I think that Nikolaev, Kharkov and Odessa are now facing a difficult choice - to repeat the fate of Kherson or Mariupol. Both cities are now under Russian control, but Kherson was taken almost without resistance, and Mariupol with heavy urban fighting. From the point of view of access to the sea, in my opinion, Nikolaev is even more important than Odessa (and both of them are not as important as Mariupol), but Russia has a personal score with Odessa for the incident in the House of Trade Unions.

It is very difficult to predict which direction Russia has a higher priority now - to close the boiler in the Donbas for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in eastern Ukraine, or to connect with Russian peacekeepers in Transnistria in southern Ukraine. The Russian General Staff is reluctant to voice its plans.

Meanwhile, the Guardian published an article with the results of the work of forensic experts, who found that "dozens" of Bucha residents from mass graves were killed by small darts from artillery shrapnel shells. The general tone of the article is still anti-Russian (it would be strange to expect otherwise from the Guardian), but the results of the examination make one wonder - for example, how the Russians could fire artillery at the city, which they themselves held at the time.

So the deadline for paying for the gas supplied by Russia for April has come. Europe capitulated and will pay in rubles according to Putin's scheme through Gazprombank.

The Ukrainian government demonstrates complete inability to negotiate, therefore, a peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine will be concluded on the terms of the unconditional surrender of Ukraine. But not before the complete liberation of Donbass and the establishment of Russian control over the South of Ukraine (Odessa, Nikolaev, etc.) up to the border with Transnistria. I think Ukraine will lose access to the Black Sea as a result of this operation. The South of Ukraine is not quite Donbass - but in such cases it is sometimes difficult to stop.
 
ps Gonzalo Lira is alive.

I do not threaten anyone with physical violence, because I am geographically located in the Southern Urals and do not plan to travel in the foreseeable future. You also do not need to be afraid of me, even if you are zombified by Nazi ideology and support the criminal regime of Kyiv. It will be funny to watch you start changing your jump shoes when Putin says "enough" and ends this operation after the unconditional surrender of Ukraine. You still have time to reduce your tattoos - use this time wisely.

Here is a confirmation from the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional military administration, Valentin Reznichenko, about three destroyed bridges in the Novomoskovsk region. Another bridge was destroyed in Zaporozhye. It seems the level of truth in my previous message has risen to at least to 75%. Well, not bad.

I remember you, Nazi bastard. And I'll see what you say in a month or two. There is a good saying in Russia - "тpyднo coбиpaть выбитыe зyбы cлoмaнными pyкaми".
Think about it at your leisure, puppy.

I think you will begin to suspect something about the quality of your analysis only when the Russian paratroopers, supported by tanks, pass through the center of Lviv. Four days ago, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the real documented irretrievable losses of the Ukrainian side amount to 23,367 people. These are only the losses along the lower border, which Russia managed to document.

Europe's striving for its energy security is commendable. However, this is not a quick matter, and so far the UK has issued a license to Gazprombank to accept payments for gas, bypassing its own sanctions, under the scheme proposed by Putin. This operation for Russia is fully paid for by Europe, buying Russian gas for 800 million euros per day.

Also yesterday, Russia destroyed four railway bridges across the Dnieper with high-precision missile strikes (without civilian casualties and destruction of bridges on the edge - to make them easier to restore). Now the grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass is cut off from the supply of weapons by rail from the West of Ukraine.


The truth about the war crimes of the Azov Nazis against civilians in Mariupol cannot be hidden. Japanese journalists published an interview with a Ukrainian girl.


If you are not happy about the liberation of Ukraine by Russia, then Russia has come not to liberate, but to punish you - for your hands are in the blood of the people of Donbass.

I see you are much more likely to consider Russian losses. Russia mainly conducts the operation with elite units with combat experience, managing to ensure their planned rotation for rest, without conducting mass mobilization and without exposing other important border areas on its territory. Ukraine, on the other hand, already seems ready to throw into the meat grinder in Donbass the unshelled Volkssturm reserves from the third wave of mobilization. A good plan, as reliable as a Swiss watch.

42 people were burned alive by Right Sector extremists and 6 people were shot dead by snipers. All those involved in this crime will be punished. The Russian special services know by name all the participants in the ATO in Donbass, and they will all have to answer for their war crimes against their own people. I know how this war began and I know how it will end.

This is probably why Ukraine continues to demolish monuments to the heroes of the Second World War, rename streets and honor the Nazi Bandera and the SS division of Galicia.

Do not worry about it, Russian soldiers know about the danger when they go into battle - this is their profession and their military duty. There is no price too high for Russia to pay for another victory over Nazism. There is no price too high for Russia to openly say to the West "you will not tell me how to live correctly." Therefore, the Russians laugh when the West announces new sanctions to them, this is definitely not a question of money - there are more important things for the Russians.

I don't have another social bubble.


