WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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Russia halts oil flows through Ukrainian pipeline

Supplier Transneft cites a problem with EU financial sanctions

Russian oil deliveries through the southern Druzhba pipeline servicing Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have been halted since August 4, Russian supplier Transneft said Tuesday.

The company cited a problem with EU financial sanctions, which resulted in Transneft's regular payment for transit across Ukraine bouncing on July 28.

Ukraine's state-owned Naftogaz, the parent company of oil infrastructure operator Ukrtransnafta, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The payment was routed through Russia's Gazprombank, which is not subject to EU sanctions.

But the reason for the returned payment was given as "the entry into force of EU Regulation 2022/1269. In particular, the procedure for controlling cross-border payments from the Russian Federation was specified," the Transneft statement reads.

The Russian oil supplier claimed that EU-based correspondent banks handling money flows from Russia are not currently able to independently decide on authorization for individual transactions, and must wait for approval from national authorities.

"To resolve the issue, Transneft sent an appeal to an authorized bank for further transfer of information to the European regulator in order to obtain permission to conduct settlements ... options for an alternative flow of funds are being worked out, daily consultations and negotiations with servicing banks are carried out," the supplier said. "However, to date, the issue of the possibility of making payments has not been resolved."

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Zaporozhye authorities say Kiev may intensify bombardments as referendum day draws near

Vladimir Rogov pointed out that no matter how many threats were heard from the Zelensky regime, they would not succeed

Source: TASS news agency (https://tass.com/defense/1491417)

MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. The authorities of the Zaporozhye Region believe that as the day of the referendum on joining Russia draws near, Kiev’s forces will be shelling the region more often, a member of the chief council of the region’s military-civilian administration, Vladimir Rogov, TASS on Tuesday.

"The regime of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky will definitely stage military provocations. We expect more bombardments, more attempts at counterattacks, and more strikes on the liberated territories. There have been far more shellings than even in March. Before, only Tochka-U missiles were flying in. Now the HIMARS rockets pound us very strongly. There are no doubts anymore that there will be attempts at provocations and shellings and an offensive by the Zelensky regime [as the referendum day draws near], " Rogov said.

Kiev, he continued, said at the highest level that it would stop at nothing to disrupt the referendum. In particular, their number one task is "to do everything to make the people leave the territory and to say afterwards that there was no turnout at the referendum," Rogov said.

"Nevertheless, as we can see, no matter how many threats are heard from the Zelensky regime, they will not succeed. Zelensky’s army and militants are trained only for defense and for stabs in the back. Direct confrontation is not for them. This is so because completely different worldviews and attitudes to life are cultivated on the other side," Rogov emphasized.

On Monday, the head of the region's military-civilian administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, told the We Are with Russia forum he had signed an order to hold a referendum on the issue of the region’s accession to Russia. At the moment, about 72-73% of the Zaporozhye Region has been liberated. Kiev’s army still controls the capital city Zaporozhye, which accounts for almost half of the region’s population. The function of the regional center is temporarily performed by Melitopol.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/560535-crimea-airfield-explosions-russia/

Russian military comments on blasts in Crimea

Russia’s Defense Ministry has released an official statement on the explosions at the Saki military airfield on the Crimean Peninsula, explaining that the incident was caused by the detonation of aviation munitions stored at the site.

The blasts occurred near the city of Novofedorovka on Tuesday afternoon, with locals reporting hearing several explosions coming from the airfield and sharing videos online showing smoke coming from the area. According to eyewitnesses, the blasts had knocked out the windows in houses near the airfield.

Moscow has stated that no one has been injured in the explosion and that none of the aviation equipment at the airfield was damaged by the blasts.

“Measures are being taken to extinguish the fire and find out the causes of the explosion. According to a report from the site, there was no fire impact on the bunded ammunition storage area at the airfield,” the Defense Ministry said.

Local authorities have said that all necessary measures have been strengthened to ensure the safety of infrastructure facilities and of the population near the airfield.

Novofedorovka is located on the coast of Crimea about 40km northwest of the regional capital, Simferopol. The Saki base is on the outskirts of the settlement and some personnel live in the town.

During Soviet times the airfield was a training center for pilots of aircraft carrier jets. The Russian navy has been using it to train pilots since Crimea joined Russia in 2014.

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The Russian Federation foreign ministry provides another update on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. I agree wholeheartedly with both Maria Zakharova and Igor Vishnevetskii's statements. This is utter insanity on the part of NATO and Ukraine to be undertaking this beyond reckless action:


Remarks by Igor Vishnevetskii, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation to the Tenth NPT Review Conference on the current situation at the Zaporozhye NPP, Main Committee II, New York, 8 August 2022

9 August 2022 11:05

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/themes/id/1825552/)

Madam Chairman,

With regard to another allegation against Russia, we would like to state the following. At the beginning of March, Russian troops entered the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP), as the plant happened to be in the territory under our control. It could not be left without an armed guard. Otherwise, there would be a threat of access to the site by non-state actors and the risk of leakage of radioactive materials. Non-proliferation assurances and normal functioning of the plant certainly had to be provided.

We have already said it before and we will say it again: Russia cooperates closely with the IAEA and is preparing a visit to the ZNPP together with the agency. The responsibility for the fact that this trip has not yet taken place lies solely with Kiev and those who support it. Therefore, we reject the cunning appeals to Russia to allow IAEA inspectors to enter the plant as untenable. These must be addressed not to us, but to the other parties on whom it depends.

There has been disturbing news in recent days. We have already informed the Conference that on 5 August the Ukrainian armed forces shelled the Zaporozhye NPP industrial site with large-caliber artillery. The shells fell in the area of the general plant facilities. A high-voltage power line was damaged. For this reason, it was decided to reduce the capacity of ZNPP units 5 and 6.

On 6 and 7 August, the Ukrainian armed forces shelled the ZNPP again. The territory of the plant was hit by shells of the Uragan multiple rocket launcher and again by large-caliber artillery. There was a dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the impact zone.

Irresponsible actions of the Kiev regime could lead to a large-scale disaster at the ZNPP, with consequences not only for Ukraine but also for neighboring European countries. This must be stopped immediately. Russia has already called on international organizations, the UN and the IAEA to take the necessary steps, using their authority, to curb the insane actions of the Ukrainian authorities.

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi made a statement about this, expressing his deep concern about what is now happening around the ZNPP. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also spoke out in this regard, calling what is happening a suicide. But this is not enough. There must be tough demands to the Kiev authorities, directly to president Vladimir Zelensky, to stop attacking the largest operating nuclear facility in Europe.

We have photos and videos showing the consequences of these attacks on the ZNPP. Russia is ready to share them with all interested members of the international community and international organizations that can influence Ukraine and compel its leadership to stop, in fact, terrorist acts against the ZNPP.

The cynicism of Kiev's statements, including those made by president Zelensky, that Russian troops allegedly hit the ZNPP, is striking. It seems that the common sense of the current Ukrainian leaders has completely gone. They are trying to convince that the Russian military is shelling itself because they are the ones guarding the plant right now. Furthermore, Kiev propagandists also claim that representatives of the Russian state corporation Rosatom are allegedly coordinating these shillings in order to cut off the ZNPP from the Ukrainian energy system.

These monstrous lies are eagerly picked up by the sponsors of the Kiev regime. In particular, as Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has stated, the EU condemns Russia's military activity around the ZNPP, since it is allegedly another example of disregard for international norms. We hear such allegations from certain European states, namely – Poland, Germany, Sweden and others. The authorities of the Western countries continue to endanger their own citizens for the sake of endorsing the Ukrainian provocations.

The international community must speak in one voice in this situation. There can be no disagreement that weapons should never be used against large nuclear facilities such as nuclear power plants under any circumstances. This is a crime. And it must be prevented. We venture to hope that an understanding of the critical nature of the situation, and the real danger which it poses will prevail over political predilections.

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Crimean official says reports about emergency regime in Crimea are fakes

Earlier, Ukrainian media published a document allegedly signed by Crimea’s head Sergey Aksyonov on imposing an emergency situation on the peninsula for a term of 60 days

SIMFEROPOL, August 9. /TASS/. A Crimean official has slammed reported about an emergency situation regime on the peninsula as a fake.

"Please stop spreading Ukrainian fakes. We rely only on official information. No emergency situation regime has been imposed," Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to Crimea’s head, wrote on his Telegram channel.

Earlier, Ukrainian media published a document allegedly signed by Crimea’s head Sergey Aksyonov on imposing an emergency situation on the peninsula for a term of 60 days.

The Russian defense ministry told journalists that several aviation bombs exploded on the territory of the Saki airdrome near Novofedorovka in Crimea. According to the ministry, no one was hurt and no damage was done to aircraft.

The Saki military airdrome near Novofedorovka is used by the Russian defense ministry, including for naval aircraft. Apart from it, the airdrome has a ground-based testing and training system NITKA, one of Russia’s two such simulators to drill the skills of takeoff and landing of ship-based aircraft. Its size is equivalent to the flight deck of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier.

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Russian Foreign Ministry’s Twitter Account in English Blocked Since August, Spokesperson Says

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Foreign Ministry's Twitter account in the English language has been blocked since August 5, Maria Zakharova, the ministry's... 09.08.2022, Sputnik International

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Foreign Ministry's Twitter account in the English language has been blocked since August 5, Maria Zakharova, the ministry's spokeswoman, said on Tuesday.
"On the night of August 5, the administration of the Twitter platform blocked the official account of the Foreign Ministry in English for 7 days. The reason is the publication of statements from the briefing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense of the Russian armed forces, about military biological activities of the United States," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.

