RF 'SMO' 3rd Year significant event timeline with 20 questions and opinions

Question 21> What will the Russian Federation and Ukraine's future border be based on? 1) RF territorial integrity 2) EU recognized territorial integrity 3) Territorial realities on the ground?

>On May 10, 2024 - Russian troops launched a large offensive operation across the border into Ukraine's Kharkov region approximately 30 kilometers northeast from Kharkov city. There were two main offensive directions: in the area of Volchansk (one of the Ukrainian strongholds from where Belgorod region was constantly shelled) and near the village of Liptsy towards Kharkov.

1) Why did the Russian Federation launch this new offensive in the Kharkov region?

Opinion> The Russian Federation's strategy was to create a “cordon sanitaire” (buffer zone) in the Kharkov region to protect Belgorod region civilians and minimize Ukrainian military's artillery shelling of the Belgorod region. After constant daily lethal attacks from Ukraine's military, the Russian Federation was forced to take preventative measures. Earlier in the year, on Thursday, Feb 15, 2024, a Ukrainian missile strike left at least seven people dead, including a one-year-old baby, and injured 19 more including four children, according to the local Russian authorities. This single attack on Belgorod city also damaged 128 apartments, 15 residential homes, four shops and over 30 cars, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov stated. Before that, on December 30, 2023, Ukraine's military conducted a massive missile strike on Belgorod city center that killed 24 people including four children, and left 108 injured including 15 children. According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Ukraine's forces used banned cluster munitions in their attack. According to local officials, one shell fell directly on a downtown ice skating rink near a New Year’s tree. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated, "These attacks on Belgorod had “absolutely no military meaning. It is obvious that Kiev Nazis, suffering failure after failure on the battlefield, barbarically take out their anger on peaceful Russian citizens.” "These innocent people were deliberately killed", stated Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexander Grebenkin, who is coordinating efforts to bring to justice all Ukrainian individuals guilty of giving and executing inhumane orders against Russian civilians. The city of Belgorod is located only 35km from the border with Ukraine and has over 330,000 residents.

>On May 20, 2024 - Ukraine's President Vladimer Zelensky's 5 year presidential office term expired. President Zelensky extended his presidential mandate, cited martial law as a pretext, and self-proclaimed himself the indefinite president of Ukraine.

2) Why is Vladimir Zelensky's presidential term expiration important?

Opinion> Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that the Russian Federation will not accept Vladimir Zelensky's signature on a future international peace treaty due to his official term expiration status. President Putin noted that the Ukrainian constitution does not address postponement of presidential elections nor extensions of the president’s term even during martial law. President Putin also said that the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, (national parliament), is the only legitimate legislative governing body in Ukraine whose parliamentary leaders could legally sign a future peace agreement document. The Russian government must ensure a future peace agreement is legally binding, final, and rock solid to avoid a loophole that null and voids a treaty signed by an expired term president. The presidential election in Ukraine was to be held in March 2024, however Vladimir Zelensky canceled the presidential elections in Ukraine last year and cited martial law due to the ongoing conflict. Although Vladmir Zelensky and his appointed authorities can negotiate terms of a peace accord, the Russian Federation will only recognize peace agreement terms and conditions formally ratified by Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada. "A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left," USA President Trump wrote on his Truth Social network page dated 19 February. On 24 February 2025, the Verkhovna Rada (450 legislative members), in the presence of intimidating European commissioners, failed to pass this resolution "Parliament emphasizes that <...> Vladimir Zelensky must carry out his responsibilities until a newly elected president assumes office." There were 218 votes for, eight short of the 226 votes required to pass the resolution.

>On June 23, 2024 - Sunday shortly after 12 noon local time on the Feast of the Holy Trinity holiday, Ukraine's military directly hit (with a USA-supplied ATACMS tactical missile loaded with cluster munition warheads) a crowded beach near Sevastopol in Crimea. Four civilians, including two children, were killed. More than 150 people were injured (six in very serious condition) with 27 children transported to a hospital in Sevastopol after Ukraine's military attack.

