russian invasion of Ukraine. Chronicle for May 24-25

26 May 2023

In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russia launched rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct full-scale invasion. APU repulse the enemy

- It is reported that the Ukrainian DRG was able to cross the state border in the Shchetinovka area of the Belgorod region.

Clashes are also reported in Bogun-Gorodok.

- A member of the German Bundestag proposes to transfer TAURUS KEPD cruise missiles to Ukraine.

Weight: 1.400 kg

Length: 5 m

Range: > 500 km

- Head of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) Budanov:

The counteroffensive of Ukraine will begin in the near future, the Ukrainian army has the necessary minimum of weapons for this.

Ukraine still needs large stocks of weapons and ammunition to successfully continue the operation.

- German Chancellor Scholz:

Ukraine will join the EU after the end of hostilities on its territory.

A bitter chapter in the history of our continent will end with the fact that a free Ukraine will become a full member of the European Union.

- In the Ukrainian Bucha, where the first column of the Russian army was destroyed by the Ukrainian BayraktarTB2 UAVs, Vokzalnaya Street was restored.

110 houses have been repaired, about 20 of them have been overhauled.

- Ukrainian Su-24 equipped with the Storm Shadow cruise missile.

- Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter with American anti-radar missile AGM-88 HARM.

- Former Deputy Minister of National Defense of Poland, General Waldemar Skrzypczak:

We are preparing for an uprising in Belarus, because it will happen.

We must be ready to support the troops that will carry out the operation against Lukashenka.

- A Russian source in Telegram Fighterbomber confirms that on May 13, 2023, the Patriot air defense system 4 Russian planes were shot down from the territory of Ukraine in the Bryansk region.

11 Pilots Killed.

- NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg:

Ukraine's accession to NATO during the war is impossible.

- Sufficiently high-quality Ukrainian models (dummies) of the HIMARS MLRS, 155-mm M777 howitzers and HMMWV armored vehicles.

- President of Belarus Lukashenko said that Russia has begun deliveries of nuclear weapons to Belarus.

- Ukrainian tank Leopard 2A6 destroyed the target in the form of a T-62MV during the exercise

- Russian military sources have shared a photo claiming that the Russian Navy reconnaissance ship "Ivan Khurs" enters Sevastopol.

But it was not Ivan Khurs. It was a minesweeper of the "Alexandrite" type.

Ukrainian sources claim that the corps of "Ivan Khurs" badly damaged. But the ship is still afloat.

- Transfer of F-16 to Ukraine to be discussed at Ramstein, — speaker of the Pentagon.

➡️ At the Pentagon (https://nv.ua/amp/v-formate-ramshtayn-obsudyat-pvo-i-f-16-novosti-ukrainy-50326697.html) expect that at Ramstein, which will take place tomorrow, strengthening ground-based air defense and providing military ammunition will remain priority topics.

➡️ Denmark starts training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets. In a few months, the country will train pilots.

➡️ Spain will not be able to train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 and transfer these aircraft to Ukraine.

- The dude took a photo of a dead Wagnerian, scattered it over the Z-channels and wrote that it was — fighter "Kraken" and Rusnya happily hid it.

Russians this time correctly noticed — Maxim died, well, fuck him.

- The broken equipment of the "Belgorod rebels" is another decree from the Russians.

Highlights from the analysis (https://twitter.com/FluteMagician/status/1661162964261404673) of the former tractor operator:

➡️ There is no dirt on the tires at all. The equipment was loaded into that trench from an onboard platform. The front tire left no marks on the ground.

➡️ The Humvee seems to have crashed into a trench wall, but the ground in front of it is flat. This is a heavy vehicle that will move the ground when hit, even at slow speeds.

➡️ Displaced ground from the tire from right to left. This is because the car was pushed sideways in the trench.

The Russians used a flatbed truck and a crane for staging. The transport was lowered into place and pushed. Probably, the equipment was captured in Ukraine a few months ago or received from Iran.

- Legion “Freedom of Russia” conquered more territories in a day than the PMC “Wagner” for a year in Bakhmut, — Bild.

According to the publication (https://www.bild.de/), Western analysts considered the breakthrough of the sabotage group into the Belgorod region evidence that the Russian defense line is extremely vulnerable, which is another proof that Putin is unable to conduct this war, because from the "grand" plan "Kiev in 3 days" they got to the point that the Russians cannot defend their regional centers.

If the Russian Federation wants to prepare to repel further raids, it will have to withdraw 60,000 soldiers from Ukraine.

- The Kremlin is still trying to present the Russian Federation as a country with serious diplomatic relations, — ISW.

The Kremlin used (https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-24-2023) previous international forums and meetings with heads of state to portray Russia as a country with strong international partnerships, and advocate for the formation of an "anti-Western coalition." Putin tried but failed to secure a partnership with the Chinese president in March. The Russian Federation is trying with all its might to avoid global political and financial isolation.

- Men who illegally left Ukraine will be punished after their return, — Minister of Internal Affairs.

Now there are no penalties for those who illegally crossed the border and then returned to Ukraine. According to Klymenko, the corresponding bill is being prepared

- South Korea sent hundreds of thousands of shells to Ukraine, — WSJ.

Shipping is via USA. The parties do not publicly comment on this topic. The publication writes (https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korean-artillery-supply-allows-u-s-to-delay-decision-on-cluster-munitions-for-ukraine-4e41c04b?mod=Searchresults_pos13&page =1) that this step will make the UAF offensive effective and allow the White House to delay the decision on the supply of cluster munitions.

- The Armed Forces of Ukraine will go on a counteroffensive when they receive all the necessary weapons, — deputy head of the OP Igor Zhovkva.