I think the right to speak one's own language in one's own land is not a subject for negotiations.

For example, on May 2, 2014, the Nazis of the Right Sector shot and burned alive 48 Russian-speaking people in Odessa in the House of Trade Unions. This became the trigger for the civil war in Donbass, which has been going on for almost 8 years. And which will end with the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine thanks to the intervention of Russia.

It is difficult to grow when it seems that Ukraine is lying like a fixed organ donor on the operating table, and region after region is cut off from it. Not the best time to analyze existential threats.

Putin's plan seems to be working well. I admire the quality of the planning of this operation by Russia, although there are some difficulties with the implementation. Threatening to take Kyiv from the north, Russia fettered a large grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which seems to be very lacking now in the Donbass. There are rumors that the DPR is preparing to receive and accommodate 30-50 thousand captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the recently started battle in the Donbass. The chances of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this battle do not look very optimistic - to die, surrender or try to retreat to the West in an organized manner, leaving their well-fortified positions, these are essentially all the options. I do not see any prerequisites for counter-attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine under continuous artillery and rocket fire. I think the Armed Forces of Ukraine may begin to retreat to the cities and try to draw Russia into urban battles, like in Mariupol, hiding behind civilians - but this is a tactic of terrorists, not a regular army. And Russia has a short conversation with terrorists.

One death is an irreparable loss. Thousands of deaths is a reasonable measured risk in this context. Putin today gave the order not to storm the bunker near Azovstal in order to save the lives of special forces soldiers. He ordered Shoigu to simply block it so that the fly would not fly by.

I hope you understand that all Western military assistance to Ukraine is a loan that will have to be repaid in the future. Including those weapons that the Russians are blowing up with Calibers in Lviv.

I think Russia's military maneuver in northern Ukraine was mostly a distraction, plus to take control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and prevent provocations from Ukraine with radioactive contamination of the area. It could have been executed more successfully and prevented a provocation in Bucha, but it turned out the way it did.

Russia is conducting this operation with inadequately small forces. I think Putin managed to surprise Western intelligence, who hardly expected that this was even possible in principle.

Patrick Lancaster certainly cannot be denied courage. A front-line reporter is a dangerous job, sometimes he is at a distance of less than 100 meters from the line of fire.

Too bad, his last stream with Scott Ritter is very educational.

Your way of thinking in slogans is very amusing, the style of a rural gopnik has been detected. Ахмат - сила! Allah Akbar!

I have two friends who are ethnic Ukrainians (one supports the operation, the other does not support and does not want to discuss this topic) and another friend has a wife from Donbass, her parents have long been accustomed to living under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Another friend of mine is an ethnic Tatar. Other friends are Russian. I meet with them, we drink vodka and there is no hatred between us - this is my objective reality.

If your reality is different, you are probably a racist.

Apparently people in the Donbass do not want to learn their native Russian as a foreign language.

The facts of the oppression of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine are too numerous and documented for your allegation to cancel them - even if you are completely right.

Good question. I think for the United States the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not only very beneficial, but also vital. The US economy is not in the best condition after the pandemic, the Fed's quantitative easing program was very adventurous and irresponsible. Someone had to pay for it, and Europe was chosen as the victim. To do this, you just need to quarrel Russia and Germany, whose strong alliance looks dangerous for the United States, and Ukraine serves as an instrument for this. To which the United States is actively supplying weapons, getting rid of old trash at a market price and loading its military-industrial complex with orders - and this is a powerful incentive for the entire economy. Europe also profitably got rid of its old weapons, which are expensive to store and dispose of, but cannot load their military-industrial complex due to a shortage of energy in Europe, because the military industry is very energy-intensive.

It is also beneficial for Russia - to dispose of artillery shells with an expiration date during the operation, to test new types of weapons in combat conditions, to load their military industry with work and orders. In general, this operation seems to be beneficial to everyone, except for Ukraine itself.

You are confusing an crypto-anarchist with a protesting punk. I support Putin because I can, his actions seem to me quite reasonable and in the interests of Russia. My anarchy is that I make decisions on my own who I support, regardless of the pressure of public opinion - based on my own analysis of data and internal motives.

Today, soldiers of the Akhmat special forces, together the people's militia of the LPR, occupied the settlements of Kremennaya and Staraya Krasnyanka. Massive artillery preparation continues, more than a thousand rockets and shells were fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day.

Also, in my opinion, the successful test launch of the Sarmat rocket deserves attention.

Yeah, I know. I live in the city where I was born and I like everything here in general. The Russian people in general are usually completely apolitical and well decentralized, Putin does not tell me how to live directly, and his policies generally suit me well. It is always possible to do something better, but it is not necessary for this to gather in a crowd and arrange a rally about it. Here Ukraine jumped on the Maidan, and it brought a lot of happiness to it? I am a crypto-anarchist and I try not to get into politics without a good reason, so there are more important things.

