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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
The weekend of heavy strikes brought Poland to a panic and they scrambled their own air force in response.
Debate is out whether this is a masochistic signal for, “Hit us too, daddy” or a wave to Zelensky, “Shame you lost another F-16, beg us for these ones.”
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Written by Ivan Dobrolyubov, translated by G😏B
Part I | Part II
The Man Who Knew Gold
The boy looked around and cautiously entered the pawnshop.
A gaze met him. The very one that the boy had been waiting for and the one that he feared. A silently questioning and understanding gaze. A gaze that immediately evaluated the small clenched fist.
The gray-bearded old man made a welcoming gesture without saying a word. It was impossible to tell if he was smiling or frowning beneath all the layers of his beard.
The boy approached the counter and took a gold ring from his clenched hand with his other hand. The boy placed the ring on the table and began to speak, quickly slipping into a hurried, bouncing speech of someone apologizing for a mistake.
The antiquarian old man took a magnifying glass and began to examine the ring carefully.
—This came to me from my grandfather. Well, I mean, he’s still pretty solid—he can walk on his own—he just gave it to me. He gave it to me, yes...
The man who lived in his pawnshop had once been a boy too. He listened half-heartedly, unhurriedly mulching in his mind his slow gray thoughts.
Old, but not antique. A man’s ring, with a broad seal. Naturally, there was nothing on the mirror of the seal. No doubt, it really was a gift, not something that had been stolen. The grandfather must be quite old—a man who understands that a personal seal isn’t something that his heir is ready for. Or maybe never will be. But time spares no one, and he has decided to give a symbol of his dynasty to a naive young man. While he still could. Looks like he is not going to see one. Nor will I... Time won’t spare me either. No grandchildren to carry on my legacy...
The boy kept chattering about his grandfather with words stolen from a banal school essay, all the while stupidly stuffing his hands into his pockets and looking around in embarrassment. And then, all of a sudden, he fell deafeningly silent.
A tear ran down the old man’s cheek.
A few seconds of silence was enough—one stern look over his beard, a dozen words, and a few bills turned over as payment. The piercing joy of the boy was paralyzing, as he palmed the temptingly beautiful banknotes clearly for the first time.
The grandfather looked at the screen to his left. The young man swiftly slipped out from the basement and was immediately attacked by a gleeful gaggle of friends. They cheered noisily, and the whole gang rushed immediately to the kiosk across the street.
The man did not have the strength to move. Time, the passage of which had become so ruthless in recent years, finally seemed to have lost its cruel power. He simply sat and watched.
Teenagers ran out of the kiosk holding bottles of soda and chips. They argued about where to go next and then ran along somewhere, off to the their next target.
The old man forced himself to look away the screen. He took a ring from a dusty drawer. There, in that exile, lay things that one could immediately tell no one would come for. They would wait a whole year for the obvious and only occasionally return to their owners. This was the fate awaiting the ring with the empty stamp — a year in a dark drawer…
I wonder, could I raise a grandson? Through and despite my son? To raise him to be wise, prudent, foresighted? So that he would accept an unmarked family seal and make it his own? Raise him to be unlike the boy who had just left, who’s already old enough to have his own children, and yet behaves like a sparrow. He doesn't know life. He has no clue what he had inherited from his grandfather. When I was his age, I was completely different. I did everything right. I knew the value of things. I knew the value of people. Of people...
The gray old man sat motionless with the ring in his hand. Even his slow gray thoughts seemed to have completely stopped.
A tear fell onto the hand beside the ring.
The pawnshop owner put the gold ring away in the drawer. With a habitual gesture, he took a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote a word in large letters on it.
Another drop fell onto the paper. Then another.
Hunting for Ukrainian 155-mm wheeled self-propelled guns 2S22 "Bogdana" in the area of the village of Shakhovo between Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka (first video) and near the village of Andreyevka in the Kharkov region (second video).
