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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
The US, Canada and Switzerland have imposed almost 25,000 sanctions against Russia:
"The United States imposed the most restrictions - 25.5% of all measures introduced by countries, or 7,384. The top three also included Canada with a share of 12.6% (3,639) and Switzerland with a share of 11.3% (3,266). Next came Norway, which introduced about 2,678 restrictions, the EU, which is already preparing the 17th package of sanctions against Russia, and Iceland, duplicating European sanctions, as well as the United Kingdom.
Rounding out the top ten were New Zealand with 1,860 sanctions (6.4%), Australia, which imposed 1,598 restrictions (5.5%), and Japan with 1,441 (5%).”
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🔥 Destruction of Ukrainian positions and UAV launcher of Ukraine's 63rd separate mechanized brigade using FPV drones and LMURs in the area of the settlement of Kirovsk in the Krasnolimansk direction.
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✈️Bomber aircraft of the 11th Guards Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the "Vostok" group, using two FAB-1500 with UMPK, hit a shelter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the village of Bogatyr.
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🇷🇸 Serbian President hospitalized at Military Medical Academy in Belgrade — media
- Vucic suddenly felt ill during a visit to the United States and returned to Serbia, canceling all planned meetings.
- The current state of the Serbian leader is unknown.
- Vucic's visit to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow was previously announced.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a two-day massive attack on Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory. At least 255 UAVs, 14 unmanned aerial vehicles, 12 cruise missiles (8 Storm Shadow/Scalp, 4 Neptune) were used. According to official data, all targets were intercepted by air defense systems, the Aerospace Forces, and the Black Sea Fleet. No losses were recorded at critical infrastructure facilities.
According to the total estimates since the beginning of the SVO: 74 Neptune missiles and 231 Storm Shadow/Scalp missiles have been shot down. The figures generally reflect the scale of the threat and the degree of involvement of Western weapons in the strike contour of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Such activity indicates that Kiev and its curators are not planning de-escalation. On the contrary, the bet is on overloading the air defense and exhausting the strategic depth. In other words, the “negotiations” scenario has been postponed. This means that we should expect further strikes in the run-up to May 9.
The British obsession with the Crimean Bridge is a separate story. For them, it is not just a goal, it is a fetish. It seems that somewhere in the MI6 dungeons there is a hyperventilating duty officer who reports to the top every day that missiles must be used specifically on the bridge.
In general, it is worth saying that no one wants any peace there, of course. And this will be proven more than once.
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🇬🇧🤡🇺🇦"Ukrainian troops to join British troops in Victory Day march": UK MoD calls it "symbol of global support for Ukraine".
"Ukrainian servicemen will take part in the military procession on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory in World War II in London, which will take place on May 5. About 1 thousand British servicemen from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, British Army and Royal Air Force.
"Eighty years after VE Day, we will celebrate our war veterans, our greatest generation. It is fitting that the Ukrainian armed forces, currently fighting on the front lines for freedom, are represented at Monday's event," said Secretary of State John Healey.
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And this is what ukrainians actually think and write:
Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will parade in Britain - Stalin's ally in World War II, in which the Bolshevik occupiers mobilized millions of Ukrainians into the Red Army and drove them to slaughter in the interests of communist Moscow. At that time, fighters for an independent Ukraine fought on the other side of historical processes.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 "In the event of a real provocation on Victory Day, no one guarantees that May 10 will come in Kiev" - Medvedev responded to Zelensky's threats
- "The green unshaven asshole said that he rejects Putin's proposal for a three-day truce on May 9 and cannot ensure the safety of world leaders in Moscow," the deputy chairman of the Security Council wrote.
- He also called Zelensky's words about the possibility of an attack on the Victory Parade a "verbal provocation."
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US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene on war with Iran.
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Russian Defense Ministry on the destruction of 170 Ukrainian drones overnight:
During the past night from 22:00 to 05:00 , air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 170 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
96 UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
47 UAVs – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,
9 UAVs – over the territory of the Rostov region,
8 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
8 UAVs – over the territory of the Kursk region,
2 – over the territory of the Belgorod region.
Eight Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles and three Ukrainian Neptune-MD guided missiles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the Black Sea.
