Russian media reports that on a highway in Nizhny Novgorod, a car with Zakhar Prilepin was blown up. Prilepin is an ultranationalist Russian writer and former Member of the State Duma of Russia.
According to preliminary reports, Prilepin was seriously wounded, his driver died. pic.twitter.com/gQVPDmIsgw
From further tweets: The Atesh partisan movement took responsibility for the assassination attempt on Zakhar Prilepin. BTW look in the further tweets for photos of the blast that cut his car in half and blew the whole road to pieces.
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⚡️#UPDATE The Crimean Tatar organization "Atesh" , associated with the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, claimed responsibility for blowing up Zakhar Prilepin's car.
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Been away from this stuff for over ten years, so my stuff is not real current. Howsoever, ima calling that an anti-tank mine. Crater is too deep for an IED and ginzu bombs leave no crater, wo a seconary on impact.
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Agreed, B. That blast crater definitely came from an underground (centered at least 25-30 cm below surface) explosion as it blew mostly 'up', not 'out'.
Guessing on depth from the crater walls I can see on the video, and they don't show a good internal 'hole shot' for more insight.
Only basing this on my experience reviewing, and witnessing, 'failures' of underground electrical cables and/or equipment. Absolutely NO experience with the 'stuff' you've come across.
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so now china is going to spy on us with russian cal baroons gleat!
Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] The authorities of the Zaporozhye region announced the partial removal of residents from 18 frontline settlements: Timoshovka, Smirnovo, Tarasovka, Orlyanske, Molochansk, Kuibyshevo, Prishib, Tokmak, Malaya Belozerka, Vasylivka, Velyka Belozerka, Dneprorudnoe, Mikhailovka, Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Energodar, Pologi, Horse Discord, Rozovka
Actually, the entire zone adjacent to the front. Evacuation is voluntary. ZNPP (in the sense of employees) are not evacuated. They are taken to Berdyansk and Melitopol. And what to say about it? There are exactly three versions, more precisely, maybe more, but that's exactly how many come to my mind
1. Transition to the ground phase of the battle. It is still in the sky and in the rear, although it is active. But the ground phase is inevitable. She will be tough and cruel. No one needs peaceful underfoot. And random victims (we) do not need either, from the word "absolutely". From there, the decision is to remove people until the situation is cleared up. How they were removed from other arenas of battles. Both we and them.
2. Lack of self-confidence. Wherever the Armed Forces of Ukraine go, there is immediately terror. against the peaceful. However, for Kyiv they are "separas" and collaborators. Who are exterminated, who are lucky - planted. Therefore, those people who can be saved must be saved. And this is also the right decision. Even very correct. People are the main thing. You can't dump people.
3. I just remember the terms - "ammonia pipeline", "grain deal", "negotiation background". And after them "a gesture of good will" and "difficult decision." I’m not hinting at anything, moreover, I don’t believe in such an option, simply because all living beings on the planet have an instinct for self-preservation, but ... it happens in different ways. Very differently. And everything. Even something that cannot be. In any case, I repeat - people need to be saved. Exactly them.
I wrote three under the number and thought - how much we are all traumatized by the history of the last decade, that a good and correct word "agreements" is perceived as a curse and betrayal. Because they are accustomed to - agreements in our execution, they are one-sided. With our concessions. With principle
With regard to the situation in the south-east of Ukraine, S.V. Lavrov stressed that Kiev is responsible for the build-up of escalation on the line of contact in the Donbass and the increased armed provocations in this regard, which have already served as an impetus for the start of the humanitarian evacuation of the civilian population of the unrecognized republics to Russia . Sergey Lavrov again called on the German side, as a participant in the Normandy format, to exert maximum influence on the Ukrainian authorities in order to encourage them to take a more constructive position. It was stated that the implementation of the Minsk agreements remains the only way to achieve a long-term and sustainable settlement of the intra-Ukrainian conflict
"and we are in the house" And this is said on February 21, 22. But it's all poetry. And the storm is not just coming soon, it is already. And we need to endure. And save people. Although, God forbid, 20-30 percent will really leave. Checked by Donbass.
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70,000 Ukrainians to be removed. That doesn't sound so "voluntary".
Wherever the Armed Forces of Ukraine go, there is immediately terror. against the peaceful. However, for Kyiv they are "separas" and collaborators. Who are exterminated, who are lucky - planted
It's easy to confuse hugs and kisses, candies and flowers with cold stares and shouts of Russian Go Home! Guess this author was napping when all those torture chambers and mass graves (or bodies just lying on the streets) were found when the Ukrainians liberated their territories. Accuse others of what you are doing. It's the Russian Way.
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[RusOnline] After Yevgeny Prigozhin said that he had a piece of paper where he wrote out all the traitors by name, they called him. From the State Duma Deputy Chairman Neverov. Invited to a "warm conversation in a friendly atmosphere." So, you say, you said about the oligarchs there?
And Prigozhin said, let me remind you that all "Oligarchs must disappear, because their destructive influence on the future of Russia is absolutely obvious. And here we are talking about the state oligarchy, and about the oligarchs who got rich in the 90s."
a total of 99% of Nevorov’s unexpected invitation would have answered: "What are you? Me? I’m nothing! It’s just that they misunderstood me. Or the journalists mixed everything up again."
But not Prigogine! After being invited to the State Duma, he made all the traitorous oligarchs even harder. Just did not say - to wet everyone in the toilet. But in the end, he somehow changed his anger to mercy, saying the following: "I am ready to speak in the State Duma, in hell, in heaven, in the underpass, wherever you say. In order to change the situation for the better, so that the truthful the situation that is developing today. I think that the State Duma is certainly the best place for such a dialogue."
He has no fear or fear. Thoughts that the authorities noticed these impartial statements of his and now they will deal with him, if there is, then he does not reflect on them in any way.
