Does Ukraine have no army left? Then, probably, the Russian occupiers are now fighting with the ghosts of killed Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. But this army is much more serious and will not leave any chances for the enemy. In addition, on May 18, a new law on mobilization comes into force in Ukraine and there will be replenishment. If the Russians were unable to significantly change the situation at the front over the last six months of their offensive, when arms assistance to Ukraine was suspended during this period and the Ukrainian Armed Forces could respond to ten shells with only one shell, and in the presence of complete Russian air superiority, now , when weapons have already begun to arrive, the occupiers will very quickly begin to feel it.

Already, Russian losses have increased to one and a half thousand soldiers per day, which is already a record in this war. During the six days of attacks in the Kharkov direction, Russian units suffered losses of up to 70 percent, so the pace of attacks dropped sharply. In about a month, the long-awaited F-16 aircraft should appear in the skies of Ukraine, then there will be at least some parity and this war will become much more interesting.

Well, if you think that Ukraine has already lost this war, name the date when the Russians will win.

The fact that foreign corporations pay rent in Ukraine much lower than the market price is all just your assumptions, which are not based on anything. You just want everything to be bad in Ukraine. But the standard of living of Ukrainians is much higher than in Russia, where people live well mainly in Moscow, St. Petersburg and several other large cities. Having the largest reserves of natural gas, only 71-73 percent of its territory is gasified in Russia.

Ukrainians, of course, do not want to fight with the Russians, as well as with other nations of the world. But in this case, the Russians are attacking and trying to seize as much of Ukraine as possible. Therefore, the right and duty of every Ukrainian to defend their territory and their state from an attack by an aggressor. Moreover, such an obligation exists in every democratic state, and not just in Ukraine. To save Ukrainians from having to fight and die at the front against the Russians, Russia only needs to withdraw its occupation forces from the territory of Ukraine. Then the war will stop and no one will die.

I read everything you wrote and I can’t understand whether the majority in Russia holds such views? This is some kind of perversion.
You say that Russia does not want to seize the territory of Ukraine, but at the same time it does this by officially incorporating five regions of Ukraine into the Russian Federation so that there are no NATO missiles left on the territory of Ukraine aimed at Russia, and also so that there are no biological laboratories , the invented substances of which can be used against Russia.

From this we can conclude that Russia wants to capture absolutely the entire territory of Ukraine, and not just those areas that are already included in the Russian Federation but are not yet occupied. After all, in Russia there will be no guarantees that missiles on the remaining territory of Ukraine will not be aimed at Russia.

In addition, now almost every state has its own long-range missiles, a significant part of which was and remains aimed at Russia. We are not even talking about nuclear missiles, because Ukraine, of its own free will, previously transferred its nuclear missiles to Russia. This is especially true for NATO countries. Will Russia attack them too? Just imagine how many different laboratories are located in each state in which drugs are produced that, purely theoretically, can be used against Russia. Does Russia really intend to fight with all of them and seize their territories?

You also indicate that the seized lands will be used to feed the Ukrainian people, and not corporations in the West, which currently do not pay taxes to Ukrainians for renting land in Ukraine.. Again, you are disingenuous. Firstly, if Russia captures Ukraine, or at least part of it, there will no longer be any Ukrainians there. Already now, in the occupied territories of Ukraine, the Russians are carrying out forced passportization. Those who do not want to obtain Russian citizenship will not be provided with any medical, utility or other services, and recently it was even announced that such persons will be subject to eviction deep into Russian territory. This is pure genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Secondly, what does Russia even care about who pays taxes in Ukraine and how? Don't you think that these are purely internal affairs of each sovereign state?

Does Russia not want to steal Ukrainian land or seize it by force? Wake up, it's already happened. Putin’s Russia included into the Russian Federation, through changes to its Constitution, not only the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula, but also the Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Ukraine. That is, even those territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions that were not occupied by Russia. At the same time, it is somehow illogical to claim that Russia does not want the territories of Ukraine, which are already officially included in its composition.

Does Russia only want denazification and demilitarization of the land of Ukraine? First, tell us what this means, because a significant part of Russians cannot even say it, much less understand what they mean. Moreover, how Russia intends to do this.

