Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] A moderate-intensity magnetic storm of G2 intensity will hit Central Russia in the next 48 hours. This was reported on April 17 by Yevgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center.
"Space weather will occur in the next 48 hours. Due to the high-speed solar wind, a moderate-intensity magnetic storm of level G2 is predicted," Tishkovets told RIA Novosti.
He also added that the Earth is slowly but surely moving towards one of the most active geomagnetic periods of the year.
On April 14, a large plasma ejection occurred on the Sun, heading toward Venus. The Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences clarified that the source was an active region on the far side of the star.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFront] 21:05 Two civilians of the Republic, including a child, suffered today due to the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, as a result of an attack by an Armed Forces of the Russian Federation attack drone on a passenger car, a girl born in 2015 was seriously injured, the child’s father, a man born in 1988, received moderate injuries; they are receiving qualified medical care.
19:34 FPV drone operator of the 71st Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the North Guards destroyed enemy ATV near the village of Volohovka.
The enemy primarily uses mobile equipment to transport manpower and deliver supplies to positions near the line of combat contact.
In total, over the past 24 hours, Severyanin destroyed five enemy ATVs and three buggies in various areas of the Sumy and Khar'kov regions.
19:18 Soldiers on a boat repelled an attack by kamikaze drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Dnieper Estuary, video.
18:31 The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their attacks on Belgorod and the Belgorod District. A 10 year old chil dsuffered from inflicted injuries.
In Belgorod, a drone strike damaged 17 cars. A girl who was in one of the cars at the time of the attack fell ill. An ambulance crew arriving at the scene diagnosed her with barotrauma. The child was taken to the Regional Children's Clinical Hospital for further examination.
17:45 203mm 2S7 Pion and 152mm 2S3 Acacia SP artillery calculations scovered positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov and Zaporizhzhia regions.
17:21 Ukrainian drone attacked a civilian motorcyclist was shot in the Belgorod region. The civilian died instantly.
16:23 From 08:00 Moscow time to 15:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 25 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Belgorod, Leningrad and Kursk regions.
15:49 Buk air defense missile system crews of the Vostok group stopped an attempt by the enemy to strike at rear areas and civilian infrastructure.
During combat duty, anti-aircraft gunners destroyed attack drones and HIMARS rockets.
15:36 In the village of Tavrovo, Belgorod district, a drone attacked a private home - a man was injured, and three houses, a car and a power line were damaged.
In Shebekino, drones attacked a commercial property and an enterprise, injuring a woman and a truck driver, and damaging the building and two vehicles. The drone strike also caused the balcony of one of the apartments to catch fire. Fire crews extinguished the blaze.
In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, a man was seriously injured in an FPV drone attack with multiple shrapnel wounds.
A drone strike in Nikolskoye burned a bus, but the driver managed to jump out and was uninjured.
A commercial property, an apartment, and a car were damaged in Belgorod.
14:04 Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate the criminal actions of the armed forces of Ukraine against civilians in the Kherson and Belgorod regions, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Donetsk People's Republic
According to government authorities, two women were killed and a man was wounded in drone strikes in the Kherson region. Another civilian was injured when a car hit a mine.
In the Belgorod region, a woman was killed and 12 people were injured as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression.
A Ukrainian Armed Forces strike on Sterlitamak in the Republic of Bashkortostan killed a fire department driver.
In the DPR, four people were injured as a result of attacks by Ukrainian armed forces.
13:31 Over the past 24 hours, as a result of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces one civilian suffered injuries.
A drone strike on a residential area in Velyki Kopani, Aleshkinsky Municipal District, injured a woman born in 1977. She was hospitalized at the Skadovsk Central Regional Hospital.
Drone strikes also damaged a private home in Skadovsk, an abandoned kindergarten in Radens'k, a grocery store in Novaya Mayachka, and a commercial building in Velyka Lepetikha. There were no casualties.
