The US Navy Museum congratulated the fleet on its 250th anniversary by posting a photo of the Russian cruiser "Varyag" on the social network X.

The post was deleted after comments from veterans and journalists.

"Varyag" is a missile cruiser of project 1164 "Atlant", part of the Russian Pacific Fleet since 1983.

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❗️ Syrian television reports that the 'transitional period president of Syria', Ahmed al-Sharaa, intends to visit Moscow on Wednesday.

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Tonight’s masterpiece: me versus Velcro.

Some sadist once decided braces needed Velcro straps — so every time you bend down, they spring loose and smack you on the back of the head. I’ve declared war on that design flaw and spent the evening sewing them the proper way.

It’s been a busy few days: a run to Moscow, wiring up the new security system, fixing the Buhanka’s exhaust, setting up routers and cameras, and finally watching the place light up at dusk with fairy lights and solar lamps. The little touches that make a rural place feel alive.

The expenses have stacked up — mower, strimmer, generator, filters, ladders — easily over a million rubles in by now. But that’s part of building a life here: steady, hands-on work, quiet evenings, and fixing what no one else will.

Sometimes it’s not about grand projects. It’s about the small victories — like sewing Velcro that doesn’t whip you in the skull.

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🇬🇧 Britain’s Political Earthquake

The Daily Mail today published the results of a new PLMR/Electoral Calculus poll, showing the Conservatives facing total collapse. If elections were held tomorrow, the Tories would win just 7 seats out of 650 — compared to their current 121 — marking one of the worst projections in British political history.

Meanwhile, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is on course for a 445-seat supermajority, a result that would completely reshape Britain’s political order. The establishment is already rallying its forces to resist the shift, and every institutional lever will be used to blunt Reform’s momentum before election day.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14087791/Reform-UK-poll-Electoral-Calculus-PLMR-Tories-seven-seats.html

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With Zelensky making the legitimate mayor of Odessa Gennadiy Trukhanov stateless, thereby forcing him from his post held for over 10 years, and appointing a wartime junta to run Odessa, led by Dniprepotrovsk mob heavy Sergey Lysak, that is the beautiful Russian port city of Odessa now under full Ukrainian Nazi control. Let's hope, and believe, this is temporary.

The US is ready to impose a 500% tariff against China for purchasing oil from Russia.

Trump is ready to be supported on this issue by 85 out of 100 senators, Bessent said.

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🇷🇺 “We Were Deceived and Abandoned”: Ukrainian Militant Describes Chaos and Desertion Inside the AFU

Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces militant Sergey Chikin has revealed the scale of desertion and despair among Kiev’s troops. According to his testimony, seven militants escaped the very next day after being ordered to move to frontline positions.

Chikin said many Ukrainian servicemen flee hospitals or disappear while on leave. Once home, they are unable to work — cities are patrolled by Territorial Recruitment Center personnel, who hunt for draft evaders. Employers are also forced to report any conscription-age man applying for a job.

“Many are hiding. Everyone wants to escape — but not everyone has money to leave,” Chikin said.

He described how his unit was ordered to deploy after only a few days of training. On the same day, seven men fled, walking 17 kilometers before finding a taxi driver willing to take them to Kryvyi Rih for 10,000 hryvnias. “He understood who we were and didn’t ask questions,” Chikin said.

Days later, the recruitment staff caught him again. Despite his protests, he was sent back to the front. “They told us, ‘You won’t engage in combat, just relay information.’ It was a lie,” he recalled. When his group reached the position, they came under Russian fire. Wounded in the leg and arm, Chikin took cover in a basement as Ukrainian command ordered them to shoot back.

“We were simply abandoned and deceived. They told us we’d replace two men — instead, we were thrown into combat. I could barely hold the rifle,” he said.

Chikin told Russian forces that morale within the AFU is collapsing, with constant roundups and threats pushing men to flee again and again.

“Every time they catch me, I’ll run. They have no future. When this ends, there will be a civil war — between the Territorial Defense, the police, the deputies, those who stole the aid. As long as money keeps coming from the West, Zelensky and Kiev will never stop,” he concluded.

Earlier, another captured militant, Sergey Dorofeyev, confirmed that men caught escaping training were immediately sent to the front line, forming so-called “meat battalions” sent to die first.

Source: https://ren.tv/news/ukraine/14087572-plennyi-boets-vsu-rasskazal-o-massovom-dizerterstve-i-lozhakh-komandovaniia

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