#Egypt ignores the US's request to close its airspace to #Russia's military flights to and from #Syria, as the #US believes that Moscow may transfer weapons to be used in its war against #Ukraine .https://t.co/y46WbEIqlO
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Did I not hear something on the campaign trail two years ago about "America is back" and our allies respecting us again?
Or is that just my dementia acting up again?
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"The Adults™" are in charge again and US foreign aid is buying so much goodwill and cooperation now.
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[MAIL on Line - Where America Gets Its news] The U.S. ambassador to South Africa has accused the country of covertly providing weapons and ammunition to Russia via a cargo ship.
Ambassador Reuben Brigety said on Thursday at a news conference in Pretoria that the U.S. believed the covert weapons supply was linked to a sanctioned company that docked secretly at a naval base near Cape Town last December.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said an investigation into the visit by a Russian vessel named Lady R to South Africa's main naval base was already underway behind the scenes with the help of U.S. intelligence services before Brigety went public that the cargo was weapons and ammunition.
Brigety said the U.S. was certain that military equipment was loaded onto the Lady R at the Simon's Town naval base between December 6 and December 8 and then transported to Russia.
The ambassador added that the intelligence brought into question South Africa's supposed neutral stance on the war in Ukraine and its calls for the conflict to end.
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All the establishment types worked very hard making sure South Africa had a government who would side with Russia against us. What did they think was going to happen?
Text from the V Kontakte page of Polite People | Special Operation Z
On the night of May 13, Russian Aerospace Forces continued to systematically destroy everything that Kiev had prepared for a large-scale offensive. The cluster of troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine behind Artemivsk (Bakhmut), as well as warehouses with ammunition and other military equipment in the central and western regions of Ukraine, were hit. In addition, as a result of night arrivals, there is a disruption of railway communication in a number of directions.
In recent days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have stepped up their offensive against Bakhmut. In a number of areas they managed to advance several hundred meters. For an offensive in this direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine assembled a large group in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. During the night, these forces were hit. The goal is to weaken the offensive capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut and deprive them of the opportunity to transfer reserves to the front line.
After a powerful explosion in Khmelnitsky, which is located in western Ukraine, the detonation of ammunition continued all night. In this city in Soviet times, the 19th missile division of the Strategic Missile Forces was based, until 1998 there were mine launchers of R-18 Stiletto nuclear missiles. Then, on the basis of the Soviet division, the 1st Ukrainian missile division was formed.
What, for example, the Ukrainian Thunder missiles are capable of, could be seen yesterday in Luhansk. Two rockets flew through the peaceful city, six children were injured.
In Khmelnytsky, they probably covered the missile depot. The sounds of secondary detonation, according to local residents, were heard until the morning.
According to other sources, there was an arrival in the south-west of Khmelnitsky - at the Kation plant, where ammunition supplied by the West could be stored.
Ukrainian Railways reported that due to the shelling in the Khmelnytsky region, railway traffic in the region was temporarily limited, and part of the trains was sent along a detour. This means that the strike on critical transport infrastructure has reached its goal.
It is also reported that Geran drones flew to the Stryisky district of the Lviv region. There were at least five explosions. Since Soviet times, there has been a military airfield in the city of Stryi. Most likely, it was used to store Western weapons supplied to Kyiv. Perhaps they managed to overtake the planes supplied by Poland or Slovakia there.
According to the UNIAN agency, late in the evening there was an explosion in Kyiv.
Arrivals of "Geraniums" were also noticed in the Zapoprozhsky and Depropetrovsk regions. The forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated there, intended for an offensive towards Energodar and Melitopol.
Explosions also sounded in the Nikolaev region on the right side of the Dnieper. Perhaps they hit the forces that are going to force the Dnieper to attack the Crimea.
The purpose of the strikes is clear - to weaken the offensive capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as much as possible. Having destroyed equipment and ammunition in the Ukrainian rear, our Aerospace Forces will help the troops on the front line to contain the “offensive”.
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Russians hit a decommissioned Soviet rocket fuel storage. If you see the vid, there is a huge fuel explosion but no secondaries of ammunition exploding. The Russians did the same PR stunt in Pavlivka.
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[LB] Trolleybus lines were damaged in Kramatorsk.
by Yuriy Korogodskyi
During the past day, the Russians shelled populated areas of the Donetsk region in four directions.
This was reported in Telegram by the head of the OVA, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
As a result of enemy shelling, civilians have been injured.
"The night before, the Russians launched a rocket attack on Druzhkivka - seven high-rise buildings were damaged. In addition, the enemy shelled Kramatorsk at night - damaged two houses and trolley lines," Kyrylenko noted.
In the direction of Volnova, the occupiers launched an airstrike on Ugledar. Four houses were damaged in Novoukrainets as a result of enemy shelling. The enemy attacked the village with artillery, "Hrads" and mortars.
On the Donetsk side, the Russians damaged a 4-story building in Kurakhovo with their shelling. Kurakhivka and Girnyk were also under fire. Shelling of Maryinka and Maksimilianivka was recorded.
One person was injured on the Horlivskyi direction in Kostyantynivka. 32 private houses, two high-rise buildings, two shops and two gas furnaces were also damaged there. A house in Mykolaivka and warehouses in Novomarkovo were also damaged on the territory of the community.
In the Lysychansk direction, the enemy destroyed one house in Yampol, damaged another in Zarichny, Lymansk community.
"In just one day, the Russians wounded 4 residents of Donetsk region," Kyrylenko added.
We will remind, on the morning of May 11, the enemy launched a missile attack on Sloviansk from the S-300. A private house was hit, the wounded woman died in the hospital. In addition, two high-rise buildings on the street were damaged. Svitlodarska, private houses and cars.
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[Korrespondent] 22:21 Zelensky said in an interview with RAI that Xi Jinping promised him in a telephone conversation not to supply weapons to Russia. "We expect that China will not be a supplier of weapons to the Russian Federation and will not support Russia with weapons or other technologies," the president added.
20:48 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, announced a blow to the club building in the village of Respublika, Mariupol region, where the occupiers were located: about 50 Russian soldiers were liquidated.
20:35 At the epicenter of hostilities in the Bakhmut direction, the situation is developing dynamically, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said: "Our troops are gradually advancing in two directions in the suburbs of Bakhmut. There will be no correct figures now, because active hostilities are underway. many were taken prisoner. But in the city itself, the situation is more complicated. However, thanks to the competent planning of the command and the courage of our soldiers, the enemy does not manage to take control of the city."
20:02 In Luhansk, they again report a missile strike - previously, it was inflicted on the military registration and enlistment office, where the base of the occupiers is located, local publics write.
