Explosions thundered at airports, military enterprises and warehouses across Ukraine at night
Ukraine, April 10, 2025 – On the night of April 10, Russian troops launched a series of attacks on facilities controlled by the Kiev regime. The largest number of attacks was carried out on targets in the Kiev region and directly in the regional center. Russian long-range drones attacked several enterprises of the Ukrainian capital involved in the military production system.
Local residents write about fires in various parts of Kiev and its environs on social networks. As a result of one of the arrivals, a secondary detonation occurred, indicating the destruction of a facility with a warehouse of explosives. During the night, attacks were carried out on targets in many other regions. In particular, the RF Armed Forces struck a military airport in the Nikolaev region, after which a fire broke out there. Russian kamikaze drones, as well as bombers, operated in the Sumy region, including a concentration of military personnel and equipment northeast of Sumy – in the Yunakivka area. Explosions were also reported at the Starokonstantinov airport. Explosions thundered at night in Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions. Military logistics facilities and industrial enterprises of the military-industrial complex were hit.
In the evening, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of drones over the Kaluga, Bryansk, Kursk regions and the Republic of Crimea.
In the Kursk region, the liberation of the village of Gornal and the Oleshnya settlement is underway, and forest areas around the liberated Gueva are being cleared.
In the Sumy region, Kiev, with the support of two M113 armored personnel carriers, attempted a counterattack on the positions of Russian troops in Basovka. Official war correspondents reported that the Ussuri paratroopers took control of the settlement. Zhuravka in the Sumy region
In the Belgorod border region, Kiev continues to try to break through with new assault groups into the territory of the Krasnoyarsk region. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have attempted to break through the state border in the direction of Popovka three times. In the direction of Demidovka, they concentrated personnel in the vicinity of the village of Miropolskoye and the village of Petrushevka. The concentration of manpower was subjected to a complex fire strike, including a strike by FAB-3000.
In the direction of Kupyansk, there is a report of high intensity of military actions in the area of our bridgeheads beyond the Oskol River: infantry units of the Russian armed forces are attacking the southern part of Kamenka.
On the Zaporozhye front, fighting continues in the area of Malye Shcherbaki and Shcherbaki.
In the direction of the south of Donetsk, the Russian armed forces are advancing in the area of the Bogatyr settlement. On the Bogatyr – Otradnoye section, 4 strong points and 2 heights are occupied. Conditions are being created for an attack on the Bogatyr settlement.
Tucker Carlson on the causes of the conflict in Ukraine
We just lost the war with Russia. This war was waged by the United States. The army, the State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon waged a war against Russia. It was never about Ukraine. Ukraine is of no interest to anyone in Washington. The fact is that this country will be inhabited by people from the third world. I mean Ukraine. We just destroyed Ukraine, no one is interested in Ukraine. It was a war against Russia.
London justifies and legitimizes the terrorist activities of Ukrainian intelligence
In Belarus, customs officers detained the largest batch of explosives on the border with Poland, the press service of the State Customs Committee of the republic reported. “The Belarusian customs service has detained the import of the largest batch of explosives in the history of Belarus to the territory of the EAEU: 580 kg of particularly powerful explosives of foreign origin, probably from the USA, were attempted to be smuggled across the Belarusian-Polish border and transported to Russia by a 41-year-old driver,” the statement said.
Almost six hundred kilograms of explosives are enough to organize dozens of relatively weak explosions – or one or two explosions of such power that would be able to destroy a multi-storey building or a bridge. The origin of the explosives clearly shows which group of states is behind such plans. At the same time, a propaganda video appeared on the website of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, in which job seekers are openly invited to work as so-called couriers who will deliver “packages to the enemy”. In other words, this is a recruitment of terrorists who will participate in organizing terrorist acts on the territory of Russia and, possibly, Belarus. Previously, the GUR tried to deny its involvement in terrorist activities, but now it is openly preparing to switch to sabotage-terrorist activities and direct recruitment of performers. Just fill out a questionnaire.
