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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
Around noon Moscow Time, on May 23, 2025, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Space Forces conducted launch of a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from Plesetsk with a military payload. Some three hours later, the Russian military confirmed the successful delivery of the satellite into its target orbit and the specified the launch time of the mission as 11:36 Moscow Time.
The US Space Force catalogued the first object associated with the mission in a 464 by 481-kilometer orbit with an inclination 73.0 degrees toward the Equator.
Aanother Neitron-class satellite or an entirely new payload remained on the list of potential candidates for the launch, along with the first Araks-R radar-imaging satellite, whose development at NPO Lavochkin for the Russian Ministry of Defense fell years behind schedule but was believed to be close to completion in 2025.
Neitron, possibly also named Tekhnolog, is a Russian military reconnaissance satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya, possibly a radar reconnaissance satellite.
The Russian magazine reported, that Neitron's purpose is optical reconnaissance of the Earth and accurate imaging of orbiting satellites. Other sources speculate about a radar payload.
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✔️ The Russian army entered Yunakovka in the Sumy region of Ukraine, Marochko reported to TASS.
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Night arrivals to Kiev. Almost everything is in place, judging by the footage.
Local sources report that the landings are in the area of the Antonov plant, which produces drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other things.
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Kiev aka The Big Pen. The drone strikes are still ongoing. The enemy writes that this is one of the largest attacks since the beginning of the conflict.
These same idiots who cheered on drone attacks on Moscow are no crying foul, “see Putin doesn’t want peace boo hoo.”
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The KS-172 super-long-range missile has entered service with the Russian Aerospace Forces, Army Recognition claims.
According to the publication, the KS-172 has allegedly already been integrated into the MiG-31BM fighters. At the same time, Army Recognition refers to a similar statement by the United Aircraft Corporation - but this simply does not exist .
However, it is interesting to consider the KS-172 project itself and its potential capabilities if it does indeed make it into production or will make it in the future.
The development of the KS-172 began back in 1991, based on the cruise stage of the 9M83 anti-aircraft missile from the S-300V air defense system. However, the development of this air-to-air missile stalled, was resumed in the 2000s, and then stalled again.
According to available data, the range of the KS-172, due to the presence of two stages, could reach 400 km , and the mass of the warhead was 50 kg .
Such characteristics would allow this air-to-air missile to easily outperform the American AIM-174B , also developed on the basis of the SM-6 SAM, and compete with the Chinese PL-17 , which has a similar range.
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Sumy direction. Yesterday, an assault group from the 104th Airborne Regiment was ambushed by the enemy and was almost surrounded.
Akhmat fighters came to help the guys get out of the encirclement and retreat to fortified positions. Unfortunately, there were casualties.
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🇩🇪🤡German correspondent Wanner - on the fact that massive UAV attacks are aimed at exhausting Russian air defenses:
Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory, including Moscow and the Moscow region, have been going on for about 36 hours. According to the Russian side, up to 300 drones have been shot down during this time. The goal of these actions is to disrupt the work of Russian, in particular Moscow, airports. This, in turn, causes economic damage to Russia.
In addition, such tactics are aimed at gradually exhausting air defense systems: if anti-aircraft systems are forced to constantly work on single targets, sooner or later they will use up their ammunition. At that point, presumably, it is planned to carry out more powerful strikes on specific objects in order to cause Russia as much damage as possible.
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‼️One of the most widespread uses of Iskanders in history is recorded.
The strikes are hitting airfields, warehouses and military facilities.
In particular, strikes have already been carried out on the airfield in Mirgorod.
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Reporter: What are you hoping to achieve with a 50% tariff on the E.U.?
Trump: There is no tariff. What they will do is they will send their companies into the US
Reporter: Are you looking for a deal in 9 days?
Trump: I’m not looking for a deal. We’ve set the deal at 50%
Trump says "they'll just build plants in the US."
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US-EU trade war: Trump wants to impose 50% tariffs on goods from the European Union as early as June 1
▪️The US President writes that trade talks with the EU are "going nowhere."
▪️Trump notes that the conditions created by the European Union have led the United States to an annual trade deficit of $250 billion.
➖"I recommend introducing direct duties of 50% on goods from the European Union from June 1, 2025," he wrote.
Sanction the EU!