19:44 Zelensky, during a meeting with Pope Francis, asked him to comprehensively contribute to the implementation of the Ukrainian formula for peace, in particular, in matters of food security, the release of prisoners and deportees, and the restoration of justice. "Since the war is going on on the territory of Ukraine, the peace plan can only be Ukrainian," the president stressed. A separate topic of the meeting was the crimes of Russia related to the deportation of Ukrainian children.
18:56 Russian Kommersant writes that two planes (a Su-34 bomber and a Su-35 fighter) and two Mi-8 helicopters were allegedly shot down in the Bryansk region. Planes crashed in the Starodub area, 25 km from the border with Ukraine, helicopters - in the Klintsovsky district, 30-40 km from the border. All of them were part of the same air group and were supposed to strike at the Chernihiv region. It is reported about the death of nine people who were on four sides.
18:40 The Russians fired at the settlements of the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region. According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, in one of the villages, as a result of a targeted strike on a private house under the rubble, one person was killed, another was injured. The enemy also struck at the Kherson and Chernobaev communities - three people were injured there.
17:14 The number of victims in the Khmelnitsky region due to the night attack of the Russian Federation has increased to 30 people , the mayor Alexander Simchishin said.
16:38 Another plane allegedly crashed in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, the Baza Telegram channel reports. According to journalists, we are talking about another Su-34 fighter.
16:11 The Russians fired on Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region: two people were killed and ten people were injured. Among the dead is a 15-year-old teenager, among the wounded are also teenagers aged 15 and 16, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
14:48 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that on May 12, combat aircraft of the Air Force of Ukraine allegedly launched a missile attack on the Polypak polymer products enterprise and the Milam meat processing plant in Lugansk. According to Moscow, British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles were used for the strike.
14:36 The "LPR" said that due to the increased shelling, the mobile Internet was suspended.
14:25 In Russia, a Su-34 plane and two helicopters fell during the day . The media do not exclude that they could have been shot down in the Bryansk region by Russian air defense forces.
13:34 The number of wounded as a result of a night attack on the Khmelnytsky region has increased to 21 people , the IVA reported.
13:08 Syrsky said that in the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces "are moving forward in some sectors of the front, and the enemy is losing equipment and manpower."
12:49 Switzerland may grant permission for the supply of weapons to Ukraine, writes Euronews. The two chambers of parliament and the National Council voted to amend the law, allowing in the future to supply military equipment to Ukraine.
12:23 British intelligence reports that Ukrainian forces have regained at least a kilometer of territory in the southern part of Bakhmut, and Russian troops have retreated. In particular, over the past four days, units of the 72nd separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian Federation have probably withdrawn from their positions on the southern flank of the Bakhmut operation. Analysts say the area has some tactical significance, as it was a Russian foothold on the western side of the Donetsk-Donbass Canal, marking the front line in parts of the sector.
11:39 Zelensky announced that he was on a working visit to Rome. He will hold meetings with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister George Meloni and Pope Francis. "An important visit for the victory of Ukraine," the President stressed.
11:17 The Russians hit Gulyaipol in the Zaporozhye region. About 15 strikes were recorded in the city center, one wounded is known, the President's Office reported.
11:14 Russian media write that in Lugansk a blow was struck on the old building of the Academy of Internal Affairs, where the military has been located since 2015, there may be dead and wounded.
10:51 The number of victims of a night attack by drones in the Khmelnytsky region has grown to 11 people , said the mayor of the city Alexander Simchishin.
10:44 "Military-civil administration" of the occupied part of the Kharkiv region called on local residents to leave the region due to increased shelling. It is proposed to leave "until favorable conditions for life are established." Also, the occupying "authorities" promise to assist those who decide to leave for the Russian Federation.
10:39 The "LNR" said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the shelling of Luhansk on May 12, allegedly used Anglo-French-made Storm Shadow missiles and one US-made ADM-160B MALD missile. Meanwhile, the Russian media write that today a powerful explosion thundered again in Lugansk. Also, the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko, announced two powerful explosions in Mariupol.
10:28 Germany will give Ukraine the largest military aid package since the start of the war, worth about 2.7 billion euros, writes Der Spiegel. According to the publication, the country's authorities will announce it tomorrow. The package will include, inter alia, 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 30 Leopard 1 tanks, 18 wheeled howitzers, four IRIS-T-SLM systems and 12 IRIS-T-SLS missile launchers, 200 reconnaissance drones, 100 protected combat vehicles and more than 100 logistics support vehicles.
09:50 Night massive drone attack did not damage energy infrastructure facilities, the energy system is stable, Ukrenergo reported. At the same time, as a result of Russian shelling of the frontline areas, there is damage to energy facilities in the Donetsk region.
09:17 During the night attack, the air defense forces shot down 17 attack drones out of 21, the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. In addition, an UAV of the operational-tactical level Orlan-10 was destroyed at night, and during the past day four attack drones of the Lancet type were destroyed.
09:06 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four people were injured. In the Kharkiv region, one person died. In the Kherson region, two people died and four were injured, according to the IVA.
08:58 Hungary will block EU sanctions if Ukraine does not remove OTP Bank from the list of sponsors of the war, said Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó.
08:47 At night, the Russians attacked Nikolaev, according to preliminary information, with Shahed-136/131 attack drones. As a result of the hit of ammunition, a five-story residential building was damaged and a two-story building at the enterprise was destroyed. Fires broke out at both facilities, which were promptly extinguished. Three people were injured, said the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim. In addition, one strike UAV was shot down in the region at night.
08:35 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 13.
personnel - about 198,260 (+590) people liquidated,
tanks - 3751 (+6),
armored combat vehicles - 7307 (+12),
artillery systems - 3095 (+27),
MLRS - 561 (+2),
air defense systems - 314 (+2),
aircraft - 308 (+0),
helicopters - 294 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 2665 (+29),
cruise missiles - 970 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 6011 (+15),
special equipment - 402 (+9).
08:24 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Over the past day, 47 clashes took place in the indicated sectors of the front, Bakhmut and Marinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities, the General Staff said in a morning report .
According to the General Staff, one of the enemy units operating in the Svatovsky district of the Lugansk region received reinforcements from among those mobilized. It is known that among the newly arrived personnel there are military personnel who underwent treatment and rehabilitation due to mental disorders.
Recently, against the background of significant losses, the Russians have been tightening counterintelligence measures in the occupied settlements. In particular, the number of posts and patrols in Yalta, Donetsk region, has increased. Representatives of the Russian commandant's office are looking for "informants" and conducting searches.
08:11 The Russians attacked Kiev at night with Shahed strike drones, all of them were destroyed, said the head of the KGVA Sergey Popko. No damage was recorded in the capital, people were not injured.
07:36 The Russians attacked the Khmelnytsky region at night, struck at critical infrastructure. As reported in the OVA, the affected object is located outside the settlements. Separate trains will follow the changed schedule today.