In Russia they are now doing everything possible so that for at least several generations Ukrainians consider the Russians their worst enemies, trying to destroy Ukraine as a state and Ukrainians as a nation, and to do this they seize the territory of Ukraine using scorched earth tactics, when everything in front of them first turns into complete ruins , after which these territories are occupied. Tell me, where should Ukraine direct its missiles after this, if not at Russia, where will the real threat continue to come from? To the Baltic countries, Poland, Finland, Great Britain and other European countries that are now helping Ukraine repel the Russian military threat?

I can even make you happy. On the sixth day of continuous attacks, Russian occupiers in the Kharkov region have already captured 190 square kilometers of Ukrainian land and a dozen villages. The occupiers are making the most of the temporary difficulty with weapons from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but they are already arriving at the front. Soon Russian soldiers will feel this and will not be happy that they came to visit uninvited. But this Russian offensive has already slowed down. When the Russians captured a significant part of the Kharkov region in 2022, they also said that they had come forever. But then they ran away in such a way that they abandoned a lot of serviceable armored vehicles in order to run away faster than they could go. It will be so this time too.

Ukraine has already stated several times that it will not conduct any negotiations with Putin, because he never respects them. On the other hand, Ukraine does not trade either its lands or its people. It is also possible that this time, having received Donbass and Crimea, Putin would have calmed down, because several times he was on the verge of failure and even crossed himself, which ended relatively well for him. But it’s unlikely that now he’s praying to God and not the devil. At the same time, the Ukrainian people do not want to give up their land to the occupiers and want a lasting and just peace, in which Russia must compensate Ukraine for the damage caused to it. The war will continue until the last occupier, alive or dead, leaves Ukrainian soil.

You see, you do not have any factual evidence that during the events that took place on Independence Square in Kyiv at the end of 2013, the actions of Ukrainians were controlled by the American CIA. This is what Russian propagandists simply want to see in order to at least somehow explain the reasons for the subsequent military invasion of Ukraine.

As for the sale of Ukrainian land and the role of the American company BlackRock in this, I can also disappoint you. Yes, Ukraine is famous for its black soil. The country owns a third of the world's reserves of black soil, which is considered the standard of fertile soil. According to various estimates, there are from 27 to 32 million hectares of black soil in Ukraine.

Since 2001, there has been a moratorium on the sale of agricultural land in Ukraine. In 2020, the moratorium on the sale of land in Ukraine was lifted. Until 2024, only Ukrainian individuals could buy agricultural land, but not more than 100 hectares per person. Starting this year, Ukrainian legal entities can buy land, and the threshold has increased to 10 thousand hectares. Foreigners are still not allowed to buy it. But given that legal entities can be affiliated, this can be considered a form of permission for foreigners.

In Russian and other media, the investment company BlackRock, which manages $8 trillion in assets around the world, is called the main contender for Ukrainian agricultural land, but this is not true.
Over the past two years, the head of this campaign, Larry Fink, has actually spoken with Ukrainian President Zelensky several times. In September 2022, they agreed that BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory could provide free advice to the Ukrainian government on the creation of a reconstruction fund. “The goal of the fund will be to create an opportunity for both public and private investors to participate in the reconstruction and rejuvenation of the market economy in Ukraine by providing fair returns to investors,” Zelensky’s official website reported at the time. In November, BlackRock FMA announced that it had signed a memorandum on this with the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. In December 2022, Zelensky spoke with Fink again. It was reported that the BlackRock team had been preparing for months to advise the Ukrainian government on the country's recovery funds and that some BlackRock leaders were planning to visit Ukraine in 2023. However, the topic of land was not mentioned.

According to the Californian Oakland Institute, in 2022, of the 4.3 million hectares of land leased by large owners, 3 million hectares were actually leased by a dozen multinational companies. These are, in particular, Monsanto, Dupont and Cargill. Another largest investor is the US pension fund NCH - it leases 450 thousand hectares of Ukrainian land.
In addition, according to Oakland, after the IPO, the largest agricultural holdings in Ukraine are controlled by global investment funds - the American Vanguard Group, the Kopernik Global Investors fund, the NN Investment Partners Holdings group, part of Goldman Sachs, and Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund.
The second largest landowner in Ukraine is the American private investment company NCH Capital (it has 430 thousand hectares), which operates through a local legal entity, the Agroprosreris company. The third player in the land market, the MHP holding (370 thousand hectares), and the fifth, the Astarta company (250 thousand hectares), are co-owned by the American Kopernik Global Investors LLC.

