Various News - 2025-05-22

May 21, 2025

Trump not worried about reports that Russia is increasing its forces near the Finnish and Norwegian borders

➖“Are you concerned about reports of Russian troop build-ups along the borders with Finland and Norway?” the media asked him.

➖“It doesn’t bother me at all,” the US President replied.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Massacre near Sumy:

Ukrainian Armed Forces and Rada deputies confirm Iskander strike on crowd of soldiers at training base

▪️Local resources confirmed a ballistic strike on an “industrial facility” near Shostka, writes Ukrainian Armed Forces veteran Dmitry Gnap.

▪️“It is likely that another tragedy could have occurred with the mass death of Ukrainian soldiers,” he noted.

▪️MP Maryana Bezugla also confirmed the fact of the blow.

➖"How many more people must die? How many more "moronic" orders must be given? How much more arrogance and deaths, arrogance and deaths, arrogance and deaths - for Syrsky to be fired, Vladimir Alexandrovich?" she wrote, showing a video of the blow.

▪️Rada deputy Goncharenko also writes about the attack.

➖"The Russians hit a training ground in the Sumy region with an Iskander, right during our military exercises. The training ground is less than 50 km from the border with the Russian Federation. This is just complete f...k. The training ground is practically on the border with the Russian Federation. The enemy was monitoring the training ground. A drone was hovering over it for a long time, which adjusted the strike. This is a crime. They decided to conduct military training practically on the front line," he wrote.

▪️"45 km from the Russian border. Someone very brilliant came up with the idea of organizing a training ground there and training hundreds of recruits at the same time. Line them up in columns and organize meals together. And at the same time, there is simply no way to control the sky, as if it were 2013," blogger Sergey Naumovich commented on the tragedy.

▪️Earlier it was reported that up to 70 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were killed.

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🇺🇦💥🇷🇺 Massive enemy attack and attempt to attack Moscow: Russian army destroyed 127 drones

▪️The enemy began the raid in the evening: from 20:00 on May 20 to 04:05 on May 21, the Ministry of Defense reports.

▪️41 drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, 37 over the Oryol region, 31 over the Kursk region, 6 over the Moscow region, 5 over the Vladimir region, and 3 over the Ryazan region.

▪️One UAV each was shot down over the Belgorod, Tula, Kaluga regions and over the Black Sea.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Night hunt of the "🅾️brave" for the "Chervona Kalina" brigade near Pokrovsk

▪️Fighters of the Siberian Guards Association "Center" burn equipment of the 14th operational brigade of the National Guard "Chervona Kalina" in the Pokrovsky direction:

Pickup trucks, Kozak armored vehicles and a Humvee were destroyed.

▪️Despite the serious staffing of the brigade included in the Azov Corps with electronic warfare equipment, all targets were hit.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 In the morning, enemy drones again tried to break through to Moscow

▪️Between 4:00 and 8:00, air defense systems destroyed 32 Ukrainian drones, the Defense Ministry reported

▪️16 UAVs – over the territory of the Oryol region,

▪️10 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,

▪️6 UAVs – over the territory of the Kursk region.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ "They are trying to erase us": The commander of the 47th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who submitted a report on dismissal, told the details

▪️On the Ukrainian-Russian border, he "faced missions that were doomed to failure and exposed personnel to a high probability of unjustified losses."

▪️Shirshin complains that this happened repeatedly, and the command did not draw any conclusions.

➖"For the last few months, I have the impression that they are simply trying to erase us. People's lives are being spent like extra money at a party, " the battalion commander writes.

▪️He notes that he was unable to "get through" to the command in the established manner; his unit is threatened with "loss of combat capability," so he is "publicly highlighting the problem."

▪️Recall that earlier the battalion commander of the 47th "meat" brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is leading an offensive on Kursk's Tetkino, publicly stated that he submitted a report for dismissal due to "moronic tasks" and "stupid generals."

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‼️🇷🇺 Putin visited Kursk region, talked with residents of the region and volunteers

▪️The enemy is still trying to move towards the Russian border.

▪️The destruction of monuments from World War II by the Ukrainian Armed Forces shows that Russia is fighting neo-Nazis.

▪️We need to increase the demining group in the Kursk region so that people can return to their homes faster.