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Ukrainian grain export routes

The first ship loaded with Ukrainian grain left the port of Odessa on August 1. The vessel, as well as subsequent ones, will follow a route agreed by the parties. Another six foreign-flagged ships departed from Ukrainian ports on August 7-8, including a tanker from Turkey, two cargo ships from Liberia and two cargo vessels and a tanker flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Russia and Ukraine signed documents regulating grain exports with Turkey and the UN. The ships will sail from three ports - Odessa, Yuzhny and Chernomorsk - towards the Mediterranean Sea. The Joint Coordination Center is responsible for the safe transportation of grain. According to an informed UN source, the parties at the center are neither monitoring the movement of ships beyond the Black Sea nor determining their destinations.

Ukraine is one of the world’s largest grain exporters. According to the UN, the country accounted for about nine percent of the global wheat trade in 2020. The Turkish Defense Ministry estimated the total amount of grain exports at over 25 mln tonnes.

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Col Douglas Macgregor - Will Biden Stumble into a New World War?

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I am a Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the one hundred and sixty seventh day of the war.

Day 167: August 09

In the south, the Russians continue trying to develop their offensive operation. Today there was an important update regarding who controls the villages around Snihurivka. New reports suggest that the Russians did not manage to consolidate control over the village of Blahodatne, because the fights there are still taking place. And when it comes to the village of Partyzanske, the Russians continue storming this settlement, but so far with no confirmed success. It looks like the fights here are very tough because the Ukrainians have a strong position around the Pervomaiske agglomeration and are able to supply and reinforce Blahodatne and Pervomaiske, while the Russians have a strong position near Snihurivka and can support continuous assaults.

Today the Russians also responded to the threat of a flank attack, and conducted an airstrike near Lozove and Andriivka, where the Ukrainians have established an important bridgehead on the southern bank of the Inhulets river.

British Intelligence continues to issue warnings to the Ukrainians, and reported that the Russians have gathered two main attack groups: one near Kherson, and one closer to Kryvyi Rih. Both groups seem to be in full preparation mode to being engaged. What also signals about their preparation for an attack is the fact that the Russians have gathered all of their air assault forces that are currently used in Ukraine in one place – Kherson region.

In order to prevent a rapid-paced development of the Russian attack, the Ukrainians continue targeting Russian military positions and ammunition depots in Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov also reported that Ukrainian HIMARS strikes destroyed a “significant amount of” Russian military equipment and manpower concentrations in industrial districts throughout Melitopol over the last several days. Ukrainian officials also confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck the Antonivsky and Kakhovka bridges previous night, which resulted in further postponement of reopening of the Antonivskyi bridge. It seems like these actions indeed cause a lot of trouble for the Russians because, as noted by Melitopol Mayor, Russian forces transferred a significant part of their air defense systems from Melitopol to Kherson over the last week. Simultaneously, the Ukrainians are going to receive anti-radar missiles, which may render Russian air defense systems that guard these important bridges useless.

In the east, there are a lot of important updates.

In the Barvinkove-Sloviansk direction, the Ukrainians continue developing their offensive operation. Right now they are clearing the forests and returning the territories that were previously under their control. The fights in Bohorodychne are still being reported, therefore, it seems like the Ukrainians still struggle to consolidate their control over this settlement. From here, I do not think that the Ukrainians will move further and attack Dovhenke, for example. The main goal was to return and refine the defense line Dibrivne-Bohorodycnhe, and create some buffer in the forestall area in front of this defense line. It is much more productive to strengthen current positions, than try to move further and have more territory which is under weaker control.

In the Siversk direction, there are several interesting updates. Firstly, despite continuous attempts of the Russians to immobilize Ukrainian forces in this region by shelling, the Ukrainians have gradually moved their forces to the south towards Soledar and Bakhmut, where the Russians have lately focused their efforts. Secondly, in the aftermath of the fight that took place to the north of Verkhnokamianske, the Ukrainians did not manage increase the territory under their control, even though they successfully repelled the attack. Today the Russians also conducted a limited attack on Ivano-Darivka, possibly for reconnaissance, but the Ukrainians spotted them on approaches, opened fire and pushed back.


In the Soledar direction, the situation did not change much. The Russians continued trying to push the Ukrainians out of Yakovlivka, but the Ukrainians continue to stubbornly hold this position. When it comes to the fights in Soledar, it was reported that the Russians still have not established full control over the factory Knauf, even though they indeed control most of it. The absence of progress can partially be explained by the reinforcement that the Ukrainian forces received from Siversk.


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Col Macgregor: UKRAINE WAR UPDATE & SURPRISES


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More on the Covid and monkey pox,


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Russian MoD investigating role of US in 'creation' of COVID, Monkeypox virus

Russia's MoD accused United States of carrying out activities to create drugs that, when introduced into the body for a short time, cause chronic diseases.

Russia’s Defense Ministry on Thursday, August 4, announced that Moscow has been assessing whether the United States was behind the research and experiment that leaked the novel SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 disease as well as the monkeypox virus as several Pentagon-operated Biolabs were discovered in Ukraine. It is possible that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was behind the creation of the COVID-19 virus that claimed millions of lives worldwide.

Speaking at a presser, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, claimed that during the course of Moscow's special military operation in Kyiv, its troops found documents indicating that since 2019 USAID and its main contractor, Labyrinth Ukraine, have been participating in the US military biological program.

"I would like to note that within the framework of the US Department of Defense program to reduce the biological threat, one of the areas of research at Labyrinth Global Health was the study of coronaviruses and the monkeypox virus," said Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.

On July 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of monkeypox a global health emergency. The contagious disease has now spread to as many as 76 states and there are now more than 26,000 patients, Russia's MoD reminded. There were official communication documents retrieved between the head of the sanitary and epidemiological department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the director of the company "Labyrinth Ukraine" Karen Sailors about such experiments from the US-operated bio lab, Russia's Lieutenant-General Kirillov stressed, sharing the evidence.

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The Duran from Athens Greece, a 13 minute video, to discuss Blinken’s visit to South Africa, he is visiting DPR Congo, Rwanda, and South Africa.

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Bumping the summary (condensed here to the core essentials) from my post #1016 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1487033&viewfull=1#post1487033) here. (For all serious observers here, I'd recommend not to miss that, and the Consortium News 4 March video livestream (https://youtube.com/watch?v=yjOkk-xfMfQ) it's all based on.)

I'm convinced all this is accurate, and the whole thing now makes much more sense. And the military analysis in the video is the best I've yet seen.


The big-picture bottom line is that it's a CIA/MI6 operation to try to bring down Putin by stirring up resistance in Russia.
That's why the western media propaganda is so exceptionally extreme.
Scott Ritter (former UN weapons inspector in the Iraq war), who's totally familiar with that kind of thing, states the plan is sure to fail, and also says that Russia's careful military strategy is going to be the case study of future textbooks.

(My own personal summary from other analyses)
All this is going to rebound on to the west like a big financial wrecking ball, combined with major food supply issues.
It has to be possible that this was the plan of the globalists/WEF (using the CIA/MI6 plan for their own ends), to usher in the 'Great Reset' after the melt-down of society and economy in the US, with a Russia-China alliance left standing to clean up and pick up all the pieces.


This isn't a question to you Bill, it's a question to everyone who reads this.

Where are Britain's 2 brand new Navy carriers and their support fleets right now ?

They spent a fortune on those carriers and just about got them into service for this time right now.

Fishy, or what ?

From their own site, one is just off the Eastern US Coast https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/

This is interesting https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/operations/arctic-and-northern-european-waters/baltic-protector


ACTION ALERT: American Sovereignty Threatened by NATO Incursion – YOUR ATTENTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED (1of2)
https://podbay.fm/p/business-game-changers/e/1660084325
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Renee Parsons joins the program to discuss NATO's take over of the largest, and most important, NAVAL base for the U.S. Navy, the US Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia. As it stands, the base is currently led by French General Philippe Lavigne who was appointed to the post of Supreme Allied Commander Transformation by the North Atlantic Council on May 28, 2021. You can help with this urgent action


A video version [ the conversation starts at 6 minutes 27 seconds, but they only get on topic at 14 minutes ]
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a short READ about same:
https://sarahwestall.com/action-alert-american-sovereignty-threatened-by-nato-incursion-your-attention-is-urgently-needed/


The agencies and NATO and the UN ( the NWO, basically ) are acting behind the back of any kind of representational government. It was clear to me for a long time that there would be no such thing as ground up political representation in a New World Order. What has been quite breathtaking in recent times is that the ground up representation has already gone and those people already are acting as a New World Order, even before the official livery has been unveiled.

NATO is a brand that has changed hands, and the new ownership is what NATO used to be there to protect us from.

Renee Parsons suggests Trump was never told about the changover, and that's why he instantly sacked the defence secretary ( Mark Esper ) as soon as the polling stations closed in November 2020. That seems insane, but tell me what isn't insane these days ?

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MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE 9 AUG, 13:47
Russian forces wipe out Ukrainian Air Force command post in Vinnitsa Region — top brass

Igor Konashenkov said that the strike destroyed over 300 rockets of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and a large amount of ammunition rounds for American M777 howitzers

MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. Russian forces obliterated by precision weapons a Ukrainian Air Force dug-in command post in the Vinnitsa Region, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Tuesday.

