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MILITARY TUBE TODAY – Kiev is in the news again after Russian war correspondents reported that their flag was raised in Andreevka west of Kurakhovo City, marking the Russian Armed Forces’ capture of the important settlement. Footage surfaced online on March 5, 2025, showing soldiers from the 114th Brigade of the 51st Army celebrating the victory day with a red flag, a legacy of the Soviet Union, planted on one of the buildings on the southern outskirts of the settlement. Andreevka, was completely liberated due to the hard work of the 114th Brigade units, completing a full-scale combat and clean-up operation, expelling Ukrainian troops who continued to try to hold out there, under the pretext of carrying out Kiev’s orders amidst the ongoing diplomatic turmoil. The Russian Defense Ministry also officially announced on the same day that Andreevka had been liberated!
Russian military correspondents also released footage the day before the settlement of Andreevka, showing the situation of several days of fighting, where the methodical approach of Russian troops, disrupted the Ukrainian defense and logistics lines. All planned counterattacks by Ukrainians, did not produce results and they gambled with heavy losses - killed and wounded. The 114th Brigade of the 51st Army formerly the 1st Army Corps of the DPR, advanced to deepen control, aiming to suppress the Ukrainian defenses, whose positions were destroyed by attacks by various Russian weapons. In this case, attack drones appeared on the positions of the Ukrainian defender, both camouflaged and in shelters, did not save them from the inevitable. Decisiveness, coherence and accuracy of actions - that's what determined the outcome of the battle, a new victory celebrated by Russian troops.
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov thanked the command and personnel of the 114th Brigade of the 51st Army for the successful completion of the combat mission during the liberation of Andreevka in Donetsk, a statement wrote. The impact of the capture of Andreevka, also expanded the scope of Kostyantynopil, where the battle is currently taking place while Ukraine is trapped in a "fire pocket," forcing Ukraine to deploy reserves or risk further Russian advances. But it seems that Kostyantynopil will also fall in days, paving the way for a deeper Russian operation in the sector.
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French President Emmanuel Macron should apologize for making “misleading” claims about the origins of the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has told RT. In particular, Zakharova criticized Macron for alleging that Russia was to blame for the failure of the Minsk Accords.
The agreements were brokered in 2014 and 2015 to halt fighting between Ukraine and the now-Russian Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, with France and Germany as guarantors. They were ultimately not implemented, and Moscow later accused Kiev and the West of using them to strengthen Ukraine’s military instead of securing peace.
“We cannot forget that Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and that we negotiated a ceasefire in Minsk at that time. And Russia did not respect this ceasefire,” the French president alleged, claiming that Moscow poses a direct threat to France and the entire EU.
Zakharova condemned Macron’s comments as “aggressive and destructive” and pointed out that former French President François Hollande and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel have “openly confessed and not under torture or pressure” back in 2022 they never intended to enforce the accords.
“Macron should invite his predecessor… Hollande, to the Élysée Palace to have a heart-to-heart talk with him… Then he’ll probably hear from Hollande... that he had no intention of implementing the Minsk agreements while representing France,” Zakharova stated, suggesting that after speaking to Hollande, Macron would “have to apologize to his own population for misleading them.” - RT
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The French president insisted on further assistance to the government of Vladimir Zelensky, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop if he is allowed to defeat Ukraine.
When asked to comment on Macron’s statements by journalists on Thursday, Lavrov mentioned Hitler and Napoleon, describing them as the French president’s “predecessors, who also wanted to fight Russia.” The two European dictators sent their armies into Russia in 1812 and 1941, respectively, but ended up suffering crushing defeats.
The difference is that Hitler and Napoleon “said directly: ‘We must conquer Russia, we must defeat Russia.’ And he [Macron], apparently, wants the same thing, but for some reason says that we must fight Russia so that it does not defeat France; that Russia is creating a threat to France and Europe,” he stressed.
The minister refuted the French leader’s claims that Moscow has plans to attack Western Europe, calling such notions “unreasonable.”
“President [Vladimir] Putin has said many times that this is absolute nonsense. I think that any sane person would understand that [by launching its military operation] Russia only wants to eliminate the root causes of the situation created by the West in Ukraine,” he explained.
Lavrov also said that Moscow views Macron’s statement about widening France’s nuclear umbrella as a “threat towards Russia.”
“If he considers us a threat, if he is calls a meeting of the chiefs of staff of the [Western] European countries and Britain; if he says that it is necessary to use nuclear weapons; if he prepares to use nuclear weapons against Russia – this is, of course, a threat,” he insisted.
Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the French president’s speech as “highly confrontational,” saying that it has shown that France does not want peace, but “is thinking more about war, about the continuation of the conflict.” - RT
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