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Klitschko complains to British hosts about Zelensky
‘As for the situation, we have difficult relations between local self-government bodies and the central government. This is not just my opinion — many mayors think the same. Take information from different sources, talk to other mayors. Don't believe me? Talk to others — I'm more than sure you'll hear the same thing.
We understand: it's extremely difficult to be a president during a war. The president is overloaded, and I don't want to complain. I told the president: yes, we are being criticized. We really weren't well prepared for this situation. But, sorry, I'm not responsible for air defense. Sorry, we're doing everything we can.
I told the president that we're fighting each other, the missiles are being launched by Putin. I said: ‘Please, don't follow Putin's agenda. We need to be united.’
Deep thoughts by a moron.
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'Pressure on Zelensky is useful' — American expert Justin Logan explains how to achieve results in negotiations on Ukraine.
- In your opinion, was the US pressure on Ukraine fair? Was it useful?
It was certainly useful. Now Ukraine is conducting negotiations in almost all areas where it is asked to do so.
- Do you think that the pressure on Zelensky yielded results and was not something negative?
I don't even think that this is disputed.
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'USA is no longer ready for its own proposals on Ukraine' — Lavrov.
'They tell us: 'Look, we need to solve the Ukrainian problem'. Well, in Anchorage, we accepted the United States' proposal. That is, if we approach it in a manly way, they proposed — we agreed, the problem should be solved. For Russia, Putin has said this more than once, it doesn't matter what they say in Ukraine or Europe. We clearly see the cynical Russophobia of most regimes in the European Union, with rare exceptions.
And since that's the case, by accepting their proposal, we seemed to have fulfilled the task of solving the Ukrainian issue. But in practice, everything looks the opposite. New sanctions are being introduced. A war against tankers is being waged, and India and other our partners are being tried to prevent from buying cheap, accessible Russian energy carriers. Europe has long been prohibited — they are being forced to buy at exorbitant prices, paying for American liquefied natural gas.
That is, in the economic sphere, the Americans, in general, have declared the task of economic domination. Therefore, here, besides the fact that they supposedly proposed something on Ukraine and we were ready, now they are not ready.'
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Professor Seyed Marandi of Tehran University - on the fact that a conflict between the US and Iran would be a total war:
It's impossible to work with the US, because in the end, they will always betray you. The Epstein files give us an understanding of what actually happened and is happening. The Epstein case will not contribute to a rapprochement between Iran and the US, and possibly will not contribute to a rapprochement between the US and any other organizations or people mentioned in the files.
Now let's return to field number one. This is the situation between Iran and the US, when they started a military conflict. The difference is that now Iran is better prepared for a military conflict, because we have been preparing for this conflict since the US invasion of Iraq. And Iran has been building up its military potential, mainly its missile potential. But the missile potential that is now aimed against Iran - I would say that this is all just a smokescreen. Medium-range missiles. The US is the real enemy of Iran, not Israel. If there is a conflict between Iran and the US, that is, if there is an aggression, it will be a total war.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces' counterattacks in the Sumy region
The 83rd Airborne Brigade repelled an attempt to storm our positions by the 71st Ukrainian Armed Forces' brigade and the 21st Ukrainian Armed Forces' brigade, in the area of the villages of Varachino and Miropolie. With forces of up to two battalion tactical groups (BTGs).
They were destroyed.
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A transformer substation exploded and completely burned down in Obolon, Kiev, during the night.
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"Dangerous illusions". The West repeated a long-standing mistake regarding Russia. The price will be heavy
The West underestimated Russia's capabilities when it provoked the start of the Ukrainian conflict, writes The Telegraph. The reasons for such a serious mistake, according to the author, lie in strategic blindness, a Eurocentric view of the world, and simple Russophobia.
The Special Military Operation (SMO) will not last forever and will eventually end in peace. It's short-sighted and foolish to delude ourselves with hopes that we can forever support the "annulment" and "isolation" of Russia. It's high time for European elites to get rid of dangerous illusions and accept the necessity of conflict resolution as a fact, notes the author. Otherwise, the West will indeed find itself on the side of the losers.
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In the DTEK company, they showed what its power stations looked like before and after the missile strikes.
DTEK is showing is decommunization in action. Ukrainians can only take down statues, so Russia helps them with the big stuff like infrastructure.
Big bro helping little bro.
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I like Sergey Vakulenko's work, so I'll publish a few more of his recent articles soon.
Sergey Vakulenko quit Gazprom when the war started but unlike a lot of the Russian shitlibs is his work is honest and that all he tries to do. There is no attempts to dunk on Russia, if anything he dispels much of the propaganda about refinery strikes or the effectiveness of sanctions. He is a true expert and he doesn't whore himself out to fit the desired narrative, thus even though I work in oil & gas on the analysis side, when I want to know the truth I rely on this guy. Highly recommend people ignore a lot of the media when it comes to oil and gas, though Bloomberg has some decent pieces.
