Ukrainian political analyst Vadim Karasev: at this stage, the United States has lost the confrontation with Russia, so they are driving Kiev to the offensive, expecting that the story with Ukraine will end there

And Kiev's goal has changed, he says, now the main thing is not to let the Russian offensive develop.

by @Politnavigator

A Russian citizen died in the Gaza Strip as a result of shelling by the Israel Defense Forces , RIA Novosti was told in the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

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🗞(+)Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article "Russian nationalist writer Prilepin wounded in attack" reveals that Russian nationalist and writer Zakhar Prilepin was injured in an alleged attack east of Moscow. He is considered a big supporter of Putin. His driver was killed.

Pro-Kremlin Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin has been wounded in an alleged attack. The 47-year-old writer was travelling in his car in the Nizhny Novgorod region east of Moscow on Saturday when an explosive device attached to the vehicle went off, several Russian state news agencies reported, citing local authorities. Prilepin's driver was killed and the writer himself was injured. Prilepin's press service initially reported that the writer's condition was "fine". However, rescuers described him as seriously injured.

Governor Gleb Nikitin wrote on Telegram that investigators had already arrived at the scene of the explosion near the town of Bor. Initially, it was unclear who was behind the alleged terrorist attack.

Prilepin, known in Germany for his book Sankya, which was published in translation in 2012, is considered a staunch supporter of the war of aggression against Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin ordered to be launched more than a year ago. He openly calls himself an imperialist and is a co-founder of the "Cultural Front" in the State Duma, which has sworn the country's artistic life to war and victory. And he himself fought in the Donbass and killed many Ukrainians with his battalion, as he freely admitted in an interview.

A Ukrainian movement called Atesh has spoken out on social media and hinted at what is behind the attack on Prilepin. The group calls itself a guerrilla movement of ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars and has claimed several attacks in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories in recent months. "The Atesh movement has been after Prilepin since the beginning of the year," the text said. It added: "We had a hunch that sooner or later he would be blown up". The veracity of the report could not be verified at first.

This is not the first time that a supporter of the war in Russia has been the target of an assassination attempt: just a few weeks ago, for example, the well-known military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in an explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe. Last August, Daria Dugina - daughter of right-wing nationalist ideologist Alexander Dugin - was killed in a car bomb attack near Moscow.


P. S. from us: what a ****, trying so hard to show "neutrality" that not once did they call terrorists terrorists or even make an attempt to condemn terrorist acts. Is this so called "quality", "independent" German journalism?

💥Source: CSRC Agency
💥Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇬🇧📕🇹🇷 The cover of the latest issue of the Economist on May 6th-12th

The Turkish election is crucial for democracy.

The editorial has produced an absolutely propagandistic article for the new issue, in which they write: "If Erdogan loses, the Turkish people will become freer, less fearful and - in time - more prosperous".

💥Source: CSRC Agency
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Zelensky set to find new partners for grain deal - Sky news

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kiev is not interested in extending its agreement with Moscow and will focus on finding partners for the safe export of grain from Ukraine's Black Sea ports.

The agreement, brokered by the UN and Turkey and signed in July last year, expires on 18 May after being extended twice.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
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Europe struggles to regain military influence - The Economist

European defense spending grew by an impressive 13% last year, according to the think tank SIPRI, but about two-thirds of that was eaten up by inflation.

According to The Economist:

▪️ Germany created a special fund of €100 billion to increase the country's defense capabilities by NATO standards. But the fund has barely been touched to this day.

▪️ Britain can only sustain eight days of high-intensity combat, based on the 2021 war games model.

▪️ France, too, is investing heavily in defense, but is unlikely to begin replacing its four Triomphant submarines before the 2030s. Which would greatly weaken the country in a possible conflict.

▪️ Poland, unlike many other European countries, intends to increase its defense budget to 4% in 2023.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
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How is it that they killed their own people? Journalists collected cases of "friendly fire" in the AFU

Information appeared in the media about what happened in Kiev during the first weeks of the special military operation.

According to journalists, the confusion was caused by fear of Russian DRGs and incoherence between separate units of the AFU, the Interior Ministry, the National Guard and the military.

The biggest example is the shooting of an army convoy on Bereisteyskaya Street, in which the AFU destroyed two cars, two trucks, and a tank of a neighboring unit.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
💥Our channel: Node of Time EN

New Russian guided bombs can change Ukraine's counterattack plan

The British newspaper The Telegraph writes that after the arrival of these bombs, Ukraine will need "significant air defense" on the front lines. The new Russian weapons can create serious problems for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, especially at river crossings and Russian Armed Forces positions.

The weekly newspaper says that the Ukrainian army's assembly points, command and logistics nodes might be hit.

In order to minimize the damage from the latest Russian weapons Ukraine will have to master wide dispersal of troops in an extremely expeditious mode.

Kiev officials claim that Russia has been dropping at least 20 glide bombs a day on the battlefield for at least a month. Most of the strikes come from a distance of 40-48 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
💥Our channel: Node of Time EN

"A real war has been unleashed against our Motherland"

"Vladimir Putin spoke at the Victory Parade. During the speech, the President announced a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Second World War.

'Today, civilization is once again at a decisive turning point.

'There are no unfriendly peoples for us. We want to see a future of peace, freedom and stability.

— The Western globalist elites still talk about their exclusivity, play off peoples, destroy traditional values. All in order to continue to impose their will.

'They seem to have forgotten what the Nazi claim to superiority led to.

- The memory of true heroes in the West is being erased and slandered.

- The Ukrainian people became hostages of the coup d'état and the criminal regime.'"
https://news.1rj.ru/str/breakingmash/43888

Ein Clown, der sich für einen Präsidenten hält: Hier sagt er, er werde den Beitrag des ukrainischen Volkes zum Sieg über den Nationalsozialismus nie vergessen.
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A clown who thinks he is a president: Here he says he will never forget the contribution of the Ukrainian people to the victory over Nazism.
(d3.ru)

Source: Node of Time DE

😂The Estonian prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against the "Slava Ukraini" Foundation, which collected donations from Estonians for Ukraine and stole them. The donations amounted to about one million euros

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The next package of EU sanctions involves sanctions against more than 35 companies from Iran, China, the UAE, as well as Armenia and Uzbekistan.

All because they allegedly support the military-industrial complex of Russia. This is reported by Bloomberg.

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Kiev is dissatisfied with the fact that the heads of a number of countries came to Moscow for the parade

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stated that the participation of the leaders of Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in the events in honor of the Victory Day celebration in Moscow is an "immoral and unfriendly step" towards the Ukrainian people.

@ukr_leaks_eng

The United States has allocated another $1.2 billion package of military assistance to Ukraine. It consists of:

▪️Air defense equipment and ammunition;
▪️Equipment for the integration of Western air defense launchers, missiles and radars with Ukrainian air defense systems;
▪️Ammunition to counter unmanned systems;
▪️155 mm artillery shells;
▪️Commercial satellite survey services;
▪️Training and maintenance support.

By the way, Washington has already allocated 37 packages of military assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of SMO.

@ukr_leaks_eng