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Since the beginning of the war, more than 2000 civilians have been killed by Russian missiles, according to official data. Help us protect Ukrainians from missiles - provide max military assisstance to Ukraine #Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine

The US F-16 fighter jets, which Kiev intends to receive from several Western countries, are vulnerable to the latest Russian military hardware, Bloomberg has reported. As the agency notes, the F-16 fighters, if delivered to Kiev, will either be used solely for defence purposes or will be involved in "very high-risk" operations. "However, the F-16s ... will still have weaker radars and shorter-range missiles than the most advanced Russian fighters and air defence systems," Bloomberg reports. According to the agency, Kiev "will have to curb its stated expectations". #source Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters. https://t.me/+B6ixfOM5VkxhODQx @Slavyangrad Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

Do you know how the epidemic of tying people to poles started in Ukraine? In 2018, members of Azov tied to pole a man who disrespected the stele of the Heavenly Hundred and threw a bottle at it,  later they pinned the inscription "Vatnik" on him. The man filed a lawsuit, but it was not the Azov members who were punished, but the victim. I then compared the Azov members to their predecessors, who in 1941 had tied people in Kievv if they were suspected of helping the partisans. After Azov, the fashion for lynching and tying people to poles spread with the outbreak of war and the loss of the state's monopoly on violence across Ukraine. By Miroslava Berdnik #source Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters. https://t.me/+B6ixfOM5VkxhODQx @Slavyangrad Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

🇹🇷🇺🇦 Russian Foreign Ministry: Ankara's supply of arms to Kiev contradicts ceasefire intentions The director of the fourth European department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Yuri Pilipson, said that Turkey's arms supplies to Ukraine are not compatible with the role of an intermediary. Turkey has repeatedly stated its desire to ensure an early ceasefire in Ukraine and resume the negotiation process through its own mediation. “The supply of weapons and military equipment to the Kiev regime directly contradicts such intentions and is in no way compatible with the role of an intermediary,” Pilipson emphasized. @DDGeopolitics

🇹🇷❌🇺🇸 The head of the Turkish Ministry of Internal Affairs declared traitors those who pursue a "pro-American policy" in the country: “Turkey has reached such a point that from now on, anyone who pursues a policy focused on America will be declared a traitor to the motherland,” Suleyman Soylu said. @DDGeopolitics

Quick take: The (Brief-lived) Bilhorod NeoNazi Republic (Part 2 of series)

Quick take: The Great NeoNazi Raid into Belgorod (Part 1 of series)

It became known about the liquidation of the founder of the Nazi movement "White Legion" Miroslav Lazovsky Earlier, the media wrote that on May 17, Russian forces near Artemovsk destroyed an entire unit of the so-called Kalinovsky regiment. Now it turned out that Lazovsky was among those liquidated. It was he who created the "White Legion", whose members actively participated in the riots of the "Minsk Spring". @ukr_leaks_eng

Bloomberg: "Saudi Arabia is buying up millions of barrels of Russian diesel that Europe no longer allows, while sending its own volumes back to buyers in the EU" Well, that's okay. After all, the European Union does not buy diesel from Russia now. So the sanctions are working. #source: https://t.me/golosmordora/28801

answer to the Ukrainian Defense Minister's question - "What are the Bashkirs fighting for?" The head of the Republic of Bashkortostan answers: When I served in the Soviet Army, I also had many guys from the Ukrainian SSR serving with me. Simple, normal guys. I don't know where they are now and what happened to them. I am the head of Bashkortostan, I am a Bashkir. Today my job is to develop our republic, to improve the quality of people's lives and to ensure economic growth. I agree with you, Bashkortostan is a really strong region. In spite of the sanctions by your true masters, we are developing and moving forward, like the rest of the country. The paradox is that in the 21st century my country and my people have to fight fascism again, just like in the Great Patriotic War. And my task as head of the region is to do everything possible so that Bashkir warriors can effectively perform their duty and destroy the enemies of our country. At the same time I, like many, sincerely pity hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian guys and men who died and will die on this massacre, to which they were condemned by those who criminally seized power in Kiev, betrayed their people, ideals of ancestors and swore an oath to Nazism. You recall General Shaimuratov. He is a national hero of Bashkortostan and all of Russia. And he died in 1943, liberating the Donbass from fascism. And who would have thought that 80 years later the descendants of General Shaimuratov would have to do the same thing as our fathers and grandfathers - protect our values and save civilians. By the way, Shaimuratov's Bashkir battalion is not alone. Beside him the battalions of Salavat Yulaev, Alexander Dostavalov and Dayan Murzin have already joined the ranks. This line is not thinning and continues to grow. I will give you one detail that neither you, nor those who are pushing your boys towards inevitable death can understand. On the front line the lads from Bashkortostan are called Bashkirs, although among them are representatives of all the peoples living in our country. And all of us together are the great multinational Russia, the Russians. The saddest thing is that until the Ukrainian people themselves take you out of political existence into the unknown, realizing the criminality and futility of the path that was imposed on them, your guys will continue to die needlessly.

