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Russians have progress in Donbass - DeepState
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Korrespondent] An important component of the enemy's success is the lies from the ground in reports about the real state of affairs, which prevents the assessment of risks and response to changes in the situation from above, analysts say.
Russian invaders are actively advancing in the Novopavlovskoye direction towards the administrative border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. This was reported by the monitoring project DeepState on Wednesday, July 15.

"The Russians are intensively moving towards the administrative border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, occupying settlements, villages and positions that remain on the way to it. The entire section from Alekseyevka to Novopol is under pressure from the enemy, who, with the help of his main resource - infantry and heavy losses, is paving the way for himself to occupy Donetsk region," the statement says.

It is noted that the Dachnoye area of the Dnepropetrovsk region is active, where groups of Russians constantly enter in order to gain a foothold in the village, but the Defense Forces are making efforts to prevent this.

"The situation is chaotic along the Novokhatskoye-Piddubnoye-Mirnoye-Perebudova-Komar-Fedorovka-Voskresenka section. It is a very complex section, which is the most difficult to analyze in the entire section," DeepState noted.

Analysts say a big part of the enemy's success is the lies from the ground in reports about the real state of affairs, which makes it difficult to assess risks and respond to changing circumstances from above.

"In the area from Zeleny Gai to Zeleny Pole, where commanders were given the opportunity to report on the situation without consequences, they continued as before. And this is a huge problem that entails catastrophic consequences," writes DeepState.

Let us recall that as of 16:00 on Wednesday, 63 combat clashes had occurred on the front , which is almost half of yesterday's figure for this time of day. Such data was published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report. Seven Russian assaults were repelled in the Novopavlovsk direction.


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Ukrainian General Staff reports reduction in number of battles
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Korrespondent] ZSU deters Russian attacks in southern and eastern Ukraine.

The most active fighting is taking place in the Pokrovsky direction. Currently, five combat clashes are ongoing there.


As of 16:00 on Wednesday, there were 63 combat clashes on the front, which is almost half the figure for yesterday at this time of day. Such data was published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report on July 16.

Thus, four attacks by Russians took place in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions.

In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled two attacks near Vovchansk.

In the Kupyansk direction, the occupiers tried to break through in the Sinkovka area.

In the Liman direction, the invading army carried out 14 attacks near the settlements of Novy Mir, Nadezhda, Karpovka, Kolodyazi, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and in the direction of Serebryanka. Two combat clashes continue.

In the Seversky direction, the occupiers tried three times to advance forward in the Grigoryevka area and towards Vyemka.

In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders stopped two attacks towards Belaya Gora.

In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out four assaults in the areas of Nelipovka, Toretsk and Aleksandro-Kalinovoe. One battle is still ongoing.

In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian invaders carried out 26 attacks near the settlements of Poltavka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Mirolyubovka, Lisovka, Novoukrainka, Zvirovo, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Muravka and Alekseyevka. The defense forces repelled 21 enemy attacks. Five battles are still ongoing.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attempted to break through the defense in the areas of the settlements of Poddubnoye, Mirnoye, Volnoye Pole and Zelenoye Pole. The defense forces repelled seven assaults.

Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on July 14, Russia lost more than 1,200 servicemen, wounded and killed. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people.


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Current information on the situation on the front line on July 16 (updated)
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[NewsFront] 20:53 Map with the change in the situation near Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk).

20:46 As a result of the use of four FAB-500, destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces patrol in the area of the settlement of Yanvarskoye.

20:11 Posted footage of the work of the "Southern" group of troops on equipment, a UAV control point and firing positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

19:39 Russian Armed Forces advance near Makeyevka, Petrovskoye, Zelenaya Dolina and Kolodezi –map.

18:04 Servicemen of the 5th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the "Center" group told details of the liberation of the village of Nikolaevka in the DPR.

17:28 In the area of the settlement of Belaya Gora, drone operators from the Yug group destroyed UAV control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

16:29 Group "Geranei" struck an operator training center and assembly shop for Ukrainian Armed Forces UAVs in the Tatyanovka area.

15:10 Published consequences of the morning shelling of Gorlovka on the territory of Hospital No. 2.

14:22 Information has been received that the Russian army took the territory of the oil extraction plant in Volchansk.

14:01 The Ukrainian 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade is running out of servicemen –video.

13:15 Servicemen of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District destroy enemy drones, shooting them down with FPV drones and hitting them with small arms –video.

13:01 The Russian Armed Forces drove the enemy out of Novotoretskoye and Fedorovka.

Also the Russian armed forces released Nikolaevka, Donetsk People's Republic.