However, not only Western investors are active in this field. Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) owns the Mriya agricultural holding with 300 thousand hectares in Ternopil, Khmelnitsky, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Lviv regions. The Saudi royal conglomerate Continental Farmers Group (also controlled by the Saudi SALIC) leases 195 thousand hectares of black soil. The French agricultural holding AgroGénération has 120 thousand hectares of land.
Source:
https://ko.ru/articles/rokovoy-blackrock-kto-uzhe-seychas-skupaet-ukrainu/

But this is all about renting land in Ukraine. If you know anything about the sale of land in Ukraine to foreign companies in circumvention of Ukrainian legislation, write to us and we’ll discuss it.

Yanukovych actually fled Ukraine because of the events that took place on Independence Square in the center of Kyiv. I fully admit this. He thought it would be like in Russia. Indicatively, he will kill a couple of hundred dissatisfied people and the rest will run away in fear. But Ukrainians are not Russians. Ukraine has always had the spirit of freedom, the Cossacks and the Zaporozhye Sich. Instead, one of the Maidan centurions on the square openly declared that at ten in the morning the next day, his hundred would storm the presidential administration building. And the murderer Yanukovych was afraid of popular anger. That same evening, he loaded the most valuable of the loot onto three helicopters and fled to Russia.
Let me remind you that according to the Constitution of Ukraine, power in the country belongs to the people. The people elect the president and have the right to oust him. After Yanukovych fled, free elections took place and the people elected another president.

If you have facts that the people on Maidan were controlled by the CIA, share such facts with us. It would be very interesting. Instead, constantly write here only political slogans, blaming the USA for everything.

@gloffs. I largely agree with the above article and your views. After the collapse of the USSR, oligarchic clans came to power in almost all republics and mercilessly robbed their people. This happened and is happening in both Russia and Ukraine. But this is not what led to the events of Maidan in Ukraine, but precisely political motives. Yanukovych, at Putin’s prompting, sharply abandoned the course of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, and this was the reason why Ukrainians came to the Maidan of Independence in Kyiv with mass protests. Yanukovych and his entourage could continue to rob the Ukrainian people, as almost all presidents did before him and after him. But it was precisely his refusal to join the European Union that the people did not forgive him, which led to the current dramatic consequences.

Putin became the worst ruler in Russia because he and his entourage not only robbed their people. Putin physically eliminated any opposition to him in all spheres, deprived the people of freedom of speech and expression of their views. He practically uncontrollably manages at his own discretion all government structures, including the State Duma, which are designed to restrain his power. In fact, he is a dictator, a tsar in Russia. Uncontrolled power has never led to good things. The only thing Putin cannot do is create a relatively fair system for the distribution of material wealth in society, because he himself will be destroyed by his so-called elite. He robs the people and allows his associates to do it. Compare his condition at the time of coming to power with the current one. Did he buy all this for the president's salary?

But because of unlimited power and permissiveness, he imagined himself almost a god and, as in a fairy tale, he wanted to become the ruler of the whole world and redraw the existing borders of states at his discretion and decide which peoples and nations should exist and which should not. But higher powers will not allow the devil to rule for long.

I want to say that everything is learned by comparison. Many people now do not like that the United States and Europe occupy a leading role in maintaining world order. Well, everyone can express their opinion and unite in any unions to achieve their specific goals. But you just need to calculate all the possible consequences arising from this. There is a good saying that says that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Therefore, first of all, you need to understand what the world order will be like if it is dominated, for example, by Russia, China, Iran or North Korea. There are a lot of variations here and most of them will significantly worsen the situation in the world. Therefore, the current US hegemony may then seem to you to be an almost ideal world order.

Oddly enough, it is the war in Ukraine that has dragged on into its third year and failures on the Ukrainian front that can force Putin’s Russia to attack the Baltic countries as well. Russia has long shown that its leadership is completely inadequate and its actions are not particularly amenable to rational logic. These NATO countries are very vulnerable from a geographical point of view to Russia. It will be very difficult for NATO countries to deploy their forces and it will take a very long time. Russia may take such a reckless step to force Europe to negotiate peace with it in Ukraine on its terms.

On the other hand, Russia is very interested in the Suwalki corridor, which is located between Poland and Lithuania and connects Belarus with the Kaliningrad region of Russia. This became very relevant when Sweden and Finland recently became new NATO members and the Baltic Sea effectively became an internal sea of NATO countries. Therefore, the seizure of the Suwalki corridor recently became the subject of conversation between Putin and Lukashenko at their last meeting in Moscow.

