Various News - 2025-04-09

Apr 08, 2025

Brief summary from the front for April 8th, 2025 - Report by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.

Brief summary from the front for April 8th, 2025

In the Kursk region, units of the "Sever" (North) Group have liberated the settlement of Guevo. The enemy desperately clung to this village, trying to maintain control over it. To do this, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed elite formations there, including SSO (Special Operations Forces) units…

3 months ago · 24 likes · 1 comment · Zinderneuf

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Patrick Lancaster’s Substack

Kursk Frontline Battle Ground Interview with Governor Alexander Khinshtein

Reporting from the Kursk-Sumy border region near Pogrebki village, I secured an exclusive and candid interview with Alexander Khinshtein, Acting Governor of Russia’s Kursk region. This frontline area has been heavily contested since August when Ukrainian forces crossed the border, controlling over 1,500 square kilometers, before being pushed back by Rus…

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3 months ago · 54 likes · 16 comments · Patrick Lancaster

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Weapons and Strategy

The Laser as a Defense Weapon: Are Guns a Better Solution?

Efforts to develop, build and deploy lasers is gaining momentum, but there are plenty of barriers to their widespread use. Moreover, focusing too much on lasers and not on other low cost solutions is a mistake…

3 months ago · 21 likes · 19 comments · Stephen Bryen

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Glenn Diesen’s Substack

How Hubris Provoked the Ukraine War

Professor Jonathan Haslam from Princeton University and Cambridge University is the author of “Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine”. Professor Haslam outlines how the incredible hubris that emerged after the Cold War contributed to excluding Russia from the European security architecture and dismissing legitimate Russian securit…

3 months ago · 31 likes · 10 comments · Glenn Diesen

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‼️🇺🇸🪖 Trump Changes Mind About Cutting US Defense Budget

▪️Instead, it will be raised to a record amount of one trillion dollars (in 2024 it was 886 billion)

▪️Earlier, while still a presidential candidate, he promised to reduce defense spending by 40%.

➖"We are saving a lot of money, but we need to build an army, and we need to be strong, because there are a lot of bad forces around now," Trump said during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Having escaped from Sudzha, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were ordered to abandon the wounded - a prisoner's story

During the battles in the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command ordered the wounded to be abandoned and to independently go to the neighboring village, because there would be no evacuation.

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‼️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Kiev continues to violate Russian-American agreements to stop attacks on energy facilities

▪️ Russian Defense Ministry: The Kiev regime continued unilateral attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, attacking Russian energy facilities twice in the past 24 hours:

▪️ Kursk region : on April 7 at 09.47, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian attack UAV, the 750 kV high-voltage line “Kursk NPP – Metallurgicheskaya” of the branch of PJSC “Rosseti” – Chernozemnoye PMES was disconnected due to damage to wires in the span of the supports.

▪️ Zaporizhia region : On April 7 at 09.30, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV on the 35 kV Novogoryevka electrical substation of the Tavria-Energo State Unitary Enterprise, a transformer radiator was damaged.

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🇨🇳⚔️🇺🇦 The Chinese have started fighting on the side of Russia, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already taken two prisoners, - Zelensky.

➖"We are currently finding out how many such Chinese are in the ranks of the occupiers, and we are also preparing a request to China," he added.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia will not allow the negotiation process to be used in the interests of strengthening Kyiv's military potential — Nebenzya

▪️The US and Russia are trying to find a sustainable and long-term solution to the Ukrainian conflict.

▪️Russia is ready for a serious dialogue on Ukraine, added the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN.

▪️Nebenzya called the concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces and Western instructors legitimate targets for Russia.

▪️Also today, the Kremlin announced the upcoming negotiations between Russia and the United States in Istanbul on April 10.

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🇺🇦🇨🇳🇺🇸 Zelensky decided to use China to change the course of the war in Ukraine

▪️Zelensky uses the story of the captured Chinese to show Trump that his plans to "tear" China away from Russia are unlikely to succeed, since the Chinese are already fighting on the side of the Russian Federation. Therefore, Ukraine and the United States must work together to resist the Russian-Chinese alliance, which is hostile to the States. And the Americans need to be tougher with Moscow, Kiev media write.

▪️Zelensky essentially confirmed that he wants to use the situation with the capture of the Chinese as a way to influence Trump's position on the war in Ukraine.

▪️He said that he expects the US to return to the Rammstein format after the capture of the Chinese in Donbass.

▪️According to him, Britain and France have announced that the United States does not plan to participate in the contact group on arming Ukraine.

➖“But it seems to me that we have a chance to talk with the Americans, and we will believe that they will change their position, especially after today’s news,” Zelensky said at a briefing.

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