Month: April 2023

Lukashenka, “This is not an escalation. What is there to fire. You know better than me what’s going on.”


Lukashenka at a meeting with residents of the Gomel region: I don’t want to fight. I am always surprised when people start talking about the war.

Calm down, work calmly, no one is going to attack us. Including Ukrainians. Yes, and Westerners with whom I meet, they tell me: “Alexander Grigoryevich, Mr. President, neither Ukrainians nor Poles are going to you.”

I do not want the Belarusians to be drawn into a large-scale massacre. We use its experience, we study it. We look to our army was stronger. So don’t worry. I don’t want to fight you anymore. I also have children. And you are all my children. I don’t want to have to send you to the front somewhere.

There is a war, NATO is expanding there, and so on, so forth, so on. It’s not easy for us right now. I’m not just dragging nuclear weapons here. It is necessary to secure the country in order to be afraid to look in our direction.

Otherwise, we will again walk under someone’s boot. I want you to take this message first of all from me. This is not an escalation. What is there to fire. You know better than me what’s going on.

WtR

About time, yes about time…


Vladimir Putin signed the law on life imprisonment for high treason: “Amendments are being made to Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Treason”. For espionage, the issuance of information constituting state secrets to foreigners, going over to the side of the enemy, or providing financial, logistical, consulting or other assistance to the state in activities directed against the Russian Federation, will be punished with life imprisonment…

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MoD of Russia Reports for 28th of April, 2023…


⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(28 April 2023)

Part I (see Part II)

💥Russian Aerospace Forces launched a high-precision long-range airbased missile strike against temporary deployment points of AFU reserves.
The goal of the attack has been reached. All the assigned targets have been neutralised. The movement of the enemy reserves into the combat areas has been prevented.

◽️In Kupyansk direction, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, as well as artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on the enemy units close to Dvurechnaya, Timkovka, Krakhmalnoye, and Tabayevka (Kharkov region). 2 Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups have been thwarted near Sinkovka and Kislovka (Kharkov region).

💥The enemy losses were up to 75 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 armoured fighting vehicles, and 1 D-20 howitzer. 1 ordnance depot of 127th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU has been destroyed near Sinelnikovo (Kharkov region).

◽️In Krasny Liman direction, the attacks, launched aviation and artillery of the Tsentr Group of Forces, have resulted in the neutralisation of AFU units near Terny (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic). The enemy losses were up to 85 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles, 1 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system and 1 D-30 howitzer.

◽️In Donetsk direction, assault groups continued to destroy AFU units and foreign mercenaries in the western part of Artyomovsk. The Airborne Troops together with the units of the Yug Group of Forces from the flanks prevent the enemy attempts to bring additional reserves to Artyomovsk.

💥Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, as well as artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the Yug Group of Forces have neutralised the AFU manpower close to Bogdanovka, Chasov Yar, Nikolayevka, Krasnoye and Predtechino (Donetsk People’s Republic). The Russian aviation have made 6 sorties in this area during the day. The Group’s artillery have performed 52 firing missions. The enemy losses were up to 300 Ukrainian servicemen and mercenaries, 3 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 armoured fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, as well as a D-30 howitzer.

💥Missile troops have struck the Ukrainian joint defence headquarters in Artyomovsk, as well as the units of the so-called ‘Foreign Legion’ near Kostantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic). 1 U.S.-manufactured AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery warfare radar has been destroyed near Bondarnoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

◽️In South Donetsk and Zapororozhye directions, aviation, as well as artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on the enemy units near Vodyanoye, Pavlovka, Novopol (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Charivnoye (Zaporozhye region). In addition, the actions one AFU sabotage and reconnaissance group were disrupted close to Marfopol (Zaporozhye region). The enemy losses were up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, 2 motor vehicles and 2 howitzers, Msta-B and D-30 howitzers.

◽️In Kherson direction, the enemy losses were up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, three motor vehicles, 1 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, as well as one D-30.

#MoD
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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(28 April 2023)

Part II (see Part I)

💥Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 86 artillery units of the AFU at their firing positions, manpower and military hardware at 112 areas.

✈️Fighter Aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down one Mi-8 of Ukrainian Air Force near Drobyshevo (Donetsk People’s Republic).

💥Air defence facilities have intercepted eight HIMARS and Uragan rocket-propelled projectiles, as well as five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles close to Berestovoye (Kharkov region), Kirillovka, Kremenets, Novoandreyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Peremozhnoye (Zaporozhye region).

📊In total, 413 airplanes, 229 helicopters, 3,887 unmanned aerial vehicles, 421 air defence missile systems, 8,887 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,095 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,679 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 9,820 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.

