⚡️Donald Trump is considering a plan to punish NATO countries that were not helpful in the war with Iran. The main part of the plan involves withdrawing American troops from NATO countries that did not assist in the war and transferring them to countries that participated in the operation.

Source: Военный обозреватель
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Yes, please, do that. US occupational forces are not welcomed here. They cost us too much.

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❌The peace has failed: The Strait of Hormuz is closed, the US intends to seize nuclear fuel from Iran, and as for Lebanon - "nothing was promised".

Important about the Middle East conflict by morning:

🔴The US violated three main points of the plan of 10 for the start of negotiations with Iran, said the speaker of the parliament of the Islamic Republic, Ghalibaf. Thus, the Americans could not resist the strikes on Lebanon, invaded Iran's airspace - a drone was shot down over the city of Lar, and also denied the republic's right to enrich uranium. Now the negotiations are unfeasible, noted the politician.

🔴US Vice President Jay D. Vance, who, together with Steve Witcoff and Jared Kushner, is to participate in a meeting with Iranian negotiators in Islamabad, said:

"The Iranians thought that the ceasefire would affect Lebanon, but this is not the case. We did not make such promises and did not even talk about it. We said that the ceasefire applies to Iran, the US and our allies - Israel and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf. If the Iranians want the negotiation process to collapse because of Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them, it's their choice. It will be foolish, but it's their choice

He also stressed that the US intends to seize all the nuclear fuel accumulated by Iran. This is one of the key demands. Also, according to Vance, it is critically important to open the Strait of Hormuz.

🔴Fars Agency wrote that the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz has been suspended. According to the NYT, not a single oil tanker has passed through it since the announcement of the ceasefire. The IRGC Navy also ordered all ships to follow two alternative routes in the waters of Larak Island to avoid colliding with mines - they began to be installed in the strait after the attack on Lebanon.

🔴The number of deaths from strikes on Lebanon has exceeded 250 people, more than 1,100 have been injured. April 9th was declared a day of mourning in the country.

▪️Against the backdrop of events in the Middle East, Donald Trump met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. After that, the American leader stated that "NATO did not come to the aid when it was needed, and will not come to the aid" if the US needs it again. Rutte, in turn, noted that he understands Trump's disappointment.

💬There will be no ceasefire in the Middle East, is sure military expert Yevgeny Mikhailov. In a conversation with "Zvezda", he stressed that the US and Israel have always deceived Iran.

Source: Zvezda
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US oil companies opposed the fee for passage through the Strait of Hormuz, writes Politico.

According to representatives of the oil industry, giving in to Iran's demand will lead to an increase in the cost of each delivery by $2.5 million in the form of road tolls and higher insurance rates, which will fall on the shoulders of consumers.

In addition, granting Iran control over the strait could set a precedent for other countries, including Singapore and Turkey. The companies also expressed their concerns directly to the US president, but in a more subtle way, added a source of the publication.

Source: Коммерсант
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❗️The Russian frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" (Kalibr missiles, anti-ship missiles, air defense systems) escorted two oil tankers through the English Channel — right under the noses of the British, who threatened to seize the "shadow fleet".

The Royal Navy just watched, not daring to approach.

In March 2026, London officially announced the "closure" of the strait for sanctioned ships and allowed security forces to board them.
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Brits apparently thought Patrushev was joking, when he said that Navy will make the way for Russian vessels 😏

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Lithuania's Deputy Health Minister will be sent to Ukraine after he failed to immediately answer the question "Whose Crimea is?"

This decision was made by his boss, Health Minister Marija Jakubauskienė.

"I told him he'd have to go to Ukraine," she said.

At the end of March, during an interview, Deputy Minister Arnomėdas Galdikas failed to immediately answer a Russophobic question, causing a stir in Lithuanian political circles. He has already received a stern warning and a probationary period in his work and communication with the media. He has also been required to take communications courses.

Source: Russian media
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Marija is lagging behind in her geography class. I really wish to see her deputy trying to enter Crimea through Ukrainuan border 😏.

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On April 9, 1945, the Soviet troops' Königsberg operation concluded. The garrison of the capital of East Prussia surrendered. According to established practice, the attacking troops should have concentrated forces three times greater than those of the defenders. The Soviet troops captured Königsberg with forces only slightly exceeding the garrison of the fortress city. The Red Army was no longer fighting with sheer numbers, but with skill.