"The strikes by air-launched long-range precision missiles destroyed an operational dug-in command post of the Ukrainian Air Force in the area of the settlement of Voronovitsa in the Vinnitsa Region," the spokesman said.

Russia’s sea-launched precision weapons also struck a large ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army near the settlement of Uman in the Cherkassy Region, the general added.

"The strike destroyed over 300 rockets of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and a large amount of ammunition rounds for American M777 howitzers," Konashenkov reported.

HIMARS rocket system
The M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) is a highly mobile multiple launch rocket system developed by the US-based defense technology corporation, Lockheed Martin. The launcher with six tubes of 227mm rockets or one ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) ballistic missile is mounted on a five-tonne six-wheel chassis of FMTV (Family of Medium Tactical Vehicle) transporters.

The launcher fires over 20 types of munitions with a strike range of 30 km to 80 km (for rockets) and 300 km and more (for a tactical missile). The system has been accepted for service in some countries, including the United States, Singapore, the UAE, Canada, Poland, Romania and Jordan.

M777 howitzer
The M777 is a 155mm towed howitzer developed by the UK-based defense firm, BAE Systems, which replaced the US Army’s heavier M198 artillery guns. The M777 can fire conventional shells at a distance of about 25 km and special munitions at a range of 40 km.

The howitzer features a high-precision digital fire control system (Towed Artillery Digitization) that uses GPS and drone data for directing the weapon at the target. The gun’s upgraded A2 version can fire M982 Excalibur guided shells with an extended flight range.

The M777 howitzer is used by the ground forces of the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine. The howitzer was first employed in combat during the war in Afghanistan.

The US, Canadian and Australian militaries earlier reported the delivery of M777 howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.


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Russia requests UN Security Council meeting over Ukraine’s shelling of NPP — source

Russia has requested participation of International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi, who is to make a report on the issue

UNITED NATIONS, August 10. /TASS/. Russia has requested a UN Security Council meeting on August 11 in connection with Ukraine’s attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP), a source in Russia’s mission to the UN told reporters on Tuesday.

"Russia requested a UN Security Council briefing to be held in the afternoon of August 11, in connection with Ukraine’s latest attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP and their possible catastrophic consequences," the source said.

According to information obtained by a TASS correspondent, Russia has requested participation of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi, who is to make a report on the issue.

The Kiev government forces have repeatedly launched strikes targeting the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe with six operating reactors. On August 7, the Ukrainian military shelled the plant, targeting, in particular, the spent nuclear fuel repository. The military-civilian administration of Energodar where the nuclear power station is located, said that the Kiev regime had fired a 220mm Uragan rocket with a cluster warhead. Its striking elements damaged the station’s administrative buildings and the repository’s adjacent territory. Prior to that, the Ukrainian military bombarded the Zaporozhye NPP on August 5 and 6.

In March 2022, the Zaporozhye NPP was placed under the Russian army’s control. Currently, the NPP operates at 70% capacity as the area of the Zaporozhye Region liberated from the Ukrainian army has a surplus of electricity power. There are plans to direct part of electricity generated at the Zaporozhye NPP to Crimea.


‘Fake news’ — Russian envoy on Kiev’s claims that Russia ‘mined’ Zaporozhye NPP

Mikhail Ulyanov noted that a significant part of Western media outlets and the public on social networks actually believed it
MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. Ukraine’s claims that Russia allegedly rigged the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with mines are false, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Wednesday.

"There is another bit of fake news. They announced that Russians allegedly mined the Zaporozhye NPP and, if anything happens, will blow it up, creating a catastrophe which would also affect Russia. Of course, all of this is nonsense. Yet such primitive propaganda is working. A significant part of Western media outlets and the public on social networks actually believe it," he noted.

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New instructions from Kiev to EU states: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demands that Europe ban all Russian citizens from leaving their own country – “until they change their way of thinking”, ie until Putin is overthrown. Estonia and Finland were in favor of this, Express.at reports (https://exxpress.at/neuer-befehl-selenskyjs-an-europa-sperrt-die-russen-in-ihrem-land-ein/)


No Russian entrepreneur, no Russian tourist should be able to stay in Europe in the future – at least that's what the Ukrainian president wants. In an interview with the Washington Post, Volodymyr Zelensky justified this initiative by stating that all Russian citizens would in fact share responsibility for the war against Ukraine: “This would be one of the most important sanctions against Russia. Russians should not be allowed to leave their own country as long as they do not change their way of thinking. Leave them in Russia.”
Zelensky therefore thinks that the broad mass of the Russian population will argue against this measure: “This war has nothing to do with us, they will say. But: yes, the entire population is responsible for what is happening now. They elected this government in Russia – and they are not fighting it.”


No statement from Austria yet on Kiev's demand

And the Ukrainian president then addresses Russian citizens directly in the interview: “If you don't want isolation, don't tell the whole world to live by your rules. You can live in Russia as you wish, according to your rules.”

The first positive reactions to this travel ban demanded by Kiev for all Russian citizens came from Finland and Estonia: Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is in favor of a drastic restriction on the granting of tourist visas to Russian citizens. She says: “To be able to visit Europe is a privilege.”

And Sanna Marin, the Finnish Prime Minister, also supports Ukraine's initiative: "It is simply wrong, now that Russia is waging a brutal war in Europe, that Russian citizens can travel through Europe, as they have always been able to do, and also here as tourists can stay. That's not fair."

It is still unclear how the federal government of Austria will behave. After all, many (also wealthy) Russian citizens live in Austria. And Russian tourists were and are highly appreciated as guests in Vienna, Salzburg and in the ski resorts.


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[9ideon]

Pushing and pushing and pushing those Yanks do.

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[O Donna]

Chess match:

For the game to be played, the white pieces designate the black pieces ‘bad’ and trash talk i.e. propagandize those pieces. But wait! There’s more! Mirrored exactly in opposite by the black pieces as they designate the white pieces ‘bad’ and trash talk i.e. propagandize those pieces.

The pawns are the ones who believe one side vs. the other and the ones who pay the heaviest price in the game. At least initially and mid game.

The trick is everyone exists on the larger board (earth) including kings and queens and could be why the whole game has not degraded to all or nothing, yet.

It is laughable that enlighten individual buy the propaganda fed unless that propaganda in monetized and rewards are funneled for that support.

The world we live in is first and foremost Psychological warfare and both ‘sides’ look to a critical mass of belief support for their agenda, their crusade.

The power of this world, it matters not their outward nationality, history of support, or where their homes are for they are chameleons in a moment’s notice.

Most career soldiers (overtly or secretly) realized that in the end they were ‘played’ with just hope they survive long enough to enjoy the spoils of war. The kicker is in that most of it (the spoils) is found wanting in the end anyways.

Watching these video reminds of the play-by-play of talking heads in a control booth during televised sporting events. Do you ever get tired of listening to their drivel and turn the TV sound off?

Guess this post was my play-by-play,

O Donna, signing off.

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>>>>> CORRECT: Psychological warfare <<<<<<

Cannot believe I missed that error before posting

[Ravenlocke]

UK Admits Russian Advance on Bakhmut; Prospects for Ukraine's Kherson Offensive Fade
Also there is still a risk of nuclear accident at the Zaporozhye NPP

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Gravitas: US Announces largest Military package yet for Ukraine:

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[ExomatrixTV]

Another Brick In The Wall, Roger Waters Destroys CNN Ukraine Propaganda:

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Rock legend Roger Waters shows CNN exactly why people hate them and pokes all kinds of holes in their propaganda right to their face. It's artful.

[O Donna]

Gravitas: US Announces largest Military package yet for Ukraine:

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:facepalm:

Only an example as western news products do the same thing, probably invented it:

Propaganda mixed with facts. Intermix facts are the hook.

<Imperatively spoken propaganda video>

: switch it up now.... :

And btw, we have a product for you...


WION is now available in your country, download the app and get all the news on the move


Stay with us "on the move", in our bubble, the more you are in our bubble the bigger the chance we can sway you. The more we sway you the more likely you will stick with our product. Vicious cycle ensues.

Eyes open people, eyes open.

[shaberon]

ACTION ALERT: American Sovereignty Threatened by NATO Incursion – YOUR ATTENTION IS URGENTLY NEEDED (1of2)

NATO is a brand that has changed hands, and the new ownership is what NATO used to be there to protect us from.



Well, I think we have found two sides in this: USA #1, or, US as just another flunky in NATO.


I am not on either one, so, they can have Norfolk. Virginia and the US are foreigners as far as I am concerned. The US can take its -$30T and go rot navies somewhere else.

Following the link, they told us:


Unbeknownst to most Americans, in June of 2018, NATO’s thirty Defense Ministers (representing all of its member nations) agreed to establish a NATO command structure at the US Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia. Since then, the administration and operation of the Norfolk Base has reported directly to NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander.



Allright, there are some "reports", but what does that do? Shock someone?



...how this desecration of American sovereignty as a scandalous alliance with NATO occurred remains a mystery...



We might have blasphemed their altar or something. You can Trespass Sovereignty, but I think desecration is a big ugly smear, and we already have that. Then we get the compelling:


Do you know if your Member of Congress has been aware that what was once the US’s largest and most important at the Norfolk Naval Station has been signed over to NATO?



