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Vicus

28th July 2022, 19:28

Euronews: People flee Ukraine to Donbass
Euronews reported something that doesn't fit the Western media narrative: long queues of refugees fleeing Ukraine to the Donbass have formed.(translation)

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July 26, 2022 2:00 am
Euronews is not a Russian, but a Western propaganda channel, which is even blocked on the Internet in Russia for this reason. It is therefore all the more remarkable that Euronews has now published a video in its Russian-language edition that shows long queues forming at the only border crossing where people can leave Ukraine for Russian-controlled territory.

I will translate here the Euronews story , of which a video was also published, and then a TASS story also on the subject.

Start of translation:

Ukrainians are returning to the occupied territories
Thousands of Ukrainians are returning to their homes in areas occupied by Russian troops. 150 to 200 vehicles cross the only border crossing in Zaporizhia every day.

The Ukrainian side warns its fellow citizens of the dangers and does not allow weapons or fuel through - something that could be used by Russian soldiers. Many have to wait up to 10 days for a permit to park.

The refugees are not always willing to talk to journalists, at the same time many do not hide their fear and describe their situation very cautiously.

“I have my mother and sister who live there. If you don't touch the Russians, don't provoke them, you live more or less well there."

Ukrainians say they are returning not only to see their families again, but also in search of jobs they could not find on Ukrainian territory.

end of translation

Now we come to the TASS report on this subject.

Start of translation:

Basurin: The waiting time to leave the Ukrainian-controlled areas can be up to 24 hours
According to the deputy head of the People's Militia of the DNR, "the queues are very long"

There are many people wanting to leave Ukraine for allied-controlled areas, and waits in lines can range from 10 hours to a day. This was stated by Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), on Monday.

“In the Zaporizhia region there is a border crossing between Ukraine and the area that is no longer controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. People from Ukraine living not only in the Zaporizhia and Kherson Oblasts, but also in the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics pass through this border crossing. The people come back. <…> The queues are very long. Some days it takes at least 10 hours for people to cross the border, sometimes even 24 hours. But people come and make these hardships to get home,” he said on Russian television.

Basurin explained that among the people entering the allied-controlled areas there are many residents of the Donbass republics who could not leave Ukraine due to the current restrictions. “When the pandemic was declared, the borders between us and Ukraine were closed and many people who had gone there for various reasons were unable to leave. <…> Now there is an opportunity for people to go back home,” he explained.

According to him, some people go to relatives to "wait it out." “People are trying to flee the lawlessness in Ukraine. Some people come to their relatives and friends. This isn't her home. They just come to hide, to endure this torment of Ukraine,” he concluded.

end of translation

By the way, a law was passed in Ukraine back in April that allows for the confiscation of property from Russians and anyone who refuses to criticize the “Russian war of aggression” . In addition, Ukraine is currently debating a law that would punish those who acquire Russian citizenship with up to 15 years in prison .

With the repression in Ukraine taking on increasingly absurd and intolerable forms, it is understandable that the flow of refugees from Ukraine towards Russian-controlled areas is increasing. After all, in the West, people cannot expect any protection from these Ukrainian laws and would even have to expect extradition to Ukraine if the repressive apparatus there targeted them.

https://www-anti--spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2022/euronews-menschen-fliehen-aus-der-ukraine-in-den-donbass/?doing_wp_cron=1659021121.3478319644927978515625&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Vicus

28th July 2022, 19:45

Guess Who Bought-Up Ukraine Farmland Since 2014 Coup?

For those of us who have been scratching our heads as to why the US and EU are so bent on "helping" Ukraine, I found something out today:

Since the 2014 Coup which overthrew Democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovich, and put a puppet regime, favorable to the west, in his place . . . .

three giant corporations -- Cargill, DuPont and Monsanto -- bought seventeen million hectares of Ukraine agricultural land. That's sixty percent (60%) of the total agricultural land in Ukraine!

Thought you'd be interested in that.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/guess-who-bought-up-ukraine-farmland-since-2014-coup

Vicus

28th July 2022, 19:50

STUNNING! Massive Escalation of Ukraine War

Today an elected official from Donetsk, announced the latest plan for Ukraine and it marks the single most stunning change since Russia began its Special Military Operation (SMO).

Denis Pushilin is a politician from the Donetsk region who has served as Head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) since 2018.

He had previously served as Chairman of the People's Council, and became the acting Head of State following the assassination of incumbent Alexander Zakharchenko amidst the conflict in the east Ukraine region. He successfully ran for election to a full term in the 2018 elections.

That being said, when Pushilin speaks, he speaks with authority; he's "in-the-loop" as it was his administration that asked for -- and got -- protection from Russia through the ongoing SMO.

This morning, Pushilin made the following announcement:

“Today it's time to liberate again Russian cities founded by Russian people: Kiev, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Lutsk"

This announcement is likely the single most dramatic change since the Russian Army crossed into Ukraine back on February 24. The escalation of warfare necessary to accomplish this, now seems to fully explain why so many more trainloads of Russia troops and armor poured into the theater of war all last week, nearly TRIPLING the amount of Russian firepower available (but not yet deployed) inside Ukraine.

The war is about to escalate in ways no one thought possible.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/stunning-massive-escalation-of-ukraine-war

ExomatrixTV

28th July 2022, 20:34

Lawless Tyrant Zelensky Impersonates Nazi Fascists, BLACKLISTS US Lawmakers And Journalists (https://www.frontnieuws.com/wetteloze-tiran-zelensky-doet-nazi-fascisten-na-maakt-zwarte-lijst-van-vs-wetgevers-en-journalisten-terwijl-hij-miljarden-van-de-belastingbetalers-afroomt) As He Skims BILLIONS From Taxpayers. (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

Bill Ryan

28th July 2022, 20:52

An excellent 45 minute show on Infowars that aired yesterday, with Robert Barnes hosting (and doing a superb job, better than Alex Jones would hae done), the guests being Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris from The Duran.

Alexander Mercouris in particular deserves a top billing on any show anywhere. He's the best geopolitical analyst there is right now, bar none.

The best title for the video might be Ukraine, Europe, Russia and China for Dummies. :) It's actually a very good video to show someone who's not fully up to speed with a whole range of current global issues.

https://banned.video/watch?id=62e1af612a02302e3f6b5552

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ExomatrixTV

29th July 2022, 00:10

Zelensky Vogue Cover & Oligarch Igor Kolomoisky BANNED From Ukraine! BIG DOT CONNECTING:

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ExomatrixTV

29th July 2022, 01:08

PBS Newshour Exposes Ukrainian Propaganda

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/_/4/B/_/_4B_e.gaa.mp4

source (https://rumble.com/v1dussf-pbs-newshour-exposes-ukrainian-propaganda.html)

shaberon

29th July 2022, 07:44

three giant corporations -- Cargill, DuPont and Monsanto -- bought seventeen million hectares of Ukraine agricultural land. That's sixty percent (60%) of the total agricultural land in Ukraine!

Thought you'd be interested in that.

That is something to look at.

Is it "what cannot be lost"?

Does the whole "western economy" depend on something?

The U. S. State Dept. is negotiating with no less than the Taliban about the U. S. giving back the Afghan money they stole.

But here is what just happened in neighbor India (https://sputniknews.com/20220728/india-set-to-stop-following-london-market-with-launch-of-its-first-bullion-exchange-expert-1097881976.html):

On Friday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch the country’s first International Bullion Exchange (IIBX) in his home state of Gujarat. India is the second biggest consumer market of gold, importing over 700 tons annually.

and a comment from a few days ago:

The ace card is a financial crisis that China will unleash, by revaluation of it’s huge gold reserves repriced in Yuan, not the current fake suppressed US dollar price. This reset of a gold price in Yuan would instantly destroying the US dollar as a store of value, as the US dollar is backed by nothing. The global debt burden with derivatives is now almost four quadrillion or 4,000,000,000,000,000. It’s a number that only has meaning when extinguished, taking all prices of all assets to zero. The tangible assets will still survive but will be assigned a totally different value.

And against what is currency and debt devalued? Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, was the first to explain that money is liquidity. And gold is the most liquid asset. Gold has been the reference point of value since the origins of money. It is against gold that a currency must be devalued to relieve debts. A currency has no intrinsic value, and a gold substitute, such as the Yuan, exchangeable for gold, at a fixed rate, can function as a proxy for the underlying value, gold. China has plenty of gold and the means to transact commodities by Yuan settlement on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Convertible contracts in a gold derivative like the Yuan would be the final blow to the US dollar and all currencies linked to the dollar; Yen; Sterling; and the Euro. Central banks in the West are already insolvent.

Who knows, exactly, what will happen, but one can see the material fact. Without making a photo montage, the shots from Lavrov's current world tour are certainly a lot more welcoming than those of Biden. The actual defeat that will be experienced here is unimaginable.

We have already seen that on a peer level attack, the U. S. cannot even respond to Iran.

If we read their clever plans, it is to spend twenty years in the arms race to catch up where Russia is now.

As we have mostly found, there are two sides at work here, and almost everything is related. Here is the next tick of geopolitical adjustment:

Iran arrests Mossad (https://southfront.org/iran-busted-another-network-of-israeli-mossad-spies/)

Israel's (https://southfront.org/israel-confirms-it-jets-came-under-fire-from-russian-s-300-system-while-attacking-syria/) Defense Minister Benny Gantz confirmed that the Russian military opened fire at Israeli fighter jets in May from an S-300 long-range air-defense system, at the end of an aerial attack that targeted a military research complex near the town of Masyaf in northwestern Syria.

Turkey (https://southfront.org/turkey-says-it-is-ready-to-support-syrian-regime-against-kurdish-forces/) is ready to support the “Syrian regime” against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during an interview with TV 100 on July 17.

The casualties of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are going to double or triple in a few days. Operational tempo much?

ExomatrixTV

29th July 2022, 11:35

Public Opinion Seems To Be Turning Against Compulsory Military Service In Ukraine, How Will The Zelensky Regime React To It?

Five months after Russia's military offensive in Ukraine, many in the latter state are beginning to object to conscription imposed by the Kiev regime. Especially now that the propaganda about the victory, which can now come any day, is starting to lose its strength, writes Maksim Artemyev (https://swentr.site/russia/559447-zelensky-ignoring-critical-issue/) .

Popular Ukrainian blogger and activist Yuri Kashanov recently posted on his Facebook page, lamenting: “Let's stop mobilization, open the borders, and close all military recruiting offices… Let the professional soldiers do the fighting – after all, they're going to be there for it.” paid – and let the volunteers join in, because they want to fight. But I am an untrained civilian, unfit for war, I let myself be killed. And I pay my taxes too!”
With this provocative post, Kashanov wanted to start a discussion about compulsory military service in Ukraine. But the results of the debate came as a shock to the blogger: “Judging by the comments on my previous post, nine out of ten Ukrainians do not intend to fight; they are against the national mobilization, and also against the ban on men leaving the country.”

It should be noted that Kashanov's supporters, like himself, are staunch supporters of the idea that Ukraine must fight Russia to the bitter end. And yet, even among them, the vast majority have no desire to die for the glory of Ukraine.

Modern society is built on a very self-conscious attitude towards one's health. The first thing you see when you go online are banner ads that say “10 Warning Signs You Have Cancer” or “How to Relieve Joint Pain”, etc. Other core values include physical integrity, the right to privacy, and of course the everyday comfort and convenience. None of these values go well with the sordid reality of the front line. One could say that the whole ethos of war is at odds with the values of today's society.

Russian Defense Ministry: Slovak S-300 destroyed in Ukraine shortly after deliver (https://www.frontnieuws.com/russische-ministerie-van-defensie-slowaakse-s-300-kort-na-levering-vernietigd-in-oekraine/) (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options).

Ukraine is a country largely populated by one- or two-child families. How many of its citizens would volunteer to be killed or crippled? It is therefore not surprising that the Ukrainians do not want to go to war. Yes, if you listen to what they say, the majority of Ukrainians are patriots. But when it comes to getting up from the couch and actually going to the front, very few are willing to "put their hands on the line".
And I can't imagine that after another 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed on the battlefield, anyone would feel motivated to join the cause. In fact, it would probably have the opposite effect: "I don't want to die like everyone else." It's much safer to have fiery debates on social media from home or watch the fights on YouTube.

In addition, Ukraine is experiencing a demographic crisis: the population has shrunk from 52 million in 1991 to barely more than 30 million, before the conflict erupted in February. The situation is so bad that the state has avoided taking a census for more than two decades.

I read daily Ukrainian mainstream media and social media, which are heavily censored by the Kiev regime. Its output is quite different from the reality on the ground.
The internet is awash with videos of Ukrainian soldiers refusing to fight, complaining that their fleeing commanders are throwing them at tanks like cannon fodder – without any equipment or training. There are hundreds of these videos and new ones are uploaded every day. They were made by Ukrainians in military uniforms, not by Russian state media. The number of videos showing Ukrainian women refusing to allow their husbands to be taken by the police or recruiters is also on the rise.

Despite this, the Ukrainian media and elite bloggers avoid commenting on this. They naturally want to silence a phenomenon that is the key to understanding what is happening to the country. In the course of numerous speeches to his people, President Vladimir Zelensky has not once mentioned the innumerable incidents of soldiers refusing to obey orders, which is usually the case with mobilized men and volunteers at the front who believed they were in the near their home areas.

Col. Douglas MacGregor on Ukraine: "We are in the final phase of this war (https://www.frontnieuws.com/kol-douglas-macgregor-over-oekraine-wij-zitten-in-de-laatste-fase-van-deze-oorlog/)(Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options).

The reasoning is often that they are not willing to risk their lives so that Russian does not become a second official language, or Kiev can become a formal ally of the US. The price is too high for what is at stake.

It's no wonder, then, that the Ukrainian media pretend the issue doesn't exist. Just acknowledging that so many soldiers are disaffected would shatter the carefully constructed image of a nation united in selfless patriotism.

The Ukrainian government's gag order not to publish data on the military's losses - which is not being challenged by the Western media - is no coincidence either. The authorities prefer to keep their people in the dark as to the number of those who have already died. This policy has so far paid off. The May and June polls of the International Institute of Sociology of Kiev and NORC of the University of Chicago, commissioned by the Wall Street Journal, show that 90% of the population in the Kiev-controlled area has confidence in the Ukrainian army, and 85% in Zelensky, who has banned the opposition. Curiously, 89% of those polled voted against ceding any territory.

All this gives a clear answer to the question of why Kiev actively recruits foreign mercenaries. Since they are more motivated than Ukraine's own recruits, they can be deployed in the more dangerous zones. It is possible that the regime's biggest problem is that it does not know how to deal with the fact that civilians en masse are trying to avoid being drafted and sent to the front lines. The official ban on all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country is in itself indicative of Zelensky's reasoning that those allowed to leave the country would hardly want to come back to fight. However, it offers no solution. Instead, it demotivates people more and more.

The Death Road of Mariupol "Ilicha" (https://www.frontnieuws.com/de-dodenweg-van-mariupol-ilicha-18/) (18+ (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options).

The military recruiting agencies are extremely disorganized. Recruitment campaigns are held on the streets, in shopping centers, and even on public beaches. It has also been reported that recruiters use their power to summon eligible men as a means of pressure against them or as a means of retaliation or punishment. This shows again that many consider the prospect of enlisting in the military to protect the homeland as undesirable rather than an honor.

It is not impossible that in the absence of decent-paying civilian jobs, some will volunteer to join the armed forces just to feed themselves and their families. However, the number is not large enough to fill the gaps with volunteers. A certain number of recruits will have to be called up. It remains unclear how Kiev plans to tackle this dire problem, when so many seem to think the case is not worth risking their own lives for.

source (https://www.frontnieuws.com/publieke-opinie-schijnt-zich-tegen-de-militaire-dienstplicht-in-oekraine-te-keren-hoe-zal-het-zelensky-regime-daarop-reageren) (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

shaberon

29th July 2022, 18:41

This just in from the complaints department (https://sputniknews.com/20220729/kiev-complains-its-us-gifted-himars-rockets-are-shooting-blind-1097930186.html):

The United States has delivered a dozen M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, and promises to send at least four more. The Russian military has reported on the destruction of four HIMARS in precision strikes...

Ok, so, they do in fact lose a substantial portion rather quickly. Have to keep those things hidden, never use them. Mother may I:

“Presidential advisor Mikhail Podolyak laid out [Ukraine’s military] needs last month: 2,000 troop transport vehicles, 1,000 gun-mounted vehicles, 500 tanks, 300 multiple launch rocket systems, and also the drones and communications equipment necessary to maximize the effectiveness of these systems,” Gerashchenko said in an interview with Newsweek.

“HIMARS and heavy artillery are a good first step, but if we do not have the technology to find and correct targets for artillery strikes, then we’re just shooting blind,” the official lamented.

So, he can't get "good" targets, but:

The Ukrainian military showed off the extent of its effort to “liberate” Donbass territory using HIMARS on Friday, with territorial defense officials in the Donetsk People’s Republic reporting that some 53 people were killed and 75 others injured in a HIMARS strike on a detention center in Yelenovka, DPR, with the facility containing Ukrainian prisoners of war, including members of the notorious ultra-right Azov Regiment.

They have found another way to crush testimony.

The U. S. says if they keep sending these things, they will run out of ammunition. Remember, you only need to send a few thousand pieces of heavy equipment around the world, where everything is basically sitting ducks for someone who is being nice enough not to auto-fry every civilian possible.

These western officials are not capable of leading a lesson about putting on socks. Suggestions:

1. Bury head in sand

2. Breathe deeply

Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:18

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Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:23

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Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:31

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Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:38

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/a-panicking-biden-administration-seeks-talks-with-russia.html

A Panicking Biden Administration Seeks Talks With Russia

July 29, 2022

Here is another story that demonstrates the incompetence and arrogance of the Biden administration.

The New York Times reports of a potential prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia:

[T]he Biden administration has proposed trading the merchant of death for the imprisoned basketball player as well as a former marine held in Russia on what are considered trumped-up espionage charges. In the harsh and cynical world of international diplomacy, prisoner exchanges are rarely pretty, but unpalatable choices are often the only choices on the table.
Whether the swap would go through remained unclear. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken made the offer public in part to reassure the families of Brittney Griner, the basketball player, and Paul N. Whelan, the former marine, that the administration is doing all it can to free them.

Russian officials, who have long sought the release of the arms trafficker Viktor Bout, confirmed the discussion on Thursday but said Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov was too busy to talk with Mr. Blinken now.

Typically prisoner swaps are not talked about publicly before they happen:

Some veteran hostage negotiators were perplexed that Mr. Blinken made the offer public. “It is baffling why the U.S. would announce this proposal in the midst of the negotiations,” said Rob Saale, the former head of the F.B.I.-led Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell. “If you’re in sensitive negotiations why would you want to air this out publicly? It makes me wonder if the Russians haven’t already declined the deal.”
Mr. Saale suspicion was justified as the Washington Post now reports:

The Biden administration disclosed publicly that the United States had made “a substantial offer” to Russia to secure the release of two American prisoners because closed-door negotiations had stalled, an administration official said Thursday.
The administration hopes public pressure will lead Moscow to engage in negotiations resulting in basketball star Brittney Griner and security consultant Paul Whelan being released from Russian prison, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations.

U.S. officials say they have tried for weeks to broker the releases of Griner and Whelan. But the lack of progress, and the prospect of Griner soon facing conviction and sentencing on drug charges, prompted the administration this week to make the negotiations public.

I do not understand why the administration had started such negotiations even before the Griner court case has been closed. In general such prisoners will only be pardoned and released to the other side after they have been sentenced. Anything else would raise accusations of executive interference in the judicial process. The Brittney Griner case, over admitted smuggling of cannabis oil, is still in court. The Russian government will obviously refrain from doing anything about her before the judicial process has ended.

One suspects that the prisoner exchange is much more about Paul Whelan, who likely is a CIA asset. He had passports from four countries and in 2007 started traveling to Moscow while serving as a Marine in Iraq:

Whelan went on to seek out more Russian friends, using the country's social networking service VK among others.
A scroll through their profiles, soon after his arrest, revealed almost all to be men - most considerably younger than him. Some do have clear military connections - including photographs in uniform - though not all, and no-one who replied to my messages had seen any reason to doubt Whelan's motives.
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The man Whelan accuses of framing him was one of his oldest friends in Russia. He is also a serving intelligence officer.

Defence lawyers disclosed some details of the men's relationship early on in the case, including how the American had visited his friend's house in Sergiev Posad outside Moscow for "saunas and kebabs" the winter before his arrest.

They also said he owed Whelan around 80,000 roubles ($1,147; £930) which the FSB claimed was advance payment for intelligence. The defence team said the Russian had requested a loan to buy a gift for his wife, as part of his trap.

The Russian side says that they found a USB stick in Whelan's pocket with a list of FSB members which had been handed to him by his bribed friend.

It may well be that Whelan was trapped by the FSB. But that does not exclude that he also was a spy. His documented behavior surely raises that suspicion:

On December 28, 2018, Whelan was arrested in the Moscow area by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which later confirmed his arrest. Whelan's twin brother David said Whelan arrived in Moscow on December 22 to attend the wedding of a former fellow Marine at the Hotel Metropol Moscow and to assist the groom's family members on their first visit to Russia, a country he had visited many times. He said his brother planned to return to Michigan on January 6, 2019, via Saint Petersburg.
Per MBK News, an outlet run by Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Whelan had $80,000 in cash "temporarily confiscated" during a customs inspection at Domodedovo Airport. According to the New York Times, Whelan had acted as a local guide for the wedding guests, but had decided to spend the day of the wedding to meet a friend, per the account of other attendees.

Why is the Biden administration now racing to get a prisoner exchange? Why is it publishing that it is doing so? I really see no good reason for that.

There are of course, as M.K. Bhadrakumar notes, other important reasons why Blinken wants to talk with Russia:

Blinken then came to the real purpose of his forthcoming call with Lavrov — “the plans that Russia now has to pursue the annexation of Ukrainian territory.”
Blinken repeated the hyperbole that sanctions are having “a powerful and also growing effect” and has “weakened Russia profoundly” and the Biden administration will do all that it can “to strengthen Ukraine’s position on the battlefield so it has the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.”

However, what comes through is the growing disquiet in Washington that to its utter disbelief, the Russian stance has only hardened lately. Blinken said it is “causing alarms.” In particular, he noted Lavrov’s remark last week that the Kremlin’s goals in Ukraine had expanded. “Now they seek to claim more Ukrainian territory, beyond the Donbas,” he commented.

Indeed, the war has spun out of US algorithm. As Hungarian PM Orban pointed out last week, anti-Russian sanctions “have not shaken Moscow,” but Europe has already lost four governments and is in an economic and political crisis.

Russia is paying back to the US and NATO in the same coin that the latter did when they dismembered Yugoslavia.

The U.S. sees that its proxy war against Russia is not going into the hoped for direction:

The spectre of the collapse of EU economies is rattling the Biden Administration. A CNN report yesterday was titled US officials say ‘biggest fear’ has come true as Russia cuts gas supplies to Europe. It said the Biden administration “is working furiously behind the scenes to keep European allies united” as the blowback from the sanctions against Russia hits them and the “impact on Europe could boomerang back onto the US, spiking natural gas and electricity prices.”

The report quoted an unnamed US official saying Russia’s retaliation for western sanctions has put the West in “unchartered territory.” Suffice to say, Blinken’s call underscores the desperate urgency in Washington to open a line of communication to Moscow at the political level.

It was obvious that the Russian side would use the publishing of the potential prisoner exchange to its advantage:

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Thursday that diplomatic silence typically surrounds negotiations regarding prisoner releases. Announcements are usually made “about agreements that have been completed,” Peskov said, and no agreements have been finalized.
The Russian government acknowledged Thursday that it had received Blinken’s request, but the media service Interfax reported that Lavrov would respond “when his own schedule allows.”

“Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay attention to this request as soon as time allows,” ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, according to Interfax. “Currently, his schedule of international contacts is packed full of real affairs: the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] council of foreign ministers in Tashkent, bilateral meetings.”

Yes, the foreign minister of 'isolated Russia', who was recently friendly received in several African countries, is very busy with meeting dozens of foreign dignitaries. He has no time for a call with some U.S. minion known for making unfounded accusations and unreasonable requests.

The Russian's will let Blinken squirm for a while over the unimportant prisoner affair and other issues.

The delusion reflected in the Washington Post write up shows that the U.S. has yet to come to its senses:

Lavrov on Wednesday concluded a four-day trip to Africa and is now in Uzbekistan, part of a flurry of recent diplomatic visits, as Russia seeks to bolster its remaining partnerships amid deepening international isolation over its war in Ukraine.
How please is the alleged international isolation of Russia 'deepening`? After the first flurry of sanctions, solely by NATO, EU and 5-eyes countries, no other country has joined the 'western' Russia bashing or put up sanctions. Russia's international standing with the other 80+% of humanity has in fact increased ever since.

The Washington Post writer, as well as the whole Biden administration, has some serious delusions about Russia's role in the now multipolar world.

Lavrov, Peskov and Maria Zakharova are experienced professionals. If one wants to talk with them one should be on a similar level.

Blinken does not even come near to that.

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The White House divulged a proposal it had for Moscow on exchanging Russian citizen Viktor Bout for the Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, because the Kremlin did not provide a "meaningful response" to it, according to CNN. Earlier, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that there were no agreements yet on the exchange. Meanwhile, experts interviewed by Kommersant believe that the conditions put forward by the US are not ideal.

According to media reports, US officials proposed the swap idea back in June, inspired by the success of the April exchange of Konstantin Yaroshenko for Trevor Reed.

Brittney Griner’s defense did not comment on the situation, saying that the team did not take part in the negotiations. At the same time, attorneys interviewed by Kommersant believe that the athlete could be exchanged only after the verdict. Until then Griner remains innocent.

Vladimir Zherebenkov, a lawyer for US citizen Paul Whelan convicted in 2020, told Kommersant that he knows and expects that the US authorities want to exchange him. "But I consider their conditions unfair. I have one explanation: they consider Bout to be a very significant and dangerous figure. However, such negotiations are held in secret, and I think that our diplomats are actively working on it," he said.

Vice President of the Russian branch of the International Committee for the Defense for Human Rights Ivan Melnikov told the newspaper that the conditions put forward by the US are unlikely to accelerate this process. "The one for one exchange, according to my information, would have been virtually resolved and everything could have happened very quickly, but the current situation is a step back," Melnikov said.

He said he hopes that the US will reconsider its position. If not, then Russia can offer the US authorities a two-for-two exchange, according to the expert, about 2,000 Russian citizens are currently held in US prisons.

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Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:41

https://thecradle.co/Article/news/13660

Ukrainians offer no evidence’ says Lebanese customs official over allegedly looted Syrian ship cargo

A Syrian ship currently docked in the Lebanese port of Tripoli, and reported to be carrying Russian-origin flour, has been accused by Ukrainian officials of containing goods “plundered by Russia from Ukrainian stores.”

The shipping data website MarineTraffic shows that the Laodicea, a ship reportedly under US sanctions, docked in Tripoli on 27 July.

According to Reuters, a Ukrainian Embassy official in Beirut claims that “the ship has traveled from a Crimean port that is closed to international shipping, carrying 5,000 tons of barley and 5,000 tons of flour that we suspect was taken from Ukrainian stores.”

A Lebanese customs field agent who boarded the vessel told The Cradle there was no barley among the cargo, “only flour.”

In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula after a public referendum voted in favor, and established two federal entities there, the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. Ukraine does not recognize Crimea as Russian territory.

A senior Lebanese customs official, speaking off the record, tells The Cradle that a “huge ruckus” has broken out over the ship and its contents.

“The prime minister [Najib Mikati] contacted the customs leadership and demanded we hold the ship for investigation, while the office of the president of the republic asked us to let the ship depart to its destination to avoid trouble with the Syrians and the Russians,” he says. “This is a complete conflict in decision making, we don’t know how to act right now.”

“Now the Ukrainians have asked us to sample-test the grains, but that is not going to tell us anything. Ukraine has offered no proof that these food products are stolen, as they allege. And by law they are not allowed to make this request of us. They must bring us evidence first, and if it is compelling, only then can we undertake an investigation.”

The Laodicea is one of three ships owned by the Syrian Ports Authority that Kiev claims are transporting “looted wheat.”

“According to the ship’s agent who spoke directly to Tripoli customs agents, the destination of the cargo is Syria,” a Lebanese shipping source reveals. “It may be that the vessel diverted to Lebanon to avoid US sanctions – or for other reasons unknown at this time.”

The Laodicea made a stop in Izmir, Turkey, en route to Tripoli. Says a Lebanese private shipping contractor who provided data on the vessel’s route: “If there was any evidence or suggestion of illegality, the Turkish authorities would not have let the ship continue its onward journey.”

The content of the ships has not been unloaded, and the vessel remains docked in Tripoli.

On Thursday, Ukrainian Ambassador Ipor Ostash met with Lebanese caretaker President Michel Aoun to demand “clarification” over the arrival of the Syrian ship.

“A request was made to take measures to clarify the circumstances of its stay in Lebanese territorial waters. It was also emphasized that this fact could harm bilateral relations,” a statement posted on the embassy’s Facebook page reads.

A Lebanese official confirmed that Aoun discussed the issue with Ostash, while Economy Minister Amin Salam said authorities were following up on the matter.

Earlier in the day, Salam announced that severe bread shortages would ease this week, thanks to the arrival of new wheat imports.

The Syrian ship arrived as Lebanon faces the dire consequences of a three-year economic meltdown.

This week, distraught citizens in several Lebanese cities stormed bakeries and pastry shops when tensions boiled over due to the long queues for bread.

The Levantine nation used to import as much as 80 percent of its wheat from Ukraine, but since the start of the Russian war, it now faces a major food crisis.

