⚡️ The death toll has risen to nearly 50, with more than 100 wounded, as a result of simultaneous Israeli airstrikes on various areas in the Gaza Strip.

The bosses and the puppet 🇺🇸🇸🇦🏴

Mirnograd-Toretsk direction on the evening of 13.05.25: Zarya - the Ukrainian Armed Forces front continues to crumble...

Our units made a sudden attack from the direction of Alexandropol along the heights to the settlement of Zarya and reached its outskirts.

Ukrainian forces will now have to pull back from Ignatovka and Staraya Nikolaevka to the north in order to avoid being encircled.

There is really not much left of the first two brigades that took the initial blow. For example, only a few fighters remained alive in one of the companies this morning, with even less in some of the others. Half of the personnel (whether they will be reported as AWOL or MIA is still a question) stupidly fled from their positions.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and pray for the guys.

https://t.me/yurasumy/22967

"Pirates of the Baltic": Estonian Navy and Air Force fail to seize Gabonese-flagged tanker...

Estonian pirates, represented by the Navy and Air Force of the aforementioned "republic", attempted to seize a second tanker, which was sailing in international waters under the flag of Gabon to the Russian port of Primorsk.

They demanded that the captain of the vessel change course and enter Estonian territorial waters in order to physically capture it there, but the captain of the vessel was not intimidated and told the pirates to go take a walk. Almost immediately, a Russian Su-35S fighter appeared in the sky, displaying its readiness to protect the peaceful vessel from pirate capture by a NATO rust bucket under an Estonian flag, which forced the hapless pirates to retreat. The tanker continued on its course, arrived at its destination in Primorsk and began loading.

A very good decision indeed. Pirates, like any other terrorists, understand only sheer force and readiness to apply it.

And it doesn't matter who they are - ISIS, which is banned in Russia, or the not-yet-banned NATO. Terrorists are terrorists, even on the Baltic Sea.

https://t.me/yurasumy/22968

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Wednesday he thought it was premature to talk of Pope Leo XIV accepting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's invitation to go to Kyiv.

"No, this is premature, there was an invitation from President Zelenskyj, now the Pope will evaluate what to do, but how can I say yes or no? I don't think even he, at this point, will say yes or no", said Parolin, recently confirmed as Secretary of State of the Holy See, on the sidelines of a conference at the Pontifical Gregorian University after the Ukrainian president's invitation to Pope Leo to go to Kyiv.

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/vatican/2025/05/14/parolin-says-thinks-pope-in-kyiv-premature_2c80676b-07ca-452d-a7d6-b109fa36893c.html

That's the Vatican way of saying "We wouldn't touch that toxic fleabag with a ten-foot pole" 😄

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced new sanctions targeting individuals and entities in Iran and China, allegedly linked to 'Iranian oil trade.'

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Lavrov will not represent Russia at the negotiations on Ukraine in Istanbul — Kommersant.

Not even Lavrov is going to go.

Russian forces have closed the pocket southwest of Zorya and have reached the outskirts of the village.

43 sqkm

Frontline adjustment near Novo Poltavka.

Russia has captured over 150 sqkm this week.

Putin is send the C team to Istanbul.

Slap in the face to Zelensky who required Putin to be present. The Ukrainian delegation is very high profile as well. Putin has created the conditions for a Zelensky rejection although I think Ukraine will go and then tank the talks on site.

Also it’s still illegal to negotiate with Russia on Ukraine so I fully expect these men will be executed without trial.