Various News - 2025-03-21

UK special forces put on alert for deployment to Ukraine , — The Independent

▪️The preparations are underway as part of a "peacekeeping" mission, as a ceasefire agreement is approaching.

▪️"Military planners tasked with preparing the forces by the Cabinet Office have ordered special forces units to prepare to deploy to Ukraine. Directives were sent to Britain's military planning command centre last week to begin the process of deploying personnel and resources," the publication reports.

▪️British special forces personnel have been put on standby to ensure their military equipment is in good working order until they are notified of a possible deployment to Ukraine.

❗️The order also applies to special forces reservists.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Gladkov spoke about the measures taken in the Belgorod region, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to invade

▪️Entry into the Krasnoyarsk region is temporarily restricted.

▪️Traffic police officers will be on duty 24 hours a day on all roads leading to the municipality.

▪️Joint patrolling of populated areas of the Krasnoyarsk region will be established by the police, the Russian National Guard, the military police and the Bars-Belgorod detachment.

▪️Managers of agricultural enterprises operating within a 15-kilometer zone from the border on the territory of the region must purchase armored vehicles and equip them with electronic warfare equipment.

▪️Residents of the Krasnoyarsk region who do not live in temporary accommodation centers (TACs) should be provided with food packages.

▪️Another task is to compile lists of children whose parents are ready to send to other regions to continue in-person education.

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‼️ 🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Zelensky is against ending the war along the contact line: "it will be Berlin - no one will return to even half the cities."

➖"I said honestly to President Trump: 'Do we want Berlin? Do we want many cities like this?'" he said.

▪️He also did not give a specific answer to the question about the likelihood of a complete ceasefire in a few weeks.

▪️Zelensky suggested that the situation could develop in a similar way to the negotiations in Saudi Arabia, when the initial proposal for silence in the air and at sea eventually escalated into discussions of a complete ceasefire.

➖"It may be the same here. I can't confirm that right now," he said.

▪️Zelensky said that Trump will not insist on Ukraine's legal recognition of its territorial losses.

▪️“Trump understands that legally we do not recognize the occupied territories as Russian,” he said.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 132 Ukrainian UAVs Destroyed Over Russian Territory by Air Defense Systems at Night — Defense Ministry

▪️ 54 UAVs – over the territory of the Saratov region,

▪️ 40 UAVs – over the territory of the Voronezh region,

▪️ 22 UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,

▪️ 9 UAVs – over the territory of the Rostov region,

▪️ 3 UAVs each – over the territories of the Kursk region and the Republic of Crimea,

▪️ 1 UAV – over the territory of the Lipetsk region.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Two people injured in Engels after UAV attack — Governor Busargin

▪️Windows were knocked out at a local hospital, two kindergartens and a school.

▪️A woman was injured, doctors assess her condition as satisfactory, there is no threat to life.

▪️Another resident of Engels went to the hospital after the attack. Doctors are providing him with the necessary assistance;

▪️Classes in Engels schools will be held remotely today.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Military Commissar Beats Pensioner in Lozovaya, Kharkiv Region

Passersby gathered to defend the grandfather. The reason for the conflict is unknown. Most likely, the elderly man expressed his negative attitude towards the actions of the TCC.

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🇫🇷👊🇺🇸 Macron's Ukraine Initiatives Put Him on a Collision Course with Trump — Bloomberg

▪️In recent weeks, as Trump insists on a swift ceasefire, Macron has received the heads of military departments of more than 30 countries.

▪️Together with British Prime Minister Starmer, he wants to gather representatives of 37 countries that are ready to provide military assistance to Kyiv.

▪️In parallel, European countries are trying to engineer radical changes in their military capabilities in order to prepare for war with Russia and not depend on the United States.

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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 US ready to take control of Ukrainian nuclear power plants "for the sake of achieving peace" — US Energy Secretary Chris Wright

➖"We have a huge technical expertise in the United States to operate these plants. I don't think the military is needed for that. How do we bring peace to Ukraine? How do we get this fighting to stop? What does it take for both sides to lay down their arms? But if that's what it takes to achieve that goal, let the United States operate nuclear power plants in Ukraine. No problem, we can do that," Wright said.

▪️Yesterday, the White House spokesperson said that Trump believes that if the US owns Ukraine's energy facilities, this will be the best means of protecting the infrastructure.

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‼️🇬🇧🇷🇺 Britain Rejects Putin's Demands to Stop Arms Supplies to Ukraine During Ceasefire — Bloomberg

▪️The UK government has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin's demand that Ukraine's allies suspend arms supplies to Kyiv during the ceasefire.

➖"We will always continue to support Ukraine militarily," Prime Minister's spokesman Pares told reporters.

▪️When asked whether the UK could agree with Russia's insistence on stopping military aid supplies, the speaker said London's approach was applicable "under all scenarios."

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‼️🇷🇺 The situation in the Krasnoyarsk district of the Belgorod region continues to be difficult - the governor

▪️V. Gladkov warned about the danger of residents returning to their homes in the border area.