Another factor that limits Lebanon’s wheat supply is the destruction of the country’s grain silos during the Beirut Port blast of 2020 – a blast often described as the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

pyrangello

29th July 2022, 19:46

Look at what they did in Afghanistan, how many left behind? Private funds to get Americans out loaded on planes to leave and the Biden State Department made them wait on the planes for days for landing approval. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen. Plus they left all the Americans behind and betrayed the Afghans who helped us. And you expect what from this administration? This is like having a crew driving the titantic playing ping pong at the same time. Most fearful thing I have ever seen in my life when it comes to responsible governing .

Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:49

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Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 19:53

https://sputniknews.com/20220729/bulgarian-pms-russian-meddling-claims-sign-of-government-in-death-throes-zakharova-tells-sputnik-1097943858.html

Bulgarian PM's 'Russian Meddling' Claims Sign of Government in Death Throes, Zakharova Tells Sputnik

This week, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, whose government lost a no confidence vote last month over what the opposition characterized as the... 29.07.2022, Sputnik International

Moscow “sympathizes” with the soon-to-be ex-Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov’s evidence-free allegations about Russian “meddling” in Bulgaria’s affairs, and considers the claims a sure sign of a politician singing his swan song, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

In an interview with The Times on Tuesday, Petkov, whose six-month old coalition government collapsed in late June, claimed that his ouster was the result of Russian interference.
“We have curbed corruption locally, but we have discovered that we have a bigger enemy: Russian infiltration. We failed to understand that corruption and Russian influence are the same thing. Corruption is Moscow’s best foreign policy tool in the Balkans,” Petkov, who is now tasked with running a caretaker government until snap elections in the fall, said.

“We sincerely sympathize with [Mr. Petkov’s] concerns about the ‘long arm’ of the Kremlin," Zakharova told Sputnik.

"When it comes to logic and truth, we see no reason to comment separately on each and every deliberately false statement about Russian interference in Bulgaria’s affairs, about corruption as our ‘main foreign policy tool’ in the Balkans, or the ‘indoctrination’ of local politicians through the organization of ‘field trips’ to Greece,” the spokeswoman added.

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Zakharova stressed that Russia has never interfered in the internal affairs of other countries, “just as it will never allow any country to try to impose its opinion on us.”

“Speculation around the ‘Russian threat’ for domestic political or other selfish purposes is a sure sign of political death-throes,” she said.

Zakharova expressed confidence that the spuriousness of Petkov’s claims is “just as obvious to the Bulgarian people, to whom we sincerely wish prosperity and a pragmatic government capable of acting on the basis of national interests, and not a desire to curry favor with transatlantic ‘partners.’”

Petkov, 42, resigned as prime minister on June 27 after losing a no-confidence vote after just six months in office. During the escalation of the security crisis in Ukraine this spring, Bulgaria joined EU sanctions against Russia, and refused to pay for Russian gas in rubles, prompting Gazprom to cut off deliveries and leading his ITN Party coalition partners to withdraw from his "We Continue the Change" electoral alliance-led government.

The Petkov-led coalition is one of four European governments to be swept away by the inflation and energy crisis facing Western countries amid escalating tensions with Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban compared the West’s strategy of sanctions against Moscow to “a car with flat tires on all four wheels,” and said that the restrictions, instead of destabilizing Russia, only put Europe into a severe political and economic crisis.

Ravenlocke

29th July 2022, 20:35

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shaberon

30th July 2022, 05:21

One moment to adjust our "western sculpture" a little more:

US President Joe Biden’s decision to release much of the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve into the market by selling it to oil companies was blasted for being a gift to petrol giants, who then sold it in Europe for record-high prices.

There went our tax funded stuff. And it helped bring to you these after-death movements of Standard Oil (https://sputniknews.com/20220729/exxonmobil-quadruples-profits-as-americans-face-record-high-gas-prices-inflation-1097944938.html):

ExxonMobil, the world’s largest petroleum corporation not owned by a state entity, said on Friday it had made $17.85 billion in Q2 of 2022 - four times last year’s figure and twice what it made in Q1 of 2022. Chevron boasted an $11.62 billion profit in Q2, a 74% increase from Q1 and a 247% increase from Q2 of 2021.

That may not surprise anyone. Check out this, if you will pardon the expression, and if you won't, this is what it is, a financier's wet dream from some figurings by EPI (https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-disproportionately-to-inflation-how-should-policymakers-respond/):

Since the trough of the COVID-19 recession in the second quarter of 2020, overall prices in the NFC sector have risen at an annualized rate of 6.1%—a pronounced acceleration over the 1.8% price growth that characterized the pre-pandemic business cycle of 2007–2019. Strikingly, over half of this increase (53.9%) can be attributed to fatter profit margins, with labor costs contributing less than 8% of this increase. This is not normal. From 1979 to 2019, profits only contributed about 11% to price growth and labor costs over 60%.

Right. Labor costs are the major pain in the rump of Fascists. And now, there is almost no such thing.

Well, this is very much as, from a long article last week, what used to be understood as a Good King in religions and societies from Europe to China. Such a monarch would first abolish personal debt, and then their job was more or less to protect the peasantry from the rent and tax predators of their time. Around the eighth century, in the early times of "modernizing" finance, oligarchy became powerful enough to break that rule and start introducing new forms of government and erasing the memory. That is what is being called "the west" now, as a side, or seat of nazism, to which Gandhi was asked what he thought of western civilization?

"I think it would be a good idea".

This week--you have to pick through this guy, because he does have good information, but it is sort of mushy, like pulling punches. Here are a few ideas about "not the same capitalism" from Michael Hudson (https://thesaker.is/american-diplomacy-as-a-tragic-drama/):

Most Asian labor can afford to work for lower wages because it has much lower housing costs and does not have to pay education debt. Health care is a public right, not a financialized market transaction, and pensions are not paid for in advance by wage-earners and employers but are public. The aim in China in particular is to prevent the rentier Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector from becoming a burdensome overhead whose economic interests differ from those of a socialist government.

China treats money and banking as a public utility, to be created, spent and lent for purposes that help increase productivity and living standards (and increasingly to preserve the environment). It rejects the U.S.-sponsored neoliberal model imposed by the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organization.

And then to get gritty there is a really long German against German (https://thesaker.is/masters-and-emissaries-the-spectacular-collapse-of-german-japanese-relations-under-forced-globalism/) article. It is framed to look like it is about the Japanese. The two countries have an even trade balance of mostly redundant products. German cars for Japanese ones, thanks to America. There is a small German community in Japan. However he calls German women ugly at least three times and describes the American lobotomy along with miscegenation and so on. From the sounds of things, we could call it the Green Nazi country.

I understand it. He does not "hate his people", he is disappointed and disgusted by the majority of things that actually take place.

What is missing is that he does not explain how Japan, per se, is not like that at all. All of their primary research is in Japanese, and most of them know additional languages on top of that. Japan actually still has real Japanese people and Japanese stuff. They don't usually learn English or German to clean the guilt off their psyches and forget their own culture.

Here, where oligarchy just trammeled the peasantry on a historically unprecedented scale, it is considered monopolar. The "other side" perhaps is just "outside", since there are different ideas like Chinese and Japanese about not having anything to do with anything like this.

Now we have a case. The "case of the not missing HIMARS fragments". Are your fingerprints on it?

From the looks of the heat of the thing, it might be one of the better ways to go. I think you would be dead before your reflexes can feel it. Vive la guillotine! And Russia is supposed to be the state sponsor of terrorism?

Goba

30th July 2022, 08:36

News for those caught in their echo chamber (I know it hurts but that only the ego, get over it!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB3LThyFe1U

JackMcThorn

30th July 2022, 09:01

Part of the data from your YouTube video is from the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute Researchers and the London School of Economics among other questionable sources.

I choose the alt media and the search for truth. This video is a collective-west and Ivy League inspired waste of time.

News for those caught in their echo chamber (I know it hurts but that only the ego, get over it!)

Billy

30th July 2022, 12:11

News for those caught in their echo chamber (I know it hurts but that only the ego, get over it!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB3LThyFe1U

Your video is absolute BS.

Goba, Obviously you have allowed yourself to be indoctrinated with false news spewing out from Ukraine and Western Media, you are not looking at the hard evidence of the atrocities carried out by the Ukrainian Military for the last 8 years. The murder of innocence Ukrainian children and civilians by the Ukrainian Military, the evidence is documented if you take your head out the sand then open your eyes.
Maybe your own ego does not allow you to accept the evidence.
My personal opinion is you are on the wrong side of history, as they say each to their own.

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 14:28

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https://www.rt.com/russia/559831-ukraine-pow-missile-strike/

Russia claims Ukraine had a reason to kill its own POWs
At least 53 people died in a strike on a detention center in Donbass

Kiev’s forces shelled a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs early Friday morning to “threaten” their own troops who may want to surrender, the Russian Defense Ministry has claimed.

“A large number of Ukrainian servicemen are voluntarily laying down their arms, and know about the humane treatment of prisoners by the Russian side,” the ministry said, calling the attack “outrageous.”

Authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said that the death toll in the missile strike has grown to 53, while 75 were wounded.

DPR Deputy Information Minister Daniil Bezsonov posted a graphic video on his Telegram channel, which shows multiple mutilated and charred bodies inside the destroyed building.

According to Russia’s Defense Ministry and local authorities, Ukrainian troops used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to strike the detention center near the village of Yelenovka.

READ MORE: Ukraine shells prison holding POWs – DPR
The ministry said the facility held members of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, whose fighters surrendered to Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol. The battalion is notorious because it includes fighters with nationalist and neo-Nazi views.

Speaking to Russia’s TV Channel One, DPR head Denis Pushilin claimed that the Ukrainians “deliberately” targeted the detention center in order to kill Azov members who had been providing testimonies about possible war crimes by their commanders.

The Ukrainian military released a statement on Friday, accusing Russian troops of shelling Yelenovka. Moscow destroyed the prison in order to pin the blame on Kiev, as well as to “hide the torture of prisoners and executions," the statement alleged.

https://www.rt.com/russia/559817-ukraine-shells-prison-holding-pows/

Ukraine shells prison holding POWs – DPR
Ukrainian troops shelled a prison housing prisoners of war in the suburban settlement of Yelenovka early Friday morning, according to the Donetsk People’s Republic’s deputy information minister, Daniil Bezsonov.

“There was a direct hit at a building with prisoners,” Bezsonov wrote on Telegram. “The results as of now: 40 killed, 130 wounded.”

The minister added that he believes Kiev used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers for the attack.

The facility reportedly housed Ukrainian fighters captured by Russian and allied forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel mill in the city of Mariupol.

The reported shelling took place as Russian and DPR troops attempt to push Ukrainian soldiers out of the republic’s western areas.

READ MORE: Ukraine bombards Donetsk with landmines – mayor
The DPR has repeatedly accused Ukraine of using HIMARS to shell Donetsk and other areas. On Sunday, the authorities said Ukrainian troops struck an oil refinery in Donetsk.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

ExomatrixTV

30th July 2022, 14:52

Nato’s Arsonist-in-chief Jens Stoltenberg Wants The Western Public To Pay For A Ukrainian Fire He Helped To Ignite (https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/07/30/natos-arsonist-in-chief-jens-stoltenberg-wants-the-western-public-to-pay-for-a-ukrainian-fire-he-helped-to-ignite/)

Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 14:56

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 15:05

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 15:18

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 20:36

The Duran

The BIG Ukraine counteroffensive that everyone knows about

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Discussion, speculations and forecasts, prospects for Ukraine winning is very dire.
-despite reports that Ukraine has amassed a formidable force, Russian offensive continues and they are closing in on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.

According to DPR the battle of Donbass will be over by end of August
Strikes on bridges have been abated for now, these are the bridges that deliver supplies to Russian troops
Ukraine has 5 weeks left in which to win or war is lost if they lose Donbass and currently Ukraine troops are being moved towards Kherson

Current factors

Boris Johnson wiil be visiting Zelensky
Russians are turning up the heat in regards to gas supply, turbines
Weapons deliveries to Ukraine have decreased, peak was March April
Rhetoric regards China

Is a collapse coming?

Vicus

30th July 2022, 20:50

UKRAINE STRIKES RUSSIA TERRITORY (WITH HIMARS?)

A massive explosion has taken place inside Russia proper, after an ammunition dump in Bryansk, Kilmovo Region of Russia was apparently hit by Ukraine.

The map below shows the location of the attack, inside Russia itself.

This particular attack comes just AFTER Ukraine used HIMARS (supplied by the USA) to strike a Russian POW camp to kill-off Ukrainian AZOV Battalion prisoners in the Yelenovka Penal Colony (Story HERE).

Both that penal colony and the explosion inside Russia, are within the same general area. If HIMARS was used to hit the penal colony, it is highly likely that HIMARS was also used to hit the ammo dump inside Russia.

Russia has publicly and repeatedly warned that if U.S. supplied HIMARS were used against Russian territory, Russia would declare the US to be a combatant in Ukraine, and launch military attacks against US/NATO targets.

We await analysis and confirmation that the attacks against the Penal colony - and against the ammo dump were, in fact, HIMARS. That has not yet been factually determined through forensic analysis.

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-strikes-russia-territory-with-himars

Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 21:20

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 21:25

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 21:48

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Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 22:04

https://www.rt.com/russia/559920-russia-pow-un-red-cross-ukraine/

Russia invites UN and Red Cross experts to investigate POW camp bombing

The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Sunday that it had officially invited independent experts from the UN and the Red Cross to investigate the shelling of a detention center in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The Friday bombing killed 50 prisoners, with dozens more wounded.

“In the interest of conducting an objective investigation of the strike on the detention center in Yelenovka, which led to the deaths of many Ukrainian prisoners of war, the Russian Federation has officially invited experts from the UN and the International Red Cross Committee,” the ministry said.

According to the Russian military’s earlier statement, the strike was conducted using US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.

“All political, criminal and moral responsibility for the bloodbath against Ukrainians is borne personally by Zelensky, his criminal regime and Washington, which supports them,” Moscow said.

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https://www.rt.com/news/559887-blinken-russia-terrorist-designation/

State Department resists calling Russia ‘sponsor of terrorism’ – NYT

Officially designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism would limit the ability of the US government to “exempt some transactions with Russia from Western penalties,” the New York Times reported on Friday.

The paper said these exemptions could include ensuring that food exports from Russia are not disrupted by sanctions.

The State Department currently lists Iran, Syria, Cuba, and North Korea as state sponsors of terrorism.

According to the Times, designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism could completely sever the already constrained diplomatic ties between Moscow and Washington. State Department officials were said to view the designation as the “nuclear option.”

Responding to a request by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the US Senate unanimously passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday calling for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to do just that. Zelensky repeatedly accused Russia of purposefully killing civilians in Ukraine, while Moscow insists that its troops only strike military targets.

Russia makes prisoner counter-proposal to US – CNN
Russia makes prisoner counter-proposal to US – CNN
Blinken said, however, that the US has already hit Moscow with unprecedented sanctions.

“The costs that have been imposed on Russia by us and by other countries are absolutely in line with the consequences that would follow from designation as a state sponsor of terrorism,” Blinken told reporters on Wednesday. “So the practical effects of what we’re doing are the same.”

On Friday, Blinken spoke with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov over the phone, which was their first conversation since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in late February.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said this month that labeling Russia a state sponsor on terrorism would have “negative consequences” for the already fractured bilateral ties.

Ravenlocke

30th July 2022, 22:14

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pounamuknight

31st July 2022, 02:23

For four weeks during the the Battle of Mariupol, Maksim Fadeev documented Somali Battalion's movements through ruined buildings and heavy fire fights

Looks brutal
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Russian version is already uploaded. Really looking forward to the English version

Tintin

31st July 2022, 07:06

From Gonzalo Lira and a Panama Papers leak:

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Vicus

31st July 2022, 12:00

Zelensky's elite battalion destroyed – Russia

Dozens of neo-Nazis have been eliminated over the last two days, including fighters from the Kraken formation, the military said

Russia’s armed forces destroyed an ‘elite assault battalion’ of the Ukrainian president and dozens of fighters from the notorious Kraken neo-Nazi formation, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.

Providing an update on the progress of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov said that on July 28, at the Krasnoarmeysk railway station in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian military conducted a direct strike “with a high-precision air-based weapon” on a train transporting “an elite assault battalion of the 1st Separate Brigade of the President of Ukraine.”

“More than 140 nationalists were killed on the spot. About 250 more militants received injuries of varying severity. All military equipment that was in the echelon was disabled,” Konashenkov stated.

The next day, in the area of Bogodukhov in Kharkov Region, Iskander missiles hit the hangars of a meat processing plant where the Kraken nationalist formation had set up a temporary base, according to the military spokesman. “More than 30 Nazis and 10 units of military equipment were destroyed.”

Kraken calls itself a special reconnaissance and sabotage unit under the Ministry of Defense, operating separately from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Moscow has accused the battalion of committing several war crimes since the beginning of the conflict.

Also on July 29, Russian forces destroyed 30 Ukrainian servicemen, a warehouse with rockets for Grad combat vehicles, and military equipment in the settlement of Yasnobrodovka in the DPR. In the area of Artemovsk, according to Konashenkov, Ukrainian losses amounted to 50 servicemen and eight units of military equipment.

“In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 261 aircraft, 145 helicopters, 1,644 unmanned aerial vehicles, 361 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,190 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 772 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,217 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,573 units of special military vehicles,” the general said.

The Russian Defense Ministry does not provide regular updates on the numbers of Ukrainian or Russian losses. On July 4, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that over the previous two weeks alone, Ukraine had lost almost 5,500 troops, including over 2,000 killed.

Regarding its own casualties, Moscow has not updated the numbers since March, when it reported 1,351 military personnel killed.

Kiev has not disclosed its total military losses since the beginning of the conflict but claims that the figure is several times lower than Russia’s. Moscow’s assessment of the numbers is the opposite.

https://www.rt.com/russia/559903-konashenkov-update-battallion-destroyed/

Vicus

31st July 2022, 12:09

Black Sea Fleet HQ in Crimea attacked by Ukraine – governor

Six people were injured in an apparent drone strike, the official said

The Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea was attacked by Ukraine, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev claimed on his Telegram channel on Sunday morning. Six people were injured in a strike presumably carried out by a drone, he said.

The attack took place on Russia’s Navy Day. Razvozhayev said that all celebrations have been canceled for safety reasons. Russia celebrates Navy Day on the last Sunday of July with military parades and other events across the country.

Ukrainian officials have repeatedly voiced plans to take back Crimea, which voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia shortly after the 2014 coup in Kiev. Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Gavrilov said this month that the Black Sea Fleet stationed in Crimea poses “a permanent threat” to Ukraine.

Moreover, when asked about the use of US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, Vadim Skibitsky, the spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence, told reporters this month that military sites in Crimea were “among the targets that must be struck in order to ensure the safety of our citizens, sites and Ukraine in general.” Crimea has “become a hub for the movement of all equipment and weapons that come from the Russian Federation,” he said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/559922-black-sea-fleet-hq-sevastopol-attack-ukraine/

chrifri

31st July 2022, 13:11

Tintin

31st July 2022, 13:44

From Gonzalo Lira and a Panama Papers leak:

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Source: https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1553292229262934016

It is a pity that Gonzalo Lira did not check if the information is correct or not. Although I believe that Z is corrupt, the Costa Rica/Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika information is fake. Dresdner Bank Lateinamerika does not exist in Costa Rica

on the following link there is some more information
https://qcostarica.com/rumors-and-false-data-claim-ukraine-president-money-laundering-in-costa-rica/

We've the Panama Papers in the library, here (https://avalonlibrary.net/?dir=Panama_Papers_%282016%29). I haven't made the time to look through the csv Excel files but they may yield some cookie crumbs.

The Guardian did run a story about 9 months ago here citing the Pandora Papers: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/03/revealed-anti-oligarch-ukrainian-president-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy but made no mention of anything to do with Costa Rica.

The ICIJ website here for the Panama Papers:
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/11003120

According to Bloomberg Dresdner Bank Latinamerika does operate out of Chile: https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/DRESDPA:CI

It's previous business in the Cayman Islands ceased operation: https://cayman.directory/en/yp/dresdner-bank-lateinamerika-ag-finance-470

This site here, below - Costa Rican business directory - would seem to contradict some of the claims made by the Costa Rican Q publication report link (https://qcostarica.com/rumors-and-false-data-claim-ukraine-president-money-laundering-in-costa-rica) shared, perhaps suggesting an attempt by them to try to throw a diversionary tactic our way, or a belated attempt at damage limitation:

This one >>https://cri.bizdirlib.com/node/235

Ravenlocke

31st July 2022, 14:48

https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1553661021042221056
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Ravenlocke

31st July 2022, 15:07

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1553747340447678465
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Ravenlocke

31st July 2022, 15:15

https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1553531857886748674
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https://twitter.com/Animosteles/status/1553717598914740226
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avid

31st July 2022, 16:03

A ghastly scenario, that Ukraine ‘president’ is totally corrupt. Billions of dollars sequestered into offshore accounts daily.
What a shocking, surprising fiasco NOT!!!
So, who is following this news… and who is being muzzled as this is truth…
OMG we are being taken for idiots, so much lying beyond “bought and paid for” in perpetuity.
Very angry - stop truthful incidents, excuses to cover up ghastly transplanting young children, upsetting that children still trafficked locally. 🤬🤬🤬

ExomatrixTV

31st July 2022, 19:58

The myth of the HIMARS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M142_HIMARS) 'Game Changer': American-supplied rocket system is effective, but it won't bring victory to Ukraine

The rocket system is a deadly tool – but it’s not the tonic Ukraine and its supporters claim it to be

source (https://swentr.site/russia/559185-himars-deadly-weapon-ukraine/)

shaberon

1st August 2022, 02:53

Tintin

1st August 2022, 08:37

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is usually extraordinarily diligent in verifying her sources and is a trustworthy reporter, one of the best.

I wouldn't have thought there was much here that she's sharing that Russian intel aren't already on top of really. I don't know how important this is but it's informative nonetheless.

Interestingly if one checks some of the comments on the tweet thread referring to 'purges' and then checks the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website (https://mid.ru/ru/) and clicks on the link to the President of Russia (http://kremlin.ru/), top left on the MFA landing page as I did last week, that page showed a fair amount personnel changes within the administration on or around July 14th. If my memory serves me well then it included a significant ministerial position. They don't immediately appear as they did so may have been archived by the administration.

Dilyana's tweet here: https://twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva/status/1553992855408050177

Her full 04:34 timed message here:

My message to Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Tintin

1st August 2022, 12:09

Published July 30th, a very detailed report from Esha Krishnaswamy for The Grayzone (https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/) and just perhaps way too long to post in its entirety. It also contains copious numbers of links.

The main focus as the title more than alludes relates to the extremist Ukrainian battalions history of simply atrocious conduct with a primary focus on the Tornado battalion and Ruslan Onishenko. It has been very thoroughly researched and makes for almost impossibly difficult reading in places.

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“These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military

The entire report can be seen here https://thegrayzone.com/2022/07/30/zelensky-militants-convicted-child-rape-torture-military/

Extracted:

In March 2014, Kiev passed a law establishing a “national guard” which was to be overseen by the Ministry of the Interior. With the consent of the then-Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kholmoisky bankrolled the creation of some of the country’s more notorious territorial defense forces. The first of these “special police battalions,” Dnipro-1, was born from the oligarch’s fortune. One of Kholmoisky’s deputies, Boris Filatov, stated that the goal of these special battalions was to “knit the country back together.”

Instead, the special battalions (Dobrobats) recruited from the core of Maidan activists who battled the deposed president’s riot police. Oleg Lyashko, a self-styled “people’s deputy” who founded the Radical Party and appeared on the main stage during the Euromaidan pro-coup rallies, attempted to establish his own Dobrobat named “Ukraine.” Because Lyaschko did not have the money to finance a formal battalion, his group would have to audition for support from oligarchs by volunteering to fight in the city of Torez in the Donetsk Oblast.

By this time, Ruslan Onishenko was known as a career criminal with three convictions for robbery, hooliganism, and unlawful imprisonment (kidnapping) under his belt. Born Ruslan Abalmaz, he adopted the family name of his wife, “Onishenko,” after Euromaidan. As a native of Torez, he became a central figure in the “test formation” of Lyashko’s new battalion.

The plan to retake Torez from the separatists failed, however, prompting Onishenko and his crew to flee to the neighboring city of Dnepropetrovsk, the home of billionaire Igor Kholmoisky. Eventually, with the support of Minister of Interior Arsen Avakov and his deputy, right-wing political fixer Anton Gerashenko, Onishenko was able to convince Kholmoisky to finance a new battalion called “Shaktorysk.”

In June 2014, a public relations campaign for the Shaktyorsk Battalion began on EspressoTv, the unofficial outlet of the “special battalions,” as well as on UkroTV, lionizing Onishenko as “the one man who struggles for the soul of the country”

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Tintin

1st August 2022, 12:14

More threats to journalists from Twitter trolls. Not for the first time it's Eva Bartlett being singled out by this unconscionable Mensch individual :facepalm:

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Source: https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra/status/1553990937931440129

Ravenlocke

1st August 2022, 19:52

Ravenlocke

1st August 2022, 20:13

https://twitter.com/Russ_Warrior/status/1553704634908561408
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https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/dead-men-tell-no-tales-why-kiev-bombed-its-own-imprisoned-soldiers-in-donbass

Dead Men Tell No Tales: Why Kiev Bombed Its Own Imprisoned Soldiers In Donbass

It certainly seems to be the case that Kiev panicked that its imprisoned soldiers would soon spill the beans about the wide range of war crimes they’ve been accused of committing and therefore decided to kill them with HIMARS before they could talk.

Friday morning’s shelling of a detention center in Donbass killed at least 50 people and injured an estimated 75. Russia and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) both accused Kiev of carrying out this war crime against their own imprisoned soldiers that were being held there, while that former Soviet Republic ridiculously alleged that its opponents bombed themselves. Objectively speaking, the first-mentioned’s interpretation of the incident is much more realistic than the second’s.

To explain, there’s a certain logic inherent in Kiev using US-supplied HIMARS to kill its imprisoned soldiers – including those who were captured during Azovstal’s surrender – so that they don’t spill the beans about their war crimes. It wants to silence its militants at all costs so that they don’t provide evidence that can be used against Kiev in the court of law or at the very least give Moscow a so-called “propaganda victory”. As they say, dead men tell no tales.

On the other hand, this US-led NATO proxy’s claims don’t hold up to scrutiny. Russia and/or the DPR could have just quietly killed those imprisoned soldiers if they really wanted to cover up torture like Kiev speculated. Furthermore, those people were prized assets in proving that their opponents aren’t the innocent angels that they present themselves as. It doesn’t make sense to kill them off, let alone by bombing themselves in such a dramatic way that adds to the infamy of that US-supplied missile system.

The reader should also be aware that Russia and the DPR claim to have found wreckage of some HIMARS missiles at the site of the incident, which adds further credence to their claim Kiev was responsible for the strike. It also doesn’t help that former Soviet Republic’s cause any that a senior American defense official already started making excuses for his country’s proxy during a press conference on Friday when preemptively arguing that Kiev “didn’t mean to do that”.

The exact quote from the Department of Defense’s official website reads as follows: “Here’s the last thing I’d say, if it happened to be a Ukrainian strike, I promise you, number one, they didn’t mean to do that, right? They certainly care about their own people and they care about the civilians and military in uniform of their own army.” It’s not very convincing when the same institution responsible for spewing countless lies over the years starts covering up for its partner ahead of time by alleging an accident.

That in and of itself suggests that American intelligence is likely very well aware of the high probability that Kiev used the HIMARS to kill its own imprisoned soldiers so that they wouldn’t share evidence of the war crimes they were tasked with committing in Mariupol and elsewhere. There’s no other logical explanation for why the Department of Defense would behave so suspiciously if they were supremely confident in their proxy’s innocence like they’re attempting to make it seem.

Additionally, a senior Ukrainian official told Newsweek just the other day that his side was “shooting blind” because they “do not have the technology to find and correct targets for artillery strikes.” He later clarified that “his comment was intended to highlight the necessity of Ukraine’s Western partners continuing to provide a full complement of military equipment, and not that Ukraine was improperly identifying or striking its targets”, but it still raised eyebrows in light of what happened days later.

This slip of the tongue might have been intentional in hindsight, the purpose being to preemptively manufacture a cover-up in the event that evidence was discovered (as it later was) implicating Kiev in the strike that it carried out a couple days afterwards. This also explains why the US defense official started speculating that Kiev’s complicity in the attack could simply have been an accident. They’d rather make the HIMARS look bad in a couple headlines than take responsibility for what just occurred.

That’s unrealistic though since the HIMARS are praised for their accuracy so there’s no reason to believe that the strike was anything other than intentional. Nevertheless, this excuse might be sufficient enough to distract the Western public if Russia succeeds in convincingly making its case that Kiev was responsible. The US can just point to that senior Ukrainian official’s claim in his Newsweek interview and blame improperly trained troops for “accidentally” bombing their own imprisoned soldiers.

Despite that explanation going against everything that the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) hitherto claimed about the HIMARS’ accuracy, it’s still much more believable that Kiev’s conspiracy theory. After all, there’s no coherent explanation for why Russia and the DPR would bomb themselves to cover up alleged torture when they could very easily just silently do away with the supposed witnesses without drawing global media attention to that facility.

Returning back to the incident in question, it certainly seems to be the case that Kiev panicked that its imprisoned soldiers would soon spill the beans about the wide range of war crimes they’ve been accused of committing and therefore decided to kill them with HIMARS before they could talk. This cover-up might ultimately have been all for naught though since some might have already provided their testimony, which would mean that Kiev killed them for nothing.

Ravenlocke

1st August 2022, 20:23

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1554140954629738530
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1554145273898754051
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1554145278323736577
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Ravenlocke

1st August 2022, 20:45

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1554139966778875905
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https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1554145360204922888
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shaberon

2nd August 2022, 03:39

That is interesting to hear that even a retreat was overwhelmed and prisoners taken.