05:20 Representatives of the EU member states could not make a decision on the 11th package of sanctions against Russia, another meeting will be held next week, said Polish Ambassador to the EU Andrzej Sados. He explained that many issues related to sanctions against the Russian Federation are technically very complex, and therefore require careful expert analysis.
Sados also said that the new package takes into account Poland's proposal to extend sanctions to propagandists and judges who pass sentences in political trials, as well as the introduction of restrictions against Russian transport companies. He recalled that Warsaw also calls for a ban on the import of agri-food products from Russia to the EU.
03:46 Russia, during a night attack on Kiev on May 4, tried to destroy the Patriot air defense system using the Dagger missile, but the Ukrainian military intercepted it using the same Patriot air defense system, CNN reports, citing unnamed US officials. According to them, the Russians picked up signals emanating from the Patriot, which allowed them to target the system with a Kinzhal missile.
"Ukrainian air defenses fired several Patriot missiles at various angles to intercept the Russian missile, demonstrating how quickly they learned to use the powerful system," the US official said.
The Patriot system has a powerful long-range target detection radar, allowing it to intercept ballistic missiles. But the radar radiation needed to detect threats at a distance also allows an adversary to locate the battery and locate it.
Given the numbers presented. It not just the DC Military Industrial Complex making a $$$ Billion killing, The Russian version is also making $$$ Billions.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:36 An air raid alert has been announced on almost the entire territory of Ukraine. This information appeared on online map Ministry of digital transformation of the country.
It is noted that alarms do not sound in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Kyiv-controlled areas of the Zaporozhye region.
21:47 US mercenary liquidated by Russian army
Another American soldier of failure was destroyed by our fighters the other day. Bradley Jarema, 20, was killed on Wednesday during some obscure but beautiful-sounding “search and rescue” mission, according to a US media report.
20:15 “Cemetery of equipment” – this is how Ukrainian servicemen call the line supplies Bakhmut near the village of Ivanovskoye.
19:51 Calculation of AGS-17 of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, having received the coordinates, accurately hit and destroyed the enemy
18:49 Russian paratroopers hit according to the accumulation of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Svatovo-Kremennaya.
17:55 Artillerymen of the Southern Group of Forces continue to hit positions of the hiding nationalists in the Donetsk direction
16:51 Russian tankers disassemble stronghold and ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region
The crew of the vehicle maneuvers in landings and fires at enemy positions.
16:02 Russian artillery destroys equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Bakhmut.
There is an assumption that they worked with Krasnopol high-precision artillery ammunition.
The drone corrected the strikes.
14:59 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
◾Assault detachments liberated a quarter in the northwestern part of the city of Artemovsk;
◾Russian troops destroyed over 155 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
◾Combat aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of May 12 launched a missile attack on the Poly-Pack polymer enterprise and the Milam plant in the city of Lugansk;
◾Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force near Kupyansk, Kharkiv region;
◾Near the city of Nikolaev, the Russian military destroyed the ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
◾The actions of two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were suppressed in a day in the Kupyansk direction;
◾The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction amounted to 170 servicemen;
◾Storm Shadow missiles delivered to Kyiv by the UK were used to strike Luhansk, there is destruction of residential buildings, residents suffered;
◾The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction amounted to 75 servicemen;
◾The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction amounted to more than 285 people, four armored personnel carriers, two howitzers and 152mm self-propelled guns "Gvozdika";
◾The RF Armed Forces destroyed a warehouse of aviation missile weapons and a fuel storage facility for Ukrainian military equipment in the Zaporozhye region;
◾Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft that launched a missile attack on Luhansk and a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter that covered it;
◾During the day, the Russian air defense systems intercepted 3 HIMARS MLRS shells, destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
13:38 Russian kamikaze drone “Lancet-3” destroyed American howitzer M777 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Ugledar.
13:35 In Ukraine continue mass graves of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Because of Zelensky's criminal orders, every day Ukraine's cemeteries are replenished with fresh graves of those who refused to lay down their arms and raise their hands up.
12:52 Personnel combat work of crews of multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicles "Orlan-10"
11:35 Calculation of 152mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" of the Southern Military District destroyed the enemy's stronghold and equipment in the southern sector of the Northern Military District
Artillerymen of the Southern Military District daily destroy enemy firing positions, manpower and weapons, including samples of foreign production.
10:37 Combat work of crews of 122mm BM-21 multiple launch rocket systems "Grad" of the Airborne Troops in the zone of the special operation
Airborne rocket artillery units continue to carry out fire missions to destroy artillery batteries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, destroy camouflaged defensive structures, suppress command posts, destroy fire weapons, weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:37 Combat work crews of attack helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-28 of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of the NMD
09:10 Personnel defeat of the calculation of the enemy anti-tank systems by a kamikaze drone in the Ugledar direction.
In the Ugledar direction, the shelter of the enemy anti-tank missile system was destroyed with the help of a new type of kamikaze drone.
09:04 On the Kupyansky direction thwarted five attempts to rotate units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the forefront.
The head of the press center of the Zapad group, Sergei Zybinsky, said that during the course of hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the group’s artillery fire destroyed an Osa air defense system and two mortar crews in a day.
Attack and army aviation inflicted eight strikes on the accumulation of manpower, weapons and military equipment of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade, five territorial defense units and a special forces unit of the National Guard.
09:03 Calculations of 152mm self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S" of the Southern Military District destroyed a stronghold and enemy equipment in the southern sector of the NWO.
Artillerymen of the Southern Military District daily destroy enemy firing positions, manpower and weapons, including samples of foreign production. Crews of self-propelled howitzers fire at ranges of up to 30 kilometers both from closed firing positions and direct fire without preliminary preparation of the firing line.
Using precision-guided munitions, military personnel inflict maximum damage on fortifications and underground command posts of Ukrainian nationalists. Control of target destruction and fire adjustment is carried out with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles.
08:51 The counterattack announced by Kiev to the coast of the Sea of Azov will become one of the biggest adventures of the West and will lead to a colossal tragedy for Ukraine, the head of the Crimean parliament, Konstantinov, told RIA Novosti.
08:15 Appeared personnel arrival in Khmelnitsky, where the Kation plant caught fire - probably the ammunition depot was hit.
As a result of the attack on the Kation plant in Khmelnitsky, which specializes in the production of industrial electronics, a fire started. Local residents reported multiple explosions - a secondary detonation, which may indicate the defeat of the ammunition depot.
There were also reports of explosions in the Lviv, Mykolaiv and Volyn regions.
07:07 After the morning arrivals, the Ukrainian Railways Department (Ukrzaliznytsia) reports about the delay of trains in Western Ukraine and their movement along bypass routes.
06:49 Ukrainian publics report an explosion in the Volyn region.
06:47 Specialists of the communications troops of the Western Military District use unmanned aerial vehicles to ensure stable and uninterrupted communications in the zone of a special military operation.
