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Aim of the channel is to make available information from the Russian language media to the English speaking audience, simultaneously reducing the voltage/tension. Currently focus is on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. #TransFormator
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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the Army-2022 forum signed a number of contracts for the supply of "Орлан", "Иноходец" and "Элерон" drones, the ministry reported.

As noted in the message, a contract was signed with LLC "Special Technology Center" for the "manufacture and supply of complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10" and "Orlan-30".

A contract was signed with Kronstadt JSC for the manufacture and supply of a "complex with an unmanned aerial vehicle "Иноходец" (Orion).

CJSC ENIX signed a contract for the "manufacture and supply of the Элерон-3 UAV."
New drones incoming.
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Footage of the combat work of radio complex specialists performing the tasks of relaying radio signals to the population of the liberated territories of the Kharkov region.

The built radio complex can be heard within a radius of 15 km. Radio "Life" is broadcast on the air - popular music, current news and detailed instructions for surrendering to Ukrainian nationalists.

According to signalmen, the Armed Forces of Ukraine can find out information on why laying down arms is the right choice, how to surrender correctly so as not to fall under fire.

"Radio life, instructions! Soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, your resistance is useless," the radio station says.
▪️ Russian artillery attacked Nikopol and Marganets, from where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling Energodar and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

▪️ During the sabotage in Crimea, explosions occurred at an ammunition depot in the Dzhankoy area and an air force base in Gvardeisky.

So, it is officially admitted that the recent explosions in Crimea were acts of subotage.
Judging by certain signs, according to a number of experts, the Third World War has begun and is already underway after the formation of the second point of open conflict between the United States and China in Taiwan. Together with the "Ukrainian conflict", the "Taiwan crisis" is the corresponding scaling of the military confrontation, accompanied by the transition to a wartime economy against the background of mutual sanctions. The reason is a direct demand from the United States for sovereign countries to obey and adopt a new order: rules instead of law, and, acting in this role, the United States has finally turned into an anti–civilization.

Interesting text translated from interesting channel. You may agree or not, but there is a deep meaning in it.
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Last night, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a missile attack on a target in Zatoka, Odessa region.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine acknowledged the fact of the attack on the recreation center, stated that the attack was carried out by several X-22 missiles from the Tu-22 of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

Who was “recreating” at this base is not reported, but local sources say that in the morning the Ukrainian security forces began to conduct checks on the local population.

Translated from warjournaltg
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Photos of the Varvarovsky bridge across the Southern Bug in the western part of Nikolaev appeared on the network. According to local sources, it became the target of a Russian strike during the night.

Judging by the pictures, one of the MLRS shells hit the pedestrian part of the structure. There is no other objective evidence of damage, but local resources posted a video of a traffic jam that formed at the entrance to the bridge. This indirectly indicates that the rockets could also damage the roadway.

It is impossible to talk about the damage to the bridge: most likely, after minor repairs it will be completely restored. This can be avoided only in the case of regular daily fire raids on the structure.

Translated from Rybar

Well, bridges are go. Long time overdue.
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Translated from Aksyonov (Head of the Crimea):

In Dzhankoy and Yalta, a cell of the terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (banned on the territory of the Russian Federation), which consisted of six people, was neutralized. All of them are detained. The activities of the terrorists were coordinated, as expected, from the territory of the terrorist state of Ukraine. The Kyiv regime is trying to use every opportunity to destabilize the situation in Crimea. But each success of our intelligence agencies reduces the chances of our enemies to achieve their goals. I thank the FSB officers for their professional and efficient work.

FSB releases footage of arrests and searches of six members of Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami cell.
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Attention! Translated from Ukrainian channel:

Our source reports that Europe is facing a problem when large industrial giants begin to move their production to cheaper regions.
Many are already seeing how the Middle East is beginning to take advantage of this situation.

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Well, European manufacturing is
was competitive in comparison to Asian and even African manufacturers not because of "German quality" or "Italian design", but simply because of an opportunity to use relatively cheap Russian resources: energy and raw materials. Without it European manufacturing will quickly become what it really is - overpriced, over regulated, insafficiently standardised due to internal competition high costs low profit industry.
As if casually, tactical nuclear shells in calibers of 152 and 203 mm are presented at the Rosatom stand at the Army-2022 exhibition. 😳👀☮️
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If such an arrival at the canvas of the Varvarovsky bridge in Nikolaev is not a happy accident or a one-time action, then the Russian military decided to adopt the tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to keep the bridge inoperative through constant shelling.

To implement this, the Russian Armed Forces have a 300-mm corrected ammunition 9M542 for the Tornado-S MLRS, which have already successfully struck targets in Nikolaev. The 9M542 has an advantage over the M31 GMLRS (HIMARS), which are used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack bridges in the Kherson region, in terms of warhead weight and range, but is inferior in accuracy due to a less advanced correction system.