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Iran’s civilization ‘hundreds of times’ RICHER ‘than that of America’ — Supreme Leader Khamenei
Talk of Tehran’s surrender ‘ABSURD’
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Trump to sign EXECUTIVE ORDER lifting sanctions on Syria — CBS News
The US announced it would be taking the decision last month, with sanctions lifting occurring alongside Syrian-Israeli normalization process
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'Disappointed that justifications for Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still being made in the US' — former Japan PM Hatoyama
He adds that still no one in the US apologized for the atomic bombings
Trump comparing bombing of Hiroshima similar to the bombing of Iran was pretty tasteless.
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The enemy is attacking Lugansk: explosions and gunfire are heard
▪️The army is repelling an attack by enemy attack drones.
▪️There are several fires.
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"They said on the way back there will be more room"
Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are heading to assault Pokrovsk.
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A trap for the Ukrainians: survivors of the "youth contract" may be mobilized on a general basis, - the Ministry of Defense.
▪️The department proposes to grant them a deferment for a year and is introducing a corresponding bill to the Rada.
➖"Previously, after dismissal from military service, such citizens could be registered for military service and immediately called up again. The approved amendments to the Law "On Mobilization Preparation and Mobilization" will eliminate this uncertainty," the report says.
It’s a trap!
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Russian army hits bridge over Volchya River on border of Dnepropetrovsk region and DPR
In the area of Andreevka-Klivtsevo (Iskra) on the border of DPR and Dnepropetrovsk region, Russian troops attacked a bridge over the Volchya River, damaging the facility.
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Killed and wounded as a result of a strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the center of Donetsk.
The strike was carried out using a French Storm Shadow missile.
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The territory of the LPR is 100% liberated, - the head of the republic
▪️The report on the complete liberation of the Lugansk People's Republic was made "literally two days ago", said Leonid Pasechnik.
Honestly I need to catch up with maps if that is the case.
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⚔Battle of the Retards: Italo-British edition⚔
Some flights experiencing delays and hiccups at an airport in Sardinia? Of course it's Putin's fault! And if it's the British intelligence to say so, it's automatically true.
Worth noting that la Repubblica is one of the most insultingly factious newspapers in the whole peninsula, and that has graced the world with extraordinarily truthful news such as "Putin is dying of cancer and cures himself with enemas", "Full steam ahead for the 2023 counteroffensive", and "Russian soldiers are going on the offensive using fingers as bayonets".
All the more reason to give them a clown award.
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‘Russia’s economic collapse is not in our interests’ – Czech President Petr Pavel has told how he asked Trump to ‘gently’ apply pressure on Russia.
‘We spoke to him very consistently and jointly, convincing him that the time has come to significantly increase economic pressure on Russia. Not with the aim of causing Russia’s economic collapse – that is not in our interests – but to make it realize that there is simply no alternative to negotiations. He remains reserved for now, but he realizes that this is a very effective tool.’
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...Ukrainian officials are pleading with the West in closed meetings for a ceasefire’ — Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman says Ukraine can hold out for another six months at most.
‘The geopolitical reality remains stark: despite renewed NATO unity and vocal commitments to strengthen deterrence, the situation on the Ukraine front remains critical. The country is on the brink of exhaustion. Western analysts warn that without significant aid within the next six months, Ukraine could face a ‘tipping point’, while Russia is still effectively working a year ahead. One senior official believes Russia’s main objective now is to seize Odessa to cut Ukraine off from the sea.’
‘Rebuilding and developing new regions...
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Part I | Part II
Then the old man himself fell. Face down on his hands, on the table, on the paper. He cried heavily, trembling and sobbing. Clumsily, painfully, just as he had cried the last time. Sixty years ago. That’s how a well-built century-old dam breaks—first the drops, then a flood.
Someone opened the door, peered into the basement, and immediately took a step back, quietly closing the door.
The old man stopped trembling. He wiped his face with his long beard; he sniffled. He crumpled the sheet of paper and wiped the table. Painstakingly, as he had lived, he took the next sheet of paper. He lay it on the slightly damp table, and the paper immediately stuck.
The old man resolutely wrote the same word again:
A Testament.
Iran's Ambassador to Armenia storms out of presser over presence of US-funded media
Only returns after RFE/RL —owned by the US government— exits the room upon his request
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‘About 150,000 Britons to be pushed into poverty by 2030 as a result of welfare cuts’ – Financial Times on Starmer’s priorities.
