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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Expert assesses threat to harvest in Zaporizhia region due to locust invasion
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The locusts that arrived from the part of Zaporizhia region controlled by Kiev will not harm the agriculture of liberated Zaporizhia, since the entire harvest has been collected. This was reported on July 24 by the head of the regional branch of the Russian Agricultural Center, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences Irina Bandura.

Experts from the Russian Agricultural Center have recorded the migration of Asian locusts in the Vasilievsky district of the Zaporizhia region. This voracious insect moves in waves to corn fields, but mainly concentrates in the floodplains along the Dnieper coastline.

"The pest has already destroyed about 600 hectares of corn crops, but has not yet entered below Mykhailivka. Since the grain crops have already been mostly harvested, the locusts will not cause serious damage to this year's harvest," the expert said in an interview with the Zaporizhzhya News Agency.
Heinlein’s “The Year of the Jackpot” does not apply, one most sincerely hopes…
Experts from Rosselkhoztsentr together with employees of the Ministry of Agro-Industrial Complex and Food Policy of Zaporizhia Oblast are monitoring the situation and developing an action plan to prevent and combat locust migration. In accordance with the identified features, this plan will include determining the types and volumes of chemicals, methods of treating infested areas, information support for farmers and ecologists.

According to the doctor of sciences, farmers who have vegetative plants, such as perennial grasses, sunflowers or gardens, can use preparations approved for the control of locust larvae as a preventive measure. Bandura also noted that insecticides are ineffective against adult insects. Therefore, it is important to accurately determine the places where locust eggs are laid (egg pods), so that next year, at the initial stage of the emergence of larvae, these areas can be treated with biological and chemical insecticides.

"Our employees go to the location, find out the population and give recommendations to the farm on treatment methods. To localize the spread of locusts on federal lands, Rosselkhoztsentr has stocks of the drug "Imidor", - added Bandura.

The migration of locusts can only be prevented through joint efforts, the Russian Agricultural Center reported.

Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that a locust invasion was recorded in the south of Ukraine in the Kherson, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Vinnytsia regions. According to experts, the density of locusts this year is 40-50 individuals per square meter. But there are places where there are twice as many. Such indicators are significantly higher than the maximum permissible threshold for locust reproduction.

In 2025, due to an abnormally warm winter, a locust invasion was expected in Russia, which could threaten the harvest in 21 regions. It was planned to create special groups to combat the insects.

Experts identified regions with increased risk - among them were the Astrakhan, Volgograd, Orenburg regions, as well as the republics of Kalmykia, Dagestan, Bashkiria and others. Locusts eat almost all vegetation in their path.

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Who is at risk. Locust invasion in Ukraine

Locusts are already destroying crops in Naddnipryanshchyna, the Black Sea region and Zaporozhye. At the same time, the pests are quickly flying over and capturing new Ukrainian regions.

The locust invasion has been officially registered in the Zaporizhia, Kherson, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk regions, but other regions of Ukraine may also be under threat. These insects reproduce rapidly and can fly up to 100 km per day, and if the flock flies with the wind, then even more.

Both farmers and ordinary citizens are concerned about the harvest, because one swarm of up to 80 million individuals is capable of eating as much as 35 thousand people eat in a day.

WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR THE INVASION?
As noted by the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, high temperatures and dry weather this year have caused mass reproduction and an increase in the number of this dangerous pest.

In addition, the best environment for its reproduction are floodplain meadows and deltas of large rivers.

Also, reservoirs of locusts are non-orchard lands, fallow lands and roadsides with wormwood and knotweed, mixed grasses, areas with sparse vegetation along irrigation canals, clearings and edges of forest plantations, fields where agricultural activities have not been carried out.

Thus, ideal conditions have been created in the South of Ukraine, since the destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir, in the place of which bushes have grown, and a significant part of the land, the cultivation of which has stopped due to military actions.

Officially, the locust invasion has been recorded in the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, in particular in the territory of Zaporizhzhya, Kherson, Kharkiv and other regions. In these regions, a special plant protection regime has been introduced to localize and destroy the pest.

The first outbreaks were found in Zaporizhia and Kherson region, and literally a few days later, reports of the pest being detected in Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Kharkiv regions began to arrive. Individual specimens have also already been found in Vinnytsia.

This year, Ukraine was attacked by two types of locusts at once: outbreaks of Egyptian locusts were found in the Zaporizhia region, and Italian locusts in the Kherson region.

HOW MANY DAYS TO LVIV?
If favorable conditions persist, the scale of the invasion may increase. In a few days, the insects may reach different parts of Ukraine, in particular Kiev, Kirovograd, Cherkasy, Poltava, Donetsk regions, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of Department at the Dnepropetrovsk Agrarian and Economic University Roman Novitsky told Telegraf .