Your predictions that Ukraine would not receive about $60 billion in military aid from the United States did not come true. Russia spent a lot of effort and money to prevent such assistance from being provided, but it was allocated, albeit with a long delay. Of course, the delay in the allocation of such assistance for six months is now affecting the front. Military aid is already reaching Ukrainians on the front lines, but not yet in sufficient quantities. The Russian occupiers seek to exploit the difficulties with weapons for Ukraine to the maximum in order to seize as much territory of Ukraine as possible and therefore attack wherever such an opportunity arises. But such opportunities for Russians will soon become available and they understand this.

Now Russia is also attacking Ukraine in the Kharkov region near the city of Vovchansk. Whether they want to capture Kharkov, or get within artillery range of it, or whether this is just a diversionary strike to force Ukraine to weaken its defense of the Donetsk direction, time will tell. But most likely, this next adventure of the Russians will end with the loss of several tens of thousands more soldiers and a lot of armored vehicles that are already in short supply for the Russians.

The chronological order of events is of paramount importance because it clearly indicates what happened in Ukraine and who attacked whom and who is defending himself. As soon as Putin and Yanukovych did not succeed in refusing European integration, which the Ukrainian people insisted on, Putin immediately sent troops into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, and then into the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Ukraine has the right to defend itself against a military attack by another state. And if the Russians began to fire at Ukraine from the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, then the response would come to where they were shooting from. This is ordinary arithmetic and the logic of war.

During the Second World War, no one accused the USSR of firing into Nazi-occupied territory, which inevitably killed the civilian population. Only Russian propagandists are now focusing on this and deliberately increasing the deaths of the civilian population of Donbass by hundreds and thousands of times in order to justify their aggression and the illegal conquest of the territory of a neighboring state. I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that, according to international law, the aggressor is responsible for the safety of the civilian population of the occupied territories. There were no deaths at all until the boot of a Russian soldier set foot on the territory of Ukraine. It is Russian troops who are bringing to Ukraine the almost complete destruction of cities and villages in Ukraine and the mass death of the civilian population.

Actually, you yourself confirm the fact of a military attack on Ukraine by Russia, talking about some kind of punishment of Ukrainians by Putin and Russia by military means. And it’s generally stupid to refute this, since military operations by the Russians are still ongoing on the territory of Ukraine.

To expose your lies, it is enough to go through the chronology of the development of events. The first in this chain of military events was the escape on February 22, 2014 of the then President of Ukraine Yanukovych on three military Russian helicopters to Crimea, where, under a lease agreement, there was a Russian military base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

  On the morning of February 23, Putin announced his decision to annex the Ukrainian peninsula. Already by that time, in the cities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the so-called “little green men” were noticed - professional Russian military personnel without identification marks, preparing a springboard for the seizure of sovereign Ukrainian territory.

On February 27, armed people without identification marks seized the Supreme Council of Crimea and the Council of Ministers of Crimea, hanging Russian flags on them. In a building seized by armed people, local deputies scheduled a referendum “on the status of Crimea” for May 25.

On the night of February 27, the seizure of the Belbek airport in Sevastopol began - about 400 Russian troops occupied it, blocking the entrances to the territory with barbed wire. Russian planes land at the airport, and the movement of Russian equipment is recorded.

On March 1, the leader of the Russian Unity party, Sergei Aksenov, appointed by local deputies as the new prime minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, called on Putin to send Russian regular troops to Crimea - by the evening the Kremlin had made a corresponding decision. The Russian military (usually without identification marks) begins an active seizure of Ukrainian military units and infrastructure facilities on the peninsula.

The next day, March 2, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) condemned the military aggression of the Russian Federation and called for an end to the annexation of sovereign Ukrainian territory.

On March 16, at gunpoint from the Russian military, an illegal “referendum” was held in Crimea, the ballots of which contained two questions:
• “Are you for the reunification of Crimea with Russia as a subject of the Russian Federation?”
• “Are you for restoring the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Crimea and for the status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine?”
At the same time, the “ballot” assumed the answer to only one of these questions and only “yes” - by checking the appropriate box next to the question. Any mark was interpreted as a “yes” answer, while two marks invalidated the ballot. Thus, citizens could vote either “yes” or their answer would be invalidated. https://nv.ua/ukraine/politics/okkupaciya-kryma-kak-rf-provela-feykovyy-referendum-hronika-novosti-ukrainy-50010647.html

As of 2021, no state has issued official legal acts recognizing Crimea as part of Russia, although official representatives of several states (Afghanistan, Belarus, Bolivia, Syria, Sudan, North Korea) spoke out in support of the Russian position.

