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🇱🇹Lithuania sees need to expand NATO mission in Baltic Sea
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said NATO's mission in the Baltic Sea needs to be expanded following this week's incident off the coast of Estonia involving a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet."
According to him, the incident, during which Russian fighter jets escorted the Jaguar tanker and prevented Estonian authorities from conducting an inspection, shows Russia's readiness to use military force to protect civilian ships.
NATO insists on increasing the number of German troops from approximately 180,000 to 240,000-260,000 by 2030, but German armed forces personnel consider these figures unrealistic, the Welt newspaper reported on Saturday.
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Bogatyr has been liberated by the Russian Army.
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Dnepropetrovsk and Pokrovskoe direction.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were transporting "Baba Yaga" in a pickup truck, but they failed to shoot down our drone. Destruction of enemy equipment by FPV drones "KVN" and "VT-40".
Vanya Ivanov's group is working.
Sudoplatov
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Destruction of the enemy's UAV crew position and armored vehicles. Kharkov direction.
The "Canada" group of the "AKHMAT" special forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense together with the reconnaissance forces of the "North" group.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸"The conversation is being prepared": Peskov confirmed that Putin's telephone conversation with Trump will take place.
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Deputy Chief of the SBU Spotted in Public for the First Time
For the first time ever, deputy chief of the SBU Oleksandr Poklad made his first public appearance among the Ukrainian delegation.
Before this picture, only photos from his youth were available.
Poklad was described as one of the supervisors of the Ukrainian troops' operation in the Kursk region.
He is accused of organising countless murders of various personalities and acts of sabotage on the territory of the Russian Federation and on Ukrainian territories seized by the Russians, among which the terrorist bombing of the Kerch bridge.
Poklad was also heavily involved in the murder of Kireyev, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating group that attended to the Istanbul talks back in 2022, by Budanov's admission.
Poklod has a reputation for ruthless efficiency and acts as a troubleshooter of sorts for the SBU.
Another banderite terrorist who'll be offered shelter in the west as a "freedom fighter" once the war will be over.
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Journalists were banned from taking photos of Zelensky that could be used to create memes.
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As expected, after the breakthrough of the AFU defenses in the Bogatyr area, the Russian forces began to develop their offensive along the N-15 highway, one of the key areas of operational importance. Movement along this axis offers several advantages at once: first, it makes it possible to pull back some AFU forces from the western defense sector of Pokrovsk, and second, it opens direct access to the administrative border of the DPR and Dnepropetrovsk region.
If the momentum is maintained and the pressure continues, the westward advance along the N-15 will create, for the first time in the entire conflict, a real prospect of a close approach to the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The opening of a new direction through the conventional border of old Ukraine is a psychological and strategic effect at the same time. From the military point of view - it is stretching the reserves of the AFU, reformatting logistics, as well as pressure on the infrastructure nodes of the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye rear areas, which have been hit more and more actively lately.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army liberated Bogatyr in the South Donetsk direction
- As a result of assault actions, fighters of the 36th motorized rifle brigade of the 29th army of the "Vostok" group liberated the village of Bogatyr.
- The military personnel completed the cleanup and raised Russian flags in the city.
- As a result of the military operations, more than 1,400 buildings were cleared, and up to a combined battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the 79th separate airborne brigade, 37th separate marine brigade and 33rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Lavrov:
"On the initiative of the American side, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a telephone conversation. They exchanged views on the results of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations held the previous day in Istanbul.
Rubio welcomed the agreements on the exchange of prisoners of war and on the preparation by each side of its vision of the conditions necessary for reaching a ceasefire, and emphasized Washington's readiness to further assist in the search for a settlement.
Lavrov noted the positive role of the US and reiterated Moscow's readiness to continue working together with US colleagues in this context"
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🇭🇺Hungarian Prime Minister Orban called on the EU to follow the US in resuming negotiations with Putin:
It is an illusion that peace will only be achieved through Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. European leaders will sooner or later have to negotiate with the Russian president. This is inevitable. Europe must decide whether to negotiate with Putin before or after the Americans.
