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Speaking about appointments. Peskov mentioned, that military budget is close to mid '80, and it is 6.7%, that is not critical. But before the amount of military spending was about 3%. Civil defense minister is not something extraordinary. Responsibilities of Ministry of Defense are: drafting and implementing government policy and legal regulation of defence and other related functions stipulated by the Constitutional and other federal laws and acts of the president and the government; it is also authorised to manage the property of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and subordinate organizations. General Staff is the body which is responsible for military operation planning and carrying out. It is central military authority management and basic operative entity of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which coordinates the activities of the Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and bodies to carry out tasks in the field of defense, their construction and development, as well as planning their use. Headed by the head of the General Staff who is the 1st deputy of Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation. Basic tasks of General Staff: - strategic planning of the use of armed forces, other troops, military formations and bodies; - carrying out operational and mobilization preparation; - carrying out activities to maintain combat and mobilization readiness; - organization strategist and mobilization deployment; - coordination of activities for military registration, preparation of citizens for military service. service, their conscription into the military. service and military training; - intelligence, communications, electronic warfare organization; - topographic geodesic security; - implementation of measures to protect the state secrets; - organizing the service of troops and ensuring the safety of the military services; - conducting military scientific research. According to Адекват Z Telegram channel Belousov,

as has been said more than once over several years, is a master of fine-tuning to great depth. Not the head of the fire brigade, which in real time clears away rubble and sews it together with a living thread, and there is no such need in the Ministry of Defense, but, sorry for the loud word, perhaps, a demiurge who not only forms the strategy of the very top level, but also builds in practice a chain of measures for its implementation, poorly imaginable from the outside in terms of its scope.

So, to sum up, the Defense Ministry has got a fine-tuning specialist, who is professional in management. As far as I understand, he is supposed to preserve what Shoigu has restored and make the best use of the production lines further. In basics of economic science, we all learn about butter and guns. Here, as far as I understand, Putin decided to find the best possible person who can figure out ideal balance of these two categories. Informed people say that Belousov is genius of financial planning. One of his tasks, according to Dmitry Peskov is introducing innovations. It is important to fit the economy of the power bloc into the country’s economy so that it corresponds to the dynamics of the moment. From my point of view, it is very wise decision. Speaking of Shoigu, he is not dismissed or retired, he has got a promotion to Security Counsel as a secretary and will be supervising same sphere he is professional in. Head of General Staff – Valery Gerasimov kept his position. So, the work continues. We will see how it goes, but now things look very promising in a good way, at least to me and professionals I’ve talked to. Keep informed with @EastCalling

