🇺🇸WASHINGTON, April 25. /TASS/. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced during a visit to Kiev that Washington will allocate $713 million in military aid for Ukraine and 15 other European countries, The Associated Press reported on Sunday.

Out of that amount, more than $322 million will go to Ukraine while the rest will be divided among the countries of eastern and central Europe, the report said.

Originally @ https://tass.com/world/1442327

Germany, 1945, the meeting of allies of the Anti-Hitler coalition on the Elbe River.

The text says that Americans greet brave Russian soldiers and will never forget their courage.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/Black_History/3735

The US authorities canceled the traditional ceremony in memory of the meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the Elbe river. The event was held annually at Arlington Cemetery near Washington.

On April 25, 1945, Soviet and American troops met near the city of Torgau on the Elbe river, thereby splitting German troops into two parts.

Today the US considers it inappropriate to remember this event. Tomorrow we may see that there was no meeting on the Elbe river at all, Berlin was actually taken by valiant American troops. And then it might turn out that Hitler was not so bad...

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/archivarius_dz/9549

The head of the DPR reported that there are about 400 foreign mercenaries on Azovstal.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2177

“The US Dollar May Be the Next Casualty of the Ukraine War”
by BRANKO MARCETIC

Key points:

🔎From the IMF to Goldman Sachs, concerns that US sanctions on Russia could undermine the dollar’s global dominance are growing.

🔎If Washington can persuade virtually the entire Western world to cut Russia, however deservedly, out of trade networks, freeze its foreign reserves, and remove it from the international banking networks that facilitate most global commerce, then who’s to say it couldn’t happen to them, too?

🔎For many states, the takeaway from it all has been that Western-based banks are no longer a secure site for their foreign holdings, and that reliance on dollars as a reserve asset, or on US-dominated financial infrastructure to carry out trade and other transactions, leaves them vulnerable should the geopolitical winds change.

🔎China and Russia have long worked to “de-dollarize” their economies and insulate themselves from US power, with limited and halting success.

🔎It would be the irony of ironies if the biggest blow to this system was a self-inflicted one.

🇬🇧"Forced to choose between heating and food."

The British newspaper Daily Mirror conducted a survey.

This is the first study published after a sharp rise in fuel and insurance prices in the UK.

"Concern about the sharp rise in bills affected the mental health of more than half of the respondents," the newspaper writes.

The article notes that Britons today have to change their usual way of life. Someone refuses minor things, and someone is forced to save on food and already owes bills.

"More than half of Britons will not be able to afford to pay their bills for several months, as more than five million are already forced to choose between heating and food," the Daily Mirror notes.

For example, a single mother from Ashford has already doubled her electricity bills, and a couple from Surrey had to move into a van because of the cost of housing.

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2172

❗Vladimir Putin: “We know by name every person of western intelligence community, CIA, specifically, who’ve been mentoring on Ukrainian nazis, in particular giving such recommendations as to kill journalists.”

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/smotri_media/12971

🇨🇿 A sharp response by the Czech drivers to the Ukrainian protesters.

In this video one of the drivers is approaching the protesters and tearing out their banners.

It won’t be long now when people start turning back on the affectations of the Ukrainian activists...

Originally @ https://t.iss.one/smotri_media/12975

❗International Skating Union banned Russia from holding competitions under its umbrella.

In this regard, the Russian stage of the Grand Prix series in figure skating of the 2022/2023 season has been canceled. Belarus suffered the same ban.

Is there something that wasn't banned by now?

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/absatzmedia/8324

Russia pauses military op on besieged steel plant for evacuation of civilians

MOSCOW, April 25. /TASS/. Russia has paused its military activities around the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariuol, in Ukraine, in a goodwill gesture to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said on Monday.

"We have just now announced a halt to combat activities in the vicinity of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol to allow the remaining civilians a safe exit from the combat zone," Rudenko told journalists. "This is a grand gesture of goodwill on our behalf."

The Russian Defense Ministry reported earlier in the day that starting at 14:00 Moscow time [11:00 a.m. GMT] the forces of Russia and armed formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) would stop all combat activities to provide for the safe exit of civilians, who might still be trapped on the territory of the Azovstal plant.

Originally @ https://tass.com/defense/1442603

🚫 Google being hit by penalties at rate of over RUR 7 bln for not removing the illegal content — according to the Deputy Head of Roskomnadzor

https://t.iss.one/smotri_media/12937

"My parents died for this flag". Ukraine’s Armed Forces mock a grandma carrying the Soviet Victory Banner

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🇺🇸🇺🇦The head of the Pentagon greeted Zelensky with a Bandera slogan.

Lloyd Austin: "Glory to Ukraine?".

Zelensky: "Yes, glory to the heroes".

Originally@ https://t.iss.one/sputnik/2176

“It was genocide: the Azovs did it." Residents of Mariupol speak of how they were herded into basements.

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2016, Anne-Laure Bonnel

Get round to watching (until not removed by YouTube) this documentary by young French documentary filmmaker, journalist Anne-Laure Bonnel.
She went to Donbass to accompany her father, a Ukrainian by birth. They were talking to civilians they met by chance during the trip.

She captured horrific footage of the Ukrainian Nazi regime's punitive operation over Donbass people that started back in 2014, and the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe associated with it.

(with English subtitles)
Just face up to reality

Originally @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLhjEHvfmk

The Somalia Battalion leaves liberated Mariupol to the tune of the march "Farewell to Slavianka"

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'Hiding like rats’: the Azovs use civilians as human shields.

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