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Goodnight Resisters everywhere

The 47th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has announced its results on the Avdiivka direction - over 7,000 destroyed Russians, over 100 units of equipment (including two T90 tanks), and 25 drones (ZALA, "Lancet", SuperCam).

In addition, the artillery of the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade struck 3 command posts, 12 warehouses, 16 mortar teams, 6 cannons, and 18 trucks. The brigade continues to repel the Russian advance

Other news from the world:

🇬🇧 In Great Britain, for the first time in the world, a person's hearing was restored with the help of gene therapy.

18-year-old Opal Sandy has been deaf since birth due to auditory neuropathy. She was injected with a working copy of the OTOF gene into her ear. The operation lasted only 16 minutes - now the girl hears almost perfectly.

Doctors believe that the trial is just the beginning of gene therapy and marks a new era in the treatment of deafness.

@ukrainejournal

Floods continue in Putinistan. In the Omsk region, a dam broke, in the Tomsk region - 12 settlements were flooded.

Spring floods continue in Russia. In the Ust-Ishim district of the Omsk region, a dam broke again a few days ago, residents are being evacuated from the nearest territories. The village of Ashevany was completely flooded, the water hid cars and the first floors of houses. According to local media, 13 settlements are now flooded on the territory of Kailinsky, Orekhovsky, Slobodchikovsky and Ust-Ishimsky rural settlements. Also, the water washed away 4 roads of district significance, residents are forced to travel by boat. In addition, the Tevrizsky and Tarsky districts were under the threat of flooding.

In the Tomsk region, the most tense situation has developed in the Chainsky district, 12 settlements are flooded there. In the Kolpashevsky, Molchanovsky, Krivosheinsky, Teguldetsky and Bakcharsky districts, some sections and roads are flooded.

The administration of the Chainsky district notified that ten settlements were cut off from the "mainland" due to the flood.

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a total of 317 residential buildings and 467 adjacent territories remain flooded in the Ust-Ishim district of the Omsk region.

According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Tomsk region, more than 100 residential buildings are flooded in the region. The water level in the Tom and Ushayka rivers continues to rise. In addition, the fire season has already begun in the region.

Source

@freerussia_report

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The 47th Brigade’s Bradley crews have been fighting hard. One crew recently scored one of the longest direct tank-kills of the Russia-Ukraine war when it hit a Russian T-80 tank with a wire-guided TOW missile from a mile away under the cover of darkness.

This year of fighting has cost the 47th Brigade nearly 80 Bradleys that the analysts at Oryx have identified: 37 destroyed and dozens more damaged, abandoned or captured. Some of the damaged and abandoned vehicles are recoverable and fixable; some surely are write-offs.

All that is to say, the 47th Brigade was burning though its reserves of M-2s fast—until fresh U.S. aid finally arrived.

Now there are enough replacement M-2s in Ukraine, or on the way to Ukraine, to bring the 47th Brigade back up to full strength, make good another year’s worth of losses and also equip a second brigade with the tough IFVs with their powerful 25-millimeter auto-cannons and tank-killing TOW missiles.

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The United States Has Given Ukraine a Hundred M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles in Just Two Weeks

In two weeks, the United States has shipped around 100 M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine.

That’s a lot of Bradleys: enough to replace all the 33-ton, 10-person M-2s the Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade—so far Ukraine’s only Bradley-operator—has lost in a year of non-stop combat in southern and eastern Ukraine.

And there should be enough M-2s left over to equip a second brigade with the type.

The U.S. Defense Department has announced two aid packages for Ukraine since the U.S. Congress finally approved $61 billion in fresh financial support for Ukraine on April 23.

Russia-friendly Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives managed to delay that vote for six month before caving.

The two aid packages together are worth $1.4 billion and include ammunition, vehicles and air-defense equipment. Both mention fresh shipments of M-2s without specifying how many M-2s Ukraine would get.

*But when the Pentagon updated its main Ukraine fact sheet on Friday, the new language described “more than 300” M-2s. The previous version of the fact sheet, dated April 26, mentioned “more than 200” M-2s.*

The 47th Brigade equipped three 30-vehicle battalions with Bradleys from the initial consignment of 200 M-2s and deployed the vehicles in combat starting with Ukraine’s southern counteroffensive, which kicked off in early June 2023.

