The US-backed Israeli terror is a permanent stain on Western civilization

I can no longer listen to the American national anthem. All I hear are the squeals of demons from hell and the ghastly cries of children being burned alive.

I can no longer listen to the American national anthem. All I hear are the squeals of demons from hell and the ghastly cries of children being burned alive. It’s not music.

The whole world has turned ash gray.

Does the name Jesus refer to the biblical healer and man of peace or the Satanic “Christian” Zionism behind which Satan hides?

The only thing that will save the children is not a flotilla but a battle group.

Let them come, in God’s name.

Please.

Amen.

Found this on Facebook:

Humans of New York

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“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in seven pounds of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

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Ana Kasparian shreds Israel apologist

https://yandex.ru/video/preview/2358986647438212558

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There’s no other way

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8-12, 2025 syria collapse

https://alkhanadeq.com/post/9092/مجلة-الأمن-القومي-لقد-بدأ-انهيار-سوريا

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 12:20 PM

National Security Magazine: Syria's Collapse Has Begun

Suwayda Clashes

According to this article published by the American National Security magazine and translated by the Al-Khanadaq website, Syria is now distorted by division and fragmentation, with multiple factions controlling scattered areas, and worrying scenarios about the state's disintegration have emerged. The article adds that minorities, such as the Alawites and Druze, do not trust the government of Sharaa al-Julani, especially after the recent events in Suwayda, which resulted in hundreds of deaths, thousands of displacement, and the commission of horrific crimes involving al-Julani's forces.

Ted Galen Carpenter, the author of the article, acknowledged that the United States has benefited from and encouraged the armed groups led by al-Julani, and that the credibility of the propaganda supporting him and his organization is currently eroding at an unprecedented rate. He concludes that the country is currently experiencing chaos as a result of the struggle for influence between Türkiye and the temporary entity, with significant American involvement.

Translated from Arabic:

Violence is accelerating under the new Islamist government in Syria, as is the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities. This tragedy was entirely predictable. Since Barack Obama's first term, critics warned that Washington's courtship of and assistance to Sunni Arab extremists would lead to disastrous results. Yet the Joe Biden administration persisted with this approach in an attempt to overthrow the secular government of Bashar al-Assad. From the perspective of American policymakers, Assad has committed two unforgivable sins. He has turned his country into Iran's closest regional ally and strengthened his ties with Vladimir Putin's Russia. Indeed, the Russian air force played a crucial role in 2016 in enabling Syrian government forces to defeat the Sunni-majority rebellion and retake control of key parts of Syria.

Propping up the regime and overthrowing it

However, Tehran's and Moscow's ability to prop up the Assad government has gradually diminished over the years. Moscow's assistance, in particular, has become less reliable as the Kremlin's primary strategic focus has shifted to the conflict in Ukraine. During the final year of the Biden administration, a de facto coalition comprising the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey redoubled its efforts to bring the Syrian rebels to power.

This effort finally succeeded. In December 2024, a Sunni Islamist coalition led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate, succeeded in overthrowing the Assad government. Washington and its allies had worked diligently to achieve this goal since 2011, even though this effort sparked a civil war that has killed more than 600,000 people and displaced more than 13 million.

Biden administration officials, as well as the ever-reliable imperialist mouthpieces in the official media, portrayed the rebels' victory as a "liberation" for the oppressed Syrian people. The first segment of CBS's "60 Minutes," broadcast on December 15, 2024, was typical. This propaganda continued a long and shameful tradition of portraying even Washington's most corrupt and brutal agents as advocates of freedom and democracy.

Enemy of the Enemy

Until Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's military victory, the US government had designated it as a terrorist organization. However, US leaders lavishly whitewashed its reputation, and the new regime is now celebrated in Western circles as if this disturbing record had never existed.

This political blindness on the part of US leaders toward Syria has long been shameful. Earlier in the Syrian civil war, some US policymakers and opinion leaders, particularly during the Obama administration, publicly advocated cooperation with al-Qaeda and its allies. For example, former CIA Director David Petraeus insisted that some of the group's "more moderate" elements could be useful allies for the United States and should therefore be co-opted. Jake Sullivan, who later became President Biden's National Security Advisor, adopted a similar logic.