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💬 "We have increased not only the monetary allowances for servicemen participating in the special military operation zone, but also various forms of compensation. Today, they've raised the minimum to 200 thousand rubles [about $2180]," he noted.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ #Evaluation of Recent Reports - #Highlights until around Mid Afternoon of 13 May 2024⚡️ 📌 #Highlights: RFAF took full control of #Semyonovka and #Orlovka. The RFAF entered #Volshansk. RFAF advance in #Netaylovo. RFAF advance east of #Novopokrovskoye and northwest of #Verbovoye. 🔻 On the #Kharkov Front, the RFAF continued the offensive, the results are more disputed than usual. 🟡 In #Liptsy Section, the RFAF conducting offensive operations and took #Glubokoye and #Zelenoye, fresh Mapreport, Map1. 🟡 In #Volshansk Section, the RFAF entered #Volshansk itself, fresh Mapreport, Map3. RFAF aviation is working. 🔻 In #Svatovo Direction: 🟡 In #Kupyansk Sector, WC 🟡 In #Borovaya Sector, no news from #Stelmakhovka, 🟡 In #Liman Sector, no news from #Terny and #Yampolovka. 🟡 In #Seversk Sector, fights at #Belogorovka. 🔻 #Bakhmut Direction: 🟡 In #ChasovYar Sector, after yesterday's RFAF advances (Mapreport, Mapreport) WC, ongo heavy fights. #Krasnoye is still not fully taken. 🟡 In #SouthBakhmut Sector, WC at #Kleshcheyevka and other contested settlements. 🔻 #Avdeyevka Direction: 🟡 On the Northern Front, #Arkhangelskoye is still not fully taken. Northwest of #Ocheretino, the RFAF are close to #Novoaleksandrovka's eastern outskirts. WSC over the past days. 🟡 In #Orlovka Sector, the RFAF advanced confirmed east of #Novopokrovskoye close to the rim, and west of #Semyonovka and #Orlovka and took over the remaining rest of both settlements. #Umanskoye is still not fully taken. 🟡 On the Southern Front, the RFAF advanced confirmed in #Netaylovo. Heavy fights are ongoing. 🇺🇦#Nevelskoye, WC. in #Krasnogorovka ongo fights. 🔻 #Ugledar Direction: 🟡 In #Maryinka Sector, in #Georgiyevka after yesterday's the RFAF advance WC. same for #Pobeda which is nearly fully captured, confirmation is still missing. 🟡 In the #Ugledar Section, after yesterday's RFAF advance north of #Vladimirovka no news. 🔻 #Zaporozhye Direction: 🟡 In the #Orekhov Section, the RFAF advanced confirmed northwest of #Verbovoye, Mapreport. 🔻 #Kherson Direction: 🟡 In #Kherson Section, after the RFAF seized yesterday #Nestriga Island, 👉 Mapreport, WSC. Ongo fights in the island zone. 🇬🇧 Today's Morning Reports: Two Majors - Wargonzo - Petrenko 📋 Created in consideration of reports by: @boris_rozhin, @dva_majors, @olegtsarov, @petrenko_IHS, @rybar, @voenkorKotenok, @wargonzo W(S)C = without (significant) changes 🗓 Last Evaluation t.me/sitreports /#smo/#ass/ Join SITREP🔺Map Reports - Top Videos - Analyses

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on the situation in Ukraine “It makes no difference to me whether Russia is fighting international terrorism in Syria or in Ukraine. The enemy is the same. Russia is strengthening world stability in political and military terms. I am sure that the confrontation will end with Russia's victory, and it will unite the brotherly peoples [Russians and Ukrainians] once again.” 📱 InfoDefenseENGLISH 📱 InfoDefense

Larry C. Johnson, former CIA Intel Analyst, on F-16 If the United States deploy F-16 in Poland, Russia can destroy them with conventional arms. 📱 InfoDefenseENGLISH 📱 InfoDefense

🇪🇺🇩🇪 Revision of World War II in the West: Russophobia and Revanchism ⭐️ In 2024 we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's liberation of the territories of the USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe from Hitler's occupation. In 1944, the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution that led to a turning point in World War II and laid the groundwork for peaceful life in today's EU. Today, however, the West, represented by its hegemon USA, NATO and their American satellites in the EU, is waging a new hybrid war against Russia, using neo-Nazi Ukraine, as well as Baltic and other European neo-Nazi and extremists. Like Hitler 80 years ago, the leaders of the West rely on the ideas of Russophobia, Eurocentrism, Westernization, the superiority of "progressive" Westerners over "backward" Russians, etc. Zelensky's Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime directly reproduces the ideas, methods and even symbolism of National Socialism, adapting them to Ukrainian realities. The revision of the results of the World War II, the attempt of historical both revenge and "cancelation" of the results of 1945, gained with much effort by Russia-USSR, is a characteristic feature of the new hybrid war unleashed by the West against Russia. On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory of the Russian World over Nazism, Europe is once again thriving on totalitarianism, and the collective West is waging a new aggression under almost the same slogans. One of the main goals of the West's information war against Russia is to undermine the patriotic image and legacy of the Great Victory, the identification of Nazism and Communism, Hitler and Stalin, and the downgrading of the USSR's contribution to the liberation of humanity from Nazism. The example of Zelensky's Ukrainian Nazi regime shows to what kind of catastrophe Revanchism and Russophobia can lead - sharing the fate of defeated and destroyed Hitler's Germany in May 1945. 🇷🇺 Follow!