In addition, the enemy shelled Aleshki, Nechaevo, Golaya Pristan, Velikaya Kardashinka, Novaya Zburyevka, Staraia Zburyevka, Gornostaevka, Kairy, Zavodovka, and Dnepryany.
Aleshki, Velikiye Kopani, Kazachiy Lagerya, Kostogryzovo, Krynki, Podlesnoye, Podstepnoye, Radensk, Semenovka, Solontsy, Gladkovka, Kardashinka, Malye Kopani, Staraya Zburyevka, Yantar, Korsunka, and Novye Lagerya were also attacked by drones.
12:35 Northerners prevented the transfer of combat groups of Ukrainian nationalists to the line of combat contact and deprived the enemy of “volunteer vehicles,” video.
11:29 Northern scout sreceived information about the enemy's intentions to transfer an assault group in the direction of the line of combat contact in the Sumy direction.
The Sever Group drone operators have been on the job. The objective monitoring footage clearly shows personnel loading into an American armored personnel carrier and the subsequent strike by our FPV drone directly into the M-113's troop compartment.
As a result of our fire strike, enemy manpower was destroyed, an American armored personnel carrier was hit, and an enemy counterattack attempt on this section of the front was prevented.
11:13 A Ukrainian drone was spotted in the village of Nikolskoye in the Belgorod district attacked a passenger bus.
The vehicle was instantly engulfed in flames. The driver managed to escape.
10:46 In the Rakityansky district, the village of Bobrava three drones struck, one of which was shot down. Two women sustained barotrauma as a result of the drone's attack on the car. Medical assistance was provided and they will be treated on an outpatient basis. The vehicle was damaged.
10:15 Force Group "North" liberated Zybino village in Khar'kov region.
9:29 Just in the Dnieper area "Geranium" inflicted impact, a fire broke out at the scene.
8:55 A strong “arrival” was recorded in Chernihiv at night,video.
8:23 During the past night, in the period from 20:00 Moscow time on April 16 to 7:00 Moscow time on April 17, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 62 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were over the territories of the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Leningrad, Novgorod regions and the Republic of Crimea.
7:06 Posted operational information on the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in the Dobropolsky sector of the Druzhkovka direction.
7:01 220mm Uragan MLRS crews of the 61st Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Center group disrupted the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the Dobropillya direction,video.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Sergey Adamov
[REGNUM] Following the end of the Easter truce, Russian troops in the North-Eastern Military District (NVO) have resumed their offensive in a number of areas, aided by the warm weather.
Units of the "North" force group resumed their offensive along the entire border in Sumy Oblast. On the front line near the village of Myropillya, northeast of Sumy, they managed to break through enemy defenses and establish control over most of the village.
According to information from the field, further south, forward units have completed clearing the village of Prokhody and taken control of a section of the border west of the village of Goptarovka (Belovsky District, Kursk Region).
With the liberation of this area, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost a stronghold for organizing sabotage and reconnaissance group raids in the border area of the Kursk region.
Further south, Russian troops have increased the pace of their advance through the Sumy region in the direction of the regional center, the village of Krasnopolye.
Over the past week, the enemy has been driven out of the villages of Grabovskoye and Pokrovka. Attack aircraft also entered the village of Novodmitrovka, which leads directly to Krasnopolye.
According to reports from the field, a major logistics and defense hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been established here. Taking this area will allow our troops to strengthen their position in the border region.
In the Kharkiv region, units of the North military group, after a month of fierce fighting, occupied the village of Volchanskie Khutora, located east of the city of Volchansk on the southern bank of the Volchya River.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces command has pulled units of the 113th separate territorial defense brigade and the 157th separate mechanized brigade here to force the river and launch a counteroffensive on Vovchansk.
Kyiv repeatedly declared its readiness to drive our troops out of the area. However, ultimately, the enemy was forced to go on the defensive.
