Russia’s “Victory Day” military parade rehearsal was shocked to see similar German Nazi red armbands. Russia’s foreign minister said “Hitler was also a Jew”, angering Israel to protest its distortion of history. The Maripo city council has accused the Russians of killing more than twice as many people in two months as the Nazis in two years. A recording of a Russian soldier’s call revealed that Putin ordered the use of chemical weapons and threatened to wipe Ukraine from the map. The head of the Russian parliament has criticized the West, and the head of state who has aided Ukraine should be held accountable as a war criminal.
The Russian army lost again and again, and the intercepted Russian officers said that the morale of the Russian army was on the verge of collapse, and even shooting at their own soldiers could not make them fight. British intelligence pointed out that a quarter of the battalion-level tactical group of the Russian army has lost its combat effectiveness. Belarusian troops have entered the war to help the Russian army. It is rumored that Putin will undergo surgery for cancer. At present, the internal political situation in Russia is unstable, and foreign media have exposed that the Russian elites are dissatisfied with Putin.
A strange fire broke out in a fuel depot near Moscow. Zelensky’s adviser: Ukraine will launch a counterattack as soon as the end of May
“Nikkei Asian Review” reported on May 2 that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s military adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said on the 1st that tanks, long-range artillery and other weapons aided by the United States and Europe will be released in May The Ukrainian army will be able to form an attacking force, and it is expected to launch a counterattack against the Russian army from the end of May to the middle of June. Since the start of the war, most of the Ukrainian army has only been on defense. If they can fight back with all their strength, it will be a major turning point in the war.
Arestovich bluntly said that after the Russian army failed to occupy Kyiv and failed to achieve one of its main goals, “strategically has been defeated.” He warned that, given that the Russian army massacred civilians in the town of Butcha, once the Russian army remained in Ukraine, similar “mass killings” would only increase rather than decrease.
Experts pointed out that the Russian army may mobilize before the “Victory Day” on May 9. If the Ukrainian army also launches a counterattack, the progress of the war may be accelerated. Zelensky had previously mentioned that a “decisive battle” in the Donbas region would soon begin.
However, according to foreign media reports, a fire broke out in the Mytishchi fuel depot, which is only 30 minutes away from the Kremlin. The entire fuel depot burst into flames. .
In response, Russia accused the Ukrainian army of launching the attack by helicopter. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian president, responded, “We do not confirm or deny.”
Russia sent troops to invade Ukraine, and the Ukrainian army bravely resisted and repeatedly repelled the offensive of the Russian army. Recently, there have also been some explosions and fire incidents in Russia. Russia accuses Ukraine of some of the incidents. The latest fuel depot fire is close to the Russian capital Moscow, Whether it is related to the upcoming “counter-offensive” of the Ukrainian army is intriguing.
Russia says “lifting international sanctions” is one of the conditions for peace talks
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an exclusive interview with the Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency recently, accused Ukraine of constantly changing its position, coupled with the Western world‘s “militant speech and inflammatory actions”, for various factors that have hindered the negotiation process. He also stressed that the lifting of Western sanctions is also one of the conditions of the peace talks.
In this regard, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president and a member of the negotiating delegation, refuted Lavrov’s statement on May 1, “Lavrov likes to comment on things that he is not involved in, and there is no discussion in the negotiations. All countries have imposed sanctions on Moscow because of Russia’s invasion and attempted occupation of Ukrainian land. As long as the first party does not stop its actions, the sanctions will continue to be strengthened.”
“Bloomberg” reported on the 2nd that as international sanctions gradually hit Russia hard, the Russian foreign minister suddenly said that the lifting of sanctions was a condition for peace talks. In this regard, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told “Germany First Television” on the 1st. (ARD) further made it clear that sanctions could only be lifted if Russian troops withdraw from Ukrainian territory, including the Donbas region and the Crimean peninsula.
“It’s important that we have the ability to withstand the sanctions that we impose, even if they last for several years,” Bellburke said. “We will only lift the sanctions after the Russian troops leave Ukraine.”
