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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 image above is obviously generated by AI

It is used by inept
#Ukrainian/#NATO propagandists and presented as "real" in the propaganda story linked below.


NOTE that the bandage on the head of this AI-generated "Russian" is somehow blended into his skin.


The story claims to be reporting on:

"A #Russian from western #Siberia who volunteered to fight in #Bakhmut and elsewhere before being badly wounded says his unit suffered huge casualties, his documents were lost, his salary was stolen and he was dismissed from the army without explanation while in hospital. "

Original Propaganda story, in Russian:
https://uproar-crowned-964778.appspot.com/2023/04/24/my-dlya-komandirov-kak-spichki-odna-sgorela-vzyal-druguyu/

Twitter thread in English where the Twit posting this on twitter pretends it is factual:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1653118053062680578

Note that the obviously fake AI-generated image of the imaginary Russian is published by the Twitter Twit without comment on its obvious fake-ness
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Statement from MFA or Russia

🕯 May 2 marks nine years since the tragic events in Odessa, which culminated in the bone-chilling massacre in the House of Trade Unions.

On that day, Ukrainian radical nationalists intentionally set fire to the building where an opposition group against the new authorities had taken refuge. As a result, 48 people were burned alive, poisoned by carbon monoxide or died after falling from the windows of the upper floors.

The world watched the developments practically in real time, with the terrible footage of charred corpses circulating online.

⚠️ In fact, the Kiev regime repeated what Bandera’s death squads did to Khatyn in Belarus 80 years ago.

"It is outrageous that the incident was never fully investigated. For appearance sake, the Kiev authorities found a scapegoat – former public security police chief Dmitry Fuchedzhi. No other perpetrators of the crime have been punished."

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The Red Army had already taken Berlin, however, a part of the USSR was still occupied by the Nazis.

On May 2, 1945, Soviet troops completed the operation to capture the capital of Germany. The once mighty Third Reich was one step away from complete disappearance from the map of Europe and it is all the more surprising that part of the USSR was still under Nazi control at the time.

Western Latvia (Courland) remained occupied - in October 1944, troops of the Army Group ‘North’ were cut off from the main forces. The Germans turned the region into an impregnable fortress, effectively supplying the besieged group by sea and successfully suppressing repeated attempts by the Red Army to destroy it.

Only after signing the act of surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, did the enemy stop resisting. Forty-two generals and 189 thousand soldiers and officers of Wehrmacht and SS troops surrendered to the Soviet army.

Before the arrival of the Red Army, several thousand Germans managed to evacuate to their homeland or escaped in improvised transports to Sweden. Many of the Latvian collaborators who found themselves in the “cauldron” went into the forests to wage guerrilla warfare against the Soviets. Some of these so-called “forest brothers” operated in the Baltics until the early 1950s.

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Another group of Ukrainian soldiers surrendered.

At least 6 militants of the Kiev regime preferred to save their lives and surrendered to our military somewhere in the LPR.

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Attacks with planning bombs on the warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region

Russian aviation uses "smart" bombs FAB-500M62.

Footage from HersonVestnik

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Vladimir Putin - at the launch ceremony of tram traffic in Mariupol:

"More than ten kilometers of track are being put into operation today. Of course, this is only a small fraction, because there were almost a hundred kilometers of tram tracks in the city but this is just the beginning. Subsequently, we will develop the transport infrastructure of the city, including increasing the number of routes and updating a passenger transportation system.

All this is only part of a large–scale work, as I have already said, which, despite all the difficulties, is already being actively carried out both in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in the Donbas: roads, housing, education, healthcare and energy facilities are being built and repaired here, industrial and agricultural production is being established. Of course, we will continue to consistently and systematically resolve all these issues, to ensure that life in the cities and towns of these regions returns to normal."