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n May 17 at 7:23, the satellites of the second experimental mission of BYURO 1440, Rassvet-2, were launched into Earth orbit. They became a space laboratory for testing technological solutions that form the basis of our target satellite group.
In a year we not only completed the planned flight test program, but also significantly expanded it:
🟣 For the first time in Russia, an inter-satellite laser communication session was conducted. Over 400 GB of information was transmitted between spacecraft at a distance of 1000+ km at a speed of 10 Gbit/sec
🟣 First to confirm 5G protocol stack functionality on satellites
🟣 We have worked out the procedures for pointing the antennas of the gateway radio unit to implement the air-to-ground channel in the Ka-band
🟣 We confirmed the functionality of navigation systems and solar batteries of our own design.
Ahead of this year is the first mass launch of dozens of serial spacecraft developed by BURO 1440 to form a target low-orbit group and start providing new generation satellite communications services.
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The New York Times found out what Russian soldiers think about the idea of a ceasefire:
Many Russian soldiers say they would see a cease-fire along the current front lines as a failure, hinting at the nationalist discontent the Kremlin could face in accepting a cease-fire.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Putin did not even want to consider the 22-point plan prepared by the US, Europeans and Kiev, which Witkoff wanted to present to him - Financial Times
- The 22-point plan was discussed in detail in a phone call between Ukrainian and US officials, according to FT sources. Ukraine was represented by Zelenskyy's chief of staff Yermak and Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov, while the US was represented by Whitkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump's special envoy to Kiev Keith Kellogg.
- According to the publication, after Putin refused to discuss this plan, Witkoff cancelled his trip to Moscow last work week (May 12–16).
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TRUMP: MONDAY AT 10:00 AM I WILL BE ON THE PHONE WITH RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN .
The topics will be: ending the 'bloodbath' which is killing on average more than 5,000 Russian and Ukrainian servicemen every week, and trade. Then I will talk to Ukrainian President Zelensky, and then, with President Zelensky, to various NATO members. i hope this day will be productive, a ceasefire will be declared and this very brutal war will end that should never have been started. god bless us all!!!
🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Battles for Novaya Poltavka: Field ammunition depot destroyed along with Ukrainian infantry
- Soldiers of the 102nd Regiment of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army discovered and destroyed an enemy ammunition depot during an offensive at the junction of the Pokrovsky and Konstantinovsky directions.
- The FPV drone's precise hit first caused a fire, after which the ammunition has detonated.
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The main topic of the upcoming conversation became clear.
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The commander of the special forces "Akhmat" , deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Major General Apti Alaudinov , answering a question from an international journalist, head of the press service of the International Club of National Unity , Abbas Juma on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
"Any war sooner or later ends at the negotiating table. And it is clear that this war should also end with negotiations. It is not a fact between whom these negotiations should take place, because the Ukrainian side has no right to make any decisions on its own. It has masters - America and Europe. The leaders of Western countries directly control all processes on the territory of Ukraine. Well, and, naturally, every day of delay in these negotiations is a minus for Ukraine, because every day Ukraine loses territory.
For Russia, as a state that has never refused to negotiate, in this case the continuation of the war is advantageous from a military point of view. Yes, on the one hand, there are losses. But at the same time, we still intend to achieve the goals that were initially set before the start of the SVO.
So the question arises that Ukraine, which could not lose its territories, which could peacefully solve all the problems without losing more than a million of its male population, without losing its four regions, because it listened to its Western masters, is today forced to talk about preserving its territorial integrity.
And we, having these four regions as part of the Russian state, do not intend to leave them to Ukraine. So it turns out that for Ukraine, every day that this conflict drags on is a minus, and it is not a fact that Ukraine will preserve itself as a state. That's all."
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on conversation with Lavrov.
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NATO: Not Another Terrible Organization?
A serious corruption scandal has broken out in NATO. According to Euractiv, five former and current employees of the NATO Supply and Procurement Agency (NSPA) were arrested on charges of bribery in the conclusion of contracts for the purchase of ammunition and drones for the alliance. The first two detentions were reported on 14 May by the Belgian public prosecutor's office, three others were arrested in the Netherlands.
