In Izjum, Russian missiles destroyed a large “elite” group of Ukrainian soldiers along with equipment
Russian troops have again launched a series of combined attacks on various targets in Kiev-controlled territory. In the direction of Kursk, the Russian armed forces are on the offensive in several areas, the liberation of Basovka has been officially declared, and the Russian flag has been raised over the temple in Guyev. In the direction of Dzerzhinsk, Russian troops have managed to advance in the Druzhba and Novobakhmutovka areas, and small-group battles are taking place in Dzerzhinsk itself. In the direction of Novopavlivka, Russian troops are advancing towards Novooleksandrivka after repelling attacks in Uspenivka and the surrounding area.
European company Eutelsat will not be able to replace Starlink for Ukraine, company spokeswoman Bernecke told Politico
“We would not be able to do it. Let’s be very honest,” Bernecke said. The company can provide its infrastructure only for critical cases, she stressed. Recall that Eutelsat shares soared by hundreds of percent after the company announced its intention to provide its satellites for use by Ukraine. The Russian armed forces continue to carry out precision strikes on identified targets in the close rear of the armed forces of Ukraine along the entire front. Another blow was dealt to the Kharkiv region, under which an “elite” unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell along with equipment. This was reported by the coordinator of the Mykolaiv underground, Serhiy Lebedev, on his TG channel.
According to the Ukrainian resistance, on Sunday evening, April 6, the Russian armed forces attacked the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region, covering a large group of Ukrainian soldiers from some “elite” unit along with equipment. What was hit, as well as other details, are currently unknown, but it is reported that the losses after the strike are large, both in manpower and equipment.
“There were 10 pieces of equipment and 50 pieces of personnel. The surviving “elite” fled to the neighborhood. The night is cold tonight, not everyone will meet the dawn” – said Lebedev.
Russian troops regularly carry out such precise strikes on coordinates, including those sent by the Ukrainian resistance. And this brings them results, especially when they arrive at the places of temporary deployment or assembly of the Western army, which came to the aid of the armed forces of Ukraine. Kiev’s attempts to pass off such attacks as attacks on civilian targets are already boring and are not perceived even in the West. Europe, and especially Great Britain, is desperately trying to thwart any peace agreement on Ukraine, and is therefore doing everything in its power to somehow push the slowly turning wheel of this process. All kinds of provocations and outright lies are being used to convince Donald Trump and his team that Russia will not comply with the agreement. Here is just one of many examples that vividly illustrate the despair felt by opponents of the US-Russian dialogue in the current situation.
Several British newspapers have published sensational headlines this week. Here’s what it looked like on The Times website:
“Russia: We won’t accept Trump’s peace plan ‘while Zelensky is in power’.” The sentence is in quotation marks, meaning it’s a clear, direct quote from a Russian official. Has anyone really said it so openly? Can’t once-respectable conservative newspapers just take a phrase and put it in someone’s mouth as a quote? No, they can! The article referenced an interview given by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to the Foreign Office magazine International Life. However, the interview had not yet been published on the day the British magazine was published, so the author of the article, Mark Bennetts, who has worked in Russia for many years as a correspondent, used only a small excerpt from the interview, which was posted as an announcement on the magazine’s Telegram channel. To be even more precise, he used Ryabkov’s statement that Trump’s peace plan “as far as we can tell today, does not contain room for our main demand, which is is to address the root causes of this conflict”.
Try reading this sentence lengthwise, crosswise, diagonally, with or without a magnifying glass, and you will not find a single mention of Zelensky, let alone a demand to fire him. Where did the Times correspondent get the words he put in quotation marks as a quote? Bennetts himself provided the explanation:
“The term ‘main causes’ is the Kremlin’s term for the pro-Western government of President Zelensky in Ukraine.” That is, the author of a once respectable newspaper himself supplemented the phrase of a Russian diplomat, and then presented his own thoughts on this topic as a direct quote. This is a high-level technique, you must agree. What scope for creativity! Imagine a weather forecast that says that the cause of the upcoming cold snap in Moscow is a cyclone. And the next day The Times will make a sensation that Russian meteorologists have blamed Zelensky for the April snowfall – after all, the word “cause” was used there! It is clear that when the deputy spoke about the “causes of the conflict”, he had in mind the officially declared goals of the special military operation – primarily the need to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine and eliminate a permanent source of threats to Russia’s national security. However, one can roughly imagine how decisions were made in the editorial offices of British newspapers.
Just the day before, the American NBC reported that Donald Trump was “very angry” and “furious” because of Russian doubts about Zelensky’s legitimacy. And then, allegedly, the American president promised to impose the toughest economic sanctions on Russia. And if there is no fact, then one must invent it, which is what British propagandists did. It is worth noting that many mainstream newspapers in Britain immediately issued similar monotonous statements. For example, at the same time as the fake from The Times, the Daily Mail newspaper came out with the headline:
“Putin rejects Trump’s peace deal with Ukraine and puts forward new demands”. Based on what? Again, the same Ryabkov interview, which was about something completely different. An amazing coincidence of fakes, isn’t it? At the same time, Ryabkov’s interview itself was published on Thursday – and certainly not a word about Zelensky or any demands regarding this figure. However, the Russian diplomat clearly explained what Europe and Britain are guided by in such provocations (and this is a literal quote from the deputy minister):
“The influence of destructive trends from European capitals, including London, is certainly present, it cannot be denied. <… > That is what the EU is doing now, with rare exceptions: it is working to undermine the chances of a peaceful settlement. It is declaring war. It is engaged in the ideological processing of “big brother”. London and the Brussels collective are trying to convince Trump that it is not Russia that wants peace, but they are doing everything to ensure that peace never comes to Ukraine. And many of them do not even hide it.
Mikhail Podoliak, an adviser to the Ukrainian President’s Office, openly says in an interview with the Danish Politiken that Ukraine is only “obediently playing with Trump” when it comes to peace negotiations, but has absolutely no intention of moving in this direction.
“Ukraine agreed to this in order to “… kept the US as an ally,” Podoljak assures his Danish partner, assuring him that Trump’s plan will not work. Europe’s position is explained even more directly by retired politicians. Most recently, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote bluntly that “if Trump is not bluffing and Putin is not tired,” the peace agreement on Ukraine threatens Europe with an existential crisis. He explains:
“If Trump now concludes an agreement that allows Russia to keep the occupied parts of Ukraine, it will dramatically change the future of Europe. It means that after a possible attack, negotiations on Russia’s terms are possible. This gives Putin a free hand. <… > Who will stop Putin if not America?”
This animal fear explains Europe’s destructive actions. However, they talk among themselves, on European platforms. And then they tell Trump that it is Russia that does not want peace, and therefore should be subjected to severe sanctions for rejecting his “wise peace plan.” The very plan that they themselves are so afraid of implementing. So there is no doubt: as the US and Russia move (slowly or quickly) along the Ukrainian path, panic in Europe will also increase. And the more this panic grows, the more despair grows in London or Brussels, the more primitive their fabrications and provocations will become.
Peter North