Western regions and neighboring countries, in particular Moldova, Romania, Poland, are also at risk with a tailwind. Locusts are able to feed on almost any vegetation, but most of all they prefer cereals: corn, wheat, millet, sorghum, as well as wild grasses such as reed and couch grass.

HOW TO DEAL WITH PESTS
The economic impact of locusts is catastrophic. The last major outbreak in West Africa cost more than $450 million to eradicate and caused $2.5 billion in crop losses. The cost of the response has increased 100-fold, from $1 million to $100 million in just 14 months.

The State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection appeals to Ukrainians and asks that if outbreaks of migratory locusts are detected, they immediately report this to the territorial body of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection and take measures to treat crops and lands with insecticides in accordance with the State Register of Pesticides and Agrochemicals Permitted for Use in Ukraine , with mandatory compliance with the regulations for their use.


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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Putin's show of strength to the West: Russia carries out huge wargames in Baltic and Caspian seas with 150 warships and 15,000 troops ahead of peace talks with Ukraine today

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#1  https://youtu.be/K6VOK-2Oydk?si=YX4NrnFoHBN7ROAP
Posted by: Два кольори || 07/25/2025 20:30 Comments || Top||

#2  My dear, it’s clearer if you attach the video URL to a bit of explanatory text.

Copy your URL, then type your text in the text box, like its title:

100 Ships Blocked! Russian Escape Routes Closed! | RFU News

Highlight it, click on the link icon in that row of icons below the text box — it looks like a globe of the Earth on top of two chain links (so clever, I know) — then paste your URL in the box that comes up over the http:// placeholder (highlight the http:// in the box then click PASTE).

Your result will look like this:

100 Ships Blocked! Russian Escape Routes Closed! | RFU News
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Russia Officially Banned Satanism
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#1  "...When asked for a reaction, His Satanic Majesty replied, 'Wayyyyyy too late', before disappearing in a puff of brimstone."

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/25/2025 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Communists always want to outlaw the competition.
Posted by: alanc || 07/25/2025 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  ...banned SATANISM
but not deviltry apparently...
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/25/2025 10:26 Comments || Top||


Ukrainian General Staff on the areas where there was a lull
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces have been fighting in nine directions since the beginning of the day.

The most active fighting continues in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling Russian assaults in the areas of 11 populated areas.


Since the beginning of the day, 92 combat clashes have occurred on the front. A relative calm has set in in four directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00 on Thursday, July 24.

Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions, the Defense Forces have repelled 14 Russian attacks since the beginning of the day. Another four combat clashes are ongoing.

In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, the enemy advanced three times near the settlements of Vovchansk, Petro-Ivanovka and Kamenskoye. All attacks were repelled.

In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attempted to advance four times near Stepova Novoselovka, Zagrizovy, Zeleny Gai and towards Velyka Shapkovka. One combat clash continues.

In the Liman direction, the invaders attacked 16 times near the settlements of Grekovka, Novy Mir, Yampolivka, Torskoye and in the direction of the settlements of Dronovka, Shandrigolovo, Cherneshchina, Sredneye. Four combat clashes continue.

In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers carried out 25 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Rusin Yar, Mirnoye, Mirnohrad, Novoekonomicheskoye, Lisovka, Zvirovoye, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Dachnoye and in the direction of the settlements of Vladimirivka and Pokrovsk. Five combat clashes are still ongoing.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the aggressor attacked eight times near the settlements of Poddubnoye, Maliyevka, Voskresenka - in the direction of Temirovka and Aleksandrovgrad. One battle is still ongoing.

In the Orekhov direction, the occupiers once attacked in the Stepnogorsk area.

In the Dnieper direction, the enemy attacked five times in the direction of Dnieprovsk, Sadovy and Dnieprovsk.

At the same time, no active offensive actions by the enemy were recorded today in the Seversky, Kramatorsk, Toretsky and Gulyai-Polye directions.

Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on July 23, Russia lost more than 1,000 soldiers at the front. 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 24 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:35 Russian troops started to the assault on Dimitrov DPR.

Assault units of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the Center group of forces are already fighting in the eastern part of the city.

20:22 In the Rubtsovsk direction, units of the West group of troops advanced up to 400 meters west of Petrovskoye (Grekovka) and consolidated their positions in the vicinity of Novy Mir.

20:09 Published footage of the coordinated work of the reconnaissance and strike crews of the Russian Armed Forces.

19:50 Posted another video of Russian UAV operators working in the area of the village of Belitskoye in the DPR.

