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Trump showed a photo of Steve Witkoff, who was bitten by a swan while playing golf.
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European countries are considering purchasing American weapons to transfer to Ukraine if the US refuses military aid to Kiev.
As Bloomberg writes, such a decision may be made due to the European Union’s shortage of its own weapons reserves and the ability to produce them in sufficient quantities.
Now the proposal, which is "gaining more credibility," is to buy more American systems and then ship those weapons to Ukraine. The idea could be implemented if Trump refuses to supply American weapons to Kiev.
The arms sales approved under Biden could run out this summer, leaving Europe unable to fill the void, experts interviewed by the agency said.
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🇺🇦🇷🇴🇬🇧Ukrainians and Romanians set fire to Starmer's house and car. And blamed Russia
Two Ukrainians and a Romanian have been arrested in Britain for setting fire to Keir Starmer's property, the Daily Mail reports . Without thinking twice, the police and intelligence began looking for their connections to Russia . Naturally, no evidence was found.
Such an accusation in itself already means an extreme escalation of tensions between Moscow and London , the authors warn. But it seems that the British authorities cannot help themselves: shitting is in their blood.
P.S. Yes, Starmer is gay because of Russia 😂
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Recall when Ukrainian officer said soon Russia will launch 500 Gerans per day.
⚡️🇷🇺The AFU reports that Russia has carried out a record drone attack - 298 UAVs in one night, including 245 strike drones in the last 24 hours alone
In just two days, 543 kamikaze drones were launched. According to sources, Russian troops have also changed their tactics: drones have begun to fly at higher altitudes. The average altitude is over 3,000 meters, with cases of flights at 4,900 meters recorded. This significantly complicates the work of enemy mobile fire groups and air defence systems, which are unable to hit targets at such altitudes.
Means of destruction:
📶 Kamikaze UAV "Geran-2" - 723 units.
📶 Aircraft missiles Kh-59/Kh-69 - 4 units.
📶 Ballistic missiles Iskander-M / KN-23 - 23 units.
📶 Air- and sea-based cruise missiles (Kh-101 / Kalibr / Kh-22) - 56 units.
Total: 723 UAVs and 83 missiles in recent days.
- Simplicus on X
Good post by Simplicus but I think Ukraine inflates the number of drones and missiles. A lot of those drones will not be Geran-2, as Russia inserts a lot of decoys into attacks etc. With that said as Russia does not provide such information so then we are left to rely on Ukrainian numbers.
One thing Russia does poorly is communicate what targets were attacked. Which leaves the ability for Ukraine to show pictures of houses and apartments damaged by falling debris. The more educated war audience has to fall back to NASA satellites and heat maps. You will not find a single western article noting the strikes on the Pavlograd Chemical Plant, Ukrainian air bases, or twenty plus successful strikes on the Antonov plant. It’s very foolish because the Kiev regime and their compliant western MSM writes as if these are attacks on civilians in Kiev, that are unprovoked and not related to Ukraine’s own attacks on Moscow.
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Sumy direction
The Group of Forces "North" continues to advance in the direction of Sumy from the border of the Kursk region.
Units of the 83rd Guards Airborne Brigade drove the enemy out of the village of Belovody , clearing the western part of the village.
In Yunakovka - fighting in the northern part.
The 83rd Brigade's assault units entered Belovody in mid-April, during which time they destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers from the 67th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, 79th Separate Assault Brigade, and 78th Separate Assault Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Our paratroopers burned a Leopard tank, 7 armored fighting vehicles, and more than 20 pickups in Belovody. They also destroyed 8 UAV control points.
The security buffer zone in this area is now 8 km. Having liberated Belovody , the paratroopers have created another bridgehead, which will allow them to develop an offensive on Yunakovka .
Using the @divgen scheme.
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Sobyanin:
22:10. The Air Defense of the Ministry of Defense repelled an attack by two enemy UAVs flying to Moscow.
00:47. Another enemy UAV flying towards Moscow was shot down.
04:37. The air defense forces of the Ministry of Defense destroyed two drones flying to Moscow.
Five drones were shot down overnight while approaching Moscow.
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Let us ignore the nearly 7-800 drones fired a Moscow…
The western media certainly does. Ukraine is a criminal and Russia is handing down a bit of justice.
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Fighting near Pokrovsk: troops burn tanks, NATO equipment, infantry and artillery of the enemy en masse
▪️A selection of combat work by fighters of the Center group of forces on May 24 to destroy military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active combat operations in the Pokrovsk direction.