Today I made a mistake in American art history which may help de-construct what "side" it happens to be currently.

I was under the impression that St. Gaudens designed this coin:

https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/34730979_107030369_800x800.jpg

And I thought it was an honest meaning and that he had made this as some sort of dire warning:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/The_Puritan_%28Deacon_Samuel_Chapin%29_LACMA_M.91.74.jpg

The first is an error because according to the Gold Bureau (https://www.usgoldbureau.com/50-gold-american-eagle-proof-raw-1-troy-oz-gold-coin):

The reverse of the coin features Tucker-Frost's (nee Busiek) design which is the image of an eagle holding an olive branch returning to his nest.

Not only did he fail to do what I thought was the masterpiece of all coin designs, The Puritan is actually a national icon.

It is a tribute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puritan_(Springfield,_Massachusetts)):

In 1881, Chester W. Chapin, a railroad tycoon and congressman from Springfield, Massachusetts, commissioned the renowned sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a bronze likeness of his ancestor, Deacon Samuel Chapin (1595–1675), one of the early settlers of the City of Springfield.

By the time of the statue's design, no authentic portraits of Deacon Samuel Chapin were known to exist...

In 2014, Chicopee city historian Stephen Jendrysik submitted the theory that the figure's face was not a copy of the facial features of Chester Chapin, but rather a subtle tribute to abolitionist John Brown, a devout Calvinist and also a direct descendant of Deacon Chapin. Indeed Chester Chapin was a War Democrat himself, paying for the uniforms of 10th Regiment at the start of the Civil War. The immediate Chapin family also played a pivotal role in Springfield's Underground Railroad movement, including abolitionist Ethan S. Chapin, a business associate of Chester Chapin's, and proprietor of the Massasoit Hotel, a safe house believed to have housed escaped slaves beneath its staircase, which hosted Brown prior to his move to the city in the 1840s. A controversial figure whose actions escalated tensions between North and South before the start of the American Civil War...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries he remained an exceedingly infamous figure, regarded by the public both as martyr and terrorist for his raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a slave revolt. Brown was also an historic figure in Springfield as it was there that he first organized the militant underground railroad movement, the Subterranean Pass Way, and met with Douglass and Harriet Tubman among other influential abolitionist figures.

Indeed in his 2005 work, John Brown, Abolitionist, historian David S. Reynolds repeatedly describes Brown as "The Puritan," as in his own writing Brown repeatedly cited figures such as Jonathan Edwards and Oliver Cromwell as inspiration for his own actions. During the Civil War, Puritan beliefs were held as an influence of the abolitionist movement, met with admiration by Northerners, and resentment by defenders of the South for their adherence to antinomianism, regarded as a philosophy of militant individualism to carry out warfare against institutions. Congressman Samuel S. Cox, who opposed the war, went on to say that "[a]bolition is the offspring of Puritanism. Until Abolition arose, the Union was never seriously menaced; the Constitution was never endangered. Puritanism introduced the moral elements involved in slavery into politics."

Saint-Gaudens, a known admirer of Brown, remains best known for his Civil War memorial works...

In the view of the Congressman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_S._Cox):

Initially, Cox resolved to sustain the Lincoln administration "in every constitutional endeavor to put down the rebellion." However, he opposed "that abolition policy which sought to convert this holy war for the defence of the government and the union into a mere anti-slavery party war."

Allright. So that figurine is the copy of a statue of a guy that nobody knows what he looked like. But it most likely has been given a stamp of character. Here is some of the clan of the patriarch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chapin):

Samuel Chapin had many famous direct descendants, including United States Presidents Grover Cleveland and William Howard Taft, Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionists Henry Ward Beecher and John Brown, financier J.P. Morgan, poet and playwright T.S. Eliot...

He served the town as selectman, magistrate and deacon (in the Massachusetts Bay Colony there was little separation between the church and government).

John Brown was inspired by Oliver Cromwell, whom, as we have seen, is one of the most convincing personages that there is such a thing as a "deal with the devil".

Who in hell's holy house is Johnathan Edwards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Edwards_(theologian))?

Edwards owned as slaves several black children and adults during his lifetime, including a young teenager named Venus who was kidnapped in Africa and whom he purchased in 1731, a boy named Titus, and a woman named Leah. In a 1741 pamphlet, Edwards defended enslaving people who were debtors, war captives, or were born enslaved in North America, but rejected the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

However he believed in something called New Light Calvinism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_and_New_Light).

Generally, Puritans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans#Beliefs):

...believed that all of their beliefs should be based on the Bible, which they considered to be divinely inspired.

The concept of covenant was extremely important to Puritans, and covenant theology was central to their beliefs. With roots in the writings of Reformed theologians John Calvin and Heinrich Bullinger...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of people throughout Europe were accused of being witches and executed. In England and Colonial America, Puritans engaged in witch hunts as well.

Puritans believed it was the government's responsibility to enforce moral standards and ensure true religious worship was established and maintained.

In 1647, Massachusetts passed a law prohibiting any Jesuit Roman Catholic priests from entering territory under Puritan jurisdiction.

Puritanism has also been credited with the creation of modernity itself, from England's Scientific Revolution to the rise of democracy. In the early 20th century, Max Weber argued in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism that Calvinist self-denial resulted in a Protestant work ethic that led to the development of capitalism.

Oh, there we go. Western capitalism. Then you have the Pilgrims' Society. No wonder.

That was my mistake. I thought he made "The Puritan" as a way to discard repression but it seems I have it backwards. He cherishes the stuff.

Outside of itself, Abolition can be seen as a type of militancy, which may have done more harm than good.

When I viewed that Puritan figurine in person, I had probably the strongest negative reaction than to almost any other single item, ever. I took it as a warning. Apparently that was not the artists' intent, however, it may be the actual facts behind the thing.

I have no idea how influential this "pilgrims" ethos might be, since I certainly have nothing to do with it. In the current conflict, it sounds like the side I am "in" but not really "on".

shaberon

2nd August 2022, 06:28

Also on the "current side", is the Americanized (https://tass.com/world/1487767) version of a formerly fiercely independent culture, evidently replaying its 1940s complicity:

BERLIN, August 2. /TASS/. Germany keeps supplying Ukraine with most advanced weapons, including some that have not yet entered service with the German armed forces, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview to Globe and Mail.

"We delivered whatever we had: anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, mines, guns, tons of ammunition and non-lethal aid. Since then we have moved to more complex and high-value systems. Self-propelled howitzers, Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, anti-aircraft systems, counter battery radar. Some of these systems are so new that only very few have been produced and some of them have not even been introduced in the Bundeswehr," the German chancellor said.

"All of those need training for the Ukrainian crews and we are providing that as well. As we speak, Ukrainians are being trained on new and more sophisticated equipment in several locations in Germany," he added.

On June 21, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov announced that his country had received Germany’s Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers with trained Ukrainian crews. On the same day, the German government published for the first time the list of weapons transferred to Ukraine and the plan for further deliveries, which includes 30 Gepard air defense guns, IRIS-T, three Mars systems, 22 trucks and 80 pickup trucks. There are 38 items on the list of weapons and materiel already delivered, with 25 more on the list of the planned ones.

On July 27, it was announced that Germany approved deliveries of additional 100 howitzers to Ukraine.

This time, however, instead of building up the actual German gas and vehicles, it is transferred to "someone else's problem". That is called Economics. I have seen a document that enslaves all those people to it called the Constitution. Did it take a crystal ball in 1949 to see this coming? Of course not, this has all been progress as intended. And, the more "the west" depletes itself in this trial by fire, the more of a joke it is that they could project power elsewhere. Tin can full of holes.

Unfortunately, some of those jelly beans really are more dangerous than what Ukraine originally had, which is a virtual gurantee for shelling civilians, and a moderately increased risk to advancing Russian forces. Mostly it is a magnet for Ukrainian casualties.

In its daily briefing on August 1, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of two more HIMARS MRLS and a Harpoon launcher in Ukraine.

The HIMARS supplied from the United States were destroyed as a result of the strike on the Ukrainian Energy Machines plant in Kharkiv. 53 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries were also killed.

A Harpoon launcher was destroyed as a result of a missile strike near the town of Velyky Dalnik in the Odessa region.

The Russian Aerospace Forces also struck the temporary deployment point of the 92nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kharkiv outskirts. Up to 200 Ukrainian fighters were destroyed.

Thus, the number of destroyed US-HIMARS in Ukraine reached 6 systems.

6/16 there. That was in the north, roughly towards the Russian border.

And for those other beans such as the Harpoon, here we can see that Russia is mainly in the Kherson area and will have to defeat Mykolaiv to reach Odessa:

On July 31, Russian artillery struck Mykolaiv city. Oleksiy Vadatursky, a famous Ukrainian grain businessman was killed in the attack;

Russia struck military assets of the AFU in Odessa airport;

https://s2.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1august2022_Ukraine_Odessa_KryvyiRih_Map-768x423.jpg

Bill Ryan

2nd August 2022, 10:07

Two short new videos from Eva Bartlett, the first about the 'petal mines' — targeted at civilians and probably children in particular — and the second about Louise Mensch's demand that Eva should be on a Ukrainian kill list.

Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘butterfly’ mines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wJbPJv0kk

George Eliason: "LOUISE MENSCH directs a UA military hit against Journo Eva Bartlett"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNDsRQgX48Q

9ideon

2nd August 2022, 10:17

Russia should not put Zelenskyy to sleep, instead what they should do is make use of the man's psyche in order to expose all which has happened in Ukraine and beyond. Put him on tv a couple of times in where he gives detailed accounts of the perverse way the "system" works.

After all, he seems to like all the attention, he most likely would not like to die and surely we do not need a false martyr either, let him be seen to the World for the hypocrite he really is, then afterwards sent him to the Gulag.

Tintin

2nd August 2022, 13:15

Letter from Scott Ritter dated July 27th, 2022 addressed to Congress representatives and published in Consortium News, here (https://consortiumnews.com/2022/07/27/us-should-not-fund-ukrainian-blacklist/)

US Should Not Fund Ukrainian ‘Blacklist’

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Senator Charles Schumer

Leo W. O’Brien Federal Office Building

11A Clinton Avenue, Room 827

Albany, NY 12207

Senator Christine Gillibrand

Leo W. O’Brien Federal Office Building

11A Clinton Avenue, Room 821

Albany, NY 12207

Representative Paul Tonko

19 Dove Street, Unit 302

Albany, NY 12210

July 27, 2022

Dear Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and Congressman Tonko,

My name is Scott Ritter. I am a New York State resident, currently residing in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County. My family and I have lived at our current address since July 2000.

I am writing to you in your collective role as my elected representatives in the United States Congress, specifically regarding H.R. 7691, the Additional Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2022, which became Public Law 117-128 on May 21, 2022, which each of you voted in favor of.

I draw your attention to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, specifically the following language: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

By enacting Public Law 117-128, you appear to have abrogated your Constitutional responsibilities in so far as you may have, in fact, made a law which both abridges the freedom of speech and a free press by enabling the Government of Ukraine, through the use of US taxpayer dollars appropriated under Public Law 117-128, to publish a “blacklist” singling out US citizens as “Russian propagandists” for exercising their Constitutional rights pertaining to free speech and a free press.

The “blacklist” in question was published on July 14, 2022, by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, and consists of a list of politicians, academics, and activists who the Center claims promote “Russian propaganda.” Many on this list are citizens of the United States, some of whom, like me, have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

While the specific criterion used by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation for selecting persons for inclusion on this “blacklist” is not known, in my case the Ukrainian government appears to have taken umbrage against my articulation of Ukraine as a NATO base of operations, my analysis of the Bucha Massacre in early March which assigns responsibility to Ukrainian security services, and my description of the current Ukraine-Russian conflict as a “proxy conflict” being waged on behalf of the United States.

Whether one agrees with my positions on these and other matters pertaining to Ukraine is not the point; by articulating my views, I am exercising my rights under the Constitution of the United States. While the Government of Ukraine is free to express its opinions regarding my viewpoints as it sees fit, the Government of the United States, by using funds appropriated by the United States Congress, should not facilitate the actions of the Government of Ukraine in this regard.

I draw your attention to Section 507(a) of Public Law 117-128, which directs that “[f]unds made available by this title under the heading Economic Support Fund may be made available for direct financial support for the Government of Ukraine.”

Public Law 117-128 makes available $8,766,000,000 for assistance for Ukraine under the heading “Economic Support Fund.”

On July 12, 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) issued a press release in which it announced that $1.7 billion in direct budgetary aid was provided to Ukraine under Public Law 117-128, which allowed the Government of Ukraine, among other things, to pay the salaries of Ukrainian civil servants. This would logically include the salaries of the employees of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation.

As a constituent whose name has appeared on a so-called “blacklist” published by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, my personal and professional life has been, and continues to be, detrimentally impacted by the chilling effect of being labeled a “Russian propagandist” for simply exercising the right to free speech guaranteed by the United States Constitution. Moreover, Ukraine has a history of converting “blacklists” of this nature into “kill lists”, where those who speak out against the policies of the Ukrainian government are being murdered or threatened with violence. I am certain you agree with me that Congress cannot be in a position where, through its actions, foreign governments are provided the means to intimidate citizens of the United States from exercising their Constitutionally protected rights regarding free speech.

As such, I respectfully request that each of you investigate what role, if any, funds authorized by you under Public Law 117-128, have been used to underwrite the actions of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, and more specifically, if any funds appropriated under Public Law 117-128 have been used to pay the salaries of Ukrainian civil servants employed by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation involved in the preparation and dissemination of this so-called “blacklist”.

Under Section 507(d) of Public Law 117-128, Congress directs that “[t]he Secretary of State or the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, as appropriate, shall report to the appropriate congressional committees on the uses of any funds provided for direct financial support to the Government of Ukraine pursuant to subsection (a) and the results achieved, not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act and every 90 days thereafter until September 30, 2025,” and that such a report “shall also include the metrics established to measure such results.”

I request that each of you become personally involved in preparing the appropriate questions to be asked of either the Secretary of State or the Administrator of USAID when they next appear before Congress to carry out their mandated reports regarding the use of funds provided for the direct financial support of the Government of Ukraine. The specific metric of interest here is whether any of these funds were used to pay the salaries of civil servants employed by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation involved in the preparation and dissemination of the aforementioned “blacklist”.

If funds were, in fact, used in this manner, I would respectfully request that you, in your status as my elected representatives to the United States Congress, take the appropriate action necessary to ensure that funds appropriated by the United States Congress are not used to suppress the free speech rights afforded to citizens of the United States, including myself, by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Moreover, I would insist that you take the appropriate action to guarantee that the Government of Ukraine immediately cease and desist in all activity designed to threaten and intimidate citizens of the United States. You are duty bound to protect the interests of the United States and its citizens rather than facilitate the actions of a foreign power that are, by design, intended to accomplish just the opposite.

Congress cannot be allowed to bypass Constitutionally imposed constraints on its actions by allowing a foreign government to do that which would not be permitted here in the United States. By paying the salaries of the civil servants employed by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation, who have prepared and disseminated the so-called “blacklist”, you and your fellow Senators and Representatives appear to be doing just that—allowing the Government of Ukraine to suppress the right of free speech guaranteed to United States citizens under the Constitution.

I look forward to hearing back from each of you as to how you propose to proceed in this matter.

Sincerely,

Scott Ritter

Tintin

2nd August 2022, 14:47

George Eliason: "LOUISE MENSCH directs a UA military hit against Journo Eva Bartlett"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNDsRQgX48Q

That's a really helpful video outlining the Tallinn Manual there - many thanks :thumbsup:

It effectively draws a direct parallel between online terrorism and offline terrorism within the manual's guidelines.

More about that here: https://ccdcoe.org/research/tallinn-manual/

The manual is also available via Academia.edu (https://www.academia.edu/74844551/Tallinn_Manual_2_0_on_the_International_Law_Applicable_to_Cyber_Operations)

Link: https://www.academia.edu/74844551/Tallinn_Manual_2_0_on_the_International_Law_Applicable_to_Cyber_Operations

Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 15:38

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1554480793661186050?s=20&t=PAKUBnVHO9a9nah5_si_nQ

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-mines-missiles-warcrimes-and-a-warning-to-zelenski.html

Ukraine - Mines, Missiles, Warcrimes And A Warning To Zelenski

August 02, 2022

Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine in a relatively slow manner.

Its military is tasked with the 'demilitarization' and 'denazification' of Ukraine. This task does not require large movements of the front line as the Ukrainian government continues to send fresh troops and nazis units towards the front line with the Russians. There the Russians reliably maul them without taking significant casualties on their own side.

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The Ukrainian government and its military continue to commit war crimes.

Since a few days the Ukraine is firing missiles with thousands of anti-personal mines into Donetsk city and other population centers in the east. These are not powerful enough to kill but are designed to maim anyone who steps on them or tries to pick them up.

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On July 29 two HIMARS missiles were fired onto a prison camp in Olenivka (also written Elenovka), some 30 kilometers south of Donetsk city. They hit the barracks that housed Azov nazi fighters who had been caught in Mariupol. Fifty of those died and some 70 were wounded in the missile attack. Ukraine denied that it had launched the missiles and accused the Russians of willfully killing the prisoners.

However Russia does not need to fire missiles or bomb barracks to kill prisoners it already holds. It can simply take them out of of their barracks and hang or shoot them. It also would not wound 70 people it now must additionally care for.

Via Politico U.S. officials are covering for the Ukraine:

American-made rocket launchers not used in Ukraine prison strike, U.S. assesses

The U.S. has assessed that Ukraine did not attack a prison in a Russian-occupied eastern region of Donetsk with American-made rocket launchers last week, directly contradicting Russian claims, according to two U.S. officials.
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However, no traces of the U.S.-provided weapons were found at the site, according to two U.S. officials with knowledge of the assessment, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.
“We know Ukraine didn’t attack the site with HIMARS because the site doesn’t have the indications it would have if it was hit with HIMARS,” one of the officials said.

While one of the officials stopped short of saying Ukraine was not responsible for the strike, the other official said the evidence showed the attack was not conducted by Kyiv. Satellite photos of the site released by Maxar Technologies on July 30 appear to show damage only to the section of the detention center housing Ukrainian prisoners, with no collateral damage to surrounding buildings.

The warheads of the shorter range HIMARS missiles have 91 kilogram (200 pound) warheads. That is a relative little amount of explosives. HIMARS hits are precise and do not create wide ranging collateral damage. That is there whole point.

The claim that 'no traces of the U.S.-provided weapons were found at the site' is also definitely false. Several TV teams have visited the side and filmed the collected debris on the same day the incident had happened during the early morning hours. The diameter of these rocket motor parts fits to HIMARS missiles. Other filmed debris showed typical fragments of the HIMARS missile war head.

It was the Ukraine, and especially its dubious leaders, who had an interest in killing the Azov prisoners. These had started to talk with Russian interviewers and were revealing war crimes for which the leadership in Ukraine is directly responsible.

On July 28 the Russians published a video of an interview with Azov nazi soldier Dmytro Kozatsky, call sign Orest, who directly accused Zelenski advisor Arestovich of ordering the killing of Russian soldiers who had been taken prisoners.

Kozatsky was running the public relation side for his Azov unit. Even before the war started, Kozatsky says, Arestovich was preparing an information campaign with shock videos that were supposed to show the torture and killing of Russian soldiers taken prisoners. Kozatsky received such an order and passed it on. He later noted that such shock videos were indeed made and published on social media sides.

That witness statement is enough to put Arestovich into jail for a very long time. He responded by sending HIMARS missiles to kill the prisoners which were taking to the Russians and accusing him.

Publishing videos of the torturing and killing of Russian prisoners was supposed to deter Russian soldiers from further fighting in the war. This tactic was also used in the 1940s by the Ukrainian nazi collaborators of the OUN. It had the opposite effect of what it was supposed to do. The Russian were enraged about those films and photographs and fought even harder.

Today the Russian defense ministry accused Washington of being behind the missile attacks:

Russian Defence Ministry has recorded and is taking into account for the future an official admission by General Skibitsky, deputy head of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, that Washington directly coordinates each target for Kiev before strikes from US-made HIMARS MLRS.
Speaking to The Telegraph's British journalists, Skibitsky admitted that "before rocket launches, there are consultations between intelligence officials from both countries, which allow Washington to stop any potential attacks if they were unhappy with the intended target".

All this undeniably proves that Washington, contrary to White House and Pentagon claims, is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine.

It is Biden administration that is directly responsible for all Kiev-approved rocket attacks on residential areas and civilian infrastructure in populated areas of Donbas and other regions, which have resulted in mass deaths of civilians.

No one else in Ukraine or in the world should have any doubts that the strikes by HIMARS rockets on Novaya Kakhovka on July 12, on Stakhanov on July 17, on Krasniy Luch on July 24, dozens of strikes on Donetsk and, of course, the July 29 strike on the detention facility in Elenovka, which killed 50 and injured 73 Ukrainian POWs, were planned by Zelensky regime and approved by Washington.

Political, criminal and moral responsibility for the Elenovka massacre and other war crimes in Ukraine, along with Zelensky, lies directly with Biden administration.

The relevant Telegraph piece was published yesterday:

Britain helps Ukraine hunt for Russian spies eyeing Western military aid

Asked how the US-provided Himars multiple-launch rocket systems have so precisely targeted Russian fuel and ammunition depots, as well as battlefield headquarters in eastern Ukraine, Gen Skibitsky said “in this case in particular, we use real-time information”.
US officials are not providing direct targeting information, which would potentially undermine their case for not being direct participants in the war, Gen Skibitsky said.

However, he suggested there was a level of consultation between intelligence officials of both countries prior to launching missiles that would allow Washington to stop any potential attacks if they were unhappy with the intended target.

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Someone in the Biden administration told New York Time columnist Thomas Friedman to fire a warning shot against the Ukrainian president Zelenski.

He does so today in a column that warns about Pelosi's trip to Taiwan.

Why Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Is Utterly Reckless

Dear reader: The Ukraine war is not over. And privately, U.S. officials are a lot more concerned about Ukraine’s leadership than they are letting on. There is deep mistrust between the White House and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky — considerably more than has been reported.
And there is funny business going on in Kyiv. On July 17, Zelensky fired his country’s prosecutor general and the leader of its domestic intelligence agency — the most significant shake-up in his government since the Russian invasion in February. It would be the equivalent of Biden firing Merrick Garland and Bill Burns on the same day. But I have still not seen any reporting that convincingly explains what that was all about. It is as if we don’t want to look too closely under the hood in Kyiv for fear of what corruption or antics we might see, when we have invested so much there. (More on the dangers of that another day.)
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In short, this Ukraine war is SO not over, SO not stable, SO not without dangerous surprises that can pop out on any given day. Yet in the middle of all of this we are going to risk a conflict with China over Taiwan, provoked by an arbitrary and frivolous visit by the speaker of the House?

It is Geopolitics 101 that you don’t court a two-front war with the other two superpowers at the same time.

As long as the U.S. keeps financing Zelenski he will continue to rule as he sees fit while also growing his already considerable nest egg.

Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 15:41

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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 15:50

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Patrick Lancaster also receiving threats, this one via Facebook

https://twitter.com/SweeneySteve/status/1554439616668786690
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https://twitter.com/PLnewstoday/status/1554422730426138627
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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 16:26

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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 16:37

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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 16:44

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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 16:48

Reported July 27

https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1552271702838706176
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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 21:33

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1554330324267679744
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Helpful note from Bill:
This is a very wide ranging and globally focused conversation, but for those readers specifically interested in Ukraine, that section begins at 54:20.
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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 21:53

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Ravenlocke

2nd August 2022, 22:03

https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1554136162352119808
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https://twitter.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1554563906902888450
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Kiev forcefully evacuating civilians from areas it controls: DPR

Leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, said on Monday that Ukraine is applying a forceful evacuation of the population from the territories in the DPR was underway.

In an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel, Pushilin said that the evacuation is intended to “delegitimize” the referendum that the separatist authorities plan to hold after supposedly liberating the entirety of the territory.

"What does [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky want? After these settlements are liberated, he will say: ‘There were no people there, what kind of referendum you are speaking about?’ It is a kind of preparatory work," he said to Rossiya-24.

Read more: Zelensky orders mandatory evacuation of Donetsk

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Tuesday via Telegram, "The mandatory evacuation from the Donetsk region has started. The first train arrived in Kropyvnytskyi on Tuesday morning carrying women, children, elderly and disabled people. We received and accommodated all of them."

According to the Ukrainian authorities, the Ukrainian government plans to evacuate about 220,000 people before the start of winter. An evacuation task force has been set up to manage departures.

“Those who have decided to evacuate should call the administration (…), people will come to pick them up and transport them to the place of evacuation,” Vereshchuk said.

Responding to people who did not wish to leave their homes, Vereshchuk said “that (the decision) is their personal responsibility, but I repeat, there will be no gas, heating, and electricity."

ExomatrixTV

2nd August 2022, 23:42

Zelensky 'Not All He's Portrayed As' By Western Media: Bernardi

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Goba

3rd August 2022, 03:31

XelNaga

3rd August 2022, 06:38

pounamuknight

3rd August 2022, 06:46

Cheers for the Professor Timothy Snyder article, Goba. It was entertaining

Snyder is one of those mainstream pundits that calls Russia a dictatorship. He has about as much insight as a CNN tweet, on which he's a frequent mouthpiece about all things imperial

https://twitter.com/timothydsnyder/status/1497417265465151490
Oh yeah, the guy's also a sitting member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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9ideon

3rd August 2022, 07:09

9ideon

3rd August 2022, 07:58

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Tintin

3rd August 2022, 08:23

Cheers for the Professor Timothy Snyder article, Goba. It was entertaining

Snyder is one of those mainstream punters that calls Russia a dictatorship. He has about as much insight as a CNN tweet, on which he's a frequent mouthpiece about all things imperial

https://twitter.com/timothydsnyder/status/1497417265465151490
Oh yeah, the guy's also a sitting member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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He certainly is, along with quite a few others.

The screenshot above may be what a smartphone user sees when accessing the CFR site here: https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster

The 25 page pdf of the sitting membership which includes Snyder (page 21) can be viewed and downloaded from here: https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/FY17%20Membership%20Roster.pdf

Tintin

3rd August 2022, 09:35

Eva Bartlett's in-depth write-up following her coverage of the Yelenovka atrocity:

Link: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/who-killed-the-pows-at-yelenovka-all-signs-on-the-ground-point-to-a-ukrainian-attack/

Who killed the POWs at Yelenovka? All signs on the ground point to a Ukrainian attack by Eva K Bartlett

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There is every reason to believe that the July 29 bombing of a detention center holding Ukrainian POWs was carried out on Kiev’s orders

Aug 2, 2022, RT.com

It was extremely difficult to witness the charred and twisted remains of Ukrainian POWs in the Yelenovka detention center at first hand. The stench of death was overwhelming. Bodies remained in the ruins and melted into the metal bunk beds they were on at the time of the bombing.

Other corpses, presumably killed by shrapnel instead of burning to death, lay outside. A soldier was inspecting them, presumably in order to determine the exact cause, and the victims’ identities. Even if the Ukrainian side killed its own soldiers, it was the Russians who took care to identify the remains.

I shared some of the gruesome photos and my thoughts on Twitter immediately after getting back from Yelenovka.

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The next morning, I went around Donetsk to document the extremely dangerous “petal” mines Ukraine has dropped on the city. According to DPR Emergency Services, eight civilians had been killed by these mines just the day before. If you step on one of these tiny-but powerful-explosives, chances it will merely tear off a leg instead of outright killing you. And they are insidiously toy-like in appearance, likely to attract children’s attention.

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Who benefits from the war crime at Yelenovka?

Ukraine and Western media, as would be expected, blame Russia for the bombing of Yelenovka detention center, which killed 53 people. Russia and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), in turn, point the finger at Kiev.

In addition to those killed, the 2am bombing, which DPR officials say was carried out using American-supplied HIMARS, injured at least eight employees and over 70 POWs held there. The prisoners were captured Ukrainian combatants, mainly members of the Azov neo-Nazi militia who’d surrendered in Mariupol in May.

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If HIMARS, or High-Mobility Artillery Rocket System, were indeed the source of the destruction and death, then it is almost certain it was Ukraine who bombed the prison, given that Kiev had the coordinates and is the only side in the conflict that possesses such weapons. Even the Pentagon admits it is possible (https://ria-ru.turbopages.org/ria.ru/s/20220729/udar-1806000659.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=mobile&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fyandex.ru%2Fnews%2Fstory%2FPentagon_nazval_neprednamerennym_udar_VSU_izHI MARS_poSIZO_vElenovke--18cafa0693e1ccd3c3e59a1352314477), albeit characterizing the strike as “unintentional.”

From a logical perspective, Russia had no motivation to bomb the prison. For Ukraine, on the other hand, these POWs represented a liability, in that they could testify to the alleged war crimes they committed against Donbass civilians.

Ukraine has made a litany of claims meant to incriminate Russia throughout the current conflict – the Bucha (https://t.me/waronfakesen/66) massacre, the strike (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/115) on the Mariupol maternity hospital, the Ghost of Kiev hoax (https://t.me/mod_russia_en/115), the supposed mass graves (https://www.rt.com/russia/554617-mass-grave-mariupol-ukraine/) of civilians, the outlandish false allegations of Russian soldiers committing sexual crimes, which even saw the former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights fired by Kiev’s own parliament.

Russia has invited the UN and the International Red Cross to investigate the Yelenovka prison bombing. Meanwhile, observers online have used the publicly available data to put together a picture of what occurred. Here’s an insightful analysis from the Rybar Telegram channel (with more than 627,000 followers), specializing in military analytics:

“The eastern part of the building suffered the most damage, where a powerful fire and explosion occurred, which blew out the windows.” Judging by the angle of impact, the analyst concludes that “the shooting was carried out from the trajectory of Marinka-Kurakhovo –the Sergeevka triangle– Pokrovsk-Udachnoe.” This is Ukrainian-controlled territory. The analysis could not conclude whether HIMARS was used, from the information at hand.

