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Honestly never heard of Kharkiv until this morning, so this is the first I’ve heard of this. Interesting. Didn’t realize the Ukrainians were kidnapping Russian civilians & warehousing them amongst their own civilians. They mustn’t have been wearing Go-Pro cameras & posting that footage to the Internet while they were doing it then?
Any footage of these tunnels under this city that the Ukrainians are fighting the Russians from?
Kharkiv is/was the second largest city in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine to "free the ethnic Russians forced to be and speak Ukrainian" in Ukraine.
Language policy in Ukraine - Wikipedia
Russian and Belarusian propaganda resources are disseminating information in a coordinated manner on social networks, trying to present the Ukrainian Armed Forces as using the “human shield” tactics in the Kursk region. These accusations are based on the statements of an unnamed Russian soldier without any confirmation. This means that it is not true. This is what the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security writes.
The “human shield” message is typical of the Russian army, which has repeatedly used civilians in the occupied territories as cover since 2014. For example, in December 2023, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the use of Ukrainian prisoners as a “human shield” in the Zaporizhzhia region. This is another attempt by Russian propaganda to shift the blame for its crimes to the Ukrainian side.
The purpose of disseminating disinformation about the alleged use of civilians in the Kursk region by the Ukrainian military as a “human shield” is to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the international arena and to increase hostility towards Ukraine among the Russian population and its presence in Ukraine to shift attention to the numerous war crimes committed by Russian troops, accusing the Ukrainian side of such crimes.
Israel would not do propaganda like that cuz holocaustages.
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It's not hard to draw parallels between the Kremlin and Knesset propaganda.Kharkiv is/was the second largest city in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine to "free the ethnic Russians forced to be and speak Ukrainian" in Ukraine.
Language policy in Ukraine - Wikipedia
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Russian and Belarusian propaganda resources are disseminating information in a coordinated manner on social networks, trying to present the Ukrainian Armed Forces as using the “human shield” tactics in the Kursk region. These accusations are based on the statements of an unnamed Russian soldier without any confirmation. This means that it is not true. This is what the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security writes.
The “human shield” message is typical of the Russian army, which has repeatedly used civilians in the occupied territories as cover since 2014. For example, in December 2023, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the use of Ukrainian prisoners as a “human shield” in the Zaporizhzhia region. This is another attempt by Russian propaganda to shift the blame for its crimes to the Ukrainian side.
The purpose of disseminating disinformation about the alleged use of civilians in the Kursk region by the Ukrainian military as a “human shield” is to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the international arena and to increase hostility towards Ukraine among the Russian population and its presence in Ukraine to shift attention to the numerous war crimes committed by Russian troops, accusing the Ukrainian side of such crimes.
Israel would not do propaganda like that cuz holocaustages.
Countering disinformation with facts - Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Kremlin has long spread disinformation and propaganda to achieve its objectives. It continues to disseminate lies to justify its illegal, unprovoked, unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine. Below, you will find a sample of the many lies by the Russian regime about its invasion of Ukraine, along...
Replace NATO with Hamas.
NATO (Canada specifically) trained and armed the "Azov Nazis".
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More human shields killed in Ukraine.
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A Russian missile strike on April 4, 2025, targeted the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, resulting in at least 19 fatalities, including nine children, and injur...
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There was never going to be one. Now Trump can say "I tried" as Europe moves troops in.what happened to the ceasefire?
Ain't WW3 cool?
KYIV, April 4 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that European military planners could be ready within a month with details of a foreign troop contingent in Ukraine seen as critical to ending the war with Russia.
Kyiv is seeking security guarantees from its allies in the event of a peace agreement with Moscow to prevent a repeat of its February 2022 full-scale invasion.
Speaking to reporters in Kyiv after meeting British and French military chiefs, Zelenskiy said many other countries would also contribute to the effort, which envisages foreign troops patrolling Ukrainian land, sea and airspace.
Podcast counsels Russian women to marry soldiers for death benefits
Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Apr 07, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 2 minute read
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
Now this is a Russian affront.
A glamorous Russian real estate agent has been caged after telling the nation’s women to marry soldiers so they can cash in on their $133,000 death benefit when the men are killed in Ukraine.
Marina Orlova’s gold digging outraged Russians, even for an unpopular war and put her on the police map.
“It turned out really bad, I ask you to forgive me,” she said in a video. In addition to the mean culpa, Orlova was sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
fire following a Russian rocket attack in Dobropillya
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following a Russian rocket attack in Dobropillya, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, March 8, 2025.
The high-flying realtor had been accused of inciting hatred, enmity and humiliation of human dignity.
Podcast host and “influencer” Darya Cherdantseva was also taken to the Tomsk branch of the Center for Combating Extremism, where she also apologized.
But according to Russian media reports, many women have been cashing in on Vladimir Putin’s violent crusade.
Marina Orlova, left, and podcaster Darya Cherdantseva got into hot water.