05:25 Explosions are heard in the Lviv region in western Ukraine - the Ukrainian edition of Zerkalo Nedeli.
03:40 Explosions occurred in the Kyiv region - the Ukrainian edition of Zerkalo Nedeli.
02:26 An air raid alert has been declared in Kyiv and the Kyiv region - the Ministry of Digital Transformation of the country.
01:42 In Nikolaev after arrival has begun fire.
In Nikolaev, a fire started after the arrival. An air raid alert is now sounding in the region. The city authorities also confirm the presence of an arrival at the facility. At the moment, it is not known whether it was a missile or a kamikaze UAV.
01:39 Explosions have thundered in Nikolaev, the RBC-Ukraine agency reports.
01:28 An air alert has been declared in seven regions of Ukraine. Sirens also sound in Kyiv-controlled areas of the Zaporozhye region.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:22 Administration buildings, a rural house of culture and a school in the village of Respublika in the DPR were damaged as a result of artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on Saturday by the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine. 20:31 Ukrainian troops fired six rounds with a caliber of 155mm in Donetsk, reported in representation DPR at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC).
19:49 Statement of head of the press center of the Dnepr grouping:
In the Kherson direction, artillery units of the Dnepr group of forces inflicted fire damage on the positions of artillery and mortar crews of Ukrainian nationalists in the area of the settlements of Ivanovka, Antonovka and Tyaginka.
Destroyed: US-made M777 towed howitzer, two mortars, 122mm D-30 howitzer, enemy manpower. In addition, in the area of the settlements of Zelenovka, Krynki and Golaya Pristan, three unmanned aerial vehicles intended for conducting aerial reconnaissance were suppressed.
19:29 Two people were injured as a result of a new artillery attack of the Armed Forces of the Kuibyshev region, the mayor of Donetsk said.
19:05 Militants of the Kyiv regime fired three rockets at the village of Respublika from the MLRS - JCCC DPR.
19:00 Fixation of consequences of the artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk on May 13, 2023
18:51 Western sector of the front in the Kremenskoye direction located under the control of the special forces "Akhmat". There is no breakthrough on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and there never was. Our aviation regularly works on the accumulation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in their nearest rear settlements.
18:42 Commander of the airborne unit "Bizon" told on the defense of the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson direction.
The left bank of the Dnieper is one of the longest lines of defense in the Kherson direction. Russian servicemen are ready to repel any Ukrainian attack. Minefields are placed along the entire coastline. This prevents all enemy attempts to land on the shore in armored and fast boats.
The commander of the Airborne Forces unit with the call sign "Bizon" said that the personnel are ready to perform combat missions within 3-5 minutes from the moment of the command.
"3-5 minutes and the personnel are ready to perform combat missions. Those who were on combat duty at night are now resting. Nevertheless, on command, all personnel rise and are ready to carry out a combat mission. An error of 3-5 minutes is given," Bizon shared.
18:00 Bakhmut, May 13, 2023. Situation at the intersection of Levanevsky and Liberators of Donbass streets.
17:35 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 13, as of 17:00, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Gorlovka (Central-Gorodskoy district): - on the square. Cathedral wounded a man born in 1980
Additional information has been received about the damage caused by the artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- st. Kuznechnaya, 26 - a private residential building;
- st. Griboedova, 26, 28 - private residential buildings;
- st. X-ray, 24 - a private residential building.
n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardei district):
- Damage was recorded to the building of MBDOU “Nursery-garden No. 127 of the general developing type in Makeevka”.
17:03 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, the advanced units of the Vostok group, with the support of artillery, thwarted an attempt by the enemy to conduct reconnaissance in force, and also destroyed the reconnaissance group.
The crews of 240mm Tulip mortars "Tulip" destroyed the enemy's temporary deployment point in the Velika Novosyolka area. The crews of heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1 destroyed two enemy strongholds east of Vugledar. Also, a mortar crew in the Prechistovka area was destroyed by artillery fire.
In the Zaporozhye direction, artillery units destroyed an armored car identified during aerial reconnaissance in the area of the settlement of Malye Shcherbaki, an 122mm 2S1 self-propelled gun "Gvozdika" in the Novopavlovka area and a truck in the Malaya Tokmachka area. The calculations of the Tor, Strela-10 air defense systems, anti-aircraft installations shot down five unmanned aerial vehicles of the enemy aircraft type.
16:51 Circumstance near the building of the former dormitory of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Lugansk village of Yubileyny, where a rocket of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit today.
There are lightly wounded, people are trying to put the territory in order, RT military correspondent Ilya Vasyunin said.
According to the JCCC of the LPR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used the Storm Shadow cruise missile for the second time in a day. Two people were hurt.
16:50 Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation recorded the consequences of the criminal actions of Ukrainian Nazis in the Kievsky district of Donetsk -video.
16:40 Fixation of consequences of the artillery attack of the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk on May 13, 2023.
16:31 Work of air reconnaissance of the Russian Federation in the Kherson direction.
Aerial reconnaissance of the Russian Federation reveals combat points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, find observation posts, determine the exact coordinates of the enemy and transfer them to artillerymen.
16:26 The number of civilians in Gorlovka wounded at the hands of Ukrainian terrorists has increased to three. A man born in 1980 was injured as a result of the artillery attack of the Epiphany Cathedral. This was announced by the head of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.
16:12 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which there were casualties among the civilian population, incl. child.
15:42 Destruction of several tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Artemovsk. Worked out the operators of PMC "Wagner" -video.
15:17 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a woman and her four-year-old son were killed, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR, said.
According to Pushilin, six more people were wounded in Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, and the Kuibyshevsky district of the city. A total of 18 houses and five civil infrastructure facilities in Donetsk and Gorlovka were damaged.
14:41 Brief summary of the Kherson direction:
It is reported that this morning, in the area of the settlement of Otradokamenka and the settlement of Tomarino, the Russian Aerospace Forces attacked with UMPC planning bombs.
In the settlement of Otradokamenka, the strike was carried out at the base of a previously discovered group, which was artillery attack the area of the settlement of Kakhovka with 120mm mortars.
Repeated detonation was observed at the site, as well as a prolonged fire.
14:10 Since the morning, Donetsk has been under intense Nazi fire.
Oncadresa direct hit in an apartment building in the Kiev region. A little later there will be a direct hit by a shell in a private residential building in the Kuibyshev district of the city, as a result of which a three-year-old child and his mother were burned alive.
14:04 Personnel the consequences of the artillery attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Gornyak, Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. According to preliminary information, a woman and a child died.
14:00152mm "Hyacinths" of the "Kalmius" brigadebeatagainst the enemy in the Avdievka direction.
Crews of “Hyacinth-B” guns of the 14th Guards Artillery Brigade “Kalmius” of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps are continuously working on enemy cannon and rocket artillery in the Avdiivka direction. Correction from the air and the great combat experience of fighters and commanders allows inflicting serious losses on Ukrainian fighters.