3) What is the significance of the tragic event on a Crimea beach?

Opinion> The USA and NATO are complicit in this ruthless attack on civilians on a holiday afternoon on a beach. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) stated, "ATACMS missile flight coordinates are programmed by American specialists based on US satellite reconnaissance data." Also, according to flight tracker 'Flightradar' data, a USA RQ-4B Global Hawk reconnaissance drone was patrolling in the Black Sea south of Crimea during this Ukrainian missile strike. Hence the USA coordinated the missile flight path upon a crowded beach and was directly responsible even though the Ukrainian military fired the weapon. Another proof of inhumanity, out of hatred and to sow panic, deliberately demonstrated by the USA/UK/EU/NATO alliance supporting the Ukraine military.

>On August 6, 2024 - Ukraine's military invaded (the mainstream media incorrectly called this an 'incursion') the Kursk region (a southern Russian Federation region that borders Ukraine) in the dark shadow after midnight.

4) How could the Ukrainian invasion into the Russian Federation happen?

Opinion> The General Staff of the Russian armed forces were lulled to sleep with a false sense of security after successfully repelling numerous Ukrainian small scale attempts to invade the Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod regions on the Russian southern border with Ukraine. A Ukrainian large invasion plan successfully evaded Russian intelligence due to their failure to detect secret encampments with concentrations of 60,000 Ukrainian forces in the Sumy region's dense forests. With absolute surprise and help of NATO satellite reconnaissance data, Ukrainian forces launched wave after wave after wave across the Russian border into a weak point in the Kursk region. Ukrainian forces vastly outnumbered and overwhelmed the Russian small deployed military detachments like a damn bursting apart with water gushing in. Unfortunately, the Russian General Staff failed their national duty to protect Kursk region civilians and their international border due to inadequate military defender numbers, fortification networks, anti-tank ditches, strategic minefields, dragon teeth barricades, ambush traps, integrated firepower response, civilian emergency evacuation plan, and rapid reaction reserve deployment forces.

5) What was the means and motive of the Ukrainian invasion into the Kursk region?

Opinion> The means of the invasion was with 60,000 Ukrainian troops, 200 tanks, 400 armored combat vehicles, NATO weapons, and USA real time satellite images. The primary motive was to capture the Kursk nuclear power plant to exchange for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The second motive was to capture Russian Kursk territory as a bargaining chip to exchange for front line territory in future peace negotiations. The third motive was to divert Russian equipment and manpower away from the primary front lines. The fourth motive was to negatively impact domestic psychological opinion in the Russian Federation. During a televised address to the Ukrainian people on 12 August, 2024, President Zelensky maliciously stated, " ... 24 years ago, there was the Kursk disaster – the symbolic beginning of his {President Putin} rule; and now we can see what the end for him is. And that is Kursk as well." (On 12 August 2000, the submarine named Kursk sank during a tragic military exercise in the Barents Sea. All 118 military men inside the submarine died. Recently elected President Putin was only four months into his very first tenure as president of the Russian Federation.)

6) Was the Ukrainian invasion of the Russian Kursk region successful?

Opinion> Yes and No. Currently, Ukraine's military forces succeeded by capturing a huge future leverage bargaining chip in a future negotiated peace settlement. According to Ukrainian authorities, approximately 1200 square kilometers (nearly 500 square miles) and nearly 100 settlements (including the vital city Sudzha) in the Kursk region were captured. Since then however, Russian troops have liberated 63% of the 801 square km (309 square miles) out of the 1,268 square km (490 square miles) previously held. Ukrainian military strategy failed to capture the Kursk nuclear power plant in exchange for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Ukrainian military strategy failed to divert Russian equipment and manpower away from the primary combat front lines and only resulted in new combat unit activation within the Russian army. Finally, Ukraine's military strategic objective failed to negatively divide domestic opinion concerning the Russian Federation's 'special military operation'.