Along the ‘who benefits?’ line of thinking, a number of circumstances also point to Kiev. These have also been pointed out by Russian observers and compiled into a chronology. The captured Azov Nazis were taken to the Yelenovka detention center in late May (https://t.me/milchronicles/530).

While prisoner exchanges between Ukraine and Russia have included Azov fighters, there is a strong opposition to handing them back over to Kiev, meaning that there’s no guarantee that they would be exchanged in the future – potentially making them a liability to Kiev. By June 20 reports (https://t.me/kremlinprachka/19615) of Ukraine shelling the prison already appeared on Russian channels watching the conflict. On July 28 the confession of an Azov member (https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/7956) emerged, claiming that neo-Nazis in Kharkov and Kiev had direct orders from Zelensky’s office to torture and murder Russian prisoners of war. Late that night/early next morning, Ukraine struck the very detention center holding the Azov member who confessed, as well as others who might have done so.

Elsewhere, other neo-Nazis in captivity have confessed (https://t.me/swodki/140089) to deliberately murdering civilians, a PR disaster for Ukraine, made worse were the prisoners in Yelenovka to follow suit.

Last but not least, just two days before the Yelenovka strike, the US Senate passed a resolution (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-resolution/623/text) urging the State Department to recognize Russia as a “sponsor of terrorism.” By perpetrating an attack and blaming it on Moscow, Kiev could be aiming to push that decision through – even though the State Department is reportedly reluctant.

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Given Ukraine’s multiple attempts to incriminate Russia, and eight years of bombing Donbass civilians, killing their own soldiers is not too far-fetched. In fact, surrendered Ukrainian soldiers have claimed their commanders threatened to shoot (https://iz.ru/1340246/2022-05-26/sdavshiesia-v-plen-ukrainskie-voennye-rasskazali-o-zagradotriadakh-v-vsu) them if they attempted desertion, and indeed Ukrainian nationalists firing on them (https://t.me/boris_rozhin/53618) when they attempted to surrender, in one case killing or wounding dozens .

It is left to Russian and DPR doctors to preserve the lives of Ukrainian POWs – even those apparently injured by friendly fire. Outside a Donetsk hospital after the Yelenovka bombing, one of the doctors working on wounded Ukrainians said that five had already had successful surgery for their shrapnel wounds, and two more were to undergo operations.

“It doesn’t matter which side you’re on, we will help you,” he said.

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The ghastly scenes of charred flesh and shrapnel-studded bodies I saw at the prison will remain etched in my mind for a long time. Yes, war is ugly, but Ukraine is upping the ante when it comes to both war crimes and hypocrisy.

Tintin

3rd August 2022, 11:09

"Bartlett is recording what must be seen if the US/UK-generated perpetual war is ever to come to an end. She is risking her life to provide the horrific insights into these wars and the crimes committed by those who violate the Geneva Convention with impunity because they are protected by NATO member states and are carrying out their orders.

Mensch is not only enabling these crimes and effectively the mutilation of civilians, she is calling for the hunting down of Bartlett by the SSO headquartered in Kyiv. The SSO duties include direct action, special reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, sabotage, psychological warfare. (Wikipedia)". - Vanessa Beeley

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Twitter facilitates cyber terrorism and NATO-proxy war crimes in Ukraine
Twitter allows blogger to doxx independent journalist on the ground in war zone

Source: https://beeley.substack.com/p/twitter-facilitates-cyber-terrorism

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Highlights from the article:

‘In 2005, Ukraine ratified the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel mines. Thus, Kyiv violates its international obligations.’

These Lepestok cluster mines are banned under international humanitarian law and their use is deemed a war crime under the Geneva Convention.

Mensch chose to trigger the greatest threat to Bartlett’s life and Twitter chose to facilitate this terrorism linked to Nazism and Ultra-nationalism in Ukraine. I take this personally, not only because of my long time friendship with Eva but because the media sphere is rapidly becoming a very dangerous one for any independent journalist who is putting their lives on the line to report in high risk, high profile war zones.

Soon the greatest risk will not be from the falling missiles or sniper bullets but from the concerted efforts of the NATO ‘disinformation’ clusters and their associated intelligence and military agencies who will carry out disappearances and assassinations at the behest of their line managers in the respective state departments and foreign offices.

Tintin

3rd August 2022, 11:36

Maria Zakharova press briefing, August 2nd, 2022. I've added occasional emphases:

Link: https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1824782/#4

On the situation in Donbass and Ukraine

First of all, I would like to welcome the beginning of the implementation of the results achieved on July 22 of this year. in Istanbul " food arrangements ". On August 1 this year, the first ship (loaded with corn) under the flag of Sierra Leone left the port of Odessa , which headed for Lebanon. We expect that Kyiv will fulfill its obligations to ensure the safety of ships in the Black Sea ports and territorial waters of Ukraine. At the same time, for a full-fledged solution to the food problem, it is necessary that the Western countries provide conditions for access to the world markets of Russian fertilizers and food, that is, remove the financial and logistical obstacles caused by the anti-Russian restrictions they have introduced.

This is exactly what is publicly and loudly demanded, for example, by the countries of Africa, which are so "cared for" in the West (primarily in Washington). Africans say that Western countries are creating the food problem with their own hands by blocking payments, transport logistics, and then telling stories that the world is in danger of starvation.

One gets the impression that the “Western mainstream” media have already become so far removed from normal objective work, having become a propaganda tool for liberal regimes, that these same regimes no longer receive reliable information from other regions of the world about what is happening in the international arena. In the West, apparently, they do not hear (they do not show on TV) what leaders and professionals say about the food problem in African countries. They perfectly understand who is behind the aggravation of the situation.

The elimination of financial and logistical obstacles is provided for by the bilateral Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on promoting the promotion of Russian food products and fertilizers to world markets. The agreements reached in Istanbul are of a package nature. This term is used by the UN Secretary General A. Guterres. In this regard, we warn against attempts to “wind up” or not complete the second part of the package. Otherwise, due to the irresponsible policy of the West, the world may not receive tens of millions of tons of Russian grain. No matter how hard the "Western mainstream" media tries, in the food recipient countries they understand who is behind the creation of obstacles to the delivery of food.

Meanwhile, a special military operation continues in Ukraine . Despite the support of the Kyiv regime by Western countries, we are consistently achieving its goals and objectives aimed at protecting the civilian population of the DPR and LPR, the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, and the elimination of threats to Russia's security.

Peaceful life is already being established in the liberated Luhansk and Kherson regions and the territories of the DPR, Kharkov and Zaporozhye regions recaptured from neo-Nazis, industry, agriculture, and social infrastructure are starting to work. A master plan has been developed for the complete restoration of Mariupol over the next three years. This year, work will be carried out at 90 social facilities.

The activities of law enforcement and judicial bodies do not stop - those guilty of committing crimes against the civilian population of Donbass will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, and not by primitive cave methods, which do not deliver justice (not even lynching), but an outburst of hatred and aggression in the territories controlled by the Kyiv regime. You have seen terrible footage of people being tied to poles, doused with some kind of chemicals, beaten (including women, old people and children) simply because it seemed to someone that they were “not loyally committed” to the Kyiv regime. No provocations by Kyiv can interfere with the normalization of life in these territories.

Four days ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed another war crime by launching a missile strike from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system at the pre- trial detention center in Yelenovka (https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12431042@egNews) . The missile hit the building where the militants of the Azov gang were kept, who surrendered in May of this year. at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

Why did the Kyiv regime strike at the pre-trial detention center where Ukrainian prisoners of war were kept? Because they began to testify, talk about their atrocities against the civilian population of Donbass, began to reveal facts (with numbers, dates, geographic reference).

These prisoners of war now threaten the regime of V.A. Zelensky by becoming living witnesses of crimes. What the last four or five months have been shouting from Kyiv, Western "partners", the liberal public all over the world: "What kind of Nazis are there", "there is no one there", "no crimes motivated by xenophobia have ever been committed."

Now, the militants withdrawn from Azovstal have provided evidence of what they were doing (not independently, but as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine). Such dangerous, from the point of view of the Kyiv regime, witnesses were to be destroyed. Therefore, they simply pressed the "start" button and fired a shot from American weapons at their own informational tips. Everything is so cynical and simple, but at the same time it is absolutely in the style of Western philosophy - to destroy those who only yesterday served faithfully, swore allegiance, carried out criminal orders, believing that they are correct and in line with the national interests of Ukraine.

Was it different in other parts of the world? Consider the Middle East. All American proteges sooner or later were either betrayed by Washington or destroyed. W. bin Laden was raised in the West, received education and support. Newspapers wrote about him, saying that he was a man who had chosen the path of democracy. Then he became an enemy and was destroyed to the applause of Washington. In the same way, the United States is dealing with everyone who was previously made "guides" of its will. Meanness and hypocrisy are the essence of the current Western mentality.

As a result of the strike on the pre-trial detention center, more than 50 of the surrendered members of the gangs who left Azovstal were killed. It is obvious that the Ukrainian authorities and their Western curators were afraid that the “Azovites” would reveal the truth, terrible, from the point of view of public opinion, for the regime of V.A. Western weapons. The militants began to give detailed testimonies about the "technological process": how they were recruited, where they trained, what goals they set, what weapons they supplied, who gave orders. As soon as the “guys” opened their mouths, the Kyiv regime closed it to them, despite the fact that they were militants who swore allegiance to Kyiv. The height of cynicism was that, despite irrefutable evidence,

We call on the international community to give a principled and objective assessment of the crime committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Yelenovka. I saw "surprising" reports of representatives of international organizations. They were asked by journalists how they assess what is happening and directly these events. They answered that they did not have first-hand information. What information did the international officials have about Bucha, Kramatorsk? Whose "first hands" do they consider worthy to bring materials for commentary? I wanted to get a list of first-hand sources of information. In other cases, nothing prevents them from quoting unverified data from social networks, or citing materials from non-governmental organizations. In this case, there are more than enough of them, but for some reason they are not included in the notorious “first-hand” category. Amazing balancing act.

We hope that the specialized structures of the UN and the experts of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which in May of this year. contributed to the evacuation of civilians from the dungeons of Azovstal, will not shy away from our invitation to take part in studying the situation.

We look forward to fruitful cooperation with representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross in providing information on the conditions of detention of Russian, DPR and LPR servicemen in Ukrainian captivity. We are still facing what used to be called “double standards”. Now we are talking not just about "double standards", but about criminal negligence in covering and evaluating current events. Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross demand that they be granted access in Russia to places of detention of Ukrainian prisoners of war and surrendered members of Ukrainian nationalist formations, especially from the Azov unit, but at the same time they are silent about the results of their work in relation to the military personnel of Russia, the DPR and the LPR who are in captivity .

The crimes of the Kyiv regime are not limited to the destruction of former colleagues in Yelenovka. Shelling of peaceful cities and towns of the DPR, LPR and liberated regions of Ukraine from artillery pieces of 155 and 120 mm caliber, as well as multiple launch rocket systems and the Tochka-U missile system, continues.

Last week, the center of Donetsk, Makiivka and Novolugansky were shelled with prohibited anti-personnel mines "Lepestok". I saw this information in the Russian media, social networks. Questions were also raised, where are the Western journalists? Where are the very specialized Western non-governmental organizations that oppose the use of such weapons? They are silent and "do not see." Again, no first-hand information? Here she is. We talk about it.

In the Zaporozhye region, granaries in the settlement of Zaporozhye were repeatedly shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine Energodar and Kamenka-Dneprovskaya. We regret that Western countries and international structures again do not notice this and do not give any assessment to the Ukrainian shelling. Or food is not right? Not those granaries? There are "correct" ones that cannot be touched. For example, in the port of Odessa - "correct" and should not fall under shelling, and on the territory of the DPR - "not quite correct." Another variety? Did other people grow? Why isn't anyone talking about this?

We paid attention to the new "holiday" proclaimed by the Kyiv regime, July 28 - the day of the statehood of Ukraine, which President V.A. Zelensky called "a free, sovereign and independent state, the only legitimate heir of Kievan Rus." It seems like everything is mixed up there. Soon they will dedicate each other to the princes, dignify the lords - some kind of obscurantism.

As Sergey Lavrov wrote in his article in the Izvestiya newspaper, staging is a favorite method of Western politics. It is ridiculous to do it this way, when all states (not only Slavic ones) understand how absurd such statements are. Much has been said about the blatant falsification of history by the Ukrainian authorities, about who the heir of the current neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv really is. Why go far? Look at the patches of some Ukrainian fighters. Do you know whose real and legal heirs they are? Answer: those whose stripes are worn on the sleeves of the Azov Battalion are Nazis. Everyone is well aware of this. Leave Kievan Rus alone, don't touch it with your dirty, bloody hands.

There is no doubt how "free and independent" modern Ukraine is. This country has not just lost its sovereignty. The Kyiv rulers did not even sell it or mortgaged it (there would be some kind of income), they squandered it - this is a correct and understandable term for everyone. There is no freedom of speech. Completely fell under Western bondage. For many years Ukraine has been under the external control of Western countries. What kind of freedom, sovereignty and independence, when the government of Ukraine was not just present as advisers, but the country was ruled by citizens of other countries who do not even speak their native Ukrainian language? They sat with translators with passports of other states, having no connection to the modern statehood of Ukraine. Were "landed" for external control. What kind of freedom, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine to talk about, if all the subsoil, wealth - everything that is in this country is placed under the external control of Western businessmen, corporations, companies or people who have the closest lobbying ties with the American political establishment. Show freedom. Even outward signs are gone: there is no independent media, no alternative opposition parties, no one who could freely and openly publish their opinion on what is happening in this country. Many were simply killed. Even the official negotiator was killed on the streets of Kyiv practically without trial or investigation, "during the arrest." Is this some kind of perverted understanding of fundamental principles? The fact that the Parliament of Ukraine adopted a bill on the special status of the Poles, which equalizes their rights with Ukrainian citizens, speaks for itself.

For many years, Ukraine has been under the external control of the West, and he uses it in his geopolitical interests as a tool in the fight against Russia. This is what happened to the state, which for the first time in its history gained sovereignty and independence.

Against this background, Russia's accusations of intending to destroy the statehood of Ukraine sound extremely cynical. The Kyiv regime itself has been doing this for a long time. It was the West that destroyed it in its own interests, so that it would be easier to manage the mechanism created to counter Russia. Ukraine was turned into a neo-Nazi state dependent on the West. Why neo-Nazi? Because it is the easiest way to recruit and recruit people. There is nothing easier than explaining to people why they should hate their neighbors. Simply because they have a different eye color, nose or ear shape, or deep in history, someone did not share something with someone. So did many. In this case, we see that this happens in turbo mode: everything takes not decades, but years. Before our eyes, the state has turned into a terrible, falling apart mechanism, stuffed with neo-Nazi.

This once again confirms the correctness of the goals and objectives of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine, protect the DPR and LPR and eliminate threats to Russia's security. The leadership of our country has repeatedly spoken about this.

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 13:47

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Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 13:56

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Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 14:03

In Moscow the online store OZON warehouse is on fire

https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1554815553335971840
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Bill Ryan

3rd August 2022, 14:23

Kiev forcefully evacuating civilians from areas it controls: DPR

Leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, said on Monday that Ukraine is applying a forceful evacuation of the population from the territories in the DPR was underway. There's quite some discussion of this by The Duran in this short (16 min) video, just published.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Nlc63zV6w

My own view: the Russians may not be able to stop this from happening in any meaningful way, but all that will ensue is a high-level strategic decision to occupy all of Ukraine. If this was being debated in Moscow before, with differing opinions being offered, the debate may now be over.

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 14:35

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Tintin

3rd August 2022, 14:37

The paywalled Telegraph article containing the admission that Washington (and I'd suggest London too) driving the Ukrainian war strategy.

Source: https://archive.ph/5lLqp

Britain helps Ukraine hunt for Russian spies eyeing Western military aid

Destroying military aid flowing into Ukraine from the West is ‘goal number one for Russian agents’, according to Ukraine military

By Dominic Nicholls,
DEFENCE AND SECURITY EDITOR
1 August 2022 • 6:00pm

https://archive.ph/5lLqp/2a4009b2d5ad8ad8c19b5718294c4fdb3990a352.webp
Ukrainian forces have been using US-supplied Himars multiple rocket launcher systems in Ukraine CREDIT: Shutterstock

Britain is helping Ukraine hunt Russian spies targeting Western-supplied weapons, the acting deputy head of Kyiv’s military intelligence has said.

Finding and destroying military aid flowing into Ukraine from Western countries is “goal number one for Russian agents”, according to Major General Vadym Skibitsky.
Long-range artillery pieces, such as the US-supplied Himars system, have brought Moscow’s advance almost to a halt and in recent days have rendered bridges in the Kherson region impassable to Russian vehicles, cutting off troops as Ukraine prepares a counter offensive.

Western officials believe Moscow has instructed intelligence agents, possibly including spies from the GRU’s Unit 29155 – deemed responsible for the 2018 Salisbury nerve agent attack and other attempted assassinations – to find the weapons donated by Western partners.

Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph from Kyiv’s heavily fortified government security district, Gen Skibitsky said tracking down the Russian spies searching for the supply lines was “impossible” without help from Britain and other international partners.

“As far as military intelligence is concerned [Britain and the US have provided] almost everything from information to equipment.”

Gen Skibitsky gave no specific details of the support Britain is providing, but said the assistance was “minute-to-minute, real-time information [of] all kinds”.

A significant portion of the lethal aid flowing into Ukraine is originally flown into the Rzeszów-Jasionka airfield in Poland, close to the border.

Russian agents thought to be operating near the airfield are suspected of tracking military flights, passing information to colleagues in Ukraine. It is thought these operators then follow the weapon transfers to find the storage sites.

These locations are then targeted for destruction by Russian long-range weapons such as Kalibr cruise missiles fired from submarines in the Black Sea.

(article continues (https://archive.ph/5lLqp)...)

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 14:38

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Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 14:59

https://www.rt.com/russia/560107-zelensky-ukraine-donbass-hell/

Donbass fighting is ‘hell’ – Zelensky

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Tuesday that the fighting in Donbass was “hell,” claiming that Kiev’s military remained heavily outgunned and even outnumbered by Russia and appealing to the US and its allies for even more weapons such as the HIMARS rocket launchers.

In a five-minute address to Ukrainians, Zelensky thanked US President Joe Biden and NATO for sending the rocket artillery, calling it “very effective” and vowing to inflict “more painful losses” on the Russians, whom he described as a “horde” of invaders.

“The word ‘HIMARS’ has become almost synonymous with the word ‘justice’ for our country,” Zelensky said.

The US has sent 16 of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Ukraine so far. Russia said it had destroyed four of them, though Ukraine and the Pentagon have denied this. Zelensky added that he was expecting even more weapons from the West and thanked the Ukrainian diplomats trying to arrange for additional shipments.

“Yet we are unable to break the Russian army’s advantage in artillery and manpower, and this is very much felt in the fighting, especially in Donbass. Peski, Avdeevka, other directions … It’s just hell there. It cannot even be described in words,” the Ukrainian president added.

The myth of the HIMARS 'game changer': American-supplied rocket system is effective, but it won't bring victory to Ukraine
The myth of the HIMARS 'game changer': American-supplied rocket system is effective, but it won't bring victory to Ukraine
The two towns near Donetsk, heavily fortified since 2015, have seen heavy fighting over the past week. On Tuesday, Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov, embedded with the military in Donbass, posted an expletive-laden report from Peski calling it a “meat grinder.” Butusov infamously filmed himself firing a cannon on the Donbass “separatists” last year.

“There is no counter-battery fire, none at all,” he wrote on Tuesday. Russian forces were firing “6,500 shells per f****g village in less than 24 hours. It’s been like this for six days now, and it’s hard to fathom how any number of our infantry remain alive under this barrage.”

Ukrainian troops were holding the line, Butusov claimed, but “without counter-battery fighting, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where huge numbers of our infantry are chewed up in one day.” According to Butusov, a reserve platoon that tried to advance was taken apart in minutes, with only one out of 15 men left unharmed.

“All the reserves are spent, the military equipment goes up in flames, and the enemy approaches and takes our positions without any problems after another barrage of artillery,” he wrote. “Right now we are losing Péski, all our human and material capabilities are almost exhausted.”

While Zelensky did not go into this much detail, he did say that of the 167 service members he was decorating this week, 32 would get their awards posthumously.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state. The protocols, brokered by Germany and France, were first signed in 2014. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.”

In February 2022, the Kremlin recognized the Donbass republics as independent states and demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join any Western military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked.

Oxygen

3rd August 2022, 15:00

Russia is losing. I mean in a greater sense it has already lost but in a military sense - it will also loose. No amount of morally corrupt support for the aggressor will change that. It so funny to see how people who are posed against american wars of aggression then think if someone else starts to kill and maim its for the good.

Why will Ukraine win (in all likelihood - nobody can be sure right now) you can read here:

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-russo-ukrainian

Did you think for yourself or just assume he’s right about everything?

Time…. When did Russia ever say anything about time? Please show me. I’m not saying they didn’t, but I haven’t noticed.
Zelesnky himself has several times said this must be finished before wintertime. Was he being a comedian? If so, please tell me why.
Economics… that’s the x-factor. It’s hard to get a clear idea of the Russian’s situation. Who looks the most stressed? Russia or Europe? If economics, or time becomes an issue for Russia, I think we will see desperation. You have to be very imaginative or blind to see desperation now.

Logistics and landscape….. First the landscape, is it very different than the Russian landscape? What is the actual landscape challenge? I can seeing crossing rivers when attacking being a challenge, but what else?
What is the logistic challenges? They are neighbors, with a very long border.
Whatever advantage Ukraine might have in landscape/logistics, I’m convinced Russia much more than equals that by their air superiority.

Ethos… he’s right, Russia can pull back, Ukraine can’t. Ukrainians can choose to live though, which thankfully many of them have done by surrendering. When was the last time a Russian surrendered? I can’t remember. Maybe May? You tell me.
The Russians seems to be highly motivated. Why wouldn’t they? They have seen their countrymen being shot dead in disgusting war crimes. Some of those videos have even been confirmed by western media, and you know it’s true. The Russians have seen much more though, which you have never seen. Much of that is credible to me, even more so to a Russian.

Strategy…. According to western/Ukraine intelligence the Russians are a joke. So bad that it’s almost unimaginable.
How come they keep gaining ground then? The attacking side historically needs a 3:1 advantage, but the Russians gain grounds with 1:1, if not less. The if is only because things have changed, and the Russians have equaled the Ukrainian numerical advantage. IF that’s the case, the number of dead Ukrainians are heartbreaking.

Please don’t lean on dirty players. Think for yourself.
I’m not saying you’re smarter than these players, but I’ll put money on you having a moral compass a million times better.

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 15:04

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Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 15:56

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kfm27917

3rd August 2022, 17:21

Electronic warfare systems "Pole-21" in the Russian army

https://en.topwar.ru/182196-kompleksy-rjeb-pole-21-v-rossijskoj-armii.html

kfm27917

3rd August 2022, 18:06

Operational pause threatens to develop into a positional impasse

The operational pause in the actions of the allied forces in Ukraine is being delayed: despite recent statements about the increase in the actions of groups in all operational areas in Ukraine, no changes have been observed so far, no serious offensive operations of the RF Armed Forces and the NM LDNR are being carried out. The current situation on the Ukrainian front is increasingly beginning to resemble the situation on the Western Front in 1915-1916, that is, a "war of attrition."

Why does the operational pause threaten to develop into a positional impasse? Let's try to answer this question.

Results of the first and second stages of the SVO

If we talk about the first stage of the special military operation in Ukraine, then we can state that it ended not entirely successfully, despite the bravura statements of politicians about its successful completion. And this is not only my opinion - the well-known Russian political scientist Sergei Markov, for example, adheres to the same view of the situation.

“The first stage of the NMD in Ukraine was that the Russian army made a breakthrough in key areas and approached large cities - Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernigov, Poltava, Nikolaev, Kherson. It was assumed that the fights that broke out in these cities would lead to the collapse of the system of state power in Ukraine, a power vacuum would be created that would be filled by former Ukrainian politicians who were forced to leave for Russia after 2014, like Oleg Tsarev, by repressed Ukrainian politicians like people from the team of Viktor Medvedchuk, unprincipled people from Zelensky's team who have gone over to the side of the new government, and generals, security officials. However, the first stage was unsuccessful, it was completed only by twenty percent - it was possible to reach large cities and even take Kherson. But the collapse of the Ukrainian state power did not happen - it continued its functioning, the security forces remained loyal to the Kyiv regime. Moreover, the groups of Russian special forces that were moving forward with a jerk found themselves under severe flank attacks and suffered significant losses, ”

- notes Sergei Markov.

The general mobilization in the LPR and DPR, which, as I have repeatedly noted in previous materials, included teachers, students, miners, etc., was carried out primarily in order to tie down the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass so that the enemy does not transfer them to Kyiv. However, the goals were not achieved. Therefore, the priorities of the NWO have changed somewhat, and politicians, instead of demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine, started talking about the liberation of Donbass as a priority goal.

Actually, the second stage of the military operation (which, as some experts rightly point out, after the failure of the first stage, in fact, grew into a real war) took place under this slogan. However, despite the liberation of the entire territory of the LPR and the achievement of tactical successes, it was not possible to defeat the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass. Moreover, the enemy continues to subject the DPR to regular shelling, especially Donetsk and Gorlovka, because the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as before, are actually located on the outskirts of the city.

The tactics of the RF Armed Forces consisted in advancing through the enemy's fortified areas by creating a "barrage of fire", concentrating a large amount of artillery on a narrow sector of the front, and advancing after mass artillery preparation. The curators of Ukraine from the United States and Britain responded to this with the supply of the Armed Forces of the MLRS HIMARS, which began to inflict painful blows on ammunition depots and supply bases in order to deprive the RF Armed Forces of this advantage. And partly they managed to achieve their goal.

Why are allied forces facing a positional stalemate?

Russia is trying to wage war with less manpower than Ukraine and counting on an advantage in artillery. Approximately the same tactics were used by the German General Erich von Falkenhayn on the Western Front during the First World War, which I recently wrote about in my material “Erich von Falkenhayn and his strategy of war with limited forces with a decisive goal”, who is interested, can read. I can only emphasize that this tactic did not lead to anything good for the German army.

Trying to "grind" the Ukrainian army and take it to starvation, you can fall into a trap, because "grinding" is always mutual. Actually, already now the situation is such that it is very problematic to conduct offensive operations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the NM LDNR due to the lack of infantry.

This is also noted by FSB colonel in reserve Igor Strelkov, who writes that “on our side of the front, we, alas, have almost nothing to attack with. In every way". You can attribute this to the colonel's pessimism (although, as practice shows, his forecasts often have a habit of coming true), but we really see that the allied forces are no longer carrying out any offensive actions. The capture of Seversk, which has already been announced twice, is being delayed, due to the fact that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not retreating from there, but, on the contrary, are pulling up reserves and strengthening their positions.

Political scientist Sergei Markov, who takes a rather balanced approach to forecasts regarding the military operation in Ukraine, is not sure about the assertions of some experts that the military potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been undermined, and the front will soon crumble.

“There are two positions, one is that the personnel potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is largely undermined, and Ukraine is forced to throw poorly trained reservists into battle. The second point of view is that the newly mobilized reservists are thrown onto the battlefield in order, on the contrary, to preserve the regular army of Ukraine, which is mainly located in the west, where it is being re-equipped with western weapons and retraining. And the purpose of this is to prepare a counteroffensive around August-September, after the significant exhaustion of the Russian army in bloody battles. Then supposedly there will be one or two counterattacks by the Ukrainian army, equipped with the latest Western weapons systems, with the support of Western PMCs.”

The second option, which Markov speaks of, is quite probable. Relying only on the advantage in artillery, having a smaller number of infantry than the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is extremely dangerous. For a while, this may work, but sooner or later a situation will arise when it becomes simply impossible to attack with such forces. De facto, it has already arisen. The United States, Great Britain and their allies are supplying Kyiv with as much weapons as it needs to ensure that the RF Armed Forces cannot conduct serious offensive operations without mobilization.

There is an opinion that Russia is capable of achieving victory without mobilizing and transferring industry to a military footing, but it cannot withstand a collision with reality. So far, the allied forces cannot even liberate the Donbass, and the military conflict is close to a “hot freeze”. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, are preparing for counterattacks, under the supervision of Western "partners". Even if we assume that all of them will be successfully repulsed, with the current alignment of forces, the war may finally take on the character of a positional one, and the front line will stabilize in the current configuration.

https://en.topwar.ru/199535-operacionnaja-pauza-grozit-pererasti-v-pozicionnyj-tupik.html

kfm27917

3rd August 2022, 18:22

When Russia will start a special operation for real

They don't take the city by standing.

Speed and pressure are the soul of real war.
Politics is a rotten egg.
A.V. Suvorov

Let's ask one extremely uncomfortable question - why in the special operation in Ukraine Russia behaves relatively "galantly", allowing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to receive (albeit partially) weaponwithout inflicting significant blows on decision-making centers, infrastructure? Yes, our rockets and artillery inflict huge damage on the enemy! But there are still some red lines.

Here is the opinion of O. Tsarev, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, who warned us about the attack on Donbass:

“... The West is trying not to cross certain red lines, including not supplying ... weapons that can seriously affect the course of a military campaign. In response, Russia does not “calibrate” Kyiv, the electrical substations that feed the cities, and does not destroy the transport infrastructure ... Otherwise, it is impossible to explain what is happening now. Of course, such agreements, if any, drastically reduce losses on both sides.”