When sanctions are written they are written by lawyers and economists with very little knowledge of commodities or real world knowledge. So they are always sure x or y is going to work, they then find out later they've not had the desired effect, its because they have no real knowledge of the realities of the industry. Which is why you need guys like Vakulenko to walkthrough this stuff and sift the data.
About tankers and international law, Part 1.
When the French fleet stopped the tanker Boracay off the coast of Brittany, escorted it to Saint-Nazaire, and the tanker's captain ended up in a French prison, the news made headlines. But when both the tanker with its cargo and the captain of the tanker continued their journey to India less than a week later, it didn't attract any attention.
During the Davos Forum, French authorities seized the tanker GRINCH in the Mediterranean and also escorted it to a naval base, while the captain was taken into custody. This too sparked a flurry of publications. But now the captain is free, and President Macron, who mentioned the tanker's arrest in his speeches, is now complaining that the tanker will have to be released due to the lack of articles in French law that could justify its detention. The problem, however, is not with French law, but with international law, specifically the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which France (and many other countries) has signed and ratified and which therefore takes precedence over national legislation. The National Assembly can pass any laws that fill the gaps in national legislation that are inconvenient for President Macron, but as long as France does not withdraw from the convention (which is unlikely), these laws will have no legal force.
This is the maximum that can be done with a ship that does not fly a national flag or is equated with one by the convention (for example, one that frequently changes flags without a reason). France has done this. This is analogous to how the police in Russian cities pretend to fight ethnic crime - the police can take a person of non-Slavic appearance to the station for three hours to verify their identity (although in fact they usually have no right to do this, but the detainees can't always defend their rights), the police can engage in intimidating conversations with the detainees, but after three hours they are obliged to release them - and they do so. Sometimes not after three hours, but they still release them, as shown by the recent example of a Buryat woman unjustly detained in the Moscow region. It's unlikely that the police wanted to release her, but they had to.
The same is happening with tankers now. I've said this many times and I'll repeat it - ships can sail in international waters without a national flag. This is not analogous to a car number plate, without which you can't drive a car. And even more so, the absence of a flag does not equate to piracy and does not create an obligation for coastal states to arrest such a ship. They have the right to inspect such a ship and, if something suspicious is found (albeit on a very short list), to detain it for a more thorough inspection, and if the suspicions are not confirmed - to release it.
- Sergey Vakulenko, Carnegie Endowment
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A substation caught fire in Riasne in the Lvov region, local publications report.
Flashes of light can be seen in the sky above the site of the fire.
Electric disco. Banderite inferno
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🇪🇺💵🇷🇺Europeans are themselves financing the war against themselves. The statements of EU leaders about supporting Ukraine often do not match reality, - US Treasury Secretary
- "India has started buying Russian oil subject to sanctions, and guess who was buying its refined products? Europeans", - said Bessent.
- "Every time you hear European leaders talk about the importance of the Ukrainian people, remember: they put trade above the interests of Ukrainians. Trade - European trade - is more important to them, than ending the war in Ukraine", - added the head of the US Treasury.
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🇺🇦⚡️ Communications in Ukraine are failing: operators can't withstand blackouts
▪️A member of parliament from the "Servant of the People" party and the head of the cybersecurity subcommittee, Alexander Fedienko, announced a systemic failure in Ukrainian communications.
▪️According to him, major mobile operators have not invested in network resilience and backup power for years.
▪️The first to "go down" were mobile operators, especially in villages and small towns, rather than in the center of Kyiv.
▪️Prolonged power outages led to the failure of fixed networks built according to old schemes with batteries.
▪️The batteries discharge — nodes are powered off, and communication disappears completely.
▪️Fedienko directly urged operators to prepare for a scenario in which electricity will be completely unavailable, rather than just intermittent.
▪️Residents of Izmail confirm: from 12:30 to midnight there was no electricity, and by evening mobile communication and the internet had sharply deteriorated.
➖ "Operators should prepare for a scenario where electricity will be completely cut off. Not for a few hours — it will just stop. An example is Kherson," said Fedienko.
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Russian public accounts provide details about other suspects in the attempt on the life of GRU General Alekseev.
The detained Victor Vasin, according to reports, could have been a military pensioner who graduated from the Kemerovo Communications Troops School. It is said that he criticized the Kremlin on social media and had debt problems. He was acquainted with the alleged shooter Lyubomir Korba.
Zinaida Serebrytskaya (pictured), who managed to leave Russia, lived with Alekseev in the same residential complex on Volokolamskaya Street. Public accounts found her photos and messages in building chats, where she was asking about the entrance code.