>On August 24, 2024 - President Vladimir Zelensky signed into law a bill banning religious groups affiliated with ties to the Russian Federation on Ukraine’s Independence Day. This law targeted the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) (the largest religious denomination in Ukraine historically linked to the Russian Orthodox Church). The new law gives religious groups nine months to cut ties with the Russian Federation's affiliated UOC or be shut down by court order. The law previously passed Ukraine’s parliament with 265 lawmakers voting for and 29 voting against.

7) What is the purpose of banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church?

Opinion> The Ukrainian government purposely practices extreme De-Russification in order to sever bonds with Russian descendancy, ethnicity, culture, historical memory, language, and heritage. According to the State Service of Ukraine for Ethno-Politics and Freedom of Conscience, Ukraine has at least five to six million people who are UOC parishioners. The Ukrainian government has conducted an active campaign against the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), including the coerced transition of its religious communities to the completely different jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), (a brand new church organization newly created in 2018 from the merger of two schismatic religious structures). Local authorities stripped the UOC of the right to lease land for existing church buildings. Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) supporters and government officials have forcibly seized the churches of the canonical church and attacked/jailed UOC clergymen who kept practicing their solemn religious duties. Thus far, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had initiated criminal proceedings against at least 70 UOC-affiliated clergymen. At least 16 UOC metropolitans and 19 hierarchs were stripped of Ukrainian citizenship. The OCU was newly created and unjustly affirmed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2019. Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin described Ukraine's government actions as a “blatant violation of human rights of believers.” UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) stated, “The dissolution of a religious organization is a severe restriction that affects the ability of individuals to practice their religion or belief together and threatens the viability of the community as a whole." Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Ukrainian government, merely because it maintains spiritual communion with the Moscow Patriarchate, is vindictive.

>On September 30, 2024 - The Russian Federation celebrated the two year anniversary of the official ratification in the Russian Federation constitution that officially documented the reunification of the liberated People’s Republics of Donetsk (DPR), Lugansk (LPR), and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with the Russian Federation. (Referendums in the four regions were democratically held between September 23 and 27 in 2022.)

8) What is the significance of the second anniversary of the reunification of the liberated People’s Republics of Donetsk (DPR), Lugansk (LPR), and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with the Russian Federation?

Opinion> The unification of the liberated People's Republics of Donetsk (DPR), Lugansk (LPR), and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions with the Russian Federation has been enshrined in the Russian Federation's constitution for two years now. A future peace agreement treaty between the Russian Federation and Ukraine must acknowledge this fact and respect the will of their registered citizens. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated, "Now to address residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region. Thank you for your perseverance, determination and moral courage. I thank you for passing down our spiritual values, historical memory, traditions and culture across generations, and first of all, for your great love of the Fatherland, which is the greatest support for us all." The Russian president also said the unification of the new territories was a “conscious, long-awaited, hard-won, and genuinely popular decision ... made collectively through referendums in full compliance with international norms.” Deputy head of the Russian Federation’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, wrote on his Telegram channel, “Their decision to be with their Fatherland became a symbol not only of the restoration of historical justice but also of the unity of the Russian people."

>On October 22,23,24, 2024 - As the Russian army approached Selidovo (located in the Donetsk People's Republic), Ukrainian military units patrolled neighborhoods and moved from house to house, building to building, knocked on doors, and ordered civilians to come out of their residences. Anyone who answered, opened the door or came out of hiding, were shot without warning with a burst of machine-gun fire, with their bodies abandoned on the spot.

>On October 29, 2024 - The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of Selidovo located in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The Russian BattleGroup Center found and collected evidence of civilian executions during their mop up clearing operations.

9) What happened in Selidovo and why?