Our intentions are good and full of humanity - there is no need to create complete chaos there. But everyone (!) feels that in all this stories something is wrong. The Russian army, the second in the ranking of the strongest armies in the world after the United States, cannot be constrained in its actions by the enemy army, which occupies only (!) 22nd place. And the Ukrainian territory cannot be the “Mannerheim Line” in all places (and that one was taken), there must be weak points - and our intelligence is well aware of this.

And if Moscow has been following the red lines since 1985, then they are not written for the West. However, in fact, stretching the time of the special operation multiplies the losses of the parties, and lethal weapons - (MLRS) HIMARS are still being delivered!

According to the director of the Institute for Political Studies, Sergei Markov:

“The Russian authorities may find themselves in a dangerous situation of reducing public support for the military operation in Ukraine. The reason is that the Russian army is not advancing and is not inflicting serious blows on the Kyiv regime. This causes growing disillusionment in society. The patriotically oriented part of society ... suspects ... the lack of political will of the Russian leadership for a serious war. The absence of serious strikes against the headquarters and communications through which mass deliveries of weapons from NATO countries to the Ukrainian army go is inexplicable in public opinion. And they are not explained in any way by the authorities. So the authorities risk losing contact with the population.”

Perhaps the political scientist is harsh, but there is a problem. According to military expert Mikhail Khodarenok:

“A strategy has been adopted to deplete the enemy’s resources. After the final retirement of the combat-ready backbone of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the deprivation of the Ukrainian troops of the minimum number of heavy weapons, repair and fuel and lubricant resources, things will go faster.”

It is very reasonable, indeed now in the Donbass it is “grinding” and the most combat-ready part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already failed. But in terms of supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we see a “phoenix effect” due to NATO supplies, while the stretching of time allows us to constantly replenish the combat strength, albeit with forces of poorer quality.

Need a middle ground

1. The supply of groups is being carried out, which are even in a semi-encirclement. The main scourge of the special operation is Avdiivka, which is located on a hill. On June 13, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out the most powerful shelling of Donetsk in the entire conflict, including M777 guns (USA) and French Caesars, which reached the front line through Poland and Romania (!). Finally, there is a shift here too - the armed formations of the DPR took it into a semi-circle, the batteries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to be more effectively suppressed. The stockpiles of chemicals, which cannot be destroyed, and the fortifications at the plant itself also prevent a strike on Avdiivka.

2. But there are also economic reasons, and they probably dominate. The coking plant is the largest in Europe, and, in addition to Akhmetov, the interests of other foreign investors may be involved there.

3. As you know, Roman Abramovich in March came under the sanctions of Great Britain and the European Union. However, around March 23, US President Joe Biden removed him from sanctions at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in advance, since he was assigned the role of mediator in the negotiations in Istanbul, which took place on March 29. And they want to scale this successful example. The West is pushing the idea of giving Russian businessmen the opportunity to “pay off the sanctions” by sending money to help Ukraine. Allegedly, such a proposal was made by the Deputy Minister of Finance of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, after a preliminary discussion (!) Of her idea with the "Russian oligarchs".

4. As Zbigniew Brzezinski said:

“Russia can have as many ... nuclear buttons as you like, but since the Russian elite has $500 billion in our banks, you still have to figure it out: is it your elite or already ours? I do not see a single situation in which Russia will use its nuclear potential.”

It is enough to replace the word "nuclear" with "military". Moreover, we are talking about a much larger amount. According to the Boston Consulting Group, in 2014 alone, the volume of funds withdrawn by residents of the Russian Federation to offshore reached about $2 trillion.

5. There is evidence that the use of Western weapons allows the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct a fairly effective counteraction to the Russian army. In particular, military correspondent Oleksandr Sladkov stated in his Telegram channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) have recently delivered effective strikes against Russian decision-making centers (!).

6. And here is the message of I. Strelkov:

“Apparently, Russian air defense systems ... turned out to be ineffective against massive attacks by Himers missiles ... Over the past 5-7 days, more than 10 large warehouses of artillery and other ammunition, several oil depots, about a dozen command posts and about the same number of locations of personal composition in our near and deep rear. As well as several air defense positions and artillery positions ... when devastating strikes begin on the so-called transport system. "Ukraine", through which all these "Himers", "777" and "Caesars" (as well as ammunition for them) are safely and unhindered delivered to the combat area?

7. As early as April 14, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that the United States does not see Russia trying to interrupt the flow of American weapons entering Ukraine:

“Flights to transshipment points in the region are still operating… Every day, aid arrives in Ukraine… weapons, materials… We have not seen any attempts by Russia to cut off this flow. And we're just going to keep doing it."

After this fact was announced in Mikhalkov's Besogon, reports began to appear in the media that warehouses were broken, cargo, bridges, etc. were destroyed. There were also explanations why it was difficult to stop deliveries: the Russian Federation does not want to violate the integrity of the railways, since this will make it impossible for the population to leave the zone of operation, paralyze civilian supplies; cargoes are delivered disguised under the flag of the Red Cross, a mixed composition of civilian and military purposes is drawn up, which cannot be hit.

In fact, arms deliveries are certainly being destroyed, the question is in what proportion. The paradox is that if these deliveries were destroyed "under the root" - they would simply stop. And Kirby clearly hints at this. So, politics is a rotten egg.

According to (17.06) the Kremlin spokesman, the main goal of the operation is to ensure the safety of the inhabitants of Donbass "from the barbaric shelling of the Kyiv military." And this goal has not been achieved: the shelling does not stop. Moreover, the impudent enemy in his madness is hatching plans for a counteroffensive, the return of the southeastern lands, attacks on the Crimean bridge, etc. Where does all this come from?

The answer is simple - Western help is coming, and Ukraine, having found its calling in the role of an obliging serf, feels the help of a giant octopus. But the mongrels of the West understand only strength, and only a powerful defeat can force Ukraine to change its plans.

Now about the extremely surprising US forecasts regarding the pace of the operation, made on the eve of the special operation - in February 2022:

"Three US officials told Newsweek they expect the Ukrainian capital to 'fall' within days."

And even the head of the US Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, during closed hearings in Congress, said that in the event of Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine, Kyiv would fall in 3 days.

Perhaps society underestimates the real consequences of Istanbul. We made another gift to the West and Kyiv by withdrawing troops from it. At that time, all the media actively wrote that we would send these forces to the Donbass to wage the main battle - the so-called "Donetsk arc", but we have not yet seen massive actions. In fact, the reason may be different.

Our oligarchic elite and the "fifth column", suffering huge losses from the "economic iron curtain", experiencing constant pressure from their Western partners, fearing an even greater deepening of sanctions, puts pressure on the Kremlin. And as long as our power depends on them, the constant "pulling" back and forth cannot be avoided. Our oligarchy will still have time to prove itself as a "real fifth column". But the government, which has grown up in cooperation with them, does not yet understand this. But you can expect anything from them. However, the logic of the development of the situation may lead to the mass disappearance of this class - the nationalization of raw materials is inevitable.

"In order to create favorable conditions for negotiations, we wanted to make a gesture of goodwill,"

- said the press secretary of the President Peskov.

Now let us present the assessments of a number of military experts of the negative consequences of the withdrawal of our troops:

“What is the risk of the withdrawal of Russian troops, which covered Kyiv from the west on the right bank? This grouping hung over the main communications that connected the west of the country with its center and east. Now the way for the supply of weapons from Poland is open ... In addition, there is a danger of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on important industrial and energy facilities of the Russian Federation.”

And the second assessment is regarding the fettering of the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the use of the forces of the Russian Federation:

“Will they leave their troops? If only the troops were withdrawn from the bridgehead, then they will remove all this from there. Therefore, talking about what needs to be concentrated in one fist is unrealistic. The Gostomel bridgehead attracted three times more forces than all the others, than now this number will go to the east of Ukraine, to the left-bank front. There are things when this is not a military decision… These are purely political reasons.”

Yes, we won a really huge victory - we took Mariupol, starved out Azovstal - we advanced from the flanks, and this is a great success. Victory is close, but we need to take the Donbass into a dense encirclement, and this step is still (!) not.

It is obvious that the original plan was Plan A (the beginning of a special operation), and the pace of the operation in Ukraine was more understandable. Who knows why the first commander left, perhaps he could not support the "Istanbul" option - plan B.

Why can't we ensure peace in Donbas yet?

There is the following hypothesis. The parties observe some red lines, but the West has been constantly “throwning” us, at least since 1985. V. Putin back in December 2021 said that Moscow was "pinned" to the red lines, and she had nowhere else to retreat. The holding of negotiations on grain and fertilizers in the same Istanbul and the slowdown in Europe's decision to completely refuse Russian gas clearly show that there are red lines! The US has not completely cut us off from the “dollar” (!), there are banks that make transactions. Ukraine is not supplied with certain types of weapons. Kyiv has not yet committed sabotage on Russian territory, and we do not see any strikes on Crimea. But at the same time, there are no agreements on NATO expansion, which was the reason for the onset of the crisis, when Moscow first delivered an ultimatum and later resorted to a special military operation.

But then, when our troops showed unprecedented power in the first weeks of the special operation, while occupying vast territories, we were invited to Istanbul and, as in Minsk in 2014, we were offered new red lines. Perhaps we were on the verge of Minsk-3, but only the extremely negative reaction of the Russian society and the fanaticism of Zelensky prevented this.

And we again comply with them, curtailing the scale of the special operation, not realizing that all this will be used against us. Or yielding by inertia, as we have become accustomed to since 1985. Let us recall the historic meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, at which the decision on the NMD was made. So how many of its members offered options - first to notify US President Biden about the decision of the Russian Federation, live in front of the whole country? The US does not have any red lines - that is why they are pumping weapons into Ukraine, and sooner or later this may give a result. If we do not understand, there is simply nothing to be afraid of.

What will be our next push? There must be some event "H" or the achievement of some action on the part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which will make the "Russian bear" wake up and tear his enemies with strong paws. And these enemies are Ukrainian "demons" who have broken through to power. One of the options is the supply of Hymers systems. And the second is a possible major armed provocation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which will bring us tangible losses.

And here are the new news - NATO in the coming months as a priority intends to increase the supply of (MLRS) HIMARS, and the greater our success, the greater will be support for NATO. And after that, as on February 24, we will have to enter a new orbit, breaking a new level of red lines.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 7 that Russia has not yet begun to show what it is capable of.

“Everyone should know that by and large we haven’t really started anything yet.”

And this is 100% fact.

Russia acts with varying severity, avoiding massive contact, focusing on remote strikes and showing maximum diplomacy, relying on the turn of the situation and "probing" the possibility of gradual success.

We do not yet have goals for the restoration of the empire, although the course of history pushes us in this direction. If we liberate a significant part of Ukraine (Plan A) - and then annex it to Russia, the West will perceive this as an attempt to restore the empire - which is like a red rag to a bull. And we do not know what to expect from them in this case. And the operation is still (!) Protracted. But if the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crumbles, we will not lose ours.

According to Oleg Tsarev, some Russian officials are interested in our controlled defeat, trying to maintain their power!

“Imagine... that you have achieved everything in your life... And suddenly life changes dramatically... Change is required, and change can lead to a change in the power elite. How to avoid it?
... It is necessary to control the defeat in the war, concessions to the West, which will allow us to return the status quo, and therefore retain power ...
In such a situation, the old elites ... are trying with all their might to prevent the early end of hostilities by defeating the enemy ...
Therefore, we do not freeze Western assets, which would be a logical and symmetrical response to Western financial and economic sanctions. We continue to pay debts to "unfriendly countries".

(Quote dated May 12.05.2022, XNUMX).

Back in April, military commander Alexander Sladkov put forward his concept of achieving a complete victory in Ukraine:

“Conclusion: the opponent cannot be beaten on points… It is necessary to knock out… we have two options.
First: to wage a slow war, stammering about each village, but moving forward (a year, two?). <…>
The second option is assault. That is, the mobilization of all forces for a decisive blow. And here - what is more rational? A long war against 20 countries, the economic leaders of the world, or a quick solution ...
Well, and the maximum build-up of forces in Ukraine, in order to turn from a gallant musketeer into a hero Ilya Muromets with a huge club. This club should beat, not lie down.

In his mind, this is a tripling of the combat potential in Ukraine.

And here is Ramzan Kadyrov's address to the President dated March 4:

“Give an order to our fighters to capture Kharkov, Kyiv and all other cities, quickly, clearly, efficiently ... I can’t watch how my and our fighters, the Ministry of Defense, the National Guard and other structures die. I beg you to close your eyes to everything and let them finish in a day or two what is happening there. Only this will save our state and people. This is my firm opinion."

So, when will Russia finally start a special operation for real? Soon at the door...

https://en.topwar.ru/199614-kogda-rossija-nachnet-specoperaciju-po-nastojaschemu-novaja-redakcija.html

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 18:45

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3rd August 2022, 19:00

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7he5ource

3rd August 2022, 19:15

These are small anti-personnel mines, banned by the Geneva Convention,

There persist views that CIA assassinated Allende when Chile Elected a communist party.
[NOTE: The Mandela Effect = information/history being changed over time on internet]
From my reading in the 70s [then] it was UNQUESTIONABLE the CIA killed him. a violation of the Geneva Convention.

Britain, air-dropped Opium and Hashish with Pipes on Palestinian forces in its rampage to re-create the State of Israel a violation of the Geneva Convention.

I can offer no co-aberration for the following but I was told by a source that the Chernobyl meltdown was an act of sabotage executed by the CIA using an insider. This was the end of the USSR because it didnt have ability or tools to deal with a disaster of this scope and OPENED THE IRON CURTAIN allowing foreign aid from Europe and USA behind and inside that SECRET WALL.

I've spent many decades studying intelligence operation worldwide and in 2006 there was a website intelnews.org which published all declassified papers as soon as their release [Mandela Effect = this site today is now 100% USELESS] !

Who knows what other "cloak and dagger" atrocities occurred violating Geneva Convention

But isn't the Geneva Convention just a ''feel-good'' propaganda tool of the west
or none has heard of PAPERCLIP?

Goodness forbid that Russia should exact vengeance for the atrocities west has perpetrated.

Who remembers POLISH Pope Jean Paul in concert with Ronald Reagan talking away vast swaths of territory from USSR ?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1748319.The_Third_World_War

Ive had the odd experience of having intel contacts because of my late-dad's work

A CIA military analyst told me in the 70s that WW3 will go HOT in the Baltic States that biblical idea c of the middle east are bunk.

Right now propaganda channels are speaking of NATO expansion in 2002 the Baltic states joined NATO ... so if the Analyst is correct ...

Sir John Hackett uses Minsk Belarus as a model for the first nuke being fired.

Who can remember a nano second ago the UN demanded Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko step down "OR ELSE" and gave a timeline of 8 months for him to spep down.

OR ELSE what ?
The UN is impotent !
No "peacekeeping forces today to enforce ...
IF there were, being so multicultural/national who would obey orders?

MINSK was the LARGEST protest I've seen in 60 yrs of news addiction.
I estimated over 1 million ppl marching.
But his association with Putin scares these ppl to death.

As a child I heard that common cliche THERE ARE NO RULES IN LOVE AND WAR

The Geneva Convention isn't real, it is as much propaganda Mein Kampf

7he5ource

3rd August 2022, 19:40

The US doesn't have any possible way to stop modern Russian nuclear missiles

Nice shorts Mashika.
Priviat.

Its more than you've written, much more in my camp of info.
Russia has ALWAYS been ahead from Sputnik, to computers, to Tesla weapons.

In a broadcast on radio that caught my ear ... an analysis of the silicon chip Vs the old vacuum tube giant computers was mad by techy expersts.
Circa 2007 they stated that the old vacuum tubes were far superior to chips because of the vast ability of incresed light refraction possibility and the added difficulty for external systems [hackers] to break into them.
The USA thinking chips are the future destroyed all their huge computer long ago putting all their eggs in one basket.
Russia did not, now allowing them unspeakable computer superiority.

If you studied Tesla Weapons you might also know that Nukes [as destructive as they are] are far obsolete to "electrical pulse" weapons.
It is said Tunguska was a test of such a weapon, yet today the biggest Czar Bomb is a fart in a firestorm by comparison.
Russia is ahead in this too.
FINALLY and most importantly ... FOOD = WEAPONIZED FOODS !
Russia doesn't allow GMO foods to be bought sold imported planted or possessed.

In the west ppl are eating these weaponized foods which damage everything but most vitally the brain.
Western leaders are getting stupid .. as is the public.

In My View there is no military power on earth above the USSR.
And USA has a diaper-crappin senile stumble bum, against a healthy vital clear minded Putin
RAS-putin
RAS = RUS = RED = Viking ancestry RUSsia means land of the RED meaning Viking WARLORDS

The west are drugged lazy drunk cheeto-addicted couch-burls

9ideon

3rd August 2022, 19:48

Ukrainian front seems crumbling.

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Vicus

3rd August 2022, 21:37

Russia strikes foreign fighters’ base in Ukraine

Russia’s Defense Ministry reports the successful missile strike has neutralized over 250 mercenaries

Over 200 foreign mercenaries have reportedly been killed in a missile strike in southern Ukraine, Russia’s Ministry of Defense reported on Tuesday. The statement also added that over 20 units of military equipment were also destroyed during the attack.

In its daily briefing on Telegram, the ministry reported that Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a blow to a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian ‘foreign legion’ near the city of Nikolaev, using high-precision weapons. As a result, up to 250 foreign mercenaries were eliminated, according to the report.

Russia also claims to have neutralized up to 500 nationalist fighters in the Kharkov region via high-precision strikes, as well as “a significant amount” of military equipment.

Last week, Russia also claimed to have killed over 40 foreign mercenaries, most of whom were Polish citizens, after a missile strike on a temporary deployment point near Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The week before that, the Russian military claimed it had killed up to 250 such soldiers in the same settlement.

Kiev’s international military unit was created in late February at the request of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and is officially known as the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. In April, the Russian military estimated their numbers at almost 7,000.

However, an updated estimate provided by the Russian defense ministry earlier this month suggests that only about 2,700 of these soldiers remain in Ukraine. Many of them were eliminated while others fled abroad, some complaining about disorder in the ranks of the Ukrainian forces and about poor equipment.

Moscow has repeatedly warned that it will not view foreign mercenaries in Ukraine as combatants as defined by the Geneva Convention and that “the best thing that awaits them if they are captured alive is a trial and maximum prison terms.”

https://www.rt.com/news/560085-russia-strikes-foreign-fighters-ukraine/

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 21:43

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Vicus

3rd August 2022, 21:50

Putin talks about nuclear war

There can be “no winners” in a nuclear war and it must never be fought, Russian president warns

Russian president Vladimir Putin has commented on the prospects of fighting a nuclear war after his US counterpart Joe Biden called on Russia to negotiate a new arms-control deal to potentially replace the landmark New Start treaty. Putin made the remarks on Monday in his letter to participants of the tenth NPT review conference.

“Russia consistently follows the letter and spirit of the Treaty. Our obligations under bilateral agreements with the United States on the reduction and limitation of relevant weapons have also been fully fulfilled,” Putin said, adding that Moscow believes “that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it must never be unleashed.”

The president said Russia believes all the countries following the NPT rules should have acess to peaceful use of nuclear energy without any conditions. “We’re ready to share our experience in the field of atomic energy with our partners,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Putin’s US counterpart Joe Biden produced his statement ahead of the review conference, calling on Russia to engage in talks to produce a new arms-control agreement to replace the New START treaty, set to expire in 2026. At the same time, he accused Moscow of “shattering peace in Europe” with its ongoing military operation in Ukraine.

“Negotiation requires a willing partner operating in good faith,” Biden said. “In this context, Russia should demonstrate that it is ready to resume work on nuclear arms control with the United States.”

The landmark New START remains the only major arms control agreement between Moscow and Washington left standing. The deal was on the brink of collapse in early 2021, when it was set to expire. It was ultimately salvaged shortly after Biden’s inauguration, when Washington finally agreed to Moscow’s repeated calls to prolong the deal without any preconditions.

https://www.rt.com/russia/560022-putin-on-nuclear-war/

Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 21:51

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Ravenlocke

3rd August 2022, 21:55

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Vicus

3rd August 2022, 22:08

Nuclear conflict scenarios back on table – Moscow

The erosion of global arms control by the US has forced world powers to revive their nuclear war planning, senior diplomat argues

Policies enacted by the US have forced other world powers to revive their nuclear war planning, senior Russian diplomat Alexey Drobinin has claimed. The comments from Drobinin, who serves as head of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Policy Planning Department, offer an insight into Moscow's current thinking in this sphere.

“Built by generations of negotiators, the framework for arms control and preservation of strategic stability is now being dismantled at the instigation of the US. The Americans have lowered the first-strike threshold in their military doctrine,” Drobinin wrote in an article for the Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn (International Life) magazine published Wednesday.

“These and other concerning factors are yet again bringing the most dangerous scenarios of conflict between nuclear powers, fraught with disastrous consequences, back into the view of military planners,” he warned.

Nevertheless, the emergence of a multipolar world order – in which Russia is actively involved – will make the globe a safer place, unless the West chooses to interfere, the diplomat argues. “Everyone will benefit from the multipolarity and deglobalization – provided no-one disrupts the natural course of these objective phenomena,” Drobinin argued.

“What is of crucial importance here is how the political establishment of North America and Western Europe chooses to behave… Unless they are able to suppress the pain they are feeling over losing their power over the world – however humanly understandable that pain may be – and stop ‘grabbing the gun’ every time patient diplomacy is in order, the alarming trend of the growing importance of strength in international affairs will not only endure but intensify,” Drobinin wrote.

On Monday, in a letter to participants of the tenth Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that there would be no winners in a nuclear war, and it must never be allowed to happen.

The landmark New START remains the only major arms control agreement between Moscow and Washington still in force. In early 2021, the deal was on the brink of expiration, but it was ultimately salvaged shortly after Biden’s inauguration, when Washington finally agreed to Moscow’s calls to prolong the deal without any preconditions. It is currently set to expire in 2026.

https://www.rt.com/russia/560143-us-policy-nuclear-war-planning/

shaberon

4th August 2022, 05:35

Russia is losing. I mean in a greater sense it has already lost but in a military sense - it will also loose. No amount of morally corrupt support for the aggressor will change that. It so funny to see how people who are posed against american wars of aggression then think if someone else starts to kill and maim its for the good.

Is that the Green view?

I do not see a conflict. Death or killing is a thing we do sometimes. I personally found two within less than a month that I would drop like rodents, publicly. I would rather not, but, I will if need be. In my opinion, it would clean the earth if someone already had.

So I understand in some cases, when someone pulls the trigger, it was the thing to do.

I have given no support to Russia that I know of.

I may have given it Reputation, by, I don't know, the other day it told me I have over two hundred posts in this thread.

This is a brilliant and very long article by Cynthia Chung (https://thesaker.is/the-real-global-agenda-pushing-for-war-with-china/) that is well worth the time and among other things she mentions NED. The NED is from my system and I hate it and I cannot really compete with it. And there are a few interesting points where they have been found scrubbing money links off their website. Hiding the tracks of those involved.

The article is mostly on China and it is amazing to see for example the level of African debt forgiveness they have done. They offer zero interest loans, and, if someone gets in a bind, there may be a way out. Compare that to IMF performance which for the most part tries not to develop electricity grids.

Also the U. S. official statement is that Taiwan is part of China. Never changed. So going there is like breaking and entering.

And of course NED is rampant in Sri Lanka and Taiwan.

An original charter of the Corporation of the City of London has never been found; it cannot show any original basis. Traditionally it is associated with a clause in the Magna Carta about "ancient liberties".

She starts with a quote from Lord Palmerston:

“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”

So, he is The Economist, although I wish she would have added what we have found. It was ca. 1830 that Palmerston made the first kind of public announcement about Brits hating Russians on an outright racist level.

Before him, there were probably those who thought so in a private religious way, or maybe around the office or something, but I have not seen anything that would make it a public standard. This guy fired off the Great Game and The Opium Wars. And, since then, I guess we are supposed to hate whatever wealthy British people would like us to. Such as Germany being friends with Russia.

Some of the comments are also good and it is interesting how a lot of people see this scene as plainly Macchiavellian. According to LaVey, this makes them atheist Satanists. There is some criticism that they make these doomed, tunnel vision plans because that is all they know how to do. If it was anything like real work, or, real diplomacy, they would have to be considered handicapped.

MI6 CFR for you. That is the stuff I would like to get rid of. Because they have stuffed Ukraine with goodies, everything needs to be destroyed for the most part. Migrating a quarter million people from an area where you plan to shut down the power station sounds like...inheriting a kingdom or something? Ceding territory? Human trafficking??

Bill Ryan

4th August 2022, 07:47

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https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1554798985180860416
1554798985180860416I realized that Mashika, who was a teenage commander in the same army, must surely have known her personally.

:heart2:

So I went to find out more about her. This article, written less than a month before her death, is very poignant. She'll never see the results of what she was fighting for.

I'd like to copy it in full, and it's well worth reading. This is a remarkable, heroic woman someone in Russia will some day make a film about.

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-05-%E2%80%9Ci-haven%E2%80%99t-heard-a-single-complaint-from-my-fighters%E2%80%9D--how-an-artillery-battalion-under-the-command-of-a-woman-is-fighting-in-the-dpr.SJ7yDCZiq.html

“I haven’t heard a single complaint from my fighters”: how an artillery battalion under the command of a woman is fighting in the DPR

Colonel Olga Kachura knows exactly what she will do when peace comes to Donbass. Known by the call sign Korsa, Kachura has been in command of the rocket artillery unit of the DPR Armed Forces for the past eight years. She has 140 military men under her command, including mobilized conscripts, who must be quickly trained in artillery. How the Donetsk military work under the leadership of Korsa - in the material RT.

https://cdni.rt.com/russian/images/2022.07/original/62c3ec7302e8bd783e552ace.png

“I’ll be a great grandmother: I’ll teach my grandchildren how to climb fences, shoot from a slingshot — everything that I can do myself,” laughs Olga Kachura (Korsa), commander of the rocket artillery division of the Armed Forces of the DPR.

“Yes, and I probably will have something to tell them when we sit together in the kitchen.”

Olga Kachura is a legend of the DPR army.
Her combat path began in April 2014 from Slovyansk, where she led a rocket artillery unit.
In Ukraine, Olga was sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.

"I have no right to look bad"

We are sitting in the army KUNG (universal body size zero), in which Olga spends her personal time.
“This is my military house,” she says.
The furnishings in the "house" are spartan: two bunk beds, a small refrigerator, kettles and a country washstand.
On a small table are books, documents, as well as a mirror, cosmetic bag and moisturizer.

“So that at the end of the war I wouldn’t be like “take me, babayka, take me,” Korsa corrects her bangs.

“A self-respecting commander will not go out unshaven in front of his subordinates.

And I have the same thing: I have no right to look bad.

Get up, wash, tidy up - this is normal.

Olga says that she has already become involved in the war: she does not get tired physically and is used to the ragged daily routine.
Sometimes she sleeps for an hour, sometimes she manages to lie down for 20-30 minutes to restore her strength.
“When you manage to sleep five or six hours in a row, it’s gorgeous,” Olga admits.

Together with her in this tiny room live a bodyguard, a platoon commander of the division and the chief of staff.

“But they don’t bother me at all, even when they snore,” Korsa smiles.

"Partridges" find a target

Olga has 140 fighters under her command, who ensure the operation of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) BM-21 Grad.
“One machine spits out 40 rockets in 20 seconds.

I shoot from virtually all types of artillery pieces, but I have always liked the jet guns the most.
This is both a terrible and beautiful weapon.

No wonder our grandfathers during the Great Patriotic War called the grandmother of the modern BM-21 “Katyusha,” Korsa explains.

She and the fighters of her division call these deadly machines affectionate nicknames: “bibika”, “boar”, “partridge”, “children”.

The more effectively the division performs the tasks of destroying the enemy, the faster and with less losses our infantrymen move forward.

Korsa notes that in artillery, the main thing is to get the coordinates.

“I get a task and pass the coordinates to my subordinates to calculate the settings, and then I personally check them.

At this time, the vehicles go to the firing position and wait for the installations and the “Fire!” command to work out the target, says Korsa.

The faster we work out and hit the enemy, the less likely it is that we ourselves will fall under return fire.

Time and accuracy are two key performance indicators.”

On average, it takes about ten minutes from the moment a task is received to its completion.

Korsa admits that although she is accustomed to war, her sense of caution remains forever.

Before the battery leaves for new firing positions, it always tries to conduct reconnaissance and, with the battalion commanders, choose the most advantageous places for the position.

"Gender doesn't affect performance"

“I have completely different people in the division - both by nationality and by age.

For me, in the first place in the selection of fighters in the state - their mental abilities.

The ability to think, count, knowledge of algebra and geometry is important,” says Korsa.

The youngest soldier in the division is 18-year-old conscript Frol Artamonov from the village of Karlo-Marksovo, 15 km from Gorlovka.

The guy admits that when he was mobilized on February 28, he was very scared: "I thought that I would not return."

At that time, Frol knew nothing about the army, and even more so about the work of artillery.

“When I was assigned to the division, the older guys said that I was very lucky.

They said about Korsa that she is a smart, powerful tactician - she doesn’t come across to the enemy, ”says Frol.

Olga herself recalls that Frol came to her unit "small, fledgling."

“First of all, a soldier must be fed, given time to get used to and taught, and only then sent to the fire,” says Kachura.

In a few months, Frol's eyes have become more mature.
When I noticed this, I asked if he wanted to go on a combat mission.
He said he was ready to go."

She is convinced that in war there is no particular division between a colonel and a private: everyone eats at the same table and lives in the same conditions.

You can be friends with subordinates, but in no case should you allow familiarity, otherwise you will lose credibility, she says.

Subordinates address her as “Comrade Colonel”, they can call her by her first name and patronymic if they make a personal request.
But their favorite way of referring to Corsa is "Comrade Commander."

Olga says that she does not consider herself a feminist, but at work she constantly proves that women have a place in the army.

“When my career in the army began, I heard the phrase addressed to me: “What can you take from her, she is a woman.”

