#1 🔹 So, in my opinion, the "West" needs to make more specific and important decisions to help those people who want to go to Ukraine and help us in this war.
#2 🔹 Create a global program for training such people, not only servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The prospect of full #NATO entry into the war is unrealistic at this stage, I think you all understand this very well.
#3 🔹 But, NATO can help Ukraine in defense operations, provide a military escort of ships in the grain agreement, and, of course, resolve the issue with Transnistria (part of #Moldova 🇲🇩) , I believe that #Romania 🇷🇴 will also be interested in such a "special operation".
#4 🔹 Of course, as a Ukrainian, I would like the West to enter the war, but it will have even more negative consequences than it already has now.
#5 🔹 Therefore, an increase in military aid from Western countries, which provide very little of it at the moment, would be a good step towards a faster victory for Ukraine! 💙💛
"We are approaching a landmark battle for the modern history of Ukraine" - Budanov
The main thing from the interview of the head of the GUR:
▪️To reach the borders of 1991 is quite an achievable task this year.
▪️If you take a football analogy, now is 72-75 minutes.
▪️Their propaganda should be given credit, it works as efficiently as possible.
▪️If Crimea is returned, there will be no nuclear strike.
▪️Bakhmut is the only, let's say, place where they have some tactical success with huge losses.
▪️On average, 20,000 people are mobilized in Russia per month.
"Jack Teixeira began releasing classified intelligence about the war as early as February 2022" - The New York Times
The article says that the first user messages on the Discord platform appeared online less than 48 hours after the Russian attack on Ukraine.
Later, an anonymous man who claimed to be in the US Air Force predicted the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv two days earlier than it actually happened.
"After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO prepares for hostilities on its borders" - The New York Times
The bloodiest war in Europe in almost 80 years forced NATO to move from a strategy of waiting to the doctrine that dominated the Cold War - to defend every inch of the territory of the alliance from the first day of attack.
The Alliance decided to switch to a "deterrence by interdiction" strategy, that is, to convince the enemy that the attack would not achieve its intended goals.
The pardoned Wagnerian Azamat Uldarov confessed to Osechkin in the mass executions of people in Soledar and Bakhmut, including children.
Full interview ⬇️⬇️⬇️
“What you saw in this video [where a Ukrainian prisoner is beheaded], well, this is nonsense, nonsense, I’ll tell you this. Yes, it’s cruel. But what we did when we went to Soledar and Bakhmut - that was scene.
We arrived. 150 people, Wagnerites. We were given the command to destroy, clean up and become defensive by any means. And we went and killed everyone. There were women, men, grandfathers, pensioners and children. Do you understand what's on these hands now?
"Ukraine's counteroffensive could be very difficult" - FT
According to the publication, the Ukrainian defenders will face more than 140,000 enemy soldiers on a 950 km front line.
Separating the two troops will be a deadly obstacle course of mines, earthworks and tank barriers set up by the Russians. Added to the difficulties is the Ukrainians' lack of air superiority.
However, as the publication notes, if the Ukrainian attack is powerful and fast and can go behind the lines of the Russian Armed Forces, then the front will crumble and the Russians will run in the same way as they fled during the counteroffensive near Kharkiv.