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Ukrainian Nazis today are gaining a whole series of "victories" - but not at the front line, instead they "overcome" memorial plates in honor of veterans of the Great Patriotic War (part of the WW2 that involved Soviet Union) at the cemeteries all over the Ukraine.

State of legalized vandalism.

Translated from Kedmi
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This was the song helping to keep the Russian stamina strong during WW2
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One smart and insightful person writes - we do not indicate the name, since its content is on the verge of "extremism-terrorism". But here he is 100% right. We quote not for complacency (we are always calm), and not for those who want to fight in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but for doubting people in Ukraine "to leave - not to leave the country (Ukraine)".

“If I didn’t know the real margin of safety and resourcefulness of the Russian Federation, I would long ago have fallen into despondency and pessimism. However, as I understand it, no Ukraine, with the HIMARS, will fight off such a machine as the Russian Federation in life. The problem is that Putin decided that he could achieve his goals with extremely limited methods and means. He has a lot of time, he is in no hurry and is generously ready to sacrifice it. Ukraine is now on the stretch. Ukrainians have changed the horrible end to a long horror without end. Personally, this is more than satisfactory."

Translated from MIG
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No matter what the Ukrainian and Western media and social networks say, most of the refugees from Ukraine went to the "aggressor country/the occupier."

According to new data, a total of 1.9 million people have left for Russia at the moment.

In the top three also (quite expected) Poland (1.2 million) and Germany (915 thousand). In total, 10.3 million Ukrainians left their homeland — this is about a quarter of the country's population.
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Forwarded from Eva Karene Bartlett (Eva)
Another powerful article by Patrick Lawrence, calling out the "reporting" of Western corporate journalists & kindly giving me a mention for my own reporting from the Donbass:


"...They are not allowed to cover this conflict at close range. Their foreign editors do not want them to and the Ukrainians will not let them. Neither wants daily reports of a slow march to defeat. Better to keep it broad and blurry and spotty. Lots of anecdotes featuring helpless victims, and Russian atrocities by the bale–none of which the correspondents reporting them actually witnessed.

Better, most of all, to rely solely on what Ukrainian officials and military officers tell you and let you see and what Western intelligence officials pretend to confirm. This, to me, is the disgraceful abrogation of duty that makes me wonder if mainstream media can ever step back from their out-and-out embrace of the role they have assumed as propagandists. Do not pretend to shock. This has been going on a long time. Ukraine simply marks a swoon too far in my estimation.

A Russian detention center in the Donbass is shelled and 50–odd Ukrainian prisoners are killed. We are asked to believe that Russian forces shelled their own holding camp for reasons unexplained. When we later learn the Russians were releasing, just before the shelling began, videos of the prisoners recounting the orders of commanding officers to torture any captured Russians, raising the question of war crimes at high levels, we are told this has nothing to do with it.

As we speak, we are asked to believe Russians are shelling a nuclear power plant their own troops have guarded since March. Here I lose the plot entirely.

One day last week we read that Russian forces are cynically sheltering in the plant on the thought that the Ukrainians cannot send rockets into it—too dangerous. The next day we read that the Russians are themselves shelling the power plant they were, one day earlier, reported to be sheltering in. There is only one plausible explanation for this: The correspondents reporting this logically impossible junk are not there and rely on Ukrainian accounts; these accounts differ one day to the next, one official to the next.

So the files sent to the foreign desk are a dog’s dinner, as the English say. And we are left with “So far as I can make out…”

I would say I feel sorry for these correspondents, but this is only partly true. It is too bad they have come of age as the mainstream of the profession collapses into propaganda and advocacy and their tours abroad have come to such an undignified business. I would weep tears of anger had this happened to me. But the alternative is to refuse and, if it comes to it, quit an enterprise a serious correspondent should have no part in.

A remarkable piece of work came across last week. It suggests a third alternative.

Eva Bartlett, a Canadian correspondent, reminds me of Wilfred Burchett in a way: She reports from “the other side” and has no use for anybody’s orthodoxies. She did this to effect in Syria, and before that in the Palestinians territories. Earlier in the Ukraine conflict, she traveled to a site nine miles outside Mariupol where it was widely reported the Russians had dug and filled a mass grave with—get set for this—9,000 Ukrainians. This is a lot of Ukrainians to bury all at once. But all the big dailies, never stopping to think things through, went with the story Ukrainian officials gave them. Nine thousand it was.

No mass grave, Bartlett found. Her piece featured interviews with local officials and witnesses, video segments, photographs. She found an orderly, undisturbed cemetery with orderly, undisturbed grave markers. She showed us pictures of same. She spoke to the grave-diggers, who were mystified by the reports of a mass grave.
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