"The number of our drones in the sky has increased several-fold."

"The situation at the front is increasingly taking on the features of a creeping and uncontrolled collapse of the defense. Most reserves were exhausted in the heavily publicized campaign around Pokrovsk, which essentially became an expensive PR maneuver. Remaining forces were shifted east, where head-on, exhausting assaults near Kupyansk continue—lacking strategic depth but incurring high losses.

Against the backdrop of this regrouping, the capacity to hold the defensive line is rapidly shrinking, while the Russian army maintains offensive activity across a broad front—from Sumy to Zaporozhye."
The Kiev regime committed large forces to Kupyansk, but even that didn't help. Over a month of attempts to create a "victory" on one section of the front by weakening others, Ukrainian propaganda managed to report that the city was recaptured by the Ukrainian army and nearly mopped up.

"In Kupyansk, Ukrainian units are again storming fortified Russian positions head-on. Losses are estimated unofficially at up to two brigades, around 5,000 troops. Decisions are being made not based on military necessity, but for the sake of an informational picture."
In essence, the Ukrainian troops thrown into the slaughter find themselves "between a rock and a hard place"—ahead of them are Russian fortifications, and behind them, blocking detachments are pushing them forward. The attempt to retake the city has turned into a trap.

📣 "It's been said a thousand times: Russia won't accept any European or NATO troops in Ukraine, but no, Micron (Macron) keeps peddling this pathetic bullshit. Well, come on then. This is what you'll get"

· MK-Ultra: CIA’s mind control experiments on civilians.
· Operation Delirium: U.S. military subjected to harmful biological agents.
· Operation Fishbowl: Reckless nuclear tests in upper atmosphere.
· COINTELPRO: FBI’s illegal surveillance and sabotage of activists.
· MK-Naomi: CIA’s biological warfare research on civilians.
· Operation Chaos: CIA’s illegal surveillance of anti-war Americans.
· Operation Highjump: Military expedition masking possible Nazi cover-up.
· Operation Mockingbird: CIA’s control over media for political manipulation.
· Operation Northwoods: U.S. military’s plan to stage false-flag attacks.
· Operation Paperclip: U.S. protected Nazi war criminals for scientific gain.
· Project Seal: Secretive testing of underwater explosives.
· Operation Stargate: $20 million+ secret psychic-warfare program.
· Operation Popeye: Manipulation of weather during the Vietnam war.
· Project Artichoke: Turning unsuspecting people into programmable agents.

Belgorod's Fonar TV interviews our author Ian Turner, who shares his story of moving to Belgorod in 2016 and explains why life in the Russian provinces appeals to him more than life in the UK.
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In the West, people are greater individualists; they have a more developed competitive spirit, which Russians lack. For example, at the university, I have colleagues who receive fairly small salaries. If I were in their place, I wouldn't work for such money. I find that unacceptable. Also, in Russia, you are often expected to do things just because, for free. When I started working at the university, I was surprised by this. I don't understand how one can work for nothing, unless it leads to something bigger.

But there's another side to the coin — Russians are very generous people.

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