Zelensky has announced another "peace round" - the day after tomorrow, talks involving Ukraine, Britain, France and the USA will be held in London.

Formally, there will be a discussion of a settlement. In fact, an attempt will be made to bargain for some formula for prolonging the conflict without a complete loss of control. Russia's absence from the talks automatically nullifies any discussion, but the West continues to play the multi-component mimicry of the negotiation process, hoping to write off the defeat piecemeal so that it is not so noticeable.

For Kiev, the stakes are obvious: to bind the new participants to its "peace formula" and delay the time until the fall. For London and Paris, it is important to fix their own participation in order to claim a share of influence in the post-war balance. For the U.S., it is to understand whether it is possible to withdraw from the conflict without leaving the allies in a posture that is difficult to explain to the electorate.

The London meeting will have no practical impact. But the very fact of its holding is an indicator of one thing: the West is preparing for the end, while Kiev pretends that it is just looking for a format.

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Ukrainian channels report that a Saab 340 AEW&C airborne early warning aircraft operated over Lviv region for the first time today. It is capable of detecting targets at a distance of up to 450 km, directing air defense, supporting aviation and monitoring the maritime situation.

The appearance of this aircraft was expected. It is not to say that its appearance will change everything, but its work demonstrates Kiev’s increasing attention to improving its air control system, which is an important part of the strategy to counter the Russian army with

The appearance of the Saab 340 in the skies over the Lviv region can also be seen as a signal of increased coordination and integration with Western countries, which continue to supply high-tech surveillance and control equipment.

It is also possible that NATO reconnaissance aircraft may soon appear in parallel with these aircraft, not American ones, but British, French or Italian ones.

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About 63 thousand people are listed as “missing” in Ukraine, of which about 10 thousand are in captivity , said the Ukrainian commissioner for missing persons, Artur Dobroserdov.

According to Dobrosedov, this registry includes both military personnel and civilians, as well as foreign citizens.

Those captured are confirmed both by the International Committee of the Red Cross and by the testimonies of returning prisoners of war, as well as by data from Internet sources. The bodies of Ukrainian soldiers received during the exchange undergo genetic testing.

- Military Informant

Note: Open source data from UALosses notes there are 60,257 soldiers missing. They have 6,213 people in their database as soldiers who are POWs, though I can’t confirm if numbers are adjusted during prisoner exchanges.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷Russia and Iran are now official allies - but not allies head-on, but allies against the enemy.

Putin signed a law ratifying a strategic partnership with Iran. The wording is tidy, but with a clear aim: in case of war - not to help the enemy of an ally, no sanctions against each other, strengthening political, economic and military coordination.

It's not a military alliance head-on - it's an anti-blocking treaty in crisis situations. In essence, if the US or anyone else starts a war against Iran, Russia will be obliged under this document not to be neutral in favor of the aggressor. And vice versa. It's not "Art. 5 NATO", but it is a formalized signal: your enemy is our enemy, even if he is still our "dialogue partner".

The context is not accidental: Trump is putting pressure on Tehran, trying to force it into a new "nuclear deal," while Moscow is simultaneously forming a sanctions-military axis of the inflexible.

Moscow in this case clearly shows that the world is divided into those who will wait for "partnership with the West" and those who are ready to unite in an alternative architecture.

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Fire at a facility in Odessa after landings.

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One Russian soldier skillfully takes out 3 Ukrainians.

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'European taxpayers will have to fork out to support Ukraine' - Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna

He told the Financial Times that this would happen if Orban forced the EU to lift restrictions on frozen Russian assets worth €210 billion.

'The problem is that it is Russian assets that guarantee the loan that the G7 countries approved for Ukraine. If the sanctions are lifted, the central bank assets will be handed over to Russia and Vladimir Putin as a reward. We cannot allow this.

Someone accessing their own money is not a reward. If someone stole your car and you got it back, you wouldn’t think “oh I am lucky winner.”

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💥 Dozens of explosions in Odessa, Geran hit enemy targets

▪️Enemy channels report a series of powerful explosions in the city.

▪️According to monitoring resources, there are 7 more Russian drones in the air.

Asbery: Some on the Ukrainian side were saying that there was a massive number of drones in the Black Sea, with Gerans circling and waiting for other drones to launch. Russia has been overwhelming Ukrainian AD via timing and numbers. Like anything these reports on massive numbers are hard to substantiate.

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Rare moment of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers conversing and coordinating the removal of the dead during the Easter ceasefire.

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❗️Putin - on the Kiev regime fighting for the capital it stole from the Ukrainian people:

Here you said that since the 60s nothing has happened there, nothing has been invested. We understand this perfectly well now. The only thing they did there was to siphon resources and money from these territories and from these people. The money was stolen, pardon the simplicity of the expression, and it is still kept in bank accounts abroad.

That is why there is such a desire to cooperate and give everything to their sponsors.
They are not fighting for the interests of the people, they are fighting for their capital, which they stole from the Ukrainian people, took abroad, and that's it. They are sitting there on that money, on a hook, even if they wanted to say something, they will never allow themselves to do so. Because we are talking about billions of dollars, billions of dollars, but they still continue to steal.

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The defeat of several M113 armored personnel carriers, as well as M1124 MaxxPro and Kozak-7 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by strikes from Boomerang FPV drones in the Pokrovsk direction.