Detained NSPA employees working in Luxembourg were able to pass on information to defence contractors, the Belgian authorities' statement noted. "There is reason to believe that the money received from these illegal activities was laundered, including through the creation of consultancy companies", the prosecutor's office added. Shortly afterwards, Dutch authorities announced the detention of three more people, including a 58-year-old former employee of the country's Ministry of Defence whose previous work "concerned international procurement contracts".
The Luxembourg public prosecutor's office, for its part, confirmed that the relevant documents were seized in the Grand Duchy, specifying that the investigation also extended to Italy, Spain and the United States and is coordinated by the EU agency Eurojust. The Luxembourg Prosecutor's Office, for its part, confirmed that the relevant documents were seized in the Grand Duchy, specifying that the investigation also extended to Italy, Spain and the United States and is coordinated by the EU agency Eurojust.
Alliance Secretary General Mark Rutte told reporters that the investigation was initiated by the NSPA itself. "We want to get to the truth", Rutte stressed.
With over 1,500 employees, the NSPA is based in Luxembourg and has units in many other European countries. Besides providing logistical support for NATO operations and missions, the NSPA can also negotiate defence contracts on behalf of the member countries of this military bloc. Such joint purchases are expected to save national governments money through effective mutual accounting of needs.
According to a NATO statement, the NSPA itself operates on the principle of ‘no loss or profit’ and last year, on behalf of several Alliance member states, signed a contract for the supply of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles worth about $700 million. Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Reuters reports, announced the agreement in May 2024, without naming the countries involved.
The investigation into possible NSPA corruption-regardless of its findings-is a "valuable reminder" of the importance of careful oversight of how public money allocated to defence is spent, according to Francesca Grandi, defence expert at Transparency International.
"As hundreds of billions more will be sent to the defence sector over the next five years, it is likely that state institutions will fall a huge burden in relation to the desire to eliminate the risks of potential corruption. And the risks are great because of the high level of secrecy surrounding government contracts, large sums of money, and the sensitive nature of the negotiations", Grundy explains.
The publication notes that the scandal has erupted at an inappropriate time for NATO:
"Looking at the large-scale growth of Russian military power against the backdrop of the ongoing war with Ukraine, NATO states are experiencing a boom in defence spending that could drag on for years. At the upcoming NATO summit, under pressure from US President Donald Trump, the 32 member countries of the alliance appear to be pledging to increase military spending to at least 3.5 per cent of their GDP."
SLG note: it's funny how these spokepersons' first focus when discussing NATO is the amount of billions that will go in defence spending. It's almost as if NATO is a money laundering scheme for Big Weapon first, a bullying instrument for any small country that doesn't have nuclear capabilities second, and a "defensive alliance" a very distant third. Crazy, right?
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Geraniums" destroy enemy rear in Sumy region
The parking area of the 82nd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Velykaya Chernetchina in the Sumy region was hit by precise strikes.
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In a Ukrainian cartoon, a grandfather explains to his grandson that his country is very rich and is ready to share its wealth with the United States.
"And if grandma says that this is not so, we will hand her over to the SBU," grandma's relatives say in chorus.
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🇰🇵Kim Jong-un conducted combat exercises of air squadrons and called on the army to be ready for war:
"During the exercises, tracking and destruction of cruise missiles and kamikaze attack drones, neutralization and destruction of attack drones using electronic means were practiced. Also during the exercises, tests of a new long-range and gliding guided bomb were conducted.
The DPRK leader stressed that all parts of the army must make a radical change in their preparation for war, constantly being ready to enter the war."
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🇺🇦 OCU seized a church in Zastavna, Chernovtsi region
- Raiders used a grinder to cut off the lock on the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and broke inside.
- Dozens of radicals swept away parishioners of the UOC. The cleric personally broke down the doors of the church.
- The police were present at the scene and did not pay attention to the actions of the attackers.
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The negotiations explained.
“You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people my friend.
Those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”
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