Last year, Kiev’s SBU “detained” 71-year-old 🇺🇦 citizen, journalist, Orthodox defender, and TV personality Yan Taksyur famous since the USSR. Today, he was saved by being handed over to Russia as part of the POW exchange organized by Wagner. Taksyur still has cancer. The fact that civilians are used in this way makes me nauseous. @NinaByzantina

My latest radio interview on Faultlines 24/05/23 Shredding Kiev's post-Bakhmut Spin, NeoNazi Raid into Belgorod Used New US Gear, F16 is No Gamechanger... https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/shredding-kievs-post-bakhmut-spin?sd=pf

"The main fundraiser" - in the States they suspected that Zelensky could lose control of the country, yielding it to the intelligence services In the material of the American edition of The American Conservative, it is noted that despite the prohibitions of the United States not to attack the territory of Russia, Kiev nevertheless did it. It follows that the Ukrainian leader lost control of the situation, since, according to the President of Ukraine, he knew nothing about the intelligence plans and their preparations for an invasion of the Belgorod region, the newspaper says. “Did Zelensky really lose control of his country because of the intelligence services? Has he been demoted to the level of chief fundraiser?” - the article says. In addition, the publication emphasized that earlier the West explained the sending of weapons to Kiev by the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are showing success on the front line, and now they are providing them with military assistance due to their deplorable situation at the front. The United States and its allies still cannot recognize the absence of rational reasons for continuing to support Ukraine. Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters. https://t.me/+B6ixfOM5VkxhODQx @Slavyangrad Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

This is the second time that the American media has written about the involvement of Ukrainians in a drone attack on the Kremlin on May 3. US intelligence believes that the Kremlin was attacked by Ukrainian Special Forces with drones, writes CNN, citing a US intelligence source. At the same time, US officials consider it unlikely that senior Ukrainian government officials, including Zelensky, ordered the attack or knew about it in advance. The drones that hit the Kremlin looked small, with relatively light payloads, which is probably why they didn't trigger the Russian air defense system, the sources told CNN. It is unclear whether they would have had sufficient range to fly from Ukraine to Moscow. Previously, the New York Times reported that the Ukrainians were probably behind the drone attack on the Kremlin , citing US officials. -Ukrainian Channel Strana

South Korea has begun secretly transferring hundreds of thousands of artillery shells through the United States to Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal. South Korea is continuing to transfer hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine, a move that US officials say will make Kiev's planned offensive against Russian forces effective and allow the White House to delay a decision to transfer cluster munitions banned by many countries. material. Officially, Washington and Seoul do not comment on the information. Since February 2022, the United States has provided more than 2 million 155mm shells to Ukraine, but their stocks have begun to dry up. We will remind, recently the President of South Korea Yoon Sok-yeol said that South Korea can provide military assistance to Ukraine. He later stated that Seoul plans to provide Ukraine with mine-clearing equipment and ambulances, and will consider Kiev's request for some types of non-lethal weapons. #source

