people were injured during the shelling of the "Epicenter", 30 were injured at the ATB, eight at the railway station and the station square, and two at residential quarters of the city.
During the day, the enemy launched 98 attacks (539 projectiles): RSV – eight, artillery – 38, mortar – 39, tank – five, UAV – seven, aviation – one. The enemy fired 16 shots (82 shells) at Kherson: five from RSV, seven from artillery, three from mortars, tank - one. The railway station, the homes of citizens, the "Epicentr" hypermarket, the ATB store, the gas station, and residential areas are all the targets of Russian terrorists in Kherson. Yesterday, the Rashists targeted the districts of 30 settlements in the region. In Tokarivka, a 47-year-old man died in the yard of his own house, in Ivanovka, a 61-year-old local resident was injured. Russian aviation attacked Kizomys, Belozersk community. The enemy released three guided aerial bombs on the settlement.
As a result of the attack, three residential buildings were completely destroyed and a gas pipeline was damaged. In one day, 23 people were killed in the region, 46 (two of them children) were injured. Yesterday, the Rashists targeted the districts of 30 settlements in the region.
In Tokarivka, a 47-year-old man died in the yard of his own house, in Ivanovka, a 61-year-old local resident was injured. Russian aviation attacked Kizomys, Belozersk community. The enemy released three guided aerial bombs on the settlement. As a result of the attack, three residential buildings were completely destroyed and a gas pipeline was damaged.
In one day, 23 people were killed in the region, 46 (two of them children) were injured. Yesterday, the Rashists targeted the districts of 30 settlements in the region. In Tokarivka, a 47-year-old man died in the yard of his own house, in Ivanovka, a 61-year-old local resident was injured. Russian aviation attacked Kizomys, Belozersk community. The enemy released three guided aerial bombs on the settlement. As a result of the attack, three residential buildings were completely destroyed and a gas pipeline was damaged. In one day, 23 people were killed in the region, 46 (two of them children) were injured.
We will remind you that this night Russia carried out another air attack. Defenders shot down 18 of the drones.
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[Vesti] May 4 is the 435th 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 . At night , Russia attacked Ukraine with 24 Shahed-136/131 strike drones from the north and south. Ukrainian defenders destroyed 18 UAVs. Kyiv was also attacked - all the drones were destroyed by air defense, and in the Shevchenkovsky district, fragments of an UAV were found in a residential area, without casualties and significant damage.
Dnepropetrovsk region. At night, the Russians attacked Nikopol with artillery and drones : a 32-year-old man was injured and hospitalized; 11 private houses and 9 outbuildings, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged in the city.
08:00 . Odessa region. Russia sent 15 Shahed-131/136 to Odessa . Air defense destroyed 12 drones. Three hit the dormitories of one of the educational institutions of the city. No casualties.
09:00 . Kherson region. The Russians shelled the Kherson region 98 times, firing 539 shells from heavy artillery, Grads, tanks, UAVs and aviation. Kherson was shelled 16 times. They ended up in residential areas of the settlements of the region. In Kherson, 82 shells hit Privokzalnaya Square, the territory and facilities of the railway station, a gas station, two trading establishments, a factory and a car fleet; railroad crossing area. 23 people died, 46 (including two children) were injured .
09:50 . Dnepropetrovsk region. Russian troops attacked Nikopol at night with artillery and drones. As a result of the shelling, 11 private houses and 9 outbuildings were damaged, as well as a gas pipeline and a power line. In addition, the destruction was recorded at one of the industrial enterprises. A fire broke out on the spot, which was quickly extinguished.
11:10 am . Russia has reduced the grouping of missile-carrying ships in the Black Sea. Currently, there are 7 ships on combat duty near the sea, including 2 carriers of Caliber missiles. The total salvo is up to 16 missiles.
14:30 . Sumy region. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a homemade reconnaissance drone that crossed the Ukrainian border from Russia. According to the Command of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the self-made design is assembled from various parts and elements, "it is very strange from the point of view of the basics of aerodynamics and illustrates ignorance in the design of UAVs."
15:15 . Donetsk region. They want to evacuate all civilians from Avdiivka in the near future.
16:25 . Belgium has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine. In addition, according to Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo, the Belgian government is exploring how frozen Russian assets can be used to help Ukraine.
18:00 . 24 hours, the Russian Federation launched another massive strike on the territory of Ukraine, using Iranian Shahed UAVs, 18 out of 24 were destroyed by our defenders. The enemy launched 6 missile strikes on the cities of Kramatorsk and Zaporozhye, delivered 66 air strikes and carried out 33 shelling from the MLRS on settlements. There are dead and wounded among the civilian population, houses, educational institutions and other civilian infrastructure have been destroyed. Operational summary of the General Staff as of 18:00.
18:33 . Russia is unlikely to be able to make significant advances in Ukraine this year, according to US intelligence director Avril Haynes.
"Unless Russia declares mandatory mobilization and finds significant sources of ammunition supplies, it will become increasingly difficult for it to carry out even moderate offensive operations," she said.
19:00 . According to US intelligence director Avril Haynes, Vladimir Putin can regard "the consolidation of the occupied territory in the east and south of Ukraine and guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO" as a success.
19:25 . F-16s will be this matter of time. I believe that it will depend on the results of the counter-offensive, - head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
19:46 . Air defense works in Kyiv. This is reported by the Kiev city military administration Now in Kyiv and the region declared an air raid alert. Authorities are asked to stay in shelters until lights out!
20:20 . The United States leaves it up to Ukraine how to defend its territory. This statement was made by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, commenting on today's incident with the drone attack on the Kremlin. He also added that he would not comment on reports of an attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, "without knowing the facts."
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[Korrespondent] 21:36 The fire in the Solomensky district of Kiev, which arose after the fall of the wreckage of an enemy UAV, was eliminated, according to preliminary information, there were no victims, the KGVA reported. The structures of a four-story non-residential building on an area of 150 sq. m. Also, as a result of the fall of the wreckage of the drone, a fire broke out in an area of 5 square meters. m in the Pechersky district - the buildings are unharmed, there are no victims.
According to Radio Liberty, fragments of a downed UAV over Kiev fell not far from the railway station, on the building of a shopping and office center on Lipkovsky Street. In the meantime, a video is circulating in public, which shows that a drone is being shot down in the very center of the city .
21:23 Analysts and experts are studying a video in which drones explode over the Kremlin. While Western officials are cautiously commenting on a possible strike, researchers are trying to formulate possible versions and details of the attack on the Kremlin. For more details, see Staging or Threat?
20:59 An enemy drone was shot down in the sky over Kiev during an air raid, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko. The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, announced explosions and a fire in the Solomensky district as a result of falling UAV debris. The fire broke out in a four-story non-residential building, no one has yet turned to doctors for help.
20:57 Negotiations on a grain deal between Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN will be held tomorrow in Istanbul at a technical level, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.
20:54 The "Governor" of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky signed a "decree" that introduces a ban on the sale of strong alcohol from May 5 to August 3. At the same time, light alcohol will remain available.
20:43 Zelensky was shown military equipment in the Netherlands, which will be sent directly from there to Ukraine, Andriy Sibiga, Deputy Head of the President's Office, said. He clarified that these are Patriot air defense systems, armored vehicles, and artillery.
20:31 An air alert has been declared in Kiev and the region, the city military administration reports on the work of air defense.
20:01 The Legion of Freedom of Russia, which is fighting on the side of Ukraine against the Russian Federation, claims that as a result of a drone attack on the Sescha airfield in the Bryansk region, one AN-124-100 Ruslan was completely destroyed, another of the same aircraft received shrapnel holes in the fuselage. In total, according to various sources, there were no more than 12 such aircraft in working order in the Russian Aerospace Forces, now their production or repair on their own in the Russian Federation is impossible. The Legion also reports that the Russian resistance organized the attack.
19:48 Zelensky first visited Finland on an unannounced visit, and then went to the Netherlands. The President met with the Prime Ministers of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Belgium, delivered a big speech at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The key topics of the visit are the Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, military support and fair punishment for the aggressor. For more details, see Zelensky's Eurotour.
19:30 Russia will most likely not be able to mount a significant offensive operation in Ukraine this year due to a lack of ammunition and manpower - regardless of whether the Ukrainian counteroffensive is successful, says US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes. She also said that the United States still does not have the information necessary to assess a possible drone attack on the Kremlin.
19:27 In Sevastopol, Russian air defense allegedly destroyed a UAV in the area of the Belbek airfield, Mikhail Razvozhaev, the "governor" of the city, said. According to him, "no objects were damaged."