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss also pointed out on April 27 that Russia needs to be expelled from the entire Ukraine, including the Crimea peninsula and parts of the Donbass that Russia annexed in 2014. It is obvious that Western countries have reached a consensus on strategic goals.
Xinhua News Agency Rarely Appears Russian “Invasion” Chinese Scholar: Beijing’s Worries About Russia-Ukraine War Deepen
On April 30, Xinhua News Agency published written interviews with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. However, the outside world focused on the content of Kuleba’s exclusive interview. Xinhua News Agency rarely appeared to accuse Russia of “invading” Ukraine. Zhu Feng, a Chinese scholar, believes that this shows that Beijing’s worries about the protracted war between Russia and Ukraine are deepening.
Kuleba said in the interview: “Ukraine is currently studying the possibility of obtaining security guarantees from permanent members of the UN Security Council and other major powers, including China. We propose that China be one of the guarantors of Ukraine’s security, which is our A sign of respect and trust in the People’s Republic of China.” He also expressed hope that Beijing would call on Russia to cease fire.
The Singaporean media Lianhe Zaobao quoted Zhu Feng, dean of the School of International Relations at Nanjing University, as saying that Kuleba’s remarks showed that the Ukrainian government had expectations for Beijing’s role in the Russian-Ukrainian war. But Zhu Feng believes that the current dilemma facing the Russian-Ukrainian war is that “no one wants to give in.” “What ability and leverage does China (the CCP) have to convince Russia? This is also a big question.”
However, Zhu Feng also interpreted that the Xinhua News Agency published a lengthy exclusive interview with Kuleba, which signaled that Beijing may have “further deepening concerns” about the protracted military conflict in Ukraine.
However, Kuleba also made it clear that Russia is invading Ukraine, and if Russia is not stopped now, it will cause more crises in a few years. He emphasized that “the situation is not escalating because of Ukraine, we are exercising our right to self-defense.” These are the arguments that the Chinese state media has always avoided talking about.
When asked by Xinhua News Agency, China believes that “Ukraine should become a bridge between East and West, not a frontier of confrontation between major powers.” Kuleba replied that it was the choice made by the Ukrainian people to take the European path, and this development policy was supported by the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians, “they would not agree to play the role of a buffer zone between the East and the West.”
Russian high-level corruption is serious, China’s cottage tires are a disservice
The “Daily Mail” recently broke the news that the Russian official high-level corruption problem is serious, resulting in the defense budget being taken away layer by layer, so that the Russian army’s armored vehicles and trucks will use cheap Chinese-made knockoff tires. As a result, they fell into the mud and could not move. Compared with the French tires used on NATO vehicles, the quality is very poor. As the weather in Ukraine gradually turns wet, the advance of the Russian army may have to slow down again.
Trent Telenko, a former U.S. Defense Department official, shared on Twitter a photo of the Russian Federal Army’s Pantsir-S1 SAM with a flat tire and stuck in the mud. Trenko said that the Russian army was too corrupt, so they could not use the Pantsir-S1 SAM missile vehicle, nor could they use trucks and wheeled armored combat vehicles on the battlefield in Ukraine.
NATO installs “Michelin XZL” tires on vehicles, but Chinese companies often copy Western intellectual property rights and imitate a lot of cheap goods; Karl Muth, a scholar at the University of Chicago known as a “tire expert”, pointed out , the Chinese imitation version is “Yellow Sea YS20” (Yellow Sea YS20).
In terms of selling price, 50 sets of “Michelin XZL” tires retail for $36,000 on Alibaba’s website; however, the price of Chinese-made tires with the same number of sets is about $208, a big price difference.
The Times of New Zealand reported in March that people familiar with the matter said that Russian generals are notorious for their corruption.
According to reports, in addition to the use of Chinese-made tires, the lack of maintenance of Russian military vehicles is also one of the reasons for the stagnation of the troops.