In Bakhmut, Ukraine sent the newly mobilized, who died en masse in the city - to save well-trained fighters for the counteroffensive, according to the Wall Street Journal. The material contains the story of a group of mobilized from the 93rd mechanized brigade - they were recruited from the unemployed in the Kharkiv region. After mobilization, they were equipped with Soviet weapons and sent first to Konstantinovka, then to Bakhmut. The material tells the story of a group of 16 conscripts who defended Bakhmut, "many of whom were called up a few days earlier and did not receive any training." So, the father of three children, Alexei Malkovsky, fired a grenade launcher for the first time already in battle, in Bakhmut, in February. He missed, he was hit by return fire, he left the position, and when he returned, it turned out that two of his comrades were killed. For 36 hours of hostilities, out of a group of 16 people, in which Malkovsky was, 11 fighters were killed or captured, the newspaper writes. Just a few days passed between mobilization and sending to the front, the newspaper writes. One of those captured in that attack, Sergei Pugasiy, later said: they didn’t shoot him just because they understood that he was a recently mobilized recruit. -Ukrainian channel Strana

🇷🇺 🇨🇳 "Russia and China keep pace" A video of a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing has gone viral on Chinese social media. The Chinese noted the symbolism of the synchronized gait of Mishustin and Li Qiang - our countries are also “in step”. #source: https://t.me/OstashkoNews/73244

My latest radio interview on the Final Countdown 23/05/23 Kiev's NeoNazi Raid Into Belgorod and Pashinyan's Tantrum https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/kievs-neonazi-raid-into-belgorod?sd=pf

Europe has set out to enlist the support of South America in the issue of support for Ukraine, but "unfortunately for them, Latin America does not listen to them," Politico writes, citing Brazilian and Chilean officials. Thus, Brazil, despite condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, excludes any increase in support for Kiev, a Brazilian official told the publication. They also do not intend to impose sanctions against the Russian Federation. "In an ideal world, the British would like Brazil to join the sanctions. But they are smart enough to understand that the ideal world does not exist, and everything is as it is," the source said. Asked if the UK could persuade Chile to provide military assistance to Ukraine, the Chilean official replied that "it won't happen, not at all." Both Chile and Brazil have hundreds of German-made Leopard tanks that could go to Ukraine, Politico notes. Join Slavyangrad chat. Your opinion matters. https://t.me/+B6ixfOM5VkxhODQx @Slavyangrad Join SLG 🔺 Intelligence Briefings, Strategy and Analysis, Expert Community

Xu Jijun, Chinese pundit, founder of Han Tang Think Tank New Media and former Executive Editor of Global Finance Magazine on Belgorod terrorist attack: Ukraine's series of assassinations, bombings, massacres, and other actions targeting Russian civilians and civilian infrastructure have strongly justified Russia's justification for launching special military operations: preventing Ukraine from becoming Nazified! Ukraine's armed forces have carried out ethnic massacres against the Russian population in eastern Ukraine, yet the Western world, including the United States and Europe, has failed to condemn these acts. Instead, they occasionally accuse Russia of massacring civilians, resorting to staged scenes reminiscent of the White Helmets' tactics in Syria to fabricate evidence. In reality, some of Ukraine's actions exhibit typical characteristics of state terrorism! Faced with such state terrorism, ordinary civilians have no means to confront it. Undoubtedly, in the face of Ukraine's blatant disregard for international law, Russia can only invest more effort and incur greater costs to prevent further escalation. Regardless of how the war evolves, the machinery of the state should never turn its blade against civilians. This is an indisputable truth that applies universally. Source @ukraine_watch

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Patriot SAMs in Ukraine were operated by Western mercenaries - Military Watch Magazine The U.S. is hiding information about the losses, the U.S. media writes. The article noted that the Patriot, as an extremely sophisticated weapon system, was considered "too advanced" for the AFU troops, who "could not have been trained to operate it so quickly that SAMs could have a serious impact on the course of the air defense." 📝 "...when the systems were deployed as early as April 2023 there was widespread speculation that military contractors from Western countries were responsible for manning and maintaining them," - MWM writes. ❗️ It was the presence of these companies that strongly influenced the integration of Western military equipment into the AFU, the media notes. It could have taken more than a year to train Ukrainian crews for the Patriot, and only five months have passed since the supplies were approved. https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-hypersonic-patriot-mercenary-casualties