Cuts to be made to boost spending on NATO and Ukraine.
Starmer is a Labour leader?
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He is jumping the gun, as usual, though unusually lightly.
Comrade Iosif would know what to do with eager beavers.
Поперед батьки в пекло не лезь. 😁
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'We should create a Japan without US military bases' — former Japan PM Hatoyama
He warns that American bases make Japan a target and undermine its sovereignty
Else Japan will find itself dragged into a war with China that the US desires.
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In addition to cruise missiles, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched kamikaze drones at Donetsk; air defense is operating in the city.
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'Japan should be more neutral towards Ukraine conflict' — former Japan PM Hatoyama
He explains the root causes of the conflict, Japan's stance influenced by the US, and why Japan must rethink its support
Agree!
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The first settlement in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the village of Dachnoye, came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
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🇰🇵Footage of North Korean soldiers and commanders who participated in the liberation of the Kursk region.
The demonstration took place during a joint event dedicated to the first anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and the DPRK.
Moments from Kim Jong-un's meeting with the coffins of North Korean soldiers who died in battles with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region were also shown.
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A series of mysterious explosions: Another oil tanker that had previously called at Russian ports exploded - Bloomberg.
▪️An explosion off the coast of Libya caused water to flood the engine room of the Vilamoura vessel, which was loaded with Kazakh oil in Russia in April and May. The cause of the explosion is unknown.
▪️In recent months, there have been a series of mysterious explosions on oil tankers that had previously called at Russian ports. Because of this, ship owners have begun checking the hulls of their ships for mines using divers and underwater vehicles, Bloomberg notes.
Odds are these are not Ukrainian attacks but another country using Ukraine as cover for attacks. Best thing to do oddly would be a false flag attack and create an oil spill which will get blamed on Ukraine and this will stop.
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A massive attack is underway: the enemy has struck Yasinovataya in the DPR and is attacking southern Russia
▪️NATO missiles are flying towards Crimea, Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast (an attack drone was shot down over Kamenskoye earlier).
▪️Local and Ukrainian channels are publishing footage after the strike on Yasinovataya.
Honestly we haven’t seen this in awhile. Somebody was saving up their allowance.
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The enemy hit Donetsk with a NATO cruise missile Storm Shadow
▪️There is also alarm in the Rostov region, where an attack drone was shot down over Kamenskoye earlier.
▪️In Ukraine, there is alarm in the Kherson and Nikolaev regions.
Don’t see a lot of Storm Shadows used these days.
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Denmark to draft women into army via lottery to protect against Russia' - Associated Press
'When Danish women turn 18, they will be entered into a lottery system on an equal basis with men. Each will be assigned a number that will determine whether or not they will be drafted.'
Asbery’s Opinion: If men are conscripted then so should women especially considering that many roles in the military are not combat roles.
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💜 🔈🎬 Here's the 27th episode of our "Russia-US Dialogue"!
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Watch this week:
00:30 - The state of affairs in the USA. 1984 in the flesh. Fascism in "democracy". The new mayor of New York. What are European tourists warned about when traveling to the USA? What is life like for American youth and what does the "American dream" look like for them now?
07:40 - How European leaders are leading their countries' economies and the global economy as a whole to collapse. Rutte and Merz are ready to fight to the last drop of blood and say that they "do not understand their people's fear of war". Meanwhile, gas prices for Europe are growing exponentially. Statistics, figures and facts.
13:50 - Prerequisites for a color revolution in Serbia and weapons issues.
19:30 - How Ukraine is adopting ISIS (banned terrorist group) tactics on the instructions of the US National Security Council. And how does this correlate with Trump's peacekeeping "efforts" and statements
24:50 - Zelensky has fewer and fewer reasons to hope. New strategies of the State Department for a change of power in Europe and reshuffles in the US itself.
32:30 - The situation in the Middle East. 5 main consequences of the US strike on Iran. What conclusions did the countries draw? And what is the greatest damage that Washington and Tel Aviv can suffer after this "operation".
📱📱 The link for YouTube, friends.
📹 The previous episode of the show is here.
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