19:45 Servicemen of the "West" military group with the help of an engineering vehicle paved a dirt road for military equipment and civilian transport in the Luhansk People's Republic.

19:42 RF Armed Forces hit at an industrial enterprise near the Rogatinsky residential complex in Khar'kov.

18:00 RF Armed Forces completed combat missions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

As a result of offensive actions by the Center group of forces, the settlements of Novoekonomicheskoe and Zverevo of the Donetsk People's Republic were liberated.

17:24 Footage of the FPV drone of the 37th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Vostok group has been published. Operator spent the drone is almost at ground level.

16:52 Sappers of the International Anti-Mine Center as part of the North group of troops continue demining of border areas of the Belgorod region.

16:29 Russian Armed Forcesare moving forward near the settlements of Kamenskoye and Plavni.

And also Russian military are moving forward in the South Donetsk direction.

15:58 Units of the "South" group of forces continue successful offensive in the area of Chasov Yar in the direction of Kramatorsk and in the southwestern part of the city.

15:44 Units of the "East" group of forces continue their offensive in the eastern part of Dnipropetrovsk region and in the western part of the DPR –map.

15:41 Far Eastern soldiers advance west of Voskresenka. Assault groups came out to the eastern outskirts of Yanvarsky.

14:57 Assault units of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division completed the most difficult task.

The village of Yablonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated.

14:02 In the period from 12.20 Moscow time to 12.40 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:

Two over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
One over the territory of the Belgorod region.


13:44 Sumy direction. Near Kondratovka, the Russian Aerospace Forces are using heavy aerial bombs –video.

12:59 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with long-range precision weapons, as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles, against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and energy complex facilities that support the activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Units of the North group of forces have improved their tactical position.

The manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault brigades and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Radyanskoye, Korchakovka, Khrapovshchina, Maryino and Ryzhevka in the Sumy region.

In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Velykyi Burluk and Melove in the Khar'kov region.

Units of the West group of forces have improved their position along the forward edge.

Defeat was inflicted on formations of three mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Srednee, Karpovka, Shandrigolovo, Drobyshevo in the Donetsk People's Republic and Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region.

Units of the Southern group of troops occupied more advantageous lines and positions.

The manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Pleshcheyevka, Seversk, Zvanovka and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Units of the Center group of forces have improved their tactical position.

Formations of two mechanized brigades, an airborne brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Udachnoye, Rodinskoye, Stepanovka, Svetloye, Poltavka, Krasnoarmeysk and Artema of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Units of the "East" force group continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses.

The manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the populated areas of Novogeorgievka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Iskra, Zeleny Gai in the Donetsk People's Republic and Novoselivka in the Zaporizhia region.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhia region, Antonovka and Belozerka in the Kherson region.

12:46 Posted work of the aviation of the Southern Group of Forces at the temporary deployment point and the control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV in the settlement of Kleban-Byk.

12:35 Air battles in Khar'kov region: "Sever" destroyed heavy enemy copters.

12:03 The first assault groups entered Zeleny Gai in the south of the Donetsk People's Republic –map.

11:55 Russian army takes uplandings west of Petrovskoye, gradually bringing closer the complete liberation of the LPR territory.

11:26 There appeared information about a hit on a Ukrainian thermal power plant. Details are awaited.

11:25 Fighting in Sumy Oblast: Northern Fleet naval infantry destroy enemy armored vehicle –video.

10:35 Changes in the front line over the past 24 hours –map.

10:35 Published footage of the results of Russia's night strikes on the port of Odessa.

10:15 Armed Forces of Ukraine equip fortifications in the border area: "North" group destroy enemy manpower.

After the liberation of the villages of Degtyarnoye and Melove, the enemy has noticeably become more active in the Khar'kov border area. However, at the moment, all attempts to strengthen their presence in the state border area end for the Ukrainian Armed Forces only with losses among personnel.

10:03 Russian troops continue attacks, confidently advancing beyond Kamenskoye on the left flank of the Zaporizhzhya Front.

Airborne units successfully drive the enemy out of the settlement of Plavni. Only the northern part of the settlement remains for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the enemy's resources admit this.

9:40 The Investigative Committee of Russia will investigate crimes of Ukrainian armed groups against civilians of the DPR and Bryansk region

According to information from executive authorities, a civilian resident of Gorlovka was killed in the residential area of Solnechny in the Donetsk People's Republic as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression.

In the Bryansk region, as a result of an attack by Ukrainian drones on a car in the village of Lemeshovka in the Sevsky district, three people were injured, including a seven-year-old child.

8:58 FPV drone operators of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army in the area of the settlement of Yablonovka with the help of a kamikaze drone destroyed a heavy drone of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Baba Yaga type, designed for reconnaissance or strikes.