An Ethno-Religious Country

It was a naive and destructive strategy.

Syria was, and remains, a fragile ethnic and religious fabric. The majority Arab population is divided into Sunnis (about 60% of the Arab population), Christians (10-12%), Alawites, a Shiite offshoot (10-12%), and Druze, a sect that combines elements of Shiite Islam, Christianity, and Judaism (about 5%). The rest of the population consists of various ethnic minorities (mostly Sunni), especially Kurds (about 10% of Syria's total population).

For more than four decades, the Assad family remained in power thanks to the fierce loyalty of its Alawite base and its alliance with Christians, Druze, and other smaller ethnic and religious groups. No reasonable person disputes that the Assad family ruled Syria with an iron fist.

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SHOCK: Israel Has Killed 20.7% of Gaza's Population. That's 434,000 People.

Here is the latest genocide data, updated as of yesterday (July 21): based on a statistical model developed by a prestigious medical journal called The Lancet, Israel has killed roughly 434,800 people in Gaza since the country’s military started to attack the territory on 8 October 2023.

That’s 20.7% of Gaza’s entire pre-conflict population dead. Over half are women and children.

More here

[Never forgive, never forget]

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2025-08-11/in-gaza-netanyahu-leads-israel-toward-pariah-s-future-it-can-t-afford

Israel Is Heading Toward an Isolation It Can’t Afford

Netanyahu has doubled down on war in Gaza — again. That can only threaten his country’s long-term survival.

Marc Champion August 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM GMT+3

Protesters hold up images of hostages as they gather to demonstrate against Netanyahu's plans to expand occupation in Gaza on August 7, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Marc Champion is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

How on earth did Israel get to this point, and how can it escape? These two questions seem unavoidable after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his response to months of criticism and outrage over his conduct of the war in Gaza. It was, in a nutshell, more war.

It’s important to recall that Israel experienced a moment of unprecedented global support and sympathy less than two years ago — after Hamas fighters swarmed into the country on Oct. 7, 2023, seizing 250 hostages and slaughtering 1,200 people with a savagery so abhorrent it seemed it would do permanent damage to the Palestinian cause. [This author is not quite ready to admit that a lot of the victims were killed by the IDF]

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https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/160180

Over 100 Palestinian children die from acute malnutrition in Gaza, reports UN agencies - english.wafa.ps

NEW YORK, August 12, 2025 (WAFA) – UN humanitarian organizations called for urgent action after medical sources in the Gaza Strip announced the deaths of more than 100 children due to malnutrition since the beginning of the war in October 2023. Last night, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described the child death toll exceeding 100 as "a ...

english.wafa.ps

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The Satanic Nature Of The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Ed Curtin joined me to discuss his recent article, “The Satanic Nature of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

American history can only accurately be described as the story of demonic possession, however you choose to understand that phrase. Maybe radical “evil” will suffice. But right from the start the American colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.” Nothing stood in the way of this divine calling, which involved the need to enslave and kill millions of innocent people that continues down to today. “Others” have always been expendable since they have stood in the way of the imperial march ordained by the American god. This includes all the wars waged based on lies and false flag operations. It is not a secret, although many Americans, if they are even aware of it, prefer to see it as a series of aberrations carried out by “bad apples.” Or something from the past. Most know nothing about it, for they have never opened a history book.

Unless we enter into deep contemplation of the evil that was released into the world with those bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are lost in a living hell without escape. And we will pay. Nemesis always demands retribution, as the ancient Greeks said. We have gradually been accepting rule by those for whom the killing of innocents is child’s play, and we have been masquerading as innocent and good children for whom the truth is too much to bear.

Regis Tremblay

Independent Filmmaker

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Jeffrey Sachs

Ukraine war is over. Sachs makes fiery speech at EU parliament, challenges America

Sachs knows more than anyone about foreign policy. He’s been working in their countries, helping them for decades

He makes sense. Is that why they ignore him?

He says to Europe: have your OWN foreign policy. You don’t need the US to tell you what to do.

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Richard Wolff: Trump can't do anything about this... it's undeniable. empire unravelling.

Why should we listen to Richard Wolff?