On the contrary, after being invited to the State Duma, when he was asked if you were afraid to destabilize the situation inside the country, he said the following: - Not afraid. It's time to get together. Among whom is it destabilizing? Among the inhabitants of Rublev? Let them go to France. Russia is on the brink of disaster. And this plane can just crumble in the air. And officials in high offices do not care about this. Everything is fine with them on Rublyovka, the mistress is abroad, the wife chooses which yacht to ride. And they really like it when they are told: "Oh great, oh greatest."
And then this is about the situation on Frunzenskaya Embankment.
- Somehow in one large office they said. Talented and proactive? No. We need executives and it is desirable that they tap with a heel. There, the main problem is the widespread lies and unwillingness to promote and listen to those who can make decisions on their own and refuse to fawn over the authorities."
More about Syria: - I'll tell you a story about Syria. ISIS has always been based on the sale of oil. Cut off this source for them, and they would crumble. So. An interesting person lives on Rublyovka. George Hesuani, I think his name is. He's been an oil trader for a long time. And he bought it, in particular, from ISIS. So why didn't we just lock his house up? And they didn't stop him? Traitors sit in various echelons of power and are waiting for an agreement with the Americans. I'm not talking about Khodorkovsky's agents. Therefore, either we are now gathering together, or Russia will simply cease to exist.
And finally, about May 9, when Prigozhin was asked if he would attend the parade: - To celebrate May 9 (as a holiday), I think we have no right to anyone. We must pay tribute to those who won through hard work at the cost of great losses. But to go to parades, clang something there, ride convertibles .... We don’t have such a right. We didn't deserve it. Let the children go with women as if they were going to a theatrical performance. Unfortunately, we are starting to be funny regiments. And then we have "Race of Heroes" and "Tank Biathlon". We have turned from the second army of the world .... Decide for yourself what.
I don’t understand why they need Prigozhin in the State Duma? Do they themselves not see what the Head of the Wagner PMC means? More from Russian military correspondent Alexander Sladkov:
“Shell hunger during the period of aggravation of the situation at the front and active offensive operations of the enemy is unacceptable”
Yevgeny Prigozhin's conflict with Shoigu and Gerasimov has been raised to a new level. Opinions
“The conflict between the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the leadership of the Wagner PMC has not only entered the public field, it has reached the state level. And the leadership of the country should decide it. Shell hunger during the period of aggravation of the situation at the front and active offensive operations of the enemy is unacceptable, ”Yevgeny Poddubny
“You travel along the front and you get the feeling that there are not enough shells for everyone now. Either they are hoarding them up to the onset of the Ukrainian, or for some other reason they are holding them back. At the same time, only the Wagner operators have such an active promotion, the inertia of which must be supported by the necessary amount of work of artillery and aviation. And not to say that this support is not provided. But not in the volumes that could reduce losses,” Alexander Kots: Alexander Kots is a Russian military correspondent whose writings are often featured at Rantburg.com
“Just turn this story up a couple more clicks of the toggle switch (the emperor says: “I’m tired of you all, I can’t see you anymore” and leaves, in parallel - catastrophic losses at the front, where the war went either to the third, or to the fifth, either for the tenth year already, and in the taverns at this time there are manufacturers, and the dzhigurda roars like a beluga, and the king of the Russian stage has a new dress with new hairpins, and the masons, or whatever, on a straight leash with the British are doing exactly what they said) - and get the desired result with an armored car, "- Zakhar Prilepin
“I couldn’t watch Prigozhin’s video with the dead Wagnerites in full. <..> I can’t change anything, it’s easy to get into the same martyrology. Let everything go as it is, God will manage. And Prigogine's words are also a translation of God's will. And there will be a harvest, there will be the first May thunderstorm, and those who are purer and more righteous will win,” Dmitry Steshin Dmitri Steshin is another Russian military correspondent.
“This is an artificial conflict that was created on purpose. In the midst of the most difficult period preceding active operations at the front. <..> Why was it created? There is ammunition - March was declared the driest, now May. Why is ammunition not being delivered to the front? Why shell hunger in people on the first line? The most serious question is why this conflict has been created, exists and is fueled,”
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and the king of the Russian stage has a new dress with new hairpins, and the masons, or whatever, on a straight leash with the British are doing exactly what they said) - and get the desired result with an armored car, "- Zakhar Prilepin
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[VESTI] On the night of May 1, Russia, after a conditional pause of several weeks, again subjected Ukrainian territory to massive shelling, which almost led to a tragedy in the Kremlin itself. Important foreign policy events became the background for this. The causes and background of the drone activation were analyzed by Vesti.ua.
DRONE ATTACK
In the last days of April 2023, the Russian side, after a conditional period of reduced combat activity, resumed massive shelling of Ukraine. On the night of April 28, 2023, several large cities of Ukraine (including Dnipro, Kiev, Poltava, Kremenchug) were shelled. As a result, explosions were heard in Kyiv, the local power grid and road surface were damaged, and in Uman (Cherkasy region), an enemy cruise missile hit a residential high-rise building.
One entrance collapsed, according to the National Police and the State Emergency Service, 23 people died, 6 of them were children. In Dnipro, a woman and her 3-year-old child became victims of enemy ammunition getting into a private house. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian side fired 23 cruise missiles on the territory of Ukraine (21 were shot down, 11 of them over Kiev) and 2 UAVs (both were shot down).
Further, the attacks continued with increasing intensity: on the night of May 1 - 18 cruise missiles (15 were shot down), more than 25 civilians were injured in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region. There was a night shelling of Kiev on May 1. According to the Kiev city military administration , the air raid lasted more than 3 hours, the enemy attacked the capital from strategic aircraft with drones and cruise missiles at the same time.
On the afternoon of May 2 , the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation was shelled, local authorities blamed the Ukrainian side, but on the night of May 2-3, 28 Shahed-type UAVs were attacked on the territory of Ukraine, 21 were shot down, but the enemy managed to damage the oil depot in Kropyvnytskyi. During the day, shelling continued in Kherson: the railway station, supermarkets and other civilian facilities, killing 21 civilians. In Kyiv and the Kyiv region, local residents noticed multiple fragments of missiles shot down by air defense.