8:25 From 6.20 Moscow time to 07.20 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:

Two over the territory of the Republic of Crimea and
One over the territory of the Belgorod region.

8:10 Frontline summary on the morning of 24.07.25

Zaporizhzhya Front. There are reports of offensive actions by the Russian Armed Forces north of Kamenskoye, in the area of the village of Plavni.

Donetsk Front. Intensive positional battles are taking place in the South Donetsk direction in the area of Zeleny Gai.

In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops have advanced in the area of Zverevo and Pervogo Maya. Fierce battles are continuing in the Konstantinovsk direction.

Units of the Russian Armed Forces are strengthening their positions in Yablonovka, advancing from the south on Aleksandro-Kalinovo, and continuing military operations in Dyleevka.

Chasovyar direction. The Russian army is strengthening its positions in Chasovy Yar. There are reports of local encirclement of the Yuzhny microdistrict.

Khar'kov direction. Fighting continues in the Vovchansk and Velykoburluk directions.

Ukrainian troops have resumed counterattacks on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces south of the village of Melove, while our troops are advancing between the settlements of Melove and Chugunovka.

Sumy direction. The Russian Defense Ministry officially announced the liberation of the settlement of Varachino. Fierce fighting continues in the Kondratovka area, our aviation is actively working
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8:05 During the past night from 20:40 Moscow time on 23.07 to 01:40 Moscow time on 24.07, air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 39 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:

– 21 – over the Black Sea,
– 11 – over the Azov Sea,
– Seven – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai.


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Third round of talks: Kyiv is turning into a gang, but is afraid to anger Trump
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Gevorg Mirzayan

[REGNUM] On July 23, the third round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations took place. The parties were preparing to talk for two days, but in the end, they finished in one evening.

Less than 40 minutes. That's how long the direct conversation between the delegations took. And such a short time (several times less than in previous rounds) is explained not only by the fact that the discussion was conducted in Russian, a language that is understandable and native to all participants. And not only by the fact that some topics were discussed in advance at a 2.5-hour meeting between the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, and the representative of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov. This also happened because there were not so many topics on the agenda.

THE STATE OR THE TERRORISTS?
Some agreements have been reached, in particular on a new prisoner exchange. Moscow proposed an exchange of at least 1,200 for 1,200, and in the end the parties decided to include not only military personnel but also civilians in the exchange fund. Apparently, this will include three dozen abducted residents of the Kursk region, as well as Ukrainians whom Zelensky sent to prison for allegedly “working for Russia.”

The return of Russian citizens taken from the Kursk border area was discussed at previous talks, but Ukraine has done nothing to bring them back. Medinsky said that Kyiv's actions resemble hostage-taking, comparing them to the behavior of Hamas.

In any case, we will do everything possible to ensure that our citizens return home, but Kyiv's actions will help determine its characteristics - is it a state or a gang of terrorists taking hostages?

"It was the Ukrainian side's idea to exchange not only the military, but also civilians. They simply do not have enough captured Russian fighters to exchange them on a one-to-one basis, which means there is a deficit in the exchange fund. Therefore, they were ready to exchange Ukrainian citizens who are sitting in Ukrainian prisons for Ukrainian citizens who are in the Russian Federation," former Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada deputy Spiridon Kilinkarov explains to Regnum.

According to him, this is a direct violation of the Ukrainian Constitution (the country has no right to extradite its citizens), but this is not the first time Zelensky has violated the basic law.

At the same time, Zelensky demands the return of the children who were allegedly kidnapped by Russia and about whom the Western press has written so much over the past three years.

In fact, "tens of thousands of children" turned into a list of 339 names that the Kiev regime handed over to Russia during previous rounds of negotiations. After checking, it turned out that of these 339, some were adults, and some had never crossed the borders of our country. The third part were real Ukrainian children found in Russia, and they are returning to Ukraine, but they are not returning to just anyone, but specifically to relatives. Those who were not around when Russian soldiers saved children from military action.

In turn, Medinsky's delegation gave Umerov a detailed, confirmed list of 20 Russian children who ended up in Ukraine or the EU. Moscow hopes that Kyiv will return them. This will demonstrate the extent of its real, not ostentatious, concern for children.

THREE WORKING GROUPS
Medinsky's team set the tone for the talks on Wednesday. In addition to the topic of exchanges, it proposed creating three working groups for online talks on military, political and humanitarian issues.

Such proposals destroy the Ukrainian strategy. On the one hand, Moscow constantly proposes to conduct constructive negotiations in new areas. And above all in the humanitarian sphere, which directly affects people's lives. On the other hand, it constantly proposes to deepen the negotiation process. To transfer it to a constructively new level. Exactly to the one that the Kiev regime disowns with bright and at the same time meaningless proposals.

