🇷🇺🇹🇯🌓 Well, well, well, what's got Dushanbe so upset? The Russian ambassador to Tajikistan, Semyon Grigoryev, was handed a note of protest from the Tajik Foreign Ministry expressing serious concern over the widespread negative attitudes towards Tajiks at border crossings.

📌 If some (doesn't matter which country they're from) foreign citizens are being detained or not allowed to enter another country, then the customs or border officials have their reasons for doing so.

This applies to all foreigners, not just Tajiks. And if a certain number of Tajik citizens cannot enter Russia, then, apparently, they were caught doing something illegal, and their presence in Russia is undesirable, as they are unreliable and may pose a danger to Russians.

Such control measures should have been implemented much earlier, and then the problems we're seeing now wouldn't have arisen at all, but better late than never.

🔻The reaction of the Tajik authorities is quite understandable, as the tightening of entry rules is causing increasing unrest within the republic, which Dushanbe is concerned about. It's no wonder, considering that the country's budget is largely formed by taxes collected from migrant workers.

However, the Tajik leadership should understand (and does understand) that migration policy will undergo changes, and they need to adapt to them, rather than issuing notes of protest. That's certainly not in the spirit of good neighborly relations.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the new missile strike on Crimea

🔻Ukrainian forces are increasing the intensity of missile strikes on Crimea. Over the past two weeks, attacks have been carried out on Dzhankoy and Cape Tarkhankut, and last night - on Simferopol and again on Dzhankoy.

▪️During three missile attacks, more than 30 ATACMS operational-tactical missiles were fired. Their use has been noted before, but after the official announcement of a new aid package, the AFU are using only "Atacms".

▪️Last night, the AFU launched 12 missiles (eight on the airfield in Dzhankoy, four on the airfield in Hvardiiske). Residents of nearby settlements heard the sounds of explosions and air defense operations.

▪️There is no exact information on the area from which the salvo was fired. But it is highly likely that the launch was carried out from the Kherson region (during the strike on Tarkhankut, the launchers were located in Beryslav).

❗️As the May events, primarily the inauguration of the President of Russia, approach, the number of strikes will increase. So far, looking at the selected targets, the enemy's task is to maximize the reduction of the combat capabilities of air defense units. That's why they use ATACMS with a cluster warhead.

If they achieve even the slightest result, the AFU will switch to the eastern regions of Crimea, since to carry out strikes on the Crimean Bridge, they will need to gain an advantage in this part of the peninsula as well. Moreover, satellites are actively surveying the environs of Feodosia, Kirovske and Kerch.

And NATO intelligence is not sleeping. American drones are operating daily in the standard area. And yesterday, the MQ-4C "Triton" UAV, the "maritime" version of the RQ-4B, flew into the Black Sea for the first time. Given this, in addition to strikes on air defense assets, we should expect the resumption of attacks on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Vremivka direction: Advance of the Russian Armed Forces on Urozhayne
Situation as of 6:00 PM on May 2, 2024

Over the past few months, Russian forces have been trying to regain the initiative in the Urozhayne - Staromaiorske sector. Last week, massive strikes were carried out on the AFU positions, which allowed the Russian Armed Forces to make a breakthrough.

▪️Russian assault groups advanced several hundred meters, capturing the territory of the former farm and agricultural machinery hangars in Urozhayne, which was lost last summer during the AFU counteroffensive.

▪️According to the latest data, Russian troops have entrenched themselves on the southern outskirts of the settlement. Artillery and aviation are working on the central and northern parts, suppressing enemy firing points and strongholds. Only the names of the settlements remain, as most of the buildings have been destroyed by regular strikes.

🔻The assault on the farm area is important due to its location on a small hill: the rest of Urozhayne (as well as Staromaiorske) are located in a lowland near the river. But relying on the occupied positions, it will be possible to develop success in the direction of the heights and plantings to the east, which will allow straightening the front along the line Urozhayne - Novodonetske.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Donetsk direction: Advances of the Russian Armed Forces in the center of Georgiyevka and in the Pobeda area

Situation as of 6:00 pm on May 4, 2024

For a long time, there was almost no footage of battles in Georgiyevka online, which made it difficult to determine the exact configuration of the front line in this area. However, it turned out that during this period, the Russian Armed Forces were able to carry out several successful attacks and expand the zone of control in the settlement and its surroundings.

▪️As a result of the effective actions of assault groups, the Russian troops managed to advance significantly in the center of Georgiyevka: they occupied most of the buildings on Gagarina Street, as well as advanced along Tsentralnaya and Mirnaya Streets in the area of the monument and the local House of Culture.

▪️The territory of the former Selkhozkhimiya enterprise and the ruins of a farm also came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. To the south, Russian assault groups took control of the forest belt leading to the settlement of Pobeda, but the presence of the enemy, relying on the embankment of dried reservoirs, remains in the neighboring plantation.

▪️South of Pobeda, the units of the Russian Armed Forces also pushed the AFU out of several positions, but the Ukrainian formations retain the ability to attack along the O0532 (T-05-24) highway.