On the night of May 4, the enemy continued shelling Ukrainian territory. In particular, in Kiev, 10 residential buildings and road surfaces were damaged by debris.
But the attention of the whole world is now drawn to just one attack.
FIREWORKS OVER THE KREMLIN
On the afternoon of May 3, 2023, the Russian side announced a night UAV attack on the Kremlin (Moscow). According to the press service of the President of the Russian Federation , the Kremlin was attacked by two UAVs, as a result of the work of air defense, they were disabled. The explosion of one of them and the scattering of fragments over the Senate Palace of the Kremlin did not cause any damage.
Nevertheless, the press service of the President of Russia regarded the night event as a "terrorist attack" and an "assassination attempt" on Vladimir Putin. Also, according to the Russian side, the goal was to disrupt the May 9 parade on Red Square in Moscow.
The Ukrainian side categorically denied involvement in this incident. “ We have no information about the so-called night attacks on the Kremlin, but, as President Zelensky has repeatedly stated, Ukraine directs all available forces and means to liberate its own territories, and not to attack others,” commented the press secretary of the President of Ukraine Sergey Nikiforov .
Volodymyr Zelensky himself later added during a joint press conference with participants in the Nordic summit that Ukraine lacks weapons to defend its territory, “so we don’t use them elsewhere.”
However, there was a sharp reaction in Russian political circles, because the Kremlin was attacked from the air for the first time in 80 years.
The global community is more reserved. The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned the parties against any actions that could aggravate the situation. US presidential spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States does not encourage or provide opportunities to allow Ukraine to strike outside its borders.
“We have made this very clear,” she stressed. For its part, CNN, citing a senior official, said that the American side had not received warnings from the Ukrainian side about the attack and was gathering information. This position was indirectly confirmed by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken : “I perceive everything that comes from the Kremlin with great caution.”
And there is a reason: European Commission Vice President Josep Borrell, citing comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about exclusively defending its territory, urged Russia not to use the incident as an excuse to escalate the war: “ We are concerned that this could be used to justify a more massive conscription (on military service), as well as an increase in attacks on Ukraine .”
STAGED BEFORE THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken hinted, and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) concluded that the drone attack on the Kremlin could have been staged. “ Russia likely orchestrated this attack in an attempt to get the war across to a Russian domestic audience and create the conditions for broader social mobilization,” ISW analysts said.
But this attack cannot be considered in isolation from others, as a result of which Ukrainian civilians are killed and civilian infrastructure facilities on the territory of Ukraine are damaged. The retaliatory attacks of our side are aimed at military installations. But the Ukrainian side has the advantage that it is in the Armed Forces of Ukraine that the first three companies of shock drones in the world were formed, the expert of the public movement “All Together!” emphasized Evgeny Savisko.
Therefore, the activation of the enemy, and precisely in terms of the wider use of drones, is quite logical. The desynchronization is also noticeable: if the Ukrainian side outlines strategic goals and, as a rule, does not cause damage to the civilian population and non-military objects, aiming at the military, then the Russian side, on the contrary, seeks to demoralize the civilian population.
In terms of resonance and media coverage, Ukraine wins: with the extensive defeat of oil storage facilities in Sevastopol and Taman, significant material losses of the enemy, not a single victim among the civilian population, Yevgeny Savisko notes.
Perhaps this is the reason for the staged drone attack on the Kremlin. As the political strategist and reputation management specialist Alexander Kondratenko believes , the resonance of the event is addressed to the internal Russian viewer: “I carefully watched the video and I have something to compare with, relatively speaking, with the same “Geraniums” that fly at us. The drone (above the Kremlin) did not even crash into the building, it was blown up near, there was no damage.
But what about the air defense systems that they dragged onto the roofs of buildings? It seems to me that this is just a production with the aim of activating anti-Ukrainian sentiments in the Russian Federation.”
It was a staging by the Russian side with a 99.9% probability, look at the symbolism: they hit the tower where the president lives, during the attack the flagpole with the flag of Russia fell down, political scientist Alexander Kondratyuk noted.
"This is a provocation from their (Russians) side, to show that we (Russians) should unite, they hit on the shrines-staples. He hit the tower where the president lives, during the attack the flagpole was damaged and the flag of Russia fell down. In my opinion, this will have the opposite effect: even Putin is in danger, where the vaunted air defense and army are the only pride in which billions have been invested ," the expert emphasized.
SHELLING OF DESPERATION
And if we talk about the intensification of shelling by drones of Ukraine, then they (the Russians) are excited by the planned offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and massive drone attacks, they think that they will slow it down or cancel it, Alexander Kondratyuk names the reason for the activation of the enemy.
"They hit civilian targets with drones or just randomly, 80% of the drones go down. This is a senseless act of desperation from the fact that they do not know what to do and take revenge on the civilian population, because in the Russian Federation it is always the extreme - the civilian population. It is clear that the enemy wants to identify and deplete our air defense, but, in my opinion, there is another goal - to embitter and push to protest, to bring the civilian population to the streets," the expert said.
Instead of a protest by Ukrainian citizens, the Russian Federation will receive a counterattack by the Ukrainian military, military expert Oleg Starikov is convinced . According to him, the activation of drone attacks is a preparatory phase of the counteroffensive, with a strong informational component.
"In a modern war, 60-70% depends on the results of the information war: attacks on logistics, on supply chains, and then everything is twisted on the information component, “everything is lost, you are surrounded," he explained.
THE “GRAIN DEAL” GETS WET
Active drone attacks and an attack on the Kremlin coincided with the negotiations on the “grain deal”. In particular, on May 3, the UN Secretary General said that he expects Russia's reaction to the improved grain initiative. The Kremlin officially responded - " reasons for optimism are very modest."
Meanwhile, on May 5, negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine, Turkey and Russia (at the level of deputy defense ministers) are to be held in Turkey, the term of the current deal expires on May 18. Earlier, the Russian Federation withdrew from the “grain deal” for a while and, according to some sources, is increasing its military presence in the Black Sea. Could there be a connection between the ups and downs of negotiations on a new “grain deal” and the intensification of drone strikes?
