Ivan Bidenko told me in Mariupol at Nakhimova Street 160, when leaving their firing points, Ukrainian snipers set fire to houses and killed civilians.

To be continued.

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Американцы думают всё-таки запретить России расплачиваться по нашим долговым обязательствам в долларах. Не самое плохое для нас решение.

Во-первых, всем понятно, что это политический дефолт, а не финансовый. Россия способна погашать любые свои обязательства в любой валюте, если не создавать ей искусственных проблем. Поэтому он никак не скажется на реальной финансовой репутации нашей страны. Следует также помнить, что подобные действия США, создающие технические помехи для исполнения обязательств, должны рассматриваться судом или как форс-мажор, или как виновное поведение кредитора.

Во-вторых, наши деньги в этом случае не получат и сами американские держатели долговых бумаг. Причём по вине своей же страны. Сильный ход Байдена, укрепляющий доверие к своей финансовой системе на фоне инфляции и энергетического кризиса.

В-третьих, можно исполнить эти обязательства в рублях, и это тоже будет надлежащее их исполнение в таких условиях.

А можно и не платить вовсе. И неистраченные деньги использовать именно на те цели, которые очень не понравятся американским маразматикам. Как говорится, he laughs best who laughs last…

The Americans are still thinking of banning Russia from paying off our debt obligations in dollars. Not the worst decision for us.

First, everyone understands that this is a political default, not a financial one. Russia is capable of repaying any of its obligations in any currency, as long as it does not create artificial problems for it. Therefore, it will not affect the real financial reputation of our country in any way. It should also be remembered that such actions of the United States, which create technical obstacles to the performance of obligations, should be considered by the court either as force majeure, or as the guilty behavior of the creditor.

Secondly, in this case, the American holders of debt securities themselves will not receive our money either. And because of their own country. Biden's strong move, building confidence in his financial system amid inflation and the energy crisis.

Thirdly, it is possible to fulfill these obligations in rubles, and this will also be their proper fulfillment in such conditions.

Or you may not pay at all. And use the unspent money for precisely those purposes that the American senile people will not like very much. As they say, he laughs best who laughs last ...

George Dubya Bush:

- I wanted Ukraine to join NATO. For a while I thought Russia would be more accommodating, but then Putin changed dramatically. All he wanted was to stay on the edge of NATO, to control that NATO was not an offensive alliance, but a defensive one. I felt Ukraine should be in the EU and in NATO;

- Secretary Baker promised not to expand NATO eastward. But that was years ago. Which means the U.S. needs to adjust to the times. It doesn't matter what we promised Gorbachev there;

- Yes, of course, I remember the Pentagon program to fund biolaboratories in Ukraine. Good thing you evacuated them, you're a smart guy;

- Yes, it doesn't matter that we promised Gorbachev in the past not to expand NATO;

If they were listening to French advisors, it explains why they surrendered....🙊

https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1527272266559545347?s=20&t=PT912Uw7VhkE129nP9c5WQ

Well worth a listen: https://youtu.be/SaZGb5vnzkg

▫️Surrendered Azov nationalist fighters described conditions of detention.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #POWs
@mod_russia_en

When do we get to see such videos from the Ukranians?

Russia has started using "Terminators" in a special operation in Ukraine.

We are talking about tank support combat vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator". This will accelerate the process of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, military expert Alexander Khrolenko told @SputnikLive. @AKhrolenko

"And this is bad news for the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Security forces, who prefer to operate in urban development."

▪️Tank support combat vehicles are increasing the shock potential of troops, the dynamics of offensive actions, and the combat stability of tank units of the Russian Armed Forces.

They make it possible to destroy Javelin and NLAW ATGM calculations more efficiently, grind echeloned defenses faster, suppress APU counterattacks in Donbass and in other directions.

The details are here.

Israel is preparing for war with Iran

▪️ Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Iran is weeks away from obtaining the material needed to build a nuclear weapon. He noted that the development of Iranian ballistic missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles and other military technology have reached the point where an urgent response is needed.

▪️ In this regard, the Israel Defense Forces exercise will begin on May 29 and will last one month. All units of the armed forces, including reserve formations, will be involved.

▪️ The purpose of the exercise is to simulate war with Iran and proxy formations in Syria and Lebanon, as well as countering terrorist groups in Israeli territory. The scenario of air strikes against Iranian nuclear and military facilities will also be practiced.

▪️ Characteristically, in planning a direct confrontation, the Israeli leadership took into account the strict need for direct U.S. involvement and the availability of their advanced weapon systems on Israeli territory.

▪️ However, Washington is certainly not ready to support the Israelis yet: the Biden administration is in another "advanced" stage of negotiations on the nuclear deal with Iran. At the moment, getting involved in another conflict against the backdrop of confrontation with Russia and China is fraught with consequences in the form of a new round of economic crisis.

▪️ In order to change the mind of the American government, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz went to Washington. He intends to hold talks on the "Iranian threat" with his American counterpart Floyd Austin and Jake Sullivan, the US president's national security advisor.

🔻 It is unlikely that the White House is now planning to go to war with Iran. Both for the U.S. and for the rest of the world, such a scenario would mean another jump in oil prices, which would have an even greater impact on inflation.

But the Israeli leadership will try to make the most of the current situation. They will focus on the precariousness of Iran's real positions in order to force the U.S. to abandon the nuclear deal.

The Israelis will try to bluff Iran's tough negotiating position in order to cover the acute socio-economic problems that are already manifesting themselves in the form of nationwide protests in the Islamic republic.

Source: https://t.me/rybar/32902

As it happened with the war in Syria the guy who runs https://liveuamap.com/ has decided to stop updating the map, all Ukrainian channels have admitted the surrenders in Azovstal and well there are thousands of videos.
If he is refusing to update on that, imagine the conquest of small villages ...
I recommend this website, the guy who runs it is from Singapore so in general he is quite neutral and does a great job.
https://defensepoliticsasia.com/
And the map only version:
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🇺🇦⚡In the Nikolaev region, Ukrainian soldiers again complain that they are not getting help.

Oh shit. RIP Pinner, Hill and Aslin

⚡️ #Opinion by Maria Zakharova

💬 The Americans keep saying that Russia could resort to using nuclear weapons in Ukraine. In doing this, they are pursuing several goals, and one of them is obvious: to intimidate their own people. Not only has Russia never threatened anyone with nuclear weapons, but, on the contrary, has been warning all parties all along against making irresponsible steps of this kind. However, this does not sit well with Washington.

❓This left the US thinking: what can it do?

They pretended several times that it was Sergey Lavrov who threatened that Russia would use WMDs. To no avail. We immediately debunked these fake news.

When Plan A fails, there is always a Plan B, quite similar to Plan A, but with a twist.

Recently, three US titles released articles discussing the question of how, when and why the Russians will drop the bomb, in fact reporting on the Russians’ thought instead of looking at what they are saying.

Read in full 👇
https://telegra.ph/Opinion-by-Maria-Zakharova-05-19

These Ukrainian soldier tells to the camera how some civilians "lovers of the Russian world" in Kiev Oblast were executed without trial and warns that many more will be murdered.

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