"Medinsky proposes to systematize the work. Make it permanent, and not in the format of one-time events from the series "meet and run away," continues Spiridon Kilinkarov. And this would be serious progress in the negotiation process.

" In essence, Russia proposes to discuss the memoranda in a more substantive manner. To make the negotiations more specific, to divide the topics into different baskets. Professionals should discuss them on an ongoing basis at their level and agree on mutually acceptable formulations and solutions," Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, explains to Regnum.

" It is unlikely that the formation of working groups will lead to results. Moscow has no positive experience of negotiations with Kiev, which is still unconstructive and unprepared to comply with the obligations it has undertaken," Nikita Mendkovich, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, explains to Regnum News Agency.

KYIV WANTS A BREAK
The West clearly wants something different from the talks. “ Russia and Ukraine have every incentive to use the talks to resolve low-level issues, such as prisoner swaps,” writes The New York Times. These decisions allow Zelensky to score political points at home, “but do not generate serious compromises that could persuade opponents to stop fighting,” the newspaper adds.

To put it simply, NATO countries want an urgent ceasefire. “The ultimate goal is a ceasefire that will pave the way for peace,” says Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

"Ukraine is now in desperate need of a ceasefire. At least to catch its breath," says Dmitry Suslov. But Moscow does not need another freeze, another iteration of the Minsk agreements. Which will not solve the problem and will only create comfortable conditions for the Kiev regime to once again break its commitments, and for the West to rearm Ukraine.

Russia, as the winning side, is ready for only a short pause in hostilities. One or two days to remove the fallen from the field, and at the same time to check whether Zelensky has learned to keep his word. That is, a short-term ceasefire is required to assess the very possibility of a long-term truce.

WHY ZELENSKY DEMANDS MEETING WITH PUTIN
Moscow is also not interested in unilateral concessions to the Kiev regime. For example, organizing a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Ukrainian regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, which Ukrainian negotiators insisted on. “ Ukraine has consistently advocated for a meeting of leaders. We were ready for this yesterday. Today we are ready. And we will be ready tomorrow,” Rustem Umerov wrote on the eve of the negotiations.

According to him, such a meeting will unblock the political process. In fact, it is intended to "unblock" the head of the Kiev regime personally. "Zelensky needs the summit for legitimization and to raise his status. Moscow is not interested in either," says Nikita Mendkovich.

Moscow does not need meetings for the sake of a meeting, Medinsky objects to Umerov. Russia only needs constructive measures, which Kyiv cannot provide here and now. The Russian country has repeatedly stated that a summit meeting is possible, but only after successful preliminary work by negotiating groups. And it is needed not to continue disputes, but to finalize agreements already reached.

But the most constructive thing that Ukrainians are capable of now is to dress decently. Observers write that almost all members of the Kiev delegation wore suits for the negotiations. “After the famous meeting between Trump and Zelensky, the West began to treat the military and informal fashion of Ukrainian officials with irony. So they had to change their dress code - so as not to look like thugs or marginals in the eyes of the Western public,” explains Nikita Mendkovich.

UKRAINIAN IMITATORS
"Ukraine wants to prove that Russia has no orientation toward a political and diplomatic solution. And as a consequence, to push the Donald Trump administration toward tough measures against Russia, toward new sanctions, toward increasing arms sales for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces," says Dmitry Suslov.

It turns out that the third round of negotiations has become an imitation game. “Ukraine’s goal is to show obedience to Trump, to get money and weapons. Trump himself gets a chance to once again announce to the whole world that he is the coolest, since everyone obeys him, ” writes Russian journalist Roman Babayan in his Telegram channel.

The point is that Ukraine is not ready for anything other than imitation, trying to replace the essential, peaceful process with a demonstration one. Therefore, it proposes to urgently, "here and now", bring Putin and Zelensky together, urgently declare a ceasefire - without any conditions. Medinsky, however, nullified the plans of Ukrainian PR people with his constructiveness.

Ukraine's hypocritical behavior does not mean that Russia should suspend the dialogue. Even in its current imitation form, it has value. "This format does not cause us any particular difficulty. Moreover, in Istanbul we manage to agree on the exchange of prisoners and seriously wounded soldiers. For this alone, we need to sit down at the table," says Spiridon Kilinkarov.

In fact, this is what distinguishes Russia from Ukraine. "Negotiations on humanitarian issues show Russian humanity, as well as a constructive approach and readiness to move forward," says Dmitry Suslov. That is why during the negotiations, Vladimir Medinsky proposed unilaterally transferring another three thousand bodies of Ukrainian soldiers collected from the battlefield by Russian soldiers. Transferring them when Ukraine is technically ready to receive them.