Firstly, he is actually an expert and professor of economics. Almost no US politician has a clue about real macroeconomics. Example: A president says he is going to slap a tariff on a certain country. That is a false statement. Tariffs are not paid by the countries whose products are hit by tariffs, The AMERICAN CONSUMER OR IMPORTER PAYS THE TARIFF. You are slapping a tariff on US, the Americans.

Secondly, Wolff puts things in their historical perspective.

A president makes grandiose statements about restoring American greatness, but no one ever thinks about the conditions for restoring greatness.

In every way, those conditions capable of restoring economic power belong to the 60s and 70s and they’re not coming back.

The dollar was once the dominant currency and the world’s main reserve currency and trade currency.

The BRICS changed all that, and that was enabled by the terrible mistakes our Washington regime made with our dollar:

Using the dollar as a weapon, imposing sanctions on countries we didn’t like or worse, even confiscating assets held in trust. The key was trust and the confiscation killed that trust.

On top of that, the US was able to borrow the money from other countries that once trusted us.

But now they don’t. And foreign investment in the US dollar is shrinking fast.

Even just one of those enumerated mistakes would have been bad enough, but all of them put together have undermined the dollar to a point of no return.

Even as we tighten the economic screws and kill what’s left of the trust, we bully those countries even worse and then expect them to keep investing in the USD. I can’t think of anything more stupid.

For those who think Trump can wave a wand and make

The US great economically great again, even though the conditions of th 60s and 70s have disappeared – and ironically, even as these conditions were exacerbated by Trump himself, with his punitive sanctions, tariffs, confiscation of foreign reserves stored in US financial institutions,

and possibly worst of all, his punitive tariffs and their inflationary effects, which have been staved off temporarily, take a look at this chart showing that the GDP of the G7 is projected to sink to 27.77% of world output BY 2028, while the BRICS is projected at 33.65% of world output by then. Trump cannot move the G7’s GDP by PPP (purchasing power parity) by one single decimal point, and in fact, his economy-killing policies will likely make this even worse by interfering in world trade.

On top of that, there is no telling how many more countries will be added to the BRICS by 2028, only adding to the global south’s GDP by PPP. BTW, these figures differ slightly depending on who the analyst is, but the overall impression is always the same for all analyses, and that unmistakable impression is that the US is declining rapidly.

Richard Wolff’s more Updated analysis shows a more recent 39% for BRICS vs 28% for G7.

One analyst took a creative approach that put the G7 ahead of BRICSA by insisting that the global influence of

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Polls: The Lebanese people support Hezbollah, while the government rejects it. The gutless Lebanese government voted to disarm Hezbollah, which would have given the country to Israel! However, Hezbollah has chosen to ignore the order to disarm itself,

Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://alkhanadeq.com/post/9175/لبنان-بين-المقاومة-والدبلوماسية-المجتمع-اللبناني-يحدد-أولويات-الدفاع-عن-الوطن

Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 03:39 AM

Lebanon Between Resistance and Diplomacy: Lebanese Society Determines National Defense Priorities

Demonstration in Lebanon

The Consultative Center for Studies and Documentation conducted an opinion poll between July 27 and August 4, 2025, covering a random sample of 600 people from various regions, sects, and age groups in Lebanon. The poll had a margin of error of ±5% and a confidence level of 95%. The sample was distributed by sect: 29.5% Shiites, 29.5% Sunnis, 34% Christians, and 7% Druze. The gender distribution was 54% male and 46% female.

The results showed that 71.7% believe that the Lebanese Army alone is incapable of confronting Israeli aggression, 76% do not believe that diplomatic relations alone can deter aggression, and 58% reject the disarmament of the resistance without a defensive strategy. 73% also believed that the events in Syria pose an existential threat to Lebanon, 74% believe they threaten security and social stability, and 68% believe they pave the way for war.

Confidence in official institutions generally fell at medium or low levels: the presidency received high confidence from 38.5%, the prime minister from 24.8%, parliament from 17.7%, the judiciary from 10.8%, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 11.5%. Significant sectarian differences were noted, with Shiites showing higher levels of distrust in some institutions, while other sects showed higher levels of medium or high confidence, particularly in the presidency.