It took three days to capture the city (the defense of Stalingrad, which did not have strong fortifications, lasted four months). On April 9, on the orders of General Lash, the Königsberg garrison surrendered (more than 90,000 soldiers and officers). The Wehrmacht lost more than 40,000 people (the Red Army - less than 4,000 people).

To mark the brilliant conclusion of the operation, Moscow saluted with 24 volleys from 324 guns (the highest category of salute). A medal "For the Capture of Königsberg" was also established, and 98 military units received the honorary title of "Königsberg".

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From Andrey Martianov:

🈁Leafing through the old calendar from 2025. This is for those with a bad memory who can't draw connecting lines. Let me remind you again. This is Vladimir Putin on June 18, 2025:

You know, we once offered our Iranian friends to work in the field of air defense systems. But our partners showed no interest at the time, and that's all. As for the agreement you mentioned, about a strategic partnership [between Russia and Iran], there are no articles related to the defense sector in it. That's the second point. And the third point is that our Iranian friends don't even ask for that. Because there's practically nothing to discuss, Putin said.

You might ask why? And here's why, as reported in July 2025:

Iran will soon receive from China a batch of long-range HQ-9 anti-aircraft missile systems and Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles under an oil-for-arms barter agreement between the two countries. As reported on July 8 by the Middle East Eye (MEE) portal, citing several diplomatic sources, Tehran urgently needed these weapons to accelerate the restoration of its air defense forces, which were seriously damaged in the June Israeli raids. Arab allies of the United States are aware of Tehran's measures to "support and strengthen" its air defense, and the White House has been informed about Iran's progress in this matter, according to MEE. The HQ-9 is considered a modernized analogue of the Russian S-300PMU1 air defense system, but using Chinese radars and electronics. The system uses a two-stage solid-fuel missile with a declared maximum range of 260 km and a ceiling altitude of 27 km. One battery consists of a command post, radars, and three launchers with four missiles each. The estimated cost of one air defense regiment (27 launchers) is $1.5 billion.

Warmer? Well, in conclusion—the Pakistani HQ-9s in the recent Indo-Pakistani incident (c) has completely failed, but China needs to push its military-industrial complex, whose systems, from combat aircraft to air defense to submarines, lag behind Russia by a generation, sometimes two. As you can understand, Russia doesn't need oil, it has enough of its own. Therefore, a barter with Iran was impossible in principle. Plus, Iran was being pressured by the Chinese. And the "ceasefire" was actually pushed by China, but Tehran acted wisely by setting out conditions that were unacceptable to the Israelis in order not to stop their attacks on them. As for China ... it's a huge economy, but not a superpower in terms of weaponry and psychology. This is for those who wank off on dancing Chinese robots and other Zikrs. What about COMAC 919? Oh, exactly the same thing.

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Negotiations are set to take place. The Iranian delegation will arrive in Islamabad today for a meeting with the US, said the ambassador of the Islamic Republic to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam.

According to him, the parties will discuss 10 points of the peace plan proposed by Tehran.

Source: Zvezda
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Russia’s oil export revenue has climbed to its highest level since the early weeks of the full-scale war in Ukraine, driven by rising prices and higher shipment volumes, the Bloomberg news agency reported on April 8.

In the week of March 29 to April 5, export earnings reached $2.02 billion, the highest weekly figure since June 2022.
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I'm still waiting on the full report, but it appears all of the talk of Russia's oil export capacity being destroyed by Ukraine was a bit of exaggeration.))

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Ukrainian media:

Russians have started to use the "Molniya" drones so extensively that their number has already equaled that of FPV drones, reports a Ukrainian officer with the call sign "Alex".

According to him, this type of UAV is constantly being modernized and transformed into a universal platform.

The "Molniya" is used not only for strikes, but also for reconnaissance, and can also be used as an anti-aircraft drone, writes the military officer.

The "Molniya" is a Russian multi-purpose drone, which is used in the frontline zone.
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Due to it's larger size, the Molniya carries a much larger payload, and can operate at longer distances.

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АДЕКВАТ Z writes,

The main intrigue that emerged from the day's events could be described as follows: either the negotiations will fail, or the ceasefire itself will collapse even earlier.