12:17 Posted Official report of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Units of the North Forces Group Improved Tactical Position

The military defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airborne assault brigades, an assault regiment and an airborne assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Kondratovka, Bititsa and Varachino in the Sumy region.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Chugunovka in the Khar'kov region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 180 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, four cars and three artillery pieces. Four warehouses of materiel were destroyed.

Units of the "West" group of forces improved their position along the front line, inflicted defeat on formations of two mechanized brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Boguslavka, Petrovka, Kupyansk and Druzhelyubovka in the Khar'kov region.

The enemy's losses amounted to more than 220 servicemen, 19 vehicles and two artillery pieces. Two electronic warfare stations and five ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the "Southern" group of troops continued offensive operations, inflicting losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airmobile, and motorized infantry brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Pleshcheyevka, Seversk, Ivanopolye, Novoselovka, and Dronovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost up to 160 servicemen, two vehicles and three artillery pieces. Three ammunition depots and a fuel depot were destroyed.

Units of the "Center" group of forces continued their offensive deep into the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of four mechanized, airborne assault, and ranger brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two naval infantry brigades, and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Novoekonomicheskoe, Yablonovka, Muravka, Petrovskoye, Stepanovka, Nikanorovka, and Novopavlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 425 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three cars and three artillery pieces.

As a result of successful offensive operations, units of the "East" military group liberated the settlement of Novokhatskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a naval infantry brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volnoye Pole, Novopil in the Donetsk People's Republic and Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 200 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, nine cars, a field artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoye in the Zaporizhia region and Ochakov in the Nikolaev region.

Up to 70 servicemen, 12 vehicles, eight electronic warfare stations, five ammunition depots and a supply depot were destroyed.

Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged enterprises of the military-industrial and fuel and energy complex of Ukraine used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian formations in 148 districts.

The Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.

12:15 The operational situation in the Pokrovsk area is beginning to repeat the already proven model implemented in Bakhmut and Avdeevka.

RF Armed Forces conduct successive flank isolation, supply line pressure and frontal settling after strategic exhaustion.

12:05 Published footage of a UAV operating in the direction of the village of Sadki in the Sumy region of Ukraine.

11:47 RF Armed Forces inflicted a strike on a Khar'kov enterprise engaged in the development and maintenance of aircraft and helicopters.

11:35 The situation in the Slobozhansky direction as of 10:00 on July 16, 2025 –map.

11:26 Change of the front line in the Kondratovka area of Sumy region –mapThe situation in the Sumy direction has stabilized.

11:11 One child and six adults wounded as a result of a strike on the center of Gorlovka.

< strong >10:25 RF Armed Forces foughtoff counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the village of Melovoe, Kupyansky district, Khar'kov region.

10:07 On the outskirts of the city of Shostka in the Sumy region of Ukraine, a Tornado-S MLRS crew “interfered” with the movements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces –video.

9:55 Soldiers from the reconnaissance company of the 30th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 44th army corps destroyed a position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region, –video.

9:30 In the period from 8.30 Moscow time to 8.40 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territories of the Belgorod region and the Republic of Crimea.

9:30 Servicemen of the Tor-M1 air defense missile system crew of the Center group of forces carried out air cover for the positions of Russian units from Ukrainian Armed Forces attack drones.

During one combat mission, the soldiers destroyed four enemy targets in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

8:30 Front summary on the morning of 16.07.25

Zaporizhzhya Front. The Russian Armed Forces continue to storm Plavni. Having occupied Malinovka the day before, Russian troops received a stronghold and access to Gulyaipole from the eastern elevation.

Donetsk Front. The Vostok and Yug groups have improved their tactical position. Video recordings of our troops' presence in Voskresenka and Petrovka have appeared. In the Pokrovsk direction, in an attempt to stabilize the front in the Rodinskoye area, the enemy has concentrated three assault units there and is trying to counterattack. Fighting is underway.

The Russian army is intensively advancing in the Konstantinovsk direction (Yablonovka, Aleksandro-Kalinovo, Popov Yar and Poltavka). The attacks are carried out with the active use of drones and with the support of artillery.

Chasovoyar direction. Positional battles continue in the area of Chasovoy Yar. The Russian Armed Forces are exerting serious pressure on the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the enemy is stubbornly resisting.

Khar'kov direction. Russian troops are holding back the pressure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of Volchansk, preventing the enemy from advancing towards the Belgorod region.

Sumy direction. Heavy fighting is underway near Kondratovka. The Ukrainian army regularly transfers reinforcements here from other directions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hold positions in the ravine between the villages of Kondratovka and Konstantinovka, putting pressure on our troops.

The Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards the Sumy-Yunakovka highway, the capture of which will complicate the logistics of the Ukrainian army in the entire direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively resisting with artillery and FPV drones.

8:15 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed eight Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

– Three UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
– Three UAVs – over the waters of the Sea of Azov,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Kursk region.

8:01 A crew of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS destroyed a temporary deployment point for enemy UAV operators in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, –video.

The crew of a combat vehicle from the 51st Guards Army quickly moved into position, launched an attack, and immediately changed location.


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Trump's Girl and the Abolition of Unity. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is being squeezed into a weapons workshop
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Denis Davydov

[REGNUM] The Verkhovna Rada votes for the resignation of Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal with fights and shouts, and then a new government will inevitably be formed. Regnum News Agency reported that this would happen a month ago - all this time, the bargaining for seats continued, and the rotation in power shifted a little.

However, the logic of the political process was preserved, and the forecast regarding the candidacy of the new head of government (it will be headed by the current Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko ) and the change in the leadership of the Ministry of Defense turned out to be correct.

The new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, according to the plan of the Office of the President, should appear as early as Thursday, July 17, and illegally, since the candidate should have been nominated by the parliamentary majority, and not by Zelensky, who announced it to everyone as a given.

In addition to “rearranging the beds,” there will be several consolidations in the cabinet—it is obvious that maintaining entire ministries that produce nothing but information noise is pointless.

Therefore, the “optimization” will affect such a funny institution as the Ministry of National Unity, and a separate ministry for strategic industries of Ukraine will be merged with the Ministry of Defense.

The minister of the cabinet of ministers will disappear - this position was introduced back in 2003, when Leonid Kuchma abolished the institution of state secretaries. The new head of the cabinet was to be responsible for organizing the work of the government and coordinating the activities of ministries.

Finally, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the Ministry of Ecology will become a single entity - this will make it easier for the new boss to control the money.

All of these are symptoms of a serious illness, in which both the system of state administration and the spheres that are subject to management are. But we should start with the person of Sviridenko, because if we talk about symptoms, then she is the main pimple, signaling the state of the whole organism. And at the same time, she is the key person, explaining, if not everything, then a lot about what is happening.

"ONE MAN BAND"
Yulia Anatolyevna is a representative of the very same managerial elite that foreign organizations have been systematically preparing for Ukraine for many years.

The career growth of the girl from Chernigov cannot be called rapid, but in 10 years she has climbed the management ladder from the Chernigov Regional State Administration to the Cabinet of Ministers and the President's Office. And this happened thanks to the right connections.

After graduating from university, having worked in a company whose ultimate beneficiary, by a strange coincidence, is the main Turkish entrepreneur and philanthropist, CEO of Baykar Defence, Lutfü Haluk Bayraktar, Sviridenko went to accounting courses at the Kyiv School of Economics.

This non-profit organization was created back in 1996 specifically as a training ground for the countries of the collapsed Soviet Union. Its founders are The Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) and the foundation of Victor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of the second president, an oligarch and a systemic conductor of the interests of American Democrats and the Soros foundation in Ukraine.

At that time, the President of the KSE was already the future Minister of Economy, Timofey Milovanov, who himself received a master's degree in economics from the EERC, continued his education in the United States and worked there for some time in the field of education, so that after the victory of the Maidan he could immediately become a top official in his homeland.

The talented girl caught the eye of a foreign agent, so she was immediately placed in the State Property Fund of Ukraine to improve her skills. And over the next few years, she successfully completed several prestigious international training programs.

In particular, she completed two management training programs in Germany and a private sector growth strategy program organized by the Swedish International Development Agency Si2.

In 2015, when the victorious Maidan was building a system of power for itself, Yulia Anatolyevna was sent to help one of the owners of the Chernihiv region, a major agricultural businessman Valeriy Kulich, who became the richest governor in the country.

Before the “revolution of dignity,” Kulich was a people’s deputy from the Party of Regions, but he practically changed his masters by agreeing to head the region—Sviridenko became his advisor, director of the Department of Economics, and then oversaw decentralization issues as deputy governor.

"When I came to the Regional State Administration, even in the foreign economic department there were no people who knew English. Yulia was qualitatively different from other employees at that time," Kulich later said, after three years he had a falling out with Petro Poroshenko * and left his position.

In 2018, she became acting head of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration, holding the position for five months and sitting out until her new appointment in Kulich’s business.