"Signed over"? Well, again, if practically anything happens in terms of property, courts, etc., there are records of this. I may be missing what we are aware of. I would have preferred if both of these bickering sides had tossed themselves over a cliff seventy years ago. What they have done is managed to lose the arms race and a whole lot more.


I signed away my sovereignty to Social Security and all matters pertaining to citizenship. That is where the outcry should be. We are struggling against the same power Russia warned us about back then. Are we to the "existential" point yet?

[Bill Ryan]

Eyes open people, eyes open.Dear O Donna, I appreciate your thoughts and wisdom on this thread. :flower:

Maybe you can come up with a few inspiring graphics to help us all meditate on Eyes Wide Open. :)

My own stance on the Ukraine thing is rather similar to what I posted a while back, several times, about Donald Trump in the US. Let me explain.

I stated that the thing about Trump wasn't about who he was. It was about who he wasn't.

It's the same with Russia. It's not what Russia is, it's about what it isn't.

And with Putin. It's about who he isn't, as well.

What we're seeing here, as all this plays out — and the whole non-US/EU world is also seeing it clearly — is how compromised, corrupt and hypocritical the US regime is, obediently supported by the EU and the UK.

The Evil Empire — which is what it is — has to come down. We're in Star Wars territory here. :) I'm sure Putin is no saint... but not one person in the US administration is, either, and collectively they're orders of magnitude more destructive and dangerous.

And, as Dave Paulides said yesterday at the close of his video update (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPUotXRk_Y), some of them are crazy. (He was serious. Those people may be psychopathically insane.)

We're seeing major global changes happening, almost every day, and I'm not shy of stating that I'm cheering them on. Maybe there are invisible bigger pictures, of course. But based on what I feel we can see, the multipolar (sovereign-nation-based) world order seems like an encouraging, deus ex machina, improvement on the alternative.

:heart:

:focus:

[Ravenlocke]

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The foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times looked at the current US relationship with Ukraine and in particular with President Volodimyr Zelensky, reports Unser-mitteleuropa (https://www.compact-online.de/new-york-times-selenski-verliert-us-untersuetzung/) .

According to the columnist, Washington has huge problems with the Ukrainian president, and there is "deep mistrust" in the relations. Friedman reveals that US officials would be more concerned about Ukraine's leadership than they openly admit, there is a deep mistrust between Biden and Zelensky.

The US has been the driving force and undoubtedly the main player in aiding Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. She has provided billions of US dollars in military aid and intelligence.


Zelensky's domestic policy under criticism

But according to Friedman, relations between Washington and Kiev are now not what they seem. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Friedman reports: “Secretly, US officials are far more concerned about Ukraine's leadership than they admit. There is deep mistrust between the White House and Ukrainian President Volodimyr Zelensky. Much more than reported.”

In doing so, he describes Zelensky's decision to fire Attorney General Irina Venediktova and the head of the State Security Service (SBU) Ivan Bakanov in mid-July as "weird things going on in Kiev".

Furthermore, Friedman writes:
On July 17, Zelensky fired the Attorney General and the head of his country's domestic intelligence, the most significant reorganization of his government since the Russian invasion in February. That would be like if Biden fired Merrick Garland (US Attorney General) and Bill Burns (head of the CIA) on the same day.”


“Fear of corruption and scandal”

Friedman notes that he had not yet read a single report in the American media that convincingly explained what this was about.


Will NATO and US win a war against Russia? "nope"

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Friedman, who is considered well-affiliated in the United States political establishment, concludes that “it seems we don't want to look too close in Kiev for fear of corruption or scandals that we might discover after we get there. invested so much”.

The descriptions are probably not mere guesses on the part of the writer. Friedman announces that he would report more on the "events" at a later date. The Zelensky article is (almost hidden) in a text that primarily dealt with the then unconfirmed visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the self-governing Chinese island of Taiwan. Friedman criticized the visit as "completely thoughtless, dangerous and irresponsible".


Criticism of Pelosi's Taiwan Adventure

The negative consequences could be a “military response from China, which could lead to the US becoming embroiled in indirect conflicts with a nuclear-armed Russia and a nuclear-armed China at the same time,” Friedman warns. The columnist urges Washington to “keep its eye on the prize” rather than provoke Beijing.

All in all, apparently a tentative attempt by a “mainstream favourite” to “scrattle the surface” a bit.


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Russia reacts to Latvia branding it ‘sponsor of terrorism’

Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has slammed Latvia’s decision to brand Moscow a “state sponsor of terrorism,” calling it “absolutely groundless” and part of a long-running anti-Russia campaign by Riga.

“Is it news? No,” Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram shortly after Thursday’s declaration by the Latvian parliament, which accused Russia of “acts of terrorism” in Ukraine.

“Considering that there’s no factual basis to this decision, except for savage xenophobia, one must label the ideologues of this move none other than neo-Nazis,” she insisted.

Earlier this week, while the latest anti-Russia declaration was still under discussion in Latvia’s parliament, Zakharova accused Latvia of plunging itself into a crisis.

“It is well known that the pathological Russophobia of the ruling elites of Latvia has already caused serious economic and social problems in this Baltic country, bringing down the standard of living of its population. And it’s only going to get worse in the future,” she warned.

READ MORE: Latvia brands Russia ‘state sponsor of terrorism’
Zakharova also called on Latvian lawmakers “to finally stop and switch from being henchmen of their overseas masters into real representatives of their people, who really care about their fate.”

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How Ukraine Lost Its Riches

On February 24, the day Russian troops crossed the borders to Ukraine, I wrote about the potential end state of the operation:

Looking at this map I believe that the most advantageous end state for Russia would be the creation of a new independent country, call it Novorussiya, on the land east of the Dnieper and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population and that, in 1922, had been attached to the Ukraine by Lenin. That state would be politically, culturally and militarily aligned with Russia.


This would eliminate Ukrainian access to the Black Sea and create a land bridge towards the Moldavian breakaway Transnistria which is under Russian protection.

The rest of the Ukraine would be a land confined, mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon. Politically it would be dominated by fascists from Galicia which would then become a major problem for the European Union.

On March 19 I revisited the question and added Kryvyi Rih (Kriwoi Rog in Russian), the yellow part of the map, to the list:

Novorossiya roughly includes the red and yellow areas in the above map. It also includes the valuable Soviet developed iron ore mines and factories of Kryvyi Rih west of the Dnieper river.
I especially want to point out that I spoke of a "mostly agricultural state, disarmed and too poor to be build up to a new threat to Russia anytime soon."

I could say that because nearly all of Ukraine's resources and industries are in the south and east. If Russia takes those or creates the new state of Novorossiya the 'rest of Ukraine' will be mostly de-industrialized. Also of note is that the south and east include most of the famous black soil areas, which consists of a half meter deep humus layer that allows for good agricultural results without using much fertilizers.

Much of the steel and heavy machine industries in the south and east have been neglected over the last 30 years under Ukrainian rule or were destroyed during the wars that are raging since 2014. It will require very large investments to revive them but the potential profits will be great.

Nearly half a year after I wrote about it, the Washington Post, with the help of some Canadians, is catching up on the issue:

In the Ukraine war, a battle for the nation’s mineral and energy wealth

After nearly six months of fighting, Moscow’s sloppy war has yielded at least one big reward: expanded control over some of the most mineral-rich lands in Europe. Ukraine harbors some of the world’s largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of untapped lithium, as well as massive deposits of coal. Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of dollars.
The lion’s share of those coal deposits, which for decades have powered Ukraine’s critical steel industry, are concentrated in the east, where Moscow has made the most inroads. That’s put them in Russian hands, along with significant amounts of other valuable energy and mineral deposits used for everything from aircraft parts to smartphones, according to an analysis for The Washington Post by the Canadian geopolitical risk firm SecDev.
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“The worst scenario is that Ukraine loses land, no longer has a strong commodity economy and becomes more like one of the Baltic states, a nation unable to sustain its industrial economy,” said Stanislav Zinchenko chief executive of GMK, a Kyiv-based economic think tank. “This is what Russia wants. To weaken us.”
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Yet SecDev’s analysis indicates that at least $12.4 trillion worth of Ukraine’s energy deposits, metals and minerals are now under Russian control. That figure accounts for nearly half the dollar value of the 2,209 deposits reviewed by the company. In addition to 63 percent of the country’s coal deposits, Moscow has seized 11 percent of its oil deposits, 20 percent of its natural gas deposits, 42 percent of its metals and 33 percent of its deposits of rare earth and other critical minerals including lithium.

I believe that the natural gas share Russia already holds is higher as there are several sub-sea gas fields around Crimea and off the eastern coast.

If the Russian forces also take Kryvyi Rih and Dnipro they will have about 75-80% of Ukraine's pre-war GDP under their control.

Russia's war effort is currently financed by the 'west' which pays for it through record energy prices created by its own sanctions on Russia.

As the Russian Interfax agency reported yesterday (machine translation):

The positive balance of the current account of the balance of payments of the Russian Federation in January-July 2022 amounted to $166.6 billion, which is 3.3 times more than in the same period in 2021 ($50.1 billion). Such information is contained in the assessment of the balance of payments of the Russian Federation, published on the website of the Bank of Russia.
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According to the base scenario of the Central Bank’s forecast for 2022, updated in July, with an average annual oil price of $80 per barrel, the current account surplus is expected to be $243 billion, the positive balance of foreign trade in goods and services - $277 billion, and the negative balance of primary and secondary income - $33 billion.
If the 'west' really wants to deprive Russia of money it must immediately lift the sanctions and restart importing oil, gas and coal from Russia at then much lower prices.

