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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
✔️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces command sent "all its elite units" and the Ukrainian nationalist battalion "Aidar", banned in Russia, to fight in the Sumy region, Marochko reported to TASS.
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Trump: I had a very difficult conversation with Zelensky because I didn't like what he said. I always said he didn't have any cards — and he didn't.
▪️Trump expressed confidence that his meeting with Putin will be planned and held.
▪️He allowed new “destructive” sanctions against Russia if there is no deal on Ukraine.
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🇫🇷Macron on Putin and Trump talks in the near future:
President Trump expects to hold talks with the Russian side in the coming hours or days to clarify what took place in the Istanbul talks and try to move forward.
The Russian side promised to return to the Ukrainian side, considering their proposals that were expressed during the negotiations. I think we should be careful.
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Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk: Brave 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 15 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 armoured vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry, enemy positions and transport being burned.
- RVvoenkor
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Seven FAB-500s glide bombs flew into Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the villages of Ryzhevka and Atynskoye , which are near the border area of Sumy Oblast.
From here the enemy carries out attacks in the direction of Tetkino in the Kursk region.
- Military Informant
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China announces Vice Premier's visit to Russia; applauds Yangtze-Volga and Northeast-Far East cooperation.
Source: Ivan on X
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President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill" Dead on Arrival in Committe after five house republicans vote NO
The Trump agenda suffered a major setback today after a handful of Republicans voted a key bill delivering it down in committee. Now, the largest tax increase in American history looms unless the GOP does an about-face.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee — led by Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) — previously released the text of a monumental new tax reform package titled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill.”
The 389-page bill includes a long list of pro-growth, "America-First" provisions that echo many of the successful features of the 2017 Trump Tax Cuts this time with no taxes on tips and overtime.
One particular gripe was reportedly the Medicaid “cuts” and the expiration of several wasteful ‘green’ energy tax credits were pushed back several years, while most of the “goodies” were delivered up front. Trump’s “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” cannot move forward to a full vote in the House or Senate—at least not in its current form.
Worth noting that if this bill passes, it will add $2.5 trillion USD to the already massive American deficit. $3.3 once interest rates are factored in.
MONEY PRINTER GOES BRRRRRRRRRRRRR once again.
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US to start European troop withdrawal discussions later this year, US NATO ambassador says - Reuters
The United States will begin discussions with European allies to reduce U.S. troops in Europe later this year, US ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said on Friday.
Asked to comment on a report that the Trump administration is considering withdrawing troops from Europe, Whitaker said "nothing has been determined".
"But as soon as we do, we are going to have these conversations in the structure of NATO", said Whitaker.
"It will be certainly after the summit, sometime later in the year, we are going to start those conversations... All our allies are ready to do it", he added, referring to the NATO summit in The Hague in June.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told NATO allies in February that "stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe".
The Atlantic reported in March that Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance had complained about European allies in a chat group. Hegseth expressed his "loathing of European free-loading", according to the Atlantic.
Such comments have fuelled European fears about the US commitment to NATO, along with Trump's threats not to protect members that spend too little on defence, and his reluctance to keep supporting Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion.
Can you hear that?
…its the sound of millions of European buttholes clenching.
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Fat chance of it ever happening. Neither Brazil nor China are ever going to exert pressure on Russia on this issue. Brazil and China will NEVER put pressure on Russia for a few reasons:
Reason number 1: They're both leading BRICS countries alongside Russia and heavily reliant on Russian energy exports and trade.
Reason number 2: The Narcoman has repeatedly spat on all their previous attempts at mediation, without mentioning all the times that Ukrainian political officials have insulted China more or less openly. Let's not even get into the topic of India, between that unhappy idea of a blasphemous drawing of their goddess Kali, and some Verkovna Rada deputies calling indians "Sh*tskins".
Reason number 3: The last time China was trying to mediate between Russia and Ukraine, the Kursk incursion happened. Xi Jinping is reportedly still furious over that slap on the face, and unlikely to forget. Ukraine also recently tried to tie Chinese volunteers to China’s direct involvement in the war. It also confiscated Chinese investments in Ukrainian companies.