13:46 Militants of the Kyiv regime fired 20 rockets from the MLRS in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - the DPR JCCC.
13:36 Damaged as a result of the artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka, a transformer substation.
13:20 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 13, as of 13:00, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Yasinovataya: - according to Mr. Central, 112, a man born in 1939 was wounded.
n.p. Gorlovka:
Nikitovsky district:- on str. 40 years old October, 19 wounded man born in 1953
Central City district: - on the street. Gagarina, 51 "a" a man born in 1950 was wounded.
Additional information has been received about the damage caused by the artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
d. Donetsk (Kuybyshevsky district):- str. Yershova, 62 - private residential building.
n.p. Gorlovka (Central City District):
- fixed damage to the Epiphany Cathedral on the square. Cathedral;
- a direct hit in the transformer substation on the street. Kirov;
- st. Gagarina, 51 "a", 53 "a" - apartment buildings
13:04 Consequences of artillery attack by armed formations of Ukraine, Lugansk, Yubileyny village (LPR)
On May 13, 2023, at 09:15 am, Ukrainian armed formations launched a missile attack on Yubileiny settlement in Luhansk (LPR) using one Storm Shadow cruise missile (English-French production). As a result of the shelling, a civilian born in 1943 was injured, the glazing of seven apartment buildings, 25 garages, 15 cars and a power line were damaged.
Additional information about the damage and casualties is being specified.
12:32 the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation destroyed two enemy howitzers and two mortars in the Kherson direction.
In the Kherson direction, artillery units of the Dnepr grouping inflicted fire damage on enemy positions of artillery and mortar crews in the area of the settlements of Ivanovka, Antonovka and Tyaginka, said Alexei Rulev, head of the press center of the Dnepr grouping.
A towed M777 howitzer, two mortars, a 122mm D-30 howitzer and enemy manpower were also destroyed. In addition, three reconnaissance UAVs were suppressed in the area of the settlements of Zelenovka, Krynki and Golaya Pristan.
12:24 Damaged in artillery attack of the VFU Bogoyavlensky Cathedral of the city of Gorlovka. Rounds also exploded on the playground.
12:22 As a result of the artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka from the side of the VFU, a civilian from Gorlovka was wounded.
12:18 Consequences of artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka from the VFU. House at: st. Gagarin, 53a, transformer substation.
12:06 Militants of the Kyiv regime fired 10 rockets from the MLRS in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - the DPR JCCC.
11:49 Personnel consequences of the UAF strike on Lugansk - preliminary, there are victims.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine once again attacked Lugansk - today the blow fell on the old building of the Lugansk Academy of Internal Affairs. Senator from the LPR Lantratova notes that, preliminary, two people were hospitalized due to the attack by the Ukrainians.
11:48 Two people were hospitalized as a resultstrikesThe Armed Forces of Ukraine for Yubileiny in Luhansk, said the Senator from the LPR Daria Lantratova. According to the RT correspondent, the artillery attack of the area continues even now - there is an attack by UAVs or missiles. Air defense works, the Internet is turned off.
11:40 Ukrainian neo-Nazis fired at the center of Horlivka. Enemy rounds exploded on the territory of the Epiphany Cathedral. The dome of the cathedral was damaged, multiple damage to structures. Previously, no casualties.
11:21 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Makeevka. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
11:20 Information on the victims of the strike on Luhansk on Saturday is being specified - Pasechnik
The Armed Forces of Ukraine today reportedly attacked the old building of the Lugansk Academy of Internal Affairs in a densely populated area, the Yubileyny microdistrict. The academy itself has already moved and is based in the city center. According to Readovka, there was only one explosion at 9:15 am.
Pasechnik also specified that the condition of the five children who were injured yesterday is satisfactory.
“Children will be re-examined by specialists from the Moscow region. I continue to control the situation personally,” said Pasechnik.
11:17 Consequences of the artillery attack of Lugansk on Saturday morning -video.
11:10 Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Zaitsevo and Aleksandrovka are under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, 39 rounds with a caliber of 155mm and 152mm were fired.
11:09 Combat work servicemen of the 88th Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces of the RF Armed Forces in the Seversk direction.
11:07 Vasilyevka under fire militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Today, another artillery attack from the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the households of the inhabitants of the city of Vasilyevka.
Saturday morning for civilians living along the street of the city of Kolyubinsky Vasilievka began with artillery attack from heavy artillery. At 09:12 a dull roar was heard in the central part of the city, the ground trembled and window panes rattled.
A direct hit in a private courtyard instantly provoked a fire. A brigade of the Ministry of Emergency Situations left for the scene. The fire was promptly extinguished. Fortunately, none of the people were hurt. Pets have died. Property was significantly damaged. The garage and everything in it has been destroyed. Also, the car of the owners of the yard was smashed by the blast wave.
10:57 As a result of the artillery attack of the village of the mine. Gagarin (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka), a civilian from Gorlovka was wounded by the VFU.
10:45 Frontline summary on the morning of 13/05/2023:
On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, attacked near Novomikhailovka. In Maryinka, they conducted assault operations in the western and northern parts, and again they tried to attack Avdievka from the Experimental side. Everywhere without advance.
Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the city of the same name), Paraskovievka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Ostrom, Pervomaisky, Stepnoy, Berdychi, Novokalinovo, New York, Yuzhny, Toretsk and Severny (to the north-west of Gorlovka). The Ukrainian army hit Donetsk, Makeevka and Gorlovka.
South of Bakhmut, after shelling, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked in the direction of Kurdyumovka and took up positions on the outskirts, pushing Russian troops behind the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. They also advanced towards Kleshcheevka from the direction of Predtechin and reached an important road that goes to Mayorsk.
Russian troops tried to attack in the direction of Stupochek. In Bakhmut itself, with the support of artillery, PMC "Wagner" conducts assault operations only in the western and northern parts. There is a promotion. Encounter battles near Chrome. APU attacked from Bogdanovka.
Russian troops withdrew to Berkhovka, taking up positions behind the reservoir. To the north-east of Soledar, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the support of artillery, advanced towards Donetsk Belogorivka. The RF Armed Forces shelled Belaya Gora, Aleksandro-Shultin, the cities of Konstantinovka, Ivanovsky, Chasov Yar, Markov, Novomarkov, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka,
In the Luhansk direction, the RF Armed Forces attacked in the Serebryansky forest area. Artillery fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Serebryanka, Belogorovka, Torskoy, Nevsky, Makeevka and Chereshchina. The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on Lugansk.
10:34 According to updated information, on May 12, 2023, during a rocket attack on the city of Luhansk, the armed formations of Ukraineappliedtwo Storm Shadow cruise missiles (English-French production) and one ADM-160B MALD anti-aircraft missile (US production).