▪️The President visited the nuclear power plant under construction and held a meeting with municipal leaders in Kurchatov and also met with representatives of volunteer organizations

➖"Russia is one team, this is the unconditional success of all our endeavors, this is a necessary condition for achieving our goals - I am sure it will be so," Putin noted.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 At night, "Geraniums" struck Ukrainian enterprises in Sumy

➖"Five drones hit one of the enterprises, two hit another," the local mayor said.

▪️As a result of the explosions, powerful fires started, and part of the city was left without electricity.

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 Night hunt of the "🅾️brave" for the "Chervona Kalina" brigade near Pokrovsk

▪️Fighters of the Siberian Guards Association "Center" burn equipment of the 14th operational brigade of the National Guard "Chervona Kalina" in the Pokrovsky direction:

Pickup trucks, Kozak armored vehicles and a Humvee were destroyed.

▪️Despite the serious staffing of the brigade included in the Azov Corps with electronic warfare equipment, all targets were hit.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦"It's Not My Problem": Trump's New Position on the Conflict in Ukraine — NYT

▪️Trump told Zelensky and EU leaders that Russia and Ukraine must find a solution to the conflict themselves.

▪️He appears to have refused to join the European pressure campaign against Russia, the publication writes.

▪️A senior European official involved in the closed-door talks said Trump was never interested in developing new sanctions measures on Russia.

▪️Officials also report that the US does not want to invest more in Ukraine.

▪️The publication concludes that Trump appears to be withdrawing from ceasefire negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

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‼️🇺🇦☠️ The enemy UAV control center was destroyed in the Loknya area of Sumy region 🔞

▪️Fighters of the "North" group showed what was left of the Ukrainian Armed Forces facility.

▪️The bodies of four enemy drone operators were found inside.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ In Odessa, military commissars drove a hijacker up a tree

▪️A man climbed a tree to the height of the fifth floor, escaping from the Shopping Center in Odessa.

▪️Two fire trucks arrived at the scene and lowered it down.

▪️After this, the military commissars, together with the police, overpowered the man and packed him into a van.

▪️Local residents who gathered around tried to fight him off, but to no avail.

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‼️ 🇷🇺🏴‍☠️Operation in the Bryansk border area: the area is blocked off, search and liquidation of the sabotage and reconnaissance group is underway

▪️Local residents saw a group, presumably Ukrainian special forces GUR in the Subbotovo-Vygonichi area. The area is blocked, roads are closed.

▪️Border guards, special forces of the FSB, the Russian National Guard and the Northern group of troops are carrying out operational activities to search for and destroy the potential enemy.

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‼️🇺🇦🔥 Large-scale fire at Belotserkovskaya TPP near Kyiv

▪️Ukrainian media write about two dead.

▪️The CHPP itself supplies electricity to Kyiv. There are no reports of power outages in the Kyiv region yet.

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‼️ 🇷🇺How the 9th Brigade liberated Novoalexandrovka while advancing near Pokrovsk

▪️After working on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with kamikaze drones, the fighters of the 9th brigade of the Center group, wearing anti-drone suits, successfully entered the settlement. The enemy, who did not notice the covert movement of Russian forces, was completely disoriented and was unable to provide a competent defense.

▪️ Many enemy groups were caught off guard, which led to their disorderly retreat. Russian servicemen drove the enemy out of fortified shelters, blocking possible escape routes.

▪️ The liberation of Novoaleksandrovka creates favorable conditions for further advancement to Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Lavrov: "There will be no more truce - and then we'll see" with Ukraine, Europe intends to use it to rearm Kiev

▪️The West means a "ceasefire without any conditions for a month" by a settlement in Ukraine, the Russian Foreign Minister said after talks with the Armenian Foreign Minister.

▪️The Europeans need this in order to “re-arm Ukraine in a calm environment” and strengthen its defense.

▪️Lavrov stressed that calls for a ceasefire are being made "after several years of a completely different position." Previously, the EU and NATO defended the position that negotiations were inadmissible until "Russia was dealt a strategic defeat ." Now they have "turned 180 degrees" and are talking "no longer about a strategic defeat, but about a ceasefire so that Ukraine can get a break."

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin was called upon to take Sumy

▪️"Sumy must be ours." "We cannot live like on the peninsula. There must be more of us. At least Sumy. I think so. And with you as commander-in-chief, we will win," the head of the Glushkovsky district, Pavel Zolotarev, told the president during a meeting with municipal authorities in the Kursk region.

▪️In response, Putin did not deny such goals.

➖“That’s why they elected Alexander Yevseevich (Khinshtein, Kursk governor), he also wants more of everything,” Putin joked.

