Ahead of VE Day, Ukraine launches a second invasion of Kursk.
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Taking advantage of the bad weather conditions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces smashed trough the border into Russia, Kursk region.
"It already goes through the teeth, f*ck. And look we are also already being sorted out." β Russian drone command center, Kursk region.
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AFU broke through to the "dragon's teeth" near Novy Put east of Tetkino - in the Glushkovsk district.
Ukrainian troops fired missiles, breached the border, & used specialised vehicles to cross minefields.
"At least 50 Ukrainian soldiers crossed into the region."
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Russians write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces "blew up the bridge over the Seim in the area of ββthe village of Zvannoye."
They blew up bridges with rockets overnight before launching an armoured assault in the morning, taking advantage of poor weather
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βThe mine clearance vehicles began to make passages in the minefields, followed by armored vehicles with troops. There is a heavy battle going on at the border.β β Z channels reported.
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βKursk direction. Tetkino. The Russians are shown that the game of 'creating a buffer zone' can be played by two. It also confirms the blowing up of the bridge.β β βοΈ one of the πΊπ¦ military channels - the unofficial Telegram channel of the 46th Airmobile Brigade.
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The offensive is indirectly confirmed by the DeepState project: on its map, some areas of the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine in the Tetkino area are designated as a "gray zone".
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Kursk region, situation opposite the settlement of Novy Put.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces obstacle clearance vehicle made a passage through the dragon's teeth and drove back despite multiple hits, landing troops." β βοΈ Z channels
No official confirmation yet.
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The leaders are scheduled to meet with V. Zelensky on Saturday, while negotiating with the Americans a new, more restrictive ceasefire offer for Russia.
A joint call for a "complete" & "unconditional" 30-day ceasefire between Kyiv & Moscow will be discussed.
The Nazi-Soviet Pact signed in August 1939 was an agreement of convenience that permitted Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to carve up spheres of influence in eastern Europe while pledging not to attack each other for 10 years.
Putin fears Ukraine will ruin Victory Day, and rightly so.
Russian air defense is a sieve.
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The Moscow region has been under attack for 3 consecutive nights.
Almost 500 UAVs visited Russia at night.
Ukraineβs potential in this sense is enormous and inexhaustible, which is why the attacks are still ongoing
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In total, Ukraine could have attacked 6 targets on Russian territory during the night
Russian military leaders are in hysterics: "this was the most massive attack β Ukrainians used 447 long-range UAVs and missiles over the past evening and night."
π¨Pentagon chief halted military aid to Ukraine without Trump's approval.
Some Pentagon staffers advised Hegseth to suspend aid.
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Trump did not give the order to stop aid to Ukraine on Jan 30, the order to cancel all flights with weapons was issued by Def Secretary Pete Hegsett, who simply misunderstood Trump during discussions. The order to stop military aid caught the White House by surprise.
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Senior officials at the meeting were not aware of the order. Trump did not give a clear instruction to stop it. As a result, Hegsett's order surprised many, including heads of departments at the Pentagon & the State Department, to put it mildly.
Kazakhstan bans entry to Russian deputies & propagandists, β DW
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The reason for the ban is insulting and threatening statements against the country in public.
A Kazakh official confirmed the information about the existence of a special list of people who are denied entry to the countryπ
βͺοΈKremlin propagandist Tina Kandelaki,
βͺοΈKremlin propagandist Tigran Keosayan,
βͺοΈNikita Mendkovich,
βͺοΈ Political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, βͺοΈState Duma deputy Piotr Tolstoy,
βͺοΈState Duma deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov,
βͺοΈState Duma deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov
βͺοΈState Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin,
βͺοΈThe head of Rossotrudnichestvo Yevgeny Primakov,
βͺοΈRussian historian Andrei Grozin.
But the Kazakh authorities have not officially announced this list.
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As The Moscow Times reports, Tolstoy previously stated that after Ukraine, Kazakhstan could become the βnext problemβ for Russia.