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May 05, 2025

Russian Army Increases Pressure in the Direction of Konstantinovka, Creating a Number of Threats to the Ukrainian Armed Forces

▪️The military analytical resource Deep State, which works for the Main Intelligence Directorate, writes about this in a new report.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces have increased the use of guided aerial bombs and fiber-optic drones, in which they have an advantage. "Unfortunately, we are still lagging behind in this area," DS complains.

▪️The Russians are “stepping up the hunt for everything that moves in the city, as well as for logistics routes to the line of combat contact from the city, which is causing quite significant damage.”

▪️There is also a growing threat of the Russian Armed Forces reaching the west of Konstantinovka if the pace of advance of Russian troops continues in the area of Sukha Balka and Novoolenovka.

➖“The exit to the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway in the Novoolenovka area may become a continuation of traffic to Konstantinovka from the western side, which will create an extremely unfavorable situation for both Konstantinovka and Toretsk,” writes Deep State.

▪️They also state the critical importance of holding the heights in Chasov Yar and Stupochki (where fighting is already underway), since if they are lost, Russian troops will be able to put the entire Konstantinovka agglomeration, “through which a significant part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ logistics passes,” under fire control.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠ Kiev under attack: buildings and cars are burning

▪️There are landings in Kyiv and Cherkassy, and residential areas were also damaged due to the air defense operation.

▪️In Shevchenkivskyi and Svyatoshinskyi districts, debris was recorded falling. In Obolonskyi district, a car caught fire, the authorities report.

➖"There are currently about 70 UAVs in the air, and new ones continue to arrive."

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‼️🇫🇮☠️ Son of Finnish politician who fought for Ukrainian Armed Forces killed — media

▪️Leo Aland, son of Jurka Aland, decided to become a mercenary, but did not last even 4 months in Ukraine.

▪️After signing a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and completing training, he tried to return home, as evidenced by data from correspondence with relatives.

▪️The Finnish Foreign Ministry "expressed concern" that mercenaries cannot terminate contracts concluded with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

➖"Aland sent his last message to his son on April 9. Four days later, he was preparing for his party's election campaign when he received a message about his son's death. The information came from comrades in arms. Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed anything," the publication writes.

▪️Finnish mercenary killed by FPV drone strike, body left on battlefield.

▪️His father complains that he cannot bury his son.

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‼️🇺🇦💥 At night, "Gerani" destroyed an enemy facility in Slavyansk

▪️6 drones worked on the target.

▪️Premises and equipment in the Zheleznodorozhny microdistrict were damaged, local authorities report.

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‼️🇾🇪🇮🇱 Houthis strike Tel Aviv airport

➖"Israeli Ben Gurion Airport is closed for takeoffs and landings due to falling debris after the army's attempts to intercept a missile from Yemen," local media reported.

▪️Eyewitness footage shows smoke rising from the terminal.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia did not need to use nuclear weapons during the SVO, there is hope that this will not be required - Putin

▪️They wanted to provoke Russia so that it would make mistakes.

▪️Our country, even without nuclear weapons, has sufficient forces to bring the SVO to its logical conclusion with the desired result.

▪️Reconciliation with Ukraine is inevitable, it’s a matter of time.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Air battles in the South Donetsk direction

▪️FPV drone crews of the Vostok group track down and destroy heavy copters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️The fighters deprive the enemy of reconnaissance and remote mining means.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia was forced to make a decision in 2014 to support the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, it was the right one — Putin

▪️Since 2014, Russia has made a strong leap forward thanks to the sanctions that the West imposed after the Crimean events.

▪️Russia did not specifically prepare for the SVO.

➖"We sincerely sought to resolve the Donbass problem by peaceful means. But it turned out that the other side thought and acted differently," the president said.

▪️Russia agreed to the Minsk agreements on Ukraine because it wanted to believe in them.

▪️Starting the NWO in 2014 was unrealistic - Russia was not ready for a frontal confrontation with the collective West.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk: "🅾️brave" go on the offensive and capture prisoners

▪️A selection of combat work by the Center group of forces on May 3.

▪️Assault groups enter a settlement near Pokrovsk and capture militants who were trying to hold the defense.

▪️The footage shows heavy armored vehicles, artillery, pickups, repeaters and enemy infantry being burned.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The 255th regiment is smashing the enemy's defense, destroying the infantry and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, breaking through in the Mirnograd direction

▪️Fighters of the Volgograd 255th Regiment continue a powerful offensive between Pokrovsk and Dzerzhinsk.