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦💀Prigozhin in his latest interview statement: Prigozhin declares the figures of losses of the AFU 50,000 irretrievable. They practically coincide with the calculations of the War Tears project, which, according to its methodology, gave 55,000 AFU losses, based on the calculation of the established losses of the AFU units noted in Artemovsk and regional obituaries. Wagner's losses amounted to up to 20% of the total killed and up to 20% wounded. At the peak, the number of PMCs "Wagner" reached up to 50 000, according to Prigozhin. The AFU group defending Artemovsk numbered up to 82 000 people. (which coincides with the estimates that estimated the AFU grouping in the Artemovsk area was at 75-85 000 people. Prigozhin main statements from the interview: ▪️We fought in Bakhmut against superior forces, destroyed about 50,000 AFU military and wounded up to 70,000 ▪️The Wagner PMCs had 3.2 times fewer dead than the AFU, and about 2 times fewer wounded. ▪️The PMCs in Artemovsk had 50,000 people at the best moments, and the AFU had 82,000, and the ratio for the assault should be 3 to 1 for the stormers. ▪️ During the operation, I selected 50,000 prisoners, 20% of them died, another 20% were injured. ▪️The goal of Artemovsk was not Artemovsk itself, but the "Bakhmut meat grinder". And in Artemovsk, we destroyed everyone we were supposed to destroy, completed the task. ▪️The task was completed due to the highest level of organization. ▪️ And we have our own: planes, helicopters, air defense, artillery, MLRS, reconnaissance and even our own satellite reconnaissance. Regarding the Belgorod situation that was not part of the interview Prigozhin said: "When I announced few months ago that I would train fighters in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, several events happened. First: Defense Minister Shoigu called me and said indignantly: "Do not climb, Evgeny Viktorovich, where it is not necessary. The Russian army itself is capable of defending the borders." Secondly, there were several meetings with the governors, who also asked to study independently. That's when they will fuck up everything and people with pitchforks will go out into the street, of course, then we will come and defend. This is our homeland. Bureaucrats, they are to blame for the fact that the enemy breaks through." @DDgeopolitics

🇵🇱🇧🇾 Poland is preparing for an armed coup in Belarus and participation in its military support This was stated by the former Deputy Minister of National Defense of the Republic, General Waldemar Skshipchak. “We are preparing for an uprising in Belarus, because it will happen,” Skshipchak said on the Polsat TV channel. "We need to be ready to support the troops that will conduct an operation against Lukashenka," the general said. @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦🇬🇧British Defense Minister Ben Wallace paid an unannounced visit to Kiev,the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said. Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov thanked him and the UK for the military assistance received. “They also transferred such goodies as Storm Shadow and much more, which I can’t say yet,” the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said after a meeting with his British counterpart. @DDgeopolitics

🛰🇺🇸🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇷🇺It looks the United States coordinated the actions of the Ukrainian DRG in the Belgorod region The American commercial satellite GeoEye-1 of Maxar company filmed the Grayvoronsky district of the Belgorod region two days before the penetration of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group into its territory, follows from the company's data published on its website. A map of the area has been published on the company's website, the pictures are dated May 20. In addition, other American satellites Worldview-2 and Worldview-3 took pictures of the Grayvoronsky district on May 17 and 5. P.S. When it was known that Bakhmut is about to fall(Bakhmut fell on 20-th of May,2023) soon,so it looks this was planned diversion from the "Bakhmut meat grinder" distraction... @DDgeopolitics

❗️American Maxar's commercial satellite captured images of border areas in Belgorod region two days before Ukrainians entered the region @ukraine_watch