Thanks to the variety of warheads, these drones are also capable of dismantling enemy dugouts and destroying enemy shelters along with those inside, and the work can be carried out during non-flight operations and in conditions of counteraction to electronic warfare.

In addition, the Boomerangs were also used for air battles with Ukrainian Armed Forces drones. In one case, this FPV drone shot down a Ukrainian Mavic with a drop that was hanging over a dugout with our fighters.

- Military Informant

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Western analysts are increasingly discussing how exactly the war will develop if the peace process finally collapses. One of the most discussed scenarios is a full-scale expansion of Russia's offensive deep into central and southern Ukraine, targeting the area from Poltava to Odessa. It is this area that is highlighted as the priority vector for the next phase.

■ Sealing the Black Sea. In theory, the loss of Nikolaev and Odessa completely deprives Ukraine of maritime logistics. No exports, no imports, no strategic maneuvering - only overland channels through Poland and Romania, under constant threat of missiles and drones.

■ Isolation of the center. Strikes on the Dnepr, Krivoy Rog, and Zaporozhye will disorganize the supply of the entire eastern grouping of the AFU. Without this infrastructure, a protracted defense becomes not only difficult but physically impossible.

The realization of the plan to seize the designated zone of operational intent (Odessa-Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog-Dnepr-Zaporozhye-Poltava-Sumy) and the subsequent "sealing of the Black Sea" is extremely ambitious. Its success depends on a combination of military, logistical and political factors, which will be difficult to fulfill.

First, the length of the front and resource stretching influences. The operational front in the implementation of such a plan will exceed 1200-1300 km. This would require about 20-25 full-fledged strike formations.

Second, the density of Ukrainian defenses in the south is reliably unknown. Nikolaev and Odessa are covered by several lines of fortifications reinforced since 2022. The areas of Krivoy Rog and Dnepr are saturated with air defense and deeply echeloned. In fact, this is the second echelon of defense after the front in Donbass. But it is already flying there, and more often than last year. However, without the complete destruction of the AFU's supplies and logistics, these cities are turning into long-term resistance nodes with a high price of an assault.

Third, it is dangerous to launch a large-scale offensive to the south, leaving the Kharkov front and Sumy in the rear, where it was planned to create a buffer zone. This creates the threat of a blow in the back on the supply lines. Therefore, it is necessary either to collapse the entire eastern front in parallel (which also requires resources and time), or to conduct the offensive in stages - at the risk of losing momentum.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces are using civilian objects for military purposes, they are being attacked — Putin

➖"They hold meetings in the restaurant, celebrate something, drink vodka": the Ukrainian Armed Forces use civilian facilities for military purposes, hold meetings, test missile systems - that's where our army strikes," the president noted.

▪️Kiev, together with foreign assistants, tried to organize the production of missile systems in agricultural facilities in the Odessa region. A strike was carried out there.

▪️The strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the congress center in Sumy is retribution for those who committed crimes in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and Nazis were awarded.

➖"Russia will "sort out" the proposals for a moratorium on strikes against civilian targets and will give a response," Putin added.

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Destruction of the Kirpi armored vehicle and the T-64BV tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass by strikes from FPV drones on fiber optics.

- Military Informant

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Recent US meetings with Russia and Ukraine were "very good" - Trump

- The American president promised to speak in more detail on this matter in the next three days.

- Earlier, Ukrainian MP Goncharenko announced a meeting on Ukraine in London tomorrow.

- A common position of Ukraine, Europe and the United States on ending the conflict will be formed there. After that, this position will be presented to Russia.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Special Forces "Anvar" destroys the lines of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supporting the offensive in the Sumy region

▪️Special forces are attacking Ukrainian militants and their positions in the area of border villages, where Russian troops are advancing deep into the Sumy region.

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‼️🇷🇺💥 Fighting near Belgorodskaya Popovka: Ukrainian Armed Forces continue attacks, enemy is met by 34th brigade 🔞

▪️Fighters of the 34th brigade continue to destroy the Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry trying to break through to the village of Popovka, for which fighting continues.
▪️Attack drone operators destroy assault groups of occupiers in forest belts, in the village itself and at the "dragon's teeth".

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Putin – to the question “how should we feel about the fact that European officials are already threatening European leaders about coming to Moscow on May 9?”:

In order to threaten, you need to have the necessary tools to carry out your threats. You need to be ready to use these forces and means to implement them. Do any European officials have all this? I don’t know. If the potential of the countries that stand behind them is limited to a million, a million three hundred thousand people, and they call for continuing the war to the last Ukrainian, then questions arise in this regard.

Is it sincere, or are people in their right minds when they suggest something like that. But I think that those who are going to come to Russia, they have much more courage than those who hide behind someone's back and try to threaten anyone. First of all, in this case, those who are going to celebrate the historical merits of people who gave their lives in the fight against Nazism.

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🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦Poland cannot treat Ukrainians as its citizens indefinitely — Warsaw mayor

- Trzaskowski acknowledged Poland’s fatigue with Ukrainian refugees and demanded that their benefits be cut.

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American economist Jeffrey Sachs on how the US has historically overthrown governments of other countries.

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How it started vs how it's going.