▪️The footage shows NATO combat armoured vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry, enemy positions and transport being burned.
We post a video like this almost daily, but it shows you the level of daily fighting around Pokvorsk.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces experienced a "local collapse of the front" - German analyst Röpke
▪️In the Konstantinovka direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost Pravdovka (Staraya Nikolaevka), Gnatovka, Romanovka and most of Zarya, admits the Russophobic analyst Bild.
▪️Over the past 10 days, the Russian Armed Forces have captured 80 square kilometers in the Konstantinovsky direction.
- RVvoenkor
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From the important on the topic of SMO per day:
In Russia 🇷🇺
▪️🇷🇺✍️Zvezda: Russia will hand over to Ukraine a draft memorandum on ending the conflict in the coming days. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Kosachev confirmed the document's readiness.
▪️🇷🇺😡Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia will send a note of protest to Sweden on May 26 due to the drone attack on the embassy in Stockholm. Zakharova demanded that the authorities curb radicals and comply with the Vienna Convention.
In the world 🌏
▪️🇺🇸🤔RIA Novosti: Trump said that the US Army is studying the tactics of using drones using the example of the Ukrainian conflict.
▪️🇪🇺🙏Bloomberg: The EU plans to buy American weapons en masse to help Ukraine if the US refuses direct supplies. Europe is unable to supply Kyiv on its own due to a lack of capacity.
▪️🇩🇪❌TASS: German Defense Ministry Pistorius ruled out sending peacekeepers to Ukraine without an international mandate.
▪️🇭🇺😡Before anyone else. Well, almost: Orban:
– Hungary blocks EU's total ban on Russian energy supplies;
– Ukraine’s accession to the EU will lead to a redistribution of resources to the detriment of current members.
▪️🇺🇸🤔Forbes: Trump's withdrawal from Moscow-Kyiv talks could trigger Ukraine's capitulation. Putin's success will strengthen his influence in Europe and weaken NATO.
▪️🇵🇱🤨NEWS: On May 25, Poland raised fighter jets due to Russian aviation activity. Ukraine declared a nationwide air alert.
▪️🇬🇧🤨The Telegraph: The Trump administration has been accused of interfering in Britain's affairs through secret meetings with anti-abortion activists.
▪️🇺🇸❌Bloomberg: The US has stopped supplying weapons to Ukraine. The EU is looking for options, but does not have sufficient capacity. Washington also refused to tighten sanctions against Russia.
▪️🇳🇱✈️The Telegraph: The Netherlands will send the last 24 F-16s to Ukraine on May 26. Amsterdam is training pilots, sharing doctrines and maintaining pressure on Moscow.
- Voin_DV
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The landing party liberated Belovody in Sumy Oblast
▪️Paratroopers of the 83rd brigade raised the Airborne Forces flag on the southern outskirts of the village.
▪️Ussuri attack aircraft began the assault on Belovody in mid-April and during this time destroyed several hundred Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, burned a German Leopard tank, up to 10 combat armored vehicles and dozens of pickups.
▪️The Russian army is expanding the security buffer zone and creating bridgeheads on enemy territory, threatening to soon take Yunakovka, an important logistics hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, through which the Kursk group of occupiers was supplied via the H07 highway, writes military correspondent Kulko.
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FPV drone "KVN" hits American HMMWV in Dnipropetrovsk region ( near Novopavlovka )
Vanya Ivanov's group is working.
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A little less than two dozen UAVs attacked the airfield in Starokonstantinov.
The enemy also reports that cruise missiles launched by strategic aviation are already over the eastern regions 404.
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Starvation is Russia’s favourite weapon - The Times
or alternately: UK Media decides to lie
While Israel is accused of “using hunger as a weapon of war” (to quote the UK’s international development minister Jenny Chapman, among many others) remarkably little attention is paid to Russia’s methodical destruction of Ukraine’s agricultural capacity. If anyone is leading the way in endangering food supply on a global scale, it is Vladimir Putin. Before he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that nation supplied about 12 per cent of the world’s wheat and was critical to relief operations in countries afflicted by shortage or war.
This was made clear by one of Putin’s favourite TV propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov. On his programme for Russian state television, he declared: “The war for them [the Black Sea ports] will be waged … without any mercy … Without the Black Sea ports, Ukraine simply does not exist.”
This is nothing to do with military targets, but a campaign solely targeted at food; since July 2023, when this strategy was taken up by the Kremlin, there have been hundreds of strikes against port infrastructure, and, according to the GRC report: “Over 101,000 square metres of grain storage alongside machinery crucial to the functioning of grain export infrastructure were hit across the region … These actions have severely disrupted Ukraine’s exports and exacerbated global food insecurity.”
