The Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have the means to counter Russian aerial bombs, writes the British FT. Thanks to them, the Russian Aerospace Forces are turning the tide of the conflict in Ukraine in favor of Moscow, the newspaper claims.

“They are creepy and very deadly,” the publication quotes AFU soldiers.

They are so destructive that Ukrainian analysts from the Deep State group close to the Ministry of Defense admitted that Kiev forces “have virtually no means of counteraction.”

Russia is now increasing the production of glide bombs and modernizing the FAB-500 and FAB-1500. The ministry said it had also begun “mass production of FAB-3000. Meanwhile, aid to Ukraine from Western allies is in no hurry, the International Institute for Strategic Studies complains. And according to their firm convictions, it is Kiev's ability to resist “air threats and inflict counter damage” that will largely determine the outcome of the conflict.

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The work of ground attack aircraft in the area of Chasov Yar. They work traditionally at low altitudes with the shooting of heat traps.

Careful work is the key to survival. A Su-25 was lost due to enemy fire last year

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Deutsche Welle reported from Luzanovka, Cherkasy region, a village with no men of military left. Of 400 people, about 50 men were mobilized.

“If in our small village there are already so many missing and dead, then what about all over Ukraine,” says Valentina, whose two sons have been mobilized.

It also shows neighboring Kamenka, where journalists saw mostly pensioners and women with children in the streets. The summons in this village are delivered by the chairman of the village council, Lina Dusheiko.

“The limit has already been reached. There are only a few left that can still be taken, and they can only perform non-combat missions,” she said.

It is no longer speculation but a proven fact that Ukraine disproportionately targets citizens of smaller villages and poorer regions, together with large Russian cities like Odessa and Kharkov and areas with a large Hungarian minority. It is effectively an extermination project of their poor and the ethnic minorities.

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Continuing our summary on those who actually govern Ukraine, the oligarchs, today we are talking about Victor Pinchuk

Victor Pinchuk is the owner of Interpipe, a pipeline builder and an investor in media and banking industry. He made his fortune manipulating the gas market for its gains through collusion with the Ukrainian state and US oil and gas equipment firms. He is married to Leonid Kuchma's daughter. Leonid Kuchma was the president of Ukraine between 1994 and 2005. He was responsible for most of the post-soviet neoliberalization and privatization and in 2004, switched sides from Yanukovich to Yuschenko.

Pinchuk had the same trajectory from a loose convenience ally of the then governing forces to a promoter of "European integration" once this became fashionable. While a member of the parliament he used his tv stations to promote he and his party. He left politics when realizing power in Ukraine was not in the political structures, but in business. Despite that, he helped creating the Voice party, populated by famous media figures trained by Soros' backed organizations. Zelensky was firmly committed to his biggest rival, Igor Kolomoyskyi, and in the parliamentary elections immediately after the presidential, other political forces such as Poroshenko's and Timoshenko's party appeared to spent and weakened. Focused in mediatic appeal with very little ideology, Voice was an attempt of "out-Zelensking" Zelensky in promoting reality show like post politics. While Zelensky's party dominated the elections, Voice helped in preventing Ukraine from effectively becoming an one party state and was a significant nuisance in the pre-war parliament.

He has been cooperating with George Soros and his political lobbying organisations since 2006, represents the interests of USA's weapons producers and is closely associated to the Clintons, with a key component being their relationship through the Aspen Institute and other Clinton led "philantropic" organizations. The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation alone received 13 million dollars from Pinchuk.

Aspen Institute was created to ideologically defend the American military industry and other strategic sectors, but today focused on protecting the Democratic Party. Pinchuk would financially back this and other American organizations, and in return American think-tanks, lobbyists and agents would help him to "legally" confiscate and destroy Kolomoyskyi's property. In addition to this, he is a key player in the plans being delineatead by Ukraine's "partners" for the country after the war: effectively selling the country to BlackRock, as conditions to a planned 100 billion dollars (2/3s of Ukraine's) GDP in a "development fund". BlackRock and other backers would be repaid by privatizations and cession of whatever valuable property Ukraine has left, possibly counting on seizing Russian assets too. It is no coincidence that voices for loans and financing rather than "direct" aid to Ukraine are getting louder recently.