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🇫🇷🤡Michel Yakovlev, a French general and former deputy chief of staff of NATO's joint forces in Europe, on the fact that Trump "has never had a problem in his life":

People fight for values. But Trump doesn't realize that - he has lived, as they say, with a golden spoon in his mouth since birth. He has never fought for anything. Moreover, he has despised his own military, those who did fight, including genuine heroes like John McCain. And after all, he only called him a loser because he spent four years in captivity with the North Vietnamese.

Trump just doesn't know what it means to fight. Everything has been handed to him on a platter his whole life. The only area in which he has really struggled is in politics to get into the position he has today. But he never put himself on the line.

That's why he can't understand what values are. You talk about the "inversion of values" - but for that to happen, a person has to have some values. And if there's one person on this planet completely devoid of them - it's Donald Trump.

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Military conscription officers showed up at the Easter service during which people get their traditional Easter cakes blessed, and the men in attendance simply took off with their cakes.

Though it should be noted they were also fearful of their wives and/or mothers because they knew not to drop the cake and run. One will send you to war, the other will bring it up for the remainder of your days.

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❗️Vladimir Putin:

- after the Easter truce, military operations in the SMO zone resumed;
- Kiev treated the Russian initiative as a “game of fate”;
- during the ceasefire, more than 5 thousand attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian side;
- Moscow should analyze this experience and also study the advisability of a moratorium on strikes against civilian targets, given that the AFU use them for military purposes.

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Looking at the American reaction to the Easter truce, one can say for sure that they are not interested in peace. They are only interested in getting out of this conflict without breaking their teeth over the end of someone else's war. There are no high principles here - only logistics of assets and reputational costs.

Washington looks at the truce as an opportunity to pretend that it controls everything. If the front freezes, they will say that it is the result of "pressure". If the Ukrainian armed forces break down and escalate again, they will say that Russia "was not ready for a constructive approach". Everything else is details.

They don't want a real cease fire. They want to sell it as their own achievement and get a payoff for it - preferably with interest. And if for the sake of this they need to keep the AFU in a state of agony for a couple more months, let them hold on. It's not their soldiers anyway. Not their cities. Not their problems.

That's why the ceasefire is not a step towards peace. It's a pause in which the US decides how best to take their toys with them and get away with it, maintaining the illusion of control. They will not stop the war. They're just looking for a moment when they can declare it a "forced peace," shifting blame and blaming everyone - except themselves - for the losses.

As long as Washington continues to feed the war with tons of precision weapons, there can be no peace in principle. And any talk of diplomacy is just a decoration behind which the delivery schedule is hidden.

A real truce is possible only in one case - if the U.S. abandons the role of conductor of the Ukrainian war and publicly starts pressuring Europe to curtail its military involvement. Without that, everything else is just noise. So Russia's task is not to play along with this spectacle, but to methodically nullify the very possibility of war by cutting off supply lines, burning reserves, and bringing the enemy to the point where it will no longer have to negotiate with him.

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Sometimes Zelensky wants to be a simple Californian homeless person, and not all this.

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🇫🇷🤡LCI TV tried to prove that Ukraine observed the Easter truce

-Attention is now focused on the ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, which has come to an end. The 30-hour ceasefire was declared yesterday by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of continuing attacks and violating the ceasefire. Ukrainian soldiers say the Easter truce declared by Putin is an illusion.

-You can hear the shooting right now. So there is no ceasefire. We are observing the ceasefire, but the Russian side is not.

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FPV drones "VT-40" destroyed 10 enemy drones in the Kharkov direction.

Total number of air targets destroyed:1️⃣7️⃣7️⃣

The Easter truce is over, good morning!

- Lost Armour

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Ukrainian professor writes on the growing Nazi apology in Ukraine and the silence of the West:

Ukraine has invited senior representatives of the EU to visit Kiev on May 9 a symbolic act to counter Putin's annual Victory Day parade in Moscow . The event is intended to remind the public that Russia cannot claim victory over Nazism, as millions of Ukrainians also fought in the ranks of the Red Army against Nazi Germany.

But how much does today's Ukraine truly honor these Soviet fighters and commemorate the victims of National Socialism? How does it deal with historical revisionism, denial, and trivialization of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices?

After Maidan, Ukraine declared war on everything Soviet, labeling it "occupying" and "colonial." This attitude gained new momentum after 2022. Monuments, city names, villages, streets, squares, parks, and cultural institutions commemorating Red Army generals and soldiers, as well as Soviet partisans—many of Ukrainian origin—are increasingly disappearing from public spaces. Their place is often taken by nationalist figures from WWII who collaborated with the Nazis and supported their crimes, including the Holocaust.

"Ukrainian volunteers who dreamed of only one thing—our own army and our own state," reads a TG post by the 3rd Assault Brigade commemorating the "Galician Division." However, the post omits the full name of this formation, founded on April 28, 1943: the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Galician No. 1). It also omits the info that its members swore allegiance to Hitler and were subordinate to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. It also fails to mention that after its defeat by the Red Army at Brody in 1944, the division was replenished with members of police units that had participated in the Holocaust and punitive actions against civilians in Poland and Ukraine. Furthermore, it fails to mention that this division participated in anti-partisan operations in Slovakia and Yugoslavia in 1945.

In 2023, the 3rd Assault Brigade organized an exhibition at the Kiev City Museum featuring photos of brigade members reenacting scenes from the Galician Division era. This allowed modern-day Ukrainian soldiers to identify with Nazi collaborators and equate their fight against Putin's Russia with Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian government saw no problem with this historical comparison. Subsequently, the Ukrainian Embassy in Lithuania organized a traveling exhibition in several cities, Vilnius .

