Turkish drone manufacturer Bayraktar suffers substantial reputational losses due to Ukraine conflict; its prospects for new contracts are rather uncertain.

It has already been reported that the company manufacturing drones in Turkey belongs to President Erdogan’s son-in-law. After the Karabakh conflict in 2020, where the Azerbaijani army successfully used Bayraktar TB2 drones, the videos of their strikes spread all over the internet. Many believed in these machines' invulnerability, and the drones turned into a kind of “superweapon” in the minds of the militant part of the Ukrainians.

Ukraine fell for the Turkish advertising, to buy Bayraktars even before the start of Russia’s military operation. It is worth noting that in the first days of the military operation, there were some videos of Bayraktar attacks on the Russian convoys posted on the web. However, further into the military operation, such videos became rare, and by the end of March they disappeared completely.

Another blow to the reputation of the Bayraktars was the decision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to use them in raids on Russian border towns. Today, the social networks are full of photos of the Turkish drones having been downed in the Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions. That is certainly not the kind of publicity that Selçuk Bayraktar and his father-in-law Recep Tayyip Erdogan would like to receive.

The Ukrainian President Zelensky did not help the image of the Bayraktars, when he first declined to comment on the significant losses of the Bayraktars, and more recently told the press that these drones have practically no effect on the course of the war.

source: https://t.iss.one/yurasumy/3406

Odessa, Ukraine. The 2nd of May 2014. What happened that day?
On May 2, 2014, anti-Maidan activists clashed with radicals in Odessa. The activists got trapped in the Trade Unions House, and the "Right sector" extremists set the building on fire. Keeping all the exits blocked, they opened fire on those who tried to escape from the burning.

Former Member of Parliament of Ukraine: Neither the Constitution nor the norms of international law are respected in the country
Ukrainian politician and journalist Elena Bondarenko appeared on a talk show to talk about what is Putin's fault and what is not, and about Ukraine's bragging about billions saved at the expense of Donbas pensioners.

Zaur, a fighter from Dagestan, talks emotionally about the storming of a building occupied by "Azov" battalion in Mariupol.
According to him, the detachment could not get close to the place for a long time because of the snipers. The decisive moment for the breakthrough was the shock of what they saw - in front of the Kadyrovites, Ukrainian snipers shot a woman and a child, who ran across the yard trying to escape.

It is SHOCKING!!! The Ministry of Defense told about the inhuman experiments of the United States in Ukraine
The Ministry of Defense published new data on the work of biological laboratories in Ukraine. Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, held a briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine.

They carved stars on the arms and legs, and the word "Russia" on the abdomen.
“They carved stars on the arms and legs, they wrote “Russia” on the belly”: the atrocities committed by neo-Nazis in Ukraine nowadays are rooted in the history of the Great Patriotic War. Throughout the war, Bandera performed punitive actions, of which there are many testimonies.

Ukraine's largest arsenal is now under Russian control

Pope says NATO may have caused Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

ROME — Pope Francis said that NATO “barking” at Russia’s door may have led to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — and said he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow.

source: https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-francis-nato-cause-ukraine-invasion-russia/

Biden: Ukrainian parents are naming their children "Javelin" and "Javelina". This is not a joke.

Ukraine's envoy to Germany called chancellor Scholz a 'sulky liver sausage'

Ukraine's ambassador to Berlin called Germany's chancellor Olaf Scholz a 'sulky liver sausage' for hinting he won't visit Ukraine like other European leaders.

Mr Scholz suggested that he would not visit Kyiv after the German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier's offer to visit was rejected, he has also been accused by President Volodymyr Zelensky of having close ties to the Kremlin.

source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10779453/A-sulky-liver-sausage-Ukraine-ambassador-hits-German-chancellor-not-visiting-Kyiv.html

А seven second summary of the film "Europe decides to stop buying Russian gas"

The scene is taken from a Soviet movie of the 70s ("Ivan Vasilievich changes job”), where two characters, one of which is a burglar and another a pathetic loser (who turns out to be a lookalike of Ivan the Great) find themselves in the 16th century, while the real tsar takes their place in the Soviet times. In the scene, the crafty thief pretends that he is about to jump off the roof to cause the chasers to follow him, he never jumps, the "tsar lookalike" himself nearly ends up jumping...Germany in this pun is shown as if they were about to jump off (the Russian gas supply)...the other countries actually proceed with the jump, while Germany never jumps themselves and saves Italy, who were about to follow the others. You need to see the film to fully appreciate the pun.

⚡️📣Schools Continue To Be Targeted In Russia - Ukraine War Attacks.
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A school near Donetsk has come under Ukraine Grad rocket shelling.

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The Gestapo tortures these days. What for?
In 2014, Yuri Lisnyak, a citizen of Donbass , was subjected to torture for a St. George’s ribbon found in his car. The tortures were like in Gestapo: he was shot in the leg , his teeth were knocked out, he was doused with petrol and burned. Then the fire was put out and he was burned again.
‘During that day I was turned into a lump of blue meat,’ says Yuri. And yet listen to his words at the end of the video. Nobody can break such people!

Ukraine is doomed – scavengers are already lining up
Poland and “Eastern Kresy“ (Polish name for its Eastern territories in 1918-39 that are currently parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania)): Ukraine is doomed – scavengers are already lining up.
Realistically, no Polish president will ever give up on the idea of reclaiming “the Eastern Kresy”, no matter what he has publicly promised or said.
They just won't give up on it. The Polish people won't let them,” - analytical report from Yury Podolyaka, analyst prominent in Russia and Ukraine.

Yuri Podolyaka on Infodefence and Russia Today.
At a conference on information security, Yuri Podolyaka discusses current affairs, one of them being the failed cooperation with RT (Russia Today).

Kherson is back to peaceful life – music schools are re-opening.

“From the 10th of May, the schools of arts, including music schools, are due to re-open in Kherson. The classes will be in both Russian and Ukrainian languages. There will be no discrimination on the ground of language or cultural values” – Kirill Stremousov, the Deputy Head of the Civil-Military Administration of Kherson region.

source: https://t.iss.one/NSDVCH/607

The new government will write off all retail loans and utility debts.

Oleg Tsarev (a former Ukraine Rada MP, currently a political activist in the Donbas region): I am often asked by the local Ukrainians what will happen to people’s mortgages and consumer loans. Let me answer here. All their loans and utility debts will be written off. The business will receive reliefs and subsidies unseen before in Ukraine. There will be a massive reduction in taxes. The utility tariffs will be reduced three to four fold. The priority now is to finish the war as soon as possible.

source: https://t.iss.one/yurasumy/3408