At best they'll issue a couple of generic token statesmens on how they are always committed to a peaceful resolution and that's it.
The Kremlin for its part has remained lapidary: first a peace settlement under THEIR conditions, THEN a ceasefire. There's no chance they're ever going to stop until they get what they want, especially right now that the RUAF are approaching Slovyansk, Toretsk, and Kramatorsk.
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Russian MOD announces the liberation of Mikhaylovka
Soldiers of the 5th MRB denazified the Dills in the area after a small-arms engagement. The majority of AFU personnel retreated from the area, leaving only small pockets of resistance to be cleared.
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Trump has apparently come to the conclusion that a peaceful settlement requires not increased pressure, but a summit with the Russian leader - Wall Street Journal.
▪️The US President came to this conclusion despite the fact that American officials expressed disappointment with the results of the talks in Istanbul, writes WSJ.
Let me guess, this summit will take place at a Trump property.
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The Russian flag is flying over Volnoye Pole.
The footage shows our stormtroopers working to liberate the village.
The fighters destroyed the enemy with drones - they destroyed firing points and command and observation posts of Ukrainian militants.
Artillery crews also destroyed enemy positions and defensive structures.
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Ukrainian heretical priest of the schimatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine says that men of fighting age should be signalled to TCC by their relatives, especially if they have no children. Apparently, according to doctrine there's no greater love than sending someone to a one-way meat grinder.
Source: Ukraine Leaks
LOGIC.
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Tank sheds have also begun to appear in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The footage shows a T-72M1 and a captured T-72B3 with characteristic protective structures.
As with the anti-drone visors, the enemy laughed at first, then began to repeat.
- Military Informant
This is war not a beauty pageant.
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Aviation work. We observe strikes:
1️⃣ FAB-1500 on deployment point of 114 obr TerO Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village. Kupyansk.
2️⃣ FAB-500 for on deployment point of the 63rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village. Kirovsk (DPR).
FABs for everyone!
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Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur's 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words & dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.
Biden WH didn't release it last year.
The audio shows what the transcript lacks — Biden's dry-whisper voice and the long silences as he struggles to speak and remember details.
Those often were supplied by his attorneys, who acted as caretakers of his memory.
There is also a clock in the background as a metronome.
Though amiable, the interview became somewhat tense when Biden attorney Bob Bauer chastised prosecutor Krickbaum in this exchange over why Biden had kept a memo about Afghanistan.
"Your answer is that you don't know," Bauer instructed the president.
Throughout his interview, Biden sounded more like a nostalgic, grandfatherly storyteller than a potential defendant who could be accused of hoarding secret papers.
He waxed on about several topics including shooting a bow and arrow in Mongolia.
Dude was cooked, pretty sure he thought he was fighting the Soviet Union.
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Moody's pushes US out of the top triple-A rating club, citing rising debt
Moody's on Friday downgraded its credit rating of the United States by a notch to AA1 from AAA, citing rising debt and interest payments that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns.
The downgrade marks the end of an era as Moody's was the last major agency to maintain a triple-A rating for U.S. sovereign debt
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Europe is disoriented: Trump does not carry out threats to force Russia to a ceasefire
▪️Bloomberg sources say European countries are privately "disappointed and confused" by the US president's constant shifting position on the war between Russia and Ukraine.
▪️Some still believe that Trump will carry out his preliminary threats to impose secondary sanctions and banking restrictions against Russia and its allies, the agency writes.
▪️His sources also note that in recent weeks the US position towards Russia has become more negative and that the Trump administration already considers Putin the main obstacle to concluding a "peace agreement."
▪️However, the White House emphasizes that the final word remains with Trump.
So he is going to put secondary sanctions on China while trying to get a trade deal done? Sure…
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Another tidbit from inside the delegation to our correspondent:
Big laugh from Moscow team in Istanbul when a Ukrainian claimed Russia was planning to invade Poland in 2030.
Medinsky smirked.
"Let's not turn these talks into a fantasy novel."
- Margarita Simonyan
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The Ukrainian man suspected of firebombing the Prime Minister’s family home has always loved Britain and has an England flag on his bedroom wall, his father has revealed.