Opinion> Ukrainian troops executed more than 100 civilians in the town of Selidovo in the DPR. Maxim Grigoriev, chairman of the International Public Tribunal on Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and Their Accomplices, at a press conference following the tribunal’s report, stated, "Local residents openly tell us that the number is upwards of more than a hundred killed. This is a very conservative estimate — over a hundred. Ukrainian troops killed everyone they could just before retreating. Eyewitnesses tell us that Ukrainian military units shot civilians who previously refused evacuation orders." Rodion Miroshnik made the following statement during the presentation of a report titled "Mass Shootings of Civilians in Selidovo by the Ukrainian Armed Forces," prepared by the International Public Tribunal on the Crimes Committed by Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and held in Moscow. After evacuations of compliant civilians, Ukrainian military units turned their attention to other non-compliant residents, coercing and threatening them, demanding that they immediately leave the town before the Ukrainian army retreated. About a week or several days before the Ukrainian military retreated, they essentially declared there are no more of 'our people' here. That's when the executions began." One testimony came from Vladimir Romanenko, who described how Ukrainian soldiers shot and killed five of his family members. At first, Ukrainian authorities tried to pin the blame on Russian troops in a false flag operation. However, civilian eyewitnesses substantiated that Ukrainian troops perpetrated this crime before retreating in the advancement of Russian troops as a form of punishment against those civilians awaiting Russian liberation. Ukraine's authorities/military have a mental disorder of aversion and hatred of all Russians with ethnic roots that needs to be addressed and remedied during future peace negotiations.

10) What happened to the children in Selidovo?

Opinion> The children in Selidove were sought, captured, and forcibly evacuated before this war crime execution of civilians (who were waiting for the arrival of Russian military forces) occurred. The 'white angels' and/or the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) patrol officers were most likely the culpable agencies with the job of rounding up children with and also without their parent's permission for Ukrainian indoctrination processing. (The 'white angels' is a self-promoting pseudo-humanitarian organization that has documented themselves taking children with and also without their parent's permission from the Artyomovsk, Avdeevka and Dzerzhinsk settlements.) Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large, stated, "In this city {Selidovo}, a number of organizations - the ‘white angels’ and other teams from Ukrainian special units, among others - were spotted during mass forced evacuations forcibly taking children away." The diplomat added that civilian witnesses saw children evacuation teams in Selidovo, whose members were dressed in camouflage with blue and green upper arm ribbon bands and without any military insignia.

>On November 11, 2024 - The Ternovsky dam located on the western side of Kurakhovo water reservoir was severely damaged and led to destructive flooding of several settlements. The subsequent flooding damaged fisheries, washed away/submerged farm fertile soil, disturbed cemeteries, disrupted the Volchya River flow, deregulated water levels, ruined fertilizer storage facilities, and inundated houses, Roman Pukalov, director of environmental programs at the Green Patrol public organization, told TASS news agency. The Kurakhovo reservoir was a vital public water supply source.

11) Who destroyed the Ternovsky dam and why?

Opinion> Ukrainian military forces detonated explosives and destroyed the Ternovsky dam in order to slow down the Russian military's advancement on the west side of the Kurakhovo stronghold held by the Ukrainian military. The Ukrainian military forces have a scorched earth policy to destroy property infrastructure and leave utter destruction behind upon retreat from land that historically never belonged to them.

>On November 17, 2024 - Narodnaya Gazeta (Popular Newspaper) editor-in-chief Yulia Kuznetsova was murdered during a Ukrainian drone attack on her car along the Dyakonovo–Sudzha highway in the Kursk Region. The Kursk region’s governor, Alexey Smirnov, expressed his condolences and wrote on his Telegram channel that she was carrying the editorial desk’s archives and planned to issue a new publication about the situation in the Kursk region.

12) Why would the Ukrainian military attack a journalist in a civilian vehicle?

Opinion> The Ukrainian government disregards the law of armed combat and targets everyone moving including civilians traveling in civilian cars located in the seven Russian regions that border Ukraine. Russian journalists are especially deemed enemies of the Ukrainian government. Hence, Russian journalists are deliberately targeted in order to intimidate them from documenting crimes against humanity and for reporting on news stories about Ukraine's military attacks against civilians and civilian houses that essentially make the Ukrainian military look really bad. Russian Federation's President Vladimir Putin noted “at least 30” Russian journalists have been killed since the beginning of the conflict. "By targeting unarmed military correspondents, journalists, cameramen, and photographers – waging a real hunt for them – the Ukrainian Nazis are seeking, by all means, to conceal the truth about their brutal violations of international humanitarian law and atrocities against civilians,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova said in a statement after Yury Sholmov, a camera operator with Channel One Russia, was wounded by a Ukrainian drone attack.

