When the EU sanctioned Russian diamonds, residents of Surat, India could not have imagined that a war thousands of miles away would lead to a suicide problem in their community.

Surat is the hub of India's diamond trade which employs 600,000 people. When the ban came into effect on March 2022, it cut off nearly a third of India's diamond revenue. At least 63 diamond polishers have committed suicide in Surat in the past 16 months.

"Over 30% of India's raw material supply came from Russia," said Dinesh Navadiya.

It's estimated that at least 50,000 polishers had lost their jobs in the last 6 months and hundreds of thousands over the last 18 months.

Others face severe salary cuts.

In April, India's FM, S Jaishankar, expressed concern for the repercussions of G7's ban on Russian diamonds at an event in Surat.

"Their intention is to hurt Russia. But it doesn't work that way. The producer usually finds a way. More than Russia, such steps tend to hurt those lower in the supply chain".

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Some new Ukrainian soldiers refuse to fire at the enemy. Others, according to commanders and fellow fighters, struggle to assemble weapons or to coordinate basic combat movements. A few have even walked away from their posts, abandoning the battlefield altogether.

While Ukraine presses on with its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, its troops are still losing precious ground along the country’s eastern front — a grim erosion that military commanders blame in part on poorly trained recruits drawn from a recent mobilization drive, as well as Russia’s clear superiority in ammunition and air power.

“Some people don’t want to shoot. They see the enemy in the firing position in trenches but don’t open fire. ... That is why our men are dying,” said a frustrated battalion commander in Ukraine’s 47th Brigade. “When they don’t use the weapon, they are ineffective.”

The recently conscripted Ukrainians are a far cry from the battle-hardened fighters who flocked to join the war in the first year of the full-scale invasion. The new troops lack even a minimal level of training.

They described having to plan ops with infantry who are unable to shoot targets and uninformed about basic topography. Some recruits simply lacked faith in the battle plans of their superiors and walked away from prepared positions.

“The main problem is the survival instinct of newcomers. Before, people could stand until the last moment to hold the position. Now, even when there is light shelling of firing positions, they are retreating,” said a soldier with the 110th Brigade.

“No, there are motivated people, but they are just very, very few,”

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"How much prettier has the Kursk People's Republic become under the Armed Forces of Ukraine"

The "Philanthropic Division" Telegram channel, whose administrators are based in Ukraine and hold openly Nazi views, and have recently called themselves an ultra-right paramilitary formation, published a post (Photo #1) with such a short message, but with very interesting attached photos.

During their invasion of the Kursk region, the Ukronazis leave Nazi symbols with the emblems of the SS tank divisions on residential buildings. And with insatiable joy they share on social networks the photos they took, collecting a huge number of comments with words of support and approving reactions.

For those who are not in the know, I will explain:
Photo #2 and 3 - Panzer Grenadier Division "Great Germany" (here, apparently, it was changed to "Great Ukraine")
Photo #4 and 5 - 2nd SS Panzer Division "Reich"
Photo #6 and 7 - 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"

The most interesting thing is that all these elite tactical units of Nazi Germany in 1943 participated in the battles in the Kharkov, Belgorod and Kursk regions. And the SS Division "Leibstandarte SS" before the war was personally subordinated to Hitler. Then, immediately after the capture of Kharkov, the Germans with the reinforced remnants of the company of heavy tanks "Tiger", made a dash along the Kharkov-Kursk highway, as a result of which on March 17 they captured Belgorod.

We understand perfectly well that not all residents of Ukraine support the policy of Zelensky's Nazi regime and many, like us, with tears in their eyes, celebrate May 9, Victory Day over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. But the state called Ukraine has truly become Nazi. And these photos are obvious proof of this. I'm not even talking about the monuments and streets named after Bandera, the main accomplice of the Nazis.

Kursk region, hold on! We were able to defeat this evil then, we can do it now!

@ukr_leaks_eng

American soldiers in the Kursk region.

Although there are a bunch of mercenaries from American PMCs there, nevertheless there is less and less doubt that Uncle Sam's regular troops are also taking part in the confrontation with Ukraine.

by @RadioStydoba

“The United States should immediately cease all official engagement with Taiwan. The issue is the "first red line" in Chinese-American relations” -Liu Pengyu, spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington.


This comes after the U.S. levied sanctions against Chinese companies for assisting Russias war effort.

Zelensky - demands Modi to 'put pressure on Putin': India will play its role. I think India has started to realise that this is not just a conflict, but a real war of one man, and his name is Putin, against an entire country, whose name is Ukraine. You are a big country. You have a lot of influence, and you can stop Putin, stop his economy and put him in his place. And you know where his place is.

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⚡️Former Chief of the General Staff of the British Armed Forces Patrick Sanders called for giving Ukraine the decisive weapon to win, writes The Times:

🔹The West is too afraid of provoking Vladimir Putin to give Ukraine the "decisive" weapon it needs to defeat Russia;

🔹Sanders dismissed Western concerns about the escalation of Russia's possible use of tactical nuclear weapons;

🔹"At this point, we must ensure that Ukraine can win. This is not just about surviving on the battlefield - which is probably all we are doing at the moment. This is about creating unacceptable threats to Russia that will force it and Putin to reconsider their views";

🔹"We overestimated how Russia would respond to our support for Ukraine. In some ways, we're holding ourselves back because we've allowed the Russians to have what you might call 'escalation dominance', where we've held back from giving Ukraine the kind of decisive support we might have given early on, for fear of what the Russians would do."

🔹"It's very hard to see where you can make a deal. Because any deal is likely to be a temporary reprieve. Or you're giving Putin what he wants, which is essentially capitulation. And the consequences of capitulation are not just terrible for Ukraine, they're going to fundamentally undermine Western security, the security of the Euro-Atlantic space, and of course it's going to give encouragement and support to autocrats and dictators around the world who don't adhere to our value system."

Exes often take money after leaving their positions to voice what lobbyists need: the war must continue, the "frog" (Russian patience) is being cooked gradually, London is striving (and actually already controls) the level of escalation of this war, peace does not suit Great Britain, since it would be a defeat for it.

Here are your answers to why Zelensky sent the Ukrainian Armed Forces to Kursk☝️

And they will give the Ukrainian Nazis everything, including an atomic bomb. It turns out that they overestimated how Russia would react to their escalation. And Russia, it turns out, is simply complaining to the UN. Therefore, Russia can be beaten and finished off.

Destruction of Ukrainian vehicles in the Kursk region.

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On the night work of the Russian Aerospace Forces on Zmeiny Island

According to information from a 🥷🏻source, - " Tonight a missile strike was carried out on a unit of the Ukrainian GUR, as well as foreign mercenaries who landed on Snake Island ."

➡️ These are the events that Condottiero ™ reported , indicating that the vessels and personnel were partially destroyed and scattered after the strike, and that NATO special forces mercenaries were brought to the island by combat boats from the Romanian port of Sulina.

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