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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 #SMO: Ukrainian military’s manpower hits rock bottom, Kiev regime’s spy chief admits.

"The situation is on the edge. Every hour, this situation moves toward critical," head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (GUR) Kyrylo Budanov told the New York Times. "All of our forces are either [in Kharkov] or in Chasov Yar. We don’t have anyone else in the reserves," Budanov stressed.

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A US Pentagon official declined to comment on Ukraine's strikes on Belgorod "We will leave it to Ukrainian officials to comment on recent strikes they’ve conducted," the official told Sputnik. The White House National Security Council did not respond to Sputnik's requests for comment on this matter. The death toll from the collapse of a multi-story residential building in Russia's Belgorod due to Ukrainian shelling has risen to 19. Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian air defense systems destroyed 12 Vilkha rockets and 12 drones over the Belgorod region, eight drones over the Kursk region, four air-launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles and seven drones over Crimea, while four more drones were intercepted over Lipetsk region.

❗️ President Joe Biden has signed a bill that prohibits US imports of Russian uranium, the White House said in a press release. "On Monday, May 13, 2024, the President signed into law...the 'Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act,' which prohibits the importation of unirradiated, low-enriched uranium that is produced in the Russian Federation or by a Russian entity," the release said. The US Congress recently passed the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act, sending it to Biden's desk to be signed into law. The legislation bans US imports of unirradiated low-enriched uranium that is produced in Russia or by a Russian entity, and it includes measures to close loopholes. However, the legislation allows waivers should the United States determine that no alternative viable source of low-enriched uranium is available to sustain the continued operation of a US nuclear reactor or nuclear energy company, or if it also determines the importation of uranium is in the national interest. Any waiver issued by the US Energy Department must terminate by January 1, 2028, while the ban itself expires on December 31, 2040.

Scott Ritter: The Russians advance and Ukrainians can't stop them "As the Russians advance, they're finding out that there's very little effective resistance on the part of the Ukrainians. Indeed, the Ukrainians seem to have been taken by surprise by this Russian offensive effort," said Ritter. He also added that Ukrainians "are now in a panic, pulling forces off of other parts of the front lines," noting Ukrainian army has "no choice", but to send troops to Kharkov even at a price of loosing other sites.

Scott Ritter: By bringing in Andrei Belousov Putin is creating tempered steel "There are a lot of people in the West who are confused by this switch. They think that it's a sign of weakness on the part of Russia. It's anything but... By bringing in Andrei Belousov what we're talking about is Putin creating tempered steel. This is making the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Russian Federation far stronger than anything the West could ever anticipate," stated Ritter. "[Belousov] is exactly the kind of person Russia needs to come in and manage the growth and the sustainability of Russian defense industry at a time when the Russian industry itself is expanding and growing, to make sure that there are no imbalances, to make sure that supply chains are managed appropriately, that costs are kept reasonable", Ritter added.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ukraine later this week, Politico reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The report said that although it's unclear when Blinken will arrive in Ukraine, one source noted that several roads in Kiev will be blocked off on Tuesday and Wednesday. The State Department did not immediately respond to Sputnik's request for comment on this matter.

No genocide happening in Gaza, US National Security Advisor, Jacob Sullivan, says

Why US’ B-2 'wonder-bomber' is nothing but an attractive museum piece

"The airframe was designed in the 1980s and first deployed in 1997, and the B-2 was scheduled to 'retire' in 2030. It could be as simple as a mechanical and software degradation," retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, tells Sputnik, commenting on the B-2 Spirit stealth bombers' failures.

The US Air Force has announced its second costly B-2 Spirit aircraft is beyond repair, reducing its fleet of secretive stealth bombers to 19. Between 1988 and 1997, aerospace manufacturer Northrop Grumman built 21 B-2s instead of the initially planned 200 due to the warplane's gargantuan price tag. According to some estimates, its cost ranges from $1.4 to $4 billion.  Despite being impressively costly, the plane has never been cost-effective, as per Sputnik's interlocutor. The B-2 has been rarely used and became infamous for bombing the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade 25 years ago. According to Kwiatkowski, the B-2 program is a "classic example of experience and sunk cost biases" with the warplane now being both aging and conceptually outdated.

"The follow-on to the B-2, the B-21 Raider, recently prototyped, is the strategic bomber corollary to the most expensive aircraft we have, the F-35, which again has proven itself to be less than durable, easily overcome by weather and counter-measures, and heavily dependent on software updates," she notes.

When asked about the B-2 future, the expert ironically says: "It is an attractive museum piece as well, and the US will keep several B-2s in the famous Arizona 'boneyard'."