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— 🇮🇱/ 🇱🇧 BREAKING: Hezbollah carried out a successfully prepared ambush against an IDF mechanized infantry force in the occupied Shebaa farms with artillery, ATGMs, missiles and other weapons, leading to the destruction of two vehicles After the ambush, the Israeli mechanized force retreated while under heavy gunfire, and they suffered additional fatalities as a result of these direct clashes. The IDF has imposed a total media ban on the incident, and Israeli news describes it as 'extremely sensitive'. @Middle_East_Spectator

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇰🇵 The Brits say a Russian ship with North Korean weapons is hiding in China. ➡️ Just look at the map, it makes no sense at all! If a Russian ship would transport cargo, it would go straight to Russia to the west and then load the cargo to the railroad. By the way, there is a straight railroad connection between Russia and North Korea, so the best way is to load a train full with shells in North Korea and go straight through Russia. Hence this is just a propaganda attempt to clump the countries together into one big "evil axis". 📰Reuters:

Britain's Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank said the Russian vessel Angara, which since August 2023 has moved to Russian ports thousands of containers believed to contain North Korean munitions, has been anchored at a Chinese shipyard in eastern Zhejiang province since February.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦The US authorities are preparing to conclude contracts with American companies for the supply of weapons to Ukraine for $6 billion, Politico reports. 🔴@DDgeopolitics

🇳🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦The Dutch Defense Minister called the real prospect that Ukraine will not be able to defeat Russia.

The Russians switched to a war economy, began producing many more weapons, and were able to replenish their stockpiles much faster than we expected. This put pressure on the situation

She noted that Russia “much faster than most experts expected” managed to recover from the “losses” it suffered in this conflict. 🔴@DDgeopolitics

🔵 #Video | Moment an American drone is shot down 📡 𝗕𝗔𝗕 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗕 𝗬𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡 🇾🇪 @BabalMandab 🇾🇪

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇺🇸 The Pentagon has acknowledged that Ukraine will have the opportunity to use recently supplied ATACMS missiles for strikes on Crimea, writes The New York Times, citing officials from the department. According to them, the purpose of using longer-range systems will be to "increase pressure" on the peninsula. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

"Mark Sleboda - Pro-War Propagandist" A Heavily Redacted & Edited (by her) Video Interview I did with the Romanian "Feminist Pacifist" nutjob Maria Cernat from the Barricade" 29/03/24. https://open.substack.com/pub/marksleboda/p/mark-sleboda-pro-war-propagandist?r=mra7c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true In which I am interviewed by the fruit loop Romanian "feminist pacifist" Maria Cernat from East European faux-lefty outfit “The Barricade”. She is vehemently against the Russian government and the Russian intervention in the Ukrainian Civil Conflict and believes that the Banderite fascists in power in Kiev should have been talked out of massacring the people of East Ukraine and indoctrinating the people of Ukraine to their hateful ideology. The primary purpose of the interview from her end was to attack the recent Russian Presidential Elections and Russian democracy (which is really rich coming from an American Europoean vassal state). She is the perfect roll over and play dead dupe for fascists. She really really didn't like the one hour and forty minute interview we did because it makes her look like a raving ninny disconnected from reality, tells me she won't release the video, and then releases a carelully edited 20 minute version of it anyway with only Romanian titles & commentary - calling the video an interview with a "pro-war propagandist". Ok. Whatever. That's class for you. Her commentary on the video Google Translated from Romanian: ”I had become so well used to the labels of Putinist, pro-Russian, traitor and the like that it was a novel experience to meet a pro-Russian propagandist of the hardest line. It's about Mark Sleboda. After a career in the US Army, he takes a job as an "expert" at Russia Today. Then, suddenly struck by love for Russia, he emigrates and gets married there, using his discursive skills to support the Kremlin's cause through all channels. Although he got his citizenship less than ten years ago, he claims to be more Russian than the Russians themselves, at least in demonizing the west. We, the Romanians, are considered members of "a client country of the United States" that has no right to express critical views against Russia. We had a tense discussion, much of which can be found in the video below. I pulled out the pure propaganda parts about the "humanity" Russia is fighting and other information I couldn't verify. I left the quintessence of his views as a pro-war propagandist. Obviously, he agrees that Russia will not be able to rule western Ukraine because "the cult of Bandera is strong" there. And then? Why did hundreds of thousands of people die, Russians and Ukrainians? For Russia to deal a death blow to the Western hegemon.” Please let Maria Cernat know what you think in the comment section of the edited YouTube Video she posted. Demand she release the whole video if you would like to see the other 1 hour and twenty minutes. Or email her your thoughts at [email protected]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin may offer Ukrainian men living abroad, who have been denied Ukrainian passports by the state, to obtain Russian passports. Such an opinion was expressed by former advisor to the Office of the President, Oleksiy Arestovych. "Putin will say - if Ukraine doesn't give you passports, then I will give you a Russian passport. And out of 10 million Ukrainians abroad, one million can easily go for a Russian passport. And he gets a super trump card - like, why are you telling me about atrocities in the occupied territories if people voluntarily came to get Russian passports? And he will create such a precedent from which we will not know how to get out," Arestovych said. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇸 Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. 🚩 @ResistanceTrench

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation for April 25, 2024 Russian forces continue to methodically strike at enemy targets. In Smila in Cherkasy Region, in Balakliia in Kharkiv Region, and in Udachne in the temporarily occupied part of the DPR, railway infrastructure was hit, and on the outskirts of Dnipro, the territory of one of the former military units, now reoccupied by the AFU, was targeted. On the Bakhmut direction, fighting continues in the Kanal neighborhood. Due to the redeployment of reserves and mining of the area, the enemy is still holding positions on the eastern outskirts of Chasiv Yar. In the area of Stupky-Holubivski-2, west of Krasne, and in Klishchiivka, there are ongoing clashes. On the Avdiivka direction, the enemy's local defense collapse continues. The Russian Armed Forces liberated Soloviovo, and the AFU retreated further west towards the village of Sokil. By evening, the Russian Armed Forces cleared the northern outskirts of Ocheretyne, from where the enemy retreated to Arkhanhel's'ke, where fighting is currently underway. On the Donetsk direction, Russian troops are storming the industrial zone of Krasnohorivka, having entered the territory of the refractory plant. At the moment, fighting is taking place directly in the industrial zone, but given the number of buildings and their area, the assault is unlikely to be quick. 🔻A detailed analytical report on the events in the Special Military Operation zone is available on our closed channel @rybar_plus_bot High-resolution maps: Situation in the special military operation zone (ru; en) Liberation of Soloviovo (ru; en) Battle for Krasnohorivka (ru; en) #Bakhmut #digest #report #Donetsk #map #Odesa #Russia #Vuhledar #Ukraine @rybar Original msg