As before, the AFU rely on Konstantinovka in this area. However, in case of successful advancement of the Russian Armed Forces to the east of Novomykhailivka and the start of battles for Paraskoviyevka, the situation around Pobeda will worsen for the enemy, which in the long run may facilitate the task of the Russian troops in this sector.

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🇦🇲🇷🇺📊 On the Soviet past, the memory of the war, and a new page in Armenian history

Since in Romania and Moldova they are already rewriting the history of the Great Patriotic War (despite the active resistance of the local population), there is no doubt that with the current policy of non-interference on the part of Russia, the history in Armenia will also be forgotten.

The survey data from Gallup, which we have already mentioned today, show that the population still remembers the importance of Victory Day, and there is still an adequate (from the point of view of the Soviet people) error in the form of a substitution of the concepts of World War II / Great Patriotic War (in the minds of Soviet people, everything ended on May 9, 1945). And two-thirds of respondents consider Victory Day important.

On the other hand, the population of Armenia no longer experiences a desire for the Soviet past and a sense of nostalgia: for them, the collapse of the USSR and the creation of the Republic of Armenia are a positive or neutral phenomenon. Of course, a quarter of respondents (24.9%) believe that this is a tragic mistake, but here we want to remind you of the notorious pro-Russian third (half of which are representatives of the older generation). Therefore, this indicator, alas, will become even smaller in ten to fifteen years.

And the general Soviet history of Armenia and Russia is already not so unambiguous: a third of the population (36.9%) evaluates it negatively. And this is a fairly clear indicator of the part of Armenian society that today is already living in a new paradigm of a bright future for Armenia, which is so persistently imposed on them from all Western irons.

📌Undoubtedly, Victory Day and the Soviet past are important stages in history that cannot be forgotten. But we clearly see that the course towards oblivion has already been taken. And a third of the population has already been processed and taken a clear anti-Russian position.

Perhaps this will be a cry in the wilderness, but maybe some officials who are responsible for the adequate positioning of Russia in the world arena and among the ally countries should start doing their job? After all, in Russia there are too many representatives of soft power and power structures, whom one can only call as weak and sluggish.

If Russian soft power has become sluggish, and power structures are weak in the international arena, then there can be no talk of protecting Russia's national interests.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Meanwhile, this morning footage appeared of the destruction of another American M1A1SA Abrams tank near Avdiivka: this time it was hit by an FPV drone, after which another drone struck the crew members trying to flee.

This is already the seventh documented episode of the destruction of "Abrams" since their appearance on the front line in February 2024. Thus, at the moment, the Ukrainian formations have already lost almost a quarter of all the vehicles of this type that were supplied.

📌 At the same time, attention is again drawn to the lack of any additional means of protection against UAVs, including the infamous "mangals", on the Western tanks used by the AFU - for some reason, the enemy is in no hurry to equip their "Abrams" with simple but proven effective designs.

This most likely makes it easier for FPV drone operators to hit these vehicles in their least protected projections.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicles of the special military operation
for May 8, 2024

Russian forces delivered combined strikes on various targets across the so-called Ukraine. The targets were power generation facilities in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Vinnytsia Regions.

In the Kupiansk-Svatove direction, Russian forces freed Kyslivka, which, combined with the capture of Kotliarivka, opens the possibility of cutting the R-07 highway and pressuring Tabaiivka and Stepova Novosilka.

In the Siversk direction, the enemy was pushed out of a strongpoint north of Vesele, while in the Bakhmut area, fighting continues in the vicinity of Chasiv Yar.

In the Avdiivka direction, Russian forces are clearing the forest belts between Ocheretyne and Arkhanhel'ske and advancing towards Novoaleksandrivka.

At the same time, in the Donetsk direction, fighting continues in Krasnohorivka, where, according to some reports, the Russian Armed Forces have managed to advance on the eastern outskirts of the city.

In the Vremivka direction, Russian forces are advancing on the southern outskirts of Urozhayne and west of Staromaiorske, despite counterattacks by the enemy.

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Avdiivka direction: Advances of the Russian Armed Forces in Umanske
Situation as of the end of May 9, 2024

In recent days, in the Avdiivka direction, the Russian forces have been actively trying to develop successes on several sectors, including those that were shrouded in the "fog of war" for some time.

▪️During the day, footage appeared online of the Russian flag being raised over a memorial in the center of the northern part of Umanske. By the end of the day, there were reports of the complete liberation of the village, although there is no reliable confirmation of this information yet.

▪️At the same time, between Umanske and Orlivka, south of highway C051801, there is a fortified area stretching for about two kilometers. Given the configuration of the front line, it is highly likely that it also came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces - without capturing it, it would have been quite a difficult task to advance into Umanske.

▪️Further south, in Netailovo, a decrease in the concentration of enemy manpower was noted - whether this is due to a lack of reinforcements or the withdrawal of the AFU is difficult to say for now. According to the latest information, Russian troops are engaged in heavy fighting in the center of the settlement.

▪️In the northern sector, in the area of Arkhanhel'ske, Russian Armed Forces units are entrenching on previously occupied lines, continuing to clear the area west of the settlement. They did not attempt any counterattacks by the AFU over the past day.

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