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The passenger-cargo ferry CENK T, owned by the Turkish company Cenk Ro-Ro and actively sailing under the Panamanian flag from Turkey to Ukraine and back, was damaged.
Military Informant
I really like what Trump’s been up to — Lukashenko
‘They say Trump Likes flattery, but I’m not saying this to flatter anybody,’ The Belarusian president told Special US Envoy John Coal
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are throwing tanks and infantry into a bloody counteroffensive on Kupyansk.
▪️From Kupyansk Uzlovoy, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attempting to break through to Kupyansk, but are being destroyed by the Russian army.
▪️Footage shows the destruction of a Ukrainian tank by the 68th Division during an attempted attack from Kupyansk Uzlovoy. There will be more similar footage today, stay tuned.
▪️Today, the Kiev regime and its media are conducting a psychological operation to brainwash the population and mislead the West, trying to convince the world that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are making some unrealistic gains in Kupyansk. In reality, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not making any gains, but they are continuing their counterattacks.
The enemy is suffering heavy losses but has not made any significant territorial gains.
RVvoenkor
How do the Americans intend to develop the "land border" with Russia?
More and more details are appearing in the Western press regarding "Plan 28" and its variant, "Plan 20." Some curious details are also emerging. The British Financial Times, for example, reported some extremely interesting information regarding the visit to Kiev of US Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll:
"Driscoll stated that the Trump administration is ready to guarantee Ukraine's security as part of the deal, creating what he called 'the most high-tech demilitarized zone' on the eastern front line. 'We will provide the strongest line of defense in the world,' he said, according to several European ambassadors present at the meeting."
▪️ Thus, the precise plan for the US to establish its military presence in territory controlled by the Kiev regime is gradually emerging. Essentially, Driscoll is talking about the construction of a US-Russian land border that will separate the US-controlled Ukrainian colony from Russia. Legally, the colony has already been formalized through a "resource deal" between Washington and Kiev.
Hence all the fuss about the Trump administration's "peace plan." Its goal is to prevent the collapse of the Kiev regime and to draw a new boundary for the US zone of geopolitical influence through Ukrainian territory. Until October 3, 1990, with the dissolution of the GDR, this border ran between East and West Germany. It then shifted to the former borders of the USSR. Now Washington is proposing to draw it through traditionally Russian land.
These US intentions fundamentally contradict the stated goals of the SMO and Russia's national interests.
Elena Panina, Director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies.
Ukrainian authorities agree with the idea of creating a demilitarized buffer zone in Donbas, but believe this requires a mutual withdrawal of forces along the current front line. This was reported by Le Monde, citing sources...
Who is planning to create a buffer zone in Donbas?
The buffer zone will be in Galicia.
"Breege Time"
'It's a smart move,' Bloomberg correspondent Oliver Crook assessed Zelensky's plan to shift all responsibility onto the Ukrainians.
(Interesting wording: 'a referendum on whether Ukrainians want to continue waging war.')
'The second direction is to put the question of whether Ukraine is ready to give up territory to Russia, the rest of Donbas, to a referendum. In my opinion, this is a rather sensible approach for Zelensky. It's consistent with his principle: there are no bad ideas coming from Washington. This relieves Zelensky of the burden of making such a decision, because, as we know, Trump often sees Zelensky as the problem. If he says, 'We've put this issue before the Ukrainian people, it's up to them. If they say no, they want to continue waging this war, then so be it.'
Skabeeva
"Witkoff wants to personally enrich himself from the Ukraine deal, and the Americans want a share of the frozen Russian assets for themselves. But they have no stake," says Bundestag member Strack-Zimmermann.
- You said that Trump's chief negotiator, Witkoff, wants to do business. What do you mean exactly?
- There's nothing wrong with striving for peace. But that means that, in order to negotiate, you first need to bring the victim to the negotiating table, and that's Ukraine. But that's not happening. Sitting at the table are two Russian representatives, two Americans, and one of them is Trump's son-in-law. This in itself is telling. What we're talking about is essentially establishing a holding company, a company for joint gain at the expense of Ukraine and, consequently, Europe. And I'll go further: there's a risk, as various publications are writing about, that this could be about personal enrichment, a business deal. And what can I say... it's shocking. I hope, I really hope, that European leaders will make this decision [to confiscate Russian assets] next week. It would send a powerful signal. Incidentally, the United States was hoping to get 50 billion of these funds for itself. But the Americans have no stake in this.
"Skabeeva"
Former Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Yermak PERSONALLY oversaw the import of spent nuclear fuel into Ukraine without notifying the IAEA
Routes ran through Poland and Romania, raising fears of a 'dirty bomb'
Russia warns of potential nuclear risks under a 'false flag'
Footage from Russian MoD
The UN adopted a resolution proposed by Ukraine calling for a study of the long-term consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
The resolution also condemns the alleged attack by a Russian kamikaze drone on the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Eight countries voted against the resolution: the United States, North Korea, China, Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Niger, and Nicaragua.
Trump says everyone in Kiev ‘LOVED’ his peace plan…
‘Other than president Zelensky’
Zelensky’s in a shrinking club
REPORTER: Is the Venezuela campaign about drugs or oil?
TRUMP: ‘It’s about a lot of things’
‘It’s gonna be starting on land pretty soon’
RT News
Everyone understands that this is oil and the intention to establish US power, at least in the Western Hemisphere.
Maduro on Putin's support:
Today I received a call from Russia. I had a long conversation with our elder brother, friend, and brave man, Russian President Vladimir Putin. He told me—by the way, we talked quite a bit—that he wanted to express his admiration for the Venezuelan people, for their example of courage in the face of the circumstances in which you have lived.