Well, Milovanov invited her to Zelensky's team, nominating his protégé for the position of his deputy in the Ministry of Economy - even then, Sviridenko was known as a "one-man band" who had no problems with communication. By the way, in addition to English, she has known Chinese since her student years, and later learned Japanese as well.

So, as a proven and loyal employee, she remained in office after the minister was replaced, and at the end of 2020, she moved to the Presidential Office, where she dealt with economic issues and became part of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group to resolve the conflict in Donbas.

To feed her, she was introduced to the supervisory board of the NAK Naftogaz of Ukraine, and in addition, Sviridenko received a “ration” from the owners through the KSHE: she is regularly paid fees for some teaching activity - last year alone, she earned 3.1 million hryvnia (about 5.8 million rubles) here.

Already on November 4, 2021, Yulia Anatolyevna returned as "Yermak's person" to the Ministry of Economy, heading it as a minister, combining it with the position of first vice-prime minister. Under her hand, in particular, were such murky programs personally important for the Zelensky family as "National Cashback" and the All-Ukrainian mental health program "How are you?" of Elena Zelenskaya.

In 2022, it was Sviridenko who headed the joint Interdepartmental Working Group on the implementation of state sanctions policy, the purpose of which was to develop and introduce new sanctions against Russia. She joined the ongoing negotiations in European countries, effectively as a top diplomat, and after the arrival of the Trump administration, she led the dialogue on the so-called "Ukraine-US minerals agreement."

Her signature is under the final documents transferring Ukrainian natural resources to colonial management. So the position of the head of government is a very logical step in her career: a reliable and loyal person should lead the "post-war restoration" in favor of foreign owners.

REARRANGING THE BEDS
The fact that Yulia Sviridenko has built “constructive and effective” relations with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is decisive for the current rotation of prime ministers: there were no other candidates in principle.

"She will be one of the main contacts with the Trump administration on economic issues, first of all," says well-known Ukrainian political scientist Volodymyr Fesenko. At the same time, the almost Prime Minister enjoys the full trust of Zelensky and the head of his Office, who essentially runs the government manually.

So it is not surprising that Zelensky personally summoned Sviridenko and outlined her priority tasks.

The main thing, according to him, is to increase the production of domestic weapons, secure contracts for the production of the necessary volumes of all types of drones, carry out deregulation in order to “free up domestic economic potential,” and ensure the implementation of social support programs for Ukrainians.

“We have determined what results can be achieved in the first six months of the new government’s work,” Zelensky summed up after the meeting, and in principle it is clear that task No. 1 is to scale up weapons production and collect money from the population.

Other tasks are either impossible to accomplish or deeply secondary, as indicated by the proposed new composition of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers.

This is what Sviridenko confirmed, stating that in her new position she needs to carry out a reduction in “non-critical government spending and duplication of functions of government institutions… and the complete concentration of government resources for the defense of Ukraine and recovery after military action.”

And “clearer instruments of social support” concern military personnel – former and current.

Therefore, the record holder for the longest tenure as head of government, Shmyhal, is moving to the Ministry of Defense and is taking over the system of the abolished Ministry of Strategic Industry - this is a huge enterprise, where an executive, loyal and completely unambitious Lviv resident would be more useful.

And the current minister Rustem Umerov, as reported by IA Regnum, is being kicked out of his post and, as expected, will be sent as ambassador to the States - the untouchable agent of influence who conducted negotiations with the Russian delegation against the will of his superiors is being returned home. Umerov's family lives in Florida, his father and brother have a business there, and in general, as we said, Sviridenko should now be in charge of coordination with the Trump administration.

Therefore, either a new leader of the group will appear at the next negotiations with Russia, or Kyiv will show that it does not intend to talk anymore.

Digital Transformation Minister Mikhail Fyodorov will probably become the first vice-president — he and the prime minister will work on drones together. And there is simply no replacement for such a specialist in the country.

The most curious thing about the current “reform” is the liquidation of the Ministry of Food – it is known to be headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Chernyshov, whose triumphant flight abroad and strange return as a suspect in a corruption criminal case became a prelude to the admission that there is no unity, and there is no point in suffering any longer.

The Ministry of Economy will be merged with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and the Ministry of Ecology into a single Ministry of Resources, which will be headed by Alexey Sobolev, Sviridenko's deputy. Everything is clear here: key economic areas will be under the general manager's control, and this is optimization.

And ecology figures here for a reason, since considerable funds are spent through this ministry on demining territories and other restoration activities, which the “one-man band” also managed to do.

All other changes are of little importance and are rather decorative. In general, one thing is clear: the main body of executive power is shrinking together with the state and reducing its activities to the minimum necessary. And subsequently it must make the transition to a new regime of existence under the complete control of foreign states.