Russia will not lack money to finance the rebuilding of Novorossiya's great industries. Once that is done those areas are evidently able to support themselves and to guarantee a high standard of living. They will also have enough money to militarily defend themselves against anything the poor rest of Ukraine will be able to finance.

At the end of March, after negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey, there was nearly an agreement on a ceasefire and on the end of the war. Joe Biden then tasked Boris Johnson with telling Zelensky to continue the war. The 'west' would otherwise stop paying him. Zelensky did as he was told and stopped all negotiations with Russia.

An agreement with Russia at that time would have kept the Ukraine mostly as one state with only minor losses in the Donbas. But the decision to continue the hopeless war also ended all chances for Ukraine to keep its riches.

It will be poor and helpless while its 'western' neighbors will feast on it.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/560642-russia-nuclear-disaster-ukraine-chernobyl/

Russia warns of nuclear disaster ‘worse than Chernobyl’

Ukraine’s shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is an act of terrorism that could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the 1986 Chernobyl incident, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

“In recent days, Ukrainian forces have been repeatedly shelling the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP, which is an act of nuclear terrorism. Such actions by the Kiev regime could lead to a disaster on a scale that would dwarf the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s deputy spokesperson, Ivan Nechaev, told a news briefing in Moscow.

According to the diplomat, should such a disaster occur, radiation would hit not only nearby regions in Ukraine, Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, but also European countries, putting millions of lives at risk.

G7 issues nuclear demand to Moscow
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Nechaev also said he hoped the international community would pay attention to the situation at the site. “We are in favor of organizing an IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] mission to the Zaporozhye NPP, which was disrupted in June due to the decision of the UN Secretariat’s Department of Safety and Security,” he said.

On Thursday, Zaporozhye officials claimed that Russian air defense systems had thwarted a missile and drone attack on the NPP and the nearby city of Energodar.

“[The Ukrainian military] are trying to bombard the peaceful town and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant with MLRS [multiple launch rocket systems], heavy artillery and strike UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles],” said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the chief council of the Zaporozhye Region military-civilian administration, adding that all the attacks were repelled and Ukrainian artillery positions hit by counter-battery fire.

The Group of Seven (G7), consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, on Wednesday called on Russia to cede the nuclear power plant, seized by Moscow’s forces in early March, back to Ukraine. The group said the move would ensure the facility’s “safe and secure operations.” The nuclear power plant has been taken over by Russian troops, but is still being operated and maintained by Ukrainian crews.

The call came a day after Moscow summoned an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss “Ukrainian provocations,” including a series of shelling attacks on the NPP. The meeting is expected to take place on Thursday.

On Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Kiev of holding the whole of Europe hostage, saying its government officials “apparently won’t hesitate to burn it for the sake of their Nazi idols.” At the same time, Kiev has denied all allegations, claiming it was the Russian troops that shelled the facility to frame Ukrainian forces.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Zaporozhye plant is the largest in Europe and has up to 60 tons of enriched uranium and plutonium in its reactor cores and spent fuel storage.

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[O Donna]

Eyes open people, eyes open.Dear O Donna, I appreciate your thoughts and wisdom on this thread. :flower:

Maybe you can come up with a few inspiring graphics to help us all meditate on Eyes Wide Open. :)

My own stance on the Ukraine thing is rather similar to what I posted a while back, several times, about Donald Trump in the US. Let me explain.

I stated that the thing about Trump wasn't about who he was. It was about who he wasn't.

It's the same with Russia. It's not what Russia is, it's about what it isn't.

And with Putin. It's about who he isn't, as well.

What we're seeing here, as all this plays out — and the whole non-US/EU world is also seeing it clearly — is how compromised, corrupt and hypocritical the US regime is, obediently supported by the EU and the UK.

The Evil Empire — which is what it is — has to come down. We're in Star Wars territory here. :) I'm sure Putin is no saint... but not one person in the US administration is, either, and collectively they're orders of magnitude more destructive and dangerous.

And, as Dave Paulides said yesterday at the close of his video update (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPUotXRk_Y), some of them are crazy. (He was serious. Those people may be psychopathically insane.)

We're seeing major global changes happening, almost every day, and I'm not shy of stating that I'm cheering them on. Maybe there are invisible bigger pictures, of course. But based on what I feel we can see, the multipolar (sovereign-nation-based) world order seems like an encouraging, deus ex machina, improvement on the alternative.

:heart:

:focus:

Dear Bill Ryan, I appreciate your thoughts and wisdom on this thread. :flower: (as well)

I’m sure people that believe that believe they stand on the right side of history. Nothing you or I say is going to change that but neither is all those that litter the ground of history and will continue to litter the ground. A supposed ‘evil’ empire is what humanity deserves whether that sets in the west or rises in the east. The puppet show will not run out of its puppets as the puppet master is clearly making more. Go ahead and cheer on the troops gathered here for one day they too will litter the ground and for what? Fertilizer?


Back to your regularly scheduled programming

Back to puppet making

[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/world/1492299?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. The Parliament of Latvia (the Saeima) has declared Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, the parliament said in a statement published on its official website on Thursday.

On August 11, the Saeima adopted a statement, which recognizes activities of Russian troops in Ukraine as terrorism and declares "Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism."

"The Saeima's statement calls on EU countries to immediately suspend the issuance of tourist and entry visas to Russian and Belarusian citizens," the statement reads.

Members of the Latvian Parliament state that Russia allegedly "has for many years supported and financed terrorist regimes and organizations in various ways — directly and indirectly."

The statement also reads that "the MPs strongly condemn the military aggression and large-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation with the support and involvement of the Belarusian regime and call on the Euro-Atlantic community and its partners to urgently intensify and implement comprehensive sanctions against Russia."

Russia’s special operation in Ukraine

The situation along the line of engagement in Donbass escalated on February 17. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR) reported the most massive bombardments by the Ukrainian military in recent months, which damaged civilian infrastructure and caused civilian casualties.

On February 21, President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow was recognizing the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Russia signed agreements on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with their leaders. Moscow recognized the Donbass republics in accordance with the DPR and LPR constitutions within the boundaries of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions as of the beginning of 2014.

Russian President Putin announced on February 24 that in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics for assistance he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, noting that the operation was aimed at the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine.

The DPR and the LPR launched an operation to liberate their territories under Kiev’s control.


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Estonia closes border to Russians with Schengen visas it issued — Foreign Ministry

Urmas Reinsalu noted that Estonia had data on more than 50,000 valid Schengen visas issued to Russian citizens

VILNIUS, August 11. /TASS/. The Estonian authorities have made a decision to ban Russian citizens with Estonia-issued Schengen visas from entering its territory, Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu told a government news briefing on Thursday.

"In a week from now the sanction will be applied to Schengen visas issued by Estonia. Visa holders from Russia will be subject to restrictions. They will be denied entry to Estonia," he said.

Reinsalu added that a number of exceptions would be made to this rule. In particular, the staffers of diplomatic offices in Estonia and their families, as well as persons engaged in international transportation or having the right to free movement under EU laws will be exempt from the ban. Also, the restrictions will not apply to persons whose entry into Estonia is necessary for humanitarian reasons and close relatives of the country’s citizens or holders of Estonia’s permanent residence permit.

Reinsalu said that Estonia had data on more than 50,000 valid Schengen visas issued to Russian citizens.

Earlier, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that she considered it necessary to ban the issuance of EU tourist visas to Russian citizens. Later, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said that a proposal to that effect had been submitted for discussion in the EU. A representative of the European Commission, while commenting on the possibility of such restrictions on Thursday, told the media that the EU countries must comply with their international obligations and ensure the issuance of visas to members of the EU citizens’ families, humanitarian workers, journalists and residents. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in reply to Kallas’s proposal that a number of countries that Moscow had already declared unfriendly, displayed amnesia in their unfriendliness.

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Russia in talks with US about potential prisoner exchanges, says diplomat

"We proceed from the fact that the negotiations should take the interests of both sides into account," Ivan Nechayev stressed

MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. Competent authorities in Russia and the United States are in talks to discuss potential prisoner swaps, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Spokesman Ivan Nechayev said at a briefing on Thursday.

"We have repeatedly commented on this. On August 5, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that Russia is ready to discuss the issue, but only within the channel negotiated by Russian President [Vladimir Putin] and US President [Joe Biden]. Let me remind you that corresponding competent authorities have been instructed to negotiate the issue. Competent agencies are in talks," the Russian diplomat said.

He also recalled Moscow’s plea to Washington "not to speculate on the sensitive issue affecting specific individuals."

"We would recommend abandoning futile attempts to put pressure on us and we are calling on them to concentrate on practical work along the available channels. There is no other way," Nechayev concluded.

"We proceed from the fact that the negotiations should take the interests of both sides into account," the diplomat emphasized.

Earlier, Washington offered Moscow to exchange Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who is serving a prison term in the US for arms trafficking, for basketball player Brittney Griner, sentenced to jail for drugs trafficking, and Paul Whelan, convicted in Russia of spying. The exchange of prisoners was one of the topics discussed in a telephone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in late July. American media reported later, citing unidentified sources, that Russia had proposed to include another Russian prisoner jailed in the West in the prisoner swap.

