Month: April 2022

Vladimir Putin announced that the families of the servicemen killed in Ukraine will receive statutory insurance benefits and a lump sum of 7 million 421 thousand roubles, a monthly monetary compensation for each family member of the deceased and that an additional 5 million roubles will be paid to each family.

Among numerous spoils of war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured the manual discussing the methods used by the political commissar.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting a mopping-up operation in Kyiv Oblast. In the liberated suburbs of Kyiv (Bucha, Irpin, and others) mass graves of civilians tortured by the invaders are found. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation resorted to “scorched earth” tactics in their retreat.

Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov has arrived in Senegal on a working visit, Idel.Realii reports.

In an interview the head of State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stated: “The State Duma is keeping this issue on the agenda. All those paid by the State, therefore – by the people, and betraying them should leave managing positions in state cultural, educational, healthcare and other institutions. It’s disrespectful towards our soldiers and officers, protecting our country. We will make sure to task Ministers with this issue and insist on personnel changes”.

In his interview to Euractiv, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan Timur Suleimenov stated that Kazakhstan respected the territorial integrity of Ukraine, did not recognize Crimea as part of Russia and had no intention to assist Russia in avoiding Western sanctions.

According to News 102, referring to data published by Rosstat (t/n: Federal State Statistics Service), the population in Bashkortostan is declining rapidly and two factors are worsening simultaneously — birth and death rate.

Earlier, President Pashinyan claimed that the planes did not take off from Armenia.

The amount of the federal compensation is 7.4 million rubles plus the war veteran status.

On March 31, Telegram channel “SVR General”, media outlet promoting fakes and propaganda, the so called “former KGB officers’ dump”, informed that Vladimir Putin had convened the video conference with Nikolay Patrushev, Valeriy Gerasimov, Sergey Shoigu, Aleksandr Bortnikov, Sergey Naryshkin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov who joined later.

Telegram-channel «SVR General» (t/n: SVR – Foreign Intelligence Service) called by a lot of political scientists a “former KGB officers’ dump”, published its own thoughts on the situation in Putin’s circle. The full text is below.

The ancient Ukrainian city, now a member state of the Russian Federation, took the center stage in the Moscow media. According to TASS, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov informed that fire had broken out at the oil depot in Belgorod following the attack of two helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “entering the Russian territory at low altitude”.

Chechens are also participating in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Both supporters of the head of Chechnya Kadyrov, who are fighting in the ranks of the RF Armed Forces, and those who support Ukraine. What prompted them to do so? DW talks about this.