I am glad that Ukraine felt its national spirit during the operation - this means that it will remain an independent sovereign state. You just have to change the national idea from "kill the Russians" to something more appropriate in a decent European civilized society, where Ukraine itself is so eager. It seems Ukrainian refugees in Europe are no longer very welcome.

There is a sufficient amount of documentary evidence of discrimination against the Russian language and its speakers in the Donbass.

Yes, I was amused by this flight of fantasy of Ukrainian propaganda. I also need your asphalt, street lamp and toilet.
Yes.

Good question. I think that Russia launched a preemptive strike not only in the Donbass, but also from the north and south - mainly in order to quickly push the Ukrainian army 100-150 km away from the border with Russia, and thus deprive the Armed Forces of Ukraine of shooting at Russian territory from stationary positions. The longest-range Ukrainian rocket Tochka-U has a maximum flight range of 120 km.
I think Ukraine itself was preparing to attack the Donbass in early March, for which it concentrated a powerful strike force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the eastern direction along the entire line of contact. If Russia had not launched a preemptive strike, Ukraine would have crushed the people's militia of Donbass with a powerful assault and NATO would have closed the sky over Ukraine. Russia would have to fight in extremely unfavorable conditions for itself. The operation is well prepared, and extremely forced.

It seems you live in an illusory information bubble, having little contact with reality. Stores in Ukraine massively refused to serve Russian-speaking customers. In the bars of Ukraine, Russian speech could easily become a strong argument for a fight. Ukrainians are bilingual people and their attempt to ban the Russian language is absurd, because it impoverishes them and linguistically the Ukrainian language is not a self-sufficient dialect of Russian.

The amount of aggression from staunch pacifists in this topic is surprising. You yourself seemed to want to make war with Russia, what are you actually complaining about? Just a month and a half of the operation and Ukraine is already tired?

Your empty allegations do not hurt me. The operation in Ukraine did not start this war in the Donbass, it is now ending it there. Yesterday, Zaporozhye separated from Ukraine at a gathering of elders. This is our land, they speak Russian here. A Russian school has already started working in Mariupol.

Ukraine's desire to hate Russia looks suicidal, Russia is simply putting things in order in the region.

Similarly, now Turkey is conducting a special operation in Northern Iraq against the PKK.

You're funny.

I am a free Russian man, healthy and able to shoot from a Kalashnikov. Geographically, several thousand kilometers from Ukraine in the Southern Urals, I am sitting in a comfortable chair behind a large monitor, in a warm apartment with fast Internet, electricity and gas, there is a lot of food in the refrigerator, my iPhone works fine, bank cards are not blocked, money transfers work. My farm mines cryptocurrencies and bitcoin has made me free from the economic turmoil of sanctions. People around also do not look very worried, they go to work and do their usual routine. There is a revival in the military registration and enlistment offices, but only those who served military service and with combat experience are taken as volunteers.

That's right, in Russia there is no hatred for the people of Ukraine. Russians and Ukrainians are too closely intertwined cultural and family roots to cultivate hatred for each other, it's like a form of schizophrenia. I am sad how some Ukrainians hate Russians, hatred is a self-destructive emotion.

Across Ukraine, the number of schools that teach Russian is rapidly declining, and since 2018, Ukraine has completely stopped publishing textbooks in Russian. Modern Ukrainian school textbooks are some kind of obscurantism, and from an early age children are cultivated anti-Russian propaganda, representing Russians as wild orcs, with whom the best thing to do is to kill. It began under Yushchenko in 2004, and in 17 years a whole generation of narrow-minded nationalist fanatics has grown up, of which now all this Nazi nonsense will have to be knocked out of their heads.

You are mistaken by projecting your complexes on me, and I will explain why. In Russia, one can criticize Putin quite freely if it is essential and desirable when drinking vodka with friends in one's kitchen, not in a public space. For example, Putin promised not to raise the retirement age, and then the retirement age in Russia nevertheless increased - this is a good reason for criticizing Putin among the people. Putin did not keep his word in an important aspect for many people, Putin is an asshole. At the same time, he got the country in ruins after the collapse of the USSR, default and gangster privatization, and created a "vertical of power" management system that really works. In foreign policy, I have little to criticize Putin for, although he could have been more successful in the field of diplomacy. At the same time, he looks and acts like a guy who has a strategic plan and follows it, and says basically the right things.

From 2014 to 2021, the status of the Russian language in Ukraine has degraded from regional to actually banned in the public space. Actually, this was one of the main reasons for the armed separatist conflict in Ukraine, it is strange that you do not know this. It is interesting that Russian-speaking residents of Donbass often speak Ukrainian language better, because they study the literary version at school than residents of Western Ukraine with their native surzhik. I am sure that demilitarization and denazification during the current operation will benefit them, ennoble and raise their level of civilization to an acceptable level in a decent society.