>On November 19, 2024 - Russian Federation's President Vladmir Putin signed the Russian Federation's updated nuclear doctrine.

13) What were the significant changes to the Russian Federation's updated nuclear doctrine?

Opinion> In general, the Russian Federation lowered the threshold and expanded the number of situations for the use of atomic weapons. The previous version of the doctrine stated that the use of nuclear weapons in a non-nuclear conflict was only possible in the event of a threat to Russia’s very existence as a country. Now the use of nuclear weapons in a non-nuclear conflict is possible in the event of a critical threat to the sovereignty of both the Russian Federation and Belarus. The doctrine specifies three conditions, under which Russia can carry out a nuclear strike. First, any adversary aggression using conventional weapons that represents a critical threat to their sovereignty or territorial integrity. Second, any adversary aggression using either nuclear weapons or conventional weapons of mass destruction against territories of the Russian Federation or its allies as well as against Russian army units and Russian installations located in allied territory. Third, credible information is received about the launch of ballistic missiles towards the Russian Federation and its allies as well as information about a mass launch of strategic and tactical aviation aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, hypersonic aerial vehicles and other aerial vehicles and information about their crossing into the Russian border. This nuclear document notes that the updated nuclear deterrence policy is a defensive one. If a military conflict starts, then this policy is supposed to prevent escalation and terminate combat operations on the terms that are acceptable for Russia. Finally, the use of nuclear weapons has to be authorized by the Russian Federation president.

>On November 21, 2024 - 'Oreshnik' (Hazel bush in English) was launched for the very first time when it struck Ukraine’s Yuzhmash military industrial facility in the city of Dnepr.

14) What is the significance of 'Oreshnik'?

Opinion> The 'Oreshnik' missile travels at ten times the speed of sound and cannot be intercepted by any existing air defenses according to Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'Oreshnik' travels at speeds of up to Mach 10 (2.5 to 3 kilometers per second) (around 7,600 miles per hour/12,200 kilometers per second), or 10 times faster than the speed of sound with a range distance of 1,000 km to 5,500 km and can easily reach any target in Europe in less than 20 minutes. The Russian Federation's newest generation hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile, code name ‘Oreshnik’, with its multiple independent reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads, can also carry nuclear weapons. The first successful hypersonic Oreshnik missile test launch also represented a response to NATO’s weapons in Ukraine and medium-range missile deployments in Poland and Romania. "There will always be an answer,"...to attacks on Russia, President Putin emphasized.

>November, 2024 - Andrey Grigoryev, a corporal with the 39th Motorized Rifle Brigade, overpowered and defeated a Ukrainian soldier during a battle near the village of Trudovoye in the Russian Federation’s Donetsk People’s Republic. An eight-minute body-cam video clip, shared widely on Russian Telegram channels, shows a close-range rifle firefight that escalates into a dramatic one on one, hand-to-hand intense lethal knife fight with a Ukrainian soldier.

15) What is the significance of this single combat fight between military men on opposite sides of the Russian Federation's 'special military operation'?