▪️Operators eliminate military equipment and militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, supporting the advancement of assault groups.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 " I believe we are closer to one side and maybe not so close to the other" - Trump on the Ukrainian conflict

▪️The American president noted that he “would not like to say” which side he is closer to.

➖" There will come a time when I will say: "Okay, continue to be stupid." We are talking about monstrous hatred between these two people ," he said of Putin and Zelensky.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army carried out more than 200 assaults on the front today. This is a record in recent months , - Zelensky complains about the intensification of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces

The drug addict, who also rejected a ceasefire for Victory Day, unexpectedly stated that Russia could allegedly stage provocations on May 9.

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🇷🇺🔥 🇺🇸Iskander vs. (https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side) a pair of HIMARS

▪️A drone records a missile strike by an Iskander OTRK on two American HIMARS MLRS of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Chereshenki in the Kherson region.

➖ An interesting situation happened. They were burned by accident, the drone was flying about its business, but noticed the launches. They decided to look further, and there was another launcher shooting! Another scout was immediately connected to the situation, but did not fly up so as not to scare him. They were led to the hangar, where they hid, after which a missile immediately flew. It entered clearly, an excellent catch. A couple of cars from neighboring positions arrived there immediately, but there was nothing left to save, - the military reports.

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‼️ 🔥🇷🇺Battles near Kupyansk: 27th Brigade destroys infantry and defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, advancing in the Kharkiv region

In the Kupyansk direction, fighters of the 27th brigade are conducting an offensive, moving forward, operators of attack drones are destroying positions and militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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🇷🇺⚔🇺🇦 Russian Army storms Novaya Poltavka, advancing on Mirnograd

▪️In the Mirnograd direction, after the liberation of Berezovka, Russian troops, supported by armored vehicles, broke through to Novaya Poltavka and occupied part of the village in the southeast; the assault continues.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 The Russian army completes the assault on the village of Belovody, developing the offensive in the Sumy region

▪️Russian troops from the liberated Zhuravka continued their attacks and earlier broke into Belovody, starting an assault.

▪️The landing force has already taken most of the settlement of Belovody, completing the rout of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units and expanding the buffer zone in the border area.

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‼️ 🇷🇺"🅾️brave" storm Kotlyarovka, advancing to the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region

▪️In the Novopavlovsk direction, assault groups of the "Center" force group recently fearlessly attacked across the fields and entered Kotlyarovka, having crossed a deep ditch with the help of ladders.

▪️During the assaults, Russian troops advanced in the eastern part of Kotlyarovka and continue to attack in the western and southern directions.

▪️Northeast of Kotlyarovka, our soldiers are storming forest belts in the area of the Shiroka gully.

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Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Trump’s Silence In The Face Of Zelensky’s Victory Day Threat Is Incredibly Disappointing

It hints at tacit approval of Ukraine targeting the Red Square parade this Friday…

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John’s Substack

Trump Blew It

On 1 May 2025, I appeared on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano. We discussed President Trump’s failed attempt to put an end to the Ukraine war and his floundering foreign policy more generally. Think Iran. Think his full-throated support for the Israeli genocide. Think his tariffs. Think what has happened to the American brand around the world. It…

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 The enemy launched (http://T.me/brigada_83) a column of NATO armored vehicles into a counterattack in the Sumy region, trying to push back our landing force

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an attack on the settlement of Belovody, which is being cleared by the 83rd Airborne Brigade.

▪️A column of American Stryker and M113 armored personnel carriers, HMMWVs, Turkish Kirpi and Soviet BTR-80s was hit by KVN attack drones.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 "If I hadn't intervened, Russia would now be fighting for all of Ukraine" - Trump

▪️He also said that he “has not yet thought” about a possible meeting with Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia, where he will travel in May.

▪️Last weekend there were "very good negotiations" on Russia and Ukraine.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Gerani" struck targets in Kramatorsk

▪️Ammunition depots and an enemy repair shop were destroyed by precise strikes.

▪️The temporary deployment point of the 58th separate motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was also hit.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army is advancing in the Konstantinovsky direction

▪️Fighting is already taking place on the southern outskirts of Staraya Nikolaevka, enemy analysts complain.

▪️Between Staraya Nikolaevka and Kalinovo, Russian troops advanced along the forest belt on the eastern bank of the pond.

