“Putin needs victory” – Scholes warns of the worst famine in decades

Ukraine News: Bundeswehr warship north of NATO

+++ 10.30 am: The Bundeswehr warship “Mecklenburg-Vorpommern” aims to strengthen the northern part of NATO in the future. The warship will be integrated with rapid reaction forces in the next few months, the Navy Command said Thursday (May 26). There are 22 soldiers on board, including crew from Slovakia.

Ukraine News: “Putin Wants to Win”

+++ 9.30 am: Following Putin’s defeats in Kiev and Kharkiv, the “Zhivorodonetsk War” is said to have marked the end of the Ukraine war. According to Matthew Schmidt, an associate professor of national security and politics at New Haven University in Connecticut, “Putin needs to win.” The pressure on the Russian president has increased tremendously. A new sense of achievement is now essential.

“They are throwing all the power they have into this war,” Schmidt said in an interview Washington Post. It remains to be seen whether this will be enough for success. Due to many setbacks and injuries, the Russian military is struggling with personnel issues. In Schwartznetsk, according to Schmidt, Putin was forced to fall back into the “Frankenstein ranks” of Modley. The Provisional Forces consisted of soldiers from different divisions, who did not agree with each other.

Ukraine war: Putin’s ‘favorite general’ announces kidnapping of thousands

+++ 08.00 am: About 19,000 people are said to have been abducted from Ukraine to Russia in the last 24 hours. The Kremlin declared this a success story, the redemption of the people. “In spite of all sanctions imposed by Kiev, in the last 24 hours 18,927 people, including 2,058 children, were expelled from the Donbass republics and dangerous areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation without the intervention of Ukrainian authorities,” the Russian colonel general said. According to the state news agency Tass, Michael Mizintsev said.

Mizintsev, who is responsible for the alleged “coordination of humanitarian operations” in Ukraine, has been described by Vladimir Putin as a “favorite general”, according to regular media reports. He also has another nickname: the Ukrainian ambassador Oleksandr Sherpa recently called him “Mariupol butcher”.

Ukraine-News: Kadyrov threatens military attack on Poland

+++ 07.00 am: Chechnya’s ruler and Putin’s supporter Ramzan Kadyrov has threatened to attack Poland. Middle Nexta On Wednesday (May 25) released a video showing Kadiro. In it he said: I am interested in Poland. After Ukraine, if there is an order, we will show you what we can do in six seconds. It is better to take up arms from the mercenaries. “Chechen troops have been involved in the Russian invasion of Ukraine since late February.

Ukraine-News: 40 cities appear to have been attacked by Russia

+++ 06.00 am: The Ukrainian military says Russia has launched a large-scale offensive against Donbass. “The occupiers shelled more than 40 cities in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, destroying or damaging 47 civilian facilities, including 38 houses and a school. As a result of this shelling, five civilians were killed and 12 wounded,” the Ukrainian armed forces announced on Facebook on Thursday morning. The Ukrainian army repulsed 10 enemy attacks, destroyed four tanks and four drones and killed 62 “enemy soldiers”.

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky, Russian troops are “outnumbered” in some parts of the Donbass. So Selenskyj had called for a new arms supply on Wednesday evening. Information provided by the Ukrainian military cannot be verified independently.

Ukraine-News: Russia is probably preparing for a rapid ground offensive

First Report on Thursday, May 26, 5:00 p.m .: KIEV / MOSCOW – The Russian military is preparing for war in the town of Sivarodonetsk in the western Luhansk region. Russia has been mobilizing for several days for another offensive in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.

The Institute for the Study of War, an American think tank, examined the situation report in its Thursday morning (May 26) report, noting that significant movements of troops are currently seen around Zhivorodonetsk. Russia may strike the city before it can cut off Ukrainian communications on the ground – which appears to be a consistent military operation. The company was reported by the Kiev Independent news portal.

The ISW therefore analyzes that the rapid attack on Zhivorodonetsk may have been carried out “to maintain momentum after sending a significant portion of its personnel, artillery, aircraft and logistics to the front.” So far, Russia has suffered heavy losses in the Ukraine war. Ukrainian civil servants now estimate that nearly 30,000 soldiers died. Logically, the Kremlin cites significantly lower numbers.

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