  Thus, Russia’s military aggression, as a result of which the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula was seized by force, occurred in February-March 2014. The date of the start of hostilities on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine is considered to be April 12, 2014, when several dozen people, some of whom had Russian citizenship and had previously participated in the annexation of Crimea, under the command of a former Russian FSB employee Girkin, seized administrative buildings in Slavyansk, Donetsk region . But this is a completely different stage of Russian military aggression. https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8 %D1%8F_%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%BD%D1%8B_%D0%B2_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1 %81%D1%81%D0%B5

So who began to seize foreign territory by military means, and is thus the aggressor? Undoubtedly, Putin's Russia.

Do you want to convince us that it was Ukraine that attacked Russia, and therefore, in reality, in this brutal war, Russia is actually the victim?
Well then, give the facts of how Ukraine attacked Russia before Russia, with the help of its Sevastopol military base of the Black Sea Fleet, captured the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula within a few days with virtually no resistance from Ukraine in 2014, since hostilities began from here and then spread to the east Ukraine. Moreover, any previous grievances, unresolved issues and conflicts, and so on, do not matter here. The aggressor or victim of aggression is determined only by the fact of the one who invaded the territory of another sovereign state with his troops, since all issues must be resolved in a civilized, political or diplomatic way.

Then we can also say that China is at war with the West at the hands of the Russians. It is now beneficial for China to weaken both the United States and Europe and Russia through war. China is now taking advantage of the situation and buying oil and gas from Russia at a third lower price than they were previously supplied by Russia to European countries. China is now using Russia as its raw materials appendage and Russia is forced to buy Chinese goods instead of European ones. In exchange for some help from Russia, Putin is now allowing China to regain control of previously lost territories in Siberia and the Far East without war. And not only these territories.

  Considering that in the last nine years there has been a continuous decrease in the population of Russia, and also that the war with Ukraine continues to take the lives of the most active Russians, they are being replaced on Russian territory by the Chinese. Russian women give preference to hardworking Chinese men instead of lazy and always drunk Russian men.

Unlike Ukraine, Russia does not allow international organizations access to either prisoners of war or Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territory. This means that Russia has something to hide, and this is a fact. A good appeal to prisoners of war can be made in a staged video, although in reality the situation there is different. The Ukrainian side, using drones, has already recorded many times the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war immediately after they were captured. Such videos are also released online by the Russian military itself. This was also confirmed by relevant international organizations. Similar videos with executions of prisoners of war can also be deliberately released on the Internet so that the Ukrainian side also shoots Russian prisoners of war and thus encourages them not to surrender.

An acquaintance showed his video from the front line, where body parts of both his soldiers and Russians lay, and said that on this section of the front neither they nor the other side were taking anyone prisoner. The war is quite tough and there they have practically come to terms with the idea that they will not return home alive. Russia made a catastrophic mistake in that once again, as after the 1917 revolution, it set out to conquer Ukraine as an independent state. Then the Bolsheviks managed to do it. But now the situation is different. There is the Internet, there are social networks, and true information instantly spreads throughout the world. Therefore, Ukraine has enormous international support as a victim of aggression.

You can think as you like, but the fact remains: Russia fires at the territory of Ukraine every day with all possible types of weapons. According to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 97 percent of such attacks occur on civilian targets. Putin lied before about Ukraine, he is lying now and will continue to lie. Near the frontline zone, Russian troops directly fire conventional cannon artillery at populated areas, destroying the homes of ordinary people every day. Every day, according to morning reports in Ukraine, information is received about the shelling of approximately 120 settlements in the front-line zone with shells and mines. Every day they show the consequences of such shelling, the number of civilians killed and wounded. All this is carefully recorded, including by international experts, and will be presented as evidence at an international special tribunal where Russia will be tried for the genocide of the Ukrainian people. And the Russian citizens are either being fooled, or they just want to hear it themselves. Because even logically, if Russian troops fire about ten thousand shells a day and launch cruise missiles across Ukraine almost every day, then civilians will die from this every day. Some Russians do not want to notice this, others even call for the destruction of more Ukrainian civilians.