19:23 According to rough estimates, Russia is holding more than 20,000 Ukrainian civilians hostage, said Dmitry Lubinets, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada. He clarified that these data were collected on the basis of personal appeals from relatives whose relatives and friends were detained by the Russian military. The Ombudsman added that people from the occupied territories cannot apply to him, so after the de-occupation the figure will be much higher.
18:46 US intelligence director Avril Haynes considers it very unlikely that Russia will use nuclear weapons. At the same time, she called on Moscow to show restraint, even despite heavy losses in the war in Ukraine.
18:11 Zelensky announced that he had met with the King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander.
17:54 The Ministry of Defense has developed proposals for amendments to the legislation on reducing the age limit for citizens to stay on the military register of conscripts from 27 to 25 years. The department explained that the need for their annual arrival at the territorial recruitment and social support centers, including for medical examinations, leads to additional financial costs, a burden on medical workers and an increase in queues for passing the MLC. While conscription for urgent military service during martial law is not carried out.
In addition, a long stay on the military register of conscripts during martial law leads to the fact that a significant number of citizens fit for military service who do not have the status of conscripts cannot be called up for military service during mobilization.
17:30 Vitaly Barabash, head of the city military administration of Avdiivka, believes that it is "unrealistic" to evacuate all citizens from the city. According to him, 1,778 people still live in Avdiivka, and there is no legal mechanism for forcibly removing them.
17:21 Ukraine signed a joint declaration with Belgium and the Netherlands, which pledged to support Kiev on the path of Euro-Atlantic integration and provide military assistance.
16:58 Russia is now not ready for serious negotiations to end the war it unleashed against Ukraine, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said: "There is no evidence that Russia is ready for serious diplomacy. On the contrary, we have witnessed horrific attacks on civilian objects in Ukraine only for the last week". In his opinion, in order for Moscow to begin negotiations, "profound changes must occur in the minds of Putin and in the minds of Russia."
16:53 On Wednesday, May 3, the Russian army massively shelled Kherson, attracting heavy artillery, Grads, tanks, drones and aircraft. As of the morning of May 4, 23 victims and 46 wounded are known, including two children. Read more in the material Shelling of Kherson: horrific footage. 18+
16:50 The OSCE expert mission has found that the forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to the temporarily occupied territories or to the Russian Federation can be a war crime, as well as a crime against humanity. The corresponding report was prepared within the framework of the "Moscow mechanism" of the OSCE - an independent international mission, which should investigate information about human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The report states the fact of large-scale movement of Ukrainian children from Ukraine to the temporarily occupied territories and to Russia. The focus of the document is on orphans and unaccompanied children, as they are the most vulnerable groups among displaced children.
Experts emphasize that after being sent to the territory of the Russian Federation, Ukrainian children "are exposed to the influence of pro-Russian information campaigns, which often amount to total re-education." At the same time, Russia "does not take any steps to actively promote the return of Ukrainian children." And even vice versa, "creates various obstacles for families who seek to return their children."
16:39 German police launched an investigation after information about Zelensky's plans to visit Berlin appeared in the public domain. Law enforcers say they did not officially provide any information that could jeopardize the visit of the president of another country.
16:17 In the near future, Ukraine will evacuate all civilians from Avdiivka, Donetsk region, said Serhiy Telyatitsky, spokesman for the Tauride Defense Forces. He clarified that there are still civilians in the city, although there are "very few" of them. Telyatitsky also noted that all civilians were evacuated from Maryinka at the beginning of the year.
Only over the past day in the Tauride direction, the Russians lost about two companies killed and wounded. According to Telyatitsky, the occupiers resort to the so-called "meat assaults", going into battle without the fire support of heavy equipment.
15:36 Kuleba said that providing Ukraine with the F-16 will help restore global food security. With a squadron of well-equipped F-16s, Ukraine will be able to keep Russian warships and aircraft as far away from the Black Sea Grain Corridor as possible, ensuring its route for an uninterrupted flow of grain ships, the Foreign Minister stressed.
15:33 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said that the possible transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine is now being discussed with the allies, and there is no taboo in this matter. According to him, the Netherlands plans to replace its F-16s with more advanced F-35s.
15:29 Belgium is preparing a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said during a joint speech with Zelensky. His government is also exploring how frozen Russian assets could be used to help Ukraine.
15:18 Zelensky, in his address to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the States General of the Netherlands, said that at the July NATO summit, Ukraine should receive a decision on the algorithm for joining the Alliance: "It is clear that we cannot join NATO while the war is going on. But eliminate uncertainty is possible and necessary now - this is a political decision. Russia must see that the security of Ukraine will inevitably be guaranteed in order to begin to realize itself, Russia, only within its own borders."
The president also urged not to delay the supply of weapons to Ukraine: "The longer the taboo on weapons persists, the more our soldiers give their lives to stretch out the defense when the weapons are not powerful enough or long-range."
14:52 Speaker of the US National Security Council John Kirby called Moscow's accusations of Washington's involvement in the "attack" on the Kremlin "meaningless".
14:36 A number of EU member states have united in a "group of friends" to promote qualified majority voting on the EU's common foreign and security policy, the German Foreign Ministry said. The group includes Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain.
The goal of the group is to increase the efficiency and speed of making foreign policy decisions. "Against the backdrop of Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine and the growing international challenges facing the EU, the members of the group are convinced that the EU's foreign policy needs to adapt processes and procedures in order to strengthen the EU as a foreign policy player," the statement reads.
14:19 During a speech in The Hague, Zelensky called for the creation of a full-fledged international tribunal for the crime of aggression committed by Russia and criticized one of the proposed formats - the so-called hybrid tribunal. The President stressed that the crime of aggression is the primary crime of the Russian Federation, and it is possible to ensure accountability for it only through the creation of a tribunal.
"The beginning of a war of aggression is a crime that differs from other crimes in that it includes all the evils of other crimes. We must transform the experience of the Nuremberg Trials ... Therefore, we advocate the creation of such a tribunal. We want to continue the tradition of punishing the crime of aggression - as a guarantee of its non-recurrence," Zelensky said.
According to him, only one institution is capable of responding to the crime of aggression - this is the tribunal: "A tribunal, and not something hybrid, which will formally close the issue. Not a compromise that would allow politicians to say that the issue has supposedly been resolved. We need a real, full-fledged tribunal. And real, full-fledged justice."
13:51 In April, 3,200 Russians expressed their desire to surrender, Vitaly Matviyenko, the speaker of the state project I want to live , said. According to him, this is 10% more applications than in March. In total, during the existence of the project, more than 16 thousand requests were received, and the site was visited by more than 36 million people, of which 32 million were from the territory of the Russian Federation.
13:30 Orban said that in order to establish peace in Ukraine, it is necessary to return Trump to power in the United States.
13:28 Under the National Guard, six brigades of the Offensive Guard have already been created, the seventh is in the process, said Nikolay Urshalovich, deputy director of the planning department for the use of the Main Directorate of the NSU. According to him, now the rearmament and coordination of new brigades at the training grounds is underway - this will take several weeks.
13:07 Zelensky, during a speech at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, said that in April alone, 207 civilians were killed in Ukraine, including 17 children, and more than 400 people were injured. Over the past month, the Russian military has committed more than 6,000 war crimes, he added.
"We all want to see another Volodymyr here, in The Hague. The one who deserves to be condemned. This will happen when we win. And we will win," Zelensky stressed.
12:58 Peskov said that Moscow is considering "the most diverse" options for responding to the "Ukrainian attack" on the Kremlin, but we can only talk about "thought-out steps that are in line with the interests of the country." He also stated that "the attempts of Kyiv and Washington to disown the attack on the Kremlin are ridiculous", the decisions on such "acts of terrorism" are allegedly made by the United States, and Ukraine executes.
Peskov also said that as a result of the “attack”, two copper sheets on the dome of the Senate Palace were damaged, they will be replaced by tomorrow.
12:43 The Chinese Foreign Ministry, in response to the "drone attack" on the Kremlin, called on Russia and Ukraine to avoid actions that would lead to further escalation, spokesman Mao Ning said. She stressed that Beijing's position on the "Ukrainian crisis" is consistent and clear, and "all parties should avoid actions that could aggravate the situation."
Asked if the "incident in Moscow" would affect the visit of the Chinese envoy to Ukraine, Ning said that the Chinese authorities would release information about it "in due time."
12:24 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that "Kyiv's criminal actions once again confirm his lack of desire for peace and conflict resolution."