▪️The implementation of the decisions of the Operational Headquarters continues.

▪️The government continues to support fighters by sending humanitarian aid.

➖"The entire Belgorod region, the entire country is doing everything necessary to bring our common victory closer. I am confident that this will happen," the governor concluded.

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🇷🇺⚔️ 🇱🇹 Lithuania is preparing for Russia's offensive against NATO countries by 2030 - President Nauseda

▪️According to him, over the next 4-5 years, the dwarf Baltic republic will actively form units that will receive "everything necessary" for protection.

▪️He also noted that Ukraine could get ahead of the Western Balkan countries in joining the EU and become a member of the bloc by 2030 if it manages to fulfill all the requirements of the European Union.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 Negotiations between Russian and US representatives to be held in Riyadh on March 24 — Ushakov

▪️The Russian delegation will be headed by Senator Grigory Karasin and Advisor to the Director of the FSB Sergei Beseda.

▪️The American team, according to Ushakov, has also already been formed.

➖"We hope that the consultations scheduled for Monday will be productive," the Russian presidential aide emphasized.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ukraine will not extend martial law after May 9 — Rada deputy

➖" Martial law and mobilization in Ukraine until May 9, 2025. The extension procedure is a vote in the Verkhovna Rada, followed by the president's signature. On May 9, VP and mobilization will not be extended! " - said MP Dmytruk .

▪️The Rada deputy also noted that "Zelensky is not even sure that he will be able to hold on to the regime in April!"

▪️He also claims that the relevant clarification has already been received by the TCC.

▪️However, the deputy assumes that this will not stop forced mobilization, since this is a huge influx of money for military commissars.

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‼️🇺🇦🍔 The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense motivates young people to go to the front with cheeseburgers.

▪️The department's official TikTok publishes a video about how for the payment of one million hryvnias in "lifting" allowance under the "youth contract" for persons aged 18 to 24, one can buy 15,000 cheeseburgers.

▪️Ukrainians in the comments criticized the advertisement for signing a contract with the help of cheeseburgers and again criticized the “youth contracts”, which they consider unfair in relation to soldiers who have been fighting for a long time and those who are over 25 years old.

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 The European Union has refused to confiscate Russian assets and has not made a decision on allocating aid to Ukraine — DW

▪️Several EU countries opposed the confiscation of more than 200 billion euros of frozen Russian assets.

▪️They argued this with EU legislation, the danger of such a precedent for European competitiveness in the financial services market, the need to support Ukraine with interest from these funds, and also the fact that this amount is a "card" in peace negotiations and a lever of influence on Russia.

"People are starting to realise that having these assets may be more important than confiscating them without knowing what to do with them," one European diplomat said ahead of the summit.

▪️The final statement says that individual EU countries will provide military assistance to Ukraine on a voluntary basis. Kallas' plan to allocate 40 billion euros in military aid was not supported; negotiations are underway on a sum of 5 billion.

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‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe is preparing various options for an international peacekeeping operation in Ukraine after the end of the war, - Chief of the General Staff of Poland

▪️"A multi-variant operation is being prepared, which largely depends on how the peace talks in Ukraine will proceed, and it is still at a very early stage of planning. We have defined the guidelines, areas of interaction and possible developments, and now we are passing this on to the planning bodies. This is a diagram of several possible variants of the operation and an idea of ​​what forces we will need to provide this kind of security guarantees," Wieslaw Kukula told the RAP agency.

🤡Poland does not intend to send its peacekeepers to Ukraine, but is ready to provide its bases.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠ 51% of Ukrainian media outlets could close without US grants this year

➖"51% may close. And up to 70% of them are regional media, that is, we may lose almost all regional media in Ukraine. Why? Because the US is cutting funding. Sorry, but that's true. And you know who is not cutting funding? Russia. And, of course, China," Poturev, head of the Rada Committee on Information Policy, said at the OSCE meeting.

▪️It was previously reported that 90% of media in Ukraine were financed through USAID.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Peacekeeping forces in Ukraine will include not only ground troops, but also allied air forces and navies , — Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-20/uk-spearheads-military-planning-discussions-for-postwar-ukraine)

▪️British and French peacekeepers will allegedly be deployed in cities, ports and critical infrastructure;

▪️Patrol ships and minesweepers - in the Black Sea;

▪️Aircraft (including Typhoon fighters) and ground units - in Poland and Romania.

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‼️🇺🇦😐 "Without Ukraine, Crimea is dying, there is nothing there, there are no tourists" - Zelensky's drug-addicted revelations

▪️A new batch of analytics from Potuzhny: the Ukrainian Fuhrer once again pulled data out of thin air, this time on the tourist flow in Crimea.

▪️In 2024, according to official statistics, more than 6 million tourists visited the peninsula, while Zelensky himself claims that “previously 3 million people went there.”

