❗️🇬🇧 British troops sent to Ukraine won’t go near the front lines — their mission will be to train Ukrainian forces, not to fight - The Telegraph.

"Our focus is on rebuilding a modern, capable Ukrainian army," said UK Defence Secretary John Healey.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 28 April 2025 at 09:15

As expected, a useless security guarantee then, as worthless as the original Budapest Memorandum, it all but guarantees that if fighting broke out again, that the UK would quickly pull their troops out of Ukraine before they get shot, if that isn't the case then there's no reason why they shouldn't be on the future ceasefire frontlines.

What this tells us is that UK is terrified that if they were on the frontlines, that British soldiers would be shot at if Russia decides to attack again, therefore it also shows us that the UK doesn't want to risk entering war with Russia as part of any security guarantee. If UK doesn't believe Russia would break the ceasefire, then there's no reason to not put British troops on the frontline, but clearly UK believes there's a chance Russia would break the ceasefire, and therefore doesn't want British Troops dragged into a war.

These are not security guarantees.

🤡‼️ Russia has presented the full guest list for May 9th

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— MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 27 April 2025 at 21:01

No Modi or Orban (Lol). Fico is not a surprise, a traitor to Europe and hopefully Slovakia can vote him out soon. Lula though, what an absolutely hypocritical scumbag, I used to see him as a bit of a Corbyn-lite, a naïve idiot, but the dude has shown himself to be just as much of a piece of shit as anyone else, it's not naivety, it's support of fascism, he can't even use the braindead excuse of "America bad so Russia must be good" anymore considering America is actively working to give Russia everything it wants.

To be fair to Fico, Corbyn himself was very ambivalent to the concept of supporting Ukraine to the point that his stance on the matter more or less mirrored appeasement.
Most notable on the above guest list is the Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives given the animosity between the two countries.

It could be worst. America could offer to train then and then when they bail like they did Afghanistan, took what minutes to be run over by the enemy?

⚡️Russia will not hand over control of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to US, Lavrov says.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the idea of any changes to the management of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in an interview with CBS News on April 26.

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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) 27 April 2025 at 20:04

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: Ukraine must stay out of NATO and recognize annexed territories as Russian for any peace talks to begin - in an interview with Brazil's O Globo.

Russia demands:
♦️"Demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine
♦️ Lifting of all sanctions against Russia
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) 28 April 2025 at 13:34

♦️Ukraine must permanently commit to not joining NATO
♦️Ukraine must confirm neutral and non-bloc status
♦️International recognition of Russian control over occupied Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
♦️Return of Russian assets frozen by Western countries
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) 28 April 2025 at 13:34

Hilarious...Russia once again publicly spits in Donald Trump's face and we're back to Russia's maximalist demands they made at the start of the war. Complete weakness from the USA is enabling this. I'm sure Trump will agree with Russia's new demands though and say they're completely fair because he is a fucking coward.

Well, the Americans are the real "cheese"-eating running monkeys. Vietnam, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia... but the French get laughed at because the German strategy cut off most of their army in the Netherlands, so France had almost nothing left to defend the country - and yet they fought on for several weeks despite knowing it was already lost until Pétain got into power and quickly signed a peace deal. In fact, as a military historian once recounted, if Germany was located where Quebec is and the US would have fought them with their early 1940 equipment, they would have been routed even more thoroughly by the Germans, entering DC after just a couple weeks before the US had any real time to react (The US was very weak militarily in the late 1930's apart from naval power, which only the UK and Japan could rival to some degree, but ground forces and air force wouldn't have been a match to Germany or even France at the time).

Another high ranking russian general has been liquidated for pursuing civilian targets. Do it and get a countdown.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51666

❗️Trump says “Putin is easier to deal with than Zelensky — he has no cards but keeps asking for more.” Yet Trump himself holds no cards either — all empty talk and bluster.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 29 April 2025 at 20:37

Meanwhile....

Peace talks on Ukraine hit a dead end: Putin demands control of Zaporizhzhia & Kherson. He rejected a ceasefire along the front line, insists on full control of occupied regions, and wants recognition of all annexed territories, not just occupied Crimea.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 29 April 2025 at 18:03