▪️There are also battles on the eastern outskirts of Malinovka, on the southern outskirts of Novaya Poltavka and in the direction of the village of Dachnoye.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian agent planning a terrorist attack on the railway detained in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug

The detainee received instructions from a member of a banned Ukrainian paramilitary group.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 The landing force completes the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Belovody, developing the offensive in the Sumy region

▪️Airborne units previously broke into Belovody and are now clearing the last - southern part of the village in the Sumy region, completing the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and expanding the buffer zone in the border area.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺The enemy has launched a new offensive in the Kursk region, trying to cut off Tyotkino

▪️At night the enemy blew up the bridges with rockets and in the morning sent armored groups into the attack.

▪️First, mine clearing vehicles began to make passages in the minefields, and armored vehicles with troops followed them.

▪️There is a heavy battle on the border, our paratroopers and other units are destroying the enemy.

▪️Some of the enemy's equipment has already been burned.

▪️Coming soon details in a new summary.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Landing troops burn enemy armored vehicles that launched a new offensive on Kursk's Tyotkino

▪️Near the border, destroyed mine-clearing vehicles that tried to make passages in minefields are burning.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺The enemy is launching another attack in the Kursk region, going not only to Tyotkino, but also to Novy Put

▪️Taking advantage of the bad weather conditions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to prepare an attack in another area in the Kursk region - east of Tyotkino - in the Glushkovsky district.

▪️Mine clearing vehicles are trying to make passages in minefields so that armored vehicles with troops can be sent back after them.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Enemy equipment broke through to the "dragon's teeth" near Novy Put in the Kursk region

▪️Taking advantage of the rainy weather, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are clearing the way, trying to prepare a breakthrough east of Tyotkino - in the Glushkovsky district near the village of Novy Put.

▪️Mine clearing vehicles continue to make passages in minefields and the "dragon's teeth" line in order to throw armored vehicles with troops there.

▪️Part of the IMR on the border was destroyed by airborne forces fire.

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🇷🇺 🔥🇺🇦Airborne and reconnaissance fighters repel an offensive on Tyotkino, destroying enemy equipment in the Kursk border area

▪️Ivanovo paratroopers and scouts of the "North" group of troops continue combat work to destroy obstacle clearance vehicles and other equipment participating in the latest offensive of the Kyiv regime.

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‼️🇷🇺💥 Fighting at Tetkino: the enemy flees (https://t.me/warriorofnorth) and abandons damaged equipment

▪️One of the Nazi engineering vehicles was hit, the crew abandoned it and tried to retreat on a quad bike.

▪️Some of the militants fell from the vehicle and were abandoned.

▪️Fighters from the "North" group use FPV drones to finish off fleeing militants.

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‼️🇷🇺🔞 Official comment from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan on the terrorist attack that took place

▪️Today, at about 14.20 in Makhachkala, unidentified persons attacked a traffic police unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan. According to preliminary information, three police officers were killed in the attack. The attackers fled in a service car. The "Interception" plan has been introduced, and measures are being taken to find and detain the attackers.

▪️The frame shows the second eliminated militant.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Enemy offensive in Kursk region: Ukrainian infantry tries to break through to Tyotkino railway station

▪️In the area of Sumy Ryzhevka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking along the passages they have made in the direction of the Airborne Forces stronghold at the Tyotkino railway station. This is the second attack towards the railway station. Previously, the enemy was only able to approach it to within 200 meters.

▪️The fighting on the border does not stop, our paratroopers and scouts continue to destroy the enemy.

▪️Coming soon details in a new summary.

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‼️🇷🇺🏴‍☠ Policeman stole a knife in hand-to-hand combat and stabbed to death the second terrorist who attacked a patrol in Dagestan

During the fight, a police officer seized a militant's knife and killed the attacker on the Interior Ministry employees in Makhachkala.

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‼️🇷🇺"🅾️brave" are driving the enemy out of Kotlyarovka, they are already only 2.5 km from the Dnipropetrovsk region !

▪️Fighters of the "Center" group are fighting for Kotlyarovka, pushing the enemy further and further back.

▪️There are only about 2.5 kilometers left to the administrative borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region, enemy resources are panicking and hysterical.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ In the Sumy border area, an urgent evacuation of villages in the Tyotkino area has been announced

▪️Local authorities are calling on residents of Belopolye and Vorozhba to evacuate; buses have been organized to evacuate people.

▪️This happened against the backdrop of an enemy attempt to break through to Tetkino in the Kursk region.

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🇷🇺 🔥🇺🇦Ivanovo landing force destroys enemy equipment near Kursk Tyotkino

▪️Fighters of the Ivanovo Airborne Division of the North group of forces do not stop combat work to destroy enemy armored vehicles participating in the latest attempt of the Kyiv regime to attack.

