North Korea can send up to 100 000 fully equipped soldiers to support Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics’ war effort, a notable Russian writer, politician and pro-Donbass activist Zakhar Prilepin said to Pravda.ru news website. An alliance treaty between the Republics and the DPRK is being prepared.

Under the treaty, Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics may pledge to supply DPRK with resources, food, consumer goods and and high-tech products, and other articles that fall under the US sanctions against North Korea, the website said. #context

Zelenski, in a presidential address tonight: “We cannot break the Russian army’s superiority in manpower and artillery. It is felt very much in Peski, Avdeyevka and elsewhere. It’s a literall hell out there. Words cannot describe it.” - Ukraine’s president confirms #YURI projections.

Being strictly factual, Russian army has no manpower superiority at all, it wages war with its peacetime professional army, with only DPR and LPR having conscripts in their ranks, as two republics underwent mobilization. The artillery superiority statement is correct, even though Ukraine inherited a sizeable Soviet arsenal of conventional weapons, that have been mostly sold away, or is in disrepair. It has no heavy munition factories running. #context

Dozens of Polish mercenaries were allegedly killed by a Russian strike on “Berloga” motel north of Kharkov, according to the anonymous Russian sources.

At least 28 Polish nationals died of injuries in just a one of Kharkov’s hospitals as a consequence of the strike, the same sources say, implying that many more might have died. Dozens of ambulances were seen immediately after the strike. Kharkov ring road, where motel is located, was closed for traffic for an extended period of time during the evacuation.

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Long queues to the blood transfusion center in Ukrainian-controlled Odessa, as the demand for donor blood skyrocketed after the heavy losses sustained by Ukrainian military yesterday, in their offensive to Kherson. The men on the picture are members of a local territorial defence company, ordered to donate blood by their superiors. #context

Due to the losses in 128th Mountain Infrantry Brigade, the authorities of Transcarpatian region of Ukraine, where the brigade was based, proclaimed a region-wide day of mourning. The Russian sources claim nearly complete annihilation of the unit, participated in one of the failed assault attempts on Kherson. #context

Wives, gilfriends, and sisters of the servicemen of Ukrainian 56th brigade appealed to Zelenski to save their men and brothers, claiming that the 56th commanding officers abstain from their duties while the men are being massacred by the Russian strikes. #context

🇫🇷 France will become Europe's second-largest state after Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson oblasts join Russia next week, and Ukraine's territory diminishes accordingly #context

An massive orgy is planned among the Kiev residents on the Shchekavitsa mountain near Kiev if Russia delivers a nuclear strike on Ukraine, local news telegram channels inform. A telegram group to coordinate the party/parties and the “postapocalyptic survival” have attracted some 5000 participants so far. #context

Residents of the new territories of Russia will not be held responsible for continuing to serve in the Ukrainian army, if they are unable to leave its ranks without risking their life, and if they have not commited crimes, Russia’s Constitutional Court ruled. #context .

Russia’s Federal Treasury opens an office in Donetsk, continuing the integration of the Donetsk People’s Republic into Russian Federation. #context

War or no war, Odessa girls keep partying to the beats of Russian pop music #context