In addition, the Twitter account “@ua_industrial”, which often shares news of the Russian-Ukrainian war, recently posted 4 photos on Twitter. In the photos, the green camouflage appearance is the Russian military individual rescue medical kit, and the brown one is the Ukrainian military individual rescue. medical kit. The size of the Ukrainian army is not only much larger than that of the Russian army, but its content is also more abundant than that of the Russian army.
Netizens who saw the post left comments: “Is the medical kit of the Russian army still in World War II?” “The contents of the Russian army may have expired for several years”, “From this, we can know the government’s treatment of the soldiers. Attitude”, “Russian military medical kits feel that they can’t save people”.
Russia has designated May 9 every year as “Victory Day” to commemorate the important historical moment when Nazi Germany announced its unconditional surrender during World War II. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly criticized “neo-Nazism” and sent troops to Ukraine on this ground. However, when the Russian army assembled in Moscow on April 28, during the rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, the red armbands worn by the soldiers were photographed with a design quite similar to the Nazi armbands, which aroused heated discussions among netizens.
Twitter account @mhmck uploaded a photo of the Russian military’s rehearsal for the parade on May 1, tweeting: “Red armbands, white circles, black symbols, Russian fascists are preparing a parade to celebrate their genocidal war in Europe. “I’m Not Ashamed” is the racist motto.” The post has so far received nearly 5,000 likes and over 1,000 retweets.
After seeing the post, netizens commented, “Wouldn’t the participants feel weird seeing these armbands?”, “Russia claimed to be anti-Nazi, but ended up using Nazi elements”, “Among various designs, they chose this It’s not a coincidence, it’s disgusting”, “Russia appropriated various elements of Nazism, but this ideology almost destroyed them in WWII”, “The numbers on the armbands look like formation numbers”, “No People stop and ask the people next to him if this is a joke? Can’t all Russians see what’s going on?”, “I never expected to see a Nazi resurgence in my lifetime”.
“Red armband, white circle, black symbol” is the armband design used in Nazi Germany in the past. Nazi Germany carried out genocide against nearly 6 million Jews from 1941 to 1945, and set up concentration camps to persecute Jewish groups and opposition figures, making Adolf Hitler a heinous historical sinner.
According to “CNN”, Lavrov reiterated in an interview with Italian TV on May 1 that the purpose of Russia’s “special military operation” against Ukraine was “denazification”, and he bluntly stated that he was dissatisfied with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Jews didn’t care. “Zelensky himself made an argument that he was a Jew, how could he possibly have Nazi ideas. I may be wrong, but Hitler was also a Jew, and a wise Jew once said that the most fanatical Anti-Semites are usually Jews”.
In this regard, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Russian ambassador to Israel on the 2nd and expressed strong dissatisfaction in person. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid denounced: “Foreign Minister Lavrov’s remarks are outrageous, inexcusable, and a terrible historical mistake!”
Dani Dayan, chairman of the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel, also criticized Russia for labeling Ukrainians as Nazis on Twitter, stressing that the claim that Hitler was of Jewish descent was baseless, “This is a complete distortion of history and a Serious insult to victims of racism!”
Maribo City Council: Russians killed more than twice as many in two months as the Nazis in two years
It has been more than two months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the southern port city of Mariupol continues to be under siege by Russian troops. According to “CNN”, the Malibo city council said on May 1 through the communication software Telegram that the number of citizens of Malibo killed by the Russian army in two months was twice the number killed by the German Nazis during World War II. Ma Libo Mayor Vadym Boychenko also said that the Nazis killed about 10,000 people in two years, the Russian army killed more than 20,000 people in just two months, and more than 40,000 people were forcibly taken by the Russian side go. “CNN” said that the current war is still ongoing, and it is impossible to independently verify Ma Libo’s official statement.
The call revealed that Putin ordered the use of chemical weapons to wipe Ukraine from the map.
The Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) announced on Twitter on April 29 a recording of an intercepted call. A Russian soldier was suspected of talking to his mother in his hometown. The mother mentioned that the Russian army launched such a violent attack on Ukraine, but it included Maliboa. There are still many areas that have not been successfully captured, including Azovstal.