Marina Orlova, left, and podcaster Darya Cherdantseva got into hot water.
Orlova gave details of the scheme that targets single Russian soldiers. Then women do a quickie wedding before the men are dispatched to the Ukrainian meatgrinder.
Once the women collect the death benefits, they use the money to buy apartments and get on the property ladder.
“It’s easy and simple,” she told Cherdantseva. “You find a man now who is serving [for Russia in the war], he dies, and you get 8 million rubles ($133,000).
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
“A lot of people are doing it now. A lot of women come to us with this $8 million, buy some cheap flat. It’s a working scheme. It’s a business plan.”
Second banana Cherdantseva added that widows should then seek a new war husband, thereby gaining a second payout if he too is killed in action.
Of course, the conversations didn’t sit well with Russia’s Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General’s Office. The women were arrested, and the podcast was deleted.
Sergei Shoigu
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu salutes to soldiers as he is driven along Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2024.
But the pair insisted they were only having a laugh. However, other Russians have commented that they know women who have put Orlova’s “business plan” into action.
“We have a lot of those,” said one user, Galina, who said her brother had suddenly married before going to the war.
“My brother also signed right before leaving, they just brought him in, he hadn’t been buried yet, and his supposedly fake wife was already running around the offices to arrange the money.”
Another widow asked on VK: “Will I be entitled to payments in the event of his death, if I already received them for my first husband in 2022?”
Independent journalist Andrey Kalitin said: “This is probably what absolute fall into the abyss looks like.”
The strongman’s prosecutors intervened after the pro-Putin cultural group, Call of the People, demanded action.
“Her cynical and blasphemous statements about a ‘business plan’ based on the deaths of our servicemen are an insult to everyone who is risking their lives on the front lines today, defending our Motherland.
“This is an insult to the memory of fallen heroes and their families,” conservative Sergei Zaitsev said.
Orlova quickly apologized for herself and the host: “I apologize for myself personally, and I apologize even for Daria. In no way did I mean to offend anyone.”
She added: “We were not talking for the public. It was black humour between us.”
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Author of the article:Brad Hunter
Published Apr 07, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 2 minute read
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
Now this is a Russian affront.
A glamorous Russian real estate agent has been caged after telling the nation’s women to marry soldiers so they can cash in on their $133,000 death benefit when the men are killed in Ukraine.
Marina Orlova’s gold digging outraged Russians, even for an unpopular war and put her on the police map.
“It turned out really bad, I ask you to forgive me,” she said in a video. In addition to the mean culpa, Orlova was sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
fire following a Russian rocket attack in Dobropillya
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following a Russian rocket attack in Dobropillya, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, March 8, 2025.
The high-flying realtor had been accused of inciting hatred, enmity and humiliation of human dignity.
Podcast host and “influencer” Darya Cherdantseva was also taken to the Tomsk branch of the Center for Combating Extremism, where she also apologized.
But according to Russian media reports, many women have been cashing in on Vladimir Putin’s violent crusade.
Marina Orlova, left, and podcaster Darya Cherdantseva got into hot water.
Marina Orlova, left, and podcaster Darya Cherdantseva got into hot water.
Orlova gave details of the scheme that targets single Russian soldiers. Then women do a quickie wedding before the men are dispatched to the Ukrainian meatgrinder.
Once the women collect the death benefits, they use the money to buy apartments and get on the property ladder.
“It’s easy and simple,” she told Cherdantseva. “You find a man now who is serving [for Russia in the war], he dies, and you get 8 million rubles ($133,000).
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
Realtor Marina Orlova was busted for counselling Russian women to marry soldiers so they could cash in when they were killed in Ukraine.
“A lot of people are doing it now. A lot of women come to us with this $8 million, buy some cheap flat. It’s a working scheme. It’s a business plan.”
Second banana Cherdantseva added that widows should then seek a new war husband, thereby gaining a second payout if he too is killed in action.
Of course, the conversations didn’t sit well with Russia’s Investigative Committee and Prosecutor General’s Office. The women were arrested, and the podcast was deleted.
Sergei Shoigu
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu salutes to soldiers as he is driven along Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2024.
But the pair insisted they were only having a laugh. However, other Russians have commented that they know women who have put Orlova’s “business plan” into action.
“We have a lot of those,” said one user, Galina, who said her brother had suddenly married before going to the war.
“My brother also signed right before leaving, they just brought him in, he hadn’t been buried yet, and his supposedly fake wife was already running around the offices to arrange the money.”
Another widow asked on VK: “Will I be entitled to payments in the event of his death, if I already received them for my first husband in 2022?”
Independent journalist Andrey Kalitin said: “This is probably what absolute fall into the abyss looks like.”
The strongman’s prosecutors intervened after the pro-Putin cultural group, Call of the People, demanded action.
“Her cynical and blasphemous statements about a ‘business plan’ based on the deaths of our servicemen are an insult to everyone who is risking their lives on the front lines today, defending our Motherland.