Then I thought, “Oh yes!
Come on, get it, guys!
I will prove to you that I can do more and better than you.

You can be biologically a man and wear a skirt, or you can be biologically a woman, but with a masculine character.

Gender does not affect the work in any way,” she says.

Long way to peace

According to Korsa, in 2014 she still had hope that she would be able to resolve the conflict peacefully.

“On May 26, the Ukrainian army for the first time began to bomb Donetsk with the help of aircraft.

That day, I realized that this is a war and Ukraine will never change its attitude towards the DNR,” she says.

And we are not on the way with Nezalezhnaya.

What kind of state is this that bombs the people, and then calls them “theirs”?

She recalls how she taught her schoolgirl daughter to hide during raids, to avoid objects that could injure during shelling.

This knowledge later helped Alena when, in 2014, Tochka-U, fired by Ukrainian artillerymen, flew to Donetsk.

Thanks to the ability to group, the girl was not injured when, during classes at school, the blast wave from the projectile threw her away and she flew around the classroom for about 5 m.

According to Kachura, the residents of Donetsk have been waiting for the resolution of the conflict for the past eight years.

“Most of my fighters, even those who are now 18 years old, have been waiting for these events for eight long years.

This war was supposed to start anyway, a year earlier or a year later.

For us, this is an event that will allow us to become recognized, join Russia as a subject or autonomy, Kachura argues.

Of course everyone is tired.
Four months is quite exhausting, physically and mentally.
But I did not hear from my fighters a single complaint or desire to turn around and leave.

Everyone has one thought: “Until we finish it off, we won’t go home.”

She adds that in recent months, everyone’s hatred of the enemy has only intensified: “All these eight years they have been shooting at our cities, villages, but this was episodic.

And when this happens every day, with each such arrival, hatred for the enemy becomes stronger.

Like everyone in the DPR, Olga wants peace to come as soon as possible and already knows what she will do after the end of the NWO.

A few years ago, she began studying at the Donetsk Agrarian Academy.

After the war, she plans to finish her studies, retire on a seniority basis and engage in animal husbandry.

And, of course, Olga hopes that when her children grow up and start their own families, she will babysit her grandchildren and tell them in the kitchen how her name was Korsa in 2022 and she, together with her fighters, did everything to ensure that in Donetsk peace has come to earth.

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Tintin

4th August 2022, 08:54

https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1554894415952576512
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https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1554895094385414145
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They are supported from the air by Su-25 attack aircraft of the RAF

https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1554875920065896448
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Sadly, it seems that Spiriteer's Twitter account has been suspended :flower:

:focus:

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 13:06

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 13:20

The New Atlas update for August 4th, his guest is Mark Sleboda

Russian Operations in Ukraine (August 4, 2022): featuring Mark Sleboda

Joining me for this update is Mark Sleboda, an international relations and security expert based in Russia, and US Navy veteran.

We will discuss the latest developments in Ukraine including a recent Pentagon briefing and Western media claims made in recent days.

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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 13:23

https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1555172842530127872
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https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1555128735032025089
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 13:38

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555149127385841664
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555149188828217350
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Bill Ryan

4th August 2022, 13:45

Here's a short 4 minute video published just three weeks before Olga Kachura was killed. :flower:

It's worth watching simply because from this one can understand how the Russian/DPR forces are devastating the Ukrainian troops with sheer artillery firepower, spectacular (and frightening) to watch. One can see how they often retreat against orders, surrender, or simply flee.

Those shells and missiles are all aimed with precision. No-one anywhere near their targets would have a chance.

This video is all about the brutality of war, and the interview with Olga that I copied above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1510626&viewfull=1#post1510626) — highly recommended — is about the humanity of at least some of the wartime leaders. This is the paradox.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Olga_Kachura_%28b.1970%20-%20d.2022%29/Olga_%27Korsa%27_Kachura_Tribute.MP4
(https://youtube.com/watch?v=U6p86Ufl3nQ)
https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Olga_Kachura_%28b.1970%20-%20d.2022%29/Olga_%27Korsa%27_Kachura_Tribute.MP4

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 13:52

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1555111961695866882
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The shelling disrupted the Farewell ceremony to Colonel Olga “Korsa” Kachura who died the day before.

https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1555177801090752513
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https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1555162467667304449
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https://readovka.world/news/107020

Ukrainian most brutal and cynical shelling of Donetsk 18+

There are many victims and wounded in the center of the city
Revenge for practically losing Pisky hit the civilians of Donetsk on August 4. At least six victims are known: a grandmother and granddaughter died on Pushkin Boulevard, their family member found their torn bodies right on the sidewalk. Two more bodies were lying next to them: a woman and a man in a military uniform, a shrapnel hit him in the head. Two people, a girl and a man, died in the shelling of the Donbass Palace Hotel, on Gurov Avenue.

WARNING! SHOCK CONTENT!

Viewer discretion is advised.

The shelling was carried out in the center of Donetsk from M777 howitzers coming from the direction of the village of Pervomayskoye. A Readovka military correspondent has discovered shell fragments near the Donbass Palace, a hotel in the city center, right on the site of the «impact». The Ukrainian Army attacked civilians while retreating, apparently deciding to take revenge for the advance of our troops near Avdiivka and the settlement of Pisky.

The shelling began in the morning. Ukrainian militants, with their usual cynicism, decided to disrupt the ceremony of saying goodbye to Guard Colonel Olga «Korsa» Kachura, who died the day before. At least two attacks have been reported near the Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theater, where the ceremony was held. The event has been postponed due to shelling by the Ukrainian forces. The theater has come under fire for the first time in eight years.

Then the Ukrainian military shelled the Donbass Palace hotel and residential buildings nearby. One girl was killed and at least six others are known to have been wounded. Among them were two ambulance staff and a little boy who suffered shrapnel wounds to the head. Journalists, including Readovka military correspondents Igor Chekanov, Rostislav Shorokhov, and Alisa Zinchenko, have also come under fire.

https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1555193723826339841
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:01

https://readovka.world/news/106968

Korsa posthumously awarded Hero of Russia title
For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded posthumously the Hero of Russia title to Colonel Olga Kachura for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty.

Since 2014, Kachura was in command of the DPR's rocket artillery battalion in Horlivka, one of the most dangerous regions.

Olga Kachura's friend Natalia Khim in a conversation with Readovka said that the commander of the MLRS (multiple rocket launcher system) division died while driving on duty. She was returning from Horlivka to Donetsk, but on the way her convoy was shelled by the Ukrainian artillery. Korsa died of her wounds on the way to the hospital in Yasynuvata. According to Natalia, Olga is likely to be buried in Horlivka.

«Olga said in her last phone conversation that she missed me very much. On my last trip, I could not visit her in person, so I passed the humanitarian aid through the guys. Olga was very angry that I did not come, and gave me the order to ‘move my ass.’ Today I spoke to her, discussing humanitarian aid and joking, and she was cheerful. And then that was it – the connection was cut off. Some time later, I find out that her convoy was destroyed. My head hurts from a thought when I talk to a person, and then, in a second, she is gone», – Natalia Khim told Readovka.
Her two children are left without a mother. As Natalia noted, the last wish of the commander of the DPR artillery unit was to raise money for ARCHER thermal imaging scopes, KESTREL weather stations and drones for her division's work.

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1555105223814807552
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:19

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555129550547419137
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:22

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555196372646780930
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:28

https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1555098534994743299
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:37

https://twitter.com/PrateekRoutray/status/1554906252399915008
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:48

https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten/status/1555201936181579776
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 14:57

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62412429?at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom4=3C3D2490-1348-11ED-86A8-6C51FC756850

Ukraine war: IAEA says Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant out of control

A huge nuclear power plant occupied by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine is "completely out of control", the head of the UN's nuclear agency says.

Rafael Grossi was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying the Zaporizhzhia plant needed an inspection and repairs.

"You have a catalogue of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility," he said.

Europe's biggest nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia earlier this week of using the plant, which it overran in March, as a military base to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces.

Ukrainian officials have said Russians station troops and store military hardware on the grounds of the power station on the Dnipro river in the south of Ukraine.

But a Russian-installed official in the region told Reuters news agency that Ukrainian forces were using Western-supplied weapons to attack the plant.

Yevgeny Balitsky said officials were ready to show Mr Grossi's agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), how Russians were guarding the nuclear facility while Ukrainians were allegedly attacking it.

When Russia seized the plant, its shelling of buildings there caused an international outcry.

The plant is still operating, with Ukrainian staff under Russian control.

At a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Mr Grossi said: "The situation is very fragile. Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated one way or the other and we cannot allow that to continue."

The IAEA's director-general said he was trying to put together a mission as soon as possible to visit the plant but this required the approval of both the Ukrainian and Russian sides, as well as UN authorisation, given the risks involved in visiting the war zone.

In June, Ukraine's state nuclear company said Ukraine had not invited the IAEA - and any visit would legitimise Russia's presence there.

This week, Mr Grossi said he and his team needed protection to reach Zaporizhzhia - which meant the co-operation of both Russia and Ukraine. "I'm pleading to both sides to let this mission proceed," he said.

IAEA contacts with staff at the plant had been "patchy" and the supply chain of equipment and spares had been disrupted, Mr Grossi explained to AP. There was also a lot of nuclear material which needed to be inspected, he added.

"While this war rages on, inaction is unconscionable," he said. "If an accident occurs at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, we will not have a natural disaster to blame - we will have only ourselves to answer to. We need everyone's support."

Accusing the Russians of using the plant as a "nuclear shield", Mr Blinken said: "Of course the Ukrainians cannot fire back lest there be a terrible accident involving the nuclear plant."

In 1986, northern Ukraine was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded.

Russian forces also seized Chernobyl soon after the invasion on 24 February this year but withdrew after five weeks. Computers at the site were looted or damaged but actual nuclear equipment at the decommissioned plant was not affected.

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555187386883211264
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 15:27

http://worldnews24.over-blog.com/2022/08/russian-foreign-ministry-russia-rejects-insinuations-about-nuclear-threats-in-ukraine.html

Russian Foreign Ministry: Russia rejects insinuations about nuclear threats in Ukraine

MOSCOW: United Nations: Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said that a detailed reaction of the authorities to these accusations would be given later

Russia rejects insinuations about nuclear threats and actions aimed at undermining nuclear security in Ukraine. Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated this on Tuesday, speaking at the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

"Our detailed response to insinuations about alleged threats of nuclear weapons and actions aimed at undermining nuclear and physical nuclear security in Ukraine, we will give later, exercising our right to reply said diplomat.[COLOR="red"][COLOR="red"]

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 17:38

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1555226101617770496
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ExomatrixTV

4th August 2022, 17:41

Senate Votes to SIDESTEP Congressional WAR POWERS And Expand NATO To Finland And Sweden:

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youtube.com/c/KimIversen/videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/KimIversen/videos)

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 17:58

https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1555239593091407873
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ANOTHER PoW Camp Hit. Ukraine Shells A FUNERAL In Donetsk.
400 UA Soldiers Killed.
3 Brigades FLEE

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https://ria.ru/20220804/obstrel-1807195886.html?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled a correctional colony in Donetsk

Two people were killed in the shelling of a correctional colony in Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

DONETSK, August 4 - RIA Novosti. A correctional colony was shelled in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, an employee of the institution was killed, two prisoners were wounded, said Mayor Alexei Kulemzin.
"In the Kirovsky district, when shelling the territory of the correctional colony on the street. Ivan Susanin, 35, an employee of the institution died. Two prisoners were injured. Questionnaire data are being specified," Kulemzin wrote in the Telegram channel. Later, the mayor reported that one of the injured prisoners died of his injuries.

https://military.pravda.ru/news/1732918-specoperacija/

Ministry of Defense: The Russian Armed Forces liquidated up to 400 Ukrainian military in Konstantinovka

Representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that during a military special operation to force peace in Donbass and Ukraine, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation killed about 400 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the department, they were located on the territory of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

"The temporary location point of units of the 95th Air Assault Brigade was affected," the ministry stressed.

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense told about the liquidation of 20 units of military equipment of the Ukrainian army.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of three platoons of Grad multiple rocket launchers and four platoons of Carnation guns.

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 18:14

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555253219890184193
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555247044935262208
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https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten/status/1555253722917523456
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 18:37

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1555010634596564992
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Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 18:46

Senate Votes to SIDESTEP Congressional WAR POWERS And Expand NATO To Finland And Sweden:

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youtube.com/c/KimIversen/videos (https://www.youtube.com/c/KimIversen/videos)

https://news.antiwar.com/2022/08/03/senate-votes-95-1-to-expand-nato-into-sweden-and-finland/

Senate Votes 95-1 to Expand NATO Into Sweden and Finland

Josh Hawley (R-MO) voted 'no,' Rand Paul (R-KY) voted 'present'
The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution approving Sweden and Finland’s bids for NATO membership, demonstrating the bipartisan consensus on expanding the military alliance further on Russia’s border.

The measure passed the Senate in a vote of 95-1-1, with only Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) voting “no,” and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) voting “present.”

In an op-ed published in The National interest, Hawley explained that he was against expanding NATO into Sweden and Finland because he believes the US should be expanding its military resources into the Asia Pacific to counter China.

An amendment that Paul tried to add to the resolution would have emphasized that Article 5, NATO’s mutual defense clause, does not supersede congressional authorization for war. But the amendment failed in a vote of 10-87.

The Senate vote was needed to ratify US approval for Sweden and Finland to join the military alliance. All 30 NATO members need to approve the Nordic nations’ memberships, and according to The Hill, the Senate vote makes the US the 20th country to do so.

In July, the House voted on a resolution supporting Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids that passed in a vote of 394-18, with only Republicans voting against the measure.

Turkey is the only NATO member that has said its legislature might block Sweden and Finland from joining the alliance. Ankara initially blocked the Nordic countries from applying but lifted the objection after signing a memorandum at the NATO summit in June.

Turkey accused Sweden and Finland of supporting the PKK, a Kurdish militant group Ankara considers a terrorist organization. Under the memorandum, the two Nordic nations agreed to respond to Turkey’s extradition request for suspected PKK members and other alleged “terrorists.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the Turkish parliament could block Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids if they don’t comply.

9ideon

4th August 2022, 20:10

Ravenlocke

4th August 2022, 21:26

Did I miss something? Around 2:50 mins he addresses that the Russians have found evidence somewhere in Rubizhanskyy, that the US spread the Corona virus and the Monkeypox (are there Russians whom can verify this news?) around the World.

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He must be referring to the latest Russian briefing about the Biolabs in Ukraine.
Here is a tweet about this from Hawkeye1745, Rubezhnoye is highlighted in one of the pictures.

https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1555236171285946368
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https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1555236201128402952
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https://twitter.com/Hawkeye1745/status/1555246768690003969
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Also this,

https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1554536889327263744
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Also check the telegram channel for Intel Slava Z,

https://twitter.com/PA150M250/status/1555202254289997826
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shaberon

5th August 2022, 04:33

On average, it takes about ten minutes from the moment a task is received to its completion.

Spoken by the late commander of artillery. But this is exactly what we saw in the retreat a few pages ago. Ukrainian column exited the city and it took about ten minutes to start eating these rounds and they basically stopped.

This does not come without costs and Ukraine must have some halfway decent intel if they were able to peg her service the next day.

It must be from the U. S. because, according to the people in charge, they do most of what they do because Ukrainians are stupid (https://southfront.org/zelenskys-adviser-there-are-no-normal-people-in-ukraine-they-are-stupid-brainless-manipulated/):

Adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky, Alexey Arestovich, described the Ukrainian people in one of his interviews.

” Those in power in Ukraine despise the people. I assure you. Despise. They do not think of them as human. And have every reason to do so. Except for one thing, that they (Ukrainians) are people after all. The Ukrainian people, activists, the public, all these businessmen and all these patriots and so on. They are stupid, impotent, brainless, emotional, controlled, poor in spirit, but still people. All. Normal people who understand what is happening can be counted on the fingers of two hands. (Including me). The rest are a misfortune, uneducated, stupid, without experience of civilian life. Thank God that these people have no power. If the people come to power, I will run away from this country. Do you understand?”

Ukrainian actor, Evgeny Koshevoy who is a close friend of Vladimir Zelensky also once shared his opinion about the Ukrainian people.

“I don’t give a f*ck about Ukraine. I think they are total idiots and I officially declare this!”

That sounds about like Victoria Nuland and at least ninety-five of our Senators gleefully "expanding" NATO to Finn Land and that miscegenated husk next door to it.

However if part of the front around Avdivka has bugged out then it seems to me the rest will follow.

At this point we can pretty confidently say 3-400 KIA every day. With the additional confidence that these are useless idiots who must be prevented from having any say about what happens to them. You knew that, right, but now you know. They just said it.

Here come a few other deliveries (https://southfront.org/biden-administration-approves-5-billion-in-missile-sales-to-saudi-arabia-uae/):

In a statement, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that it had approved the possible sale of 300 Patriot MIM-104E Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical Ballistic Missiles (GEM-T) and related equipment to Saudi Araba for an estimated $3.05 billion.

Separately, the agency approved the possible sale of 96 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) System Missiles, two THAAD Launch Control Stations (LCS), two THAAD Tactical Operations Stations (TOS) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.245 billion to the UAE.

shaberon

5th August 2022, 05:13

This video is all about the brutality of war, and the interview with Olga that I copied above (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1510626&viewfull=1#post1510626) — highly recommended — is about the humanity of at least some of the wartime leaders. This is the paradox.

Not necessarily.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UBAsu-w5ub4/VKiwwo5MffI/AAAAAAAACB8/OWvnX9XEZrM/s1600/virat-Rupa.jpg

He says slaughter half a million of your relatives.

Huxley (https://psypolitics.org/2022/01/04/huxleys-introduction-to-the-bhagavad-gita-2022/), the guy who overnighted us "the plan" about how world wars would make a monopolar order, is also famous for writing an introduction to Bhagavad Gita, one of the first--and then, perhaps, only--things the English wanted to extract from India (ca. 1750). There he gets to the point that even some Catholics realized that eventually you have to quit fixating on "the incarnation" to probe the higher aspects of the Trinity, what is it an incarnation of?

I suggest thinking about the difference between a Warrior Caste and a warhawk political party.

Also that such a caste is bound to the principles of what used to be called a Good King, and how our knowledge and memory has been erased. Even though it is supposed to be plain in the Bible since the Deists were aware of it.

There, we have the twist, the Puritans probably did "Biblically" invent modern capitalism, even though it teaches the opposite.

Pretty slick huh? Is there someone who would like to celebrate Thanksgiving again?

And this is important to exactly who that was not raised under some distorted Bible message?

Sometimes when millions of your neighbors are agitated, you have to kill them, or die trying. It takes a certain kind of person, i. e., a caste, to be any good at this. The militaries of most warhawks are loaded with psychological abortions.

Spiral

5th August 2022, 06:02

NewResistance/11476

Bill Ryan

5th August 2022, 12:20

A harrowing and graphic account of the war, from a Ukrainian soldier. Below is an edited translation (courtesy of The Moon of Alabama (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-sitrep-on-the-ground-report-ukrainian-frontline-collapses.html#more)).

(Note: 300 is the military designation for wounded people, 200 is for dead soldiers.)

Original article: https://censor.net/ua/resonance/3358083/pisky_myasorubka

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Pisky - The Meat Grinder
Author: Serhiy Gnezdilov

What is there to lose, what else can be taken from me on the sixth day of my personal hell, in Pisky, a kilometer from the first street of Donetsk, Ukraine? The bodies of those who were dearer to me than my family are lying under the heat in the trenches, broken by 152 caliber. As I wrote earlier, 6,500 shells per damn village in less than a day.
It's been six such days already, and I can't imagine how even a small number of our infantry survived in this barrage of enemy fire.
No, I'm not whining.
Two mortars 82 and 120 are working on our side.
Sometimes they wake up and "sneeze" two artillery barrels in the direction of Donetsk.
We hardly respond. There is no counter-battery fire, from the word go, the enemy puts artillery shells in our trenches without any problems, dismantles very strong, concrete positions in tens of minutes, pushing our defense line without pause or minimal rest.
The day before yesterday, the line broke, and a river of 200 or 300 [killed/wounded] was poured. I will not publish any statistics, it is forbidden in our country, but you have no idea the number and percentage of losses.
This is a hell of a meat grinder, where the battalion simply holds back the onslaught with their bodies.
For almost a week, we have been waiting for at least some kind of help that would hit the enemy's artillery, we, I repeat, are being fired with impunity with everything that the Russian military system is rich in, their aviation was working today.
I am proud of the leadership of the battalion that remained here with us. The combatant is with us, everyone is with us, contused, light 300, bandaged and returned after a couple of hours to the position, if you can call these bottomless ravines that way.
There is a war going on.
But without a counter-battery fight, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where an insane amount of our infantry is ground up in a day.
Did you really want the truth? Here it is, the naked truth.
The reserve goes to the position, closes the breakthrough, and after five minutes, only one of the 15 people remains intact.
The bodies lie on the ground. If it's a light 300, maybe you'll be lucky, you'll faint, and you'll get out on foot, you'll reach the medics.
They just took a 300 [wounded]. He shouted all the way: - "Where is the support? Where is the artillery? Why were we abandoned? Why didn't anyone cover us?"
I don't know, my friend, why no one covered us... He screams, and I'm ashamed that I'm still safe and sound, only a couple of good deafening.
I threw up, I pissed myself, I'm sorry, and I'm back in action.
All reserves are destroyed, military equipment is on fire, the enemy approaches and without any problems occupies our positions after another barrage of artillery.
Right now we are losing Pisky, all our human and material resources are almost exhausted.
Denys, a resident of Mariupol, who told me "well, I trust the arrestee [Zelenski advisor Arestovich], we will return everything back very soon" is dead. He was wounded twice, they bandaged him right in the trench, they told him, Denchyk, go to the evacuation, but he answered "guys, I will not abandon you."
Both wounded for the first time, and after the second wounding, he continued to shoot back.
We still haven't taken his body. On the ruins of Pisky, he lies with his arms outstretched and his gaze frozen. He asks for revenge. How can I refuse his latest request? How can we all leave Dan?
I believe that Dimka survived after all. Because he could not die, having recently returned from the hospital, having just proposed to his girlfriend. They say that after one of the parishes he simply disappeared. It fell asleep with earth. But, I believe that this is a mistake, and he is alive. Foolish hope and expectation.
I know, my country does not like to think aloud. But, I was left with no choice between victory and arrest. The truth should be heard, not whispers in the kitchen. Of course, he will fly separately for this post, because how? Yes, does the state lie to its own citizens?
I won't be surprised if someone says today: "Kremlin agent Sirozh talked about the brilliant plan of the victors on the Donetsk front, let's hang him on the peacemaker."
I amused to say that everything is under control. Now in Pisky, everything is not under anyone's control, but for some reason the situation is being hushed up.
Ring broken bells while we cover Pisky with bodies.
We need artillery.
Give us something here to hold on to.

Tintin

5th August 2022, 13:06

Following that execrable creature Mensch's doxxing of Eva Bartlett recently, it doesn't come as too much of a surprise that the hotel in which she and a great many other journalists were stationed should have been the target of the demented AFU and their orcs.

Apparently Eva had been in the room that was hit but 10 minutes before.

Eva provides an update here:

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Source: https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1555524144120438784

JackMcThorn

5th August 2022, 13:23

Zelensky fury as Amnesty International accuses UKRAINE of endangering civilians' lives...

Amnesty report listed incidents in which it said Ukrainian forces appeared to have put civilians in harm's way by establishing bases in residential areas
It even went as far to call on Ukraine to move forces way from populated areas
Zelensky equated this to victim blaming, saying no Russian attacks are justified
Others also hit out at Amnesty, including Ukraine's foreign minister and an MP
Many pointed out that the reason Kyiv's forces are in cities is to defend them
Ukraine's Amnesty team said their concerns over the report were ignored
Russia's UK embassy immediately leapt on the report, writing that it was 'exactly what Russia has been saying all along'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11083903/Zelensky-fury-Amnesty-International-accuses-UKRAINE-endangering-civilians-lives.html

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 14:12

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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 14:48

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 14:52

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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 15:01

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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 15:13

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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 15:27

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9ideon

5th August 2022, 15:40

Fact that Mainstream is reporting on certain things happening for almost 6 Months (done by Ukrainian Military) now, is a sign that Ukraine outlived its usefulness and that the US is cutting Zelenskyy loose.

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 15:40

https://twitter.com/business/status/1555560008976302080
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https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1555102965337567232
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/

Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians

Military bases set up in residential areas including schools and hospitals
Attacks launched from populated civilian areas
Such violations in no way justify Russia’s indiscriminate attacks, which have killed and injured countless civilians

Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International said today.

Such tactics violate international humanitarian law and endanger civilians, as they turn civilian objects into military targets. The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure.

“We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

“Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”

Not every Russian attack documented by Amnesty International followed this pattern, however. In certain other locations in which Amnesty International concluded that Russia had committed war crimes, including in some areas of the city of Kharkiv, the organization did not find evidence of Ukrainian forces located in the civilian areas unlawfully targeted by the Russian military.

Between April and July, Amnesty International researchers spent several weeks investigating Russian strikes in the Kharkiv, Donbas and Mykolaiv regions. The organization inspected strike sites; interviewed survivors, witnesses and relatives of victims of attacks; and carried out remote-sensing and weapons analysis.

Throughout these investigations, researchers found evidence of Ukrainian forces launching strikes from within populated residential areas as well as basing themselves in civilian buildings in 19 towns and villages in the regions. The organization’s Crisis Evidence Lab has analyzed satellite imagery to further corroborate some of these incidents.

Most residential areas where soldiers located themselves were kilometres away from front lines. Viable alternatives were available that would not endanger civilians – such as military bases or densely wooded areas nearby, or other structures further away from residential areas. In the cases it documented, Amnesty International is not aware that the Ukrainian military who located themselves in civilian structures in residential areas asked or assisted civilians to evacuate nearby buildings – a failure to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians.

Launching strikes from populated civilian areas

Survivors and witnesses of Russian strikes in the Donbas, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions told Amnesty International researchers that the Ukrainian military had been operating near their homes around the time of the strikes, exposing the areas to retaliatory fire from Russian forces. Amnesty International researchers witnessed such conduct in numerous locations.

International humanitarian law requires all parties to a conflict to avoid locating, to the maximum extent feasible, military objectives within or near densely populated areas. Other obligations to protect civilians from the effects of attacks include removing civilians from the vicinity of military objectives and giving effective warning of attacks that may affect the civilian population.

The mother of a 50-year-old man killed in a rocket attack on 10 June in a village south of Mykolaiv told Amnesty International: “The military were staying in a house next to our home and my son often took food to the soldiers. I begged him several times to stay away from there because I was afraid for his safety. That afternoon, when the strike happened, my son was in the courtyard of our home and I was in the house. He was killed on the spot. His body was ripped to shreds. Our home was partially destroyed.” Amnesty International researchers found military equipment and uniforms at the house next door.

Mykola, who lives in a tower block in a neighbourhood of Lysychansk (Donbas) that was repeatedly struck by Russian attacks which killed at least one older man, told Amnesty International: “I don’t understand why our military is firing from the cities and not from the field.” Another resident, a 50-year-old man, said: “There is definitely military activity in the neighbourhood. When there is outgoing fire, we hear incoming fire afterwards.” Amnesty International researchers witnessed soldiers using a residential building some 20 metres from the entrance of the underground shelter used by the residents where the older man was killed.

In one town in Donbas on 6 May, Russian forces used widely banned and inherently indiscriminate cluster munitions over a neighbourhood of mostly single or two-storey homes where Ukrainian forces were operating artillery. Shrapnel damaged the walls of the house where Anna, 70, lives with her son and 95-year-old mother.

Anna said: “Shrapnel flew through the doors. I was inside. The Ukrainian artillery was near my field… The soldiers were behind the field, behind the house… I saw them coming in and out… since the war started… My mother is… paralyzed, so I couldn’t flee.”

In early July, a farm worker was injured when Russian forces struck an agricultural warehouse in the Mykolaiv area. Hours after the strike, Amnesty International researchers witnessed the presence of Ukrainian military personnel and vehicles in the grain storage area, and witnesses confirmed that the military had been using the warehouse, located across the road from a farm where civilians are living and working.

While Amnesty International researchers were examining damage to residential and adjacent public buildings in Kharkiv and in villages in Donbas and east of Mykolaiv, they heard outgoing fire from Ukrainian military positions nearby.

In Bakhmut, several residents told Amnesty International that the Ukrainian military had been using a building barely 20 metres across the street from a residential high-rise building. On 18 May, a Russian missile struck the front of the building, partly destroying five apartments and damaging nearby buildings. Kateryna, a resident who survived the strike, said: “I didn’t understand what happened. [There were] broken windows and a lot of dust in my home… I stayed here because my mother didn’t want to leave. She has health problems.”

Three residents told Amnesty International that before the strike, Ukrainian forces had been using a building across the street from the bombed building, and that two military trucks were parked in front of another house that was damaged when the missile hit. Amnesty International researchers found signs of military presence in and outside the building, including sandbags and black plastic sheeting covering the windows, as well as new US-made trauma first aid equipment.

“We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price,” a resident whose home was also damaged in the strike told Amnesty International.

Military bases in hospitals

Amnesty International researchers witnessed Ukrainian forces using hospitals as de facto military bases in five locations. In two towns, dozens of soldiers were resting, milling about, and eating meals in hospitals. In another town, soldiers were firing from near the hospital.

A Russian air strike on 28 April injured two employees at a medical laboratory in a suburb of Kharkiv after Ukrainian forces had set up a base in the compound.

Using hospitals for military purposes is a clear violation of international humanitarian law.