Roman Lavrynovych appeared in court on Friday accused of setting fire to two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer.
The 21-year-old was remanded in custody after Westminster magistrates’ court heard he had allegedly used white spirit to start the fires.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Sir Keir told MPs that attacks against politicians were an attack on democracy.
But Mr Lavrynovych’s father said that while his son was a proud Ukrainian, he had always admired the UK.
Mykola Lavrynovych, 48, added: “Roman came to London for the first time when he was 10 years old. He spent a year, as his mother was working there.
“He went to a British school and studied there for one year. When the invasion started, he left Ukraine for Germany, but after a year he moved to London, which he really liked and wanted to stay there.”
His father went on: “He has an uncle who is fighting on the front line against the Russians and he is 100 per cent pro-Ukrainian. He has never spoken Russian and doesn’t allow his sister and brother or anybody else even to listen to Russian music.”
Roman was initially living with his mother and younger siblings but when his sister was unable to get a school place in London, she returned to Ukraine and he remained, living with his grandmother.
His father said Roman had been happy and settled in the UK and had a girlfriend who was also Ukrainian.
Roman was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning in connection with a string of alleged arson attacks in north London.
The first incident involved a car once owned by Sir Keir, the second was at a flat he lived in during the 1990s and the third took place at his family home in Tufnell Park.
The first incident occurred in the early hours of VE Day on May 8, when the London Fire Brigade was called to a vehicle fire at an address in NW5.
A Toyota Rav 4 hybrid electric car had burst into flames but at the time investigators did not believe the cause of the blaze was suspicious and put it down to a battery malfunction.
Three days later, in the early hours of May 11, the fire brigade attended a fire at a terraced property in Ellington Street in N7.
The front door of the property, which comprised four flats, was badly damaged and residents had to be helped out by firefighters.
This time, investigators concluded that the fire had not been started accidentally and alerted Scotland Yard.
The third incident occurred in the early hours of Monday morning, when the Starmers’ family home in north London was targeted in a suspected firebomb attack.
Ukraine GUR false flag attempt looks like it got busted.
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Good results of the first dialogue between Russia and Ukraine in 3 years - Dmitriev
The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of V. Putin, K. Dmitriev, announced the good results of the negotiations:
1. The largest exchange of prisoners of war
2. Ceasefire options that might work
3. Understanding positions and continuing the dialogue
This would not have been possible without members of Trump's team.
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The past talks are a symbolic victory for Putin — The Guardian
▪️Europe, together with Ukraine, demanded a 30-day ceasefire, but Putin did not make concessions.
▪️Such a result will most likely be regarded as a failure for Zelensky, the publication writes.
▪️The impasse appears to be paving the way for a US-Russia summit after Trump derailed talks on Thursday by saying "nothing will happen" until he meets Putin in person.
▪️This has raised concerns in Kiev that they may be left on the sidelines while others "decide their fate."
Option 2: Let battlefield decide your fate.
Hint: It’s not good.
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Donbass
🪖 Rubicon is working
0:06 - Kirpi
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0:54 - Soldiers
0:56 - Auto
0:58 - Deployment Point
1:03 - Deployment Point
1:09 - Firing position
1:16 - Shelter
1:25 - MT-12 "Rapier"
1:27 - M113
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1:31 - Kozak
1:33 - Baba Yaga
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1:51 - Armoured vehicle
1:52 - M113
1:54 - Auto
1:56 - Quad bike
1:58 - Communication system
2:00 - Satellite dish
2:02 - Communication tower
2:03 - Communication system
2:05 - Patch Antenna
- Lost Armour
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Kiev wants China and Brazil to push Russia to a CEASEFIRE -- Ukrainian FM spox Tikhy
'They have influence on Russia' and can 'persuade Russia'
Losing on the battlefield, Kiev now wants 'a full and durable ceasefire'
It should be noted Ukraine turned down ceasefires every month in 2022.
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Western media publishes Russia's demands in negotiations with Ukraine
▪️Neutral Ukraine - there should be no foreign troops or weapons of mass destruction on the territory of Ukraine, which is similar to the Austrian model of neutrality.