From 02:00 to 05:00, the Black Sea Fleet’s duty fire weapons destroyed 14 Ukrainian unmanned boats in the Black Sea.
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💥Transformation from a point of departure to a point of receipt.
FPV strikes destroyed: the enemy UAV control center, crew and antennas.
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This is not the first time that Forbes, which is trying to get into military issues for the sake of coverage, has produced absolutely disgraceful materials that are then picked up by other media outlets.
So it happened now with the article, where "analysts" of the once respected publication took a calculator in their hands, calculated the current rate of advance of the Russian Armed Forces, the losses of the Russian army declared by the General Staff of the AFU, and divided it all by the area of Ukraine, coming to a remarkable conclusion - Russia will seize the entire Ukrainian territory only by 2256 at the cost of 110 million soldiers' lives.
We will not even point out that in this great formula for some reason forgot to take into account such an insignificant factor as the losses of the other side for the same period of time. The important thing is this.
The current state of the conflict is called a war of attrition for a reason. It is no longer a blitzkrieg, where control of the enemy's territory is measured in hundreds of kilometers per day and is limited only by the supply of fuel to tanks on the front line. In a war of attrition, the situation is measured not by square kilometers, but by available and potential resources in the rear. Human, industrial, financial.
The peculiarity of such a conflict is that up to a certain point it can really last in the format of a sluggish bloodbath with minimal advancement, during which the grinding of each other's resources is carried out. And only when one of the parties in this process breaks down (for one reason or another), the advancement will again move from the format of several kilometers a day to several dozens (and possibly more) for the same period.
It is almost impossible to predict when such a moment will come (and whether it will come at all before the conflict is over). Up to a certain point, the situation will seem stable, and only when the fracture occurs will we realize it and be able to explain its causes retrospectively. The seemingly eternal positional stalemate of World War I eventually led to the collapse of Kaiser Germany, and the Third Reich army, which could not keep up with the blitzkrieg pace in World War II, also began a cascading rollback under the pressure of much larger economies.
Thus, mathematical calculations of square kilometers and daily losses with their extrapolation for years ahead are nothing more than the delusions of sick people who try to draw conclusions from data without understanding the essence of the ongoing conflict.
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Dnepropetrovsk direction
In the northern part, our units are fighting for Novoalexandrovka and have broken through to the eastern outskirts of the western part of Novosergeevka (beyond the Solenaya River).
Almost beyond the western outskirts of Novosergeevka begins the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Between Novoaleksandrovka and Nadezhdinka our units advanced one landing to the west.
Our units advanced west of Nadezhdinka .
From the eastern outskirts of Kotlyarovka our assaults were delayed with losses.
South of Kotlyarovka, in the landing, our troops are conducting counter-battles.
Our units also advanced to the outskirts from the north and east.
There is fighting south of Bogdanovka .
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Bellingcat hired a child rapist to run open source investigations into online child sexual abuse.
So we’re supposed to trust that Bellingcat could uncover all the darkest secrets of Russian intelligence operations, but was clueless about its own employees.
Russia can expect nothing in return from the EU if Putin concedes to allow their troops and aircraft to deploy in and patrol over Western Ukraine...- Zerohedge
Russia has long warned that any unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine of the 30-day sort that Zelensky has proposed could create an opening for NATO to expand its military influence in that country. Hitherto dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the West, Radio Liberty just let the cat out of the bag. The unnamed officials who they cited in their recent article confirmed that they envisage this “buy[ing] the Europeans time to assemble a ‘reassurance force’ in the Western part of Ukraine” and organize “air patrols” there.
Their reported game plan is “keeping the Americans onboard” the peace process, “sequencing” the conflict by clinching a ceasefire that’ll later lead to a lasting peace, and using the aforesaid interim period to carry out the above mentioned military moves for pressuring Russia into more concessions.
What’s omitted from Radio Liberty’s article is that Russia has threatened to target Western troops in Ukraine, who Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth earlier said wouldn’t enjoy Article 5 guarantees from the US.
Even if Putin agrees to this concession that’s assessed to be among one of the five significant differences between him and Trump that prompted Trump’s angry post against Putin, Radio Liberty reported that this still wouldn’t lead to de jure European recognition of Russia’s territorial gains.