12:11 The wounded as a result of strikes in the Kherson region after stabilization of the condition will be evacuated to other areas, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Council Yury Sobolevsky told Radio Liberty. According to him, the local authorities are trying to prevent the accumulation of the wounded in the medical facilities of the region, since the Russians are shelling hospitals as well. Sobolevsky also said that the authorities of the Kherson region are developing ways to evacuate the population in case of mass shelling.
11:32 The British Ministry of Defense believes that the drone attack on the Kremlin does not give Ukraine a military advantage, writes The Guardian, citing a senior defense official. In his opinion, "everything is possible," but it is unprofitable for Ukraine, and besides, everyone knows that Putin does not stay in the Kremlin. "In fact, Russia has all the motives - rallying the public, an excuse for more chaotic and reckless shelling, an attempt to win sympathy for Russia, and not for Ukraine," the official said.
11:25 The Russians attacked a generation facility in the Donetsk region at night, because of which the power engineers were forced to partially suspend its work, the Ministry of Energy reported. In addition, due to powerful shelling, overhead power lines were damaged in the region - more than 100 thousand consumers, including coal mines, were de-energized. As of the morning, household consumers are connected, two mines in the city of Toretsk remain without electricity. Also, due to hostilities, part of the subscribers in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson regions remain disconnected.
Over the past 24 hours, brigades of power engineers in the Kherson and Sumy regions have come under fire, three employees of Khersonoblenergo have been killed. In the Kharkiv region, a group of power engineers working on the restoration of networks was blown up by an enemy mine, there are casualties among sappers. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale war, 119 employees of energy enterprises have died, more than 300 have been injured.
11:19 On the night of May 4, Russian aircraft hit the settlements of the Sumy and Chernihiv regions twice, OK Pivnich reported. In the area of the settlement of Ivanovka, one person died, three were injured.
11:08 Journalists Slovo i delo showed which settlements in the rear of the Russian Federation and in the occupied territory of Ukraine were attacked by drones:
10:59 With the use of attack drones, Russia, in addition to hitting targets, is depleting Ukrainian air defense, forcing it to expose its positions, Yuriy Ignat, speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. He explained that the work on the UAV with an anti-aircraft missile shows where this combat work was carried out from. At the same time, Ignat added that Ukrainian forces are now destroying 80% of drones.
As for the use of ballistic missiles during today's night attack, according to the speaker of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this information is being specified. "There was a threat, but there are no facts of arrivals. However, it is not excluded that there could be," he added.
10:42 CIA director William Burns held a closed briefing on the explosions over the Kremlin. According to the chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, so far there are no signs that Ukraine is behind the drone strike on Moscow. In his opinion, it is not unusual that there is little information about the incident, given that the attack occurred recently.
10:26 Norway has allocated 378 million euros of aid to Ukraine: 235 million of them will be directed to humanitarian needs, another 143 million to support the public sector and restore damaged infrastructure, the country's government said. Norway has pledged to provide Ukraine with 1.2 billion euros annually over the next five years, from 2023 to 2027 - a total of 6.3 billion euros.
10:19 British intelligence believes that Russia will have to change the fuel supply system due to regular attacks on storage bases in areas bordering Ukraine. In particular, the Russians will have to apply additional security measures at storage bases, as noted in Tuapse, or refocus on the infrastructure of regions that are less threatened by attacks.
09:56 In the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation, air defense shot down a drone, there are no casualties or destruction, Governor Alexander Gusev said.
09:42 In a burning tank at the Ilsky refinery in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, where a fire broke out after a drone attack, there were 4.5 thousand cubic meters of diesel fuel, Russian media reported, citing emergency services. A law enforcement source said that the plant was attacked by four drones, one of the drones did not explode. The fire has already been extinguished.
09:37 In the Kherson region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, 23 people were killed, 46 were injured , two of them were children, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. May 4, 5 and 6 have been declared days of mourning in the region.
09:14 According to updated information, as a result of the downing of enemy air targets in the Shevchenko, Pechersk and Podolsk districts of the capital, about ten pieces of debris fell on different streets. Partially damaged parked cars and road surface. People were not injured, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko.
09:01 Speaker OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk reported on "effective hits" on the enemy over the past day: "This is the destruction of artillery installations of the Hyacinth type, with which the enemy shelled the Kherson region yesterday. We continue to destroy armored vehicles - this is seven units over the past day. Also We continue to work on their electronic warfare stations."
08:57 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Velyka Novoselka and Zarechny), nine more people were injured, the OVA reported.
08:19 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Russia staged an attack on the Kremlin in order to present the war to the Russian domestic audience as existential on the eve of Victory Day, as well as create conditions for wider mobilization. Analysts have noted several indicators that indicate that the attack on the Kremlin was organized by the Russian Federation.
In particular, the ISW recalled that the Russian authorities have recently taken measures to strengthen internal air defense, including in Moscow itself, so it is extremely unlikely that two drones could break through the numerous layers of air defense and explode or be shot down right above the "heart" of the Kremlin in such a way. so that you can get effective shots.
In addition, experts drew attention to the consistent and coordinated reaction of Moscow: the Kremlin immediately accused Ukraine of carrying out a terrorist attack, and the Russian information space quickly rallied around this accusation. The ISW believes that if the drone attack had been real, the official reaction of the Russian Federation would have been much more disorganized at first.
08:09 At night, the Russians attacked Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery and drones, one person was injured, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. 11 private houses were damaged in the city, there is destruction at one of the industrial enterprises. There was a fire, which the rescuers have already extinguished.
08:04 In Kiev this week, the Israeli system of early warning about the threat of missile strikes began to work, Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgeny Korniychuk said. After successful tests in the capital, this system can be scaled to all major cities of Ukraine, he added.
The Israeli system identifies missiles of all types and objects where they can hit, and sends danger messages to the mobile phones of citizens in a specific area. The system also calculates how much time you have to find shelter.
08:00 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 4.
personnel - about 192,590 (+650) people liquidated,
tanks - 3707 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 7216 (+17),
artillery systems - 2962 (+16),
MLRS - 547 (+3),
air defense systems - 304 (+4),
aircraft - 308 (+0),
helicopters - 294 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2523 (+18),
cruise missiles - 947 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 5886 (+21),
special equipment - 370 (+7).
07:56 The Russian army is still focusing its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions - 40 enemy attacks have been repelled. The most fierce battles are being fought for Bakhmut and Marinka, the General Staff reported in the morning report .
07:42 The drone fell on the territory of the Novoshakhtinsky oil plant in the Rostov region. The damage is insignificant, there were no victims, the fire was immediately extinguished due to the explosion, said the head of the region Vasily Golubev.
Also, Russian media write that an attack by Ukrainian drones allegedly on residential areas of settlements in the Kherson region was repulsed.
07:18 At night, the Russians attacked Ukraine with “shaheeds” from the north (Bryansk region) and from the south (east coast of the Sea of Azov). In total, the enemy used up to 24 Shahed-136/131 attack drones, of which 18 were destroyed, the Air Force command said.
06:56 The Russians again launched a complex air strike on Kiev at night using Shahed drones and missiles (probably ballistic). According to preliminary information, in the airspace of Kyiv, all enemy missiles and UAVs were destroyed by air defense forces, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko. In the Shevchenkovsky district of the capital, fragments of an UAV were found in a residential area, there were no casualties among the population and no significant damage to the surrounding area.
06:17 The Russians fired 15 Shahed-131/136 attack drones at Odessa at night. Of these, 12 were destroyed by air defense forces and mobile fire groups, three more UAVs hit the dormitories of one of the educational institutions in Odessa, OK Pivden reported. The fire was quickly put out and no one was hurt. On the tails of the drones, the Russians wrote "Za MoskVu" and "Za Kremlin".
04:46 Tanks with oil products caught fire at the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation due to a drone attack, previously there were no casualties, according to Russian media.
02:40 An air alert was announced throughout Ukraine, the sounds of explosions were heard, in particular, in Kiev and Odessa. Local authorities reported on the work of air defense.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 19:49 “Lend-Lease didn’t arrive”, or how the forelock Kulibins created the high-tech “MicroGrad” installation -video 19:48 Such a picture is now all over Ukraine -video
And this is a cemetery in the city of Lviv.
As in many other areas, it is replenished every day with fresh graves of Ukrainian servicemen who refused to lay down their arms and raise their hands up.
19:46 Air anxiety in Kyiv region
19:45 According to yesterday's incident with drone, who attacked the Kremlin, only hear about some answers. What are the answers here? It turns out that if this had not happened, then what? Well, what? Would NWO roll up? Or would you go into gentle mode? What are we talking about? Or are we not in a state of a real hot war with the terrorist enclave of Ukraine, and this arrival was a terrible surprise, like landing in the days of the late USSR on the Red Square of Rust?