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Over 20,500 Donbass residents cross Russian border in Rostov region in 24 hours

It is reported that almost 2.5 million citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics have crossed the Russian border in the Rostov region since February

ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 11. /TASS/. More than 20,500 residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics crossed the Russian border in the Rostov region over the past day, the Federal Security Service’s border department told journalists on Thursday.

"During the past day, more than 20,500 citizens have entered Russia via checkpoints in the Rostov region," the press service said.

According to the report, almost 2.5 million citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics have crossed the Russian border in the Rostov region since February.

The situation on the contact line in Donbass escalated on February 17. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, with whose leaders were signed the treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual aid. On February 24, Vladimir Putin, in response to the appeal by the heads of the Donbass republics, decided to carry out a special military operation in Ukraine.

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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1557720814908219393
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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/560655-un-nuclear-power-plant/

UN issues nuclear appeal to Russia and Ukraine


Risking damage to Ukraine’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is “unacceptable,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated on Thursday. Kiev and Moscow must negotiate on making it off-limits for any military action, he emphasized.

“I urge the parties to withdraw any military personnel and equipment from the plant and refrain from any further deployment of forces or equipment to the site,” the senior official insisted. “Instead, urgent agreement is needed at a technical level on a safe perimeter of demilitarization to ensure the safety of the area.”

The Zaporozhye plant, which is located in the Russia-controlled Ukrainian city of Energodar, has been subjected to a series of attacks over the past few weeks. Moscow has accused Kiev of launching artillery and drone strikes on the facility, branding these moves as “nuclear terorism.”

Kiev has claimed that Russia was the one targeting the plant in an alleged plot to discredit Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia is using it as a military base, staging troops and heavy weapons there, Ukrainian officials said.

READ MORE: G7 issues nuclear demand to Moscow
The UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has not had access to the Zaporozhye plant since before Russia attacked Ukraine in late February. The reactors and other equipment are operated by Ukrainian staff, despite being under Russian control since the early weeks of the conflict. Attempts to organize an on-site international inspection to verify the site’s safety and security have been futile so far.

Russia warns of nuclear disaster ‘worse than Chernobyl’
Russia warns of nuclear disaster ‘worse than Chernobyl’
Moscow blamed the UN for the delay and said the organization’s department, which is responsible for security during official visits, was catering to Kiev by allowing it to continue its “provocations.” The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Guterres to intervene.

The secretary-general then called on “the parties to provide the IAEA mission with immediate, secure and unfettered access to the site” in his Thursday statement.

Guterres warned that military action near any nuclear power plant may result in a serious disaster affecting a large region. The sentiment is shared by Russia, which on Thursday reiterated its warnings about the situation.

“Actions by the Kiev regime could lead to a disaster on a scale that would dwarf the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” Russian Foreign Ministry deputy spokesperson Ivan Nechaev said during a news briefing.

The Russian diplomat reiterated calls for an IAEA inspection of the Zaporozhye plant, saying Russia was in favor of one.

[ExomatrixTV]

Roger Waters Destroys CNN Host About Ukraine & Taiwan:

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Pink Floyd founding member and outspoken activist Roger Waters appeared on CNN recently and took advantage of the opportunity to school host Michael Smerconish on a range of topics, including the truth about the Ukraine War’s origins, Russia’s role in winning World War II against the Nazis and Taiwan’s relationship to China.

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https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1557630908638920705
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099279/Truck-driver-acquitted-causing-deaths-seven-motorcyclists-horrific-New-Hampshire-crash.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Truck driver acquitted of causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in horrific New Hampshire crash
Truck driver Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, a Ukrainian national, was cleared by a jury on seven counts of negligent homicide and reckless conduct


The drugged-out truck driver who crossed the center line of a northern New Hampshire road, killing seven people on motorcycles, was found not guilty by a jury - a verdict that sparked 'shock' 'outrage' and 'anger' by the state's governor.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, a Ukrainian national who now faces deportation, was acquitted on Tuesday by a jury of seven counts of negligent homicide and reckless conduct after less than three hours of deliberation following a two-week trial.

The grateful and relieved truck driver wiped away tears, kissed his finger and pointed to the sky after he was cleared.

He's been in jail since the June 21, 2019, crash in Randolph, New Hampshire, that killed seven members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, including six who were former Marine Corps soldiers.

The verdict prompted outrage by the survivors of the crash, the families of the dead bikers and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu.

'The Fallen Seven did not receive justice today, and that is an absolute tragedy,' the Republican governor tweeted. 'I share the shock, outrage, and anger that so many have expressed in the three years since the seven members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club were taken from us.'

The father of the Albert 'Woody' Mazza Jr, 49, who was first in the convoy of bikers on the day of the crash, said he was in disbelief over the jury's decision.

'Killing seven people and he gets off. That is unbelievable,' the father, who is also named Albert Mazza, said. He said his son was a 'good man' who devoted much of his time to charity.

'It doesn´t make much sense,' he said. 'There are seven people dead. There are seven families affected. It's strange that he didn´t get something.'

Prosecutors argued that Zhukovskyy - who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine earlier on the day of the crash - repeatedly swerved back and forth before the collision and told police he caused it.

Federal crash investigators found that the truck driver was impaired by drugs and had swerved into the oncoming motorcycle convoy.

But Judge Peter H. Bornstein dismissed eight charges related to whether he was impaired.

The truck driver's lawyers blamed Mazza, saying he was drunk and not looking where he was going when he lost control of his motorcycle and slid in front of Zhukovskyy's vehicle.

'Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. Our trial team did an excellent job and we firmly believe that the State proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt,' New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a statement.

Zhukovskyy's family, some of whom attended the trial, said in a statement they were grateful to God, the court and the defense attorneys for an 'honest and fair trial.'

'Our family expresses its deepest condolences to the family and friends affected by this tragedy,' the family said, describing him as a 'very honest and kind man. He would never have done anything to hurt anyone.'

Zhukovskyy remained jailed as of late Tuesday afternoon. It is unclear when he might be released.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an immigration detainer on him after the crash and that was executed following the verdict, said Ben Champagne, the superintendent at the Coos County Department of Corrections.

ICE said in a statement that Zhukovskyy has been served a notice to appear before an immigration judge and will remain in ICE custody pending the outcome of that appearance. It did not say where he is being held.

After the verdict, a member of the the motorcycle club reached through Facebook declined to comment. 'Jarhead' is a nickname for a Marine Corps soldier

The motorcyclists who died were from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and ranged in age from 42 to 62.

They were part of a larger group that had just left a motel along U.S. Route 2 in Randolph.

Killed were Mazza, of Lee, New Hampshire; Edward and Jo-Ann Corr, a couple from Lakeville, Massachusetts; Michael Ferazzi, of Contoocook, New Hampshire; Desma Oakes, of Concord, New Hampshire; Daniel Pereira, of Riverside, Rhode Island; and Aaron Perry, of Farmington, New Hampshire.

In closing statements Tuesday morning, the two sides raised questions about who was more 'all over the place': the trucker accused of swerving back and forth across the road or the eyewitnesses accused of contradicting each other.

'Those witnesses were all over the place about what they recalled and what they claimed to have seen,' said defense attorney Jay Duguay.

Duguay also accused prosecutors of ignoring that their own accident reconstruction unit contradicted their theory that Zhukovskyy crossed into the oncoming lane.

An expert hired by the defense, meanwhile, testified that the crash happened on the center line of the road and would have occurred even if the truck was in the middle of its lane because Mazza´s motorcycle was heading in that direction.

'From the beginning of this investigation, the state had made up their mind about what had happened, evidence be damned,' said Duguay, who also highlighted inconsistencies between witness accounts or when witnesses contradicted themselves.

In particular, Duguay suggested that the bikers 'shaded' their accounts to protect Mazza and the club. Prosecutor Scott Chase acknowledged some inconsistencies, but asked jurors to remember the circumstances.

The rest here,

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11099279/Truck-driver-acquitted-causing-deaths-seven-motorcyclists-horrific-New-Hampshire-crash.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1557838162109546506
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[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Using Civilians As Human Shields Says Amnesty International:

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[shaberon]

What we're seeing here, as all this plays out — and the whole non-US/EU world is also seeing it clearly — is how compromised, corrupt and hypocritical the US regime is, obediently supported by the EU and the UK.

The Evil Empire — which is what it is — has to come down. We're in Star Wars territory here. :) I'm sure Putin is no saint... but not one person in the US administration is, either, and collectively they're orders of magnitude more destructive and dangerous.



Well, it was what the American Revolution was for.

And unfortunately this has gotten muddied because whenever it is brought up, then everything about slavery and genocide gets thrown at it. That is not the point. The point is the legal and financial differences from the "empire system".

None of the revolutionary European Constitutions carried this key.

The original Constitution was largely inspired by the Iroquois Confederation. This itself was a novel class of document because:


Native Americans fought gruesome battles and never knew peace due to lack of a legal structure and property rights.


That is the same reason given as to how Russian culture started in Kiev.


At the moment, the U. S. Constitution has been dressed in British interests, and Kiev is not part of Russia.

I tend to agree, I think maybe everyone in the world ought to take themselves as under an "existential" threat from something, which, to borrow a phrase has to be de-nazified.

Modern Eugenics is a quite real department which has merely changed its name in a shell game. It is not at all difficult to see where the actual Nazis borrowed their ideology from.