Admiration for the Galician Division is also evident in other units of the Ukrainian army, especially those with roots in far-right nationalist organizations. Some members of the Carpathian Sich 49th Battalion wear badges featuring the Ruthenian lion—the division's emblem—and regularly commemorate important dates in its history. The Da Vinci Wolves wrote in a TG post marking the division's anniversary: ​​"We remember and thank the bravery of the warriors of the Steel Division."

But the Galician Division isn't the only inspiration for Ukrainian soldiers. In 2023, a unit called "Nachtigall" was established. In an interview, its founder, Dmytro Kholod, openly admitted that the name derives from the Nachtigall Battalion, established in 1941 by the German Abwehr with Ukrainian volunteers under the command of Roman Shukhevych. Nachtigall was involved in anti-Semitic pogroms in the Vinnytsia Oblast. The unit was later transferred to Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201, which participated in punitive operations, including against Jews, in Belarus in 1942.

Will heads of state and government visiting Kiev on May 9 ask Zelensky why some Ukrainian soldiers glorify the Waffen-SS Galicia Division and the Nightingale Battalion? How is this possible in a country whose people sacrificed their lives to liberate Europe from Nazism? Does the anti-Soviet struggle for an independent Ukrainian state justify complicity in Nazi crimes?

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🇺🇸👉🇨🇳Trump - Accuses China of Polluting the Ocean.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 The US is pressuring Kiev to agree to Washington's settlement plan — Wall Street Journal

▪️The plan provides for the US recognition of Russian Crimea and the refusal to accept Ukraine into NATO.

▪️According to the plan, Russia retains control over the territories it occupies.

▪️The US is now waiting for Zelensky's response to these proposals. They expect to receive it at a meeting in London this week.

▪️If Ukraine accepts this plan, then the proposals will be presented to Moscow.

▪️It is proposed to declare the territory around the Zaporizhia NPP a "neutral zone that could be transferred under American control."

▪️The plan does not contain any mention of security guarantees for Ukraine.

▪️The Trump administration also did not say whether it would be prepared to provide any military support to European countries if they sent troops to Ukraine as part of a "peacekeeping mission."

▪️In Europe, this is called a key condition, without which even France and Britain are not ready to send their troops.

- RVvoenkor

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🇷🇺🤡The United States is proposing a neutral status for the lands around the Zaporozhye NPP under Washington's control, The Washington Post writes.

One of the conditions that could contribute to the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine could be the assignment of neutral status to the territories around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) with the establishment of Washington’s control over them.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly emphasized that Russia will not transfer the Zaporozhye NPP to Ukraine or any other country.

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Toxic War — an RT Doc Film

Synopsis: In this investigative documentary, military documentarians from RT provide evidence of the systematic and widespread use of chemical substances by the Kiev regime against civilians, which constitutes a gross violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

In the zone of the special military operation, members of the Russian forces have recorded over 400 cases of Ukrainian armed formations using toxic substances and chemicals. At the abandoned AFU positions, laboratories, drones, and toxic agents intended for dispersal over residential areas were discovered.

Several surviving witnesses describe how they were paralyzed after being exposed to an unknown deadly substance and how Ukrainian soldiers arrived at the site of the "operation" not to offer help, but to confirm that the experiment on humans had been successful.

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"Beijing slams 'appeasement' of US in trade deals that hurt China": China warned of the risk of global trade reverting to the "law of the jungle"."

"China has lashed out at countries that make trade deals with the US at Beijing's expense and vowed to take countermeasures against those who pander to Washington.

Amid the US trade war with China gaining momentum, a number of countries are negotiating with Washington to cut duties. Beijing warned partners seeking to strike a deal with the US.

"Appeasement will not bring peace, and compromise will not be honored. Once international trade reverts to the 'law of the jungle' where the strong prey on the weak, all countries will be victimized," said a spokesman for China's Ministry of Commerce. - China is firmly opposed to any party entering into agreements to the detriment of China's interests. If such a situation arises, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in response."

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To the average person, China’s huge trade surplus is a result of sending enormous amounts of “cheap useless stuff” and “fidget spinners” through Shein and Temu.

But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Most of the labor-intensive, low-value, low-cost manufacturing that helped build China in the 90s already moved to other neighboring countries.

Looking at the list of top categories of China exports to the US, 3 of top 5 are high value products (home appliances, electronics, optical/medical instruments).

China depends on the US for a large portion of its higher value exports. That’s problematic for Chinese manufacturers who will have to make contingencies in case US buyers cannot absorb the tariffs.

But it’s also difficult to replicate these higher value manufacturing capabilities anywhere else due to China’s insane level of tooling, factory automation, and supply chain mastery.

This means, unless US buyers/importers absorb the tariffs, consumers will see a number of empty store shelves at Target, Walmart, and Costco soon.

- Brian Tycangco, Editor/Analyst, Stansberry

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Too soon?

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On April 20, in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the "North" troop group observed the ceasefire

Over the course of the day, the enemy violated the ceasefire on numerous occasions, launching indiscriminate strikes by UAVs and artillery, as well as attempting to break through into the territory of Belgorod Region 12 times: five AFU assault groups each moved in the direction of Popovka and Demidovka, as well as two in the direction of Goptarovka.