10:20 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for May 13, as of 09:30, information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- Damage was recorded to the building of MBOU “School No. 51 in Donetsk” on the street. Kuibyshev;
- st. Agrarian, 14 \ 2 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Agrarian, 14 \ 1 - a private residential building.
Kyiv district:
artillery attack at 00:05:
– fixed damage to the building of the Hercules Trading House on the street. Artem;
- damage was recorded to the building of the City Hospital No. 20 in Donetsk on the street. Artem;
- on the street. Artem's roadbed was damaged, TTU lines were also damaged.
artillery attack at 07:45:
– Partizansky Ave., 37 “b” – a direct hit in an apartment building;
10:07 Yasinovataya is under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
09:59 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 were fired from barrel artillery:
- n.p. Krynki fired five rounds;
- 11 rounds were fired at the village of Korsunka;
- Aleshki fired eight rounds;
- n.p. Kazachi Lagery fired seven rounds;
- n.p. Kardashinka fired eight rounds;
- n.p. Novaya Zburyevka fired eight rounds;
- n.p. Podstepnoye fired seven rounds;
- n.p. The Dnieper fired five rounds.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. New Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, settlement Alyoshki, settlement Vasilievka, firing a total of 26 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
09:58 Ukrainian security forces again fired at Luhansk, the suburban village of Yubileynoye turned out to be under fire -photo.
09:50 The RF Armed Forces destroyed the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the towed gun in the Kherson region.
At night, artillery fire near the village of Zelenovka in the Kherson region destroyed the temporary deployment point of one of the units of the Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the loss of six units. automotive technology; 10 dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, eight injured of varying severity
Yesterday, artillery fire in the area of N. p. Priozernoye destroyed the 152mm towed gun Giacint-B with ammunition loss of five dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, three were injured of varying severity
09:38 Consequence sartillery attack of a residential building in the Kievsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants.
09:28 From seats report that in the Kherson direction, the Ukrainians tried to force the Dnieper. After opening fire on the enemy with our artillery, he, having suffered losses, turned his boats back. In the morning, our aviation worked hard on the enemy positions on the right bank.
09:07 Consequences artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants.
08:43 Donetsk and Yasinovataya are under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, 11 rounds with a caliber of 155mm and 152mm were fired.
08:39 The six children who suffered because of the Ukrainian artillery attack of Luhansk are in a satisfactory condition, the deputy Vodolatsky reported.
08:25 Information on the artillery attack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on May 13, 2023
08:18 Consequences of night artillery attack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants.
08:11 "The best job in the world!" — fearless Russian fighters talk about the situation in Marinka–video.
Exclusive footage from Readovka of active artillery attack by our assault detachment "Storm" of Ukrainian militants in the residential areas of Maryinka, where fierce fighting continues. Fearless Russian soldiers constantly replace each other and systematically strike at enemy positions, leaving him no chance.
The fighters are clearly in high spirits, fervent voices are heard. And one of the soldiers even notes that this is the best job in the world. As the UAV operator near Maryinka told Readovka, only one km of territory remained for the Ukrainian fighters, so the Russian fighters are successfully moving forward to victory.
07:48 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kiev and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
07:08 At night the Ukrainian fighters subjected to fire Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 23 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.
07:00 Summary of the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC for the past day, May 12.
From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, one artillery attack was recorded in the city of Luhansk using two cruise missiles (presumably the Grom operational-tactical missile system, Ukrainian-made).
As a result of the shelling, six children and a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Viktor Vodolatsky were injured, the administrative buildings of the inactive enterprises Poli-Pak and Milam were destroyed and damaged, and the glazing of 6 residential buildings was also damaged.
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[REGNUM] The civilizational approach that Russia proclaims is progressive-conservative anti-globalism. Conservative, because we strive to follow our tradition. Progressive, because, relying on our tradition, we want to develop and not stagnate. Anti-globalism, because we recognize the same right for other civilizations.
Russia is a "state of civilization." This is what the concept of Russia's foreign policy approved this spring says, which caused some joy, others bewilderment: what, they say, is a novelty, some kind of "civilization?" Will we pull to be a civilization?
"More than a thousand years of experience of independent statehood," the concept says, "The cultural heritage of the previous era, deep historical ties with traditional European culture and other cultures of Eurasia, developed over many centuries, the ability to ensure the harmonious coexistence of various peoples, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups determine the special position of Russia as an original state-civilization, a vast Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power that has rallied the Russian people and other peoples that make up the cultural and civilizational community of the Russian world."
If one of the Russian activists had been shown this text 10 years ago and told that it would be approved by the president and laid the foundation for all the actions of our state in the international arena, his eyes would have gone out of his head. Although no, he would just laugh at the ridiculous prank. And yet, this “prank” has become a reality. We are a thousand-year-old Russian state, which is building the Russian world as a cultural and civilizational community.
The sweeping under the carpet of Russians - both as a people and as a cultural and civilizational identity - is over. Moreover, changing the concept of foreign policy, as one can judge, is only the beginning.
There were also demands to start prosecuting aggressive Russophobia propaganda. Judging by the proposal of the Minister of Justice, to abandon the ridiculous ban on ideology, spelled out by the liberals in the 1993 constitution, is on the agenda - the resumption of the constitutional process, which should affirm the fundamental Russian traditional values even more clearly than was done in 2020.
What kind of ideology, officially or semi-officially, now dominates in Russia?
This is the ideology of civilizational sovereignty, the ideology of the state-civilization. It contains the basic principles on which, apparently, Russia's foreign policy and ideology will be built in the coming decades.
The world is a community of many unique idiosyncratic civilizations. Each civilization has its own special values and a special model of development. This multi-linear development moves humanity forward.
One of the most important civilizations on the planet is the Russian civilization, based on its thousand-year-old religious and cultural values, gathering a large historical space.
The global dominance of one, Western civilization is an absolute evil, since it leads to a reduction in development options and a malicious inhibition of this development by a hegemon who is afraid of competition. Therefore, such civilizational hegemonism must be eliminated, and normal multi-linearism restored. And Russia must play an important role in this elimination, the role of the instigator of a kind of "uprising of civilizations," to which, as there is every reason to believe, others will join.
This means that we affirm the plurality of civilizations in the face of an aggressive globalist world order, which is imposed by the United States and the countries of Europe trailing behind them, having renounced their own civilizational sovereignty.
Of course, both in Europe and in America there are resistance forces that advocate the restoration of traditional European and American civilization and a break with globalism, we wish them victory in this. But for today we must promote the formation of a bloc of world civilizations against the West with its globalism.
To summarize briefly our view of the world, it is as follows.
The world is a community of civilizations, that is, development centers characterized by a special culture, values, and traditions. Each civilization has its own trajectory of development, unlike the trajectories of other civilizations. Civilizations are in constant interaction - fighting and reconciling, exchanging cultural values and, on the contrary, rejecting someone else's experience and asserting their identity through such rejection. The fruit of the coexistence of civilizations are world religions, and world empires, and world trade networks (such as the Great Silk Road).
