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Hungary is threatening to block EU sanctions unless Ukraine removes OTP Bank from the list of war sponsors

This was stated by Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, the Hungarian service of Euronews reports.

Szijjarto said that due to Ukraine's inclusion of the Hungarian bank OTP Bank in the list of sponsors of the war, Budapest "will be very difficult" to agree with the EU on new sanctions against Russia.

“The fact that OTP Bank was included in the list of international sponsors of the war in Ukraine is scandalous and unacceptable. It's amazing. It's outrageous. This is scandalous,” said the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry during an informal meeting of EU ministers in Stockholm.

He said that the activities of the Hungarian bank comply with international standards and legislation, and its inclusion in the list of sponsors of the war in Ukraine could also affect EU sanctions against Russia.

“I made it clear at the meeting of foreign ministers that it would be very difficult for us to even start negotiations on the eleventh package of sanctions while OTP is on this Ukrainian list. We demand that the Ukrainians remove OTP from the list,” Szijjártó said.

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Switzerland gives the green light for arms deliveries to Ukraine
Euronews

The War Materials Act had previously prohibited the transfer of weapons and ammunition from Switzerland by third countries.

Ammunition has been getting less and less in Ukraine for months. EU countries want to deliver, but see their own stocks increasingly waning. In addition, some weapons and ammunition that were acquired in Switzerland years ago have not yet been delivered to Ukraine.

That should change now. The two chambers of the Swiss Parliament, the National Council and the City Council, have changed the War Materials Act voted. This will enable war material to be passed on to Ukraine in the future.

So far, weapons and ammunition acquired from abroad have not been allowed to be passed on to countries in armed conflict.

Due to the legal situation, Switzerland, among other things, refused to authorize Germany to supply ammunition for the German Gepard tank.

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Russian forces shot down aircraft that fired Storm Shadow missiles at Luhansk
Ministry of Defence: Russian Armed Forces shot down Su-24 and MiG-29, which fired Storm Shadow missiles at Lugansk

MOSCOW, May 13 — RIA Novosti. Russian troops shot down two Ukrainian planes that attacked Lugansk with British cruise missiles, according to a Defence Ministry report.
"On May 12, at about 18:30 Moscow time, combat aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force launched a missile attack on the Polypak polymer products enterprise and the Milam meat processing plant in the city of Luhansk. Storm Shadow aircraft missiles supplied to the Kiev regime by the UK were used for the strike, contrary to the statements of London, that these weapons will not be used against civilian targets," the military department said.
They added that Russian fighters shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 that fired missiles and a MiG-29 covering it.

According to the Ministry of Defence, a fire broke out on the territory of the Luhansk enterprises that were hit, and the nearest houses were damaged. Civilians were injured, including six children.
This morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired another Storm Shadow missile at Lugansk. The microdistrict Yubileyny was hit. According to the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC, an 80-year-old local resident was injured there, seven houses were damaged.

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Su-34 and Mi-8 shot down over the Bryansk region
The second downed aircraft was a fighter-bomber. Eyewitnesses post footage of burning debris...
Earlier it became known that the Mi-8 transport helicopter was shot down.

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Mi-8 and Su-34 were probably shot down by NATO air-to-air missiles from fighters
▪️Several missiles our air defence forces were able to intercept
▪️2 missiles went through the defence and hit our bomber and helicopter.
▪️The enemy may have used American AIM-120 medium-range air-launched missiles.

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Zelensky, in private, plots bold attacks inside Russia, leak shows
The Washington Post
THE DISCORD LEAKS | U.S. intercepts reveal the Ukrainian’s leader’s aggressive instincts, a marked contrast to his public-facing image as the stoic statesman weathering Russia’s brutal onslaught
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Ukraine’s leader has proposed going in a more audacious direction — occupying Russian villages to gain leverage over Moscow, bombing a pipeline that transfers Russian oil to Hungary, a NATO member, and privately pining for long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia’s borders, according to classified U.S. intelligence documents detailing his internal communications with top aides and military leaders.
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In a meeting in late January, Zelensky suggested Ukraine “conduct strikes in Russia” while moving Ukrainian ground troops into enemy territory to “occupy unspecified Russian border cities,” according to one document labeled “top secret.” The goal would be “to give Kyiv leverage in talks with Moscow,” the document said.
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While there is no indication that Ukraine has used Western missiles to strike into Russian territory, the same cannot be said for Kyiv’s use of armed drones.

Explosions caused by unmanned aerial vehicles have become a regular occurrence in Russia, including in Rostov, where a drone crashed into an oil refinery this month. Ukrainian officials are often coy about the incidents, hinting that they’re responsible without directly taking credit.

Two drone attacks in December on Russia’s Engels air base in Saratov, more than 370 miles from the Ukrainian border, showed “that we have the ability to reach many kilometers farther than they could expect,” Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said in an interview earlier this year.

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Operational aspect (of the losses of Russian aircraft yesterday)

It is now clear that this was an ambush by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a group that worked with glide bombs.

The group included:
— SU-34 fighter-bomber, in fact, which carried bombs;
— 2 MI-8 helicopters in a special electronic warfare configuration
— fighter-interceptor SU-35, covered.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have been striking with UPMK bombs in northern Ukraine for a long time. The Russian Defence Ministry is very fond of “not complicating” what works, so we agree with the opinion that the actions of such strike groups are most likely of the same type and predictable.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the NATO headquarters quickly assessed the possibilities and prepared an "ambush".

Local channels immediately wrote nonsense about the Stingers, which the Strelkovs and co. carried on. We are not air defence specialists, but the video with the downing of the first MI-8 clearly shows that:

— the rocket enters the cockpit from the nose;
— the rocket is big.

Accordingly, this is not a MANPADS, in which the missiles are small and enter the target from behind (usually).

Either these are NATO air-to-air missiles, or the Armed Forces of Ukraine secretly rolled up to the very border of the air defence system.

Also against the version with MANPADS is the fact that the pilots died. Usually a small MANPADS missile hits the engine, and the armoured capsule easily withstands this.

It is interesting that the protection systems did not work for the helicopters: they did not manoeuvre and did not discard the heat traps. This is weird. Possibly due to some tricky targeting option.

Strategic level:

Probably the action was conceived for Ze's visit to Rome. Zelensky's last visit to Helsinki was accompanied by a blow to the Kremlin. Coincidence?

Ukrainian "new Arestoviches" write about the unprecedented slap in the face of the Russian Federation, the need for a nuclear response and the imminent end of the war in view of a strong blow to the image. It is clear that, on the instructions of Yermak, they inspire false optimism by painting an illusory picture.

Yes, this is a very successful operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russia lost 9 pilots and equipment worth about $100 million. Yes, it hurts them, but it's not fatal.

This cannot be compared with the loss of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet or with the flight from Kharkov.

Therefore, it is not necessary to inspire people with false hopes for selfish purposes, this will not affect the strategic alignment.

Rather, it is an image strengthening of Ze's negotiating positions by finding weaknesses in the tactics of the Russian Federation.

Translated from ZeRada
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Two Russian helicopters lost yesterday were EW (Electronic Warfare) aircraft.
What is Mi-8MTPR-1 helicopter you may read here in automatic translation.
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Dear Pope Francis! Never again dishonour the Holy See. This photo of yours will go down in history as a stage in the destruction of Christianity. The Pope of Rome is surrounded by war criminals and terrorists and those who organize the destruction of Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine. Zelensky, after this meeting, also was rude the Pope a little, saying that Kyiv does not need any intermediaries and he will fight to the end. Pope taken hostage? Didn't they come to him with clubs? As used to...

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