That is why they raised such valuable specialists as Yulia Anatolyevna.


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Zelensky nominated Shmyhal for the post of Ukrainian Minister of Defense
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, has nominated Denys Shmyhal for the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine. He announced this on July 16 in a Telegram channel.

"Today I have already signed and submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine documents on the appointment of Denis Shmyhal as the new Minister of Defense. Strategic industries will also be managed through the Ministry of Defense," he announced.

Zelensky also noted that the state concern Ukroboronprom will be headed by German Smetanin (Minister for Strategic Industries).

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 16, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Shmyhal and the entire Ukrainian government along with him. 261 MPs voted for the prime minister's resignation. No one voted against, and four more abstained from voting. The new prime minister is Yulia Svyrydenko, who held the post of deputy prime minister of Ukraine.

Zelensky had previously, on July 14, admitted that he sees Shmyhal as the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. The head of the Kiev regime drew attention to the candidate's enormous experience.

Shmyhal has headed the Ukrainian government since 2020.


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Ukrainian commanders caught preparing armed rebellion
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[Regnum] A number of Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders are preparing an armed rebellion in the country. This was reported on July 16 by military expert Boris Rozhin.

"My hackers stole a mockup of a very interesting document from the computer of one of the SBU employees. If this is not a setup of the command of the Kherson group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the SBU and the document is real, then it turns out that some Ukrainian commanders are preparing an armed rebellion," he noted on the Telegram channel.

According to Rozhin, it is high time for Ukrainian soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to directly negotiate with Russia. They could take control of Nikolaev, enlist the support of the local population and begin negotiations. Perhaps in this case there will be some chance to preserve the remnants of the Ukrainian people, the military blogger believes.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus ( Vladimir Kuznetsov and Aleksey Stolyarov ), on behalf of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (a member of an association involved in extremist activity or terrorism), offered several foreign mercenaries of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to take part in the overthrow of the current regime in Ukraine. The pranksters informed the militants of their intention to create a private military company, invited them to join the ranks of this organization, and also to stage a coup d'etat. Some of the mercenaries agreed.

In March, former Verkhovna Rada deputy Spiridon Kilinkarov said that preparations for a coup d'etat had begun in Ukraine. According to him, the head of the Kiev regime could be removed by Ukrainian former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, that is, become the speaker of parliament with the prospect of rising to the position of acting president.


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European outsourcers and the war in Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

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[ColonelCassad] The aid plans announced by Trump turned out to be very discouraging for the European satellites of the USA, despite the initial apparent satisfaction.

If announced 17 Patriot air defense systems are NATO air defense systems already in service in Germany and a number of other countries, which must be transferred to Ukraine and compensated for by the purchase of new air defense systems of this type and batches of missiles from the United States.

At the same time, the cost of air defense systems and their missiles has been steadily increasing in recent years due to the increased demand for various air defense systems. In fact, the USA is putting European satellites in front of the fact: they need not only to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP (in Europe, this has been extended to 2035), but also to additionally increase spending on financing Ukraine, giving the American industrial complex (and primarily the Raytheon corporation) the opportunity to withdraw an additional margin from these supplies.

There is no longer any question of an equal contribution by the US and Europe — the Trump administration offers Europe to almost completely outsource the financing of the war in Ukraine, while the US reorients itself to the confrontation with the PRC. Therefore, it is not surprising that a number of NATO countries have already officially refused to participate in this scheme.

France and Italy said their "no", directly indicating that there is no money for this, and these states do not want to collect additional loans. It is possible to expect that a few more countries will refuse to participate in this, although Britain, a number of Scandinavian countries, Poland and the Baltic States will most likely purchase weapons for Ukraine even on credit, since the funds from the national budgets will not be sufficient.

The bifurcation point in this issue will be the fate of the tariff war between the USA and the EU. If a compromise option is not reached and Trump imposes 30% tariffs on goods from the EU from August 1, and Europe responds, then the scheme of arms sales to Europe may be called into question.

Trump intends to seek concessions from Europe both on the issue of tariffs and on the issue of transferring the financing of the war in Ukraine to the Old World. Europe would like to avoid this, but economic problems and general political, economic and military dependence on the USA make its position in negotiations with Trump obviously weaker.

However, it should be remembered that these disagreements within the Western camp are of a tactical and methodological nature. The West basically remains united on the issue of "deterring Russia", so there is no need to ask for unnecessary illusions on the topic of stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine. It's just that the USA optimizes this question in their interests, and the costs of Europe and Ukraine do not worry them too much.

(c) specially for RT


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