Talking about answers is appropriate only when someone violates the agreements, and the war as a whole is waged according to some rules. Do we have any agreements with noble Bandera? No need, therefore, no answers. And you have to fuck non-stop until Ukraine collapses into a coffin.
18:32 The international public tribunal for the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their accomplices continues to investigate -video
A refugee from Artemovsk, Sergey Andreevich Yartykevsky, tells how children were taken away from the inhabitants of Artemovsk:
“First, volunteers come -“ White Angel ”- they ask, - Are there children or not. We had a 17.5 year old girl. They come the next day and say - You have a minor child, we are taking him away, or you are leaving for Ukraine with her ... ”.
18:29 Another Nazi who is afraid to go where they can get killed -video
This is an interview with the former leader of the Odessa "Right Sector" Sergei Sternenko.
The presenter asked him if he had any desire to mobilize and go to the front.
Sternenko replied that from time to time he has such a desire, but he believes that in his current position (as a volunteer) he is more effective.
But if suddenly, God forbid, the military-political situation in Ukraine worsens, he will definitely “return”.
18:27 German internet entrepreneur and political activist Kim Dotcom: Imagine if Russia and China paid the Nazis to overthrow the democratically elected government in Mexico in order to make it part of their military alliance and build a military base in Mexico with nuclear missiles.
Then imagine Mexico attacking the White House with a drone.
17:26 In Ukraine destroyed “media” terrorist of the battalion. Dudayev
The common-law wife of the militant Andrey Maksimenko reported that the death of the militant. Maksimenko gained fame in narrow circles as a director and screenwriter.
However, he will go down in history as a Nazi and a terrorist who fought in the National Battalions since 2014, and was last wounded by killing Russians in the battalion. Dudayev.
For connoisseurs:
He starred in such films: “Judenkreis, or the Eternal Wheel”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Sokirra”, as well as series: “Barbie's Wedding”, where Maksimenko also directed. In addition, he was the screenwriter of such projects: “Seventh Route”, “Old Colonels”, the series “Weekend Romance” and is the author of the documentary “Husband” about the life of Vyacheslav Chornovil.
17:25 In Odessa arrested for corruption mayor Trukhanov.
An attempt to please the Nazis did not lead to success. Trukhanov is one of the direct culprits for the regulation of Odessa.
17:24 Ukrainian "activists" broke into the exhibition "ResistenZa", dedicated to the murdered children from Donbass and the victims in Odessa, write in social networks.
The exhibition takes place at the Art Gallery of Naples. Aggressive Ukrainians could not be tolerated for a long time and were thrown out of the gallery.
16:25 Special forces and Siberian regiment destroy the enemy near Avdiivka -video
The artillery of the 1454 Regiment mobilized from Siberia, corrected by soldiers of the army special forces, discovered and destroyed a group of militants in the Avdeevsky direction. The Ukrainian Nazis are suffering heavy losses on this sector of the front.
15:06 Highlights new Ministry of Defense briefing:
Assault detachments have captured two quarters and continue to destroy the enemy in the western part of Artemovsk;
In the LPR and the Kherson region, the command and observation posts of the units of two brigades and the center of the special operations forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed the fuel storage facility of the Ukrainian group of troops in the Kirovograd region;
The Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction destroyed up to 255 Ukrainian soldiers per day;
Russian troops destroyed up to 70 soldiers and one tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction in a day;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Belogorovka area;
The RF Armed Forces hit units of three brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Krasnoe, on the southwestern outskirts of Artemovsk and Grigorovka;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 30 people in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions.
14:37 Chubaty demonstrates a machine gun, a bulletproof vest and a helmet damaged by shrapnel 🪖The owner of this equipment is unlikely to have survived -video
14:12 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) through the eyes of the enemy -video
Assault units and gunners of PMC “Wagner” continue to hit positions and fight against the Nazis who had taken refuge in the city
13:42 Attack of drones on the Kremlin and on our infrastructure facilities -home topic in all the news. The Russian Investigative Committee qualified the attempt to strike at the residence of the President of the country as a “terrorist act”. But this is more than a terrorist attack. This desire to intimidate us all on the eve of the great holiday of May 9th.
Victory Day has always been an annoying factor for the Kyiv regime. In their history books, the Great Patriotic War has long ended with the liberation of Ukraine. And the day itself, May 9, is indicated in these textbooks in one line. What do we want from people whose main hero of the war is Bandera?!
Unsuccessful sabotage pursues one goal - to intimidate and prevent the people, who won a difficult and terrible war, from celebrating a holy holiday. Today there is a lot of talk about the fact that the organizers and perpetrators of the attack are the heirs of the Nazi fascists, and the Kiev regime itself is a new model of a terrorist organization.
But we are not to be intimidated. Our strength has always been and remains in truth. In historical memory, in the legacy of heroic ancestors. And for those who brush aside the past, I would like to remind you that there is no future without knowledge and respect for history.
PS I decided to attach you a couple of pages from that same history textbook, so that you yourself can verify the authenticity.
13:39 This night in Konstantinovka, the location of the Aidar battalion was under attack - our artillerymen congratulated Natsiks on the 9th anniversary of the creation of the battalion
12:33 In Odessa, the military beaten radical nationalist Demyan Ganul.
The reason is quite banal - the ubermensh organized fees for the army, and put some of the money in his pocket.
12:30 No ammo - no Nazi offensive -video
Our fighters in the Zaporozhye direction are destroying the ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The guys of the 35th Army of Group V have been burning enemy ammunition since the very morning.
Reconnaissance and strike - dropping the VOG was carried out with the help of an UAV bought for public money. Video filmed on it.
12:29 Ukraine made a terrible mistake by organizing an attack on the Kremlin, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson said in an interview with Judging Freedom YouTube channel. The incident took place on the eve of the celebration of the victory over the Nazis, he stressed. Therefore, it is all the more impossible to expect that Moscow will leave this attack unanswered -video
11:32 A crippled mercenary from Germany confirmed that Ukrainian Nazis shot Russian prisoners of war
Jonas Krazenberg wrote a book about his fate in the war in Ukraine, where he spoke about the capture of three Russian fighters and one civilian, later shot by the Ukrainian military.
“It was shitty. From a purely human point of view, this is dirty, ”he expressed his opinion about the war crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis in an interview with the T-Online portal.
The German said that in the "International Legion" they treated volunteers badly, paid little or no money. He also spoke about corruption in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and spoke about the fact that he should have left the legion earlier. Ukrainians are using foreigners as cannon fodder, Krazenberg said.
The mercenary left Ukraine only after being seriously injured in a Russian drone attack: all the fragments have not yet been removed from his body, including from his head, arms and legs.
11:29 In Ukraine announced air raid alert in Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Poltava regions
10:36 The crew of the Mi-8AMTSH helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the zone of the NMD —video
10:35 About the prospects of the Ukrainian offensive in ten seconds -video
10:34 In Artyomovsk liquidated company commander of the 93rd Motorized Brigade Kholodny Yar Alexander "Seven" Nemashkalo
Glassy ground.
09:09 Head of the Dnepropetrovsk region Sergey Lysak reported about the destruction and fire at one of the industrial enterprises in the capital of the region.
At night, an air raid alert was announced in the region.
09:04 For Moscow! – at night “Shahids” attacked the military academy in Odessa –video
Officially, 24 Shahed-136/131 (Geranium) strike drones attacked Ukraine at night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that they were able to shoot down 18. out of 24 attacked Odessa, only 12 of them were shot down.
According to reports, the military academy in Odessa was hit , some of the drones hit the hostel where the militants are quartered.
09:01 It suddenly became clear that the demonstration of the launch of Geran kamikaze drones flying towards Ukrainian positions and military facilities is “terrorism” -video
I don’t know if there was enough suture material to patch up all the Ragul hollows that were torn during the night and are still burning from this video, but I dare to remind you that the enemy side regularly boasts of the work of himars and other types of weapons with which it works against the civilian population of Donbass.
And yes. It is the Bandera people who have long been entertaining their flock by posting videos in open access, on which, to the bravura music of their UAVs, they drop explosives both on our defenders and on civilians.
But of course this is different...