Happens to be the title of U. S. Government's Global Hypocrisy Ridiculed (https://southfront.org/u-s-governments-global-hypocrisy-ridiculed/), based from a published report in China openly accusing the U. S. of war crimes and human rights violations all over the Middle East:


However, China’s Government doesn’t yet have the international system set in place to ‘authenticate’ its accusations such as the U.S. regime has established for this purpose, of expanding the U.S. regime’s empire to include foreign countries, like Germany, Japan, France, and other such (U.S.-‘allied’, or vassal-nation) aristocracies, which benefit from associating themselves with America’s aristocracy (its billionaires) and from thus becoming enabled to form global oligopolies or cartels which will crush unaffiliated “upstart” competitors that can arise in the empire’s ‘enemy’ countries.



He goes on explaining oligarchy and the World Bank, seems to be accurate most of the time.

Such "oligarchy", roughly put, is "the west", once called "Franks".

I smell a poisson:


Three Caesars (https://southfront.org/in-video-russian-strike-hit-battery-of-french-made-caesar-howitzers-in-ukraine/) were wrecked, along with a few others previously, and, Russia also claims to have bought two of them.



One more contributing factor to the aberrantly large number of losses:

Pisky roasted by Thermobarics (https://southfront.org/new-footage-from-ukraine-shows-destructive-power-of-russias-tos-1a-rocket-launcher/)


I noticed the other day they now have something in place that can intercept HIMARS. That does not mean 100% coverage but it is better than nothing.

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine Using American-Supplied Weapons to ATTACK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-using-american-supplied-weapons-to-attack-nuclear-power-plant) :facepalm:

https://whynotnews.eu/pix/Actuator_large.jpg
https://halturnerradioshow.com/images/2022/08/12/Actuator_large.jpg

The Ukrainian Army is using American-made and supplied Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) to fire shells at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is occupied by Russian Troops.

The image above shows a blast fragment from an American GMLRS shell "Actuator" recovered after it exploded on the grounds of the Nuclear Plant Thursday. The English language on the Actuator manufacturing label shows the part number, serial number, the date of manufacture, and says "Actuator Module Assembly" on it.

The Russian Army won control of the Nuclear Power Plant early in its Special Military Operation to de-militarize and De-Nazify Ukraine. The nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe, with six nuclear reactors. Russia conquered it in March of this year, and has safeguarded the plant ever since.

The reason Russia took the plant is that if there was a nuclear accident with that plant, radioactive contamination would be carried by local prevailing winds, directly into Russia. The Russians don't want any radiation floating into their country.

But early this week, Ukraine began doing the unthinkable: Deliberately firing artillery shells at the plant; then made the absurd claim that Russia was firing - at their own Russian troops!

Russia even invited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to come to the plant with inspectors to see exactly WHO it is that is firing at the plant. Russia said they will bring the inspectors in safely and allow them to see for themselves who is attacking the plant.


Then things got an order of magnitude worse:

Russia publicly stated that Ukraine is attempting to hit the spent fuel cooling facilities on the grounds of that plant which will cause what they described as a "nuclear catastrophe worse than Chernobyl."

By doing this, Russia says Ukraine is attempting to use the plant as a sort of Tactical Nuclear Weapon. If Ukraine can cause a nuclear accident, the levels of radiation would be very much akin to the detonation of a battlefield tactical nuke.

So . . . . .

Russia has told Ukraine and the rest of the world that "If Ukraine causes a nuclear catastrophe by shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Russia will consider such an act to be "nuclear terrorism" and, under Russia's long-established military doctrine, such nuclear errorism would require a Russian nuclear response; Russia will respond to Ukraine's "nuclear terrorism" by firing Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons at Ukraine."

Readers may recall that early in the Special Military Operation, illegitimate president Joe Biden publicly commented that NATO would not get involved in the Russia-Ukraine situation "unless Russia uses Biological, Chemical, or Nuclear weapons." If such weapons are used, the US and NATO say they will immediately go to war in Ukraine.


Hal Turner Analysis and Opinion

We in the West are now sitting on a sort of ticking time bomb. Russia has made its position crystal clear. If Ukraine causes a nuclear catastrophe, Russia will treat it as nuclear terrorism and hit back with tactical nukes.

The US/NATO has said they will enter the Ukraine war if such weapons are used. And so, as you read this, the only thing standing in the way of the outbreak of actual nuclear world war 3, is some dumb Ukrainian, firing GMLRS at a nuclear power plant.

Forgive me if I think we're all doomed.


source (https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/ukraine-using-american-supplied-weapons-to-attack-nuclear-power-plant)
dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/oekraine-gebruikt-door-amerika-geleverde-wapens-om-nucleaire-kerncentrale-aan-te-vallen-wij-in-het-westen-zitten-nu-op-een-soort-tikkende-tijdbom) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Ravenlocke]

Two part video dubbed in English, RU Mod briefing Aug 12

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1558073315897610240
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558054921118908416
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558054933341028352
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558054937493262336
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[Ravenlocke]

Gorlovka

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558099789404839937
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The Stirol chemical plant has been a target for years,
2014,

https://twitter.com/Catherina_News/status/498596276770852864
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https://twitter.com/alexey_lyashko/status/494083164592037888
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https://twitter.com/Gaileis/status/498823654394703872
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https://twitter.com/Viatcheslavsos3/status/1494669332743344128
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[9ideon]

It is starting to look like that Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant thing has been well orchestrated by Western Intelligence for a purpose with two possible outcomes.

1-) The Russians are Forced to accept a De-Militarized Zone, which will ensure UN-Troops in Ukraine.

2-) Russia Refuses the De-Militarized Zone.


In the case of that De-Militarized zone Russia will delay the inevitable, if Ukraine will be allowed to strengthen their Military again, now backed and as part of NATO, this will happen without doubt, the West will come for Russia, no question anymore, they're out for the destruction of at least NK, Iran, China and Russia, they will fatten up and come.

In case of нет, I feel that, now that Russia has been deemed a Terrorist Nation by, uhhm, whateverland, they (West) could have their excuse to declare war.

Russia is basically setup in a Sales trap. It is made to believe (will not work) it has to make either one of those choices.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558088812189962242

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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1558088973616046080
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https://twitter.com/SoizaDavid/status/1558083483804639233
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https://news.err.ee/1608683440/minister-estonia-finland-to-integrate-coastal-missile-defense-systems

Minister: Estonia, Finland to integrate coastal missile defense systems

"We need to integrate our coastal defenses. The flight range of Estonian and Finnish missiles is greater than the width of the Gulf of Finland. This means that we can connect our missile defenses and share all our information with each other," Pevkur (Reform) said in an interview during a working visit to Finland.

Estonia will buy Israeli Blue Spear land-to-sea missiles this autumn, which have a range of 290 kilometers. Finland's MTO 85M missiles have a range of over 100 kilometers.

At the Gulf of Finland's narrowest point, there are 52 kilometers of sea between the two countries and 120km at its widest.

Pevkur said the integration of missile defense systems will make it possible to close the Gulf of Finland to Russian warships.

"The Baltic Sea will be NATO's internal sea when Finland and Sweden have joined NATO. Compared with what it is today, the situation is changing," he said.

The minister also discussed securing airspace. It has been agreed upon by NATO that the Allies will secure the whole Baltic Sea region.

"For me, this is one airspace. Everyone must understand that Norway, Finland, the Baltics and other countries form NATO's eastern flank. We are not only protecting Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania or other eastern NATO countries. When we talk about NATO, the most important thing is Article 5: one for all and all for one," he said

"Finnish airspace cannot be protected if Estonian airspace is not protected at the same time, and vice versa. Fighter jets cross the 80-kilometer-wide Gulf of Finland in minutes."

Iltaleht asked if the Americans will send F-35 fighter jets to Estonia and Pevkur said the discussions about the size of the U.S.'s presence is currently being discussed.

The Estonian and Finnish defense ministers met earlier this week in Helsinki.

[Ravenlocke]

Just in re the Zaporozhye

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558109641187508227
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https://twitter.com/DailyWorld24/status/1558068567920316422
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https://twitter.com/snekotron/status/1558052301541150721
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558083920780034048
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1558083929592193025
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/1558035561474146304?s=20&t=CjTxdr06tiQOAOlAcoJCEQ

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/via-daniel-ukraine-battle-expands-as-kyiv-launches-counteroffensive-new-york-times-may-29-2022-ukraine-regains-some.html

The Mystic Ukrainian Kherson Offensive Did Not And Will Not Happen At All

August 12, 2022

There has been much talk in 'western' media about a Ukrainian offensive in the southern Kherson region. However most of the claims made about it seem to be divorced from the observable realities on the ground. The detailed look below provides that there is no such offensive and that there is little chance that there will ever be one.

The purported offensive has for months been a core talking point:

Ukraine Battle Expands as Kyiv Launches Counteroffensive - New York Times - May 29, 2022
Ukraine Regains Some Territory in Counter-Offensive in Kherson Area - Defence Ministry - Reuters - Jun 9, 2022
Near Kherson, Ukrainians regain territory in major counteroffensive - Washington Post - Jun 29, 2022
Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive to retake Kherson province - Economist - Jul 3, 2022
Kherson cut off: Ukrainian counter-offensive gaining momentum in southern city - Fox News - Jul 29, 2022
Lets look at the map of the Kherson area and how it has changed over time. LiveUAmap, the source used here for these maps, is know to be more in favor of Ukrainian claims than Russian ones. The red parts are held by Russian forces.