If, of course, it is ready. Because the return of such a large number of bodies again is a serious image blow to the Ukrainian authorities, perfectly illustrating the gigantic losses of the Ukrainian army at the front. Therefore, the old lies will undoubtedly be used that “these are not our dead” and “we need more time to identify them.”


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Plans to overthrow Zelensky revealed in Ukraine
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[Regnum] Opponents of the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, have begun implementing a three-stage plan to overthrow him. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua.

According to the publication’s source, the organizers of the protests against the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) plan to publish in the media in the near future a number of “particularly impressive corruption cases that NABU investigated against Zelensky’s inner circle and top officials.”

"For now, well-known commanders are keeping silent. But if the protests continue and expand (and especially if there are some incidents with casualties), then the likelihood of support for the protests from part of the army will increase," the publication added.

Thus, the publication cites three goals of the protests in Ukraine. First, Zelensky will be forced to fully return the powers of NABU. And if he does this, he will lose the loyalty and fidelity of the security forces, and will also show his strategic weakness and inability to manage the vertical of power.

"The second stage is to achieve the resignation of Yermak [Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine] and the head of the government, Yulia Svyrydenko, who is close to him (for example, by initiating a criminal case against her by NABU detectives). Zelensky will be offered (or rather, is already being offered) to make Yermak a "scapegoat" in the story of the curtailment of NABU's powers and to fire him. To do this, the organizers of the protests plan to use the contradictions within the presidential team, where many are unhappy with Yermak (primarily Arakhamia and Budanov (Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, an individual included in the Russian Federation's list of terrorists and extremists. - Ed.). The resignation of the heads of the Office and the government will finally unbalance Zelensky's system of power, " Strana.ua reported.

In conclusion, Zelensky will be offered to either become a “wedding general” or leave his post.

As previously reported by IA Regnum, on July 22, Zelensky signed a law on the liquidation of NABU and SAP. Later, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported that a group of Ukrainian parliamentarians intend to challenge this law, since so many articles of the regulations were violated during its adoption that such a possibility seems quite likely.

After the liquidation of NABU, the head of the Kiev regime faced unprecedented protests from the population. On the same day, protests took place in Kiev and Lviv. They were joined by the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko. The number of protesters exceeded a thousand people.

According to Ukrainian media, rallies also took place in Vinnytsia, Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk), Zhitomir, Krivoy Rog, Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovograd), Nikolaev, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Kharkov, Khmelnytskyi, Chernihiv and Chernivtsi.

On July 23, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that corruption remains a pressing problem for Ukraine and that significant amounts of Western funds have already been squandered.


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Kremlin says that Kyiv is holding civilians as hostages
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[Regnum] The Ukrainian side is holding civilians as hostages. This was stated on July 24 by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov.

“The proposals from the Russian side [to Kiev] are specific, constructive, and necessary for the citizens of both countries: both the continuation of the exchange and the return of civilians who are effectively being held hostage,” he said during a briefing.

Peskov also gave a positive assessment to the discussion of a set of humanitarian topics during the third round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, as well as the Russian side’s proposal to create three groups to work online.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of July 23, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul, said that Kiev must clarify the status of civilians from the Kursk region who are being forcibly detained in Ukraine. According to him, the Russian side is ready to exchange Ukrainian fighters and other categories of people for Kursk residents who are being detained in Ukraine.

The third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place on the evening of July 23 at the Ciragan Palace in Istanbul and lasted for about 40 minutes. The Ukrainian delegation was headed by the Secretary of the National Security Council Rustem Umerov.

At the meeting, Moscow proposed that Kiev representatives consider the issue of declaring short ceasefires on the combat contact line to collect the wounded and dead. Following the negotiations between the delegations, Medinsky said that Russia was counting on a fourth round of negotiations. He added that the positions of the parties to the conflict on the memorandums were quite far apart.


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#1  https://youtu.be/3G5wugdqjXE?si=0jfjsmwlc-LZS2H2
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#2  RUSSIA'S CIVILIAN AVIATION CRISIS: AN-24 CRASHED Vlog 1116: War in Ukraine

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'Victims of Nazism' and 'Jewish Propaganda'. Poles Want to Rewrite History
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by Oleg Khavich

[REGNUM] July has been a kind of "month of historical remembrance" in Poland for many years. Since 2001, under pressure from the West, the country has been marking the anniversary of the mass murder of Jews in the town of Jedwabne, committed by local Poles on July 10, 1941.

And the anniversary of the beginning of the Volyn massacre of Poles (July 11, 1943) has been officially declared the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide committed against the citizens of the Second Polish Republic (Poland in 1918–1939. — Ed.) by Ukrainian nationalists since 2016.