Experts interviewed by Vesti.ua refute this connection.
In particular, Oleksandr Kondratyuk believes that the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the “grain deal” will do little – it will be continued under the auspices of the UN and Turkey, because the world needs Ukrainian food.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:31 The Ukrainian online edition "STRANA.ua" reported that the explosions occurred in the Shostka district of the Sumy region. Another report refers to an explosion in the town of Glukhovo.
According to online map Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, in the Sumy region from 22:11 to 22:33, an air raid alert was announced.
21:53 Assault aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces continues successfully carry out tasks for the destruction of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
21:53 The effectiveness of the use of HIMARS missiles in Ukraine has decreased significantly, - CNN, citing sources. The reason is the use of electronic countermeasures by Russian troops to shoot down GPS targeting systems.
20:47 Ukrainian militant filmed destroyed equipment in Artemovsk
19:41 Russian paratroopers destroyed light armored vehicles and transport of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region
They worked with BMD-4M weapons - a 100mm 2A70 gun and a twin 30-mm 2A72 automatic gun
18:44 Near Bakhmut, a Nazi was killed - the commander of the 4th company of the 97th battalion.
Alexander Erokhin, callsign “Lawyer”, interim from the wounds received near Bakhmut. An accomplice of the famous cowardly people's deputy-Nazi Bereza, who had been hiding from mobilization for a long time.
17:42 They report the start of a large-scale missile attack on the territory of Ukraine
According to preliminary data, it flies actively to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, and Sumy regions. Also air raid in the Zhytomyr region, Zaporozhye, Poltava and Kirovohrad regions.
Presumably, a group launch of cruise missiles comes from the Caspian Sea area and from the Tu-95MS missile carriers.
The targets, most likely, are the rear and reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, drawn up for the offensive.
16:42 SBU Colonel Mikhail Yartsev has been eliminated in the NMD zone. Messages about this appeared the day before on the page of the Nerubay village council of the Odessa region, where Yartsev was from.
Details about the liquidation of the Ukrainian commander are not given, it is only known that Yartsev was destroyed on May 2.
15:40 Highlights from the briefing of the RF Ministry of Defense:
🔹The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 300 Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries in the Donetsk direction;
🔹The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 95 people;
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 80 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction;
🔹Russian troops destroyed up to 65 soldiers and 2 howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction in a day;
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 90 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the US-made M777 artillery system in a day in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
🔹Air defense systems of the Russian Federation shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the Kherson region in a day;
🔹The RF Armed Forces destroyed two ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Kramatorsk and Avdievka.
14:45 Russian aviation worked on enemy targets in Avdievka
The goal was command posts, basing points and shelters for equipment.
13:40 Personnel combat work of the crew of the T-80 tank near Artemovsk
Paratrooper units with assigned tank crews continue to destroy the enemy in the Artyomovsk direction. They hold down the actions of Ukrainian militants, covering the assault squads from the flanks.
The calculation of the UAV of the Airborne Forces discovered a group of militants who sat in a dilapidated house in a private building. The civilians have long abandoned it, and the Ukronazis have converted the building into a well-fortified stronghold.
The coordinates of the enemy positions were immediately transferred to the command post, after which it was decided to destroy it with fire from the standard armament of the T-80 tank.
Promptly advancing to the indicated area, the crew of the tank requested the coordinates of the fortification of the Ukrainian military and destroyed the target with accurate fire from a 125-mm cannon. The militants did not have time to leave the shelter and remained under the rubble of the building.
13:40 Russian military from anti-tank systemsdestroyedan armored personnel carrier and a cluster of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region.
12:22 Personnel combat work SAM "Strela-10"
12:21 Infantry hunting
On personnel- the work of Donetsk 2nd Army Corps artillery on the manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine beyond Disputed. Our birds stop the free wandering of the enemy.
11:35 Fighting Job calculation of the anti-aircraft missile system of the Western Military District in the zone of the special operation
Crews of the Strela-10 air defense system continue to ensure the safety of troops from attacks by enemy air targets around the clock.
SAMs can hit all types of targets in their range of altitudes and ranges.
11:35 The moment of arrival at the position of the Armed Forces in one of the directions
10:41 Russian military inflicted fire damage on over 150 targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasno-Limansky direction
About 100 of them in the areas of concentration of manpower and firepower, as well as in 45 artillery positions. As a result, the APU suffered losses.
09:29 Thundered again on the territory of the Ilsky refinery explosion- previously, the plant was attacked by a Ukrainian drone.
In the Krasnodar Territory, the Ilsky Oil Refinery caught fire again. Local residents told Readovka that they heard an explosion before the fire. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the region, the fire was extinguished before the arrival of emergency services.
According to unconfirmed reports, the plant was attacked by a Ukrainian drone. This version of the authorities has not yet officially commented. Previously, this object has already been attacked by UAVs.
09:10 Russian Aerospace Forces inflicted a powerful airstrike on the positions of Ukrainian nationalists.
The ground under the feet of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the dump of the AKHZ shuddered - with a powerful air strike, one of the positions of the Ukrainian nationalists was completely destroyed.
08:51 Defeat warehouses with BC in the Kherson direction, Berislav. The Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation worked with FABs with planning modules.
08:40 New attacks on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of the city of Sumy.
08:20 Personnel combat work of the crews of Mi-28n attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
During the performance of combat missions, army aviation pilots launched missiles at the fortified points of the Armed Forces units discovered.
The hit was recorded by means of objective control.
08:11 Grouping of Russian troops "South" inflicted hit on the accumulation of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Oleksandr-Kalinovsky operational direction, said Vadim Astafyev, head of the press center of the group.
08:02 The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the location of foreign instructors, personnel, military equipment and weapons of the 163rd separate battalion of the 119th Separate Brigade of the territorial defense of Ukraine.
The enemy forces were concentrated in the area of the settlement of Lizunovka in the Novgorod-Seversky district of the Chernihiv region.