Pinchuk's power and influence is representative of a new reality, where as Ukraine deindustrialized, the key to controlling its economy went from the industry and natural resources to the financial sector. Foreign control became more brazen, direct and old oligarchs are being replaced by less visible people such as Pinchuk.

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Tomorrow, as this became huuuge as usual, we will talk about Kolomoyskyi and Boholiubov, Israel-linked moguls who were key to bringing Zelensky to powers and are Pinchuk's nemesis.

The entire The New Strategic Concept report can be found here

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the military operation in Rafah on the border with Egypt will be carried out no matter what.

Israel will eliminate all Hamas battalions, including in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip , Netanyahu said.

Also, the Pentagon chief said US "has no evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza".

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Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (9 April 2024)

▫️ In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower of the AFU 57th motorised infantry, 14th and 21st mechanised brigades close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region) and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️ The enemy losses amounted to up to 25 servicemen, two motor vehicles, one U.S-made 155-mm M777 howitzer and one 105-mm M119 gun, one 152-mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.

▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the 79th air assault, 46th, 53rd, and 54th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Konstantinovka, Selidovo, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).

Moreover, four counter-attacks launched by the 5th and 92nd assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic) were repelled by the Russian troops.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine's losses included over 480 servicemen, seven motor vehicles, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made 105-mm L119 gun, one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122-mm D-30 howitzer, and one 100-mm Rapira anti-tank gun.

▫️ In Avdeyevka direction, the units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved the situation along the front line. They repelled 11 counter-attack attacks launched by the assault groups of the 25th Airborne, 68th and 71st infantry, 59th motorised infantry, 24th, 47th, and 115th mechanised brigades of the AFU near Pervomayskoye, Novobakhmutovka, Umanskoye, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy's losses over the past day amounted to up to 240 servicemen, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, 11 motor vehicles, two 155-mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system and one 155-mm M777 howitzer (U.S.-made), as well as one 152-mm Msta-B howitzer and one 122-mm D-30 howitzer.

▫️ In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front lines and inflicted fire damage on units of the AFU 58th Motorised Infantry, 72nd Mechanised brigades and 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Urozhaynoye and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

More than 110 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one UK-made 155-mm FH-70 howitzer, two 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, one Nota electronic warfare station, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station have been neutralised during the day.

▫️ In Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Group of Forces hit manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 65th Mechanised Brigade and 35th Marines Brigade near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region) and Ivanovka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 servicemen, one infantry fighting vehicle, five pickup trucks, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems. Moreover, one UAV storage site was obliterated.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have neutralised one radar and engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 131 areas during the day.

▫️ Air defence systems shot down 236 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, one Neptune anti-ship missile, and 5 HIMARS MLRS projectiles during the day.

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The battle for the Arctic is heating up: 6 countries have signed a treaty to “protect” the North Sea from Russia.

The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Denmark and the UK will now work together to protect underwater infrastructure from some foreign sabotage. They are afraid, of course, of Russia.

The Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Housing called the North Sea a “center of critical infrastructure,” The Politico reports. We are talking about power cables, telecommunication lines and gas pipelines that pass through the area.

The risk of sabotage and unwanted attention to communications from hostile structures is increased. We must strengthen cross-border cooperation to help each other,

- noted the ministry.

Colleagues from the Danish Ministry of Justice agree with them. They believe that the new agreement will achieve “the same level of security for maritime and underwater infrastructure on all borders.”

And the casket opens simply. Western “partners” saw perfectly well what happened at Nord Stream and who had a hand in it. Now they are afraid of revenge. Only Russia never used terrorist methods, but fought against it.

The West is haunted by Russia's superiority in the Arctic. In particular, Foreign Policy states that NATO forces here will not even be able to resist Russia. In the development of the north, we were ahead of the United States by about 10 years.