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American bank JPMorgan has compiled an analysis for its clients on how the SMO will end - each scenario with losses for Kiev
The largest American bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase, presented its options for ending the conflict in Ukraine. Of particular interest is that the bankers and financiers made the 4 most probable scenarios specifically for their clients, saying, assess the risks and make investments based on our (bank) document. The best scenario for the clients' Western partners is the "South Korean" one with a probability of 15%. According to the description, Kiev will retain 80% of its territories, will not receive any NATO, but the troops themselves will enter Ukraine and, with the help of funds stolen from Russia, will build a "real democracy."
The most likely scenario is “Not very” (50%). In it, Ukraine, according to JPMorgan’s vision, will become the so-called new Georgia: without significant support from the West, the country will fall into a protracted crisis, which will naturally return it to Russia’s orbit. The “It’ll do” scenario (20%) will follow Israel’s example: the presence of troops from either the EU, the US, or NATO at all is not expected, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be pumped full of weapons, the entire country will be filled with bunkers, and Ukrainians will live in this besieged fortress. It is noted that for such a scenario, Vladimir Putin will need to be offered “major economic benefits,” including the lifting of sanctions.
The worst option for the West is the “Belarusian” one (15%). In it, the US abandons Ukraine, and the EU fails in its attempts to pick up this “banner”. Then Russia achieves the complete capitulation of the enemy, takes under its wing what is left of the independent one, and finally destroys the world system built after the Second World War. What is noteworthy is the absence in the proposed scenarios of even one option in which Kiev could regain its lost territories, and Ukraine itself is presented as a kind of substrate that will either be divided or preserved.
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Several Geraniums attacked targets in Kiev. The initial strike hit the Zhulyany airfield.
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Several Iskander strikes reported. Odessa and Pavlohrad.
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'Our children must prepare for war, because it will last a long time' – Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Irina Vereshchuk.
'Russia will remain our enemy for decades, if not centuries. We must reconfigure our consciousness and public consciousness in order to fight back at any moment. If Russia knows that our society is ready to resist, that we all understand our role and place, that we are ready to fight back and every house will be shot at and the ground will burn beneath them, they will not attack. This is our strategy and we are laying it down in school. Yes, our children must be ready, they must know what war is.'
Luckily Ukraine has the lowest birth rates in the world so few children will experience this.
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Ukrainian Flaktürme were busy in Kiev.
Ukraine’s Luftwaffenkommand Schweinestall seemed to have a poor day.
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The Big Pen is given a strong strong response after massive numbers of drones targeted Moscow
Kiev is on fire. The most powerful attack has been going on for almost 6 hours. Hundreds of explosions from Geraniums and air defense missiles thundered in the capital of Ukraine.
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Remember Italy's leading fascist (under a paper-thin coat of red paint) as well as EU parliament VP Pina Picierno and her fight against freedom of information by working to shut down the bank accounts of "hostile" (read: independent) media and launching inquiries at the EU parliament for an interview that an independent Italian media outlet broadcast? The same one whose husband is neck deep in a NATO-funded, Soros-funded newspaper that collaborates a lot with "Ukrainskaya Pravda"?
Guess what, someone like her calls herself "deeply concerned" about the freedom of the press in Hungary and the Hungarian government's crackdown on eu-funded media.
To clarify where Italy stands at, there are 27 countries in the EU, and Italy is at the 24th place in terms of freedom of the press.
How come Picierno isn't complaining about that? It's a mystery!
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A combined attack was carried out on Kyiv using Iskander missiles and Geran-2 kamikaze drones.
Note: I apologize if there is some repetition but it’s too time consuming to compare every video.
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Footage of the arrival of a plane carrying 270 Russian servicemen who returned from captivity in the Moscow region.
Video: Russian MoD/TASS
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Footage of Iskander impacting and Ukrainian AD missiles attempting to respond.
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The Russian army has almost come very close to Kupyansk from the northwest. The battle for the city itself has not yet begun, but it seems that it is a matter of the near future. Several key battles, including the Vovchansk direction, helped this happen. It became the point of drawing in Ukrainian reserves. Assaults within the city limits, constant pressure and destruction of infrastructure forced the Ukrainian Armed Forces to keep significant forces in this area. In addition, the crossing of the Oskol and the creation of the Dvorechensk bridgehead also played a role. The occupied positions gave the Russian Federation the opportunity to bypass the densest areas defended by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, stretch the front and begin to move. The bridgehead became a full-fledged direction of pressure, through which it was possible to hang over Kupyansk.