The same goes for them lifting sanctions or returning any of its €200 billion of seized assets. More sanctions might even soon be imposed and the windfall profits from those assets will “bankroll Ukraine’s military needs”.
Given what Radio Liberty revealed, Russia can therefore expect nothing in return from the EU if Putin concedes to allow their troops and aircraft to deploy in and patrol over Western Ukraine. Any hopes of restoring Ukraine’s antebellum buffer state status would be crushed, and it can’t be ruled out that the EU’s zone of military activity could later expand to the Dnepr or beyond. One of the special operation’s goals was to prevent the West’s eastward military expansion so that would be another major concession.
Putin’s decades-long close friend and influential senior aide Nikolay Patrushev just told TASS earlier this week that “For the second year in a row, NATO is holding the largest exercises in decades near our borders, where it is practicing scenarios of offensive actions over a large area - from Vilnius to Odessa, the seizure of the Kaliningrad region, the blocking of shipping in the Baltic and Black Seas, and preventive strikes on the permanent bases of Russian nuclear deterrent forces.”
Secretary of the Security Council Sergey Shoigu told the same outlet several days prior that “Over the past year, the number of military contingents of NATO countries deployed near the western borders of the Russian Federation has increased almost 2.5 times…NATO is moving to a new combat readiness system, which provides for the possibility of deploying a 100,000-strong group of troops near the borders of Russia within 10 days, 300,000 by the end of 30 days, and 800,000 by the end of 180 days.”
When the EU’s prioritization of the Baltic Defence Line and Poland’s complementary East Shield are added to the equation, coupled with plans for expanding the “military Schengen” to speed up the eastward deployment of troops and equipment, the trappings of Operation Barbarossa 2.0 are apparent. Putin can’t influence what NATO does within the bloc’s borders, but he has the power to stop its de facto expansion into Western Ukraine during a ceasefire, which could partially hinder its speculative plans.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Novorossiysk using aircraft-type UAVs, unmanned boats and guided missiles.
Russian troops spent the entire night repelling attempts by the Kiev regime to damage the city's infrastructure, added Mayor Andrei Kravchenko.
The threat of a UAV attack in Novorossiysk still remains, he warned.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 "There are signals that after the ceasefire, we and the Russians may be left alone," - Zelensky
▪️ Europe will be there , “because there are many issues that are connected”;
▪️ But when asked whether the US could withdraw from the negotiations, he replied: “The US has such opinions, because everything is really very difficult”;
▪️ Zelensky called the conversation with Trump in the Vatican the best of all that he had. The most substantive, although the shortest;
▪️ "The fund and the subsoil agreement itself provide an opportunity to protect future US investments... We are ready for their contribution to be air defense systems . I told Trump about the required quantity - he promised that the US will work on this and these are not free things. And I would like to have the opportunity for us to have access to purchase American weapons."
▪️Ukraine may receive $30 billion from the United States in 2025, which will be the American side’s contribution to the fund.
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🔥 On the night of May 2-3, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russia from the South Coast of Crimea. In particular, the forces of the naval detachment of the 🤼♂️🪂🤺 Brigade identified and destroyed 4 enemy MBEKs at sea with attack drones at a distance of approximately 5 km from the Crimean Peninsula. The video shows the destruction of the enemy's second unmanned boat at that time, its destruction by an FPV drone and objective control of the liquidation. In Crimea, the enemy used naval drones to fire at our positions, on which launch containers with FPV were installed. But these drones were destroyed by the Espanola Naval Detachment .
Our naval detachment destroys unmanned boats near Crimea.
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🕊 #KilledForTruth is a special project dedicated to the memory of Russian journalists killed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
Since 2014, the Kiev regime has killed more than 60 Russian media workers: correspondents, cameramen, sound engineers, bloggers, volunteers and others. They were killed not only in the war zone, but also far from the front - in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as a result of planned terrorist attacks.
#CrimesofKievRegime.
Those who were not afraid to openly criticize the criminal actions of the neo-Nazi junta were also tortured and killed in Kiev, among its victims were Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina and US citizen Gonzalo Lira Lopez.
❗️ Today, on #WorldPrint Freedom Day, we once again remember the names of those who, until the last minute of their lives, defended the truth and fulfilled their professional duty.