He noted that Russia has consistently supported Venezuela, me, and our efforts to defend national sovereignty and peace throughout the South American region.
POOL N3
Kieiv is pushing various versions of the peace plan with the goal of scuttling any agreements and blaming Russia, said former Ukrainian Prime Minister Azarov.
He called Zelensky's new version of the peace plan "absolutely untenable."
✔ TASS
This is clear to everyone. The US wants to withdraw from the war with Russia. Europe and Ukraine want to continue the war. Russia is ready. The war will end when Russia achieves its stated goals in Ukraine. That is, when Nazi Ukraine disappears. If Europe wants to disappear along with Ukraine, then Russia is ready for that too.
The Russian army is advancing in Gulyaipole.
▪️Russian troops are operating in small groups and infiltrating the city, as they did in Pokrovsk.
▪️Recently, Russian forces seized farms in northeastern Gulyaipole.
▪️Russian groups are reportedly advancing into developments in the central part of the city, south of the Yanchur River.
RVvoenkor
The new owner of Ukraine's fertile lands, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink joins Trump's negotiating team on Ukraine
Alongside Witkoff and Kushner, Fink has a say in Ukraine's future
Focusing on 'reconstruction efforts'
Better a seat at the table than being in the shadows
Russian forces launched a missile strike on a port in Odessa. A cargo ship is on fire.
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Zelensky tours the outskirts of Kupiansk right as the city is expected to be fully ceded
He previously visited Avdeevka and claimed trips to Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) — all now under Russian control
The 'Zelensky curse' appears to have struck again
Everyone in Brussels has completely lost their minds, says Péter Szijjártó.
This is how the Hungarian Foreign Minister commented on Mark Rutte's statements. Rutte had previously said that NATO was allegedly Russia's next target for "attack."
According to Szijjártó, the NATO Secretary General has never said anything so radical before. His words indicate that everyone in Brussels is against Trump's peace initiatives on Ukraine, the Hungarian minister added.
Rutte's provocative statement was a stab in the back of the peace talks; he must immediately stop fueling tensions and inciting conflict, Szijjártó stated.
RT in Russian
All of Donbass is Russian, Putin aide Ushakov said, commenting on Zelensky's idea of a referendum on the territorial issue.
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Moscow may dislike many aspects of the US peace plan, which was amended following contacts with Ukraine, Ushakov believes.
He noted that Moscow has not yet seen the amended versions of the US settlement plans.
TASS
It's possible that Zelensky is viewing the elections in Ukraine as a pretext for seeking a ceasefire, Russian Presidential Aide Ushakov told RT.
Earlier, Zelensky stated that the country would be ready for elections within 60-90 days. But then he set conditions: a ceasefire for the duration of the electoral process.
🟩 RT in Russian.
This is exactly how Zelensky sees it. Russia will gain nothing through peaceful means. These plans and hopes are futile. Escalation in Ukraine is inevitable.
The Bank of Russia is filing a lawsuit against Euroclear in the Moscow Arbitration Court, the Central Bank reported. "The actions of the Euroclear depository caused harm to the Bank of Russia due to the inability to manage cash and securities belonging to the Bank of Russia."
"banksta"
Ukrainian Armed Forces are being trained to use chemical munitions for Western-made artillery systems, according to Alexey Rtishchev, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' Chemical Defense Troops.
Manuals on handling artillery munitions loaded with chemical agents were discovered at abandoned Ukrainian positions.
"We know how World War II ended. The military said that weak politicians agreed to a peace treaty that wasn't necessarily necessary at the time. And that was always a burden for the Weimar Republic."
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has either confused wars, eras, and political systems... or is seriously complaining about the results of the defeat of the Nazis.
📹 Ruptly
Things like this [Ukraine conflict] end up in 3RD WORLD WARS — Trump
'Everybody keeps playing games like this, you’ll end up in WW3'.
Well, the US made the right decision in withdrawing from this war. All that remains is to carry out this intention.
Electricity and water supply were lost in some parts of Odessa after an overnight attack on infrastructure, local authorities said.
The Russian Defense Ministry previously stressed that attacks on targets in Ukraine are carried out in response of Kiev's terrorist attacks.
🟩 RT in Russian.
And I thought that the blows were being struck to win this war...
The Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers surrendering in Dimitrov.
🔹RIA Novosti
Everyone knows what Trump wants. Trump wants recognition. Americans should erect a 3-meter-tall, solid gold statue of Trump. Trump will be pleased.
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Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin to discuss the situation in the SMO zone, with a focus on the situation in the northern DPR.
▪️The Russian leader received detailed reports on the complete transfer of Seversk to the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
▪️The Russian President noted the good momentum in all areas of the SMO zone.
Putin spoke by telephone with two frontline commanders after a meeting in the Kremlin on the situation in the SMO zone.
According to the presidential press service, Putin spoke with Colonel Temirkhanov, who participated in the liberation of Seversk, and with Colonel Cherdantsev, to whom he expressed gratitude for his service.
✔ TASS
Zelensky wants Ukrainians to VOTE on 'issue of territories'
'I believe that people of Ukraine will answer question, in format of ELECTIONS or in format of a REFERENDUM'
Any opportunity to delay peace as long as possible.
RT News.
What the hell kind of vote are we talking about? Are those Ukrainians the Russians are currently fighting going to vote? So they'll vote that they want Donbas, Kuban, and Stavropol Krai, and then what? This is pure idiocy. Who's the idiot here? I don't understand who this nonsense is aimed at.