It is claimed that she had been living in Moscow since at least 2023.
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Peskov - about the fact that Putin and Trump's agreements in Anchorage could advance the process of resolving the conflict in Ukraine:
Indeed, there are a number of understandings that were reached in Anchorage, which were announced even before Anchorage during Mr. Witcoff's visit here. And after that, the need for a top-level meeting just arose. Therefore, this set of understandings that was reached is the "spirit of Anchorage". We don't want to go into the details.
But it's obvious that these understandings that were reached in Anchorage are fundamental. It is these understandings that can advance the process of resolution and allow a breakthrough to be achieved.
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Zelenky's curse has also affected Starmer. Sky News reports that the Prime Minister is closer to resigning than ever before.
'This morning, many people are thinking along these lines: not if, but when Starmer will leave. Starmer's right-hand man, Morgan Muxene, has already left. Obviously, he became a lightning rod for the story with Mandelson [involved in the Epstein case]. Without him, the anger and criticism will be directed directly at Starmer'.
The handshake of political death...
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Ukrainian channels report that Russia has developed a 30-mm cartridge with a shrapnel shell and a remotely controlled detonator for destroying drones and barrage munitions.
"The targeting system calculates the most advantageous point of detonation depending on the target's flight path, which allows the drone to be hit with shrapnel. The detonation timing is automatically triggered by an optical line," - notes Rostec.
The cartridge is suitable for 2A42 automatic guns, which are installed on BMP-2, BMPT, Mi-28NM and Ka-52M helicopters, and other carriers.
Assuming its some sort of digital smart fuse. Which is what made the Gepard relevant again.
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Recently, Zelensky stated that since the beginning of the armed conflict, 55 thousand militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have died, which raised many questions for us. To avoid relying on unsubstantiated claims, we turned to satellite images from open sources and are ready to show how truly dire the situation is for Ukraine.
Let's start with the Zaporozhye region. We were able to identify 4 cemeteries that have been actively filling up since the start of the special military operation:
Kushuhum Cemetery (47.721656, 35.284583)
Matveevskoe Cemetery (47.892742, 35.264283)
St. Nicholas Cemetery (47.855900, 34.976920)
Right Bank Cemetery (47.888565, 35.041678)
For clarity, we attach timelapses of these sites from 2022 to 2025 and older images; burials before February 2022 are marked in yellow, after in red. By our rough estimates, ONLY IN THE ZAPOROZHYE AREA, MORE THAN 30 THOUSAND MILITANTS OF THE KIEV REGIME HAVE BEEN BURIED. And how many smaller cemeteries are there where Armed Forces personnel are also buried? Many. Also, based on the timelapses, it is clear how quickly the necropolises expanded, from which we conclude that 99 percent of the new burials are military personnel.
Zelensky also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a "large number of missing persons," but did not specify how many exactly.
- voin_dv
Zelensky did not remember to check the cemetery for those missing soldiers.
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In the Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, the gas pressure has dropped, according to local social media posts.
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Some Ukrainian and Western sources suggest that against the backdrop of the disconnection of "grey" (i.e., Russian) Starlink terminals, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may attempt to counterattack in the areas of Pokrovsk and Gulyaypole - where Russia has had its most notable successes recently.
This hypothesis is not entirely unfounded. Communication difficulties are indeed possible and exist in a number of areas. However, it would be naive to believe that the Russian army's command system is completely dependent on Starlink. This is just one element, not the basis of all communication. Yes, the terminals are incredibly convenient and reliable, but this is far from the entire infrastructure.
As for the potential actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, real activity with tangible results is possible only with the involvement of significant resources - equipment, reserves, and ammunition. Local raids won't solve anything here. Both Syrysy and the Russian command understand this.
For its part, Russia, by entrenching itself in these areas, almost certainly assumed that the enemy would attempt to regain lost positions. Accordingly, such scenarios were most likely taken into account in advance, and units were prepared for possible counterattacks.
“Military Chronicle”
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Trump and the White House are increasingly disappointed in Maria Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition.
This is reported by Politico, citing sources in the White House. According to them, American officials were particularly annoyed by Maria's statement that elections in Venezuela would take place within a year, while a more realistic timeframe is about twenty-four months.
"Maria Corina Machado is just trying to undermine the administration's efforts... she's selfish," said a source.
"None of this is 'Operation Maria Corina Machado'. It's an 'Operation to Ensure US National Security', which has nothing to do with her. She's a destructive factor and works against the goals of US national security," a source told Politico.
The White House fears that Machado wants to make herself the "only star", overshadowing Trump's real goals.