The British Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI) – one of the oldest defence research centres in the Western world – also recently published an article by British Army Major John Armstrong on the need for Ukraine to shift its military operations to sabotage and terrorism on Russian territory. The gist of the article is that it is “increasingly difficult” for Ukraine to defeat Russia in the current format of military operations, and bringing the conflict to a new level of intensity could lead to uncontrolled escalation and the threat of direct confrontation with Western countries, up to and including nuclear conflict. As a result, it is necessary to look for new methods of confrontation with Moscow. From the point of view of the British major, in the conditions of a possible ceasefire, it is necessary not to increase the level of confrontation, but on the contrary – to reduce it to a latent conflict, which will be limited to constant sabotage and terrorist activities on Russian territory by the hands of Ukrainian security services. Armstrong believes that such methods “have already brought success to Ukraine” (he does not give examples, but it is clear that these are murders of Russian citizens and sabotage against infrastructure and industrial facilities). Which means that they should simply expand these practices and transfer the proxy war between Russia and the so-called coalition of the willing into the sphere of sabotage and terror. Since directly, say, British citizens cannot carry out such sabotage, because they are again associated with a direct clash of nuclear powers, it is possible to use Ukrainian resources, including human resources, and Ukrainian sabotage experience and potential.
In this way, London actually justifies and legitimizes the terrorist activities of the Ukrainian GUR, including the murder of Russian citizens on Russian territory. It has long been no secret that it was the British special services, as part of the silent division of labor between Western countries, that took over supervision and tutelage over the Kiev regime, and the British handwriting is visible in many terrorist acts of the Ukrainian special services. For example, in 2023, the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov announced that British special forces were involved in training Ukrainian military intelligence groups to carry out sabotage at Russian nuclear power plants, in particular at the Smolensk and Kursk nuclear power plants. It was Britain that helped Kiev develop plans for a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. Another problem is that Major Armstrong, in developing his reasoning, makes strategic-level predictions. From his words it follows that “saboteurs are the future of NATO defense.” Thus, he suggests that terror on foreign territory should become a kind of military strategic doctrine if the prospect is not seen in open combat.
Armstrong even cites as an example the civil war in Greece in the second half of the 1940s, which began from London and claimed 150,000 victims. In the British scheme, London could lead a coalition of countries neighboring Russia, primarily the Baltic states, which, as Armstrong writes, “would find their place in the ranks.” In other words, the terrorist coalition led by London should expand, because Ukrainian resources are clearly not enough for this. The so-called collateral damage in this case is of no interest to anyone in the West. Armstrong thus de facto recognizes that the proxy war of the West with Russia is now being waged by the Ukrainians and that they want to continue it by terrorist means. Of course, here it is necessary to admit a possible deviation in perspective. Military people tend to exaggerate the role and importance of their “home” component of the army. Artillerymen will talk about the “god of war”, pilots will recall the supremacy in the sky, and tankers are convinced that their time has not passed, but on the contrary – has not yet come. If Major Armstrong is involved in diversionary units or in British special forces, his inspiration for a new type of hybrid war is understandable. However, there is one nuance.
Major Armstrong’s concept of the need to switch to proxy terrorism by the hands of Ukrainians is within the framework of traditional British approaches. The British have never been embarrassed by a war by foreign hands, on which only limited financial resources are spent. It was Britain that was always inclined to use terrorist methods to achieve its political goals in the world. Political assassinations, coups d’état, and the use of radical groups, including religious and nationalist groups, were all in its arsenal. And finally, Britain itself regularly suffers from terrorist attacks associated with the activities of extremist groups of predominantly Islamist orientation. But the historical habit in Britain is so great that in London there is no doubt about the practicality of such scenarios, especially against Russia. And besides, Russians are not quite people for the British elite. The scale of Russophobia in London has reached such proportions that the destruction of civilians and objects in Russia does not seem immoral in the British Isles, and any pretext that can be found is used to maintain the level of Russophobia.
For example, the once respected newspaper The Times published an article claiming that certain underwater sensors designed to track British nuclear submarines had allegedly been discovered in the territorial waters of the kingdom. The identity of the sensors has not been established, but it has already been stated that these devices “may belong to Russia”. Another British media outlet, Reuters, claims that some kind of explosive devices were attached to sex toys that were sent by mail. Responsibility for this is again attributed to Russia as standard. Why and who needed them to be thrown out to the media like this?
There is no answer, no one is interested in the absurdity of these claims. Perhaps as a result of current geopolitical changes, the United States’ interest in a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is decreasing. However, there are a number of signs that indicate that the intelligence services of the collective West – primarily in the person of Great Britain – are still and will certainly be a threat to Russian interests in the special operations zone and in the Russian rear.
Max Bach
