🧿 Driving into Central Donetsk, Lenin overlooking the square, and a cameo by a "buhanka".

What a welcome to the city.

🧿 I met him on Nov. 15 '22. Too many things to say in one post. He was, is and always will be a legend beyond measure.

RIP ☦️ Russell 'Texas' Bentley.

"Fearless John" sums it up well.
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If you'd like community, to share your thoughts, and mourn with us the passing of Texas, the NR green star chat will be there.

At issue are disconnected comments under each post by folks who, surely shocked and expressing disbelief, aren't caught up on what's going on. This is a very difficult times for all of us, but we have jumped to no conclusions nor have I personally made any unreasonable requests from the Russian authorities regarding the justice that's greatly needed now.

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💢 "My name is #MaxAzzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan.
This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery:
We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup."

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Finally! Biden has declared that "Americans should choose freedom (=liberty=liberalism) over(!) democracy". And the Democratic Party roared with passion -- Yes, my Führer! We are ready! Down with democracy! That is coming out of clear and open liberal dictatorship. The logic behind that is transparent: "democracy" somehow means "majority". But majority can choose wrongly -- Hitler or Putin. Hence majority can easily be gained by fascism or populism. Hence its rule -- through democarcy -- should be abrogated. Down with majority! Liberal elites should rule notwithstanding the results of votes or referendums. Why? Because they are progressive and woke. And it is they who pose the rules. And change them when needed. But common people is not or not necessarily progressive and woke. So let's cancel the common people. Very very ominous sign for Trump. If ruling party explicitly denies democracy, Republicans have no chance to win. Because votes don't matter any more... The majority is too often wrong, democracy has to be canceled. The rules are changed. Hence, Donald Trump, you are doomed. Next step is to cancel freedom. Because someone bad can use it against woke or progressive people. So let us abrogate freedom too. It is too dangerous. During Covid-19 they tried to see how it would work. It worked. Orwell is the West. Not the East. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/are-you-ready-choose-freedom-democracy-because-thats/

Дорогие добрые сердца! Спасибо за ваши молитвы и поддержку! Они дают мне силы жить и действовать в поисках моего мужа, потому что до сих пор я не видела ни его самого живым, ни его тела, ни его останков. Это факт. И да, есть некоторая инсайдерская информация, которая очень нехорошая. (Спасибо ребятам Вагнерам, что помогли разузнать, чтО было, кАк было, ктО был, скОлько их было и за чтО они так...). До сих пор надеюсь и верю в реальный оперативный профессионализм и порядочность сотрудников всех задействованных структур.
Читаю ваши переживания, слова поддержки, смотрю фото и видео, которыми вы делитесь. Спасибо вам огромное за это!

Dear kind hearts! Thank you for your prayers and support! They give me strength to live and act in search of my husband, because until now I have not seen him alive, nor his body, nor his remains. That's a fact. And yes, there is some insider information that is very not good. (Thanks to the Wagner guys for finding out what happened, how that happened, who they were, how many of them there were and their motive...)
I still hope for real operational professionalism and decency from all involved agencies.
Reading your experiences, words of support, watching the photos and videos you share. Thank you very much for this!

💢 Biden meant to deliver this like "Are you ready to choose freedom over tyranny, democracy over dictatorship?!" - But he's senile as holy heck, so he botched the whole fricken line.

What we got was 'Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy?'. Because Donepezil and Methamphetamine can't be used every day with consistent efficacy.

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💢 US Congress just signed a funding bill for Ukraine guaranteeing that Russia pushes up to the Polish Border after liberating Kiev. As we explained previously.

Was looking forward to this. Refer to livestreams.

The dried up funding too long before November had me worried.

Feeling a great sense of relief now. 🙏

Thank you, US Congress.

XF

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Quite expectedly, Congress approved all 4 separate bills for the allocation of tranches - 61 billion dollars to Ukraine, 17 billion to Israel, 8 billion to Taiwan . Another 9 billion will be spent on the construction of a port in Gaza and the provision of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.