Each civilization is a large enough space for the entire set of forms of culture, religion, politics, and economics worthy of a developed person to be realized in it. And the dissimilarity of civilizations, a certain degree of their mutual repulsion is a guarantee that they will not deviate into general degradation, since not a single person, not a single human community can “do everything”, everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses.
“Progress does not consist in going in one direction for everyone, but in moving the whole field, which is the field of historical activity of mankind in all directions,” said the creator of the theory of the plurality of civilizations, the great Russian thinker Nikolai Danilevsky.
In general, the theory of the plurality of civilizations, the principle of civilizational pluralism, is the most important contribution of Russian social thought to the world treasury of ideas. After Danilevsky, his thoughts were picked up in the West by Oswald Spengler , Arnold Toynbee , and many others, but all of them still only followed in his footsteps. And to date, the principle of the plurality of civilizations is among the obvious.
However, in recent centuries, the normal development of world civilizations has been disrupted due to the aggressive expansion of the West. One of the civilizations, initially peripheral in relation to the Roman-Byzantine imperial world, but then imagined itself as a universal and unique civilization.
Why did this happen to the West?
The thing is that the defining idea for the West was Roman Catholicism. On the one hand, it is Christianity with all its universal claims to the absoluteness of truth, which, of course, are justified. But, on the other hand, this is Christianity, damaged by the heresy of papism, which consisted in the fact that one earthly person, the Pope of Rome, was credited with all the fullness of both spiritual and secular power over the world, moreover, infallibility, infallibility of judgments, at least in office. This power must be extended by aggression and the sword, cunning and intrigue, bribery and propaganda.
These properties were not at all inherent in genuine, Orthodox Christianity, since it asserted the idea of an empire, that is, a political force that protects the Orthodox Church, Orthodox people, including in the freedom of their spirit, which creates an infrastructure that contributes to the salvation of a person’s soul, and protects it from barbarian attacks.
But the Roman-Byzantine civilization did not know and did not want to know the militant missionary, guided by the principle “The end justifies the means”.
And with Western civilization there was a characteristic degradation.
Aggressive worldly means of imposing spiritual values have led to the predominance of means over values. The process that Alexander Solzhenitsyn called the “orbital path” began: the Renaissance, the Reformation, the so-called Enlightenment, and in fact the aggressive propaganda of atheism, then the development of two “wings” of the Enlightenment ideology, two twin brothers attacking tradition - liberalism and socialism. All this led us you know where - to the transgender toilet.
And throughout this movement away from spiritual values and meanings, the West retained the attitude inherited from papism for unrestrained expansion, but only now it was expansion not for the sake of faith, but for the sake of power, for the sake of money, for the sake of vile and perverted ideas, which, of course, , also faith, just the other way around.
The collapse of Western global hegemony, which took place with particular force in the second half of the 20th century, turned out to be especially toxic.
If the colonial empires expended some efforts on the development of the countries under their jurisdiction, at least along the Western path, then the weakening modern West focused primarily on slowing down the development of others. He no longer sees prospects for being the strongest in technological, intellectual, and military competition. He seeks to keep others from rising.
At the same time, as an ideology, he imposes not the deification of man, as was done in the previous half millennia, but the dehumanization of man. The God-man was replaced not just by a man, but by a mangled demon-man, a monster that grimaces and calls itself “they” or “it.”
The classical man, even godless, was still too divine, since the image of God is still present in his mind, his spirit, his disposition, even in his body, since the Son of God Jesus Christ assumed the fullness of the human body, except for sin.
This means that in order to finally get away from God, it is necessary to dehumanize a person. Hence all this fierce attack on family values.
The modern West has created a whole system of restrictions and brakes on development.
Here is the already mentioned "Washington Consensus", that is, a ban on supporting their own economy and industrialization, coercion to world trade, going in the interests of Western countries and corporations. Here is the environmental agenda, the fight against imaginary global warming, leading to the limitation of industry and technology in developing countries.
Here is the so-called human rights agenda, when Western “human rights activists” oppose individual members of non-Western societies to the whole, they begin to especially care about their rights, thereby encouraging the social atomization of non-Western societies, undermining their solidarity, leading to final destruction.
In addition, propaganda of the social priority of minorities and supporters of perversions also leads, since representatives of minorities, especially those declared oppressed, are, as it were, freed from solidarity with their large community, form, so to speak, an international that is hostile to their people, their culture, their land. Well, they undermine the demographic potential, among other things.
True, by all these means the West is destroying itself rather than its neighbors, but this does not save us from cadaveric infection. A decaying, overgrown civilization, a cuckoo civilization, seeking to throw everyone else out of the nest, has blocked the normal development of the world as a whole.
The globalist West has become a brake on development for all other civilizations. It does not allow other civilizations to develop in their own logic, demanding instead an infusion into the Western globalist system and pumping out resources.
The task of mankind as a set of original original civilizations with their special talents, with their special forms of the structure of life, is to remove this blockage. It is necessary to resume the normal multilinear development of civilizations, their free cooperation and free competition. Not necessarily peaceful, but necessarily honest in the sense of respect for someone else's space and the right of a neighbor to be different and live in his own way.
By and large, Russia is fighting for this today.
The world is gradually realizing that our NWO is not only for itself, not only for its national and geopolitical interests. We gave the signal for an armed uprising for the civilizational sovereignty of all subjects of world development.
That is why we have every right to the sympathy of China, and India, and Iran, and Turkey, and the Arab countries, and Latin America, and those forces in Europe and America that would like to stop decay, divide their traditional civilization and the globalist zombie that is killing it -monster. And it is precisely for these ideological reasons that many people already support us, and they will support even more, especially if we proclaim the ideology of civilizational sovereignty and multi-linear development openly, without bluntness. If we break with curtsies in favor of Western globalism.
We defend both for ourselves and for others the right to sovereign development, the right to our own future, not imposed from outside. Development is not limited to the model formed in the West, when “LGBT rights” inevitably follow from supersonic aircraft.
But we must openly recognize and proclaim, among other things, the “right to obscurantism”, or rather, to what the Western liberals call “obscurantism”. “The right to obscurantism”, that is, to refuse to follow the Renaissance-Enlightenment-liberal-leftist paradigm in culture and social relations, is the sacred right of peoples and civilizations. Not always, but often enough, it is, in fact, "angel light."
Peoples have the right to ban transgenderism, persecute blasphemy, believe in miracles, and not be fooled by propaganda under the guise of "creative self-expression." They have the right to believe that high-speed trains and antibiotics are not the result of homosexuality and atheism and are not obliged to accompany them.