Opinion> The Russian and Ukrainian spoke to each other with respect in the final moments and demonstrated chivalry. The Ukrainian soldier is heard saying: “Let me die in peace. I want to go on my own. Thank you. You are the greatest fighter in the world.” Andrey Grigoryev, also wounded and covered in blood, granted his adversary's request, stood up, and left the scene without delivering a final blow. Andrey Grigoryev explained his decision in an interview: “We – (Russians and Yakuts) – are taught from childhood: In any situation, you have to remain human.” This video even caught the attention of Elon Musk. On January 11, 2025, President Vladimir Putin awarded the title ‘Hero of Russia’ to Andrey Grigoryev for “bravery and heroism” in combat. On February 23, 2025, President Putin awarded the Gold Star medal to him at the Kremlin for distinguished military achievement that goes with the 'Hero of Russia' title on the 'Defender of the Fatherland Day' holiday celebrated in the Russian Federation. Andrey Grigoryev, (now promoted to Junior Sergeant) age 35, was born in Russia’s Siberian Sakha Republic and is married with five children.

>December, 2024 - The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine confirmed a criminal probe into desertion focused on the French-trained 155th 'Anne of Kiev' Mechanized Brigade. (The 155th Mechanized Brigade was named after Anne of Kiev {Anne of Russia}, daughter of Yaroslav (Jaroslav) the Wise, who became queen of France upon marriage to French King Henry I in the 11th-century.)

16) Why did Ukrainian soldiers desert their military unit in this massive widespread scandal?

Opinion> Many Ukrainians refuse to believe that the cause to fight is worth more than their life. Many Ukrainian men drastically want to escape a one-way ticket to the combat front lines in order to save their lives and livelihood. Low morale and low motivation is prevalent throughout Ukraine's military. “If this person is not motivated, nothing can be taught", a soldier named Maksim Yukhnevich told the Govorit Veliky Lviv YouTube channel. The 155th Mechanized Brigade totaled 4,500 troops with 2,300 soldiers trained in France according to French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu. Ukrainian journalist Yury Butusov, editor-in-chief of Censor.NET, reported that approximately 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers fled the 'Anne of Kiev' military unit without firing a single shot. Another 50 servicemen were reported to have deserted while still training in France. Hence Ukraine's DBR (a special unit tasked with tracking down suspected Absent Without Leave (AWOL) soldiers) was created and effectively admitted a scandal of massive widespread military personnel desertions. Moreover, multiple media outlets reported that Ukrainian authorities imposed a fine on Aleksey Poroshenko, the eldest son of former President Pyotr Poroshenko (currently a Ukrainian lawmaker/leader of the European Solidarity party), for draft dodging after he ignored a summons from a recruitment office. Finally, a recent Ukrainian Defense Ministry announcement of very high contract salaries of 1 million hryvnia (around $24,000), given only to young men aged 18-24 for a one year service contract, will only exacerbate resentment and desertion tendencies among older military veterans who receive much lower salaries. (On a side note, Ukrainian military lawyer Roman Lykhachev stated "definitely more than 100,000 servicemen” have unlawfully left their positions.) (The Times of London reported data from the Ukrainian government showing that "51,000 criminal cases were initiated for desertion and abandonment of a military unit between January and September of this year 2024.")

>On December 17, 2024 - Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, was assassinated along with his deputy with an improvised explosive device attached to an electric scooter (detonated remotely, likely by a radio signal or mobile phone) near the entrance of his residential building.

>On February 3, 2025 - Armen Sarkisyan, the Donetsk People's Republic's Boxing Federation's director and also founder of DPR's Arbat Battalion was assassinated at his residential complex located on the banks of the Moskva River in Moscow.

17) Why is the Ukrainian government assassinating prominent Russians inside the Russian Federation?

Opinion> Ukraine has a state-backed assassination program, launched by its Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) secret services after the 2014 coup d'état in Kiev, to target any individual deemed an enemy of the Ukrainian government. Ukrainian special services orchestrate assassinations as punishment. General Kirillov was singled out for his work in publishing Ukraine's secret biological laboratory programs. Armen Sarkisyan was listed in the notorious Ukrainian Myrotvorets database – often referred to as a ‘kill list’ – due to his support for the Russian Federation's 'special military operation'. On a side note, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Secretary of Health and Human Services) and Tulsi Gabbard (National Intelligence Agency Director) were also listed on this outrageous Ukrainian Myrotvorets database until they were both confirmed to serve in the President Trump administration.