In the meantime, Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the President's Office, said today that the counter-offensive has already begun.

- We will make sure that deviators could not leave Ukraine illegally, — head of the interior ministry.

"The question is before us how to equip the border in such a way that people cannot pass through it. Together with our international partners, we are doing everything to technically equip all our western borders. These are heat traps and video cameras that will be the entire border line and will signal us that there is an attempt to cross the border", — Klymenko said.

- The EU allowed the Russian Federation to complete the construction of its nuclear power plant in Hungary, — country's foreign minister.

Szijjarto said (https://hu.euronews.com/2023/05/25/szijjarto-peter-paks-2-zold-jelzest-kapott-ez-europai-bizottsagtol) that the European Commission has given the green light to further participation of Rosatom in the completion of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant Paks, which will allow the commissioning of Paks-2 in the early 2030s.

- Bear "Barney", Oreo, Dirol, Milka were on the list of international sponsors of the war.

The NAPC emphasizes (https://t.me/NAZK_gov_ua/2272) that Mondelez International did not withdraw from the Russian Federation after the start of a full-scale war. According to the results of the military 2022, the profit of the Russian branch of Mondelez International amounted to $339 million (+303% per year), revenue - more than $1 billion (+38% per year).

- Ukraine will not be able to return all the lost territories by military means in the short term.

This was stated by the Chairman of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley.

- Ukraine asked Georgia to open a second front against Russia, — chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party.

According to (https://apa.az/ru/evropa/gruzinskaya-mecta-ukraina-prosila-nas-otkryt-vtoroi-front-protiv-rossii-522883/) Kobakhidze, this request was made by Danilov and Podolyak.

- Hard arrival at the BC of the Russians in Berdyansk

- American Abrams M1A1 tanks at the Grafenwöhr training ground in Germany to train Ukrainian tankers
On May 12, it was reported that tanks (https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-russia-latest-missile-uk-nuclear-putin-12541713?postid=5903755#liveblog-body) arrived at polygon, but only yesterday the photos were published.

- What more evidence do you need

- Volunteers photographed how a cat evacuates a kitten to the cellar during the bombing of Kramatorsk, Ukraine

- Everyone dances

- Painful to read

- Girkin gave out again by night

- Prigozhin dated February 27 last year. He always lies

- Goida

- Oryx visited a destroyed tank of the Russian army in Amsterdam

- The Krasnodar police started looking for unknown people who painted the monument to Lenin like a clown and hung a sign "murderer". SOTA

- And let's mark them all there?

- A photograph of a group of armed Russian convicts on the territory of a foreign country against the backdrop of residential buildings destroyed by them, or is there any other evidence needed that Russia — terrorist state. Or does anyone have other associations?

- It turns out that already 7 territorial defense battalions protect the borders of the Belgorod region. But without weapons. They scare away the enemy with one of their appearance: in shales on their feet and pots on their heads. Does anyone work in the Belgorod region at all now, or is everyone fighting?

- The foolishness of the Russian authorities: in Moscow on the boards "They are wanted by the police" (in particular, near the Severny Tushin police department) they hung orientations for the prosecutor and the judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague – Karim Ahmad Khan and Rosario Salvatore Aytale. Where is the laugh?

- Bieber and Dolik are meme characters. And it would be necessary - tombstones

- The authorities of the fascist Russian Federation also want to trample on Russian pensioners who left to live abroad

- Unexploded FAB bombs on the territory of the Russian Federation multiply like mushrooms after rain

- The court fined a citizen of Volgograd for promoting LGBTQ in a profile on a dating site

- Well, something like this

- BBC: Participants of the raid in the Belgorod region said they were planning new actions

Members of the sabotage group, which on Monday crossed the border of the Belogorod region and clashed with the Russian military, gave a press conference on the territory of Ukraine and promised to hold new actions on Russian territory.

"I think you will still see us on the other side. I can't reveal the details, I can't even reveal the direction. The border is quite long," Denis Kapustin, the head of the Russian Volunteer Corps, told reporters (the Western media have repeatedly was written as one of the most influential right-wing radicals in Europe, among other things, he is known as the owner of the White Rex brand, which sells clothing with neo-Nazi symbols).

Responsibility for the raid in the Belgorod region, in addition to the RDK, was assumed by the so-called Legion "Freedom of Russia" (recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned). The "Russian Volunteer Corps" in March participated in a similar sortie to the Bryansk region.

In Russia, Kapustin is accused of committing a terrorist act, illegal circulation of weapons and explosives. The Moscow City Court arrested him in absentia on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia claimed that the formations that invaded the territory of the Belgorod region were defeated, and "the remnants of the nationalists were driven back to the territory of Ukraine." According to the Russian department, more than 70 saboteurs were killed during the fighting.

However, Kapustin said that as a result of the raid on Russian territory, two people were injured, there were no deaths. According to him, an armored personnel carrier, small arms and other equipment were seized at the Graivoron checkpoint in the Belgorod region.

Meanwhile, representatives of the "Freedom of Russia" legion, who also took part in the press conference, claim that their "total losses during the operation amounted to 2 dead and 10 wounded."

Journalists asked the head of the RDC to also comment on Western media reports that saboteurs used American weapons, but did not receive a direct answer.

"I know exactly where I got my weapons from. Unfortunately, not from Western partners," he said. "As Vladimir Putin once said, in any military department in the current situation, you can buy military equipment of any kind, so I don’t think it’s some kind of exotic,” Kapustin also said.

The BBC is unable to confirm the veracity of the claims made by the warring parties.