In 2025, the name of this memorial date was changed, and July 11 in Poland became the Day of Remembrance of Poles - victims of the genocide committed by the OUN* and UPA* in the Eastern Borderlands (territories - Ed.) of the Second Polish Republic.

It is worth noting that this is not just a renaming.

Firstly, unlike the 2016 decision, the nationality of the victims of the genocide is clearly indicated - Poles, and not abstract "citizens of the Second Polish Republic". Secondly, the organizations that committed the genocide of Poles are specifically named - the OUN* and UPA*, now glorified in Ukraine, and not simply "Ukrainian nationalists".

Finally, today's Western Ukraine was called the "Eastern Territories of the Second Polish Republic", which caused particular anger in Kyiv.

It was expected that the events on the occasion of the anniversary of the beginning of the Volyn massacre would become the most resonant in Poland. Especially since the action at the controversial monument to the victims of this ethnic cleansing of Poles, erected on the border of the Lublin and Podkarpackie Voivodeships, was taken under the patronage of the elected President of Poland Karol Nawrocki.

But all the cards were spoiled by the right-wing populist politician Grzegorz Braun, who supported Nawrocki in the second round of elections.

"JEWISH PROPAGANDA"
This outrageous member of the European Parliament arrived in Jedwabne on July 10 and from there went on air on Radio Wnet with openly anti-Semitic statements.

"Here, on the one hand, another spectacle is being prepared, an act of anti-Polish, Jewish propaganda with a state celebration and police protection. And on the other hand, Polish compatriots have gathered in large numbers to demand the truth, and therefore the resumption of the exhumation in Jedwabne," Braun said.

At the same time, the politician called the decision of the Polish Prosecutor General Lech Kaczynki in 2001 to stop the exhumation of graves in Jedwabne “criminal” and taken under pressure from the Jewish lobby.

Then Grzegorz Braun said that various organizations, “positioning themselves as Jewish, condemn those who tell the truth.” “The truth that ritual murders are a fact, but Auschwitz with its gas chambers is, unfortunately, a fake. And whoever speaks about this will be accused of terrible things, condemned for honor and faith,” the politician said, after which he was taken off the air.

Brown's statements provoked a strong reaction.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that if Braun had been a Russian agent, “he could not have done his job better.” “Every time Russia needed to harm Poland, it raised anti-Semitic noise here,” Sikorski said, adding that “Holocaust denial excludes us from civilized nations.”

Polish President Andrzej Duda, in turn, also condemned Brown's remarks and released a photograph of him with Edward Mosberg, a survivor of World War II and two concentration camps.

The Attorney General's Office has added new charges to the ones already handed to Brown (including using a fire extinguisher to extinguish a Hanukkah lamp in the Sejm in 2023), and parliament is preparing a special resolution condemning the politician.

Of course, no one would have reacted to Grzegorz Braun like that if it weren’t for his growing popularity.

In the first round of the presidential elections on May 18, 2025, 6.34% of voters (more than a million people) voted for this politician, although no poll gave him more than 4% of the vote. Currently, the extra-parliamentary party "Confederation of the Polish Crown" (not to be confused with the "Confederation" in the Sejm), headed by Braun, has a rating that consistently exceeds 6%. This will ensure its entry into parliament in the event of early elections, which are becoming increasingly likely.

Such results horrify the elites of today's Poland, who have been trying to eradicate centuries-old anti-Semitism among Poles since 1989.

It is not just that Braun denies the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and the Holocaust in general and claims that the Germans are responsible for the killings at Jedwabne.

During the Second World War, the Poles not only organized Jewish pogroms, but also handed over Jews to the Nazis en masse. Yes, the Poles have the largest number of "righteous among the nations" (people who hid Jews from extermination. - Ed.), and Warsaw propaganda emphasizes this, but the hushed-up facts of collaboration on the part of citizens of the Second Polish Republic do not go away.

That is why the authorities have recently decided to take a different path.

"OUR BOYS"
On July 11, 2025, the Gdansk Museum opened an exhibition entitled "Our Boys. Residents of Gdansk Pomerania in the Army of the Third Reich." The organizers of the exhibition tried to prove with a straight face that more than 200 thousand Poles who after 1939 recognized themselves as Volksdeutsche and were drafted into the Wehrmacht were... victims of the Nazis. Moreover, such people were drafted not only in Pomerania, but also in Greater Poland and Silesia.

To understand: by 1945, there were 200,000 Poles in the Polish Army as part of the Red Army, and 230,000 in the Polish Armed Forces in the West, which is comparable to the number of Poles in the Wehrmacht. It is clear that some of them deserted from there and joined the ranks of the underground and the aforementioned Polish armed formations, but the fact remains a fact.