08:10 By appointment data, the losses of the Nazis in the failed reconnaissance in force amounted to at least: one tank, two armored personnel carriers and about 30 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
08:04 These are the sounds that were heard during the explosions in the temporarily Nazi-occupied city of Zaporozhye -video
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:55 Video- “History remains, and all this will be restored” - a special report by Readovka military commissar Maxim Dolgov from the liberated Artemovsk (Bakhmut), 18+
Readovka military commander Maxim Dolgov visited the hottest point of the front today - for the most part, the already liberated Wagner PMC Bakhmut, which will soon become Artemovsk again. The fighting here, as you know, went for literally every street, as a result of which the city was badly destroyed.
A tour of more than just atmospheric places in the city center was conducted for our military correspondent by a fighter who worked at a factory in peacetime and is going to return there after the war.
Thoughts of stormtroopers about the most important thing - about faith, truth, the enemy, civilians and the unification of peoples and confessions in the face of a common disaster, and at the same time sketches of urban battles and memorable, sometimes terrible views of the streets, where you can still find the bodies of Ukrainian militants and ammunition — in a special report by Readovka.
21:41 Video- There are two main versions - the first is that the Russian reconnaissance UAV "Korsar" was shot down. The second - they shot down their own Bayraktar.
The final verdict is Bayraktar.
21:23 Video- Ivanovo paratroopers destroyed the Ukrainian BMP-2 with a Lancet.
21:07 Video- General Mizintsev, previously dismissed from the army, is now in the PMC Wagner.
20:49 Video– Just an ordinary drone over Kyiv.
20:32 Video- In short, in Turkey, our representative tore off a toilet rag, and the dirty pig got excited about it.
Question from Jacque Fresco - why a toilet rag in a decent place?
20:18 Photo- Captured Javelin from the fighters of the 4th brigade of the 2nd Army Corps.
20:05 Video- How in March they destroyed the enemy in the Zaporozhye direction. They ran so that the heels sparkled. We will repeat how they trample.
19:41 Video– Continue burning the enemy.
Who did not hide - the ashes.
19:32 Report that the OBTF “Cascade” repulsed the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There was reconnaissance in combat.
19:17Ukrainians advancing in the Ugledar direction. There are tough fights.
It is reported that in Pavlovka near Ugledar there is a heavy battle on our oporniks. It must be taken into account that the enemy is located at heights relative to us, the terrain of Ugoldar is extremely inconvenient for us - continuous steppes and hills, elevation changes.
“Actually, there are fights going on right now. OBTF Cascade, holding positions. Enemies rod from the Northern Summer cottages. The contact reaches the bayonet. They are most likely high,” the source said.
Regarding the fact that the enemies took the first landing, this is not yet certain. We are waiting for information. Russian aviation is also actively working in the Ugledar direction. Astronauts are reported to have begun work. The Ukrainians is now disassembled into molecules.
Nothing is known about the results of the battle yet. But it looks like the Ukrainian offensive has started. We pray for each of our fighters.
19:10 Video- Arrivals of cast iron to Ukrainian warehouses in Berislav from a different angle. Visible and smoke after impacts.
19:02 Photo- 120mm mortar Nona-S remained intact after the arrival of the Ukrainian projectile 50 meters from the car. There are marks from fragments, but no more.
18:55 Video- The Ukrainian military experienced a phenomenon known under the English name shell shock.
18:46 Our pilots are preparing parcels and asked to say hello to the 59th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Marinka.
18:32 Video Another Lancet strike against a camouflaged Ukrainian target.
18:14 Video- Denis Pushilin awarded the distinguished fighters of the 9th Brigade Donetsk 1st Army Corps.
17:48 Video- A copter of the 35th Army dropped a VOG into the Vushnik ammunition depot, Ugledar direction.
17:34 Video - The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the parking lot of Ukrainian equipment in the Orekhov region of the Zaporozhye region.
17:12 Video– Another accumulation of destroyed equipment of the Ukrainian army in Artemovsk, including the Kozak-5 armored car manufactured by the Kyiv company NPO Praktika.
16:55 Video- Artillery of the 1454th Regiment, according to the correction of the army special forces, worked out for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdeevsky direction.
16:43 Video- 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.
16:35 Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts of Donetsk -continues artillery attack by Ukrainian terrorists.
Ukrainian terrorists are artillery attack the village of the mine. Gagarin (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka). Residents - stay close to shelters.
According to preliminary information, fragments of a downed object were found on the border territory of Budyonnovsky and Proletarsky districts. Smoke is observed.
16:24 Enemy getting ready, we, too, are the situation in the Zaporozhye direction, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are planning a strike.
Yesterday's skirmish near Orekhovo, initially taken for "the same offensive," ended in a hasty retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to their previous positions. It was another "reconnaissance in force" - an attempt to probe our defenses with small forces. According to Readovka, the enemy planned to deliver the main blow in the direction of Tokmak and has already concentrated significant forces for this purpose.
In the offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will use hundreds of pieces of equipment, including heavy ones. The Kiev regime even plans to actively use the remnants of its aviation to support ground troops.
But for our command, the Ukrainian plan did not come as a surprise. In recent months, the Russian army has been intensively preparing long-term firing positions on threatened sectors of the front. A layered defense is being built along the entire line of contact, and such key logistical hubs as Tokmak and Bilmak are even prepared for all-round defense in case the enemy breaks through.
In addition, the Aerospace Forces inflict constant massive strikes on enemy positions in the Zaporozhye region. At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received several bouquets of "Geraniums" with delivery directly to the city of Zaporozhye, and in the morning the enemy complained about numerous strikes with planning bombs.
Kyiv put everything on the map. His offensive will be massive and desperate. But our army is also not sitting idly by and is preparing to repel the enemy onslaught. The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!
15:50 Video- When adjusting the fighters of the Airborne Forces, the tankers destroy the creepers who have settled in the dugouts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:35 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (04.05.2023)
- In the Kupyansk direction, strikes from operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoe, Luhansk People's Republic, Pershotravneve and Novomlynsk, Kharkov Region.
- In the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka of the Kharkov region, Kislovka, Sinkovka, Timkovka and Ivanovka of the Luhansk People's Republic, the actions of six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were stopped.
Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, as well as a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed.
- An artillery ammunition depot of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Volchansk, Kharkiv region.
- In the Krasno-Limansky direction, operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Center" group of forces hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Terny, Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Nevsky and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.
During the day, up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, as well as a 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed in this direction.
- In the Donetsk direction, assault detachments captured two quarters and continue to destroy the enemy in the western part of the city of Artemovsk.
- The strikes of operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire of the "Southern" group of troops in the area of the settlement of Krasnoye, the southwestern outskirts of Artemovsk and Grigorovka hit units of the 60th, 93rd Mechanized, as well as the 54th Motorized Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- Over the past day, aviation in this area made six sorties, the artillery of the group completed 57 fire missions.
Airborne units stop enemy attempts to counterattack from the flanks. Over the past day, up to 255 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, six vehicles, two 152mm D-20 howitzers and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in this direction.
- In addition, an ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Belogorovka.
- In the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, assault and army aviation strikes, artillery fire of the Vostok group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vuhledar, Vodiane, Velyka Novoselka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Chervonoe, Kamenskoye, Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka of the Zaporozhye region.
During the day, in these directions, the enemy’s losses amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, two 122mm D-30 howitzers and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.
- In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 35 Ukrainian servicemen, six vehicles, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, as well as two 122mm D-30 and 152mm Msta-B howitzers were destroyed in a day.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated the 103rd Artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and equipment in 118 districts.
Command and observation posts of units of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, the 54th Mechanized Brigade and the Center for Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "South" were hit in the areas of the settlements of Novoandreevka, Zaporozhye region, Belogorovka, Luhansk People's Republic, and Nestryga Island, Kherson region.
- An ammunition depot of the 66th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In the area of the city of Kirovograd, the fuel storage of the Ukrainian group of troops was destroyed.
- During the day, air defense systems intercepted nine rockets of the HIMARS, Uragan and Smerch multiple launch rocket systems.
In addition, 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Novoprokofievka in the Zaporozhye region, Lyubovka, Kamenka, Lebyazhye, Kirillovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Lysychansk, Krivosheevka and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 416 aircraft, 230 helicopters, 3,949 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,967 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,095 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,728 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 9,949 units of special military vehicles.
15:18 Video– Destruction of the Ukrainian ammunition depots in Beryslav with the help of adjustable bombs. Significantly exploded.
14:47 Video- Another flight of Tarasikov from positions.
14:29 Video- "Victory will be ours!" – 10-year-old Vanya from the Kherson region serves every day at his post and greets passing soldiers
“The boys and I are standing here. This is our mission. We raise the spirit of the soldiers so that the enemy does not pass and is defeated!”, says the young fighter Ivan.
The military already recognizes the boy, honks at him, stops to take a picture and give him a gift.
