https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-25 As on 25th of May. And going on...

https://youtu.be/DSgnyv9QeN0

Eva Bartlett, thank you for your courage of reporting the citation in Donbas district. 👏
It was taken yesterday.

WASHINGTON — China and Russia on Tuesday held their first joint military exercise since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, sending bombers over the seas in northeast Asia in an apparent show of force as President Biden was visiting the region, according to American, South Korean and Japanese officials.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Footage of the TOS-1A Heavy flamethrower destroying Ukrainian positions

🇬🇧 This Western priest can afford to speak frankly. He has nothing to lose and no one to fear. Unlike ordinary citizens of Western countries, who understand everything, but who have a family, a career, a mortgage and other obligations, and they are forced to remain silent and nod to their ruler.

About 8 thousand Ukrainian prisoners are now in the Luhansk and Donetsk Republicks‼️.

This was announced by the Ambassador of the Luhansk Republic in Moscow Rodion Miroshnik.

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny demands that the United States put pressure on Zelensky to allow the withdrawal of troops from Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Seversk, Artemovsk, Kramatorsk to Dnepropetrovsk or Pavlograd (Dnipropetrovsk region).

This is evidenced by another insider Ukrainian media: “Zaluzhny communicates directly with the Pentagon on the situation on the eastern front. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine insists on the need to withdraw troops from Severodonetsk, so as not to repeat the fate of the Mariupol group.”

In Ukraine, they write about the growing intensity of the conflict between Zaluzhny and Zelensky, which needs many victims and "symbols of resistance."

It should be noted that the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass are already as close as possible to repeating the fate of the Mariupol garrison.


Source: https://rusvesna.su/news/1653579014

The Moscow court arrested the assets of the "daughter" of Google for half a billion rubles

The Moscow Arbitration Court, at the request of Zvezda TV and Radio Company of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, arrested funds, as well as all movable and immovable property belonging to Google LLC, the Russian division of Google, for a total of 500 million rubles, follows from the ruling published on Thursday court.

Interim measures were taken in a case filed by a TV channel demanding that the defendants, American Google LLC and Google LLC, be ordered to restore access to the plaintiff's blocked YouTube channels. A preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for July 21.

Previously, Google's assets in the amount of 500 million rubles were also arrested in four other cases - according to similar claims of RT and 360 TV channels, NTV television company and GPM Entertainment TV company (TV channels TNT, Friday, 2 × 2, TV-3 ).

In addition, before this, the accounts of the Russian structure of Google had already been arrested by the court in the case of the Akhmat football club and bailiffs in the dispute over the unblocking of the Tsargrad YouTube channel. On April 29, a Google representative said in court that 9 billion rubles had been transferred from the company's accounts to the FSSP deposit at that time.

Roskomnadzor reported on March 19 that it had recorded 54 cases of YouTube applying restrictions on Russian channels.

Among those censored were the YouTube channels of Russian journalists and the media, including RBC, NTV, TNT, REN TV, Izvestia, Channel Five, Russian Radio, Tsargrad, Channel One, Russia 1”, “Culture”, “Zvezda”, “Russia 24”, Sputnik, RIA Novosti. Currently, VGTRK, TV Center, Moscow Media, ORT have also filed lawsuits to unblock YouTube channels.

The Russian division of Google on May 18 notified of its intention to apply to the court with a statement of its bankruptcy, as it "foresees its own bankruptcy and the impossibility of fulfilling financial obligations."

Ukraine threatens to block "Druzhba" oil pipeline

Ukraine has a “wonderful lever” of influence on Hungary, which is blocking the introduction of an oil embargo against Russia - this is the Druzhba oil pipeline.

This was stated by Advisor to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Olena Zerkal during an online discussion of the Kyiv Forum. She recalled that a separate thread of the Druzhba oil pipeline goes to Hungary, with which "something can happen."

“And in my opinion, it would be very appropriate if something happened to it [to the oil pipeline]. But again, it is in the hands of the government and the president to decide political issues, do we really want to speak with [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban in the language that he understands and that he imposes on the EU, or are we not ready for this yet ", - said the representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy.

Zerkal made this statement against the backdrop of Hungary's decision to veto an embargo that the EU intends to impose on Russian oil supplies.

This ban was supposed to be included in the sixth package of EU sanctions against Russia, but due to the special position of Budapest, it has not yet been agreed upon.

Orban compared the introduction of a possible embargo with "an atomic bomb that they want to drop on the Hungarian economy."

It will take years to rebuild the country's energy sector, he said. In this regard, Hungary is seeking a five-year delay from the European Union, as well as compensation for the costs of restructuring the fuel and energy industry, adapted to heavy Russian oil. According to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, a complete modernization may require up to €18 billion.

The Kremlin, speaking of a possible EU embargo, warned that such a decision would "hit everyone."

According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, in the event of a ban, world oil prices could jump to $300 per barrel.

If that happens, Russia will expand its maritime supplies, despite the fact that the country has already begun to redirect flows from west to east, to Asian markets, he said.

Further development at Popasnaia.

Putin spoke at the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Main statements:

The volume of trade turnover between the EAEU countries in 2021 increased by 30% and amounted to $72.6 billion, the joint GDP grew by 4.6%.

The share of payments in national currencies between the EAEU countries has reached 75%.

The EAEU countries are taking all measures to ensure food security.

The member States of the Union fully provide themselves with key goods.

Interest in the EAEU is growing, despite the obstacles created by detractors.

The Russian Federation supports the initiative to conclude a full-scale agreement on the EAEU free trade zone with Iran.

▪️Putin supported the idea of declaring May 29 as the Day of the Eurasian Economic Union.

The termination of the broadcast of Russian channels in Central Asian countries occurred due to disconnection from American satellites.

This was told to @SputnikLive by the director of the Directorate of International Relations of VGTRK Pyotr Fedorov.

VGTRK's own broadcasting in the near abroad did not stop for a second.

"When American satellites stopped hosting our TV channels, broadcasting stopped. But operators can take the RTR-Planet signal from our source, which was and remains available," Fedorov said.

A number of Russian channels, including "Russia 1", "Russia 24" and "Channel One", "Zvezda", stopped showing in Central Asian countries this morning.

Problems with broadcasting did not affect Uzbekistan, since local operators receive a signal from a Russian satellite.

These are Ukrainian prisoners of war extracted from the catacombs of "Azovstal".

They are kept in one of the colonies on the territory of the DPR.

As the correspondent of the Donbass Decides channel reports from the scene of the event, there are a total of 2511 people here. 84 of them are women.

◾️All are kept in the same, quite humane conditions.