The soldier responded that this is indeed the case at present, but Putin has ordered the dispatch of chemical troops and notified the Russian troops fighting on the front line to kill all Ukrainians, including children and women. When my mother heard it, she couldn’t believe her ears. She repeatedly confirmed “who said it.” The soldier emphasized: “It doesn’t matter who said it. In short, (above) ordered everyone to be killed. Ukraine must be uprooted. This country will be wiped off the world map from now on.”
The soldier also said, “I will do everything I can to shoot everything I can, and use a knife to carve the swastika symbolizing the Nazis on the top of every Ukrainian head.” After hearing this, his mother fell silent for a while.
Twitter user “Dmitri”, who has translated relevant news since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war, translated the content of the call into English and shared it on April 30, causing heated discussions.
In order to help Ukraine resist the Russian invasion, many Western countries continue to provide military equipment and weapons, which makes Russia very dissatisfied. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, criticized in a post on social media Telegram on the 2nd that the military aid of Western countries in Ukraine “is driving the world to disaster”. The head of the country who made the decision has discredited himself and must be held accountable as a war criminal.”
Volodin said that Western countries began to forget the tragedy of World War II and the price that had to be paid to free the world from fascism. “Short historical memory can lead to big problems”.
The Russian army was unable to force the 1/4 battalion-level tactical group to fight even after losing and shooting at its own people. Belarus joined the war.
According to the “New York Times” report, senior Ukrainian officials and U.S. officials familiar with the war revealed that as the Russian offensive stagnated, Russia’s highest-ranking general, Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov, who has the code to launch the nuclear bomb, went to the General, on April 30, secretly went to Izium, northeast of Kharkov, to supervise the battle, in an attempt to change the “bland offensive” of the Russian army.
After the Ukrainian army grasped the information, it launched an artillery attack on the Russian army positions, but Gilasimov had left, but this attack caused about 200 Russian soldiers casualties. However, some Ukrainian media claimed that Gilasimov’s right leg was injured by shell fragments and was forced to return to China for treatment. The news cannot be confirmed for the time being, but it will still have a blow to the Russian soldiers.
Gerasimov is one of three people who have the nuclear bomb launch code together with President Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. People familiar with the matter revealed that Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine was made by Gerasimov, Putin and Shoigu. Igu and National Security Council secretary-general Nikolay Patrushev made the final decision.
According to the “Daily Star” report, the content of a phone call between a Russian military officer and his wife was intercepted by the outside world recently. “My soldiers don’t want to fight,” the Russian officer told his wife, “even if I shoot at them, it’s no use”, while he also lashed out at the recruits that Russian officials sent in for reinforcements, accusing them of being cowards. The implication is that this group of people newly recruited to fight on the front line may not be very good at fighting.
The Russian officer admitted that the morale of the Russian army was on the verge of collapse, so that the generals had to shoot at their comrades to force them to fight; and the comrades in arms were even more in a state of panic, hoping that this cruel war would be completed as soon as possible. Make a break.
Ukrainian intelligence agencies have announced recently that they intercepted calls between Russian troops and their comrades, and grassroots soldiers admitted that 25,900 Russian troops had been killed.
The British Ministry of Defense released a war situation report on “Twitter” on the 2nd, pointing out that in the early days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Russian army dispatched more than 120 battalion-level tactical groups (BTG) to attack Ukraine, accounting for about 65% of the Russian army’s total ground combat power. But more than a quarter of them may have been lost. In addition, some of the Russian military’s most elite units, including the VDV airborne units, also suffered the highest levels of attrition in personnel or equipment and could take years to recover.
Other military analysts say that Russia is sending troops from the Far East to support Udong and redeploying troops retreating from the northern Ukrainian campaign, but it is questionable whether it will be able to play its role.
In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff said on Facebook on the 2nd that when the Russian army stormed the Ukrainian Donbass, the Volyn and Polissya areas on the border of northern Ukraine and Belarus have been confirmed. The Belarusian armed forces appeared in the war.