Peoples have the right to be "out of date" in one way or another. Moreover, they have the right to consider "modernity" outdated and irrelevant. Moreover, they have the right not to recognize the authority of those forces that act as “heralds of modernity” and pass off their private interests, the interests of the Anglo-Saxon world mafia, as the demands of the century.
The right "not to be one's own contemporary," as Marina Tsvetaeva once put it, is not only for poets. Marina Tsvetaeva was a Russian poet.
The civilizational approach that, in fact, Russia proclaims is progressive-conservative anti-globalism. Conservative, because we strive to follow our tradition, our own, precisely our thousand-year experience. Progressive, because, relying on our tradition, we want to develop, and not stagnate and trail behind, which Western pseudo-progressives are forcing us to do. Anti-globalism, because we recognize the same right to develop in our own direction and for other civilizations.
Moreover, this ideology stands outside the dichotomy created just in the West, right-left, bourgeois-socialists.
The whole nightmare that we experienced in the 20th century after the Bolshevik revolution was connected precisely with the fanatical Westernism of the Bolsheviks, with a fierce faith in a world revolution that would put an end to all the traditional heritage on the planet.
But today China is building its socialism, now relying on Confucius and the latest capitalist and industrial business models. Fundamentalist Islamic Iran cherishes the legacy of its ancient Zoroastrian civilization. India, on the basis of its antiquity, creates a dynamic capitalist system.
Outside the Western globalist ideology, the so-called leftism is freed from its main vice - hatred of its own historical tradition and the desire to destroy it in the name of "progress" - and in this sense it may well merge with rightism if it does not drag the decaying corpse of Leninism and others on its shoulders. forms of Russophobia.
Well, and most importantly, within the framework of a civilizational approach, we may well respect both the Chinese communists and Iranian Islamists, without becoming communists or Islamists ourselves. This is what is impossible with the West, which requires only unconditional acceptance and zombification.
The historical mission of Russia is not to impose its civilization, its worldview on everyone else, but to prevent the world from sliding into unilinearism and degradation, to prevent the aggressor from forcibly stopping the development of independent civilizations and cultures, including our own.
This idea of a universal evil that “holds back” from spreading in the world is of central importance for Russian religious and social thought.
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[REGNUM] An air group of two helicopters and fighters crashed in the Bryansk region
In the Bryansk region, two Mi-8 helicopters and Su-34 and Su-35 fighters crashed, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement, said on May 13.
“According to updated data, two Mi-8s, one Su-35 and one Su-34 were shot down ,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Rogov added that the pilots of the helicopters and the Su-34 bomber were killed.
According to preliminary data, they were all part of the same air group.
The governor of the Bryansk region , Alexander Bogomaz , said that as a result of the crash of a Mi-8 helicopter in Klintsy, a local resident was injured, five households were damaged.
Earlier in the city of Klintsy, fragments of a fallen helicopter were found. Video footage of a helicopter that crashed in the Bryansk region appeared on the Web .
As REGNUM reported , on the eve of May 12, a Mi-28 military helicopter crashed in the Crimea during a training flight . Both pilots were killed. According to published data, the incident occurred in the Dzhankoy region.
"RV": an ambush on the Mi-8, Su-34 and Su-35 was arranged due to the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces with "smart bombs"
The Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot resist Russian aircraft using standard air defense (AD) methods, so they ambushed the air group. On May 13, Russian Spring writes about this.
“The enemy ambushed the air group due to the massive strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces with “smart bombs” along the entire front,” the message says.
It is noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot resist with the help of standard air defense methods the new tactics of the Russian Aerospace Forces, in which planning guided bombs are massively used. Therefore, the Armed Forces of Ukraine applied a new method of ambushing an air group.
As REGNUM reported earlier , two Mi-8 helicopters and Su-34 and Su-35 fighters crashed in the Bryansk region . According to preliminary data, they were all part of the same air group. Helicopter pilots and Su-34s were killed.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Prigogine did not study at the Academies. But, in my confident opinion. I could calmly teach Gerasimov and Shoigu.
Prigozhin, among other things, clearly walked through the "regroupings" of Konashenkov.
It was said that each joint has its own surname and first name - it's time to translate this into action and result.
In general, very strange things are happening at the top of the army. But understandable to me. For faithful leadership, there must be not only competence, but also the desire to move, the possession of elementary potency, and not only the ability to drink Armenian cognac (can you tell me who is a fan of it?) And not only the ability to send bravura reports to the top.
I see only two options here - either Prigozhin is lying and slandering the Moscow Region or there are traitors in the Moscow Region.
There are simply no other options ... unless aliens are acting ...
But in total: someone will have to answer for all this, even if it is Prigozhin or aliens ...
Prigozhin's press service published the following message:
"Today at 18:10 an employee of PMC Wagner tried to deliver Yevgeny Prigozhin's letter to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu through the courier postal service on Frunzenskaya Embankment (6 Central Department of the FSP).
The acceptance of the letter was refused, due to the personal order of Shoigu and the proceedings after the acceptance of previous letters.
The letter reflected the problems with the units of the RF Ministry of Defense on the flanks, and also attached mass appeals of mobilized people who wish to join the Wagner PMC due to the lack of control in the units of the RF Ministry of Defense.
The detailed text of the letter is not published in connection with an attempt to resolve these issues in a non-public way."
PS
Now I understand exactly why and due to what we won the Second World War. And we won only thanks to Stalin and his tough policy. Not Putin, but Stalin.
I wonder if at least half of what Prigozhin warns about now (and they don't listen to him) comes true in the near future, what will the Moscow Region say about this?
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Bastrykin, called for the nationalization of the main sectors of the Russian economy.
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin proposed to nationalize the main sectors of the Russian economy. About it writes RIA Novosti.
According to him, we are talking about "economic security in times of war.
“Let's take the path of nationalization of the main sectors of our economy,” suggested the head of the UK.
These are no longer the slogans of the Communist Party, this is the head of one of the most influential law enforcement agencies.
Fans of Gaidar and the Higher School of Economics will obviously not approve.In general, it is very interesting to observe how the ruling elites, in search of means of organizing warfare, are increasingly referring specifically to Bolshevik or Stalinist practices, because there are simply no other successful examples in the 20th century.
Moreover, hardly anyone can accuse the Russian ruling elites of great sympathy for the Bolsheviks. It's just that they turned out to be in the role of a cow in a bomb bay - if you want to live, you won't get so upset.
And the nationalization of strategic industries should be carried out. Here we can agree with Bastrykin.
And also, for example, return SMERSH, lift the moratorium on the death penalty, etc. and so on. SMERSH was the Soviet strategic counterintelligence organization formed in 1943.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] From time to time, there are opinions that Erdogan can allegedly use the security forces to maintain power or call citizens to the streets to protect his rule. Such a development of events can only be provoked by blatant falsifications and depending on the difference that will be between Erdogan and his main rival.
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