In conclusion, the resistance [In Lebanon, the resistance is mostly Hezbollah] option remains a unifying force across all sects, with the majority of Lebanese refusing to tamper with their weapons without a defensive strategy. There is a consensus that the army or diplomacy alone are insufficient to deter Israeli aggression, while concerns about developments in Syria continue to cross sectarian lines and there is a clear reluctance to trust official institutions.

Source: Advisory Center for Studies and Documentation

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I have said before that Lebanon is so heterogenous in religion and politics that it is hard to understand what is happening there.

The following older article reveals that the “Christian” party Kitaeb is pro-Israel, even though Israel has repeatedly attacked Lebanon. This party was on the Israeli side in the civil war. The US regime cooperates with these traitors.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/08/20/709288/Israeli-Proxy-Lebanon-Samir-Geagea-Stoking-Civil-War-Provoke-Hezbollah

Israeli proxy in Lebanon: Samir Geagea stoking civil war to provoke Hezbollah

Sunday, 20 August 2023 12:17 PM

More here

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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://alkhanadeq.com/post/9177/حين-تتحول-دماء-الجيش-اللبناني-إلى-وقود-للفتنة-لدى-جوقة-عوكر

Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 04:03 AM

When the blood of the Lebanese Army turns into fuel for strife in the Awkar Choir

[Awkar is a city on the Lebanese coast where the US embassy is located, so Awkar apparently relates here to the US. The “choir” may refer to the propaganda of the US]

Investing in the blood of the Lebanese Army to create internal strife

The explosion in the town of Zebqin in southern Lebanon, which resulted in the deaths of several Lebanese Army personnel, quickly became a political tool for the Lebanese Forces and Kataeb [pro-Israel/US] parties and their media mouthpieces. MTV described the army martyrs as "martyrs of the party's ambush," [The party here refers to Hezbollah, the so-called Party of God] while these political forces were quick to hold Hezbollah responsible, in a discourse that clearly intersects with the priorities of Washington and Tel Aviv, ignoring the broader security context, which includes daily Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty on land, sea, and air. This reflects a blatant political game attempting to exploit the blood of the army and consider it a card to "win" the current phase, which seeks to withdraw the weapons of the resistance, the only weapon that preserves and protects Lebanon's sovereignty. [I posted a translated article titled “Surrender document” rejected, fighting in Karbala” in my Aug 8 newsletter, explaining how US envoy Tom Barak had delivered a letter demanding that Hezbollah in Lebanon surrender its arms. Later it was reported that Hezbollah had refused even though the Lebanese government demanded this. The Israeli attacks on Lebanon are part of the 7 wars mentioned by Wesley Clark. The countries attacked are parts of what Israel calls “Greater Israel” featured in the Yinon Plan for Israel to seize territory via the US proxy]

The "Restoring Sovereignty" Speech

After the incident, former Minister Michel Pharaon described the Lebanese Army martyrs on the "X" platform as "martyrs of sovereignty restoration." This raises fundamental questions: What sovereignty does he mean? With this tweet, he seems to be saying that Hezbollah is the one who mortgaged the country's sovereignty, undermined the army's decision-making, and prevented them from arming themselves against an occupying entity possessing a nuclear arsenal. Can Lebanon's sovereignty be restored by accusing the resistance [Hezbollah], which defended Lebanon and spared it the dangers of occupation and incursion into Beirut [possibly refers to the 2006 war with Israel, won by Hezbollah], sacrificing thousands of martyrs in the process? Or by confronting the Israeli occupation, which continues its aggression against Lebanese territory and violates it, leaving no room for sovereignty? This deliberate debate, sparked by the likes of this minister, reflects an old approach of fueling internal division and diverting attention from the Israeli threat.

Direct Incitement and Destabilization

MP Nadim Gemayel [pro-Israel traitor] added a more dangerous dimension to this scene when he asked, "Why didn't Hezbollah inform the army that the place was booby-trapped?" This is despite the fact that the French force operating within the UNIFIL had entered the area and informed the Lebanese army. The army had begun dismantling and removing weapons three days before the explosion. The MP ignored these facts, and with his statement, he attempted to explicitly hold Hezbollah responsible for what happened, within a discourse clearly aimed at inciting against the party [Hezbollah] and destabilizing internal stability. This type of statement reflects the exploitation of the army's blood in internal political battles rather than devoting it to building a unified national stance. This is especially true given the stance taken by the families of the army martyrs, some of whom raised resistance flags and slogans in support of the movement during their sons' funerals, denying these flimsy accusations fabricated by those who incite [against] civil peace.