07:58 Explosions occurred in the Sumy region in northern Ukraine, the Zerkalo Nedeli newspaper reported.
07:18 An air raid alert has been announced in the Kharkiv, Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, Ukrainian media report.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Over the past day Representation reported about 62 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 18 attacks from the MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Gorlovsky 29 attacks from MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm. On Yasinovatsky 10 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
On Volnovakhskoye, five artillery attacks from artillery of 152mm and 122mm.
Having fired 358 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of twelve settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Central City, Kalininsky, Nikitovsky district), Mikhailovka, Shirokaya Balka, Krasny Partizan, Novobakhmutovka, Vasilyevka, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, the capital of Donetsk (Kiev, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Sladkoe, Stepnoe, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of three civilians in Yasinovataya.
Wounds of varying severity were received by six civilians in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Yasinovataya and Krasny Partizan.
Six residential buildings were damaged in the Kievsky district of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Central City districts of Gorlovka, as well as five civil infrastructure facilities.
A previous 81 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU per day.
22:00 Pushilin announced an improvement in the positions of Russian troops in the Maryinsky, Avdeevsky and Dzerzhinsky directions.
21:27 Death toll from artillery attack by Ukrainian troops of Yasinovataya increased to five - mayor
19:10 Consequencesartillery attack of the village of Shirokaya Balka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka) from the positions of Ukrainian terrorists.
18:49 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155 mm were fired.
18:30 Ugledar district situation as of 18.00 May 5, 2023
All day yesterday, artillerymen of the brigade-artillery group (BrAG) of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted a massive artillery attack of positions of the RF Armed Forces in the area of Pavlovka and Nikolsky.
After processing the strongholds of the Russian army, two assault groups of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the positions of the RF Armed Forces near Nikolsky in the area of the forest belt northeast and northwest of the village.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to push the RF Armed Forces out of the advanced strongholds. Russian fighters successfully repelled the attack, and units of the 72nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated to their starting lines without advancing further.
At the moment, the efforts of the Ukrainian formations are focused on probing and assessing the defensive capabilities of the RF Armed Forces at the Pavlovka-Nikolskoye line. Such outbursts will continue.
At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also concentrating forces in the area of the Vremievsky ledge. To the north of Bolshaya Novoselka, the BrAG and the jet division of the 53rd Brigade, as well as the howitzer-self-propelled division of the 1st Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, are located.
18:17 Russian special forces ATGM destroys dugout of the enemy in the Avdeevsky direction. There is a destruction of the enemy fortifications to move forward and only forward.
18:09 Ukrainian militants fired 40 rockets from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS at Shirokaya Balka, DPR representative office in the JCCC
17:47 Ukrainian TG channels report explosions in Kherson.
17:35 Aviation of the RF Armed Forces with an accurate strike struck placement of APU equipment in the settlement Nuts in the Zaporozhye direction. Guidance and fixation of the destruction was carried out by the calculation of the UAV of the 291st Regiment.
17:20 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk and Gorlovka. According to the DPR JCCC, 22 rounds of 155mm caliber and 10 rockets from MLRS were fired.
17:07 Under the aimed fire of Ukrainian neo-Nazis is the village of Shirokaya Balka (Central City district of Gorlovka).
17:00 Artillerymen of the 4th Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces in the settlement Controversial inflict blows on the positions of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:44 Video from the Artyomovsky (Bakhmut) direction: Tula paratroopers on tanks are working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, preventing the city from being attacked from the flanks. The fire is corrected from the "birds" online - the fighters receive coordinates and messages about hits.
16:30 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the offensive operations of assault detachments in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) with the support of the Airborne Forces.
16:15 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 5, as of 16:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Yasinovataya:
- on st. School, 32 killed three civilians: women born in 1953 and 1956. and a man born in 1958;
received injuries of varying severity:
- on the street. Nekrasova, 12 “a”, male, born in 1960
- in the 3rd Microdistrict, 5 women, born in 1997, were injured. and a man born in 1983
n.p. Red Partizan: - on the street. Gagarin, one wounded woman born in 1976
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
d. Donetsk (Kyiv district): - str. Bashkirskaya, 77 - private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka:
Kalininsky district:
– fixed damage to the building "LLC Gifts of Nature" on the street. Gorlovskaya Division;
- damage to the building of the store "DecorStroy" on the street. Vavilov.
Nikitovsky district:
- st. 40 years of October, 55 - apartment building;
- st. Yasnaya, 13, 15 - private residential buildings.
n.p. Yasinovataya: - fixed damage to the service station on the street. Communal.
16:07 APU launched a missile attack on the city of Rubizhne using MLRS HIMARS -video.
15:56 Consequences of artillery attack of the city of Rubezhnoye (LPR) by the armed formations of Ukraine
As a result of yesterday's shelling, N. p. Frontier using MLRS HIMARS (the enemy fired one rocket type M31 GMLRS) destroyed seven garages in the garage cooperative and two cars.
15:52 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk and Gorlovka. According to the DPR JCCC, 26 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
15:10 From Artyomovsk they report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have begun to undermine the bridges in Chasov Yar.
According to preliminary data, this bridge across the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal (coordinates: 48.592699819783526, 37.86783353938514) connected two parts of Chasov Yar and, in good weather, allowed Ukrainian troops to transport supplies and reinforcements in small batches across the fields. There is another bridge to the north of the explosion site, but the Ukrainian troops practically do not use it.
Judging by the undermining of key communications, the Armed Forces of Ukraine finally refuse to supply Artyomovsk through the fields and switch to the supply of ammunition only along the T-0504 highway in the Ivanovsky (Krasny) area. Vital supply bridges were previously blown up by Ukrainian troops before retreating from the eastern part of Artyomovsk.
15:05 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk and Sladkoye. According to the DPR JCCC, nine rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
14:19 Russian military destroyed artillery mount of Ukrainian troops near Avdievka (DPR)
14:15 One of the detainees in the Zaporozhye region confessed in the preparation of a terrorist attack on the instructions of the Kyiv special services, the second detainee admitted to keeping a certain package - FSB
14:12 Control zones in Artemovsk on May 5, 2023.
