How Ukraine's 'anti-terrorist operation' in Donbass turned into bloodbath against its own people Pt.3

Betrayal of the Minsk Accords

On September 5, 2014, the Minsk Protocol, a ceasefire agreement between Kiev and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, was signed in the Belarusian capital.

🔺The thirteen-point ceasefire and peace deal would have allowed Kiev to restore its control over the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in exchange for constitutionally-mandated autonomy. However, the process reached a dead end due to Kiev's refusal to implement the political part of the agreements.

🔺Subsequently, both Ukraine's ex-president Petro Poroshenko and former leaders of France and Germany, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel, openly admitted the accords were a sham. They had been conceived to grant the post-coup government time to rearm while also cobbling together an anti-Russia coalition that has fueled NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Moscow ever since.

The Consequences of the ATO

In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of the-then breakaway People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The heads of the two republics sought Putin's assistance in repelling "aggression by Ukrainian forces" to avoid casualties among civilians.

Launched days later, Russia's special military operation was designed to put an end to the impunity with which Kiev's junta waged war against its own people.

In September 2022, referenda on the reunification of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions with Russia were held, with the majority of the population voting in favor.

Biden cuts short his day off and returns to the White House to consult with the security team on events in the Middle East, the White House Pool says.

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Austin in a phone call with Gallant makes it clear that Israel could count on full US support amid escalation with Iran, Pentagon says.

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Militants from the Ukrainian unit of the 25th separate airborne brigade surrendered to the Russian Battlegroup Tsentr near Avdeyevka

Nine paratroopers of the elite Ukrainian brigade took the opportunity to surrender near the village of Vodyanoye. They turned to the Russian military and laid down their arms.

All of them note poor planning of combat operations, poor qualification of commanders, colossal losses in manpower and equipment, and panic in the units.

According to the prisoners, they were used as cannon fodder, regardless of the colossal losses. “The commanders leave us to die, like waste material, while they themselves are somewhere on the sidelines,” admits Valery, a captured serviceman of the 25th Ukrainian brigade.

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Channel 7 reports that the hero who stood up to the knifeman alone, known as "Bollard Man," was indeed a Russian-speaking man, as was previously reported by some eyewitnesses.

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🇮🇱 Schools in Israel will be closed starting Sunday morning due to threats of an Iranian attack, the IDF announced Saturday night. 

Israel is "closely monitoring a planned Iranian attack" against it and Tehran's allies in the region, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, without giving further details on the threat.

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🇮🇱 Israeli security establishment still believes Iran will target military rather than civilian sites in retaliation for the recent strike in Damascus, which killed several IRGC members, including two generals, Channel 12 reports.

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The US believes that there is a high probability that Iran will attack Israel on Sunday morning, April 14, Al Jazeera reports.

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VDV for export: What Russia has to gain by helping other countries build powerful airborne forces

“The airborne forces have always been considered the elite of armies around the world, the most trained and best units,” veteran journalist, author and war correspondent Aleksei Borzenko told Sputnik, commenting on Russia’s plans to offer foreign militaries comprehensive training, equipment and support to create powerful airborne forces.

“Who can send trainees today? Well, firstly, the countries of Africa – the former French colonies which have now freed themselves from units of the French Foreign Legion and begun a path of independent development without French pressure. These countries will now try to create their own armies, and most likely will send their officers to train with us,” the observer said.

There are also other potentially interested countries in the Middle East (such as Syria and Egypt), as well as in Asia and Latin America, Borzenko believes.

“It must be said that any military training (and the United States also conducts such training for its friendly armies), results in countries starting to buy weapons. This is how Soviet weapons were sold during the Soviet period. And the same interest is now being shown for Russian weapons,” Borzenko said.

Foreign units sent to Russia will be trained on Russia’s training grounds, and in the case of the airborne troops, at the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, and possibly in Pskov with the 76th Guards Air Assault Division, the observer believes.

“Naturally, such training will contribute to the formation of a grouping, to one degree or another, of friendly countries that are well disposed toward us. We are not talking here about military blocs, but about cooperation, about the sale of weapons and other areas in which other countries can help us themselves,” the veteran journalist summed up.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is reportedly headed to the defense ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv for a war cabinet meeting amid reports about Iran's intention to attack Israel.

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