A Bloody Record with the Lebanese Army

The sudden concern shown by some political forces for the lives of army personnel clashes with their historical record. The Lebanese Forces [a “Christian” pro-Israel political party, not to be confused with the Lebanese army] and its sister” organizations, under the leadership of Samir Geagea, have a bloody record of heinous crimes against the Lebanese Army and innocent civilians alike. The Forces waged a brutal war against the army in the 1990s, known as the War of Elimination, which claimed the lives of hundreds of soldiers and civilians, in addition to carrying out a series of assassinations targeting prominent national and military figures.

These crimes were not limited to murder alone; they also included kidnappings, sieges, and horrific massacres, such as the killing of more than a thousand unarmed Lebanese citizens, who were thrown into the sea or buried in mass graves. To this day, the families of these victims remain unaware of their fate. These terrorist and violent practices underscore the extent of the violations committed by the Lebanese Forces against the Lebanese Army and civilians, which aimed only to spread chaos and destabilize national security, leaving a dark mark on Lebanon's modern history. Therefore, these forces cannot now lecture on chastity and claim to preserve the country's security, when they have been and continue to be among its most ruthless saboteurs.

Failure of Attempts to Instigate Internal Confrontation

The rhetoric attempting to push the army into a confrontation with the resistance is not new—except that new tools have entered the fray, such as US envoy Morgan Ortagus, who referred to the Lebanese army's martyrs as "heroes" solely to contribute to the wave of incitement, not because she sees them as heroes, which is the last thing US policy sees. However, it has failed in the past and will fail today, for a simple reason: Hezbollah considers any Lebanese-Lebanese clash a red line and prefers to direct its weapons and capabilities toward confronting the Israeli occupation, which poses an existential threat to Lebanon. Conversely, many of these political forces have not hesitated in the past to forge alliances with foreign powers at the expense of the country's unity. Therefore, any internal escalation will be the sole responsibility of the Lebanese government and its recent decision regarding arms monopoly, as well as the channels and parties of discord that incite fighting between the army and the resistance.

The Paradox Between Protection and Dependence

While Hezbollah continues to play a key role in protecting Lebanon and its people from Israeli aggression, forces like the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb insist on adopting a discourse aligned with the Israeli-American narrative, even at the expense of the Lebanese Army, which they claim to defend. The irony is that these forces, instead of demanding the provision of weapons and equipment to the army to deter the enemy, are engaging in internal political campaigns that weaken the military establishment and drag the country into strife. Meanwhile, the [Israeli[] occupation awaits opportunities to attack targets in the South or the Bekaa Valley, while these forces remain unmoved.

Writer: Editorial Room

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Air strike update for 8-12, 2025

Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]

https://www.1tv.ru/news/2025-08-12/517790-rossiyskaya_armiya_nanesla_massirovannyy_udar_po_ukrainskim_voennym_tylam

August 12, 2025, 18:02

The Russian army launched a massive attack on the Ukrainian military rear

Explosions thundered at night in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Nikolaev oblasts. The Ministry of Defense reported that a Ukrainian military-industrial enterprise, workshops for the production of long-range drones, ammunition depots and a training center for the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged. Its location and affiliation with any branch of the armed forces are not specified. Over 1,400 Ukrainian militants were destroyed in 24 hours, and many armored vehicles were destroyed.

Here is footage from our defense ministry - drone operators from the Rubicon center are in action. They are monitoring the movement of militants, hunting for enemy infantry fighting vehicles and drones, and also destroying the enemy's communication system.

Russian units are advancing in all directions of the special operation. To the north of Krasnoarmeysk [city renamed as Pokrovsk by Ukraine Neonazi regime], which is still being encircled, an important highway has been taken under fire control, making it extremely difficult to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison.

And this is already the Kharkov oblast. Russian flags over the village of Zeleny Gai. There has been no confirmation from the Ministry of Defense yet, the surrounding area is probably being cleared. And more footage from the Kharkov oblast. The Solntsepyoks are working. There flamethrower systems [thermobaric] are burning out enemy positions.