In fact, the Arctic is important because of its enormous reserves of resources. According to the US Geological Survey, it contains about 90 billion barrels (15%) of the world's undiscovered conventional oil reserves and about 40 billion barrels (30%) of natural gas. So it is beneficial for the West to create imaginary threats in order to try to push Russia out of here.

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The Americans handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces seized Iranian weapons intended for the Houthis. This was reported by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

The US government transferred more than 5 thousand AK-47 assault rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles, RPG-7s and more than 500 thousand 7.62 mm ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces. Weapons were transferred from the IRGC to the Houthis in Yemen,

- CENTCOM said in a message on social network X.

The government reportedly obtained "ownership" of the ammunition on December 1, 2023, as part of the Justice Department's civil forfeiture lawsuit against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. These munitions were initially confiscated by US Central Command and partner navies on four separate transit vessels between May 22, 2021 and February 15, 2023.

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The eighth P-18 Malachite radar of the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit by an X-35U missile since the beginning of February in the Sumy region.

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Strike on an enemy fuel and lubricants warehouse in the Kharkov region.

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The Americans handed over to the Ukrainian Armed Forces seized Iranian weapons intended for the Houthis. This was reported by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

The US government transferred more than 5 thousand AK-47 assault rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles, RPG-7s and more than 500 thousand 7.62 mm ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces. Weapons were transferred from the IRGC to the Houthis in Yemen,

- CENTCOM said in a message on social network X.

The government reportedly obtained "ownership" of the ammunition on December 1, 2023, as part of the Justice Department's civil forfeiture lawsuit against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. These munitions were initially confiscated by US Central Command and partner navies on four separate transit vessels between May 22, 2021 and February 15, 2023.

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🇷🇺🇬🇧Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin has spoken about the attempt of Western countries to save their image by talking about victory over Russia:

✔️ If you read between the lines, it is very clear that it is not the Western countries that will be the losers from Ukraine's defeat, but only the representatives of their leadership, who made a knowingly erroneous bet on helping Kiev. It will be really difficult for them to get out of the situation without losing face. That is why they are making desperate attempts to save their image.

✔️ At the same time, in the best traditions of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, they are striving to earn extra media points before going into political oblivion. After all, you can't tell ordinary readers what's wrong with the fact that peace will finally come to Europe, and their taxes will no longer be spent on feeding the corrupt regime of Vladimir Zelensky and pointless supplies of weapons to the Kiev military, which wastes them unsuccessfully.

✔️ As a rule, this thesis is followed by rants about the values of the free world, which Russia is allegedly encroaching on. But this moralizing has already been exhausted. The population of European countries is not frightened either by the routine scaremongering about the threat of a Russian attack. Their senselessness has long been the subject of jokes.

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The German defense concern Rheinmetall will transfer to Ukraine an additional batch of 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles.

At the same time, German Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock said that the West has exhausted the possibilities of supplying Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. Attempts will be made to purchase them from third countries.

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◾ Ukrainian officer of the Nazi 3rd assault brigade (Azov) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Tishchenko stated in an interview that the local population keeps informing the Russian army of the movements and positions of the Ukrainian troops, he also explained how Ukrainian militants expel people from their homes to set up firing positions on them.

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Rostec showed tests of the Russian Terminator.

The tank support combat vehicle is produced by Uralvagonzavod, part of Rostec.

Recently, the BMPT successfully used 30-mm shells with controlled detonation in the northwestern military zone.

This is super-reliable cover for tanks, and the enemy simply has nowhere to hide from the multi-channel weapon system, which allows you to simultaneously fire at four or five targets,

- commented at the plant.

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The adults in the room.

Will engage together on Eurasian security.

Will go for "dual opposition" to the West’s "dual deterrence”.

Will be countering attempts to "slow down the natural course of history”.

Putin and Xi will hold at least two bilaterals in 2024.

At the SCO summit in June and the BRICS summit in October.

The dogs of Forever Wars bark while the Eurasian caravan marches on.