14:16 Photo- Consequences of artillery attack on the street. Isakov in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
14:05 Photo– Consequences of artillery attack by Ukrainian militants of Avdiivka (DPR).
14:02 Photo– Consequences of the artillery attack of Alchevsk (LNR).
13:40 Video- Combat work of the guards of the 108th Airborne Regiment.
13:35 Video- "Tor-M2" of the "O" group in the Svatovsky direction.
13:21 Video- Artillery of the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade destroyed the Ukrainian stronghold of ZamPavlovka in the Ugledar direction. A mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also lay down there. Artillery of the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade destroyed the Ukrainian stronghold of Deputy Pavlovka in the Ugledar direction. A mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine lay down there.
13:06 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 grouping of forces discovered and destroyed three enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups from the 14th and 92nd Separate Mechanized brigades in a day, thwarted two attempts to rotate units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the forefront in the area of the settlements of Novomlynsk and Starchy.
- In the defense zone of the 6th Combined Arms Army, five enemy observation posts were destroyed by artillery fire.
In the area of the settlement of Krasnoe Selo, a 122mm D-30 gun and a mortar crew were destroyed on the eastern outskirts of the Mankovka tract.
– By means of air defense, a reconnaissance UAV Furiya was destroyed near the village of Olshana by fire from the Tor-M2U anti-aircraft missile system.
12:39 Video- Artillerymen of the Central Military District told how the counterbattery fight is being conducted in the NVO zone.
In the course of combat work, the military personnel of the 152mm Msta-S howitzer crews perform a series of shots from closed firing positions at known targets, allowing the enemy to detect themselves, thereby provoking return fire.
Enemy artillery mounts that have opened fire are opened by our artillery reconnaissance radar systems, and the crews of 152mm self-propelled guns "Hyacinth-S" in a short time destroy them at a distance of more than 30 km.
Performing fire missions, gunners interact with crews of unmanned aerial vehicles, which correct the accuracy of fire and control the destruction of the target.
12:22 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the “South” group
In the Lisichansk tactical direction, the aviation of the Southern Group of Forces delivered strikes on the concentration of reserves and the temporary deployment point of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka and Serebryanka.
- In the Soledaro-Bakhmuts tactical direction, the missile unit of the Southern Group of Forces launched a missile attack on the point of temporary deployment of the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk region.
The howitzer battery of the artillery formation of the "South" group carried out a fire raid on the accumulation of manpower of the motorized infantry battalion of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, up to ten enemy were destroyed.
- In addition, as a result of a counter-battery fight in the Maryinsky tactical direction, the artillery unit of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed a tank, a self-propelled howitzer, three vehicles for transporting fuel and lubricants and ammunition of the enemy, and also inflicted a fire raid on the point of temporary deployment of the battalion of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:10 Video- He was a theater actor, acted in films. Eduard Zakharuk left for a special operation as a volunteer and has been serving in the NVO zone for the tenth month. His call sign is "Artist".
Why did he come to the front? Who are we fighting? How to treat those who do not understand why a special operation is needed? We are talking about this in the artillery dugout.
11:48 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the Dnepr group.
The air defense units of the Dnepr group repulsed another attack by unmanned aerial vehicles of Ukrainian nationalists on residential areas of settlements in the Kherson region.
- As a result of fire damage, attack drones were destroyed in the area of the settlements of Obryvka, Novaya Mayachka, Podstepnoe and Sagi.
In addition, the artillery fire of the group destroyed the enemy’s manpower in the area of concentration of reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction, mortar crews and an American-made counter-battery radar in the area of ??\u200b\u200bthe settlements of Burgunka and Lvovo.
- Artillery units of the Dnepr grouping put out of action the automobile and armored vehicles of Ukrainian nationalists, disrupted the rotation of enemy units on the line of contact.
11:37 Video- Special forces training: how special forces units are trained in the rear zone of the NWO
Soldiers hone their skills of covert movement in conditions of various terrain, observation of the enemy, and also train in the accuracy of shooting at long distances.
Particular attention is paid to the development of tactics of actions as part of mobile assault squads, performing tasks to capture enemy strongholds and positions on the front line.
Also, servicemen hone their skills in delivering fire damage using drones with various types of ammunition attached to them.
Classes in firearms and tactical training are conducted under the guidance of experienced instructors of the Central Military District.
11:25 Video– Soldiers of the Guards Artillery Brigade on the front line were awarded badges “Guard”
For mass heroism and courage, fortitude and courage shown by personnel in combat operations to protect the Fatherland and state interests, the artillery brigade of the Western Military District was given the honorary name "Guards".
During the year, the formation destroyed more than eight hundred pieces of enemy equipment. More than 80 percent of the personnel of the brigade already have state awards, about 30 percent have been awarded the Order of Courage.
“I am proud of my servicemen, for such a high assessment given to my brigade by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. We will continue to continue to fulfill our military duty with dignity,” said the commander of the artillery brigade with the call sign “Kazan”.
There are hundreds of examples of courage and courage in the artillery brigade. Every day, warriors risk their lives to defend their homeland, loved ones and relatives. Artillerymen work smoothly and accurately. There are many tasks, but the main thing, as they say, is motivation.
"Victory will be ours. We all strive for this. The Russian spirit does not fall!” - shared the commander of the 152mm self-propelled guns "Msta-S" with the call sign "Quiet".
11:18 Video– A teleconference was held in the NVO zone between the fighters of the Airborne Forces and their relatives and friends from the Pskov region
Veterans of the Armed Forces gave parting words to the paratroopers.
Such events are held regularly for closer interaction between the families of soldiers and the command of formations and military units.
11:11 Video- “Three bullet wounds, it came to a shooting fight”: the commander of the special forces group with the call sign “Danube” spoke about everyday combat in the zone of the special military operation.
11:02 Video- Well-deserved awards for special forces soldiers.
In the NMD zone, servicemen of the special forces unit of the Central Military District were awarded.
10:53 Many explosions in Odessa besides Cheetah's work. There is sort of an arrival in the area of the Military Academy.
10:42 Video- Geraniums flew to Odessa at night, and yet some flew in the right place. Explosions continue in the city.
10:28 Video- In Kurakhovo, the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed. There were also powerful arrivals in Slavyansk and Konstantinovka.
10:17 Video- Launches Geranek from the ground.
10:05 Video– The “Storm” detachment is conducting urban battles in Maryinka.
09:57 Video- Start your morning right.
The guys of the 35th Army of the [V] group have been burning Ukrainian ammunition since the morning – Zaporozhye direction
09:42 Kherson direction
The criminal Kyiv regime continues to shell civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from cannon artillery and mortars:
n.p. Golaya Pristan fired five rounds;
n.p. Kardashinka fired two projectiles;
n.p. Aleshki fired four rounds;
n.p. Kostogryzovo fired three rounds;
n.p. Korsunka fired three rounds;
n.p. Gladkovka fired two rounds;
n.p. Kazachi Lagery released seven rounds.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified - During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. New Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Cossack camps, firing a total of 22 rounds from cannon artillery. – Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
At night, artillery fire in the area of N. p. Antonovka was destroyed by a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, four were killed, three were injured.
Yesterday, artillery fire in the area of N. p. Ponyatovka was destroyed by a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, three were killed, four were injured.
09:27 Video- More shots of the successful repulsion of the meat attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region. The 291st Regiment is working.
09:14 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 03.05.2023 to 00:00 04.05.2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 76 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 41 artillery attacks from MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Gorlovsky 17 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky nine artillery attacks from artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
On Volnovakhskoe nine artillery attacks from artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
By releasing 360 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of nineteen settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Mikhailovka, Shirokaya Balka, Novobakhmutovka, Mineralnoye, Vasilyevka, Novoselovka Second, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district), Aleksandrovka, Mospino, Sladkoe, Shevchenko, Stepnoe, Yegorovka, Nikolskoe, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of three civilians in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka and Aleksandrovka.
Six residential buildings were damaged in Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Oleksandrivka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
In the previous day, 75 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
09:07 Our troops attacked the positions of the enemy and captured the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video
“I have been dodging until this time”: the mobilized said that they tried to evade the draft until the last, but they were sent to fight anyway.
First aid was given to the wounded and an evacuation team was sent for them.
08:25 Summary on the morning of May 04, 2023
At night, the Russian Armed Forces attacked objects in Kyiv, Odessa, Zaporozhye, Chernihiv and Sumy regions with Geraniums.
In the Artyomovsky direction, Wagner PMCs advanced up to 160 meters, suffering heavy losses due to a lack of rounds for artillery support, Prigozhin said.