Military bases in schools

The Ukrainian military has routinely set up bases in schools in towns and villages in Donbas and in the Mykolaiv area. Schools have been temporarily closed to students since the conflict began, but in most cases the buildings were located close to populated civilian neighbourhoods

At 22 out of 29 schools visited, Amnesty International researchers either found soldiers using the premises or found evidence of current or prior military activity – including the presence of military fatigues, discarded munitions, army ration packets and military vehicles.

Russian forces struck many of the schools used by Ukrainian forces. In at least three towns, after Russian bombardment of the schools, Ukrainian soldiers moved to other schools nearby, putting the surrounding neighbourhoods at risk of similar attacks.

In a town east of Odesa, Amnesty International witnessed a broad pattern of Ukrainian soldiers using civilian areas for lodging and as staging areas, including basing armoured vehicles under trees in purely residential neighbourhoods, and using two schools located in densely populated residential areas. Russian strikes near the schools killed and injured several civilians between April and late June – including a child and an older woman killed in a rocket attack on their home on 28 June.

In Bakhmut, Ukrainian forces were using a university building as a base when a Russian strike hit on 21 May, reportedly killing seven soldiers. The university is adjacent to a high-rise residential building which was damaged in the strike, alongside other civilian homes roughly 50 metres away. Amnesty International researchers found the remains of a military vehicle in the courtyard of the bombed university building.

International humanitarian law does not specifically ban parties to a conflict from basing themselves in schools that are not in session. However, militaries have an obligation to avoid using schools that are near houses or apartment buildings full of civilians, putting these lives at risk, unless there is a compelling military need. If they do so, they should warn civilians and, if necessary, help them evacuate. This did not appear to have happened in the cases examined by Amnesty International.

Armed conflicts seriously hamper children’s right to education, and military use of schools can result in destruction that further deprives children of this right once the war ends. Ukraine is one of 114 countries that have endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, an agreement to protect education amid armed conflict, which allows parties to make use of abandoned or evacuated schools only where there is no viable alternative.

Indiscriminate attacks by Russian forces

Many of the Russian strikes that Amnesty International documented in recent months were carried out with inherently indiscriminate weapons, including internationally banned cluster munitions, or with other explosive weapons with wide area effects. Others used guided weapons with varying levels of accuracy; in some cases, the weapons were precise enough to target specific objects.

The Ukrainian military’s practice of locating military objectives within populated areas does not in any way justify indiscriminate Russian attacks. All parties to a conflict must at all times distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects and take all feasible precautions, including in choice of weapons, to minimize civilian harm. Indiscriminate attacks which kill or injure civilians or damage civilian objects are war crimes.

“The Ukrainian government should immediately ensure that it locates its forces away from populated areas, or should evacuate civilians from areas where the military is operating. Militaries should never use hospitals to engage in warfare, and should only use schools or civilian homes as a last resort when there are no viable alternatives,” said Agnès Callamard.

Amnesty International contacted the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence with the findings of the research on 29 July 2022. At the time of publication, they had not yet responded.

Bill Ryan

5th August 2022, 15:47

An excellent interview by Ania K (Polish, but with excellent English, and a truly lovely person :flower: ) with American Russell Bentley, who lives in Donetsk.... about what life is like there right now.

Air-dropped Butterfly Mines & Shelling: current update from Ukraine with Russell "Texas" Bentley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trGVJ-W9tfo

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 15:56

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 15:59

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555489692849684480
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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 16:07

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9ideon

5th August 2022, 16:17

What about that 1.000.000 man Ukrainian counteroffensive eh? Been a blast sort of speak, yes, Pun intended!

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Bill Ryan

5th August 2022, 17:35

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/17443

Ukrainian channels are discussing what might be a leaked data from AFU General Staff:

- The AFU are only 43-48% complete;
- medical workers at the limit of their strength: the seriously wounded are transported to Europe;
- small arms and bulletproof vests are not enough;
- about 191 thousand soldiers were killed and wounded;
- there is not enough hydraulics and liquid nitrogen for M777 howitzers;
- no one cares about the missing - there are no statistics;
- the equipment transferred by the West is running out;
- Western weapons are operated by amateurs, since there are no qualified specialists;
- there is no way to repair weapons on the spot due to the lack of spare parts and specialists - everything is sent to Poland;
– the moral and psychological state of the Ukrainian military is practically at zero: even campaigns of encouragement in social networks and concerts do not help.

Thus, judging by the leaked information, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in their deplorable state will not last long.

@rosich_rus
t.me/DonbassDevushka
/17443The Moon of Alabama discusses this in a new article.

https://moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-sitrep-casualties-leak-ukraine-admits-russian-breakthrough-southern-front-paralysis.html#more

Ukraine SitRep - Casualties Leak - Ukraine Admits Russian Breakthrough - Southern Front Paralysis

There is an report on Ukraine making the rounds that was allegedly written by the higher command of the Ukrainian army and leaked from somewhere.
https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1555536747806789641
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Ukrainian channels are discussing what might be a leaked data from AFU General Staff:

The AFU are only at 43-48% strength
medical workers at their limit
small arms and armor are not enough
191 thousand soldiers were killed and wounded (only AFU, not including others)
there is not enough hydraulics and liquid nitrogen for M777 howitzers
no one cares about the missing - there are no statistics
the equipment transferred by the West is running out
western weapons are operated by amateurs, since there are no qualified specialists
no way to repair weapons on the spot due to the lack of spares and specialists - everything is sent to Poland

BTW, even with this dire report, I would caution against predicting a decisive break in morale. As with Peski, the walking wounded are sent straight back into the trenches
There are some pictures of documents written in cyrillic script attached to the above tweet.

The documents look legit. The overall numbers and issues mentioned seem plausible to me. The high number of casualties (plus the missing) is not astonishing. It would be astonished though if the Russian army and its allies have more than one tenth of those. This is mostly an artillery war and the Russian side has had a vast superiority in guns and missiles.

I wonder about the M-777 need for hydraulic oil and nitrogen. Both are used in the hydraulic recoil mechanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_recoil_mechanism) of such guns.

Back when I was in the military we had similar mechanisms in our tanks. But they did not consume oil or nitrogen due to normal operation. Only larger maintenance, like changing the gun barrel, would require a readjustment of that mechanism. Is the 'light' howitzer M-777 so badly constructed that those fluids and gases can leak out and thereby become consumables?

The Ukraine has acknowledged (https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-warns-russian-offensive-sweden-015910425.html) that its main reinforced defense line west of Donetsk city has been broken:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy this week described the pressure his armed forces were under in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine as "hell". He spoke of fierce fighting around the town of Avdiivka and the fortified village of Pisky, where Kyiv has acknowledged its Russian foe's "partial success" in recent days.

The Ukrainian military said on Thursday Russian forces had mounted at least two assaults on Pisky but that its troops had managed to repel them.

Ukraine has spent the last eight years fortifying defensive positions in Pisky, viewing it as a buffer zone against Russian-backed forces who control the city of Donetsk about 10 km (6 miles) to the southeast.

General Oleksiy Hromov told a news conference that Ukrainian forces had recaptured two villages around the eastern city of Sloviansk, but had been pushed back to the town of Avdiivka's outskirts after being forced to abandon a coal mine regarded as a key defensive position.

The Russian defence ministry confirmed its offensive.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/13i/donetzkmap.jpg
Source: LiveUAmap (https://liveuamap.com/)

Everything red on the left of the red line marks recent progress. It looks small but was achieved against the most fortified positions the Ukrainian side had.

Here is an aerial view of a part of Pisky.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/13i/pisky2.jpg

There are ditches (black lines) everywhere and after eight years of artillery war all houses have been more or less destroyed. Still their basements are good fighting positions which are difficult to overcome.

The breakthrough happened after the Ukraine had moved many artillery units from the Donetsk to the southern front. That also explains the lack of counter-battery fire in the east an eyewitness recently lamented about (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-sitrep-on-the-ground-report-ukrainian-frontline-collapses.html).

Ukraine is still dreaming of a counter-offensive in the south:
Ukraine said the Russian offensive in the east looked like an attempt to force it to divert troops from the south where Kyiv's forces are trying to retake territory and destroy Russian supply lines as a prelude to a wider counter-offensive. "The idea is to put military pressure on us in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk over the next few weeks ... What is happening in the east is not what will determine the outcome of the war," Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said in an interview on YouTube.
Arestovych is of course wrong. The war was decided in the east when the Ukrainian military followed its bosses orders and moved everything it had to that front. That gave the Russian artillery the chance to take it apart. The Ukrainian tactic, ordered from above, was to hold onto every position until it was completely destroyed. A more mobile defense would likely have been more effective and would have cost less casualties.

The units that Ukraine pulled back from Donbas and has send down to Kherson for its 'million men' offensive were already heavily mauled. They have now been waiting for weeks for the offensive to launch. Meanwhile Russian missiles have hit several of those repositioned units and caused a high numbers of fresh casualties. The removal of Ukrainian artillery from the Donetsk line allowed for the breakthrough at that line.

The long time it took for all that repositioning to happen has also given time for the Russian forces to strengthen its troops around Kherson. There are by now sufficient numbers for the Russian's to launch their own offensive in the area.
General Hromov said Russia might launch its own offensive in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson to try to win back momentum in the war after building up its forces there.The general got that right. The Russian offensive in the south may launch as early as next week.

There seems to be again a disagreement between the Zelensky regime and the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine.

The general staff knows that a counter-offensive against Kherson makes no sense as it would cost many more casualties and is likely to be defeated.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/13i/artymap.jpg
Source: Military Land (https://militaryland.net/ukraine/deployment-map/)

(Under NATO symbology friendly artillery is marked as a rectangle with a fat dot in the middle. An X above says the unit is a brigade. Three vertical lines mark a (smaller) regiment and two a (smaller) battalion.)

I count 4 Ukrainian artillery brigades and three artillery regiments on the southern front. There is currently only one artillery brigade on the eastern front. While mechanized brigades in the east have their own organic artillery units those do not have the big guns that can do the counter-battery fire.

The general staff does not want to attack in the south. It wants to move a least some of the artillery brigades there back to the Donetsk line.

But Zelensky and his crew want to prevent the referendums that will be held next month in Kherson and other regions under Russian control. That is why they are pushing for a counter-attack there.

The disagreement has paralyzed the Ukrainian army. The units sitting in the south waiting for orders while they get decimated by daily Russian missile strikes. This while they are urgently needed in the east.

Zelensky and Arestovych may be good at making movies. Military geniuses they are certainly not.

ExomatrixTV

5th August 2022, 18:03

Why Do They Keep Silent About Children Trafficking in Ukraine (https://southfront.org/why-do-they-keep-silent-about-children-trafficking-in-ukraine/)?

article (https://www.frontnieuws.com/waarom-zwijgen-zij-over-kinderhandel-in-oekraine) (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

shaberon

5th August 2022, 18:38

- there is no way to repair weapons on the spot due to the lack of spare parts and specialists - everything is sent to Poland;

Yes, it is.

Sputnik Arabic (https://sputniknews.com/20220804/exclusive-ukrainians-sell-nato-supplied-weapons-abroad-1098120922.html) went halfway through setting up a $400k arms deal on the dark web.

"Weapons Ukraine", however, slipped that the weapons will be loaded onto a ship by their "allies in Poland". The arms dealer also provided a Russian-written map with a hand-drawn estimate of the ship’s route. According to the map, the transit will depart from a port in Portugal, go around the African continent and arrive in Yemen. The shop's owner did not elaborate on how the guns are going to make it from Ukraine to Poland and then onto Portugal.

See how worried they are about U. N. inspections of smuggling on humanitarian vessels?

This was mostly U. S.-made M4 assault rifles being sold for double the normal price. The seller claims to have already made thirty-two similar transactions. At volume, you get free ammo and some grenades.

It sounds like the Poles are the main escape hatch for stuff that can pretty much be given to anyone in the world.

Too big to smuggle = try to dump it on people in Donbass.

Eight years of concrete fortifications = destroyed and overrun at will.

Military purpose of Ukraine Armed Forces = nothing.

shaberon

5th August 2022, 18:53

This is a rough estimate (https://southfront.org/ukrainian-defenses-collapse/) of that thing that only the entire defense of Ukraine depends on:

On August 4, Russian assault groups entered the city of Bakhmut from the eastern direction. Units from the Wagner group are operating in the area. The Ukrainian defense collapsed under heavy fire from Russian artillery. Ukrainian forces also suffered heavy losses after a failed attempt to counterattack Russian positions in the town of Pokrovskoe located on the eastern outskirts of the city.

The fighting is ongoing on Patrice Lumumba Street. Russian forces are yet to take a foothold as Ukrainian forces are shelling the positions that they left.

Fighting reached the industrial zone of the city of Soledar. Russian-led units, including the 6th Cossack regiment of the LPR People’s Militia and Wagner assault groups, broke through Ukrainian defenses advancing from Bakhmutskoe. Fierce clashes continue near the Knauf plant. Heavy artillery duels prevent either of the warring sides from establishing military positions.

In the Donetsk region, Russian and DPR units took control of the town of Peski. The mop up operation let them advance towards the western outskirts of the town and come closer to Pervomaiskoe. Advancing units are expected to develop their offensive towards Vodianoe to surround Ukrainian forces in Avdeevka from the south-western direction.

Meanwhile, the General Staff of Ukraine confirmed the growing threat for its grouping in Avdeevka amid the Russian advance to the south of the town.

7he5ource

5th August 2022, 19:24

Thinking outside the propaganda machine ...

Has anyone considered that those who put Trump in the puppet seat made a deal with Russia?
Trump with his Russian Mob contacts from his Casino money laundering days ... the perfect ambassador?
"Imagine no Imagination" - John Lenin ... Imagine if you dare that USA and USSR having made a pact in WW2 re-solidified this pact/alliance in the trumpet-mouth days.
Then China is the target, Russia having gained Pong's confident can act in unison at the appointed time with the west to destroy China.
Western people's and Russian are mostly the same gene pool making us "brothers and sisters" ...

I understand from my recent/previous posts that open free discussion is not encouraged these days on chat sites, with a conventional, conformity, or regurgitating what the propaganda news reports. Too bad war doesn't work that way!

Every thought must be re-evaluated every nanosecond, re-invented, and often retracted.
So you'll excuse me for just speaking spontaneously ... but I felt something changing with the Trump Puppet. If he waddles like a duck he's a Duck.
He's been involved deep inside Russian Intel/Mob most his business life.

Bill Ryan

5th August 2022, 19:29

"Imagine no Imagination" - John LeninMaybe the Beatles made a deal with the Russians as well. :)

:focus:

7he5ource

5th August 2022, 19:51

"Imagine no Imagination" - John LeninMaybe the Beatles made a deal with the Russians as well. :)
:focus:

I understand the topic to be Russia and perhaps WW-3 and that the USA-Russia alliance [from WW-2] are omitted by current media on this subject.
And our shared genetic heritage should play prominently into any war scenario as warfare is historically/traditionally tribal.
Hence I made [a much needed?] break in the mass-fear hysteria pointing out that in war [for the believers] there are always surprises as planning a war requires tact, cunning and secrecy. I maintain my position [if it wasn't clear in the model presented] that secrecy is always paramount. Yes we can discuss what News reports but I hope independent thinking is included! I didn't propose a model as a truth but as a way to demonstrate an important point, that seems to be missed.

As for the Beatles that's off topic for sure but Laurel Canyon was under CIA oversight and quick search puts those Beatles there too.
^^^^^ THIS also serves a a lesson in surprises Bill, thanks for bringing that up. I assure I'm focused.
I take things very seriously and hope I'm respected in the same manner

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 19:53

Some more info regarding the AFU leaked data, from telegram channel

https://t.me/belvestnik/29170

https://twitter.com/johnshreffler0/status/1555598861175078912
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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 19:58

Consequences of todays shelling of Donetsk again😢 not to mention the killings also happening in other parts of the world including Gaza.

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1555606289258102784
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https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1555608534913613824
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555616478480793600
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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 20:10

Again the Zaporozhye Nuclear power plant has been hit

https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1555588272914571265
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https://twitter.com/ZAR_ZOV/status/1555588165934751744
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https://twitter.com/ZAR_ZOV/status/1555586058988969985
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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 20:25

Gleb Bazov comments in regards to Kherson counteroffensive,

https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1555581370461822976
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https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1555582232030494721
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Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 20:51

https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1555589904037560323
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kfm27917

5th August 2022, 23:07

good maps at
https://militaryland.net/ukraine/invasion-day-162-summary/

daily updates

Ravenlocke

5th August 2022, 23:30

New Update

Some notable points.

Last few hours grim for Ukraine

Alexander also talks about General Zaluzhny

Piski has been taken by the Russian forces

Wagner group are exceptional tough fighters

Russian troops have reached Bakhmut and there’s street fighting going on.
He explains the strategic importance of Bahkmut for Ukraine
It’s fall helps the Russians to encircle Adeevka next

The Duran were contacted by a person from the DPR militia who said the war is an artillery war and the Russians use a vast barrage of fire against the Ukrainian militia so much so that if not blown away, they retreat or desert under such pressure.

It’s a horrific war and it’s sad that so many must die…..

Crisis in Donbass, Kiev Officials Say Ukraine Only Capable of Limited Counteroffensive in Kherson

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You can see on this map all the areas where fighting is taking place that Alexander mentions in his video above.

https://twitter.com/miladvisor/status/1555299491728719873
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kfm27917

5th August 2022, 23:44

How Ukrainians Sell NATO-Supplied Weapons Abroad

https://sputniknews.com/20220804/exclusive-ukrainians-sell-nato-supplied-weapons-abroad-1098120922.html

Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 00:16

Wagner
https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555468687641120770
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555468710462242818
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https://twitter.com/islamicworldupd/status/1555557963410116608
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The sound of the grad

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1555656606167203840
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https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1555513765612949505
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Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 00:50

https://twitter.com/Mousacisse1/status/1552407446332768258
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shaberon

6th August 2022, 05:35

Has anyone considered that those who put Trump in the puppet seat made a deal with Russia?

Yes, I have put forward the possibility the current situation is a way to throw the Democrats and internationalism such as WEF under the bus, from a kind of misguided American nationalism. They are idiots too, really big ones, but the things is they are usually the business owners and fire department. And so they do actually spend time on things that are useful.

It might be racist to say that Republicans are business owners, and now I am going to get sued by Mr. Magoo or something. But a lot of these stereotypes are based on something.

We presume Kamala is VP to prevent Biden's impeachment and he may go full term, if wax preserves that long.

The title of this thread is a question, to which that would be a no. That is maybe one thing Biden knows. "American troops in Ukraine, folks, thats...mmm...that's called World War Three, ok folks? And we're not going to fight World War Three in Ukraine".

True enough.

Instead we have numerous warnings about a Special Military Operation which has explained itself to us as an existential struggle (https://southfront.org/russian-warplanes-destroyed-hideouts-of-us-proxies-in-syrias-al-tanf-video/):

Russian warplanes had neutralized a unit of the US-backed al-Qaryatayn Martyrs Brigade near the southeastern Syrian area of al-Tanf where the US-led coalition maintains a large garrison, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on August 5.

The al-Qaryatayn Martyrs Brigade was formed in 2014 with direct support from the US. Before moving to al-Tanf in 2016, the group was active in the deserts of Damascus and Homs. In 2017, the US-led coalition claimed that it had ceased support for the group. However, the group continued to operate in al-Tanf.

This was the second Russian attack on US proxies in al-Tanf in recent months. In June, a series of Russian strikes hit positions of the Revolutionary Commando Army (MaT), the US-led coalition’s main proxy in al-Tanf garrison. The strikes were reportedly a response to an attack by MaT militants that resulted in Russian military casualties. The US-led coalition was alerted ahead of the airstrikes, which caused material losses only.

In my view, all aspects are related to this struggle, and not many parts of the world are unaffected by it. Millenia of history and how its understanding has been changed, as well as events in numerous other countries currently, are all rushing together in this struggle. Most of our opinions are irrelevant, in the sense that the two sides have defined themselves quite well, and this thread really does have a whole lot that shows this.

I am in the poor situation that I am not on the side I am in, and I am in it because I was essentially deceived by my parents about becoming a tax-paying citizen. It was an uninformed consent under the duress that you think you are supposed to do what your parents say.

Out of all U. S. military endeavors, the one that might seemed to have been justifiable was, maybe, against the Khmer Rouge.

They keep picking my pocket without allowing any influence on what is done with the funds.

So far I would say two British and CIA goals have been met:

Germany on bad terms with Russia

U. S. industrial capacity sucked out and irrelevant

But then the problem is, I do not see how the results resemble British success, to echo the Rothschild quote "We cannot lose Ukraine!" I think probably the natural fact that their goal was not possible or would not work has just exhausted its lifespan and started revealing itself to them in hard numbers that even bankers in the City are not amused with. Along with the Covid situation, which, presumably, is highly integrated into this mess. Recently such a theory came out in one of the major American peer-reviewed professional research journals. Most of it drops back on the Biden syndicate. All of it has been shoved in the face of the Security Council and a few other influential states. Can we limp another two years of:

"Mere allegations".

if it means saying goodbye to the world as we knew it in a major way?

We will see, but, yes, I would not be surprised if Trump or some affiliate came back with a campaign to restore normal relations. In general it also seems to be giving a startlingly clear image of the depraved psyche of the collective west, which is mostly the same reasons I don't like it.

JackMcThorn

6th August 2022, 10:44

Amnesty's Ukraine chief quits over 'propaganda' report

https://www.rte.ie/news/ukraine/2022/0806/1314255-ukraine-war-latest/

The head of Amnesty International's Ukrainian office is leaving the human rights group after it accused Ukraine's armed forces of endangering civilians by basing troops in residential areas.

The report listed incidents in 19 cities and towns where Ukrainian forces appeared to have put civilians in harm's way by establishing bases in residential areas.

The human rights group yesterday said it fully stood by the accusations after the report drew a furious response from the Ukrainian government.

In an address on Thursday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Amnesty had tried to "amnesty the terrorist state and shift the responsibility from the aggressor to the victim".

Yesterday, Amnesty's Secretary General Agnes Callamard said the findings in the report "were based on evidence gathered during extensive investigations which were subject to the same rigorous standards and due diligence processes as all of Amnesty International's work".

*****

It seems like the truth hurts so bad; people have to leave over it. The MSM just won't have it.

[Bill, I use the dark background and green really looks good on it but I understand. A lot of the colours do not look so good on the dark background like blues and I usually just highlight those if I cannot read them. I really dislike the red but I get it.]

ExomatrixTV

6th August 2022, 12:09

Watch: TV Host Demolishes President Zelensky In 5 Minutes – 'Something Isn't Right Here'

In 2014, Russians in Ukraine were promised that they would be able to vote on independence in a referendum. It turned out differently: since 2015 they have been at war with the regime in Kiev. The referendum never took place.

Zelensky promised to end the civil war. He has not, Sky News presenter Cory Bernardi notes (https://youtu.be/KEPWgMXut_8) . Instead, he supports the Right Sector, whose leader has openly said he fed the bones of Russian children to his wolf. It was reportedly "a joke."
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They are just like that

Meanwhile, the West is arming Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias, including the Azov battalion. That's just the way they are, was all Zelensky wanted to say about it. During speeches, the president of one of the most corrupt countries in Europe begs governments for more money and weapons.
According to Bernardi, this conflict can be solved simply by letting the Russians vote on their independence in Ukraine. Zelensky is strongly against this. Instead, he has banned the Russian language in public services, banned opposition parties and curbed the media.

This is not right

He's also busy entertaining attention-seeking politicians from around the world, including Nancy Pelosi, while his wife visits the White House and poses for Vogue.

“Something isn't right here,” says Bernardi. “We would be wise to take everything we hear about this conflict with a huge grain of salt.”

dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/kijk-tv-presentator-sloopt-president-zelenski-in-5-minuten-hier-klopt-iets-niet) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋

Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 13:34

Interestingly the server for thealtworld.com is unreachable after they published the following article

https://twitter.com/Russ_Warrior/status/1555876357300953088
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Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 13:44

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1555873324982571009
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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1555898335269191683
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Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 13:53

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1555912008750563328
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ExomatrixTV

6th August 2022, 14:15

Why They NEED World War III - Dr. Vernon Coleman:

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/_/Q/J/a/_QJae.caa.mp4

source (https://rumble.com/v141i9r-why-they-need-world-war-iii-dr.-vernon-coleman.html)

Tintin

6th August 2022, 15:17

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1555898335269191683
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Yes, I've just watched this - it's about 24 or so minutes long and is very interesting. I'd have preferred something more in-depth to be honest but it's still worth a little time.

It's called 'Arming Ukraine' and can be streamed via this link: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/arming-ukraine-cbs-reports/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=176116167#x

9ideon

6th August 2022, 15:40

North Korea Offers 100,000 Troops to Help Russia Fight Ukraine

North Korea Offers 100,000 Troops to Russia – The isolationist, communist state of North Korea continues its efforts to forge closer ties to Russia, with Russian state television this week revealing how dictator Kim Jong Un has offered the Kremlin as many as 100,000 “volunteers” to assist with the Russian President’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Source (https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/08/north-korea-offers-100000-troops-to-help-russia-fight-ukraine-report/)

Tintin

6th August 2022, 16:19

A slightly extended version of Eva Bartlett's chronicling of the central Donetsk bombing on August 4th:

https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/ukraine-bombed-the-hotel-i-was-in,:f

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Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 19:31

https://readovka.world/news/107255

Evidence of Ukrainian militants' mass slaughter of Russian captives in Readovka's detailed analysis

Readovka has at its disposal video footage taken shortly before and immediately after the brutal execution of our soldiers. The details of the evidence and the circumstances of the tragedy are explained.

On August 3, we published a video shot by Ukrainian fighters in the Chernihiv region this spring, presumably in late March. The video depicts the bodies of unarmed Russian captives in cold blood being shot in the head. The executioners, who had massacred our servicemen in defiance of every article of the Geneva Convention, were mocking the dead and laughingly boasting that they had shot a soldier while he was trying to escape.

Readovka has obtained a new video footage that proves the Ukrainian fighters' atrocities against Russian captives. In the video, three of our soldiers, blindfolded with duct tape, are brought in a car and then unloaded from it, presumably for slaughter. After comparing the two videos in detail, we determined that the footage is showing the same soldiers, and the action in the second video takes place shortly before the captured soldiers end up on the ground, shot in the head.

Despite the low quality of the video footage provided by the ZOV team to Readovka, we have been able to establish similarities between the two videos in terms of clothing.

The first captive is immediately identifiable by his khaki pants with black elements and a dark blue thermal jacket with light blue fabric inserts on the shoulders and sleeves, as well as by his black boots.

The second captive is dressed in a gray-green turtleneck and green khaki pants, with light dark shoes. He has a chunky build, and through his wrapped up head his baldness can be seen. But the main identifying feature is a red bandage on his knee. In the video, where the fighters have already been shot, we can see a man with a similar physique and wearing similar clothes. Just for a second we see the leg of the murdered man, on which we can also see a red bandage, only in the footage it is displaced from the knee to the ankle.

The third serviceman is wearing pants and a khaki jacket of the same set, with a hood on the jacket and a dark green hat. He is wearing black sneakers with gray inserts on the soles. A distinctive detail is that he is wearing a kneepad. The second video with the bodies clearly shows the hood, sneakers and kneepads. This soldier, as previously pronounced by the Ukrainian fighters themselves, was killed while trying to escape.

It is noteworthy that there is a difference in the shade of the clothes of the dead, but it should be taken into account that the two videos were filmed at different times of the day. The first one, in which the captives are unloaded from the car, was shot in the afternoon, and the second one, where they are lying already dead, was shot in the evening. Furthermore, the first video was filmed in sunlight and the second one in a cloudy sky. Finally, the poor quality of the camera of the cell phone, on which the Ukrainian fighters were filming, should be considered.

According to our source, the famous Ukrainian nationalist Vita Zaverukha, a member of the Right Sector (banned in Russia) and known for other violent incidents against Russian servicemen by Kyiv regime fighters, is connected to the crime in the video. She is not present in the footage where the Russian captives have already been killed, but our source claims that the militants who massacred the Russian soldiers are connected to her. In the second video, where the captives are brought by car, a woman's voice is heard in the background, and according to our source, it belongs to Zaverukha.

It should be noted that the images show the faces and identifying signs of the fighters who executed the Russian captives, but Readovka's editorial staff cannot say for sure how exactly they are recognized. The opinions of the experts we interviewed also differed, and public attention is needed here. We ask for anyone who can help in any way to identify those involved in the crime to contact us.

A detailed analysis of the two videos, from which it follows that the bound captives in the car and the murdered Russian soldiers on the ground are the same people, is another confirmation of this. At the same time, all the perpetrators have still not been punished. There is also no reaction from the world community to this blatant crime against humanity committed by the Ukrainian militants.

The editorial board is committed to providing all available materials concerning this crime to representatives of any media and international public organizations, if any are requested. The criminals must be punished.

(For pictures click on link)

https://readovka.world/news/107255

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1555911245794099208
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https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1555911252194598913

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Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 20:00

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Ravenlocke

6th August 2022, 20:12

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shaberon

7th August 2022, 08:49

Here is a look over the puddle at what sounds, to me, like "inter-related issues".

First a sort of independent analysis that in the UK, Millions will join breadline (https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/millions-will-join-breadline-in-recession-hit-uk-niesr-warn) due to the following manufactured crises:

NIESR Director Jagjit Chadha said ordinary Britons would pay the price for years of what he viewed as under-investment in public services, which had left them vulnerable to successive economic shocks like Brexit, Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine.

“It needs urgent and sustained, and credible, intervention by successive governments,” Chadha told reporters at a news conference.

“Unfortunately, it’s not clear to me that we have the political institutions to deliver that.”

It seemed more likely to him that the available sources would:

...force more than a million households to choose between heating their homes and purchasing sufficient food.

Usually I would just disregard something like that as frivolous speculation, except, if I understand rightly, this is MI5 (https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/04/bank-of-england-launches-biggest-interest-rate-hike-in-27-years.html) and their dictatorial excuse:

The Monetary Policy Committee voted by a majority of 8-1 in favor of the historic half-point rise, and cited climbing inflationary pressures in the U.K. and the rest of Europe since its previous meeting in May.