▪️No reparations – mutual renunciation of any claims for compensation for damage caused by the war.
▪️Rights of Russian-speaking citizens. Ukraine must adopt European standards of minority rights and put an end to nationalist propaganda.
▪️Recognition of territories – Ukraine should not deny Russia’s constitutional claims to five Ukrainian regions (DPR, LPR, Kherson, Zaporizhia regions and Crimea) and their international recognition.
▪️The condition for an immediate ceasefire is that Ukrainian troops must withdraw from all five Russian territories.
❗️Russian sources have not yet confirmed this.
These are Ukrainian sources. One has to be careful. Ukraine and European leaders are trying to frame Russia as unreasonable and preventing peace. Even if they were Russian positions, both sides start with maximalist demands.
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A new summit between Ukraine and Russia could take place in June – negotiations will continue - NV reporter
▪️At the same time, Russian media report that the date of the new meeting has not yet been determined.
- RVvoenkor
Hopefully not in San Francisco.
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The West's Strategy of Waging a War of Attrition Against Russia Isn't Working
▪️This was stated by the Deputy Special Envoy of the US President Morgan Ortagus to the Fox TV channel.
▪️Now Trump is seeking to promote peace in Ukraine, she added.
Ohhh it’s working alright, just not for the West.
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The blow that went unnoticed
Today at lunchtime, local Ukrainian resources reported about the threat of ballistics and explosions in the Kamensky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Footage sheds light on the event…
🔥 We are observing the destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Pelican air target detection radar by a missile strike from the Iskander-M OTRK in the area of Novokalynivka, Dnepropetrovsk region.
- The Wrong Side
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SLG Hot Tub Time Machine:
‘Concessions are not an option’: Kyiv says there will be NO ceasefire and it will not accept any deal giving up territory to Russia - as Polish president tells Ukrainian lawmakers country ‘must decide its own future’
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky, said the country would not agree to a ceasefire and said Kyiv would not accept any deal with Moscow that involved ceding territory.
Making concessions would backfire on Ukraine because Russia would hit back harder after any break in fighting, he added.
Podolyak's comments came before Polish President Andrzej Duda addressed Ukraine's parliament on Sunday. He said that ceding even 'one inch' of the country's territory would be a blow to the whole West and reassured Kyiv of Warsaw's strong backing for its European Union membership bid.
'Worrying voices have appeared, saying that Ukraine should give in to (President Vladimir) Putin's demands,' Duda said, the first foreign leader to address Ukrainian lawmakers in person since Russia's February 24 invasion.
'Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future... nothing about you without you,' he added, to a standing ovation in the chamber.
Speaking in an interview on Sunday, Podolyak hit back at voices calling on Ukraine to make concessions to end the war.
'The war will not stop (after any concessions). It will just be put on pause for some time,' he told Reuters in an interview in the heavily guarded presidential office, where some of the windows and corridors are protected by sandbags.
'After a while, with renewed intensity, the Russians will build up their weapons, manpower and work on their mistakes, modernise a little, fire many generals and they'll start a new offensive, even more bloody and large-scale.'
Recent calls for an immediate ceasefire have come from U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Podolyak dismissed the calls - that would involve Russian forces remaining in territory they have occupied in Ukraine's south and east - as 'very strange'.
Both sides say peace talks have stagnated. Each blames the other. However, a ceasefire would play into the Kremlin's hands, Podolyak said.
Very difficult days await us - Polish Prime Minister after talking with Trump about Russia-Ukraine negotiations
▪️Russophobe Donald Tusk complained to the media that the negotiations showed that the Russians did not show good will in Istanbul: the Russian side had no intention of holding negotiations in the presence of the Americans and put forward conditions that were unacceptable not only for Ukraine, but also “for all of us.”
▪️He added that the main task will be to maintain European and American unity on this issue.
➖"We do not hide the fact that the Russian position can hardly be called constructive. Probably, very difficult days still await us," Tusk whines.
I haven’t seen such Polish drama since I asked the cleaning lady if she had seen my watch. Tusk there is no us, and trust me the only way for there to be an us is if you want pre-WWI European borders.
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