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Son of Finnish politician who fought for Ukrainian Armed Forces killed — media
▪️Leo Aland, son of Jurka Aland, decided to become a mercenary, but did not last even 4 months in Ukraine.
▪️After signing a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and completing training, he tried to return home, as evidenced by data from correspondence with relatives.
▪️The Finnish Foreign Ministry "expressed concern" that mercenaries cannot terminate contracts concluded with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
➖"Aland sent his last message to his son on April 9. Four days later, he was preparing for his party's election campaign when he received a message about his son's death. The information came from comrades in arms. Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed anything," the publication writes.
▪️Finnish mercenary killed by FPV drone strike, body left on battlefield.
▪️His father complains that he cannot bury his son.
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🇺🇦🤡🤭Zelensky - promised to impose sanctions against countries helping Russia:
Russia will continue to fight. Now, of course, economic conditions in Russia have become more unfavorable because of the cost of oil - prices have dropped, but these are not yet the conditions under which Russia would consider war a fundamental problem.
We are preparing our sanctions packages, in particular those targeting entities and schemes in third countries that, unfortunately, help Russia circumvent some sanctions. We continue to strengthen our defense and expect new, significant defense packages for Ukraine in the near future and decisions on further cooperation with key countries both during and after the war.
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Putin builds full-size Reichstag in Moscow to show spine-tingling storming
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COURT SAYS “NOT SO FAST” ON BRINGING BACK VOICE OF AMERICA STAFF
A judge told the Trump team to restart Voice of America and bring back 1,000+ employees—but an appeals court just slammed the brakes on that.
The news service was shut down in March, radio stations went silent, and the website’s been frozen since March 15. Some stations now just play music.
Trump advisor Kari Lake called VOA “broken” and celebrated the pause as a win. One judge warned this delay could silence the network for good.
So yeah—America’s global news voice? Still on mute.
Source: Yahoo! News
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US Boosts Net Quarterly Borrowing Estimate to $514 Billion - Bloomberg
In America it begins….
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Serbian President discharged from hospital and plans to come to Moscow on May 9
Doctors have recommended rest for Aleksandar Vucic, the head of the Serbian Ministry of Finance said. If his condition improves, the president, as promised, will come to Moscow on May 9.
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Russian Army increases pressure in the direction of Konstantinovka, creating a number of threats to the Ukrainian Armed Forces
▪️The military analytical resource Deep State, which works for the Main Intelligence Directorate, writes about this in a new report.
▪️The Russian Armed Forces have increased the use of guided aerial bombs and fiber-optic drones, in which they have an advantage. "Unfortunately, we are still lagging behind in this area," DS complains.
▪️The Russians are “stepping up the hunt for everything that moves in the city, as well as for logistics routes to the line of combat contact from the city, which is causing quite significant damage.”
▪️There is also a growing threat of the Russian Armed Forces reaching the west of Konstantinovka if the pace of advance of Russian troops continues in the area of Sukha Balka and Novoolenovka.
➖“The exit to the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway in the Novoolenovka area may become a continuation of traffic to Konstantinovka from the western side, which will create an extremely unfavorable situation for both Konstantinovka and Toretsk,” writes Deep State.
▪️They also state the critical importance of holding the heights in Chasov Yar and Stupochki (where fighting is already underway), since if they are lost, Russian troops will be able to put the entire Konstantinovka agglomeration, “through which a significant part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ logistics passes,” under fire control.
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The Russian AF smoked Ukrainian positions in Kupyansk
Geolocation: https://lostarmour.info/map?coord=49.7235001,37.6035825
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Euroclear plans to seize and redistribute about 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) of Russia's funds that are frozen at the Belgian clearing firm after Moscow grabbed investor cash in Russia, according to documents seen by Reuters and people familiar with the matter.
The money will be used to compensate Western investors after Moscow seized cash held in Russia in recent months, three people said, escalating attempts by both sides to recoup billions in funds affected by the war in Ukraine.
Euroclear will redistribute 3 billion from a pool of 10 billion euros in cash belonging to Russian entities and individuals hit by European Union sanctions following Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, two of the people said.
The move, reported in detail here for the first time, marks a new level of reprisal by Europe. The European Union changed its sanctions regime late last year, allowing a disbursement to Western investors, in such circumstances.