▪️ Dugina Daria Alexandrovna (1992-2022) - political scientist, philosopher, military correspondent, daughter of philosopher and publicist A.G.Dugina. Killed on August 20, 2022 as a result of a terrorist attack. According to the investigation, the terrorist act was carried out by an employee of the Ukrainian special services, who had been following Daria for several months, placed an explosive device under the bottom of her car and remotely detonated it.
▪️ Anna Andreyevna Prokofyeva (1989-2025) was a war correspondent for Channel One. She worked in the Belgorod region. On March 26, 2025, near the border with Ukraine, the car of the crew was blown up by a mine, Anna was killed and the cameraman of the TV channel was seriously injured.
▪️ Stenin Andrei Alexeyevich (1980-2014) - photo correspondent for the Rossiya Segodnya news agency. He died on August 6, 2014 on the road between the village of Dmitrovka and Snezhny in the DNR together with Andrei Vyachalo and Sergei Korenchenkov. The journalists were filming a report in the area of Snezhnoye. On August 22, a burned car with the remains of Andrei and his colleagues was found. As the investigation established, the car came under AFU shelling and completely burned down.
▪️ Maxim Yurievich Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky) - journalist, blogger, militiaman. Killed in a terrorist attack on April 2, 2023 in St. Petersburg. The investigation established that the crime had been prepared since 2022 from the territory of Ukraine, it was carried out by Daria Trepova with the help of explosives, which she carried in a plaster statuette to a creative meeting with Tatarsky. As a result of the terrorist attack, the war blogger was killed and more than 30 people were injured. Trepova was sentenced to 27 years.
▪️ And many, many others...
The project "Died for the Truth" was implemented by Donetsk News Agency, Zaporozhye News Agency, Kherson News Agency and Lugansk Information Center, together with HRC member, journalist Alexander Malkevich.
Exhibitions of the project were opened abroad in many Russian foreign institutions.
MFA
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Nothing Sacred: The Enemy Attacked Another Church in the Belgorod Region
Governor Gladkov: an enemy drone attacked the Church of St. George the Victorious in the village of Tolokonnoye in the Belgorod region.
- As a result of its detonation, the domes caught fire.
- The fire was stopped and more serious consequences from the fire were prevented.
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🇺🇦🤡 Zelensky threatens "problems" to MPs who do not vote to ratify the subsoil deal
- "If any of the parliamentarians do not vote, I think it will be a problem exclusively for those people who do not want to support it. But I hope that the agreement will be ratified," he told reporters.
- Media reports that ratification is scheduled for May 8.
- Earlier, Ukrainian MPs stated that they were not shown additional agreements to the subsoil agreement concluded with the United States.
- They are being asked to ratify the agreement without having read it in full.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky rejected Putin's proposal for a 3-day ceasefire on May 9
- The Ukrainian Overdue Fuhrer also stated that "Ukraine cannot ensure the safety of world leaders in Moscow on May 9."
- Earlier, he made it clear that the Ukrainian Armed Forces could strike the Victory Parade on Red Square.
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🇬🇧🇺🇦The Ukrainian Armed Forces will take part in the London parade for the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany, which will take place on May 5, the British Ministry of Defense announced.
They will join almost 1,000 British military personnel taking part in the event.
Better ask grandpa if they can borrow his SS Galician uniform for the parade.
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Former US National Security Advisor Bolton called Trump's special envoy Whitkoff "an unqualified person":
Witkoff reports everything to Trump right away, that's his plus. He will do what Trump says. But I think it's a disaster for Ukraine and Russia, a potential disaster for Iran. If you look at Witkoff, he doesn't know anything about Ukraine, he doesn't know anything about Russia, he doesn't know anything about Iran . He doesn't know anything about nuclear weapons, he doesn't know anything about arms control.
He knows nothing about negotiations between countries. It is difficult to imagine a less qualified person , and he is Trump's special envoy.
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🇺🇸🤡Trump on the strong economy in the US:
Some people on Wall Street say we're going to have the strongest economy in the history of the country. Why don't you talk about them? A lot of people on Wall Street think this is going to be the greatest stroke of luck that's ever happened to the United States. That's okay. We're in a transition period that we're going to come out of in great shape.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦The US State Department has approved a $310m contract for the maintenance of F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine, the Pentagon has said. Holy cow, that was a lot of talk.