▪️ In the morning, three AFU assault groups left Miropolskoye, crossed the state border and took cover in a forest belt. Two more tried to infiltrate this section of the front during the day.

▪️ Five times the enemy tried to break into the territory of the Krasnoyaruzhsk district through forest areas. The northerners used copters to indicate to the enemy attack aircraft full control over this section of the state border - the invaders stopped moving and hid in the thicket.

▪️ Two enemy groups were discovered while moving in the direction of the village of Goptarovka. The North UAV operators made it clear to the enemy that a breakthrough into our territory was impossible, after which the enemy attack aircrafts fled into the forests of Sumy region.

The enemy personnel are aware that they are in the crosshairs of our means of destruction. Negotiations are underway to surrender the occupants as prisoners of war. Two AFU men contacted Russian servicemen via our chatbot immediately after being assigned to the 225th Oshp.

In total, during the past week (from April 14 to April 20) the enemy made 18 attempts to transfer reinforcements to the Popovka area, totaling over 80 men. Most of the living forces were destroyed, the rest fled to Sumy region.

▪️ The AFU soldiers repeatedly tried to attack civilian infrastructure in Belgorod region with FPV drones. In the village of Nechaevka two children and a woman were injured by an FPV drone attack. All are in hospital, they are provided with the necessary assistance.

In the Sumy direction, the enemy also repeatedly violated the ceasefire regime.

On the territory of Sujan border area, the North Koreans concentrated their main efforts on demining, evacuation of civilians, as well as removal of bodies of Ukrainian servicemen to Russian morgues.

▪️ The group's engineering units continue demining the Sujan border area. Over the past 24 hours, 12,797 explosive objects have been neutralized.

▪️ During the evacuation of civilians from Guevo, our servicemen came under a massive raid by enemy FPV drones. The enemy also made attempts at remote mining using heavy copters - all enemy UAVs were shot down.

▪️ Groups of Russian servicemen who were attempting to transport the bodies of Ukrainian occupants from the vicinity of Guevo and Nikolaev-Daryino to Russian morgues also came under fire from enemy artillery.

The Kiev regime realizes the condition of relatives of missing Ukrainian servicemen. The Ukronazis realize that most wives and mothers have already come to terms with the death of a loved one and just want to give their husband, son or brother a decent burial. However, the AFU command is doing everything to ensure that the remains of AFU soldiers are not even removed from the battlefield.

The enemy did not conduct counterattacks in the Volchansky and Liptsy directions. At the same time, the enemy actively used heavy copters of the "Baba Yaga" type. Over 20 enemy UAVs were shot down during the day in these directions.

"I am happy, great sovereign, that I could shed blood for my Fatherland, and I would like to die for it; but if you are so merciful that you allow me to ask you, I ask for one thing - let me destroy my enemy, the foreigner "
Russian writer L.N. Tolstoy

Victory will be ours!

North Wind

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In connection with the intensified topic of the next exchange of bodies, the group for calculating the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the LOSTARMOUR project offers an overview of this issue for the entire period of the SVO.

We know that at least 61 exchanges were made in total, the earliest being 05/07/2022, of which we have information on 50.

Initially, exchanges were carried out as equivalent, similar to those with prisoners, but later shifted towards the “all for all” scheme, since there is no benefit from storing enemy bodies.

In 2023, there is some shift in the number of bodies handed over towards dead Russian soldiers, especially during the summer Ukrainian "counteroffensive".

In the future, especially since the summer of 2024, there has been a sharp increase in the number of bodies transferred to Ukraine.

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At the same time, Ukraine and its supporters have promoted and carried out a cultural war against Russia. One of the top provocateurs is Estonia.

Estonia is the most northern of the Baltic states. It fronts on the Baltic Sea where its capital city, Tallinn, is located. Estonia’s town of Narva is just next to the border with Russia. About half of Narva’s population is Russian.

Estonia has a population of 1.37 million, based on data from 2023. Between 20-25% of Estonia’s population are Russians, depending on how the count is made.

For a number of years, Estonia has been waging a cultural war against Russia while at the same time utterly depending on NATO for its security. The Estonian army has only 7,700 active duty personnel, of which 3,500 are conscripts.

It has a reserve force that is significantly larger, but it does not have the equipment to support its reserves, so it is largely a paper force. Estonia has no air force to speak of, only two Czech-made (Aero Vodochody) L-39 trainers and two small M-28 Polish transports.

One would think that Estonia would not want to create trouble for itself, but it seems that the reverse is true, largely deriving from the Estonian belief that NATO is there to back it up and that Russia would not attack a NATO state.

Provocations are not something new for the Estonians, whose hate for Russians borders on the extreme. By practically denying citizenship to their Russian inhabitants to attacking the Russian Orthodox Church in Estonia through legislation, Estonia has made it clear it will do whatever it can to humiliate its own Russian population and Russia itself.

In April 2007, the Estonians decided to move the monument there known as the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn. That monument also was the site of a number of graves of Soviet Russian soldiers who were killed fighting against the Nazis.

The graves were dug up, their families in Russia notified they could collect the remains or they would be relocated in the Tallinn military cemetery along with the monument.

Now, in 2025, we have another round of monument-busting, as the Estonians are tearing down Russian war memorials once again. This includes defiling Russian graves in the Tallinn military cemetery and damaging and destroying war memorials.