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🔹 @mod_russia_en

WtR

Vladimir Putin signed the law “On Citizenship of the Russian Federation”, which provides for a reduction in the requirements for acquiring citizenship, as well as the deprivation of acquired citizenship for discrediting the Russian armed forces and for committing actions that pose a threat to Russia’s national security:


✔️ The law provides for a reduction in the number of requirements for more than 20 categories of persons when they are admitted to Russian citizenship, as well as expanding the powers of the head of state to determine the category of persons who are entitled to a simplified acquisition of Russian citizenship.

✔️ The law has been amended to grant Russian citizenship to a foreigner who has entered into a contract to serve in the Russian Armed Forces for a period of at least one year, and the number of articles under which acquired citizenship can be withdrawn has been reduced.

✔️ In addition, according to a simplified scheme, veterans of the Great Patriotic War – former citizens of the USSR, as well as veterans who are petitioned by the authority that issued the veteran’s certificate before January 1, 1992, will be able to obtain Russian citizenship.

✔️ Also excluded is the requirement for the consent of the second parent – a foreign citizen when admitting a child born in a mixed marriage to the citizenship of the Russian Federation.

✔️ According to the text of the law, deprivation of citizenship is provided for, among other things, for crimes of a terrorist nature, serious crimes against the state, as well as crimes in the field of trafficking in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, forgery of documents, or at the voluntary request of a citizen.

✔️ At the same time, acquired Russian citizenship will be revoked for publicly calling for action against the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, discrediting its Armed Forces, and participating in an unwanted foreign or international NGO.

✔️ Also, acquired citizenship can be revoked for a public call to extremism, encroachment on the life of a statesman and for organizing an armed rebellion in order to forcibly change the constitutional order of Russia and for committing actions that pose a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation.

WtR

Numbers are talking and the Dollar collapse will snowball…


The numbers at what I see from the western press and that means the numbers are actually worse…

The dying Dollar $ in the late 90’s was at par with 80% of all countries global reserves. Then a shift started and by 2001 it was at 75%, then weaponisation started in earnest against choice countries, it fell to around 60% by 2021 due to already heavy weaponization of the Dollar and now they say it is at 47% during 2022 and attacking Russia with the dollar…

Now it is 2023 and already more movement away from the dollar has happened than all the past and that means, by 2024?

We are looking at just the Western Coalition supporting the dollar and they are already crashing as you read this…

Numbers are talking and the Dollar collapse will snowball. Until, even western countries will have to switch to something else…

Never go full retard and weaponizing the dollar against resource rich countries makes only sense if you are suicidally ignorant…

WtR

From the briefing of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova dated April 27, 2023…


⚡️ From the briefing of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V. Zakharova dated April 27, 2023.

Brief theses:

• 9 years ago, the residents of the LPR, together with the Donetsk people, unanimously said “no” to the anti-constitutional nationalist coup d’état in Kiev and stood up for the rights, freedoms, interests and historical values of the Russian-speaking Donbass.

• Adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine M. Podolyak said that Kyiv “legally has the right to destroy everything that is on the territory of the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.” This is the logic of not just destruction, but the destruction of the recalcitrant, uncontrollable , that which is knocked out of the nationalist logic. This is the ideology of the Kyiv regime.

• Devastating raids and ruthless extermination of the civilian population are the methods of the representatives of the Kyiv regime, whom we accused of neo-Nazism and a tendency to reincarnate the fascist practices of the past.

• During the fighting, the Kiev regime continues to use terrorist methods, equipping firing positions and ammunition depots in schools, hospitals and residential buildings.

• The situation with the protection of human rights in Ukraine over the past year and a half has noticeably degraded, and the trends seen in this area inspire the most serious concerns.

• Hiding behind the introduction of martial law, the Kiev regime has built an authoritarian system of government in the country.

• Kyiv’s campaign against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is not just a political behind-the-scenes struggle, but a real attempt to destroy and completely ban the UOC.

• Almost the only area in which the Kiev authorities show initiative is the glorification of Nazism and the distortion of history .

• The UK sent Ukraine thousands of shells for Challenger-2 tanks, including depleted uranium shells, without caring about the consequences of their use.

• The atrocities in Abu Ghraib are the clearest illustration of US selectivity and double standards in the field of human rights.

• Of the hundreds, if not thousands, of “misguided” strikes against Afghans, one of the most egregious is the October 3, 2015 US Air Force bombing of a non-profit Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz province.

• The case of Pablo Gonzalez is a “flashy” example of the widely practiced policy of double standards in the West in cases where the opinion of a journalist diverges from the official line approved in Washington.

• We call on the secretariats of international structures involved in promoting a non-universal agenda in the field of journalism and mass communications to be guided by the principle of impartiality when preparing events that claim international coverage.

• The participation of Russian athletes in the ALBA Games under the national flag and without any discriminatory and illegitimate restrictions testifies to the high level of relations with the countries of the Alliance and the readiness to jointly oppose the attempts of individual states and international structures to politicize sports.

WtR