The enemy yesterday attacked the residence of the Supreme in the Kremlin with two UAVs. Footage of the explosion of one of them near the dome was caught on video. Zelensky left for Finland before the attack, formidable statements were made by Russian officials.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy last night carried out reconnaissance in force with limited forces south of Orekhov. He was met with fire, suffered losses, withdrew.
In the Crimea, our air defense worked in the area of Feodosia. Enemy facilities destroyed, no casualties.
In the Rostov region, at night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Novoshakhtinsky oil plant. A UAV crashed into the structure of the inter-workshop flyover of the plant, after which it exploded. The fire was extinguished immediately.
In the Krasnodar Territory, the Ilsky oil refinery was attacked. The oil refinery caught fire after being hit by a Ukrainian drone.
The enemy fired 360 rounds of ammunition in the DPR. Gorlovka, Mikhailovka, Shirokaya Balka, Novobakhmutovka, Mineralnoye, Vasilievka, Novoselovka Second, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Aleksandrovka, Mospino, Sladkoye, Shevchenko, Stepnoe, Yegorovka, Nikolskoe, Vladimirovka are under fire. Six civilians were wounded.
08:13 The best reward for a commander is when his personnel return to their families safe and sound —video
The commander of the 122mm 2S1 self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika" with the call sign "Don" recalls how he, as part of the battery, thwarted the enemy's offensive. On that day, reconnaissance discovered the advancement of enemy armored vehicles.
"Don" received information from scouts and quickly aimed the gun at the target. “We have worked excellently in this column. The column was destroyed,” says the Russian artilleryman.
In February of this year, he was awarded the Order of Courage, but as he himself admits: "All the same, for each commander, the best award is when his personnel return to their families alive and well."
08:07 Frontline summary on the morning of 05/04/2023
In the Kherson direction, mutual activity of Russian and Ukrainian troops on Bolshoy Potemkin Island is observed. This is already on the left bank of the main channel of the Dnieper. Previously, this area was in the "gray zone".
Also, both sides are moving troops to a number of other islands in the Dnieper delta. So the likelihood of direct ground clashes is high. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fired on Kizomys, Dneprovskoye, Kherson, Antonovka, Nikolskoye, Lvovo, Kozatskoye, Kachkarovka, Dudchany and Zolotaya Balka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at Alyoshki and Novaya Kakhovka.
In the Zaporozhye direction, Ukrainian troops tried to conduct reconnaissance in battle in the direction of Mirny. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kamenskoye, Novoandreevka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka and Belogorye.
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops managed to advance in the western part of Maryinka. In turn, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to counterattack in the direction of Staromikhailivka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also managed to knock out Ukrainian troops from a number of positions on the outskirts of Pervomaisky. Russian artillery shelled Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, the cities of Krasnogorovka, Karlovka, Netaylov, Tonenoye, Severny, Avdievka, Novokalinov and Yuzhny. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in Donetsk and Gorlovka.
To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Russian Armed Forces, supported by artillery, attacked in the direction of Predtechin, and Wagner PMCs conducted assault operations on the outskirts of Ivanovsky, in the southern western and northern regions of the city itself. There is progress on the last section. Bogdanovka has fierce oncoming battles. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched artillery and air strikes on Konstantinovka, Chasov Yar, Khromovoy, Grigorovka, Novomarkov, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and Vasyukovka.
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[REGNUM] A "documentary" film produced jointly by Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland claims that Russian "spy ships" are being given the status of civilian ships. Therefore, they have the opportunity to move freely in the territorial waters of other countries and enter their ports. These vessels can covertly carry drones, explosives, equipment for intercepting information, and also transport special sabotage units.
In April, the Finnish State Debt Collection Authority announced the seizure of the land and real estate of the Russian Center for Science and Culture (RCSC) in Helsinki. But then the Finns changed their minds, quickly turned back and lifted the arrest.
There is reason to believe that this incident is one of the "sighting shots" in the information operation launched by the northern states. The goal is to accuse Moscow of preparing grandiose sabotage actions against NATO countries and finally “bring down” the relations of the Scandinavian countries with Russia.
In this way, it is supposed to influence public opinion in Sweden, not all of whose inhabitants, as it turns out, support joining the North Atlantic Alliance.
NEW BOUTS OF FINNISH SPY MANIA
The decision to seize the real estate of the RCSC is connected with the EU sanctions. The Finnish authorities were thinking about taking this step back in July 2022, in line with the general policy of seizing the property of persons under sanctions. The Finnish press began preparing public opinion last year. The media announced that the cultural institution serves the interests of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
However, in 2022, the Finns still did not dare to take active steps against the RCSC. They started them in March 2023, first seizing the accounts of the institution, and later on real estate.
In addition, the debt collection office (Ulosottovirasto) seized seven flats in Helsinki. According to the Finnish media, these apartments, in which Russian diplomats lived, belonged to Rossotrudnichestvo, which was under EU sanctions.
The news was commented in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They reported that a note had been sent to the Finnish Foreign Ministry demanding to clarify how the actions of the bailiffs correspond to the norms of international law providing for the immunity of Russian state property.
However, it was soon announced that the temporary arrest imposed on the property of the RCSC in Helsinki was canceled. Ulosottovirasto employee Aki Virtanen announced that " there were no grounds for seizure of property."
Particularly curious in this situation is the fact that the Finnish authorities justified the measures against the RCSC by saying that the center allegedly serves as a cover for espionage. Indeed, in recent days, not only in Finland, but also in other northern countries, the flywheel of hysterical catching of Russian spies and saboteurs has been spinning.
On May 3, the Finnish state broadcaster Yle stunned the audience with a report that ships of the Russian fleet were several times near the sites of explosions of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines last year. Allegedly, this happened less than a week before the explosions on the pipeline.
"In one of the cases, the ship was near the explosion site for almost a day. In total, we are talking about at least three visits by different ships," says Yle.
The version that "Russia itself blew up its own gas pipeline" began to be pumped in the Western press last fall. But then the wave quickly subsided due to the obvious absurdity of this version.
Then Seymour Hersh appeared with his sensational revelations, and in order to divert suspicions from Washington, the US and EU media tried to introduce into the mass consciousness the story of a certain “pro-Ukrainian group” that had sabotaged SP-1 and SP-2. However, apparently, the concept is changing again - it was decided to return to the original version with the fault of Russia.
"WAR OF SHADOWS"
Recently, journalists from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland published their "documentary" film "War of the Shadows". The content of the film is an “investigation” of the activities of “fifty suspicious Russian ships” that have recently been in the waters of Scandinavia.
It is alleged that Russian “spy ships” are given the status of civilian, fishing, cargo or research vessels for the purpose of camouflage. Therefore, they can move freely in the territorial waters of other countries and enter their ports. According to the "revelations" of the Scandinavian TV channels SVT, DR, NRK and Yle, these ships can covertly carry drones with video cameras, sensors and even explosives, equipment for intercepting information, and also transport special sabotage units.
The Scandinavian press alleges that Russian "spy boats" are mapping military bases as well as wind farms, gas pipelines, power lines and underwater Internet cables, collecting information about offshore oil and gas fields.
An anonymous ex-British Navy intelligence officer named James (sic!) is quoted as warning that this could be "one of Russia's first explicit attempts to find out how this country can influence the production and distribution of electricity in Western Europe."
British analysts claim that Russia is studying the seabed in order to be able to harm the infrastructure of NATO countries. And a lecturer at the Norwegian Defense Academy, Stole Ulriksen , fears that Russia could use hundreds of ships from its civilian fleet to lay mines in NATO territorial waters.
Journalists asked the Russian embassies in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm to comment on this "investigation".
The answer came only from the Russian Ambassador to Norway Teimuraz Ramishvili . “ Research projects are coordinated through diplomatic channels and comply with international law ,” the diplomat assured. He stressed that Russian ships operate in the territorial waters of other countries only in accordance with local and international laws.
WE EVEN GOT TO THE FISH
Indirectly responded to the "War of Shadows" and the Russian Ambassador to Copenhagen Vladimir Barbin. He caught Danish politicians and the media in an attempt to sabotage cooperation in the field of fisheries between Russia and the Faroe Islands, which are part of Denmark as an autonomous region.
The fact is that against the backdrop of the release of the “War of Shadows”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Faroe Islands, Hogni Hoydal, said that the authorities of the autonomy have the right to independently decide on the admission of Russian fishing vessels to ports on their territory. To limit this right, according to Hoydal, the authorities of the Faroe Islands do not intend to.
But this state of affairs, according to Barbin, displeases Copenhagen.