"Meat grinder": Britain names frighteningly frank outlook for Ukrainian army May 22, 2023, Exclusively for LOMOVKA The study points out that the Russian army is "a structure that has become better at dealing with operational challenges over time and has also learned to anticipate new threats." According to RUSI experts, the Russian Armed Forces pose a serious problem for the Armed Forces - Ukrainian losses have been estimated at 300,000-500,000 servicemen. Hundreds of soldiers and mercenaries are lost per day, and enemy losses mostly appear in protracted positional battles. This is a paradox because defensive losses are always fewer than offensive ones. One to two or even one to three, but the AFU violates this rule - and it is not because Ukrainians are afraid or unable to fight on the front lines, and especially not because of arms shortages (NATO supplies have indeed turned the neo-Anderovists into the most armed army in Europe). The point is that Russian troops are quick to learn from their mistakes, changing and improving tactics and adapting to any military situation. The British report that Russia's electronic warfare (EW) system remains powerful, with at least one major system distributed over about every 10km of the frontline. "These systems are largely focused on defeating drones. Ukrainian drone losses remain at around 10,000 per month. The Russian REB system also appears to be achieving real-time interception and decryption of Ukrainian 256-bit encrypted Motorola tactical communications systems, which are widely used by the AFU," experts said. It is pointed out that Russian air defense systems are directly wired to powerful radar stations. In July 2022, the Russian military moved its main headquarters out of the GMLRS range and placed them in fortified structures. They also connected their headquarters to the Ukrainian telecommunications cable network in the captured territories, which significantly reduced the possibility of radio interception and its visibility. FAB-500 Regarding military aviation tactics over the left bank of the Dnieper river experts from London put on fog (according to the Russian Defence Ministry, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 480 AFU planes and helicopters since 24 February, there are no working airfields in Nezalezhivschina either) and only report that the Russian Air Force launches missile attacks on Ukrainian positions and uses FAB-500 bombs dropped from a medium altitude from about 70 km from the target. "The Ukrainian military notes that Russia has large stocks of FAB-500s and systematically upgrades them into glide rounds. Experts suggest that the Russian Air Force "cannot penetrate Ukrainian air defenses" but point to Russian advantages in missiles, including MLRS, and strike UAVs in links of several drones. "Russian artillery has also improved its ability to fire from multiple positions, as well as changing positions quickly, reducing vulnerability to counter-battery fire," analysts report. There has been a shift from 152mm howitzers to greater use of 120mm mortars. The Strelets-M reconnaissance, control, and communications system is believed to be the key coordination system for fighters and small groups. Separately in the study go the engineering forces, "proven to be one of the strongest branches of the military. Russian engineers erect complex obstacles and field fortifications along the entire front - concrete-fortified trenches and command bunkers, wire fences, hedgehogs, anti-tank trenches, and complex minefields. The Russian demining system is extensive and combines anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, the latter often installed with multiple activation mechanisms to make demining more difficult, the report reports, concluding disappointingly for NATO: "All of this is a serious tactical problem for Ukrainian offensive operations.

❗️The American armored car International MaxxPro , abandoned by Ukrainian saboteurs during the retreat from the Belgorod region, was captured by Russian soldiers. Photo: @vysokygovorit #source

My latest radio interview on Political Misfits 22/05/23 Bakhmut Liberated & Becomes Artyomovsk Again, Kiev and Western MSM Hit Hard on the Copium, Max Boot's Neocon Alternate Reality, Zelenskiy's Nomadic Panhandling Global Tour, and more... https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/bakhmut-liberated-and-becomes-artyomovsk?sd=pf

More from Artemovsk: Interviews with the surviving civilians of Artemovsk, who were actually used as human shields, and their houses were used as strongholds, which were simultaneously looted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Translated by Helio! #source

⚔️🇷🇺🇺🇦 NEW VIDEO: Bakhmut Folds: Russia Takes City + Ukraine's Struggle Against Toll of Attrition Update on the conflict in Ukraine for May 22, 2023: ▪️Russian Ministry of Defense claims the Donbass city of Bakhmut/Artyomovsk has been fully taken by Russian forces; ▪️Western analysts claim the city’s capture will not “turn the tide” of the conflict, ignoring the war of attrition taking place superseding territorial advances; ▪️ The US is sending another weapons package to Ukraine featuring an unspecified amount of ammunition for HIMARS, artillery systems, anti-tank weapons, and both bridging and logistics equipment; ▪️The US is also incrementally moving in favor of sending Ukraine F-16 fighter jets through third party nations in Europe. The F-16 represents no specific capability Ukraine’s own air force didn’t have before being removed from the battlefield; ▪️The Western media continues incrementally admitting the limits in military industrial output preventing the US and Europe from providing Ukraine with weapons and ammunition to match or exceed Russia’s military capabilities; https://youtu.be/9MUXj5DtlM8