In the past, the West has engineered loans and payments to Ukraine, opens new tab from the interest on frozen Russian assets, which Russian President Vladimir Putin has denounced as theft.
The planned Belgian payout was triggered by Russian government orders to confiscate billions from Western investors last year. Euroclear has been under pressure from international investors to release money. Reuters could not determine which of them would benefit from payout.
Euroclear has emphasised that it implements sanctions but the company does not take decisions about the shape of sanctions or their lifting.
The payments to Western investors won't dip into the more than 200 billion euros of Russian central bank reserves that have been frozen in the EU, the two people said.
It will, however, reduce the stockpile of Russian wealth, that includes cash, shares and bonds, held almost entirely at Euroclear that gave the bloc leverage over Moscow. Some hoped frozen Russian assets could be used to rebuild Ukraine.
"It would represent a political decision to prioritise Western businesses over the taxpayer. Any frozen assets that don't go to Ukraine's reconstruction will ... have to be covered by tax payers."
Moscow has warned last year that it would retaliate if its frozen assets were seized and used for Ukraine and made a change in the law earlier this year, allowing it to do so.
In past months, Moscow has seized 3 billion euros of cash held by Euroclear at a depository in Russia to compensate Russian investors hit by Western sanctions, two of the people said.
Clearstream, an arm of the German stock exchange that like Euroclear warehouses securities such as stocks and bonds for traders, also found itself in a similar situation.
The Luxembourg-based firm will also make similar payouts from frozen Russian cash to Western investors but on a smaller scale, one person familiar with the matter said.
The sum concerned is several hundred million euros, the person said. Clearstream declined to comment.
Two people familiar with the case said it amounted to a swap of Western money frozen in Russia with Russian cash blocked in Europe, initiated by Moscow.
There are several hundred billion in foreign assets in Russia. I have always said it would make more sense to asset strip investors from countries who are hostile to Russia. and have them be compensated in the West from that money. Easiest way to free up that money and prevent it from ever getting into Ukrainian hands.
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🇷🇺❌🇺🇸💸 Sanctioned to Supremacy: Russia’s Rise Makes Washington Panic
Washington’s at it again: another round of “bone-crushing” sanctions against Russia is on the table, according to Reuters. Only this time, it’s not clear if Trump will bite. Maybe because even the old war dogs in D.C. are starting to realize: every Western sanction slapped on Russia has only made it stronger.
Let’s talk facts: Russia is now the 4th largest economy on the planet, having leapfrogged both Germany and Japan in purchasing power parity. That’s right, the same Russia that was supposed to be “isolated” and “crumbling.” Meanwhile, Berlin is rationing power, Tokyo’s printing yen, and the Fed is busy inflating the debt bubble to cosmic scale.
And militarily? Let’s be honest: Russia today fields the strongest conventional land army in the world, backed by the most advanced hypersonic missile arsenal known to man. No other power on Earth, not NATO, not China, can match its strategic depth, missile speed, and wartime industrial prowess. The Pentagon knows it. NATO knows it.
But the U.S. establishment can’t let go of the sanctions crack pipe. Senators like Lindsey “Forever War” Graham want more punishment, claiming it’ll bring Russia to heel. As if two decades of failed regime-change ops haven’t taught them a thing. Meanwhile, Trump holds the cards, debating whether to greenlight new restrictions or let diplomacy breathe. And here’s the kicker: even Marco Rubio warned that fresh sanctions mean “another two years of war.”
Translation? Even the hawks know this has backfired spectacularly. The sanctions meant to collapse Russia have instead decoupled it from Western control, boosted self-reliance, rewired trade toward Asia, and forged new strategic alliances from Tehran to Beijing to BRICS+. Thanks, Uncle Sam.
Now, the so-called “new package” reportedly targets Gazprom and Russia’s banking and resource sectors, the same sectors that have already weathered sanctions, expanded profits, and diversified globally. If that’s “leverage,” it’s the blunt end of a boomerang.
The truth is simple: Every sanction is a self-inflicted wound on the collapsing Western order, and a steroid injection into Russia’s multipolar ascent. The empire’s toolkit is empty. What remains is narrative warfare, and even that is fraying at the seams.