Six months later, the [seasoned] brigade sped east to bolster Ukrainian defenses west of Avdiivka. After Avdiivka fell in February, the 47th Brigade fought a rearguard action for a few weeks and, in late April, was preparing to withdraw for its first brigade-wide period of rest and reset in nearly a year.

But then the Russian 30th Motor Rifle Brigade broke through Ukrainian lines east of Ocheretyne and advanced several miles, compelling the 47th Brigade to rush back to the line.

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Every year, on the second Sunday of May, Ukrainians celebrate Mother's Day.

Iryna's son volunteered for the war in the spring of 2022 and has been in the war zone for two years.

His mother made the decision to join the ranks of the Armed Forces a little later.

Iryna knew that not everyone would understand her choice, but in December 2022, she returned from abroad and applied to the TCC .

Why are there so many heroes in Ukraine?

Because every Ukrainian mother is a heroine.❤️

Happy holiday to you! And thank you for everything.

Armed forces of Ukraine.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦🔱

Interesting information from Agents Atesh.

The African Mercenary Corps is involved in the attack on the Kharkiv region.

Agents of the ATESH movement from the headquarters of the 44th AK report that Russia is using the African Corps in an attack on the Kharkiv region. They are already suffering huge losses.

The mercenaries were not ready for such a war. The Russians send them to the advanced pens, knowing that most of them will not return from the assaults.

We could see all the preparation of this corps at the parade, where 20 people performed their traditional war dance.

There is evidence that there are also mercenaries in the Kharkiv region who have already fought in Mali and Libya.

The Russians are recruiting and using mercenaries from poor countries in an attempt to recoup their losses. All countries in the world should consider whether it is worth interacting with such a country.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦🔱 Liz

The following is a transcript of an interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken that aired on May 12, 2024.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Secretary, I have so many more questions about this, but I have to also ask you about Ukraine because Russia is making this push, as you know, into Kharkiv and the White House says that Russia is expected to increase troop levels. Is this the reality? Is this the cost of the delay in the U.S. delivering weapons to those frontlines?

SECRETARY BLINKEN: Look, there's no- there's no doubt there's been a cost in the months-long delay in getting the supplementary budget request approved and the equipment sent out to- to Ukraine. Just this week, we did a drawdown of about $400 million in defense equipment for Ukraine coming from the supplemental. So we're doing everything we can to rush this assistance out there. Europeans are doing the same. Look, I'm convinced that Ukraine can effectively hold the line in the east, it can continue to press the advantages achieved for itself in the Black Sea, where it's getting as much out through the Black Sea, feeding the world as it did before the Russian re-invasion of Ukraine, as well as to hold Russian forces at risk, including in Crimea to make it more difficult for them to continue this aggression. We've been providing the systems to do that, but it's a challenging moment. We are not going anywhere, and neither are more than some 50 countries that are supporting Ukraine. That will continue and if Putin thinks he can outlast Ukraine, outlast its supporters. He's wrong.

CBS news.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦🔱 Liz

💥🔥Donetsk Oblast, a Ukrainian FPV munition from the 47th Mechanized Brigade hits a Russian tank, causing a catastrophic cookoff. 👏

⚡️US General: 'Russia will not stop with Ukraine unless they're stopped in Ukraine.’

An autocratic regime like Russia can readily prioritize the expansion of its defense industries over economic well-being to sustain their military actions in Ukraine, along with help from Iran and North Korea, said Lt Gen. Steven L. Basham, U.S. Air Forces in Europe deputy commander.

"Make no mistake. No matter how this ends in Ukraine, Russia will not stop with Ukraine unless they're stopped in Ukraine,” he said.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-to-increase-taxes-on-struggling-energy-giant-gazprom-this-year/

Rebekah Jones

https://open.substack.com/pub/rebekahjones/p/global-briefs-may-12-2024?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Katsap cattle in Germany are put in place 😁

Reading another post, I found out those were police who took out the Russian because he was using very bad words

According to The Spectator, the military economy of the Russian Federation, engineered by Putin, remains under sanctions, and its collapse may be imminent, contingent upon actions taken by the West.