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‼️🇸🇪🇷🇺 Sweden Prepares for 'Arctic War' with Russia — Wall Street Journal

▪️The country is preparing its elite troops for a possible war.

▪️The Swedish military claims that the next point where Russian troops will set foot after Ukraine could be the Arctic.

▪️In addition, according to Western forecasts, Swedish troops will be among the first NATO member states to face Russia if hostilities begin on Finnish territory.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Urgent evacuation begins in Sumy Oblast, from which the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking Belgorod Oblast

▪️Evacuation was announced in Krasnopolye against the backdrop of Russian strikes on the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region, from where the enemy is trying to attack the Belgorod border.

▪️The evacuation will take place on March 21 at 06:00 and 07:00 in the morning on special buses.

▪️The population of the village is estimated at 7.5 thousand people.

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Fwd from @dva_majors

Morning Summary for March 20, 2025

▪️ Last night, Trump and Zelensky had phone talks, with the Kyiv leader expressing readiness to halt mutual strikes on energy facilities and move towards a ceasefire. Overnight, about 40 Ukrainian drones were detected and destroyed in the Voronezh Region. In the Saratov Region, a drone attack on the refinery in Engel's caused damage to a hospital and a private home, with no casualties. Schools in Engel's will hold remote classes today. In the Rostov Region, a drone attack was repelled.

▪️ The Russian military struck targets in Slavyansk and Kirovohrad (https://t.me/warhistoryalconafter/212451) (Kropyvnytskyi), with reports of strikes on railway infrastructure.

▪️ In the Belgorod Region, the enemy has been trying to break through our defenses for two days. Footage shows the destruction of another group of Ukrainian armored vehicles. The Ukrainian command continues to build up its forces in the area.

In the Krasnoyaruzhsky District, the civilian population is being evacuated, with measures taken to secure the area and provide aid to residents.

▪️ In the Kursk Region, the destruction of the remaining enemy forces continues.

▪️ In the Krasnoliman direction, the Russian troops are advancing west of Zhuravka Gully.

▪️ In Chasiv Yar, the enemy acknowledges that our assault troops have entrenched themselves in the private sector south of the railway.

▪️ In Dzerzhynsk (Toretsk), fighting continues, with reports of the Russian advance north of Druzhba.

▪️ In the Burlats direction, Russian troops have occupied a "pocket" south of Pryvillia.

▪️ On the Zaporizhia front, Russian units are advancing north from Stepove and south towards Lobkove, with clashes on the approaches to Lobkove. Our troops have advanced to Novodanylivka, with fighting ongoing.

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📝US Targets Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plants📝

According to reports (https://thehill.com/policy/international/5203609-donald-trump-ukraine-nuclear-power-plant/), US Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated that the US has "tremendous technical expertise" to manage such facilities, and control over the power plants would allow them to protect them and contribute to the resolution of the conflict.

As before, such statements are far removed from reality. On the one hand, the Russian Armed Forces have not been striking Ukrainian nuclear power plants even without any American presence there.

The value of these facilities for the US is not obvious: almost all the reactors have exceeded their design lifetime, and operation in critical modes increases wear and complicates lifetime extension. And plans for building new power units seem like fantasy. (https://t.me/rybar/59236)

📌But if this is not just information noise, then nothing prevents the Americans from freely taking over the Ukrainian nuclear power plants and in a couple of years handing them over to European bureaucrats for a tidy sum. Who, apparently, derive pleasure from gratuitous investments in the Ukrainian bottomless pit.

In this case, the Trump administration will be able to pompously report on the profitability of past military assistance to the Kyiv regime, getting money literally out of nothing and avoiding the hassle with dubious assets for them.

#USA #Ukraine #electricity

⭐️@rybar

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Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: “Forced mobilization" in Ukraine will go down in textbooks as genocide of the Ukrainian people

#RussianMFA via RT

This is true, but the United States is primarily to blame for this genocide, and everyone knows it. Including Donald Trump. That is why, out of fear of revenge from Russia and Ukraine, Trump has now become an "outstanding peacemaker."

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Saratov Region, Governor:

In Engels, as a result of the UAV attack, about 30 private houses were also damaged. For safety reasons, due to the fire on the territory of the airfield, the evacuation of residents of the territory of settlements near the facility is being carried out.

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Macron is on a collision course with Trump over his initiatives on the Ukrainian conflict, Bloomberg writes.

While the head of the White House insists on a ceasefire, the French president is trying to mobilize military support for Kiev, journalists note.

In recent weeks, Macron has received the heads of military departments of more than 30 countries. Together with Starmer, he is trying to unite 37 states that will be ready to provide aid to Ukraine - via RT.

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Dmitry Medvedev:

"Future Chancellor Merz accuses Russia of waging war in Europe and targeting Germany with arson, contract killings & disinformation. You're not in power yet but already lying like Goebbels. Nazi Germany attacked us like this from 1941-1945. We know how it ended. Bad start, Fritz!

Hope it ends the same way for you."

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