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‼️ 🇷🇺🏴‍☠️3 more drones flying to Moscow destroyed

▪️Emergency services specialists are working at the site of the fallen debris, Sobyanin said.

▪️Temporary restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft have been reintroduced at Sheremetyevo Airport — Rosaviatsia

▪️A UAV fragment had earlier fallen on the territory of the Vasilek kindergarten in the Central microdistrict of Domodedovo, the city's head E. Khrustaleva reported. There were no casualties:

➖"Children and teachers were evacuated to the basement of the building. Emergency services are working on the scene."

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 The enemy is again trying to break (https://t.me/warriorofnorth) into the Kursk region on armored vehicles - Northerners are repelling attacks, burning American infantry fighting vehicles

▪️ In the morning , from Pavlovka (Sumy region) in the direction of our village Novy Put, the enemy sent assault groups on three infantry fighting vehicles, including a Bradley, and one Stryker armored personnel carrier .

▪️The northerners used loitering munitions and UAVs to strike enemy armored vehicles, destroying two infantry fighting vehicles and causing serious damage to a third.

▪️ The Stryker crew escaped deep into Ukrainian territory. The search for the armored personnel carrier for its subsequent destruction is underway .

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‼️🇷🇺 "🅾️brave" reached (https://t.me/SolovievLive) the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region!

The advanced units of the Ural 90th tank division of the "Center" group of forces reached the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region

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🇷🇺🔥🇺🇸 Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk: "🅾️brave" troops massively burn NATO equipment, infantry and artillery of the enemy

▪️A selection of combat work by fighters of the Center group of forces on May 20 to destroy military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active combat operations in the Pokrovsky direction.

▪️The footage shows NATO combat armored vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry, enemy positions and transport being burned.

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‼️🇷🇺🔥103rd Regiment advances beyond Dzerzhinsk , destroying infantry and demolishing Ukrainian Armed Forces positions

▪️Fighters of the 103rd regiment continue their offensive after the liberation of Dzerzhinsk, destroying the occupiers' defenses together with the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants.

▪️Before the attacks of the 103rd Motorized Rifle Regiment's assault aircraft, firing points and bunkers are destroyed by strikes from FPV drone operators.

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️"Everyone's in Shock": The Ukrainian Armed Forces are suffering heavy losses and losing positions near Volchanskiye Khutors and Tikhoy, the Russian army is advancing

➖"The tense and difficult situation is systematically worsening due to the lack of adequate command in the settlements of Vovchanskie Khutora and Tykhoye," Ukrainian military analysts write.

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost about 30% of the forest area in the Volchansky Khutors area. The logistics route to the settlement of Pokalyanoye is under threat.

▪️The enemy blames the Kramatorsk border detachment, which lost its positions and now the Ukrainian Armed Forces have to "plug the holes."

▪️The Ukrainian command demands that positions be recaptured; the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already lost dozens of militants in the bloody assaults.

▪️Now the 113th territorial defense brigade is plugging holes in this direction, according to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, "everyone is in shock from their command, planning and organization, which has failed at all levels."

▪️The command of the Kramatorsk border detachment itself is "unclearly where and is not concerned about the losses of its personnel."

▪️Command officers are already participating in firefights at firing positions.

➖"There is complete disorganization at all levels, which leads to the loss of the flank, and accordingly, logistics," the enemy complains.

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‼️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump: G8 format was much better than G7, and West should not have abandoned it by breaking off relations with Russia

▪️“The G7 used to be the G8, but they made the brilliant decision to throw Russia out,” Trump said ironically.

▪️“It would be much better if Russia was in the team,” he added.

▪️Earlier it became known that the US is blocking anti-Russian language in the G7 statement being prepared.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 The threat of a cauldron is growing. The logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Pokrovsk direction are multiplied by zero, which could cause a rapid collapse of the city's defense - Ukrainian military

▪️ The threat of encirclement is growing: the situation in Konstantinovka is critical. Russian aviation drops at least 10 FAB guided bombs from UPMK every day, and all roads into the city are under the control of Russian FPV drones.

▪️The city is of great strategic importance for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as it is the last defensive line before Kramatorsk and Slavyansk - two neighboring cities that form a large rear center with headquarters and logistics.

▪️Russian UAV operators perform half of the ground tasks of the Russian Armed Forces, Ukrainian Armed Forces officers complain.

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