It is worth noting that by the end of the war, thousands of Poles even found themselves in the ranks of SS units, where they had not been accepted before. We are talking about the Świętokrzyski Brigade of the "National Armed Forces" (NAF) - the largest Polish underground organization after the Home Army.

In January 1945, near Krakow, the brigade entered into battle with Soviet troops and soon entered into an alliance with the 59th Army Corps of the Wehrmacht.

Later, together with units of the German army, the brigade retreated to the territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, where its soldiers and officers received the status of SS volunteers (SS-Polnisch-Freiwilligen). The brigade personnel were partially equipped with SS uniforms with Polish insignia.

In May 1945, the Świętokrzyska Brigade went over to the American side, so its soldiers did not bear any responsibility. As they say, find ten differences from the SS Galicia Division.

In September 2017, the Sejm unanimously decided to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NAF, specifically noting that the Świętokrzyski Brigade was part of it – without mentioning its collaboration with the Nazis.

And in February 2018, then-Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, a candidate of the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), laid a wreath and lit a candle at the graves of soldiers of the Świętokrzyski Brigade in Munich.

It is noteworthy that it was PiS politicians who raised a scandal over the exhibition in Gdansk, once again reminding the current Prime Minister Donald Tusk that his grandfather served in the Wehrmacht.

Incidentally, this argument was first used against Tusk exactly 20 years ago, and the exhibition features newspaper strips with the corresponding headlines. Now, one of the reviews of the exhibition was: "Maybe you should also hang a swastika on the town hall, Herr Tusk?"

In response, the ruling coalition decided to use the familiar Ukrainian card.

"WORSENING OF RELATIONS"
On July 16, the Polish Minister of Education, left-wing protégé Barbara Nowacka, demanded that Kiev review the content of Ukrainian history textbooks regarding the events in Volyn in 1943–1947.

In them, the ethnic cleansing of Poles in the territory of present-day Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland is called “an aggravation of Polish-Ukrainian relations,” and the reason for this is called “the mass murder of Ukrainians by the Home Army.”

But Barbara Nowacka is probably the last Polish politician who can appeal to the Ukrainian side with such requests. The fact is that in February 2024, two months after she became minister, experts from the Ministry of Education proposed changing the Polish school curriculum.

In particular, the task of “explaining the causes and scale of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in the Eastern territories (Volyn massacre)” was proposed to be shortened to “explain the causes of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict.”

Only after the scandal raised by the right-wing opposition, the wording "Volyn massacre" remained in the program. At the same time, the minister still defends the idea of a common history textbook for schools in Poland and Ukraine and demonstrates a willingness to compromise on this issue.

By the way, Barbara Nowacka will retain her post in the Polish government after its reformatting, announced for July 25, unlike the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Hanna Wróblewska.

And the exhibition at the Gdansk Museum has nothing to do with it – according to rumors, Vrublevskaya is being dismissed after Kyiv complained that she did not allow the exhumation of UPA* fighters’ graves on Polish territory.

It is worth noting that, for the most part, these fighters also wore German uniforms until 1943 – though not those of the Wehrmacht, but of the auxiliary police – but in Poland they are in no hurry to recognize them as victims of the Nazis, unlike “our lads.”

PROPERTY CLAIMS
What is happening on the banks of the Vistula once again confirms the truth of the thesis that history is politics turned to the past. And it is not only a matter of votes that politicians' statements about Auschwitz or the Volyn massacre can bring, but also of much more material matters.

For example, constant reminders by Jewish organizations about the role of Poles in the Holocaust turned into demands to hand over to them the property of Polish Jews killed by the Nazis who left no heirs.

And people from the Eastern Borderlands continue to demand compensation from Ukraine for property lost during the Volyn massacre and the subsequent resettlement of more than 800 thousand Poles to Poland.

This resettlement took place within the framework of the "Agreement on Mutual Exchange of Population in Border Regions" between Soviet Ukraine and the Polish Committee of National Liberation (the provisional government of communist Poland). According to the same document, almost 480 thousand Rusyn-Ukrainians were resettled from their lands in Poland to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.

At the same time, as recently as July 16, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the resettlement of Ukrainians from the territory of Poland after 1944 as “deportation.” The law provides for “restoration of the rights of the deported,” in particular, material and moral compensation, as well as social benefits.

Recalling last year’s statement by then Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba that the eastern part of today’s Poland is “Ukrainian territory,” one can expect Kiev to demand compensation for the deportees and their descendants from Warsaw.

If not with real money, then with the possibility of not repaying loans provided by Poland, especially after the start of the Second World War.


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