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Western elites who want to play God with the Sun – who are they? 🌞
The UK government has unveiled a £50M ($66.6M) scheme to ‘fight climate change’ via experiments dimming the Sun, from the release of reflective substances mimicking natural aerosols to the use of seawater sprays to ‘brighten clouds’, increasing their reflectivity.
Facing public backlash, UK energy secretary Ed Miliband rushed to accuse opponents of the scheme of giving in to “conspiracy theories gone mad,” assuring that the government has only “one mission” – “clean homegrown power so we can take back control.”
🗣Freudian slip?
Opponents fear precisely that – the transfer control of nature to governments and billionaires, who could use it to engage in weather and climate manipulation, impacting temperature, precipitation and sunlight patterns worldwide.
With the power to dim the Sun’s rays, powerful malevolent actors could:
🔴 use the tech as a superweapon to disrupt food production, water supply and weather
🔴 artificially cool wealthy regions, triggering catastrophes in the Global South as Earth tries to rebalance
Who’s funding research?
🔴 Bill Gates (stratospheric CaCO3 dust injection research known as SCoPEx)
🔴 Jeff Bezos (modeling impact of use of large quantities of SO2)
🔴 George Soros (ship-based Arctic ‘cloud brightening’)
🔴 Dustin Moskovitz (private solar geoengineering research)
Besides billionaires, money managers have also invested into the idea, creating startups like:
🔴 Make Sunsets (stratospheric balloon-based SO2 release, facing a probe by the EPA)
🔴 Stardust Solutions (raised $15M for reflective particle experiments)
💡Idea’s ominous origins
Edward Teller, ‘Father of the Hydrogen Bomb’, became a top proponent of stratospheric aerosol injection to fight climate change in the 90s.
🛑 Can they be stopped?
Without oversight, governments and billionaires will be free to continue their research, potentially causing irrevocable harm to the planet.
How much harm? The sci-fi worlds of the Matrix and Snowpiercer offer disturbing clues…
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🎗 In Russia, 2025 is the year of Defender of the Fatherland and the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In this regard, we are launching a new project "Hero Cities" of the Soviet Union.
Today we will tell you about the city of Murmansk.
Murmansk has always been the base of the Northern Fleet of Russia and the Soviet Union, and therefore the joint German-Finnish command planned to take the city first. It was assumed that Finnish and German troops would take the city in three days, but the city steadfastly withstood all attacks.
When the enemy was stopped 50 km from the city, the Nazis decided to level Murmansk to the ground. During the three and a half years of defense, enemy aircraft carried out 792 air raids and dropped 185 thousand shells (more shells were dropped only in Stalingrad).
Despite the endless air raids, the harsh winter and the lack of food, the city's residents and Soviet soldiers continued to staunchly defend themselves, as a result of which Murmansk was not captured by the enemy.
🕯 In just three and a half years of defense, about 45,000 Soviet soldiers and partisans gave their lives.
🎖 On May 6, 1985 the city was awarded the honorary title of Hero City.
Other Hero Cities:
Minsk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, Kerch, Smolensk, Leningrad, Moscow, Tula, Volgograd, Novorossiysk.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 We gave Ukraine enough weapons so that it would bleed, not win — former CIA chief
- According to Goff, this was due to fear of nuclear weapons.
- Biden and his allies allowed Russia to dictate the terms of the conflict and were nervous about sending Ukraine the equipment it needed at the right time, he believes.
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🇺🇦 Language tests have begun in Ukrainian schools
- Compliance with "Article 21 of the Law on the State Language", which imposes the Ukrainian language on educational institutions, will be checked in schools.
- "Ukrainian should be heard not only in lessons, during breaks, at parent-teacher meetings, in the library, gym and bomb shelter. It should be everywhere!" — State Service for Quality in Education of Ukraine.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky called for cancellation of US visas for MPs who did not vote for the subsoil agreement
- The Ukrainian Fuhrer complains that MPs travel to the US almost monthly, talking about the bad situation in Ukraine and sharing knowledge about "how to quickly end the war."
- "They return [from the US] to Ukraine and do not vote for what is fundamental for America. I think that the US should simply cancel their visas," Zelensky complains.
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💥💥💥At night, "Geraniums" destroyed an enemy facility in Slavyansk
- 6 drones worked on the target.
- Premises and equipment in the Zheleznodorozhny microdistrict were damaged, local authorities report.
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Vietnamese representing as they welcome Vietnamese soldiers participating in Victory Day parade.