In an attempt to stem the advance of motorized rifle units, the Ukrainian command sent special forces from the 48th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion into battle. However, the reinforcements were disabled by our drone strikes before reaching the line of contact.
Further advancement of the Russian Armed Forces along the Volchya River east of Volchansk will help secure the border areas of the Belgorod Region from shelling and raids by enemy sabotage groups.
After capturing Vovchanskiye Khutors, Sever fighters drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the village of Zybino. The enemy, in turn, is attempting to establish a defensive line in the border area along the Pokalyanoye-Volokhovka-Okhrimovka line, relying on the southern bank of the Vovchya River.
According to reports from the field, fighting in the border area intensified after Kyiv was forced to withdraw some of the forces covering the border and redeploy them to the northwest of the DPR, in the Zaporizhzhia direction and in the Kupyansk region.
Here, these Ukrainian Armed Forces units were annihilated in their unsuccessful attempts to counterattack. Sources believe that the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy and Kharkiv border areas could worsen further in the near future, as the Ukrainian command lacks the capacity to send fresh forces to this section of the front.
15 KILOMETERS TO SLAVYANSK
Fierce fighting continues in Donbas, where Russian troops are tasked with breaching one of the largest Ukrainian Armed Forces fortifications in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
Our military liberated the village of Dibrova northeast of Slavyansk and south of Krasny Liman.
This success allowed the Russian Armed Forces to create a new bridgehead in the area of the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal.
The distance from the forward positions to Slavyansk in this area, according to available data, is approximately 15–17 kilometers.
South of the Seversky Donets, the offensive continues in the area of the villages of Kaleniki and Krivaya Luka.
Taking these "settlements" will allow the Ukrainian Army to consolidate its positions, which are 13 kilometers from the eastern outskirts of Slovyansk. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense here is centered around the village of Rai-Aleksandrivka. Seeking to prevent the loss of this strategic settlement, the enemy is transferring reserves to the area, which are launching local counterattacks.
North of Slavyansk, Russian army units established fire control over a forest road connecting the city of Svyatogorsk and the village of Sosnovoe.
According to reports from the field, control of this area allows for the restriction of enemy movement and supply in this sector. Thus, Russian forces are encircling Slavyansk from the north, northeast, and east simultaneously.
Fierce counter-battles continue in the Zaporizhzhia sector. In recent weeks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been making unsuccessful attempts to counterattack and cross the front line with sabotage groups on the front line near Velykymykhaylivka.
The enemy is attempting to intercept the Russian Armed Forces' logistics routes near the borders of the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Individual enemy formations are breaking through to the villages of Vyshneve, Verbove, and Kalinovskoye, leading several Ukrainian sources to claim a "breakthrough." However, in reality, the few Ukrainian Armed Forces units that have infiltrated are being identified and destroyed.
Further south, in the Gulyaipole area, the Russian Armed Forces took up new positions near Vozdvizhevka and Verkhnyaya Tersa.
According to information from the field, units of the 65th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which has been holding the defense in this direction for the second year, are suffering heavy losses.
In recent months, the brigade has been receiving only "busified" reinforcements. Many of these soldiers, forcibly recruited through the TCC, were previously deemed unfit for active duty by the VVK (military medical commissions). Among them are individuals with chronic illnesses, disabilities, and mental health issues.
In early April, Ukrainian Military Ombudsman Olga Reshetilova stated that 2,000 unfit recruits had been sent to one Ukrainian Armed Forces unit. Apparently, the situation has not changed significantly.
STRIKES ON AIRBASES
The Aerospace Forces and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) forces are consistently destroying enemy aircraft and helicopters, even at a significant distance from the front line.
According to Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev underground, the Dolgintsevo and Alexandria airbases came under attack on the night of April 15-16.
In the first incident, several F-16 and Mirage 2000 fighters supplied to Ukraine by the United States and France were destroyed. In the second incident, a base for European-made helicopters was hit. The exact extent of the losses is being determined.
