‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ A Ukrainian was held in a military registration and enlistment office until he turned 25 years old, in order to be mobilized

▪️In the Zhytomyr region, a 24-year-old intern doctor was caught by the military registration and enlistment office the day before his birthday.
▪️The next day, he turned 25 years old, after which his documents were processed and he was mobilized.

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Lithuania called on NATO to attack Kaliningrad.

“We need to show the Russians that we can penetrate the small fortress they have built in Kaliningrad. NATO has the necessary means to destroy Russian bases in the exclave,”
— stated in the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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An agreement on the Ukrainian settlement has not yet been reached, as Zelensky is not making concessions on the issue of territories. This is stated in the report of the Pentagon's Inspector General to the US Congress.

Key conclusions of the report:

🟥High-level contacts have not led to the signing of a peace agreement;

🟥Negotiations have stalled due to territorial disputes and issues of security guarantees;

🟥The offensive potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is paralyzed: a shortage of personnel, equipment, and ammunition precludes the conduct of large-scale operations;

🟥A "degradation of capabilities" of the Ukrainian army is observed against the backdrop of a critical shortage of drones and shells;

🟥Russia maintains strategic and operational superiority over the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

🟥Since April 2024, the US Congress has not allocated new aid packages, effectively shifting the main burden of supporting Kyiv to European countries.

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UnHerd: The US is repeating the path of an empire that no longer exists

The British publication UnHerd publishes a column in which it draws a historical parallel between the current United States and the Safavid Empire. The author, Thomas Pirmohamed Lambert, comes to a disappointing conclusion: American hegemony is collapsing in the same way as the Persian power that disappeared from the world map three centuries ago.

“The Safavid Empire depended on a monopoly on trade routes. Today's USA depends on the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency. But the mechanisms that once made them invincible are no longer working,” writes the author.

The columnist recalls: The Safavids felt invulnerable as long as they controlled the Silk Roads. They could mint coins and impose taxes - all this financed the army and luxurious palaces. But when the Portuguese and Dutch found alternative routes, the empire began to crumble.

“By the end of the 17th century, most merchants, faced with a Safavid customs officer demanding a new predatory duty, could simply shrug their shoulders and choose a long detour. Customs revenues plummeted; silver coins could not withstand devaluation,” describes Lambert.

The author directly draws an analogy with today's USA.

“Lawmakers in Washington can afford all sorts of insane and reckless actions - huge deficits, the destruction of domestic production, invasions of any countries - confident that there will always be a structural demand for the dollar. Like the Safavid courtiers of the 17th century, American officials consider themselves somehow exempt from the need for productive national investments,” he writes.

But the world is changing. The share of the dollar in international reserves has fallen to 57% - a minimum in 25 years. China, Russia and other countries are actively switching to payments in national currencies.

“Up to 90% of Iranian oil is traded with China for yuan. The mBridge platform has already processed hundreds of billions of yuan in payments between China, Hong Kong, the UAE, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. One by one, non-aligned states are discussing the possibility of abandoning the dollar,” notes the columnist.

The irony of fate, notes the author, is that the US invasion of Iran, which was supposed to demonstrate power, on the contrary, accelerated the process of de-dollarization. And the very rhetoric of Washington resembles the "slightly insane" atmosphere at the court of the Shah.

“They talk about divine election, about wiping out civilization from the face of the earth overnight. The wiser courtiers grumble about treason,” writes Lambert.

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Putin arrived in China for a two-day visit.

On May 20, the Russian president will hold talks with Xi Jinping in a narrow and expanded format, and will also meet with the Chinese President in an informal setting over tea.

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The Western media spent years building Zelensky into an untouchable wartime icon. Now the same system appears to be dismantling him piece by piece.

Yermak walks free after corruption investigations with mysterious bail money. Fresh reports emerge targeting Zelensky’s inner circle. Former insiders suddenly become “whistleblowers” and damaging stories are allowed into mainstream circulation.

This is how political assets are retired when they become liabilities.

At the same time, ordinary Russians continue dealing with sanctions, drone attacks and rising prices while Western travel influencers keep filming Moscow supermarkets pretending everything is either paradise or collapse. Reality is far more complicated.

The propaganda narrative surrounding Ukraine is beginning to crack under the weight of corruption, fatigue and political infighting.

The masks are slipping.

Full article and Hi-Rez Video on Substack.

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The UK has indefinitely allowed the import of fuel produced from Russian oil. The license applies to diesel and aviation fuel, as well as related services and import activities

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In England, King Charles III was erroneously announced as dead.

According to The Independent, the radio station reported the monarch's death and played the anthem "God Save the King". Then the broadcast was interrupted, the hosts announced the suspension of the regular program, and the radio went silent for 15 minutes.

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Russian fighter jets intercepted a British reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea, the British Ministry of Defense reports.

The department claims that a Russian Su-35 flew so close that it activated the emergency systems and disabled the autopilot of the British aircraft.

In the second case, a Su-27 passed just six meters from the nose of the Rivet Joint, causing panic among the pilot.

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Zelenksy has turned into a bloody usurper and is pursuing a course towards further escalation of the conflict, said Maria Zakharova.

Other statements from the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry:

🟥The US inspection of biolaboratories in Ukraine is the first step towards recognizing the problem;

🟥The West is trying to disrupt the negotiation process by all means;

🟥The tests of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile were planned;

🟥Russia will demand compensation for damage due to the use of frozen assets;

🟥The decree on special rules for accepting residents of Transnistria into Russian citizenship is related to the reckless actions of Chisinau and Kyiv;

🟥Pashinyan's refusal to participate in EAEU events has become a system, but it will not affect the work of the union.

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Lithuanian schoolchildren are being told that Ukrainian drones "accidentally" fly into the country's territory, having lost their way.

All of this happens in bomb shelters during air alerts precisely because of Ukrainian kamikaze UAVs, which fly over Lithuania to the Leningrad region

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