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UkroSmedia has an epiphany: - The process of prisoner exchange with Russia has stalled, because of the approach to the lists. Now Russia has more than 20,000 captured AFU soldiers, while we have only 800 and almost 5,000 "separatists" whom we are trying to exchange. It should be understood that the "separatists" of the Khokhlonazis are priests of the canonical UOC, public figures, journalists, ordinary honest people or those from whom it was possible to take away property "according to the article". @polk105

Powerful explosions at the Slavyansk thermal power plant There were 2 explosions at the enemy facility in the occupied part of DNR. One of them - in the building of the station, local channels report. Dense columns of smoke are rising from the sites. t.me/RVvoenkor

France sends combat troops to Ukraine battlefront Will the deployment of a Foreign Legion unit commanded by French officers trigger a wider European war? AsiaTimes France has sent its first troops officially to Ukraine. They have been deployed in support of the Ukrainian 54th Independent Mechanized Brigade in Slavyansk. The French soldiers are drawn from France’s 3rd Infantry Regiment, which is one of the main elements of France’s Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère). In 2022 France had a number of Ukrainians and Russians in the Foreign Legion. They were allowed to leave the Legion and, in the case of the Ukrainians, return to Ukraine to join Ukrainian forces. It isn’t clear if the Russians returned home. The Legion today is run by French officers but the rank and file are all foreigners. Under the curren anonymat (being anonymous) a volunteer who joins the Legion can decide whether to keep his given name or adopt a new one. Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship. If a legionnaire is wounded, he is entitled to gain French citizenship without any waiting period. There are no women in the Foreign Legion. The initial group of French troops numbers around 100. This is just the first tranche of around 1,500 French Foreign Legion soldiers scheduled to arrive in Ukraine. These troops are being posted directly in a hot combat area and are intended to help the Ukrainians resist Russian advances in Donbas. The first 100 are artillery and surveillance specialists. For months French President Emanuel Macron has been threatening to send French troops to Ukraine. He has found little or no support from NATO countries outside of support from Poland and the Baltic States. Allegedly the US opposes sending NATO soldiers to Ukraine (other than as advisors). One of the questions to immediately arise from France’s decision to send soldiers from its 3rd Infantry Regiment is whether this crosses the Russian red line on NATO involvement in Ukraine? Will the Russians see this as initiating a wider war beyond Ukraine’s borders? France itself does not have many troops to put on Ukraine’s battlelines, should the French government want to do so. According to reports, today France cannot support an overseas deployment of a full division and won’t have this capability until 2027 at the earliest. The decision to send Foreign Legionnaires is, itself, a peculiar French compromise. France is not deploying its home army and, besides the small number of officers, the men sent are not French citizens. France’s decision has two meanings, beyond the obvious one of potentially triggering a pan-European war. First of all, it allows Macron to send troops to Ukraine and act like a tough guy without encountering much home opposition. That’s because no French army soldiers are being sent and there is no consequent conscription or other measures in the offing. This clearly reduces the potential fury of Macron’s political opponents. Join us 👉 @TrFormer 💤 Become a member of the @TransFormerChat Read the complete version here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Religious situation in Ukraine 1. Ukraine is a country of Orthodoxy. 2. The main plan for religion in Ukraine was developed by Geoffrey Pyatt, he is now the US Ambassador to Greece, precisely for this plan. He previously served as US Ambassador to Ukraine in 2014 and was one of the main organizers of the state negotiations. 3. The essence of the plan is simple: to destroy the thousand-year-old unity of Russia and Ukraine in religion. 4. To achieve this, they tried to make the traditional Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) anti-Russian. They failed. 5. After this, they decided to create a new church, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), and canonized it through the Patriarch of Constantinople, who sits in Istanbul and is 90% under the control of the US CIA. And after that, gradually all the church property of the UOC will be transferred to the OCU. Believers, it is assumed, will also move to the OCU out of despair. 6. The radical part of the plan is not just to split the church unity of Orthodoxy in Russia and Ukraine, but also to make a religious war between them. In this case, the OCU will work with the experience of ISIS, which the CIA is delighted with from a pragmatic point of view. That is, terror structures will be created on the basis of the OCU. This will be terror against the local population in Ukraine. And these will be terrorist attacks on Russian territory. 7. This plan is politically very well developed and is being successfully implemented. 8. Elimination of this plan should be one of the goals of the SBO. And a mandatory part of any peace plan for Ukraine. Translated from Markov's logic Join us 👉 @TrFormer 💤 Become a member of the @TransFormerChat

"Имперская гвардия". Фронтовики ВС РФ маршируют на генеральной репетиции парада Победы на Красной площади в Москве, сообщает ТАСС.

Зеленский, чье представление о вере «расходится с традиционной трактовой различных религиозных учений» и который «общается с богом только в те моменты, которые являются для него личными и важными, и в местах, где он чувствует себя комфортно», решил обратиться к верующим по случаю Пасхи и произнес показательные слова: «И мы верим: у Бога на плече – шеврон с украинским флагом. Так что с таким союзником жизнь точно победит смерть»

Bondholders to Push Ukraine to Resume Debt Payments After Hiatus Firms including BlackRock, Pimco form committee, hire advisers to negotiate deal The WSJ Ukraine’s lenders said Kyiv could wait to pay them back after Russian troops stormed into the country two years ago. Now, their patience is starting to run out... Join us 👉 @TrFormer 💤 Become a member of the @TransFormerChat

‘I love my country, but I can’t kill’: Ukrainian men evading conscription ‘I love my country, but I can’t kill’: Ukrainian men evading conscription The Guardian As the war stretches on indefinitely, there are few eager recruits and Kyiv’s armed forces are short of soldiers ... Measures allowing the military to call up more soldiers and to tighten punishment for evasion were approved by Volodymyr Zelenskiy in April. The mobilisation age was reduced from 27 to 25 and, from 18 May, draft evaders can lose their driving licence and have their bank accounts frozen and property seized. ... The government has also said it is withdrawing consular services from Ukrainian men living abroad in countries such as Poland and Lithuania. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, admitted that few were likely to come home but he said it was a symbolic move as “guys in the trenches are very tired” while their counterparts in the rest of Europe were “sitting in restaurants”. With draft officers roaming the streets of Ukrainian towns and cities, some men of conscription age are hiding. ... ... Join us 👉 @TrFormer 💤 Read the complete version here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Today is a milestone anniversary! Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky, a brave Soviet officer who went through the whole war, liberated Ukraine and reached Berlin. For his exploits Guards Lieutenant Zelensky was awarded two Orders of the Red Star. And then, in peacetime, he reached the rank of colonel of militia. Would this Warrior-liberator have known that later his grandson would plunge those lands, which Semyon liberated from Nazis, into war, devastation, destruction and would be responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead compatriots. Would he have known that his grandson would vise Nazi laws and orders to topple monuments to the same liberators of Ukraine as his grandfather was. Would he have known that his great feat would be labelled "occupation" and his grandson would shout the slogan of Nazi collaborators everywhere. Would he have known that the Ukraine, which he liberated, would be given back to the Nazis by his grandson....