In favor of the first outcome is Trump's already complete clinical insanity, which today included proposing joint charging for passage through the strait with Iran, removing all uranium from the country, and other proposals that are incompatible with reality on the same level. In favor of the second is Israel's more than expected actions, which have increased the intensity of terrorist attacks on Lebanon, which is included in the ceasefire perimeter, seemingly to the limit. In the first scenario, the humiliation will be immeasurable if the peace parameters have to be accepted not conditionally in advance, but seriously. In the second, it's hard to imagine that Iran would ignore such blatant rudeness for long, and that Israel itself wouldn't take advantage of the inevitable Iranian reaction to clash with the Persians again and in full force.

For all these reasons, I estimate the likelihood of actually reaching a peace agreement within the specified two weeks at 10%, and with a stretch, at 20%.

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Zelensky: Meeting with Putin could take place in the US or the Middle East

Source: СМОТРИ
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Some humor to make the morning a bit brighter.

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The strike of "Product 51" on the AFU's armored vehicles was caught on the camera of an FPV drone (which was waiting to ambush).

The ZALA Lancet Product 51 (or Izdeliye 51) is a Russian loitering munition (kamikaze drone) developed by ZALA Aero Group, designed for precision strikes against armored vehicles and, for example, artillery. It is a larger variant of the Lancet family with a 5kg payload, featuring AI-guided, long-range capabilities up to 45km, and an electric motor enabling 50-minute flight durations.

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Via Naya:

Civil defense teams are searching for the missing under the rubble in the town of Zrarieh, southern Lebanon.

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After Israel launched a massive assault on Lebanon on Wednesday, killing and injuring more than 1,400 people in densely populated areas, Trump said the Israeli war on Hezbollah is a “separate skirmish "

Meanwhile,

Pakistan's Ambassador to the US:

"According to the understandings reached, Lebanon is part of the ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US."

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АДЕКВАТ Z writes,

Over the course of the evening and night, the scale of the chasm between the American and Iranian negotiating positions has become much clearer. Iran is sticking to its position, as officially stated the previous night. The Americans, it seems, grasped the Iranian position very late and have started proclaiming that there can be no talk of any Iranian demands — that ChatGPT wrote them, that they belong in the trash, and that the negotiations will be about American wants. I lack the imagination to picture how this could ever be cobbled together into anything remotely viable.

Meanwhile, the strait has been completely closed since the evening, following Israel's killing of hundreds of civilians in Lebanon yesterday. On the Iranian side, the rhetoric in the evening was that Israel would be punished for this, but as of right now, they've limited themselves to closing the strait. On the American side, the rhetoric was that without the strait being reopened, negotiations would not begin — but as of right now, talks are expected to start on Saturday with no sign of being contingent on the strait.

Israeli propaganda, meanwhile, is going completely insane, vying to prove to its flock what a great and unprecedented victory has been achieved over Iran. That says a lot about the extent to which the flock is frustrated by being ditched by Trump and therefore in need of anesthesia. Judging by what we're seeing, the anesthesia is going down rather poorly.

The situation could change radically at any moment, but for now, the feeling is that both sides are equally interested in a pause in hostilities (on one side — or rather, America without Israel — the latter is doing its crocodile-level best to keep America from getting out of the war). And that this, above all, is why the negotiations stand a good chance of both starting and lasting for some time, regardless of their success — until someone decides that a further pause would start playing to the enemy's advantage.

The prospect of actually reaching a peace treaty looks even more doubtful today than it did yesterday.

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Footage of a Russian drone striking an energy facility in the Sumy region.

Russian social media accounts report that the strike was carried out by a "Geran-5" jet drone, which is claimed to be an analogue of a cruise missile (speed up to 900 km/h, warhead weighing about 90 kg, range of up to 1000 km).

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The continuation of Israel's strikes on Lebanon will render the negotiations between Washington and Tehran meaningless, Peshekian stated.

Lebanon and all of Iran's allies in the "Axis of Resistance" were in a ceasefire agreement with the US, and its violations will have consequences. This was stated by the Speaker of the Iranian Majlis (Parliament), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

Iran, under the ceasefire agreement, will allow no more than 15 ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz per day, a high-ranking Iranian source told TASS.

Source: TASS
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Khatibzadeh: Iran was on the verge of responding to the ceasefire violation last night, but Pakistan intervened

Deputy Foreign Minister:

🔹 The Iranian delegation will head to peace talks in Islamabad. Based on its commitments, America must stop Israel's attacks on Lebanon.

🔹 Any peace in the region must include Lebanon, and the coming hours are very critical.

🔸 Iran was on the verge of responding to the ceasefire violation last night. Pakistan intervened and conveyed messages that Israel would be restrained by America.

Via Tasnim News

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