"Only those who do not have knowledge of the essence of the subject or maliciously want to compromise and destroy the decades-old mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and the Faroe Islands in the field of fishing can seriously discuss the disinformation nonsense that is being spread today in the Danish media," the ambassador emphasizes.
Regarding the film "War of Shadows", Barbin emphasized that fishing in the Baltic, in the North and Norwegian Seas is carried out as transparently as possible. According to the ambassador, Russian fishing vessels are regularly inspected, both on the high seas and in ports. The diplomat added that great attention is paid to the issues of mutual inspections, the use of a satellite tracking system, and the exchange of information about vessels participating in the fishery.
Barbin noted that Russia's cooperation with both Norway and the Faroe Islands in this area is carried out on the basis of intergovernmental agreements and in full compliance with international law.
Apparently, they will try to use the film "War of the Shadows" in order to make it as difficult as possible for the activities of Russian fishing boats in the waters surrounding Scandinavia. Moreover, such attempts have been made for quite a long time. So, in February 2023, the Norwegian press called for the closure of three ports for Russian fishing trawlers - Kirkenes, Tromsø and Botsfjord.
“WE DO NOT WANT TO JOIN THE CONFLICT”
The spy mania and military hysteria in the Scandinavian countries are no coincidence. It is designed to legitimize a large-scale transformation of the international security architecture in the region. First and foremost, of course, we are talking about Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
On April 22, a demonstration of pacifists took place in the center of one of the largest cities in Sweden, Gothenburg. At least 2.5 thousand citizens (for a calm Sweden, this is quite a lot) came out to express their disagreement with the rejection of the two-hundred-year-old policy of neutrality and the planned entry into NATO.
The immediate cause for dissatisfaction was the Aurora-23, the largest military exercise in the country in many years, taking place from April 17 to May 11, with the participation of not only the Swedish army, but also soldiers from 13 other countries, including Ukraine.
Gothenburgers are unhappy that their country is being turned into a training ground. Raising the slogans “No to NATO!” and “Stop Exercise Aurora 23,” protesters marched through central city streets and unwittingly blocked several tram lines.
"No soldiers, no rifles, no crown for NATO armed forces!" chanted the demonstrators in the center of Gothenburg.
"We are here because we want to preserve our freedom. We absolutely do not want to join this great power conflict that is currently going on between the US, China and Russia. We have become a vassal state in the game of great power politics. War brings only death to soldiers and civilians," said Gunnel Berje, one of the organizers of the Gothenburg Peace Committee.
As you know, Sweden, due to a number of nuances, failed to join NATO at the same time as Finland. And, as it turns out, not all Swedes are thrilled by such a prospect.
Increasing intensity of spy mania should convince the doubting residents of the state that the path to the North Atlantic Alliance has no alternatives.
[REGNUM] Zakharova: Russia did not refuse a serious dialogue, the West itself is not ready for it
Russia has never refused a serious dialogue; the West itself is not ready for it. This was stated on May 4 by Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova , commenting on an interview with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna .
“We have never abandoned a serious, professional dialogue that takes into account not only mutual interests, but also realities," Zakharova said.
At the same time, she stressed that Russia's Western opponents are not ready for dialogue, relying on the fulfillment of a completely hopeless task - inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
As REGNUM reported on May 4 , Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova replied to the French Foreign Minister that a “silence regime” has been operating between the countries for a long time . She clarified that all contacts were almost nullified at the initiative of Paris. She stated that 14 Russian-French groups created to discuss global and regional problems have stopped working, inter-MFA consultations are not being held, and telephone conversations at high and top levels are also a thing of the past. Moreover, communication between Russian diplomats and colleagues was reduced to a minimum. In addition, there is almost no interaction with Russia in areas such as culture and education.
Turkish parliament speaker Sentop: West decided to prolong the conflict in Ukraine to gain benefits
Türkiye wants the conflict in Ukraine to end as soon as possible. This statement was made on May 4 by the Speaker of the Turkish Parliament, Mustafa Sentop, at the anniversary meeting of the Speakers of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation in Ankara.
He recalled that Turkey had previously facilitated the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the grain deal. At the same time, the speaker of the parliament accused the Western countries of dragging out the conflict.
“Because, although they do not admit it, they receive material and moral benefits ,” Shentop said and urged not to succumb to the provocations of those who profit from the conflict.
As REGNUM reported earlier, retired Admiral of the Turkish Navy Cem Gürdeniz said that the West is a threat to the republic, so you need to leave NATO . He fears that Turkey could be drawn into the conflict through Ukraine.
At the same time, Reuters reported that Turkey's state bank Ziraat refused to accept payments for Russian grain under the grain deal until there is written approval from the United States and the United Nations.
Moscow believes that the United States of America was involved in the drone attack on the Kremlin. This was announced on May 4 by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov .
He stressed that the Kremlin said what they wanted to say.
"We said exactly what we wanted," a Kremlin spokesman said in an interview with RIA Novosti, commenting on the words of the White House about not being involved in drone attacks on the Kremlin.
As REGNUM reported , Peskov, during a briefing on May 4, told reporters that the United States was behind the Ukrainian attack on the Kremlin . He also commented on statements by American and Ukrainian politicians that the attack could have been staged. Peskov called ridiculous attempts to disown this from both Kyiv and Washington.
John Kirby , strategic communications coordinator at the White House National Security Council , said that the US authorities do not yet have data on what exactly happened, and therefore are not yet ready to assess this event. In addition, he assured that Washington itself was "not involved" in the incident.
On the night of May 3, Kiev tried to strike drones on the Kremlin residence of President Vladimir Putin. Two unmanned aerial vehicles were aiming at the Kremlin. According to the Kremlin, the UAVs were disabled by electronic warfare forces and crashed without causing damage.
At the time of the attack on the building of the Kremlin residence, Putin was not there, the head of state was not injured . The Russian leader was in his residence near Moscow in Novo-Ogaryovo . The Kremlin regarded the strike attempt as a planned terrorist act and an attempt on the president on the eve of Victory Day.
Read earlier in this story: Zakharova ridiculed the White House's statement about the non-involvement in the attacks on the Kremlin
At the moment, the United States has no information that could confirm or deny the involvement of Kyiv in the drone attacks on the Kremlin. This was stated on May 4 by the head of US national intelligence, Avril Haynes, at a hearing in the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
As Haynes recalled, earlier Kyiv made a statement about its alleged non-involvement in these attacks.
“At this stage, we do not have information that would allow an independent assessment,” she said.
As REGNUM reported , on May 4, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ridiculed the White House's claim that the US was not involved in drone attacks on the Kremlin. She clarified that Washington, as a rule, immediately declares its awareness even on extremely dubious issues.
On the night of May 3, Kiev tried to strike with two drones on the Kremlin residence of President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin clarified that the drones were disabled by radar systems.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] ➖Putin's reaction to the drone attack on the Kremlin was calm and collected;
➖Moscow knows that Kyiv chooses both means and targets for strikes under the dictation of Washington;
➖Moscow believes that Kyiv was involved in the attack on the Kremlin, based on data from the Russian special services;
➖After the attack on the Kremlin, two copper sheets on the dome of the Senate Palace were singed, they will be promptly replaced;
➖The Kremlin is considering "a wide variety of" options for responding to the drone attack on the Kremlin;
➖The situation in the Kremlin after the incident with drones is normal, everyone is working in their places;
➖Putin's address or an emergency meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation is not planned after the drone attack on the Kremlin;
➖The security system in the Kremlin will be further strengthened after the incident with drones;
➖The goals and objectives of the special operation do not change after the drone attack on the Kremlin;
➖It is not known from where exactly the drones that attacked the Kremlin were launched, the investigation will deal with this;
➖Any response to a drone attack on the Kremlin will be thoughtful, balanced and in line with Russian interests;
➖Washington is behind the Kyiv attack on the Kremlin, US attempts to disown the drone attack on the Kremlin are ridiculous;
➖It is important that Washington, involved in the attack on the Kremlin, understand the danger of such direct involvement in the conflict.
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A meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation with Putin's participation is to be held tomorrow. Most likely, some retaliatory measures to the Kremlin attack and the fate of the Grain Deal will be discussed there. So tomorrow both strikes and political decisions may follow.
Rather than condemn the assault, perhaps the better Western reaction would be to remain publicly silent while simultaneously augmenting Ukraine’s drone fleet and providing them real-time intelligence on Putin and senior military officials’ locations.
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over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] Russia’s former president called for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed on Wednesday after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of launching a drone attack aimed at assassinating the country’s current leader 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