>On February 1, 2025 - Russian air defenses detected missiles fired from Ukraine’s Sumy region towards the town Sudzha in the Russian Kursk region that is currently occupied by Ukrainian military forces. The Russian Defense Ministry stated that the missile attack targeted a boarding school in the town of Sudzha where over 70 civilians, mostly elderly, were kept as prisoners.

18) Why would the Ukraine military attack Russian civilians sheltered inside a boarding school in ‘Ukrainian occupied’ Sudzha?

Opinion> The Ukraine military's purpose was to set up a false flag incident by accusing the Russian military of attacking their own citizens, commit retribution against Russians for collective punishment, and divert global attention from Ukrainian atrocities committed in the liberated Russkoye Porechnoye village just recently discovered. The Russian Defense Ministry previously accused the Ukrainian government of turning the boarding school in Sudzha into one of its “Nazi-style concentration camps." “We have ample evidence of ‘concentration camps’ being set up in a number of settlements controlled by militants… between 70 and 100 civilians were ‘herded’ into the boarding school in Sudzha, where they were kept and harassed", stated Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s envoy to the UN, in his address to the United Nations Security Council back in September.

>On February 4, 2025 - A clearly marked yellow school bus was attacked with a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the Vasilyevsky district of the Zaporozhye Region. According to the region's governor, Yevgeny Balitsky, the bus driver was seriously injured and five children were wounded. The governor also shared a picture of a damaged yellow bus with smashed windows, with the vehicle bearing a large inscription reading “Children.” The bus was carrying 20 children.

>On February 6, 2025 - Ukraine’s armed forces dropped an explosive device from a drone on a car in the village of Logachevka in the Valuiki district of the Belgorod Region, and killed a man (driver) and two teenage girls aged 18 and 14. Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on his Telegram channel, "According to preliminary information, a drone dropped an explosive device on a passenger car with a man and two girls aged 18 and 14 inside. They immediately died on the spot because of this Ukrainian drone attack."

19) Why would the Ukrainian military attack children traveling on a school bus and in civilian vehicles?

Opinion> The Ukrainian military deliberately takes out their battlefield frustration on civilians including very innocent children living in Russian border regions for the purpose of vengeance collective punishment against Russians. The Ukrainian military uses blatant intimidation tactics to instill fear in the daily life of Russians living in Russian border regions. The Ukrainian government's hatred of Russians is a root cause of this conflict that dates back to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA) and Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and thus must be addressed and remedied as part of a peace settlement. Rodion Miroshnik, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large, noted that the Ukrainian armed forces were responsible for the deaths of 51 children and injuries of nearly 350 children in the calendar year 2024. "These innocent people were deliberately killed", stated Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Alexander Grebenkin, who is coordinating efforts to bring to justice all Ukrainian individuals guilty of giving and executing inhumane orders against Russian civilians.

>On February 7, 2025 - The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Dzerzhinsk (renamed Toretsk by Ukraine) – a heavily fortified stronghold city held captive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) located northwest of Donetsk city in the Donetsk People's Republic– was liberated!

20) What is the significance of the liberation of the fortified stronghold city Dzerzhinsk?

Opinion> The miraculous achievement and very difficult liberation of Dzerzhinsk (also known as Toretsk) capped off and culminated a very successful 3nd year of the Russian Federation's "special military operation'. Russian servicemen have liberated 189 settlements in the 'special military operation zone over the calendar year, 2024. The Institute Study of War data shows Russian forces have liberated and reunified around 2,700 square kilometers of territory in calendar year 2024, compared with just 465 square kilometers in calendar year 2023 (over a five times increase). The liberation of Dzerzhinsk (5 month battle against 40K Ukrainian soldiers) pushed away short range Ukrainian artillery from Donetsk city and Gorlovka while securing strategically important logistic supply routes. Novgorodskoye, (Ukrainian name New York), Ugledar, Kurakhovka, Velikaya Novosyolka were also very notable strategic chess piece liberations (like rooks) on the historical chess board.