14:05 Appeared frames of consequences of the artillery attack of Yasinovataya this afternoon. Two people died, one injured.
13:47 The FSB prevented a terrorist attack by agents of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine against one of the leaders of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, we were told at the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia.
According to the FSB, the criminal activity was coordinated by employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, both directly and through an intermediary located in Finland.
An explosive device ready for use was confiscated, as well as automatic small arms, ammunition for them, and explosives. Two members of the sabotage-terrorist group were arrested, a criminal case was initiated on the preparation of a terrorist attack, the CSO added.
13:41 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, three rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
13:24 Ukrainian Nazis again inflicted strike exclusively on the civilian infrastructure of Donbass.
This time, one of the meat processing plants in Alchevsk came under enemy fire. Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia recorded the destruction and will talk with the owner of the enterprise.
Luckily, there were no casualties. The rockets detonated at the beginning of the fifth morning. The damage was caused in the form of complete destruction of storage facilities and spoilage of raw materials.
13:15 Fierce battles for the western part of Artemovsk.Kindfrom space. May 4, 2023.
13:04 Donetsk, Yakovlevka and Red Partizan are under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, 16 rounds with a caliber of 155mm and 152 mm were fired.
13:00 Personnel combat work of the crew of the T-80 tank near Artemovsk.
Paratrooper units with assigned tank crews continue to destroy the enemy in the Artyomovsk direction. They hold down the actions of Ukrainian militants, covering the assault squads from the flanks.
The calculation of the UAV of the Airborne Forces discovered a group of militants who sat in a dilapidated house in a private building. The civilians have long abandoned it, and the Ukronazis have converted the building into a well-fortified stronghold.
The coordinates of the enemy positions were immediately transferred to the command post, after which it was decided to destroy it with fire from the standard armament of the T-80 tank.
Promptly advancing to the indicated area, the crew of the tank requested the coordinates of the fortification of the Ukrainian military and destroyed the target with accurate fire from a 125mm cannon. The militants did not have time to leave the shelter and remained under the rubble of the building.
12:49 Statement of head of the press center of the group "South":
In the Lisichansk operational direction in the area of the settlement of Belogorovka, the artillery of the "Southern" group of forces during the counter-battery fight destroyed a 120mm mortar and one vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Aleksandro-Kalinovskoye operational direction, an artillery unit of the "South" grouping in the area of the settlement of Ocheretino launched a fire raid on the point of temporary deployment of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, an ammunition depot and up to 10 servicemen of the Ukrainian army were destroyed.
Also, the artillery crews of the "Southern" group of troops struck at the accumulation of weapons and military equipment of the first battalion of the 110th Brigade of the enemy in the Avdiivka area.
12:30 AFU fired at a school in Nova Kakhovka. An hour and a half ago, militants of the Ukrainian army inflictedblowat school number 6. All school employees managed to hide in the basement, so there were no casualties, but the school building itself was damaged.
12:15 Nova Kakhovka was subjected to mortar shelling.
On May 5, at 7:00 am, Novaya Kakhovka was fired upon with mortar fire by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the right bank of the Dnieper. As a result of the shelling, a house on the street was damaged. Sosnovaya, 67 in the Osnova area. At the time of the arrival of the enemy mine, the owner of the house was not there, no one was hurt.
11:58 Petrovsky district of Donetsk under attack -video.
11:49 Yasinovataya DPR under fire from the Nazis -video.
11:46 Donetsk, Vladimirovka, Gorlovka and Yasinovataya are under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, 69 rounds with a caliber of 155mm and 152 mm were fired.
11:20 News from the front line, Ugledarskoe direction, area Nikolskoye:
Aviation is actively working, the movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards Ugledar - Nikolsk. The situation is controlled but tense. On Vladimirovka (which is behind Nikolsky) the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firing artillery. Don't let the town rest. A civilian died.
11:00 Exclusive RT military correspondent Murad Gazdiev from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut). Russian military continue move to the western part of the city. Yesterday, the Ministry of Defense reported that two quarters had passed under the control of our forces in a day.
“These two houses, two skyscrapers, six floors, they are under us, under the fighters of the Wagner PMC, the next house - just meters from them - is now under the Armed Forces of Ukraine, under the nationalists. And this is how the battle takes place here: house after house, floor after floor, apartment after apartment is cleared, ”said Murad.
10:57 Yesterday in the area of n.p. Sadovoye in the Kherson direction, Russian artillery attacked the position of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer with a crew of five people and ammunition was destroyed.
10:49 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district Donetsk and Yasinovataya. According to the DPR JCCC, 17 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
10:22 Under the aimed fire of Ukrainian terrorists, the village of Komarova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
10:00 Tonight on the Kherson direction in the area of ??the settlement. Youth, 122mm was destroyed by Russian artillery strikes. SAU 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew of five people and ammunition
09:58 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 05/05/2023
09:27 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from barreled artillery and mortars:
- n.p. Golaya Pristan fired four rounds;
- n.p. Peschanovka fired 14 rounds;
- n.p. Podstepnoye fired seven rounds;
- n.p. Podlesnoye fired nine rounds;
- n.p. Korsunka fired five rounds;
- n.p. Kazachi Lagery fired three rounds three mines;
- n.p. Solontsy fired four mines;
- n.p. Krynki fired four mines.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Noaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Peschanovka, firing a total of 26 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
08:48 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. According to the DPR JCCC, eight rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
08:45 Employees of the Investigative Committee of Russia fix consequences of the first strike in Alchevsk.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered two strikes from the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system on the territory of the LPR, firing three rounds. This was reported by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
08:30 The Russian military fired defeat on over 150 targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasno-Limansky direction.
Thus, units of the "Center" grouping of troops hit over 150 enemy targets. Of these, about 100 are in the areas of concentration of manpower and firepower, as well as in 45 artillery positions.