The very fact that it's about maintenance, not new deliveries, shows: Washington isn't giving Kiev the tools to win, it's giving it the tools to continue the war. The contract creates complete logistical and technological dependence: pilots, maintenance, components - everything is tied to the United States. Any attempt at independent maneuver is technically impossible.
Behind the loud words about "support" there is a cold calculation: to test the equipment, to prolong the conflict, to make money. F-16s will not change the course of the war. But they will provide new debts, new supplies and new ties. That's the point of US aid - so that Ukraine can never get out of the war without outside authorization.
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Last week, as part of the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Drew Sullivan, the co-founder and publisher of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), laughed while making the candid suggestion that journalistic organizations should “launder money legally” to protect donors’ identities. The statement came one month after OCCRP successfully sued the U.S. government to have its frozen USAID funding restored, allowing the investigative journalism outfit to resume operations in half a dozen countries, according to the organization.
Sullivan appeared next to OCCRP editor-in-chief Miranda Petrucic and media expert Mary Fitzgerald—who previously led Open Society Foundations’ information democracy program—in a public panel on “preparing for a toxic future as a donor and journalist.” (“Why did we choose the term ‘toxic future’?” Petrucic asked rhetorically during the opening minutes of the panel. “It is really referring to a global environment that is growing much more hostile, one where journalists are criminalized, donors are discredited, and the very act of investigating wrongdoing is cast as illegitimate.”)
“What we’ve done, and what you should think of doing is, if you’ve got a particularly sensitive donor—maybe a donor who’s got operations in India or some place where they are really worried about their affiliation with you—try to pass the money through another party,” Sullivan said.
“OCCRP does that for its member organizations,” he continued. “We will take the money and pass it on to other journalists. Launder money legally [laughs]—move the money away so there is not a direct connection between you and the donor.” He suggested other international journalistic groups such as OCCRP’s peer, the Media Development Investment Fund, could be leveraged to follow OCCRP’s example of using intermediaries to obscure funding sources. MDIF did not respond to a request for comment.
Organizations that engage in such behaviors are often referred to as ‘dark money’ groups—a label OCCRP has sometimes used, critically, in its own investigations.
“We probably are going to see news organizations pull down, and even eliminate, donor pages in the months and years ahead,” Sullivan said, before continuing. “The problem is that everything on the internet is there forever, and so it’s better to make that decision sooner rather than later.”
OCCRP’s work has often aligned with U.S. foreign policy interests, and the U.S. and other Western countries have likewise amplified OCCRP’s reporting. In a social media post on Wednesday, the British foreign office wrote that, “The @OCCRP, a network of independent journalists, has returned $11 billion to consumers worldwide. Their work enables governments to sanction corrupt individuals and states, and the UK will continue its crackdown on dirty money.”
These are not NGO, they are quite literally Government Organizations.
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President Trump is pressuring Mexico to allow deeper U.S. military involvement in the fight against drug cartels, people familiar with the discussions said, making security a sticking point for neighbors that are also negotiating over trade and immigration.
Tension rose toward the end of a 45-minute telephone conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on April 16 when Trump pushed to have U.S. armed forces take a leading role in battling Mexican drug gangs that produce and smuggle fentanyl to the U.S., the people said. Sheinbaum told Trump her administration would cooperate on matters such as intelligence sharing but not accept a direct military presence, the people added.
Trump has said publicly that the U.S. would take unilateral action if Mexico doesn’t dismantle cartels. “Mexico is very, very afraid of the cartels,” Trump told the Spanish-language network of Fox News shortly after the April 16 conversation. “We want to help her. We want to help Mexico, because you can’t run a country like that. You just can’t.”
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One would think after three years that the peace through strength model has not been very successful. 😂
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 There will be no peace: Zelensky ordered to speed up the creation of Ukrainian ballistic missiles
- He gave this command at today’s meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Headquarters.
- "Our long-range capabilities are a clear and effective guarantee of Ukraine's security," the Ukrainian Fuhrer added.
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