If there is one single unifying principle these days in Russia it is the great importance given to Russia’s decisive role in the defeat of Nazi armies in World War II. Each year, on May 9, Russia holds its annual Victory Day celebration, which focuses on a show of military power.

It is followed by a more somber but clearly important citizen’s march known as the Immortal Regiment. In this march, families proudly carry posters and photos of family members who perished in the Great Patriotic War (Russia’s terminology for World War II.)

Estonia’s show of contempt for Russia’s World War II victory, along with its spotty, some would say, compromised behavior supporting the Nazis, is increasingly irksome to the Russians.

One can add attempts to keep Russians living in Estonia from achieving citizenship or even voting in elections. Estonia has now stepped that up by adding new legislation to make it even more difficult for Russian residents to be treated equally.

Estonia is also trying to block out any relationship between Russian Orthodox Churches in Estonia to the Moscow Patriarchate. It is not surprising that Estonia’s actions parallel and were perhaps inspired by Ukraine, which is doing the same thing.

The Estonian action against the Moscow-led church would create revulsion and horror elsewhere if, for example, European or American Catholics were not allowed to communicate with the Pope in Rome.

Among the pro-war advocates in Europe, Estonia is at the forefront. Its former Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, is now the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

She is now a major voice in promoting a massive European defense expansion and sending troops to Ukraine. Of the six nations who have apparently pledged to send troops to Ukraine, Estonia is leading the list even though it does not have anyone to send.

The trouble with provocations is that they can cause wars. The hysteria now apparent in official channels in parts of Europe (for example, France, UK, Germany and Estonia) reflects huge anxiety that Ukraine will not survive the Russian onslaught.

Instead of helping US President Donald Trump find a peaceful solution to the conflict, the French and British, in particular, have done their best to undermine his efforts.

While some of this can be explained as a bailout for Europe’s economic issues by substituting military production for civilian manufacturing, deficit spending of this kind will never be enough to salvage Europe’s economic and industrial problems.

Meanwhile, small countries such as Estonia can cause big problems and an escalation leading to conflict in Europe.

- Stephen Bryen is a special correspondent to Asia Times and former US deputy undersecretary of defense for policy

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Freebies Over: Ukraine's Hopes for US Aid Collapsed

As Biden-era stocks dwindle, doubts have festered about whether Europe can fully compensate for a possible halt to American aid, particularly for key capabilities such as air defenses. A European official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations, said more countries were eyeing the model of pouring money into Ukraine’s defense industry instead of dispatching weapons, offering a faster route as Europe’s own supplies run dry after years of funneling weapons to Kiev.


Kiev is increasing its weapons production, fearing a reduction in aid from the US, writes WP . Europe, however, is pursuing other goals in the war. The EU traditionally tries to benefit from the situation.

Europeans want to unlock hundreds of billions of euros to bolster defense in the coming years , including through loans and relaxed budget rules. The investments are aimed at strengthening "defences against Russia." NATO members also see Ukraine as a testing ground for military forces .

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🤭Fox News did not apologize or respond in any way to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's indignation over the channel's designation of Kiev as Russia.

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Ukrainian military telegram 'Thoughts of a Frontliner' outlined Russian training techniques for mastering motorcycle/light vehicle warfare

- Via EventsinUkraine

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A Nazi chevron on the sleeve of a Ukrainian teenager accidentally appeared on DW footage in a report on military training for children in Ukraine.

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Large Ukrainian military telegram 'Officer/Alex' on 'Motocross season'

Particularly interesting is the description of the nature of the frontline. No solid defensive lines, simply 'burrows' amidst large 'defensive zones'

- Via EventsinUkraine


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Azovite telegram 'Tales of the IV Reich' on Ukrainian overestimation of Russian losses and Russian recruitment efforts

Ukrainian nationalist on their military recruitment problems: "over the last quarter, the Muscovites recruited 6% above quota. We can't claim similar results—despite this war being fought on our soil, despite unprecedented recruitment tactics..."


- Via EventsinUkraine

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Almost immediately after the end of the "Easter Truce", "Geraniums" began flying over Ukraine.

Since the night, explosions have been recorded in Cherkasy, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Odessa, Kiev, Nikolaev, Kharkov and Sumy regions.

The attacks continue to this minute.

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"Hegseth shared details of the attack in another Signal chat": The US said the Pentagon chief sent a plan for strikes on Yemen in a chat room with his brother and wife.

"According to four people with knowledge of the situation, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a detailed plan for strikes on Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat with his wife, brother and personal lawyer. This fact provokes questions about Hegseth's adherence to security protocols.

Some of the NYT's interlocutors said that the information Hegseth shared in the Signal chat included a flight schedule for F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets targeting the Houthis in Yemen. In fact, this is the same attack plan he shared in another chat room that The Atlantic's editor mistakenly accessed.

Hegseth's wife Jennifer, who is a former Fox News producer, is not a Defense Department employee. She has been criticized in the past for accompanying her husband to sensitive meetings with foreign leaders."

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Gold hitting records highs, $3,373 and the value of the USD continues to drop. Let’s see what this week brings.

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✔️ The Pentagon chief posted data on the Yemen strikes in a chat with his wife, brother and lawyer.