The article highlights China's growing dominance as Russia's primary trade partner and technology supplier since 2022, potentially surpassing the EU. Increased military spending has stimulated overall economic growth within Russia. Direct military expenditures as a percentage of GDP surged from 2.7% in 2021 to 6% in 2024.

However, this growth is fueled by government spending on military production, which drives consumer spending and tax revenues. Yet, the funding primarily stems from the export of oil and raw materials. Although the West initially attempted to curtail Russia's export revenues while maintaining the oil flow to Western markets, these efforts have been insufficient.

Russia has successfully redirected its sales to Asia, particularly to India and China, compensating for the loss in European markets. Nonetheless, this shift has resulted in increased costs and complexities in equipment procurement.

The high demand for labor and limited access to Western technologies have led to a decline in labor productivity by 3.6% in 2022, alongside reduced capital investments by companies, anticipating lower profits and higher taxes.

The article concludes that a potential drop in oil prices or further increases in sales costs may diminish state revenues and subsequently military expenditures, ultimately leading to the collapse of the military-driven economic model.

North Korea may supply ruZZia with multiple launch rocket systems.

North Korea has developed a new 240-mm multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) with "guided" projectiles that can be transferred to ruZZia for use in the war against Ukraine as early as this year, writes the South Korean media outlet Yonhap News.

The final tests of the "technically updated" artillery system took place in the DPRK on May 10. They were personally observed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. A report by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) noted that the tests demonstrated the "destructive power" of the 240-millimeter MLRS.

At the same time, "guided" projectiles for it were tested a month earlier. Officially, they have a range of up to 40 km, but the South Korean Security Research Institute previously admitted that the range of the missile could be 60 km.

According to Yonhap News, North Korea plans to increase the production of new shells and multiple launch rocket launchers in order not only to target them at South Korea, but also to provide them to the ruZZian army.

The US authorities have repeatedly reported that North Korea is transferring weapons to ruZZia for the war in Ukraine. In return, Pyongyang asked for military equipment, as well as advanced military technologies, said John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the US National Security Council. Naturally ruZZia and the DPRK denied these statements.

As we previously reported, UN experts confirmed at the end of April the use of ballistic missiles produced in North Korea against Ukraine. In particular, they found that on January 2 of this year, Kharkiv was hit by a missile of the Hwasong-11 series. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that since the end of last year, the Z-military has fired more than 20 North Korean weapons on the territory of the country. As a result of these attacks, at least 24 civilians were killed, more than a hundred were seriously injured, the SBU claimed.

Source

@freerussia_report

The huge sunspot has increased to 200 thousand kilometers. Tomorrow, May 12, there will be high solar activity

NASA is observing the giant sunspot AR3664, which continues to grow. Now this area of ​​increased activity is 15 times the size of our planet and continues to grow, writes Space com.

🔍 AR3664 has already become so gigantic that it can be seen from Earth even without special equipment, using only dark glasses to observe the solar eclipse.

🔍 Very active explosive energy release processes (solar flares) and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occur on the surface of a sunspot.

🔍 These powerful bursts of energy into space can reach Earth and cause widespread power outages, interfere with radio communications and navigation signals, disable satellites, and cause enhanced aurora displays.

‼️ NASA expects high solar activity to occur today and tomorrow. All weather dependent people should take care of themselves.

📹 VideoFromSpace/Time Lapse was created based on three days of observations of the surface of the Sun, making it possible to understand how quickly the sunspot evolves.

My mother is also waiting for me, she wants me to return from that war as soon as possible. I don't call her that often, but I know how she feels, how she wants to hug me.

My mother is a strong woman! But often she can't hold back her feelings either, especially when mothers bury their children... No, tears are not weakness, tears are love.

Thank you, my dear, for raising me the way I am, so that today, in my post, I could cope with incredibly difficult challenges. And I also adopted other virtues from you: kindness, sensitivity, justice - I try to do as you taught!

❗️Low bow and respect to all mothers who are waiting for sons and daughters from the front line. I know how difficult it is for YOU to live with anxiety in your heart, how you react to literally every call.

Let's not forget the mothers whose children have gone to eternity. They really need our attention, support and love.
Honor the fallen Heroes!
Honor mothers!
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🇺🇦 Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk
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