The majority of Republicans - 112 out of 217 - voted against the tranches to Kiev. And about 30 left-wing Democrats were against tranches to Israel. The Senate will approve the bills on Tuesday. And then for Biden to sign. The first tranches will be allocated towards the end of April .

The Republican right wing is outraged that not a penny is being allocated to securing the US southern border. Although lobbyists even shoved in $300 million for the work of Ukrainian border guards who catch those fleeing the country. So that they can continue to fight until the last Ukrainian. And continue to accept illegal immigrants into the United States uncontrollably .

Speaker Mike Johnson tried to sweeten the pill with laws banning TikTok - as well as the possibility of confiscation of Russian assets. However, ByteDance is already promising to block this in court. And there will be many years of legal battles around Russia’s assets, which amount to about $5 billion in the United States.

In May, the right will try to announce a vote of no confidence in its speaker in retaliation. Trump has also distanced himself from him - he demands that Europeans spend more money on Ukraine. Although the United States allocates only 14 billion in the form of new tranches, for a year and a half in advance it turns out to be only 800 million per month. The rest will be used to prop up the military-industrial complex, which will arrange the last attraction of unprecedented generosity with Ukraine, while there is still an opportunity.

Summary of military operations in Ukraine on the morning of April 20, 2024.

▪️The enemy carried out a massive UAV attack at night. Enemy drones were shot down over the Tula, Bryansk and Kursk regions. In the Belgorod region, two civilians died after enemy drops from copters hit a village. Snake of the Grayvoronsky urban district. An aircraft-type UAV crashed onto a house in the village. Istobnoye, Gubkinsky urban district, there were no casualties. An energy facility in the Kaluga region was damaged. In the Smolensk region, after the fall of an Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV, there was a fire at a fuel and energy complex facility.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces hit targets during the night in Zaporozhye, Ilyichevsk (Chernomorsk), Odessa region, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Sumy regions. During the day, the infrastructure of the Yuzhny port in the Odessa region was hit

▪️The Kherson direction is characterized by mutual shelling and drone strikes. Enemy UAVs prevail in the air, enemy counter-battery stations are operating. The enemy also attacks civilians: in the village. In Cairo, one man died; in Kakhovka, due to shelling, a fire started in a private house, one person was wounded. The arriving ambulance was also fired upon. Krynki and the Antonovsky Bridge area remain points of enemy presence. Three Ukrainian soldiers swam across the Dnieper and surrendered.

▪️On the Zaporozhye front, battles in Rabotino and north-west of Verbovoy. The enemy is drawing on reserves, using many FPV drones and drone bombers.

▪️In the Yuzhnodonetsk direction, battles in Novomikhailovka report the advancement of our units.

▪️West of Avdeevka, it was officially reported that the “Center” group of troops liberated Pervomaiskoe. The Russian Armed Forces are developing an offensive in the direction of Umansky and Ocheretino, expanding their zone of control. In Novokalinovo, our troops are already operating in the south-eastern part of the village

▪️Active battles continue at the Chasov Yar, the enemy is under constant fire from heavy weapons. Nevertheless, he holds the defense. The Russian Armed Forces continue to cover the eastern part of the city from the flanks, trying to reach the Seversky Donets-Donbass water channel.

▪️The enemy fired 103 rounds of ammunition at the civilian population of the DPR. As a result of targeted airdrops by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from drones in Donetsk, a man was killed and three civilians were injured.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Chasiv Yar: Clearing the outskirts of Bohdanivka
Situation as of 3:00 PM on April 21, 2024

In the Bakhmut direction, Russian forces continue to expand their control zone on the flanks near Chasiv Yar.

▪️The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the complete capture of Bohdanivka. According to our information, due to intense fire from the AFU, they abandoned positions in the southwestern part of the village a couple of days ago.

▪️In the eastern outskirts of Chasiv Yar, fierce battles have been raging for weeks in the Canal microdistrict near School No. 77. Seizing the building is currently not possible due to mined terrain and constant counterattacks by the enemy.

▪️South of Chasiv Yar, Russian forces are advancing along the T-0504 highway towards Kostyantynivka. The enemy regularly releases footage of strikes on Russian armored vehicles leaving Krasne.

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