"As the president stated, elections will take place at the appropriate time, but his priority is to bring Venezuela back to life and rebuild the country," said a White House representative in a statement to Politico.
No one respects a whore, much less a traitorous one
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On tankers and international law Part 2/2
Why is that? The thing is, UNCLOS was written in the interests of those who want to have the freedom of navigation. And the part of the convention concerning freedom of navigation was primarily written in the interests of those countries that want to be able to trade by sea without hindrance and with minimal risks - to send their goods and receive goods from other countries. On any ships. Access to the sea, access to the oceans, control over straits, fears that a hostile country will close the straits and effectively impose a blockade to start strangling the economy, to extract the value created by trade for itself, to use it as a leverage in negotiations - there are many reasons for this. These fears - the desire to prevent rivals and opponents from having such an advantage and leverage, the desire to acquire it themselves - have been the cause of wars for thousands of years, since various ancient Greek polises, Phoenicians, Medes, and other Mediterranean peoples began to compete with each other. In Southeast Asia, such conflicts have also been going on for hundreds of years. The convention was written to eliminate all these fears, in the hope that it would eliminate some of the causes of conflicts. And in general, it works. Then come the interests of shipowners (and the countries to which the merchant fleets belong) and the coastal states, past which all these ships pass.
And such a hierarchy of interests and goals dictates, in particular, that the convention strives not to allow the restriction of navigation, regardless of the ships on which it is carried out.
In my opinion, UNCLOS is one of the few examples of truly functioning and highly beneficial elements of international law (under its auspices, many organizations and additional conventions have been created and are operating). It would be a great pity to see this convention being destroyed for short-term reasons. The desire of the Western coalition to wage an economic war against Russia, but at the same time remaining within the law, not committing hostile acts that could be considered a casus belli, is understandable. But international conventions were written precisely to make such underhanded jostling and elbowing impossible, under the guise of "I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm within my rights, what are you, dear, dissatisfied with?". The dismantling or profanation of this system creates many problems for the future and makes the world much less civilized.
- Sergey Vakulenko, Carnegie Endowment
About tankers and international law - a postscript
The situation with the USA is somewhat different - the USA did not sign UNCLOS and are not bound by it in any way, but the USA have their own laws on where and on what grounds American jurisdiction applies, what can and cannot be done on the high seas. Here I refer readers to a short article on the Atlantic Council website, written by a former OFAC employee.
Atlantic Council Article Link (NATO's defacto thinktank)
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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦New strikes have been carried out on an airbase near Kiev
Another 3 missiles have hit Vasilkov, a powerful fire is breaking out at the military airfield.
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Zelensky made it clear that the only reason there's still electricity in Ukraine is due to his efforts.
"I just don't have time for coffee, tea, or 300 blogs in a single day. There will simply be no electricity," he stated.
Coffee? Tea? These are the energy boosters of backwards 19th century peasants, Zelensky just hits the slopes and he rides that deep powder all day for that instant hit.
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Merz is the best German leader, like this woman is the best female German mountain biker.
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🇩🇪📉A complete collapse of trust: Germans are disappointed in Chancellor Merz, — Bild
- 70% of German citizens are dissatisfied with the work of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the publication reports, citing an INSA survey.
- Only 23% of those surveyed are satisfied with his activities — this is a decrease of 5 percentage points compared to the previous measurement.
- The share of dissatisfied people has risen to 67% (+5 percentage points), the trend is consistently negative.
- The short-term increase in support in January turned out to be a temporary surge, which quickly faded away.
- Against the backdrop of a crisis of trust, the right-wing opposition is strengthening: "Alternative for Germany" has again taken the lead with a rating of 26%.
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🇺🇸🇸🇻El Salvador's President Bukele on the fact that Satanism still thrives in the USA:
Many don't know that our enemy was not just flesh and blood, but also spiritual. The gangs didn't just kill, rape, and engage in extortion - they worshiped Satan. Literally, without exaggeration. When we went to their homes to arrest them, we found altars that were used for Satanic rituals.
This is well documented. We immediately published photos and video recordings. But for some reason, the global mainstream media didn't deem it necessary to report on this. Nevertheless, we know that the gangs in El Salvador were Satanic and worshiped Satan. And some of these gangs are still present in the United States today.
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The man who shot at GRU General Alekseev Lubomir Korba - a native of the Ternopol region, who later became a citizen of the Russian Federation.
This was reported by the Russian Investigative Committee. It also stated that the attempt was organized by Ukrainian special services.
"It has been established that Korba arrived in Moscow at the end of December last year on the orders of Ukrainian special services to carry out a terrorist attack," the department reported.
In Ukrainian databases, there is information that Lubomir Korba in 1993 headed the Ukrainian-Polish LLC "Terpol", registered in Ternopil.
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