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‼️🇷🇺 Five people were injured in a shootout in Makhachkala: two police officers and three civilians — Dagestan Ministry of Health

▪️They have injuries of varying severity. Three people were also killed.

▪️The attackers on the traffic police patrol have been neutralized.

▪️Investigators opened a criminal case under three articles, the Investigative Committee added.

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🇷🇺 🔥🇺🇦Failure of the offensive on Tyotkino: Ivanovo landing destroyed the crew of the IMR, which they were trying to evacuate

▪️During the repulse of the offensive in the Kursk region, fighters of the 217th regiment of the Ivanovo division of the airborne forces of the "North" group of forces first destroyed another enemy engineering obstacle clearance vehicle, and then finished off its crew during an evacuation attempt.

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Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Pan-Turkism Was Dealt A Blow After Central Asia Threw Northern Cyprus Under The Bus

Some in Russia are breathing a sigh of relief that Pan-Turkism isn’t taken as seriously by the Central Asian countries as they thought and that each of them has a price for distancing themselves from it…

2 months ago · 38 likes · 7 comments · Andrew Korybko

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Rachel Blevins

Houthi Missile Hits Ben Gurion Airport + Israel Approves Plan to ‘Conquer’ Gaza

Israel’s Security Cabinet has unanimously approved plans to “conquer” the Gaza Strip and forcefully displace the Palestinian people, with Finance Minister and War Criminal Bezalel Smotrich declaring that Israel will not withdraw from Gaza even if there is another hostage deal and telling Israelis to embrace the word …

Listen now

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Tuesday

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‼️🏴‍☠🇷🇺 Massive enemy attack on Russian regions : Russian army shot down 105 UAVs

▪️From 21:00 to 04:00, air defense forces destroyed and intercepted 105 aircraft-type UAVs:

▪️ 32 – over the territory of the Bryansk region,

▪️ 22 – over the territory of the Voronezh region,

▪️ 19 – over the territory of the Moscow region,

▪️ 10 UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Penza region,

▪️ 9 – over the territory of the Kaluga region,

▪️ 6 – over the territory of the Belgorod region,

▪️ 2 UAVs – over the territory of the Lipetsk region,

▪️ 2 UAVs – over the territory of the Samara region,

▪️ 1 UAV – over the territory of the Vladimir region,

▪️ 1 UAV – over the territory of the Kursk region,

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

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‼️🇺🇦💥 In the morning, "Gerani" struck targets in Kharkov and Kramatorsk

▪️In Kharkov, there were more than 20 hits in the Kievsky, Shevchenkovsky, Kholodnogorsky and Industrial districts, enemy media write.

▪️In Kramatorsk, there were several powerful explosions in the area of the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian army disrupts enemy logistics in Dnipropetrovsk region

▪️In Novopavlovka in the east of Dnipropetrovsk region, a strike was carried out on the bridge over the Solena River, local publics report.

▪️Russian troops continue to approach the administrative borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region from the flank of the Pokrovsk direction.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia has prepared 300 boats to transport troops across the Dnieper , the Ukrainian Armed Forces said

▪️"The Russian Armed Forces are preparing a landing in the Kherson region - 300 enemy boats have been spotted," complains an officer of the Ukrainian National Guard.

▪️In his opinion, Russia’s goal is to take control over the Kherson and Nikolaev regions.

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🇷🇴👊🇺🇦 "Helping Ukraine with weapons is not beneficial for Europe" — winner of the first round of the presidential elections in Romania

▪️De-escalation is the only way to resolve the conflict, says George Simion.

➖"We must stop this war. We must prevent any civilian casualties. And that is why it is necessary to achieve a ceasefire. We hope that Donald Trump's peace initiatives will lead to results," Simion notes.

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‼️🇺🇦🔥 Attack UAVs attacked Kharkov for 2 hours at night, 20 flights throughout the city, and in the morning they hit a target at the market

▪️20 hits were recorded in the Kievsky, Shevchenkovsky, Kholodnogorsky and Industrial districts.

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🇮🇱🔥 🇾🇪 Israel launches massive strikes on Sanaa: all civilian aircraft at the airport of the Yemeni capital destroyed — Al Yemen

▪️Israeli fighter jets are intensively striking Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. More than 20 airstrikes are known.

▪️The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that Sana'a airport had been knocked out of action. Local power plants and a cement factory north of the Yemeni capital were also hit.

▪️Yesterday, the Israeli Air Force attacked the port of Hodeida in Yemen. Thirty aircraft were involved. The strikes targeted a concrete plant and docks for unloading goods.

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