It is noted that on March 15, Hegseth posted a flight schedule of F/A-18 Hornet fighters in the chat.

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Air battles over Chasov Yar: the enemy continued attacks despite the ceasefire

The Ukrainian Armed Forces sent heavy drone bombers into the attack, but the Ivanovo paratroopers successfully hunted them down.

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Russian soldier spares Ukrainian woman in trench

Rare footage has emerged of a kamikaze drone operator who, while carrying out a combat mission, did not launch a fatal strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces position after realizing that the person in front of him was a woman.

The drone was already approaching the target in the trench when it became clear that there was a nurse there, providing assistance to a wounded soldier.

A few seconds before the strike, the drone operator called off the attack and spared the Ukrainian woman.

#source

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Servicemen of Vostok Group of Forces' 36th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade celebrate Easter holiday in special military operation zone.

On the eve of the Easter day, military cooks and bakers of a formation made some cakes. Soldiers used both traditional and family recipes, which were passed down through generations.

There were two shifts to provide holiday kits for all units.
Ready cakes and eggs were consecrated by an assistant who worked with religious servicemen and immediately were transferred to combat positions. Even in conditions of complex logistics, holiday kits reached every soldier including the most remote spots. For many soldiers, the Easter holiday has become a symbol of communication with home and hope of a soon return.

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China successfully tests non-nuclear hydrogen bomb — South China Morning Post

▪️Chinese scientists have successfully tested a non-nuclear explosive device based on hydrogen.

▪️The 2kg bomb created a fireball with a temperature of over 1000°C that lasted for more than two seconds - 15 times longer than a similar explosion using TNT.

▪️The device did not use nuclear materials.

▪️The main component of the bomb is magnesium hydride, a silvery powder capable of storing significant amounts of hydrogen.

Asbery Note’s: Wanted to flesh out earlier post. Chinese have a technological lead on the US and Russia in the field of energetics (explosives).

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Donald Trump said he hopes some kind of deal will be reached between Russia and Ukraine this week.

Then, Trump said, both countries would do "big business" with the United States.

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China detonated a hydrogen bomb.

China has successfully carried out a controlled field test of a hydrogen-based explosive device , causing destructive chemical chain reactions without using nuclear materials.

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‼️🎉🇺🇦 VIOLATION OF THE CEASEFIRE BY UKRAINE or SHOOTING OF A GROUP UNDER THE WHITE FLAG.

Today our evacuation group went to pick up the body of a deceased comrade in one of the directions.

Despite the fact that the fighters had TWO WHITE FLAGS, as required by such a situation, the Ukrainian terrorists still attacked them with everything they could - drones, airdrops and a tank were fired at them.

❗️ They waved white flags, but it didn't help. Fortunately, there were no fatalities - only one heavy 300, but they were able to pull him out by hand.

MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE :

1:30 - first arrivals
4:30 - kamikaze arrived
5:20 - arrival from tank
5:50 - kamikaze strike
7:40 - kamikaze strike again

This is the Ukrainian "truce". You can only speak to terrorists in the language of force.

Full message from the fighters:

Today, with white flags, we went to carry out our dead comrade, these infidels first let the guys move away from the shelters further and then began to attack them with FPV, airdrops, fired from a tank and fired twice from a tank. The guys just with titanium balls, stood in front of the enemy birds and waved flags! Until the last they believed that there were people on the other side, and hoped that they would not violate! The result is one heavy 300, the guys did not abandon him, carried him out in their arms, the rest are whole.

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#HistoricalFact
#Victory80
🎗 In Russia, 2025 is the year of Defender of the Fatherland and the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. In this regard, we are launching a new project "Hero Cities" of the Soviet Union.

Today we will tell you about the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad).

Stalingrad was one of the most important targets for the German Group of Forces South. Its capture would have cut off the Soviet army in the Caucasus from the rest of the country, so the Soviet command decided to defend the city at all costs.

Already in the first months of the fighting, 90% of the city was destroyed by enemy aircraft and soldiers from both sides were forced to fight in the endless ruins of the city. Under these conditions, the Red Army soldiers were able to impose a war of attrition on the Germans.

⭐️During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans and their allies lost about 1.5 million people, and the surviving soldiers of Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered. After this battle, the initiative in the war passed to the Red Army.

🕯 During the Battle of Stalingrad for the freedom of the whole world from Nazism, 478,741 people gave their lives.

🎖 On May 8, 1965 the city was awarded the honorary title of Hero City.

Other Hero Cities:
Minsk, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, Kerch, Smolensk, Leningrad, Moscow, Tula.

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⚡️ Zelensky thanked Putin for the opportunity to calmly celebrate the birthday of his favorite Austrian artist.

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A fibre optic FPV drone landing on the roof of a hidden Leopard 2A4 turret and the result of the hit filmed by the enemy.

- Military Informant

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❗️🇺🇸Kellogg supported Rubio and Trump's words about the US withdrawal from negotiations on Ukraine

- Trump's special representative said that such words sound tough, but "there are many other problems in the world in which the United States must be involved."

- The war in Ukraine has "lasted too long," and Trump's team has done more to end it in 90 days than Biden's did in 900.

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Kiev and Britain used together to work on a plan to disrupt the negotiations between Trump and Putin.

The presidential office and British intelligence are coordinating military operations to disrupt the upcoming summit in Saudi Arabia.