In addition, the aircraft of the "Center" struck at three points of temporary deployment and five strongholds of Ukrainian militants. In the Torsk sector and in the area of Serebryansky forestry, intelligence revealed the movement of units of Ukrainian militants. As a result of the fire damage, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses.
08:16 Frontline summary on the morning of 05/05/2023:
Russian artillery was actively working on the Uludar site. Under artillery attack Novopol, Novosyolka, Vremevka, Zolotaya Niva, Shakhtyorskoye, Prechistovka, Novoukrainka, Bogoyavlenka and the city itself.
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation conducted assault operations in the Novomikhailovka area and in the city of Maryinka. With the support of artillery, they tried to advance to the North (a populated area west of Avdiivka). A new direction appeared to the northeast.
After artillery strikes, Russian troops attacked on the outskirts of New York. Everywhere without success. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Karlovka, Netaylov, Thin, Lastochkino, Avdiivka, Berdychi, Yuzhny and Severny (a settlement north-west of Gorlovka). The Ukrainian army struck at Donetsk and Gorlovka.
In Bakhmut, PMC Wagner, with the support of artillery, continued assault operations in the southern, western and northern parts of the city. The Armed Forces of Ukraine counterattacked in the area of Bogdanovka and Grigorovka. Russian artillery hit Belaya Gora, Chasov Yar, Ivanovsky, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Controversial and Verkhnekamensky.
In the Lugansk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after artillery strikes, again tried to advance towards Belogorovka, in the area of Torskoye and Makeevka. Unsuccessfully. Armed Forces positions in Krakhmalny, Kislovka, Liman Pervy, Zapadnaya, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Figolevka and Topolnoye are under fire.
08:00 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC:
Over the past day, the Representation reported 81 instances of firing by the AFU. In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 30 attacks from the MLRS, artillery 155mm and 152mm. On Gorlovsky 38 artillery attack from artillery 155mm and 152mm. On Yasinovatsky 6 artillery attacks from artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm. On Volnovakhskoe seven artillery attacks from artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm. Having fired 456 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of sixteen settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Central City, Nikitovsky districts), Mikhailovka, Ozeryanovka, Shirokaya Balka, Novoselivka Second, Mineralnoe, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Budennovsky, Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Aleksandrovka, Yelenovka, Petrovskoye, Egorovka, Stepnoye, Nikolskoye, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Wounds of varying severity were received by seven civilians, incl. boy born in 2017, in Budennovsky, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, Mineralny.
A total of 17 residential buildings were damaged in Budennovsky, Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Central City districts of Gorlovka, Mineralny, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 76 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
07:00 Summary of the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC for the past day, May 4:
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, 2 artillery attacks were recorded on the settlement. Alchevsk and Rubizhnoye using MLRS HIMARS (3 missiles).
As a result of the attacks:
– in n.p. Alchevsk, two premises of the meat processing workshop were destroyed, and the glazing of three multi-storey residential buildings was damaged;
– in n.p. Rubizhnoye destroyed seven garages in the garage cooperative.
04:19 AFU fired 10 rounds from the MLRS in Donetsk, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported. The strike was delivered at 04:05 Moscow time, Petrovsky district was under fire.
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[REGNUM] After the attack of Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin, another attack began on social networks, informational: an openly fake stuff was circulated that Russia would launch a nuclear strike on Ukraine in response to the raid. And before the attack, a reputable and well-informed publication reported that the United States is installing equipment on Ukrainian territory that can detect the use of nuclear or radiological weapons (“dirty bombs”).
American specialists are installing sensors in Ukraine "that can detect bursts of radiation from nuclear weapons or dirty bombs."
"Part of the goal is to make sure that if Russia uses a radioactive weapon on Ukrainian soil, the atomic signature (of that weapon) and Moscow's fault can be verified." Information about this appeared in The New York Times on April 28.
The authors of the publication emphasized that at the current stage of the conflict in Ukraine, "experts are worried about whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons in combat for the first time since the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945."
Less than a week after the publication of the placement of atomic sensors in Ukraine, on May 3, unknown drones attacked the official residence of the Russian president, the Moscow Kremlin. According to a statement by law enforcement agencies, two drones attacked the building of the Senate Palace, on the roof of which the Russian state flag is installed, with an interval of 15 minutes.
Officials in Kyiv and Washington disowned the attacks, calling what happened "Russia's internal affairs." But, as Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted , the nature of the provocation directly indicates that it was carried out by the Ukrainian special services, which operate in close conjunction with the United States.
"Often, even goals are determined not by Kyiv, but by Washington. Not every time Kyiv is given the right to choose means. Washington must clearly understand that we know this," Peskov stressed.
"As for Washington’s attitude, I drew attention to the statement of [head of the State Department] Tony Blinken , who said that the United States would not dictate to Ukraine the methods by which it defends its sovereignty," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The attack on the Kremlin was accompanied by numerous stuffing in social networks. One of them belongs to foreign agent Vladimir Osechkin , who fled abroad, who, referring to a certain “source in law enforcement agencies”, claimed that in response to the attack on the Kremlin, the Russian Aerospace Forces were allegedly preparing to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine as retaliation. Allegedly, nuclear weapons have already been delivered to the tactical bomber airfield.
Despite the obvious fakeness, the stuffing was quickly picked up by a number of Western media and Telegram channels that are associated with Western intelligence agencies. At the same time, which is typical, the West did not begin to discuss the possible involvement of the United States in the incident, focusing on the publication of "stuffing".
However, there are some circumstances that make it possible to suspect Western intelligence services of organizing an attack on the Kremlin, said Vadim Kozyulin , head of the Center for Global Studies and International Relations at the Institute of Current International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Foreign Ministry.
“Some connection between the attack on the Kremlin and publications on the “nuclear” topic can be traced. Moreover, the reaction of the American media, as well as the American military, was very calm. They disowned the attack, although according to a number of indicators it can be assumed that it could not have done without Washington, Kozyulin told REGNUM . - In particular, the guidance of drones was most likely carried out using military GPS navigation, which Ukraine does not have. But the United States could well provide guidance for this attack.