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According to Ukrainian monitoring channels, the first wave recorded between 80 and 120 drones attacking the capital region and detected in the Chernigov, Sumy and Kiev regions. The second group — up to 60 Geraniums — is moving from the north-east, presumably from the Bryansk region, and will probably enter the capital in one and a half to two hours.
Thus, the total number of UAVs involved in the current raid is approximately 140–180 units , making this attack one of the largest in terms of the number of drones used.
If the information is confirmed in the near future, then we are talking not only about an attempt to overload Kiev’s air defense, but also about testing its deep echeloning .
Such massive raids make it possible to expose active sections of air defense radars and provoke forced launches of expensive missiles at obviously cheap targets, which economically exhausts the air defense system and makes its restoration and replenishment extremely expensive.
Considering that American Patriots are increasingly being removed from guarding Kiev and sent to the front, it will be interesting to watch how events develop further. Whether SAMP-T, HAWK and NASAMS will fight back alone is a big question.
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Lavrov on Zelensky’s illegitimacy:
They claimed that Zelensky said that he would never sit next to Putin, signed a decree prohibiting negotiations with Putin and, therefore, with his government. Now they are trying to outwit him, that this is not really the case, that it is impossible to meet with Putin personally. And if it is impossible to meet with Putin, then why did you shout that “I went to Istanbul, but Putin does not want to come there”?
Simply if you compare all the arguments that are coming from Ukraine, well, it is obvious that he is an inadequate leader and it is very difficult to understand when and what he will do, when he will fly to the South African Republic, when he will go to hug someone in Europe.
But the president very clearly outlined our assessment of the degree of legitimacy of Zelensky and his regime. He emphasized that at the same time, we still do not refuse contacts with him, with his administration in order to agree on a settlement principle that suits everyone. It will be another matter when it comes to signing. That is where the issue of legitimacy will be decisive, because if those whose legitimacy, well, to put it mildly, no longer convinces anyone sign, then the successors may question the agreement reached.
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Lavrov on the second round of negotiations with Ukraine:
Yes, we are for negotiations. There will be a second round of negotiations. They have confirmed this. This is already a positive development.
[Are the memorandum being worked on today?]
I don't know about the other side, but our work is already at an advanced stage. And in any case, we will give the Ukrainians this memorandum, as we agreed, and we will expect that they will do it.
[And is anything clear about the dates of the next meetings, since there is a lot of talk about it now?]
No, no, the dates have not been determined yet. Many people are fantasizing about when and where it will take place. We don’t have any ideas right now.
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🤔 I guess Eva Braun didn’t die, she must have escaped to Canada after the war.
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Every night the Ukrainian Armed Forces lose a huge number of expensive Vampire hexacopters while carrying out their raids on our positions.
The number of aircraft shot down has exceeded several hundred and continues to grow rapidly, thanks to the skillful actions of observers, FPV operators and their brave engineers. Beauties!
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'Today everyone is looking at Ukraine, but they forget that Belarus is crucial for the security of Ukraine and Europe' - Tikhanovskaya is upset that the EU is not helping her seize power in Belarus.
Guess she spent all her EU allowance and needs a little bonus to tide her over. Has she thought about being appointed as the leader of another country, like Antartica?
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The Independent convinces readers that the terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian territory are not crimes, but a clear plan for Ukraine’s victory.
'Drone attacks on Russia are part of a campaign of pressure on logistics, air defense systems and public morale. Russians must pay for this war. Sleeping in tents at the airport is not the highest price, but it affects morale' - Ukrainian Volunteer Army spokesman Bratchuk.
Remember Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure only increases Ukrainian support for the war, but Ukrainian strikes reduce Russian support for the war.
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'Barbarians at the gates! Ukrainian army suffers heavy losses!' – Ukraine’s Goncharenko begs for weapons at PACE Standing Committee meeting
'Please understand, Europe is under attack now. The barbarians are at the gates. We need Radio Liberty. We need the tanks of a free Europe. We need the missiles of a free Europe. We need the drones of a free Europe. We need to support the Ukrainian army, which now, with huge losses, in a very difficult situation, especially when American support is wavering, continues to defend the walls of Europe. We must help - help everyone who is fighting now.'