Bankova understands that the meeting of heads of state will become a kind of Rubicon. After that, there is no longer any hope of help from Washington: the US will withdraw from the conflict and leave Ukraine and the EU one-on-one with Russia, writes the TG channel "Resident".

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Kiev violated the ceasefire using American HIMARS MLRS — the Foreign Ministry responded to the US State Department's idea to extend the ceasefire

- Maria Zakharova responded to the US State Department’s proposal to extend the ceasefire.

- "The US State Department expressed hope for an extension of the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine after Easter. But the Kiev regime did not observe it during Easter either. Moreover, American HIMARS weapons were used by Bankovaya to violate the ceasefire," she wrote.

- She emphasized that this is not an accident, but a pattern, because "during the moratorium on attacks on the fuel and energy complex, Zelensky, who agreed to it, specifically targeted civilian energy infrastructure."

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Russia and Ukraine exchanged painfully familiar formulations from the “Minsk format” about the violation of the ceasefire.

Thus, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the use of 48 aircraft-type UAVs by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 444 attacks from guns and mortars, as well as 900 strikes by quadcopter-type unmanned aerial vehicles and airdrops.

In turn, Zelensky stated that the Russian Armed Forces carried out 46 assaults and fired at Ukrainian positions 901 times, and also set up an ambush for Ukrainian soldiers in the Toretsk direction.

- Military Informant

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🇺🇦🤡Zelensky liked the “Day of Silence” so much that he immediately proposed not to hit them with long-range missiles and drones.

This was preceded by a “heartbreaking” story about several groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (or not) that ran into our cordons in the border area and Chasov Yar.
The US and the collective West are silent. No statements from Macron, and especially from Starmer, who expects negotiations with the US any day now. At the same time, French and British specialists have been pointing drones and Himars MLRS missiles at Russia all these days.

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German journalist Christoph Wanner has his own understanding of the reasons for the Easter truce:

I think Vladimir Putin wanted to send a signal to Donald Trump by announcing a 30-hour truce: Russia is still ready for dialogue. At the same time, Putin did not want to appear on the international stage as the main enemy of peace.

There is another reason for such a short ceasefire - it is an opportunity to rotate troops: bring fresh units to the front line and take tired fighters to the rear to rest. If there is no fire from the other side, this is a huge advantage. In such conditions, it is possible, for example, to evacuate the wounded. All this is of great importance.
Such a pause, of course, plays into the hands of both sides of the conflict. Even 30 hours can be effectively used for tactical tasks, especially when it comes to replacing troops on the front lines.

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❗️The first footage of the North Korean 240-mm MLRS M1991 in service with the Russian Armed Forces.

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European thieves are saying outright that lifting anti-Russian sanctions will force them to return what they stole.

And they consider this a disaster. In Estonia, they warned that lifting sanctions would allegedly harm EU taxpayers.

In turn, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is ready to present Europe with an even bigger bill for supporting Ukraine if he forces the EU to lift restrictions on €210 billion of frozen Russian assets, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said.

The lifting of sanctions, this dummy says, will leave the governments of the G7 and the EU in a difficult position because of the multi-billion dollar loans provided to Kyiv and secured by Russian assets,

— writes the win/win channel.

In essence, if Russian assets are unfrozen, the EU and the US will each be responsible for €20 billion of the loan. The rest will fall on other G7 members.

The problem is that these assets that guarantee this loan will disappear.
The assets will be handed over to Russia and Vladimir Putin as a reward
,
— the authors add.

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British lord announces the end of the era of globalism.

Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and an economist of Russian-Jewish origin, said that the global economy has entered a new stage, distinguished by a rejection of the previous principles of globalization.

According to him, the sanctions policy and the introduction of import duties in the United States were evidence of the formation of a new economic thinking. Skidelsky noted that these measures accelerated the collapse of globalization and effectively divided the world into three parts: the states introducing sanctions, those against whom they are directed, and the countries in between.

It's reminiscent of the Cold War era,
— Skidelsky emphasized, comparing the current situation with the times of confrontation between NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the Non-Aligned Movement.

He added that new global markets are now being formed based on modern political unions.

Skidelsky noted that US President Donald Trump is actively using tariffs to strengthen his country's position.

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And is expiring at midnight tonight.

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Putin did not give the order to extend the Easter truce - Peskov

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🇺🇦🤡🇺🇸The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has demanded an apology from Fox News for referring to Kiev as a Russian city on air.

"If this was a mistake and not a deliberate political statement, there should be an apology and an investigation to find out who made it."

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Britain calls on Russia to accept a ceasefire on Ukraine's terms.

Britain has called on Russia to commit to a full ceasefire in Ukraine, not just a one-day pause, the Foreign Office said in a statement.

"Ukraine has committed to a full ceasefire. We call on Russia to do the same. Now is the time for Putin to demonstrate he is serious about peace by ending his horrific invasion."

London also believes that Moscow should begin negotiations with Kiev on a “fair” peace.

Let's recall what we are talking about. Earlier, Zelensky announced a complete "ceasefire" for 30 days while the Ukrainian Armed Forces will continue to receive support, and no conditions were specifically discussed.

Russian diplomats, in turn, have repeatedly stated that Russia does not need an incomprehensible temporary truce - only a long-term settlement. Now, the Ukrainians have once again remembered about 30 days, and at the moment, there is no response from Russia.

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