“That largely reflects a near doubling in wholesale gas prices since May, owing to Russia’s restriction of gas supplies to Europe and the risk of further curbs,” the MPC said in its accompanying statement.

And then to make it even more blatantly triumphal:

In a news conference following the announcement, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said the shock of Russia’s war in Ukraine is now the largest contributor to U.K. inflation “by some way.”

“There is an economic cost to the war, but I have to be clear, it will not deflect us from setting monetary policy to bring inflation back to the 2% target,” he added.

Markets had broadly priced in the more aggressive approach at the August meeting, after U.K. inflation hit a new 40-year high of 9.4% in June as food and energy prices continued to surge, deepening the country’s historic cost-of-living crisis.

Bailey vowed last month that there would be “no ifs or buts” in the central bank’s commitment to returning inflation toward its 2% target.

These denouncements are mitigated by saying it will be the worst situation in only 30 or 40 years.

Although the deterioration was the effect of all previous policies, at least you will be able to blame Russia.

We might ask ourselves, why is the problem going to go away in only a year or so?

Analysis from the other day showed us that the main contributor of inflation was the enormous pool of corporate profits again historically unprecedented. You have that, but, the actual or real economy is in tatters, mainly due to governmental choices viz. Russia and the other things.

When they do, in fact, "lose Ukraine", that is probably not going to help either.

Recently the U. S. economy was only described as almost as bad (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobless-claims-2022-07-30/). I cannot figure out why UK policies seem to have ripped UK the hardest. I thought the plan was all supposed to work to their advantage, or at least that is what they said. I don't believe it works.

Those guys are about as blatantly waving a dead fish in your face about as hard as they can.

We can only be sure that this exact same thing has just been done every day for not less than two hundred years, happening to have used Ukraine one time as a herd for Zionism.

I don't have to say the Governor said something stupid; he said something stupid. It speaks for itself, unless, I suppose, you subscribe to the emotional hypnosis of it. Then you could really believe in something that is not there.

None of the ensuing garbage applies to him, of course, because you cannot get these people to wait in the same breadline as you. Who needs to threaten a country like this? It sounds like the future has been thrown away for nothing.

Tintin

7th August 2022, 10:58

Eva Bartlett reports on yet more UkroNazi atrocities in this Twitter thread today:

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Source: https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1556140508661022720

Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 14:19

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1556084630943662080

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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1556225625442160640
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 14:43

https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten/status/1556202923159592960
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https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten/status/1556202935172071424
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https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten/status/1556202940960210944
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 15:08

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1556010287886733313
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 15:14

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1556230458949648387
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9ideon

7th August 2022, 15:14

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1556010287886733313
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It would be interesting to see who owned that land. If it was the State of Ukraine then this is corporations funding the war. Why, because when Russia takes over Ukraine, you think they will just let those corps keep that land, it will become state owned land again.

Spiral

7th August 2022, 16:34

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kfm27917

7th August 2022, 18:35

Only 30% of the weapons are even making it to the frontlines

So, on the one hand, all the people with their snouts in the trough are stealing billions of dollars of Western tax money. They're also damaging Russia, their Authoritarian mortal enemy. All opposition to this war has effectively become banned. All this seems to indicate that the West will continue its Ukraine operation.

On the other hand, enthusiasm and interest has dwindled to a trickle. I see this reflected in my own articles and other Russia bloggers', as people are no doubt talking about monkeypox and COVID and the midterms and other topics now. Furthermore, the Pelosi stunt in Taiwan put the spotlight on China again.

I don't know what to make of it all, but my gut instinct tells me that the attention of the spook agencies, the politicians and the media will zero in on where there is the most money to be made stealing from the public coffers. Is there money to be made sending money to Taiwan for defense against China and stealing 70% of it with the help of local corrupt officials? Sure.

But, Ukraine is quite unique in its ability to achieve new heights of excellence and innovation in the field of organized graft. The entire spook apparatus, government and military is completely committed to looting as much as possible and the West would be sad to see such a lucrative money-laundering operation go under.

Russia would no doubt liked to have knocked out Ukraine in the early days of the war with its push on Kiev and prepared covert operation, but, despite that failure, the unexpected runner-up prize of bleeding the West dry is starting to look quite good as well.

Comment: The gush of weapons to 'Ukraine' may well end up pre-arming NATO in Russia's backyard.

https://www.sott.net/article/470751-Only-30-of-the-weapons-are-even-making-it-to-the-frontlines

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UN: The Largest Number of Ukrainian Refugees Are Fleeing From “Russian Aggression” … to Russia!

https://www.stalkerzone.org/un-the-largest-number-of-ukrainian-refugees-are-fleeing-from-russian-aggression-to-russia/

Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 19:16

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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 19:23

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556359108906852354
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 19:30

(Slavyangrad reported hours ago that the Russians had reached the Knauf factory, see post above.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1511148&viewfull=1#post1511148)

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556310292048629760
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556364280999677952
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 19:47

Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 19:56

https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1555945283590160387
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Some more on today’s shelling of Donetsk by the AFU

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1556354677607907328
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 20:04

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1556160346318053378
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 20:17

About Enerhodar

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1556369590665367552
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https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1556174964553908224
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556276596503363584
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https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1556369819427012608
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 20:41

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556372864143589382
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Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 20:48

https://www.rt.com/russia/560414-amnesty-apologizes-report-critical-ukraine/

Amnesty apologizes after Ukrainian pressure

International human rights group Amnesty International has issued an apology for the consternation triggered by its recent report, which, among other things, accused the Ukrainian armed forces of violating “international humanitarian law and endanger[ing] civilians.” The organization has, however, refused to disavow its findings.

In an e-mail sent to Reuters on Sunday, Amnesty said that it “deeply regrets the distress and anger that our press release on the Ukrainian military’s fighting tactics has caused,” as cited by Reuters.

The rights group went on to explain that its “sole objective” in publishing the analysis was to ensure that “civilians are protected.” It also made it clear that it “fully stand[s] by our findings.”

In its email, Amnesty insisted that its observers had sighted Ukrainian forces in the vicinity of residential areas in at least 19 towns and villages across the country. According to the organization, by positioning its forces in such a manner, the Ukrainian military endangered the civilian populations there by subjecting them to the danger of incoming Russian fire.

Ukrainian forces ‘put civilians at risk’ – Amnesty READ MORE: Ukrainian forces ‘put civilians at risk’ – Amnesty
Soon after the findings were published, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky accused Amnesty of trying to shift the responsibility away from Russian troops. Addressing these criticisms, the group stressed that its findings do not suggest that “Amnesty International holds Ukrainian forces responsible for violations committed by Russian forces, nor that the Ukrainian military is not taking adequate precautions elsewhere in the country.”

The rights group added: “Nothing we documented Ukrainian forces doing in any way justifies Russian violations.”

The report in question was published on Thursday. While lambasting Russian forces, the investigation also took aim at the Ukrainian military, claiming that it had displayed a troubling pattern of “putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war” by operating from residential infrastructure, including schools.

Commenting on the group’s findings, Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s secretary general, emphasized that “being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”

Zelensky, however, lashed out at Amnesty, proclaiming that anyone who doubts that “Ukraine is a victim” is an “accomplice of Russia – a terrorist country – and a terrorist themselves and a participant in the killings.”

Ukrainian officials have also insisted that Kiev is doing its best to evacuate civilians out of harm’s way.

Russia, in turn, pointed out that it had repeatedly called out Ukrainian troops for using civilians as “human shields,” and Amnesty’s findings only serve to confirm that.

Ravenlocke

7th August 2022, 20:53

https://tass.com/world/1490477?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Ukrainian troops make another strike on Zaporozhye NPP - city administration

The damaged zone included the area of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops once again shelled the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant, with the spent nuclear fuel storage area coming into the impact zone, the press service of Energodar’s military-civilian administration said on Sunday.

"At night, Ukrainian armed units made a strike using a 220mm rocket of the Uragan MLRS," it reported. When approaching the power units, the rocket released submunitions, the press service said.

"The damaged zone included the area of the storage facility for spent nuclear fuel and the station for computer-assistant monitoring of the radiation situation," it said. Administrative buildings and the adjoining territory of the storage facility were damaged by the projectiles," the report said.

All fires that broke out in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar as a result of shelling from Ukrainian troops, have been put out, Vladimir Rogov, a council member of the Zaporozhye Region’s military-civilian administration, told TASS on Sunday.

"All fires have been put out completely," Rogov stressed.

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1556331656524488704
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9ideon

8th August 2022, 07:01

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops once again shelled the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant

Call me nuts but I just ordered 240 Kalium Jodide pills.

Rizotto

8th August 2022, 09:45

Bill Ryan

8th August 2022, 10:04

Hopefully, the fact that the whole world is now watching closely, that might stop the Ukrainian military from further shelling of that nuclear plant? But if they do hit that nuclear reactor, any projections on what would be the fall-out? Over which areas? Just wondering if they would intentionally do this in anticipation that most of the radiation would move eastward towards the Donbass or Russia. In any case, it would be an insane offensive.Shelling is actually very unlikely to do much if any damage. Nuclear plants are highly engineered to be near-indestructible unless the thing explodes from within, as with Chernobyl, or there's a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, as with Fukushima.

If anything, the escapade just illustrates how irresponsible and criminal the Ukrainian authorities are (such actions are likely to be ordered by politicians, not the military), cheer-led by the western media who are just as bad. They won't damage the reactor, but it's the intentions which are clearly put on show here.

9ideon

8th August 2022, 10:26

any projections on what would be the fall-out? Over which areas?

In the worst-case scenario, the reactor containment would be destroyed by explosions and the cooling system would fail, the radioactivity of both the reactor and the fuel pool could then freely escape into the atmosphere.

This risks making the entire plant inaccessible because of the high radiation levels, which could then lead to a further cascade of the other reactors and fuel pools, each spreading large quantities of radioactivity into different wind directions over several weeks.

It could make a large part of Europe, including Russia, uninhabitable for at least many decades and over a distance of hundreds of kilometers, a nightmare scenario and potentially far worse than the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011.

Source (https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/52459/nuclear-hazards-zaporizhzhia-plant-ukraine-military-invasion/)

Tintin

8th August 2022, 13:10

Looks wonderful. If only they played test cricket as well it'd be a shoo-in for a 'Yes' from me :)

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Source: https://twitter.com/DisInfo_Kills/status/1556319197105475585

ExomatrixTV

8th August 2022, 17:42

Policy By Other Means - By Helmholtz Smith

"Hybrid war". Western propagandists love the expression "The bad guys are doing nasty underhand things to counter our clean-cut decent and wholly justified activities" but they are just making noise. As Clausewitz knew (https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/clausewitz-war-as-politics-by-other-means), however, there is an actual meaning:
We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means. All beyond this which is strictly peculiar to War relates merely to the peculiar nature of the means which it uses (...) for the political view is the object, War is the means, and the means must always include the object in our conception.In this sense, all intelligently-conducted wars are "hybrid wars" advancing on many levels to achieve the "political object" by "other means".
What is the "object"?

Moscow knows that NATO/USA is the real enemy and that the wretched Ukrainians are its puppets and their looted and worn-out country is the arena. Putin himself has said that NATO's threat to Russia must be stopped. NATO, and the European Union with which it is closely linked, must be exposed as useless, actively harmful to their members and their hostility defeated.

NATO, which loves to pose as peaceful (despite the five or six wars it's started in the last quarter-century), cannot or will not understand Russia's point of view. Moscow will shove its face in it. Putin says that he has many times tried other means (Munich 2007 (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/russia-is-back-repost-from-feb-12-2007.html) being one of the earliest). Those means having failed, he's using these means this time.

Far-ranging aims require a multi-front attack. Let us consider the fronts.

MILITARY FRONT. Putin has explained the aims – denazification and demilitarization Maybe they could have been achieved through negotiation – although years of Kiev ignoring the Minsk Agreements suggest not – but that didn't happen. Maybe Moscow hoped that its feint on Kiev might prevent a bloody slog but that didn't happen either. And so the battle of annihilation is on – Ukraine's military power is being smashed and the Nazis killed.

It's taking a long time for several reasons. Imagine the Western Front trench line but with three times as long to build it and concrete rather than sandbags and wood. Russia and its allies attacked with smaller forces. The allied forces are moving slowly to reduce their casualties and because they are in no particular hurry. The Ukrainians are resisting very tenaciously and NATO is egging them on. The Ukrainian forces are being methodically slaughtered, allied casualties are a fraction of that because "artillery conquers and infantry occupies".

DIPLOMATIC FRONT. The West likes claim that Russia is isolated. But, in terms of population, the so-called "International Community" represents only 15 to 20 percent of the world and the Russians are well-received elsewhere. Here's Lavrov very much in the thick of things at ASEAN (https://bangladeshbeyond.com.bd/russia-has-always-been-will-remain-a-reliable-stable-interested-partner-for-asean-lavrov/), in Africa (note media attempts to spin (https://www.voanews.com/a/russian-visit-to-africa-seen-as-chance-to-counteract-western-narrative/6672953.html) it away (https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russias-lavrov-courts-africa-quest-more-non-western-friends-2022-07-25/)) and the Arab world (https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/w7f3e3/representatives_of_22_arab_states_line_up_to/).

Russia isn't isolated at all and its diplomacy is having effect. US diplomacy, on the other hand, is just threats – Africa is warned (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/world/europe/us-africa-russia-sanctions.html?referringSource=articleShare), China threatened (https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-18-washington-threatens-china-"to-pay-a-heavy-price"-if-it-helps-russia-circumvent-sanctions.HkNg0gvQ2c.html).

ECONOMIC FRONT. When Moscow began its "special military operation", it expected that Nordstream 2 would be stopped because it knew the West was stuck on the idea that the Russian economy is dependent on selling energy to Europe – "Russia cannot afford to cut its sales of oil (https://mobile.twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1555613037729644547)". Moscow had its response ready – hostile countries have to pay in rubles.

What's Europe's response? Hurt Putin by not showering. Don't, he doesn't care. Of course the price went up and Moscow has probably completely funded the operation out of the increased revenue. The West is discovering – and, advised as it is by people like Aslund, to its astonishment – that "the country that doesn't make anything" is a big producer of lots of essential things.

Moscow knew Washington would stick Europeans with the check – just as Washington will fight to the last Ukrainian (https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1554414706986721285), it will sanction until the last European freezes. The economic war is doing more damage to Russia's enemies. They will either figure this out and change their behavior or they won't and they'll suffer. Moscow waits knowing that it wins either way.

PROPAGANDA FRONT. It is a common sentiment that Moscow is losing the propaganda war but I'm not convinced. Propaganda has to have some basis in truth – instead we have the martyrs of Snake Island miraculously reviving, the ghostly Ghost of Kiev, million-man armies disappearing, Kherson counter attacks put off again, maternity hospital bombings exposed by the bombed-out mothers, bodies thoughtfully left out to be seen, Russia begging China, Iran or North Korea for weapons, another "game-changer" weapon.

Russia was running out of ammunition in March (https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-supplies-last-no-more-26530673), April (https://www.bolnews.com/international/2022/04/putins-army-is-running-out-of-ammunition-because-the-components-are-manufactured-in-ukraine/), June (https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1631496/putin-news-disaster-Russian-forces-low-ammo-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky) and July (https://ussanews.com/2022/07/22/mi6-chief-says-russia-about-to-run-out-of-steam-in-ukraine/). You have to be pretty comatose to still believe this. The propagandists have lost their skills. And reality leaks out through the holes in these flimsy tales. Witness the reception of the Amnesty International report that Ukrainian tactics are "putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/)".

"Putin's propagandists (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1a05d628-14e3-11ed-b5dc-213f5c972cc4)" chides The Times; "cannot be tolerated (https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-slams-amnesty-international-over-report-cannot-tolerated-russia-war-1731131)" says Zelensky; "Russian propaganda (https://newsrnd.com/news/2022-08-06-head-of-amnesty-ukraine-resigns--accusing-organization-of-serving--russian-propaganda-.H18HKHoipq.html)" as she quits. No news to us who have seen Azov fighters sheltering behind civilians in Mariupol, weapons hidden in shopping centers, troops setting up in schools. But it's a shocker to believers of the Western narrative (especially Vogue readers!).

Skeptics know that the difference between a conspiracy theory and reported truth is a few months. In June it was Russian disinformation that corrupt officials were selling Western weapons (https://global.espreso.tv/russian-disinfo-review-corrupt-officials-sell-western-weapons-to-syrian-idlib-ukraine-isnt-fit-for-eu-membership), in August it's news (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-military-aid-weapons-front-lines/). Zelensky a hero then, corrupt now (https://www.welt.de/kultur/plus240130237/Selenskyj-Offshore-Konten-und-Wagnergate-geheime-Geschaefte-des-Praesidenten.html). Expect more "disinformation" transforming into truth.

JUDO. Putin is well known to be a judo master. Judo is the art of using the opponent's movements against it. That's what we are seeing. On every front Russia has time on its side and escalation dominance. The impotence of NATO and the EU – in fact the actual damage that membership in either brings – is more perceptible every day as winter approaches.

Europe's, the West's, predominance stood on three legs. The power to compel others. The captivating halo of success. The wealth to fund the other two. Watch this little video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQeFR5PEBM&ab_channel=ShanghaiMedia) – not much respect there. I expect we will see more vignettes like this.

The statue is hollow, the Mandate of Heaven is shifting.

source (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/policy-by-other-means-by-helmholtz-smith.html)

ExomatrixTV

8th August 2022, 17:47

CNN SCHOOLED By Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters On Ukraine Invasion & Major Media Admits Some Truth!:

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Bill Ryan

8th August 2022, 17:54

Looks wonderful. If only they played test cricket as well it'd be a shoo-in for a 'Yes' from me :)
Here ya go :P

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_national_cricket_team

:focus:

norman

8th August 2022, 18:45

MEL K JOINS FLY OVER CONSERVATIVES FOR A DEEP DIVE ON THE COLD HARD TRUTH ABOUT UKRAINE

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This starts to get out of the boredom weeds after 10 minutes and eventually covers territory you may never have been before.

Ravenlocke

8th August 2022, 19:42

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1556516983641882624
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https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1556537778766487552
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Ravenlocke

8th August 2022, 19:47

https://twitter.com/wyattreed13/status/1556584512150200321
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https://twitter.com/HermesTrading1/status/1556647394506264581
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Ravenlocke

8th August 2022, 20:06

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556731754886709250
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Ravenlocke

8th August 2022, 20:22

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556735871780536324
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556735888041791488
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556735895113547776
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Ravenlocke

8th August 2022, 20:30

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556707771407601666
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1556707781117460481
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TomKat

8th August 2022, 21:59

proof the US is in the war:

https://southfront.org/remains-of-missile-that-could-only-be-launched-by-nato-jets-found-by-russian-forces-in-ukraine/

9ideon

9th August 2022, 07:16

proof the US is in the war:

https://southfront.org/remains-of-missile-that-could-only-be-launched-by-nato-jets-found-by-russian-forces-in-ukraine/

That's potentially something disastrous, I would like to see more info coming from the Russian Milinf on this though.

Tintin

9th August 2022, 09:10

From Eva Bartlett, published August 9th (today):

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Ukrainian Terrorism: Firing Munitions Containing Petal Mines On Donbass Orphanage, Another War Crime

On August 6, Ukraine fired onto the territory of an orphanage in Makeevka a rocket containing the Petal mines which Ukraine has been terrorizing Donetsk civilians with since late July. The orphanage evacuated its children months ago, due to its proximity to the front lines. Nonetheless, according to the Head Physician of the orphanage, Ukraine deliberately targeted it, knowing its existence and location. This is another Ukrainian war crimes, the latest in a long list spanning 8+ years.

As of August 8, according to DPR authorities, 29 people have been injured by the Petal Mines Ukraine continues to rain down on the DPR. These are extremely insidious mines, difficult to spot, easy to step on and have your foot blown off, as was the case with an 87 year old woman recently.

Ukraine signed the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in 1999, and was obliged to not only not use them, but to destroy its stock. Out of the six million such mines Ukraine initially declared in its possession, only two million have reportedly been destroyed as of 2018.

RELATED LINKS:

https://t.me/chp_donetsk_z/27085
https://t.me/chp_donetsk_z/27119
https://t.me/chp_donetsk_z/27105

https://web.archive.org/web/202208080...

Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘butterfly’ mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wJb...

Donetsk Emergency Services & Sappers Clear Residential Areas of Ukraine's Mines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61wJD...

Billy

9th August 2022, 10:32

A heartbreaking interview from some journals that tell what happened during their time in Mariupol.

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ExomatrixTV

9th August 2022, 10:49

The Kremlin has demonstrated that Russia is reluctant to take decisive action

August 8, 2022 (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/08/08/)

The Kremlin’s Efforts to Avoid Conflict Brings More Conflict

The Kremlin has demonstrated that Russia is reluctant to take decisive action. That doesn’t mean Russia won’t. Indeed, the Kremlin’s reluctance almost guarantees that Russia will be forced into decisive action.

Ukraine steals Russian assets — rt.com/business/560345-ukraine-seized-russian-assets/ (https://www.rt.com/business/560345-ukraine-seized-russian-assets/) — and Ukraine outside Donbass is permitted life as a country at peace. There is no Russian interference with the government with which it is at war. This encourages more Ukrainian provocations.

Instead of retaliation against her enemies, Russia cooperates with them. Russia permits Ukrainian grain to flow, thus providing Ukraine with more funds for war with Russia. Is the Kremlin more concerned with the hunger of foreigners than with the life of its own soldiers? rt.com/russia/560389-grain-ships-ports-turkey/ (https://www.rt.com/russia/560389-grain-ships-ports-turkey/) Washington wants to brand Russia a terrorist state, and Russia continues to ferry US astronauts to the space station, carrying on a partnership with a country with which Russia is at war.

Russia tolerates Ukraine’s attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear reactor with artillery fire. Why permit Ukrainian forces anywhere close to a nuclear reactor? Surely at this late stage the Kremlin doesn’t assume the Ukrainian government has any sense or any humanity. sputniknews.com/20220806/russian-military-calls-kievs-shelling-of-zaporozhye-npp-nuclear-terrorism-1099343688.html (https://sputniknews.com/20220806/russian-military-calls-kievs-shelling-of-zaporozhye-npp-nuclear-terrorism-1099343688.html) Despite being at war with the US and Europe, which keep the “limited military operation” in Donbass going with weapons supplied to Ukraine, the Kremlin continues to enable Russia’s enemies by continuing to supply Europe with energy.

The West does not see these as actions of a country that goes to war with serious intent.

If the Kremlin had turned off the energy, the Kremlin could have brought NATO and Ukraine to their knees without a “limited military operation.”

If the Kremlin had accepted Donbass back into Russia in 2014, as Russia did for Crimea, there would have been no Ukrainian attacks on Donbass requiring Russian intervention.

The Kremlin has created the impression that it is incapable of proactive thought and action, and only reacts when there is no other choice.

The Kremlin does not understand politics or the media. Extremely defensive, the leadership rushes to deny every accusation, which keeps the accusations in the news. Russia’s denials mean nothing to the West. The Kremlin would benefit from ignoring the accusations and cutting off all supplies and cooperation with the West.

Will the Kremlin ever learn that Russia does not benefit from the Goody Two Shoes role? This role conveys weakness and does nothing but encourage more provocations of Russia, thus building up to a larger and more serious conflict.

Will the Kremlin’s Goody Two Shoes restraint result in a Ukrainian Chernobyl?

Military operation in Ukraine tass.ru/voennaya-operaciya-na-ukraine (https://tass.ru/voennaya-operaciya-na-ukraine)

Energodar said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt another blow to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant

TASS, 7 August. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fired another shelling at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the area of the spent nuclear fuel (SNF) storage facility was in the affected area, the press service of the military-civilian administration (MCA) of the city of Energodar reported on Sunday.

“Tonight, the armed formations of Ukraine launched a strike using a 220 mm Hurricane MLRS cluster rocket. When approaching the power units, the rocket opened and released fragmentation munitions. The areas of the storage of spent nuclear fuel and the automated control of the radiation were in the attacked area. “Striking elements damaged the administrative buildings and the adjacent territory of the storage facility. It is important to note that fragmentation munitions and the rocket engine only missed the operating power unit by 400 meters,” the report says.

The territories under the control of Kyiv will be the first to suffer if the Armed Forces of Ukraine damage the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, TASS was told by the press service of the CAA Energodar.

“Given the fact that the wind in this region is mainly to the north-west, in the event of a man-made disaster, the cities of Nikopol, Zaporozhye, Kryvyi Rih, as well as most of the western regions of Ukraine, will be the first to suffer,” a spokesman for the CAA said.

On Saturday, the CAA reported that the Ukrainian side shelled Energodar three times during the day, including the sanatorium of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the water intake. Public utilities employees could not immediately approach the places where the shells fell due to the high probability of repeated shelling. In addition, on Friday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the Zaporozhye NPP, after which the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stressed that “military actions that endanger the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant are completely unacceptable and must be prevented at any cost.”

Currently, Kyiv has lost control over more than 70% of the territory of the Zaporozhye region. Peaceful life is gradually being restored there, the region is integrating into the legal and economic field of Russia, and local authorities declare their intention to join the Russian Federation and hold a referendum on this issue in September. At the same time, Ukraine is trying to interfere with the establishment of peaceful life, including shelling civilian objects in settlements.

source (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/08/08/the-kremlin-has-demonstrated-that-russia-is-reluctant-to-take-decisive-action/)
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Tintin

9th August 2022, 11:07

Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Ukraine’s continued shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

8 August 2022 16:32

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/themes/id/1825501/)

Russia has long been calling on the international community, in various contexts and at various levels, to strongly condemn the Kiev regime’s incessant military strikes against the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), while using increasingly destructive weapons systems. The power plant came under Ukrainian fire again on August 5 and 6. Thanks only to the skillful and prompt actions of the employees and of Russian forces, which ensure the comprehensive protection of the facility, was a major disaster avoided.

It is impossible to ignore the obvious: the situation is growing more dangerous by the hour. We regularly send updated information from the site to the IAEA, which is reflected in the Agency’s Information Circulars. These reports clearly expose the criminal actions of the Ukrainian armed forces, suggesting their command has finally lost any ability to think sensibly. Clearly, they have also lost their sense of basic self-preservation. After all, by aiming artillery at operating reactors and spent nuclear fuel storage facilities, the Ukrainians are targeting themselves.

Treacherous murders in dark alleys are tactics straight from the Bandera follower’s playbook, if not its centerpiece, and a popular approach during the Great Patriotic War. Only now, the people of Russia and Ukraine aren’t their only target. In fact, they have taken the whole of Europe hostage, and apparently, they don’t mind setting fire to it to glorify their Nazi idols.

We noted the UN Secretary-General’s statement of August 8 that “any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing.” He emphatically expressed the hope that those attacks would end. In turn, the IAEA Director General also emphasised his concern about a missile attack on Europe's largest nuclear power plant, pointing out the real risk of a nuclear catastrophe that could endanger people and the environment in Ukraine and beyond. He condemned any acts of violence directed towards the plant or committed in its vicinity, as well as against its personnel.

There is no way the heads of international organisations can turn a blind eye to the atrocities committed by Kiev. The Ukrainian military’s actions must be sending chills down their spines. But one question remains: are these signals heard in Kiev, and is Vladimir Zelensky's regime interpreting them correctly? Time after time, the leaders of the UN and the IAEA fail to find the courage to openly name the source of the threat, revealing an unwillingness to point to the officials in Kiev. As a result, it sounds like those rockets and shells are just raining down on the Zaporozhye NPP and its employees’ heads, on Energodar, the city located in the immediate vicinity of the plant, out of the blue – when they are flying in from the areas controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces. It is perfectly clear who directs the hand that aims the weapon and pulls the trigger.

Paraphrasing a popular aphorism, speech was given to diplomats – especially diplomats of such a high rank – not to conceal their thoughts in such a situation, but to express themselves as loudly and clearly as possible. We provided enough supporting information to prompt the UN Secretary-General and the IAEA Director General to openly and firmly point out to the Ukrainian authorities that hitting a nuclear power plant is unacceptable, forcing them to immediately stop attacking the plant and its employees, including their families and other residents in Energodar.

Sly reasoning and assessment, as well as diplomatic maneuvering that’s totally inappropriate here, citing some imaginary equidistance, causes serious harm. The threat has grown so high that it is impossible to remain an indifferent observer. It's time Kiev is called to order, and it’s time the leaders of the UN and the IAEA take a strong stance and show they can influence the source of the threat directly.

We certainly feel encouraged by the statements the UN Secretary-General made to support the IAEA's efforts to facilitate stabilisation at the plant and to ensure access to it. We hope the UN will now find no obstacle to organising an international IAEA mission to the plant, which unfortunately, has been the case in the past. In particular, the head of Russia’s National Defence Management Centre, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev mentioned this on August 6. Had the Secretary-General's reaction been distinct from the outset, the current complications could have been avoided. Seeing his indecisiveness or even weakness, the successors of Bandera and Shukhevich lurking in Kiev will raise their heads and desperately hit the power plant again and again with full disregard for the potential victims or consequences.

We note the IAEA Director General’s intention to go through with the planned visit to the plant. We consider it necessary to remind you again that just a few weeks ago, Russia did everything necessary for a successful visit. There can be no complaints against us in this regard. The fact that this international mission was never accomplished is entirely on Kiev, as Kiev is the only player that has a reason to keep the IAEA away from Zaporozhye. After all, once the international experts and IAEA officials see things with their own eyes, there will be no doubt about Kiev’s responsibility for the attacks or any other crimes committed against the plant and its personnel. We know that through a joint effort, we will be able to put an end to the dangerous rampancy unleashed by the Zelensky regime.