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The Russian Armed Forces destroy the remnants of Ukrainian air defence with group strikes of Lancet kamikaze drones

MOSCOW, May 3 — RIA Novosti. The Russian Armed Forces are using group strikes of Lancet kamikaze drones to destroy the remnants of Ukrainian air defence systems, an informed source told RIA Novosti.

"To destroy the remnants of Ukraine's long-range anti-aircraft missile systems, such as the S-300PS and S-300V, for example, the Russian military uses the tactics of concentrated group strikes, when up to a dozen Lancet loitering ammunition can be used in one raid," the agency's interlocutor said. .

He explained that such tactics make it possible to guarantee the most effective destruction of the S-300 family of systems, which include a large number of vehicles — both missile launchers and command posts, radars and other equipment.
In early April, another informed source told RIA Novosti that almost half of the foreign towed and self-propelled howitzers in the special operation zone were destroyed with the help of Lancets.

Loitering ammunition "Lancet" was developed by ZALA AERO. They can hit targets at ranges of several tens of kilometres. Drones carry warheads weighing three or five kilograms of different types, depending on the type of target being hit. In the Izdeliye-52 version, such a drone is equipped with two X-shaped wings and is able to dive almost vertically; in the Izdeliye-51 version, the drone is equipped with one large X-shaped wing.
Both variants of loitering ammunition are used to strike at Ukrainian troops. Typical targets for such drones are howitzers, air defence systems, various radars, MLRS combat vehicles, command and observation posts, and accumulations of manpower.

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Ukraine withholding counteroffensive details from allies
POLITICO
Kyiv is holding close the details of its spring counteroffensive in an attempt to prevent the leak of sensitive information that could compromise its positions on the battlefield, according to two European officials who are in touch with military leaders in Ukraine.

The officials said their Ukrainian counterparts have cited the alleged leak of the classified documents from Massachusetts Air Guardsman JACK TEIXEIRA as one of the reasons Kyiv is holding back from sharing counteroffensive information, including its timing, where and how many troops they plan to move into position for the operation.

The spilled documents included detailed information about the war in Ukraine, such as the position of Kyiv’s troops, its weapons stockpiles and casualty estimates. In the days following the leak, U.S. officials scrambled to assure Ukraine and other allies in Europe that it was putting protections in place to prevent a similar breach from happening in the future.

But officials in Kyiv are still on high alert. While Ukraine is still likely sharing some basic intelligence with the U.S. and other European countries that have supported it with weapons over the past year, officials inside the country are working to prevent the widespread dissemination of details related to battlefield planning, the European officials said.

A Ukrainian lawmaker, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations, said that top officials in Kyiv also had withheld details about the counteroffensive from other politicians inside the capital.

“There are only a few people in the country that know the plan,” the lawmaker said.

A U.S. defense official said there hasn’t been any change and that Washington and Kyiv still have the same level of information-sharing. There have been no signs of Ukraine keeping anything from the U.S., the official continued.

National Security Council spokesperson JOHN KIRBY, asked by NatSec Daily if the administration feared being kept in the dark by the Ukrainians, said silence ahead of the launch wouldn’t be a surprise. “They don’t have an obligation to notify us or tell us in advance,” he told reporters Monday, adding “oftentimes we certainly do have a sense because we’re in daily communication with them.”

The U.S. still supports Ukrainian operations with real-time information and intelligence, Kirby continued. “What we’re focused on is not whether we get some sort of heads up. We’re focused on making sure that they have everything they need for when they’re ready to go.

Other Biden administration officials insist that Ukraine has never been fully open with the United States about its military plans. While Washington and Kyiv are in close touch, they naturally don’t share everything, and so there was never an expectation that Ukraine would call up the White House and say the counteroffensive begins on X day at Y time.

“They’ve been stingy with information from the beginning,” a U.S. official said.

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It can be a convenient pretext to move the responsibility to the Kiev's side, allegedly: "they did not tell us"...
As if it is possible to plan anything serious without an access to the American intelligence and satellites' data.
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