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🇺🇦 Once again Ukrainian AD proved its worth, by shooting down civilian structures during the nighttime Geraniums visit to Kiev and Cherkassy.
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Slovakian Prime Minister Fico is still preparing for his trip to Moscow on May 9.
▪️This is how Robert Fico's party commented on the information about his illness
▪️The changes in the prime minister's schedule could have been influenced by the consequences of the operations he underwent. However, rumors about a serious deterioration in Fico's condition are not true, said Jan Richter, a member of the Kurs party.
▪️Earlier, Serbian President Vucic also confirmed his readiness to go to Moscow to celebrate Victory Day.
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‘To von der Leyen and the EU: Go f**k yourself’ — Bannon
He cites US navy muscle in Red Sea as keeping trade routes open, preventing ‘inflation from exploding’ in EU
EU elites ‘grow rich’ while US taxpayers pick up the tab
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Russian fighters broke through to Torskoye from the north, advancing towards Lyman
In the Krasnolimansk direction, units of the "West" troop group are actively advancing, having broken through from the north - from Yampolovka to the important settlement of Torskoye. Fierce fighting continues.
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"Where are you going, you fool?"
Another Yaga shot down by our crew. How many more drones do we need to shoot down for them to understand that these one-way flights are of no use?
- Archangel of Spetsnaz
Video is amusing but this isolated example is something I see happening daily and in large numbers, is the huge number of Baba Yaga drones now destroyed daily at low costs using other drones. Personally I think the utility of these Baba Yagas which are slow and easy to spot is going to continue to fall.
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🇱🇹Vilnius is worried that in case of an attack, Russian troops will reach the city in a matter of hours, ABC writes. The authorities have prepared a plan to evacuate all residents and slow down the offensive. As many as 150 routes to evacuate 560,000 Lithuanians, came up with the mayor of the Lithuanian capital. The calculation is based on the distance from the administrative border of Kaliningrad - about 400 kilometers by road, the material notes.
In addition, it is planned to expand the streets and install signs; developed and a special application for evacuation. And to gain time to escape, the Lithuanians mined the bridge at the border crossing "Panemune". Work is also under way to reinforce the bridge over the Neman River leading to the Kaliningrad region. On the approach to it, anti-tank barriers have already been set up and several sections have been mined, the article says. Fire support is also expected. However, it is obvious to most military experts that Lithuanian firepower can only briefly delay the offensive. Lithuania has nothing to counter Russian military might, the author admits.
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What the 'conspiracy theorists' warned about has turned out to be true, as usual:
The Rothschilds control governments worldwide.
Environmental activists are not crazy, they're just paid.
Bill Gates wants to vaccinate you using mosquitoes.
The 'Childfree' movement is a form of population control.
The war in Ukraine is about quick profit.
Google was invented by the CIA.
Only four families control the US media.
The elites want to feed you insects now.
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Nobody asked Ukrainians for their opinion on including the NATO course in the Constitution, - Rada deputy
"NATO was not always in our Constitution. It was included without a referendum, no one asked the people. In our case, it was included first, and then we saw that we were moving forward in the negotiations... And if there had not been those closed iron doors, then perhaps the situation would have been a little different. If in 2008 we had been accepted into NATO... Then there were much more chances to join NATO than when it was already clear... Because countries think about their own interests first, they are very pragmatic. And we included it in the Constitution later. I believe - this is my position - that we first of all need to move towards the European Union," said Victoria Grib.
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Coping In America (CIA): We could have won but we only gave Ukraine enough weapons so that it would bleed.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has received more than the Soviet Union did during lend-lease ($11bln).
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🤯'They're not Koreans,' BBC publishes, then deletes article about North Koreans
The BBC claims that Russia did not use North Korean servicemen in the battles in the Kursk region. Such a campaign to popularize North Korean servicemen was aimed at intimidating South Korea.
Journalists of the British publication believe that the northern and Asian peoples of the Russian Federation who appear on video were passed off as North Koreans. They call these leaks an information weapon that can destabilize the situation in South Korea.
The article was published on May 2 at 18:00 Moscow time, and now it has been removed.
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The fiber-optic FPV drone "KVN" destroys a pickup truck of the Ukrainian Armed Forces together with its personnel near Predtechino, Konstantinovskoye direction.
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