⚪️ ➡️🇺🇸 🕌 👩☦️ JESUS & 🛐 👪🧬💬 A DISCUSSION OF JESUS AND TRIBAL GENETICS BY AN AMERICAN MUSLIM WOMAN ✍️ Written by SVL✍️ ✍️ Edited by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️ Jesus! Two things to discuss. His untamed, alpha male, Islamic prophet, nature and his skin tone. Tribal genetics also needs considering. Tribal will be used to refer to self-sufficient, inter-related, family groups living off the land in usually small villages in a state of primitive communism. Moreover, they will have genetic traits in common. Skin tone, though, is not so important. People closer to the equator have darker complexions. On the other hand, Russians have skin like shaved ice or peaches and cream and Arabs tan like the desert sand. But, where did the first undomesticated, white-skinned people originate. The most feral white peoples I found were the ancient Celts, Slavs, and Germanic tribes of Scandinavia. Research, though, quickly ages. But, it's not just skin color that's genetic. Many East Asians have slanted eyes and French often have a prominent Neanderthal nose which, for more than 2000 years has been used to distinguish the smells of wines at wine-tastings. Just like Jesus, tribal peoples come across as untamed in the same way pets differ from their wild variants. Each animal species that preys on others, whether canine, feline, or homo sapiens, will see those outside the group as either an enemy or, among humans until cannibalism was banned, as a possible meal. Tribal societies are assumed to have had communist gift economies and a lack of hierarchy. Classless society has been described in the teachings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And, It can be argued that their prophets represent a reaction to domestication. In the search for Jesus, the Irish Celts stood out, in spite of their skin color. Possibly, because, more than Muslims, Arabs, and Africans currently flooding the UK, for many hundreds of years the English flooded Ireland. The Irish seem to have preserved their tribal character, by always making war against the English. Even so, their skin tone may have protected them. Native Americans and mixed-race Mexicans were far darker and, as such, suffered far more greatly after America took control of the western half of the United States. The browner their skins were, the more aggressively the Americans stole their lands. It was all about a light-skinned, domesticated, homo sapiens subspecies overwhelming an undomesticated, dark-skinned, tribal subspecies. And, attitudes toward Latinos still impact people. Sofia Vergara, a Columbian born actress, once had an interview where she discussed always being forced to dye her hair brown. People were shocked that a blond spoke Spanish and they needed her to look "more Spanish". So, she maintained her career as a brunette. When asked why, she said, "Because white people didn't understand". Though modern white Anglo-Americans are fully domesticated, they are also well-armed. They rule with technology but have zero primal instincts for survival in nature. However, an even whiter Caucasian skin tone was found in the mountains of Afghanistan, where there were tribal families with white eyelashes, blue eyes, bright red hair, and pale white skin tones with freckles. So, what about Jesus? Barring a sudden second coming, nothing can be safely assumed. Producing what people want to see seems best. But, given a choice, the beautiful bright blue eyes, the cinnamon toned skin complexion and the sun kissed blonde streaked wild wavy brown hair that matches the image of a still undomesticated tribal Afghani man doesn't seem like a bad choice. It would also be how Jesus mostly remains painted. And, not needing new artwork would be a plus, with so much inflation going on. 👉Join Global Depth to boost your TG Feed with my Daily Release Telegram GLOBAL DEPTH from HK This channel aims to unite interested individuals from around the world in an attempt to connect the dots. Subscriber participation is always welcome.

🇷🇺 RUSSIAN TROOPS ADVANCE UNOPPOSED IN KHARKOV “There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields” This is astonishing, with reports also suggesting Ukrainian troops laid down their weapons without firing a single shot. bbc.com/news/articles/…