🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Artillery strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces concentration north of Chasy Yar

Reconnaissance from the North-V Brigade discovered enemy infantry rotating and delivering supplies to the positions.

An artillery strike was launched against the enemy concentration. As a result of the strike, the supply equipment was disabled and the enemy personnel were eliminated.

Via @sever_z

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🇷🇺🚩 The Hero City of Leningrad

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🇩🇪 Germany's domestic intelligence agency has formally declared the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party to be an "extremist group".

While this new declaration does not mean that the AfD will be banned, it will, however, legally permit the German authorities to intensify their surveillance of the party, including the use of undercover informants and monitoring party communications, under German judicial oversight.

Government calls to outright ban the party have also reignited.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦A memorial event for those killed in 2014 in the Odessa Trade Union House was held in Moscow

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🇺🇦🇺🇸The agreement on the creation of a joint investment recovery fund with the US does not contain formal security guarantees - Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Residents of Mariupol honored the memory of those killed in Odessa as a result of the arson of the Trade Union House 11 years ago.

"For the residents of Donbass, this date is truly not accidental, because 11 years ago, for the entire Russian world, for every Russian person, a signal of the point of no return was received," said the Minister of Youth Policy of the DPR, Kirill Makarov.

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🇪🇪Estonian authorities ban Victory Day celebrations

The Police and Border Guard Board will ban public gatherings in Harju, Lääne, and Ida-Virumaa counties from May 8 to 10.

This means that marches, rallies, or demonstrations are prohibited on these days. "Propaganda" and support for Russian politics through symbols, words, or actions are prohibited, stated the prefect of the Northern Prefecture, Ats Kübsarepp.

On May 9, police will also intensify their work in other Estonian cities to "intervene quickly in case of violations."

The use of symbols of "aggression" is punishable by a fine of up to 2,400 euros or arrest.

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If you ever feel like your job sucks, just remember—David Axe gets paid to write this nonsense.

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🇺🇦 Imagine being this stupid—ignoring all the red flags even the Ukrainian media is raising about this.

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🇺🇦 An Iraqi Scenario? What the U.S.-Ukraine Natural Resources Deal Really Looks Like

As Ukraine prepares to ratify a major natural resources agreement with the United States, it's worth revisiting a historical parallel: the so-called Development Fund for Iraq (DFI)—a U.S.-created financial structure established alongside the interim Iraqi government following the 2003 invasion.

The concept behind the DFI closely mirrors what’s being proposed in Ukraine today. In Iraq’s case, oil revenues and foreign-seized assets belonging to Saddam Hussein and his government were pooled into the fund. The money was then distributed to foreign contractors, mostly American, tasked with carrying out post-war reconstruction projects.

The fund operated from 2003 to 2010. At the end of its lifespan, the U.S. handed it over to the Iraqi government, which promptly shut it down. By then, around $150 billion had flowed through the DFI—an enormous sum for a country with an annual GDP of only about $50 billion at the time.

A large portion of the money went to public sector salaries, but a significant amount also funded infrastructure projects. Most of these contracts were awarded to American firms—without open tenders.

For example:

- Kellogg Brown & Root received roughly $3.5 billion.
- Bechtel Corporation earned around $2.5 billion for work on water and power systems.
- DynCorp International received $1.5 billion to train Iraqi police and supply equipment.
- Parsons Corporation was paid half a billion for schools and hospitals.

The original plans were ambitious: rebuild power plants in Baghdad and Basra, upgrade sewage systems in cities like Mosul and Najaf, construct a refinery in Baiji, and renovate Baghdad International Airport.

But on-the-ground results told a different story. Many projects were delayed, scaled back, or simply never completed. The Mosul power station was left half-finished, a water plant in Sab al-Bor abandoned, and hospitals and refineries remained shells.

Audits later revealed systemic abuse and mismanagement. The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, headed by Paul Bremer, handed out contracts with no competitive bidding. Prices were often grossly inflated—Kellogg Brown & Root, for example, bought fuel in Kuwait for $1.18 per gallon and sold it to the U.S. administration for $2.64. Ernst & Young found dozens of “ghost projects,” mostly schools, that never existed beyond paperwork.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded that $18 billion simply vanished.
No one was held accountable. American courts declined to prosecute, arguing that the DFI funds were not U.S. taxpayer dollars and thus outside their jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the head of the interim administration, Paul Bremer, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “exceptional contributions to U.S. national interests.”

Now, Ukraine appears poised to repeat this model—one where the profits flow West, the oversight is minimal, and the burden is left to the host country.

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🇺🇦 Former Zelensky advisor Arestovych responds to sanctions imposed on him by the Kiev regime.

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📝Trump washes his hands📝
Americans are distancing themselves from negotiations on the so-called Ukraine

Today, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce announced the end of US mediation efforts in resolving the conflict in the so-called Ukraine. Now the organization of meetings between delegations will fall on the shoulders of others who are willing, while the US itself will not engage in this.

🖍By pure coincidence, this came right after the signing of the "resource deal", under which 50% of the so-called Ukraine's resource extraction revenues go to a joint fund with the US.

🚩The Trump administration is already trying to present this as a "significant success in achieving peace" against the backdrop of the lack of real results, contrary to pre-election promises.

📌 At the same time, the situation on the battlefield has not changed much in recent months. The course of the negotiations depends not on the statements of American politicians, but on the realities "on the ground", where both sides have not yet exhausted their capabilities.

❗️So talks about a ceasefire within a week or a month look detached from reality. Even more puzzling are the talks about peace as an accomplished fact.
#Russia #USA #Ukraine
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