But karma will definitely overtake Russia for this. Higher powers are already warning Russians about floods, fires, or other natural disasters. Can you remember that on May 9 there was frost and snow in Moscow? And this is just the beginning. You can’t just attack and kill people en masse, whom you also call one people. The sooner Russia wakes up from Putin's dope, the less punishment it will receive. For the war to end and this senseless massacre to stop, Russia only needs to withdraw its troops from Ukrainian territory. In Ukraine, sooner or later, every Russian soldier will find only his own death.

In Russia, as in Ukraine, there is universal conscription. This means that in the event of mobilization, every citizen of military age who does not have the right to deferment is obliged to serve in the army and fight for his country, regardless of his desire. In Russia, this is regulated by Article 17 of the Federal Law of February 26, 1997 N 31-FZ (as amended on March 23, 2024) “On mobilization preparation and mobilization in the Russian Federation.”

  On September 21, 2022, Putin issued a decree on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation and on the same day made an appeal to citizens in which he announced that he was announcing partial mobilization. It started on the same day. The document he signed did not say how many people were planned to be drafted - the number and timing were to be established by the Russian Ministry of Defense. On the same day, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that they intend to conscript 300 thousand people. On October 28, 2022, the head of the Ministry of Defense reported to the president that partial mobilization was completed.
Putin, summing up the results of 2023, said that after partial mobilization in the fall of 2022, a large campaign began to attract people on a voluntary basis. He said that 486 thousand people had been recruited in a year, so there was no need for further mobilization. But hidden mobilization in Russia has been and is being carried out throughout the entire period of military operations against Ukraine.

Therefore, I can disappoint you. If Russia has a problem with live meat on the Ukrainian front, you may also be forcibly mobilized into the massacre that Putin has organized.

From the first days of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Russia attacked Kyiv with both planes and missiles. But after seven Russian planes were shot down in 11 minutes of battle over the skies of Kyiv, the air attacks stopped.
https://www.unian.net/war/zenitchik-rasskazal-kak-v-nachale-voyny-oboronyali-nebo-nad-kievom-novosti-kieva-11928549.html

  But the Russians continue to attack Ukraine and its capital, Kyiv, with missiles and drones almost every day. Thus, on the night of May 8, the Russian invaders launched a new missile attack on the peaceful cities of Ukraine and Kyiv in particular. During the attack, Daggers, Iskanders and Calibers were used, four of which were fired from a submarine. In total, the Russians used 76 air attack weapons. Among them were 55 missiles and 21 attack drones. The air force managed to destroy most of the air targets launched by the enemy, namely:
  - 33 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles;
  - 4 cruise missiles "Caliber";
  - 2 guided aircraft missiles X-59/X-69;
  - 20 attack UAVs of the "Shahed-131/136" type.
All air targets over Kyiv were shot down. There, Russia has not yet been able to “pierce” the air defense of Ukraine. But Kharkov and Odessa are now suffering greatly from Russian missile attacks.
https://24tv.ua/ru/massirovannaja-ataka-8-maja-2024-goda-udary-po-jenergostrukture-novosti-ukrainy-24-kanal_n2550845

  Russia has already made more than ten failed attempts on the life of President of Ukraine Zelensky. As for senior officials of other states, for example, on March 6, a Russian missile struck 300-400 meters from President Vladimir Zelensky and the Prime Minister of Greece, who were then in the seaport of Odessa. Some regarded this precisely as an attempt on the life of the President of Ukraine... https://fakty.com.ua/ru/ukraine/20240308-skilky-raziv-rosiya-chynyla-zamah-na-zelenskogo-prezydent-vidpoviv/

Just yesterday, on May 8, counterintelligence and the SBU revealed another preparation for an assassination attempt on the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, as well as the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Kirill Budanov and the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk, which was prepared by FSB agents. The operation, which was led from Russia, was carried out, in particular, by two colonels of the State Security Administration of Ukraine, who were detained. The enemy’s plans included the liquidation of Vladimir Zelensky, so FSB agents were looking for military personnel in the president’s inner circle who would take the president hostage and then kill him. Before that, the executor had to monitor the movement of the person under guard and transmit data to the Russians. The enemy planned to launch a missile strike at the house in which he would be located, then attack with drones those who would remain alive, and then hit with a missile again to hide the information that drones were used at the crime scene. According to the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk, in this way the FSB wanted to make a “gift” to the Kremlin dictator for his inauguration. But everything turned out to be a spectacular failure for the Russian special services.
https://24tv.ua/ru/fsb-gotovila-pokushenie-na-zelenskogo-kak-sbu-udalos-ego-predupredit-24-kanal_n2550945

Current researchers and historians note that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin acts “according to Hitler’s manual.” There are several undeniable facts in this regard.