“This is an insult to the memory of fallen heroes and their families,” conservative Sergei Zaitsev said.
Orlova quickly apologized for herself and the host: “I apologize for myself personally, and I apologize even for Daria. In no way did I mean to offend anyone.”
She added: “We were not talking for the public. It was black humour between us.”
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Podcast counsels Russian women to marry soldiers for death benefits
Now this is a Russian affront.
Zelenskyy says 2 Chinese were caught fighting for Russia
Author of the article:Associated Press
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Vasilisa Stepanenko
Published Apr 08, 2025 • 2 minute read
This handout video grab published on the official Telegram channel of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 8, 2025 shows, according to the Ukrainian president, one of two Chinese soldiers he said were captured by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military has captured two Chinese men fighting with the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday.
Ukraine has information that there are “significantly more” Chinese fighting alongside the Russians in the more than three-year war, Zelenskyy said, adding that he has asked his top diplomat “to immediately contact Beijing and find out how China is going to react to this.”
China has provided strong diplomatic support for Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor, which was widely criticized in the West. Beijing has also contributed an economic lifeline through the trade in energy and consumer goods.
However, China is not known to have provided Russia with weapons or military expertise, unlike Iran and North Korea, with the latter even providing troops, according to American and South Korean officials.
Russia allows foreigners to enlist in its military, as does Ukraine. The pay offered by Moscow makes serving for Russia attractive.
Russia has effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for an immediate and full 30-day halt in the fighting, and both sides are believed to be readying a spring-summer campaign on the battlefield.
“I cannot see any indications that would lead to a ceasefire or even a peace, but I see many indications (for) the continuation of the war,” Nico Lange, a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, said in an analysis Monday.
Zelenskyy said a clash with Chinese soldiers occurred near the villages of Tarasivka and Bilohorivka in the Donetsk region, where six Chinese military personnel engaged Ukrainian troops. Two Chinese were taken prisoner, Zelenskyy said at a news conference in Kyiv alongside visiting Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.
Zelenskyy said China would be the third country to offer military support to the Kremlin after Iran, which has supplied attack drones, and North Korea. The U.S. and Europe have been Ukraine’s biggest backers in the war.
Zelenskyy noted that previously captured North Korean soldiers were fighting in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Ukrainian forces captured territory, while the Chinese were caught on Ukrainian soil.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Ministry officials will take part in talks with the U.S. in Istanbul planned for Thursday.
He didn’t elaborate what the talks would be about, but the foreign ministry’s involvement suggests it is another round of talks about normalizing their respective embassies’ operations and increasing their staff numbers after years expelling each others’ diplomats.
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Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Vasilisa Stepanenko
Published Apr 08, 2025 • 2 minute read
This handout video grab published on the official Telegram channel of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 8, 2025 shows, according to the Ukrainian president, one of two Chinese soldiers he said were captured by Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military has captured two Chinese men fighting with the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday.
Ukraine has information that there are “significantly more” Chinese fighting alongside the Russians in the more than three-year war, Zelenskyy said, adding that he has asked his top diplomat “to immediately contact Beijing and find out how China is going to react to this.”
China has provided strong diplomatic support for Russia since it launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor, which was widely criticized in the West. Beijing has also contributed an economic lifeline through the trade in energy and consumer goods.
However, China is not known to have provided Russia with weapons or military expertise, unlike Iran and North Korea, with the latter even providing troops, according to American and South Korean officials.
Russia allows foreigners to enlist in its military, as does Ukraine. The pay offered by Moscow makes serving for Russia attractive.
Russia has effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for an immediate and full 30-day halt in the fighting, and both sides are believed to be readying a spring-summer campaign on the battlefield.
“I cannot see any indications that would lead to a ceasefire or even a peace, but I see many indications (for) the continuation of the war,” Nico Lange, a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, said in an analysis Monday.
Zelenskyy said a clash with Chinese soldiers occurred near the villages of Tarasivka and Bilohorivka in the Donetsk region, where six Chinese military personnel engaged Ukrainian troops. Two Chinese were taken prisoner, Zelenskyy said at a news conference in Kyiv alongside visiting Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.
Zelenskyy said China would be the third country to offer military support to the Kremlin after Iran, which has supplied attack drones, and North Korea. The U.S. and Europe have been Ukraine’s biggest backers in the war.
Zelenskyy noted that previously captured North Korean soldiers were fighting in Russia’s Kursk border region, where Ukrainian forces captured territory, while the Chinese were caught on Ukrainian soil.
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Ministry officials will take part in talks with the U.S. in Istanbul planned for Thursday.
He didn’t elaborate what the talks would be about, but the foreign ministry’s involvement suggests it is another round of talks about normalizing their respective embassies’ operations and increasing their staff numbers after years expelling each others’ diplomats.
Zelenskyy says 2 Chinese were caught fighting for Russia
Ukraine has information that there are "significantly more" Chinese fighting alongside the Russians in the war, Zelenskyy said.