While sending its own grain to Africa, Moscow would also like Ukrainians to starve. This was made clear two years ago when its forces blew up the Kakhovka dam, in Kherson oblast. This was critical to irrigation in the south of Ukraine, and the result, according to the Wilson Center think tank, “means that more than one million hectares of land in three southern oblasts of Ukraine … will be unusable for the next three to five years for lack of a water supply”. That’s 4,000 square miles.
This raises the grimmest memory of modern Ukrainian history, the Holodomor — literally “death by hunger” — when in 1932-33 an estimated four million Ukrainians perished in a famine created by the collectivisation policies of Stalin, which were specifically designed to destroy the recalcitrant Ukrainian peasantry.
A new interesting trophy was captured in the Kursk region - an American portable mine-clearing charge MPLC Tactical Line Charge .
The charge consists of a transport backpack, where the entire set is placed in the form of a 30-meter detonating cord with 6 kg of explosive, an engine with a guide and a double initiator. The total weight of all the stuff is about 13 kg.
Compared to the ZRP-2 "Tropa" , the American MPLC carries significantly more explosives per meter of cord and is more than twice as light, but has a charge that is half the length.
Our friends from the special forces wanted to make a short review, but it turned out to be almost a full-fledged training film.
I’ve long thought this is a good solution, to have man portable clearance. Drone based scheme would also be appropriate.
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For several months, Belarusian oppositionists have been unsuccessfully searching for the speaker of the opposition Coordination Council, Anzhelika Melnikova, who disappeared along with a large sum of money.
According to an investigation by the Russian opposition publication The Insider, her disappearance may be connected to an affair with an employee of the Belarusian special services.
On March 24, Belarusian oppositionist Pavel Latushko, head of the National Anti-Crisis Management (NAM), received a strange text message. It was sent by Anzhelika Melnikova, who was elected speaker of the Coordination Council of Belarus in January.
Melnikova apologized for not coming to the opposition march in Warsaw and refused to participate in a reception at the FM. But the march had already taken place the day before, and Melnikova could not have not known this. Latushko tried to call her, but the phone did not answer. Melnikova's colleague went to her home and made sure that no one was there. Latushko filed a missing person report with the Polish police.
Melnikova had sole access to the money of the Białoruś Liberty fund, which received funds to finance the Coordination Council. Plus, she had lists of those whom European structures helped in Belarus, and a lot of other extremely important information: in particular, she personally knew many Polish politicians (including the president and Senate speaker), and regularly visited the Polish Sejm.
Oppositionists who knew Anzhelika say that she had no ideology. If she expressed her progressive views in anything, it was only in relation to sex: in conversations with friends, she liked to discuss her participation in closed sex parties in different countries.
In Warsaw, Anzhelika was invited to work at NAU by Pavel Latushko: he was sure that she could be trusted, because she had been checked by Belarusian activists from the "Cyberpartisans" group.
Together with the Cyberpartisans, she opened the Białoruś Liberty foundation, which immediately began accepting donations.
With the move to Warsaw, Melnikova's standard of living increased dramatically. She settled in a new housing estate, traded her old BMW for a new Mercedes, dressed well, and even established her own 10,000 euro award for the best opposition initiative.
"She told me that her husband was a cool programmer. And that he gave her money. She told me that she received $5,000 a month in child support. I was surprised by her trips to Dubai, because it was unsafe, expensive, and why bother? Go to Spain to swim, if you really want to," recalls Białoruś Liberty co-founder Dzmitry Shchygielsky.
In 2024, Melnikova received Polish citizenship by decision of the Mazovian Voivodeship.
Melnikova's husband Andrei did not break his ties with Belarus, went to visit relatives and for work, and treated the activities of the opposition with undisguised skepticism. Angelika said that she divorced her husband. He was seen at a triathlon competition in the company of a girl from Belarus, and she was noticed in short relationships with other men (including oppositionists and politicians from other countries). However, in 2024, unexpectedly for everyone, Angelika and her husband again began to live under the same roof in Warsaw.
At the same time, after a trip to Sri Lanka, Melnikova told a friend about her engagement to a man "living in Belarus, who cannot come to the EU, so they meet in exotic countries."
On March 5 of this year, a large sum was transferred from the fund to Melnikova's account - part of the grant received for the work of the Coordination Council. Another large transfer was made on March 18, and some small amounts were spent almost until the police report was filed. In total, about $150,000 disappeared from the account.