   - In 1938, Germany invaded Austria, calling it “reunification.” In 2014, Putin captured Crimea and the dictator’s rhetoric was and remains the same “reunification.” The Russians even came up with a holiday - March 18, the day of the reunification of Crimea with Russia. At the same time, as in Austria, a pseudo-referendum was also held in Crimea, designed to legitimize the annexation.

  - In 1938, the pro-Nazi Sudeten-German Party provoked major unrest in the border areas of Czechoslovakia, turning to the German leadership with a request for help. Taking advantage of the numerical and military advantage, Germany annexed the Sudetenland (as well as part of the territories of the Czech Republic and Moravia), which were 90% populated by Germans. Hitler explained this by protecting the rights of Germans living in the region and speaking German. The situation is absolutely similar to the beginning of the war in Donbass in 2014, where the Russians came to “save” Russian speakers.

  - In his speeches, Hitler questioned the existence of the Czechs as a nation, referring to it as the “so-called Czech nation” and accusing the Treaty of Versailles of creating the “abnormal state of Czechoslovakia.” Russian dictator Putin claims in his speeches that “in fact, Ukraine has never had a tradition of real statehood.” He attributes the creation of a nation that predates the founding of Moscow to "Bolshevik Russia." As a result, Hitler denied statehood to Czechoslovakia, and Putin did the same in relation to Ukraine.

   - Vladimir Putin’s televised address on February 24, 2022 is very reminiscent of Hitler’s radio speech on September 1, 1939. Putin spoke of the “great lie” that he constantly repeated in Hitlerian style, namely that the Ukrainian government had been allegedly torturing and killing the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine for years. At the same time, Hitler justified the attack on Poland on the grounds that the German minority there was deprived of rights and subjected to torture. Both the Fuhrer and the President of the Russian Federation stated that they would not fight against civilians. Both lied.

- In February 2022, Putin tried to repeat the German blitzkrieg. The Russian dictator attacked Ukraine hard and fast, and planned to capture Kyiv within days. True, he did not count on how powerfully the Ukrainian people would fight back.

- In its propaganda, the Kremlin acts according to the methods of the Nazis. Thus, both dictators constantly said that they were supposedly trying to resolve the issue “peacefully.” In Putin’s interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson on February 9, the Russian dictator said that Poland itself was allegedly to blame for the attack on it by Nazi Germany. In 1939, the Poles allegedly “left” Hitler no other choice but to attack them. According to Putin, “the Poles got too carried away and forced Hitler to start World War II.” Putin also noted that the war began with Poland because it “was intractable.” They say that Hitler peacefully asked the Poles to give them the Danzig corridor, which Germany lost after losing the First World War. However, the Poles refused to do this. With such statements, Putin is trying to justify his attack on Ukraine, which also “allegedly turned out to be intractable” and “forced” itself to be attacked. https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2024/02/9/7441182/

  - During Adolf Hitler's speech to the Third Reich in 1939, he adheres to the line that he does not attack anyone or speak out "against" anyone. He protects Germany from outside attack. Hitler constantly repeats this, supposedly the Jews should attack his country, and he defends its existence. Another of Hitler’s “universal missions” was to protect the planet, and he presented this “mission” as a “positive value.” He wanted to free all of Europe from a bad, “degenerate” government. Putin adheres to a similar line. In his speeches, which directly or indirectly relate to the war in Ukraine, he constantly emphasizes that they want to attack Russia, thus shifting responsibility to the “external enemy,” whom he calls “Nazis.” First, the Ukrainians were “Nazis” and “fascists,” then, according to his logic, they became the Poles, the French and other European peoples who took the side of Ukraine and provide it with support.
https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/propaganda-putina-i-gitlera-sravnenie-podhodov-i-posledstviy-vide