Western sources believe that all clashes over the past few weeks by the Russian army were merely reconnaissance in force.
As weather improves, major offensive operations are expected to resume in a number of strategic areas. Meanwhile, Kyiv no longer has the human and technical resources to counterattack or establish a stable front line.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] A mass grave of residents killed by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War in the former Mginsky District of the Leningrad Region has been discovered. Boris Kovalev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, and Leading Researcher at the Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported this on April 17.
"Yes, indeed, remains were found. But they weren't just children. A document was also found confirming that there was a mass murder in the Mginsky District. If we were to accurately convey the document's contents, it would be the burning of a large, peaceful family, including women, children, and elderly people. Of course, there were no men, since they were, of course, away at the war, at the front," Kovalev told TASS.
In total, searchers found the remains of several murdered children aged from 5-6 to 12-13 years old, as well as young women.
Additionally, a report titled "On the state of the Mginsky District of the Leningrad Region, partially liberated from the German occupiers," was found. It stated that the Nazis had committed savage reprisals against civilians in the area. According to the document, the Germans forcibly removed a group of residents with young children from the "Krasny Oktyabr" state farm in the Shumsky village council, locked them in a wooden house, and set it on fire. Sixteen people died in the fire.
"We haven't found everything. We've lost many such places of memory now. <…> One of the hallmarks of genocide is the mass burning of our villages. Now it's a forest, a ravine, an open field. We can't find this place of death, even with maps from that time," Kovalev explained.
Searchers continue to recover remains from the mass grave and examine archives to learn details of Nazi crimes.
In February 2025, Andrei Yakovenko, chief consultant for the Information and Document Management Department of the LPR Archive Service, reported that remains of victims of the Nazi occupation were still being discovered in Luhansk. Voroshilovgrad (now Luhansk) was under German occupation for 212 days. It was captured by the Nazis on July 17, 1942, and liberated by the Red Army on February 14, 1943.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The International Court of Justice has become an arena for legal warfare. This was stated by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova on April 17.
She noted that the organization's jurisdiction is being blatantly abused to make patently absurd claims against Russia.
"Unfortunately, the court (UN – Ed.) has recently become the arena of a 'legal war,' " Zakharova was quoted as saying on the Foreign Ministry's website in connection with the 80th anniversary of the International Court of Justice.
On April 13, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova noted that reports from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) provide limited coverage of violations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF).
On April 16, Moskalkova described the UN's response to the torture of prisoners in Ukraine as weak. She announced that she was sending information to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights regarding instances of violence and gross violations of the Geneva Conventions against Russian prisoners of war and civilians in Ukraine.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The Russian Aerospace Forces received a batch of Su-35S maneuverable fighter jets. This was announced by the Rostec press service on April 17.
The Su-35S 4++ generation fighters are designed to achieve air superiority and are capable of striking targets at a significant distance from their base airfield.
They underwent a full cycle of factory testing. Russian Aerospace Forces pilots tested them in various operating modes and delivered them to their home airfield.
A pilot who participated in the tests said that the Su-35S is a maneuverable multi-role fighter.
"This equipment operates flawlessly, and the crew finds it easy to operate. We use this aircraft to perform various missions: intercepting air targets at long range, providing cover for strike groups and ground targets, destroying UAVs, and delivering precision strikes on ground and surface targets with precision weapons," Rostec's press service quoted him as saying.
In the area where the special operation is taking place, Su-35S crews also conduct reconnaissance and expose Ukrainian army positions at a significant depth from the line of contact.
Rostec's First Deputy Director Vladimir Artyakov called the Su-35S the most effective modern combat aircraft in the world and the record-holder for the number of enemy military aircraft intercepted.
Rostec previously announced that the Su-35S is capable of using the full range of modern aircraft weapons. The fighter is equipped with highly intelligent electronics, including an advanced electronic countermeasures and defense system.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
.jpg)