On March 7, Melnikova and her daughters left Sri Lanka and flew to Dubai on a Fly Dubai flight. Since then, her trail has been lost.
I should note the Insider is a anti-Russian info op funded by the EU and US. Still I find it funny the EU directed Belarusian opposition lost their money.
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The Finnish Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador Pavel Kuznetsov over what Helsinki claims was a violation of Finnish airspace by two Russian military aircraft.
This was reported by the Yle television and radio company.
Two Russian military aircraft are suspected of violating Finnish airspace off the coast of Porvoo on Friday, according to Finland's Ministry of Defence.
✈️ Bomber aircraft of the 11th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "Vostok" group attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Vremevsky direction.
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Unbelievable but true!
Wife beats President Macron.
Well we know who plays pitcher and catcher.
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Rubicon Air Defense Combat Groups.
🪖 Rubicon is working
0:06 - Fury
0:09 - Fury
0:11 - Fury
0:13 - Mara
0:15 - Mara
0:17 - Mara
0:19 - Mara
0:21 - Leleka-100
0:23 - Leleka-100
0:26 - RQ-35 Heidrun
0:28 - Cetus-240
0:30 - Shark-M
0:33 - FlyEye
0:35 - DARTS
0:37 - Fury
0:39 - Leleka-100
0:41 - DARTS
0:44 - FlyEye
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Combined drone and missile strikes carried out on enemy targets at night
- Powerful explosions and fires in Kiev, Nikolaev, Odessa and Khmelnytsky regions.
- The enemy also reported launching cruise missiles at Starokostiantyniv, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces military airfield is located.
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One of the Geraniums set a new record for the highest altitude flight over Ukrainian territory — 4,900 meters. This was reported by Ukrainian military analyst Alexander Kovalenko.
The exact location of the detection is not disclosed, it is only known that it happened over the mainland of the country. According to the expert, Geraniums have been increasingly operating at a much higher altitude lately, which significantly complicates the work of mobile fire groups to intercept them.
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Zelensky’s administration has slapped sanctions on Ihor Mosiychuk, once a prominent far right figure and co-founder of Azov Battalion. It is also fair to describe him as a spin doctor for hire.
Like a few prominent Ukrainian commentators, Mosiychuk has lately adopted a pro-peace position which puts him at odds with the party line.
Ahh yes, behold the master race. The finest of Ukrainians.
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Some Ukrainian officials and western analysts have warned that Russia may prepare a renewed large-scale aerial campaign, timed to coincide with a potential new ground offensive. A surge in Russian missile and drone attacks over the weekend could be the opening phase of that broader strategy, they said.
Russia is now producing missiles and drones faster than it uses, stockpiling reserves and ratcheting up pressure on Ukraine’s stretched defences.
Konrad Muzyka, director of Rochan Consulting, a Poland-based group that tracks the war, said: “We can see a lot of missiles being used by Russia in the coming months.”
This uptick in Russian production means Ukraine will need further western support to sustain its defences — at a time when continued US backing is uncertain and European supplies unable to fully replace American weaponry, particularly air defences.
Americans will supply arms just Europe and Ukraine will have to pay for them
Note: Article forgets to note Ukrainian military facilities destroyed which is public information and the largest attack on Moscow via Ukrainian drones since the war has started. One would almost thinks FT writes Ukrainian propaganda…
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The enemy continues a massive attack on Moscow and the regions of Russia
▪️Air defense forces destroyed one more and then two drones flying toward the capital, Sobyanin reported.
▪️The enemy also attacked Yelabuga (on video).
▪️The "Carpet" plan has been introduced at Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Grabtsevo airports in Kaluga. They are not yet releasing or accepting planes.
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To summarise, my estimates:
6 Kh-101s, 1 shot down. 5 impacts to Starokostyantyniv Airbase, Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
1 Kh-59s, 0 shot down. 1 impact to Bilya Kolodyaz, Kharkiv Oblast.
Kh-101 group 1 changes course to Cherkasy City. Western course.
Читать полностью…
Footage of the attack on Kiev on May 24 has emerged.
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Two Ukrainian An-196 Lyuty drones collided mid-air in Lipetsk region, Russia. Probably brought down by Russian Electronic Warfare either jamming, spoofing or even taking over the flight controls."
- Simplicus on X
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There was once a man with a jet;
He’d go West to East to West.
He met a swan who made him squeal,
A bird that copped a bawdy feel—
He’s no longer a man, but a jest.
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