It is rumored that Putin will have cancer surgery and the internal political situation is unstable. China Post: The dissatisfaction of the Russian elite is growing
Putin was noticed shaking hands and sitting strangely during his previous appearances, prompting doubts about his health. According to the “Daily Mail” report, a former Kremlin intelligence source pointed out on the Telegram social channel “General SVR” that the senior Kremlin’s senior officials revealed to him that Putin had cancer in his abdomen a year and a half ago, and he had a par Kimson’s disease, surgery has been recommended, but the exact date is still being discussed.
According to reports, during Putin’s surgery, he may nominate Nikolai Patrushev, the hard-line former head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), to continue commanding the war against Ukraine. The 70-year-old Patrushev has a gloomy personality and has so far been regarded by the outside world as a key architect of the tactics of the “war of aggression against Ukraine”. Nazis” (neo-Nazis).
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine encountered fierce resistance. The war lasted for more than two months. Anti-war protests continued to appear in Russia. Natalia Poklonskaya, a 42-year-old member of parliament who once strongly supported Putin’s invasion of the “most beautiful prosecutor” He couldn’t help but scold him and made anti-war remarks in public.
According to the “Moscow Times” report, in an exclusive interview with YouTube’s popular channel recently, Poklonskaya criticized the “Z” symbol for representing the tragedy of Russia and Ukraine, believing that “blind worship of any symbol is dangerous.” She bluntly stated that the “special military operation” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a disaster; she stressed that her two countries were killing each other, “the body and soul of the people were dismembered, my heart aches, this is not what I want”.
Not only that, the “Washington Post” reported on April 29 that Russian oligarchs, tycoons and financial officials were originally silent on Putin’s military actions, but as they were “severely injured” under global sanctions, including a sharp decline in their wealth, and Seeing that the economic structure built for many years was destroyed, but there were words of misery, dissatisfaction was gradually rising, some people began to try to raise objections, some people gave up their positions or went abroad, showing that the rift between the Russian high society and the government is growing.
The report pointed out that the overwhelming sanctions imposed by Western countries have lowered a new iron curtain for the Russian economy, and directly wiped out the net worth of many oligarchs and industrial tycoons. It is understood that at least four oligarchs have left Russia, all of whom came under the more enlightened era of former president Boris Yeltsin; At least four other senior officials voluntarily left, the most senior of whom was Putin’s international envoy Anatoly Chubais.
In addition, some of the top government officials who are crucial to the functioning of the country have been kidnapped and unable to go, such as Elvira Nabiullina, the highly respected president of the Central Bank. Five people familiar with the matter revealed that she offered her resignation when the sanctions were initiated in the West, but Putin refused to approve it. One of them also said everyone would work until the “International Criminal Court” in The Hague, Netherlands, implying that unless Putin’s government is tried for war crimes, key officials will not be able to escape.
Billionaires, senior bankers, as well as a senior official and former officials told The Washington Post that they were all seized by an increasingly isolated Putin, and that Putin’s inner circle was surrounded by a small flock of eagles. With security officials occupied, people outside the circle cannot influence Putin’s decision-making at all, and all public complaints are either “silenced” or covered by the government’s propaganda against foreign sanctions.
Within hours of the declaration of war in late February, 37 of Russia’s wealthiest entrepreneurs were summoned to the Kremlin. Participants revealed that many people were frustrated and shocked when they heard the news of the war, and they could not even speak. They realized that the corporate kingdom that had been built for more than 30 years of reform was about to collapse. “We have lost everything”, but no one dared to protest to Putin on the spot.
Nabiulina recently warned that Russia has not yet fully felt the power of the sanctions, and the worst is yet to come, including that the inventory of the manufacturing industry that relies on imported components is about to run out, and the inventory of imported goods is gradually bottoming out. Russian exiled tycoon Sergei Pugachev bluntly stated that the Russian people still believe the government’s words so far, including that the casualties of troops are not serious, foreign economic sanctions have expired, etc. “But three months later, shops and factories are out of stock. It can be sold, and the casualties of the Russian army cannot be concealed.” Putin’s situation is likely to be worse.
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