A reasonable question arises: why should Washington plan an attack on the Kremlin, and then spin the topic of the “nuclear threat”. Sources of the NYTimes and other American media do not specify why it was necessary to send such specialized military assistance to Ukraine, especially now. But it should be noted that the United States has been supplying equipment and equipment for radiation protection for a long time.
“Earlier, even before the start of the NMD, the United States brought in ten thousand suits of radiochemical protection, put in radiation and chemical protection vehicles,” the editor of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine, military expert Alexei Leonkov , noted in a commentary to REGNUM news agency . - Then it was reported that this equipment and equipment was needed in order to examine a certain area where there is an increased radioactive background.
That is, the topic of “the threat of radioactive contamination” has been in their clip for a long time.”
The expert drew attention to the fact that the topic of radiation provocation by Ukraine and its partners was repeatedly raised by the Russian Ministry of Defense in connection with the possible actions of Kyiv, the ultimate goal of which is to accuse Russian troops of using nuclear weapons.
“Ukraine is ready to go all out if we look at all the terrorist attacks in which it participates as a performer. It can play any role, the West will try to evade responsibility, as happened in the case of the attack on the Kremlin,” Leonkov added.
Let us recall that this is not the first time that the United States has used the story about "regimes that have weapons of mass destruction" as material for organizing provocations. As an example, we can recall the legendary test tube of US Secretary of State Colin Powell , with the help of which the United States justified the military invasion of Iraq .
In April 2018, the United States announced the use of chemical weapons already in Syria, accusing the country's government of violating human rights. The scandal was used as a pretext for launching a massive strike on Syrian territory even before the necessary investigation was carried out on the ground. As Kozyulin notes, the Syrian example could theoretically be used to organize a similar stuffing in Ukraine.
“There are a number of signs that allow us to establish the origin of radioactive materials by the radiation background that will be detected at the explosion site. It will be necessary to try very hard to substantiate this, - the expert noted. —
On the other hand, if the provocation is carried out, the US may start a public campaign to denounce Russia even before any investigation is carried out.”
According to Kozyulin, the so-called “dirty bomb”, which Ukraine can collect from its radioactive waste, can be used to organize such a provocation. The use of this kind of ammunition can cause an increase in the radiation background, which can be used for propaganda purposes.
“There is a certain probability of such a scenario," the expert said.
However, the provocation can also pursue more global goals than just "accusing Russia."
As Alexei Leonkov notes, the key strategic task for the United States is the destruction of the bloc between Russia and China. For China, the topic of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is critically important, so the pretext with a radioactive threat can be promoted precisely for diplomatic purposes.
“In essence, Ukraine is not the most important aspect. Now there is a global confrontation between the United States and China for Europe, and an alliance with Russia is extremely important for China, the expert notes. - Therefore, a provocation with a "nuclear threat" on the model of how it was in Syria is an opportunity to prevent Europe from leaving the control of the United States.
And most importantly, to destroy relations between Moscow and Beijing. Because China is very sensitive about the use of nuclear weapons."
On May 4, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes, in her statement, spoke of a serious deterioration in relations between Beijing and Washington and at the same time strengthening relations between China and Russia. A similar opinion was expressed by the chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, Mark Milley, in an interview with Foreign Affairs.
“It is not in the interests of the United States to see the formation of a strategic military alliance between Russia and China, and we will do everything possible to make sure that this does not happen,” Mark Milley said. The only question is whether a nuclear provocation falls under the words "everything possible" or whether Washington is not yet ready to cross this line.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
If Wagner is released, then Putin is not able to resolve the issue with incompetents.
The reason for the decision was the lack of shells, although the shells lie freely in warehouses, as well as the actions of near-military bureaucrats.
According to Prigozhin, since May 1, deliveries to PMCs have actually been stopped. Ammunition at the continuously fighting unit in the hottest spot. The phrase "Give_the shells_to the Wagners" became a symbol of this stage of the war. Hence the heavy losses, as Prigozhin makes clear, due to the poor resolution of organizational issues at the level of the RF Ministry of Defense
Starting May 10, units of the Wagner PMC are leaving Artmovsk. "You are not in a position to manage what you have been put on," Prigozhin says clearly to the impenetrable officials of the Ministry of Defense.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The hot unmanned week continues. After yesterday's controversy with the arrival of a drone on the roof of the Senate Court, today a victory has come in Kyiv. The Armed Forces of Ukraine officially recognized the fact of the destruction of their own "Bayraktar" over Kiev, which fell on a house and caused a fire. They referred to the technical problems of "Bayraktar", they say it broke down.
Therefore, we decided to shoot down right next to the Maidan. We decided to blame our own stupidity on Turkish technology. Video of the destruction here https://t.me/boris_rozhin/84710 The car was shot down by the German "Iris-T" air defense system. All the same, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no chance to catch up with the Russian Armed Forces in terms of downed Bayraktars. Well, okay, they slightly sweetened yesterday's pill with their clowning in the center of Kyiv.
Commentary by military correspondent Rybar. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Dear comrade, yes, in Pavlograd (https://t.me/vysokygovorit/11480) everything turned out to be as epic as possible.
Firstly, now about 100 shells to the Alder did not reach the front.
Secondly, tanks with spent fuel for the SS-24 were destroyed, about 15 launch heads for ballistic missiles, plus 150 bodies for engines. And not all of them were empty - inside solid rocket fuel. In the largest hangar there were about 800 tons, and in total - about one and a half thousand tons.
The total power of the explosion is about four kilotons.
It is reported from the field that the funnel turned out to be 30 meters deep and up to 80 meters wide. Within a radius of 300 meters from the funnel, all trees and poles were blown away. As for the bunker, where, among other things, there were units of the 46th detachment of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, it is unrealistic to make out the rubble. It turned out to be a huge mass grave.
@rybar - zinc
Yes, it was a noble arrival. A bit behind the attack on the barracks of mercenaries in Konstantinovka (up to 60 KIAs)
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