This is the Kherson area as depicted on May 13, 2022:

The rest here,

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/via-daniel-ukraine-battle-expands-as-kyiv-launches-counteroffensive-new-york-times-may-29-2022-ukraine-regains-some.html

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1558114116220354561
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[Spiral]

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This utterly fails to explain how an old soviet mig can fire a current NATO missile, at the very least US technicians have been very busy (ie on the ground in the Ukraine) modding the heck out of whatever it is they still have that is airworthy.
TXDPR/1324


Why some of these embedd & others don't is a mystery :o

[Kryztian]

EU considering round 7 of sanctions and may stop issuing travel visas to Russians. This would have a devastating effect on Greece, Spain, Italy and other travel destinations.

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When hate and fear and anger start governing policy then it can lead to all sorts of utterly disatrous outcomes, and we have already seen some of them, and there is always the risk that things could get far worse. - Alexander Mercouris

[ExomatrixTV]

CIA spy analyzes Vladimir Putin and the War in Ukraine:

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[kfm27917]

Interesting what US forces have
Air Force Releases List Of What’s In Its Famous ‘Petting Zoo’ Threat Training Facility
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43733/air-force-releases-list-of-whats-in-its-famous-petting-zoo-threat-training-facility

The Last Time The United States Got Its Hands On A Fleet Of MiG-29 Fighters
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44661/the-last-time-the-united-states-got-its-hands-on-a-fleet-of-mig-29-fighters

New Evidence Of AGM-88 Anti-Radiation Missile Use By Ukraine Emerges
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/new-evidence-of-agm-88-anti-radiation-missile-use-by-ukraine-emerge

How Ukraine Could’ve Quickly Put AGM-88 Anti-Radiation Missiles To Use
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/how-ukraine-couldve-quickly-put-agm-88-anti-radiation-missiles-to-us

After An Abysmal Start, Here Is How Russia’s Application Of Airpower In Ukraine Could Evolve
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44634/after-an-abysmal-start-heres-how-russias-application-of-airpower-in-ukraine-could-evolve

[shaberon]

That is depressing about Latvia. I used to admire the Baltic States for being the only part of Europe not enslaved by conquistadors and Teutonics. I suppose politics accomplished where religion failed: turned it to trash just the same.


Is there anything I can vote on yet? Like De-NATOification? I like that one. Where do you sign up or wholeheartedly commit the rest of your life without a second thought?




Just to chime in, here are a few reactions about whatever the UK did to Graham Phillips for his Ukraine reporting:



It is clearly very wrong what our government is doing to him. But then this government is now more corrupt than it has ever been. And at one point our country was run by a paedophile. The English government, and in fact all governments within the British Isles have been compromised for a very long time, but this war has truly shone a spotlight on the evil and corruption of our leadership. They are the most despicable form of cockroach that exist on this earth. They have no dignity, no morality and no shame. They are truly the servants of their master,satan. Graham has clearly done nothing wrong. He has reported the facts as they are, but this is a sin to the West. One cannot tell the truth and shame the devil without consequence. As you have said in your comment, he will likely have to claim asylum in Russia and say goodbye to his family, just so he can stay alive and stay out of prison. This is unreal. I am disgusted by the actions of our leaders. Unfortunately, the magna carta has no real authority anymore. Unlike the US constition which is taught to all children in the USA, kids in the UK can go throughout their schooling careers without learning more than the fact it exists. I learned nothing about it at school except the very basics. The content was never discussed. And so the majority have no idea what their rights even are. It is a shambles. A complete disgrace. But this is what they planned, and it’s working beautifully!



or:



If I had to choose between UK and Russia, I would select Russia.

We have to denazify UK. And denazify EU.



or:

You have just now realised that what 300 years of social destruction, brutality and marginalisation the British establishment have invoked on all Scotland Ireland and wales. I certainly have no wish to be though of as british, and have never been proud of said deceit brutality and marginalisation of my forefathers or my extended family and nation even today.



I am not sure what political party that represents--I don't think it is one. Blustering about the Magna Carta has got them thinking that maybe Americans still have one up on them. Not really. Most Americans think they have Constitutional rights, which they don't. The Constitution applies to the government, not a human being.


Why in the world would people worship countries without having any idea what a Constitution is??

Oh, King James. He wrote the Bible. Someone told me so.



The weakness of Pisky apparently was that the locals left years ago and it was just a fortress. That is why it tasted TOS-1A. This is along the south face of Avdivka which is the local highest point, which makes it a particularly important location.


The sensible thing to do is surrender Avdivka, but that assumes you want to live. Can't you just sense the tentacles twitching in anticipation of the U. S. midterm elections, Trump raid and all?


While we have recently mentioned that the U. S. and Russia both arose out of basically brand new legal systems, on the much older side there were the Franks (free persons) and Slavs (slaves). If you have heard of the Divine Right of Kings, some believe that Merovech, king of the Salian Franks, is the bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdaleine and that this may be important. I am not sure. This tribe is not known to have existed prior to ca. year 200, and then you get the characters of Merovech and Clovis. And especially from the latter, you got a gift of the entire future based on another system, Salic Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law), which came up because Clovis:


...appointed four commissioners to research customary law that, until the publication of the Salic Law, had been recorded only in the minds of designated elders, who would meet in council when their knowledge was required. Transmission was entirely oral. Salic Law therefore reflects ancient usages and practices. In order to govern more effectively, it was desirable for monarchs and their administrations to have a written code.



It is considered the oldest writing of Old Dutch. And, of course, keeping with the theme of divinity they had in mind:



The best-known tenet of the old law is the principle of exclusion of women from inheritance of thrones, fiefs and other property.


And it more or less has remained in place as Statutory Law, which, as an American, I am supposed to be free of:


Salic law provided written codification of both civil law, such as the statutes governing inheritance, and criminal law, such as the punishment for murder. Although it was originally intended as the law of the Franks, it has had a formative influence on the tradition of statute law that extended to modern history in much of Europe...

The criminal laws established damages to be paid and fines levied in recompense for injuries to persons and damage to goods, theft, and unprovoked insults. One-third of the fine paid court costs. Judicial interpretation was by a jury of peers.

The civil law establishes that an individual person is legally unprotected if he or she does not belong to a family.




So, we have this law, in the hands of Oligarchy, for almost the entire period of observable history--or at least the latter since ca. 800. I am just not aware of anything in Europe which may have changed it significantly. Kingdoms or republics do not matter much if they are temporary faces of an ongoing bulk.


That is true that it is nearly impossible to attack a nuclear reactor with weapons. However if you mess with the power output or cooling system it is a different story.

In the most recent version of New England justice, a Ukrainian motorist was acquitted of seven counts of negligent homicide from running over a motorcycle convoy while high on fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin. I am not sure how you even survive that. Somehow the defense's case that the motorcycle leader was actually drunk and caused the whole thing by sliding into the guy's car must have been screamingly obvious according to all the available evidence.


I have not noticed any particular defenses about the biolabs, and so forth, yet. Just a ball of cobwebs being flown to Taiwan.

I did see the suggestion that, if it is true that western Big Pharma and Big Ag bought so many millions hectares from Ukraine, and, if it turns out that the signing government was invalid, then the contracts are worthless and the companies lose everything.


I have no idea if the allegations are true. As long as it is not actually a state of War, then, there is the possibility that the Ukrainian regime could remain intact. We see how much it matters to have an opinion about the status of merceneries; things are already handled a certain way. Nothing will come out of it until Ukraine accepts Russia's terms, whatever those turn out to be.

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Ukrainians Fleeing To Russian-Held Territory In Droves:

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Amnesty is re-assessing that report on Ukraine, it's getting so tiresome these "People".

Article (https://diplomatmagazine.eu/2022/08/13/controversies-around-amnestys-report-on-ukraine/)

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so... energy leeches... "vampires"......... what are you giving up by paying attention to this (to me) clear distraction, are you the disred outcome or do you realize the situation for what it is....

I've found humanity to be ridiculously predictive (mostly due to my inteligence community work mixed with my time with masonry)

I could expand but I don't even know if it's helpful, humans are easily guidable, is that what's happening now (again).

be hontest with yourself, how much time have you spent on exttremely complex topics like this that have almost no datapoints that validate the original "narative"... have we willingly done this to ourselves?

I'm not sure anymore

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Amnesty is re-assessing that report on Ukraine, it's getting so tiresome these "People".

Article (https://diplomatmagazine.eu/2022/08/13/controversies-around-amnestys-report-on-ukraine/)

That is so bad it's hilarious, they expect anyone commenting on what's happening there to check & double check with people who couldn't lie straight in bed, then finish with a well known & utterly debunked psy-op, namely the made up ( staged) events in Bucha.

There are endless vids of civilians saying exactly what amnesty reported, also the Nazis posted plenty of self incriminating evidence, and now they are all ratting each other out in detention, or rather they were before the Ukrainans killed them (their own people) in a rocket attack using US equipment & satellite intel.

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Amnesty is re-assessing that report on Ukraine, it's getting so tiresome these "People".

Article (https://diplomatmagazine.eu/2022/08/13/controversies-around-amnestys-report-on-ukraine/)

That is so bad it's hilarious, they expect anyone commenting on what's happening there to check & double check with people who couldn't lie straight in bed, then finish with a well known & utterly debunked psy-op, namely the made up ( staged) events in Bucha.

There are endless vids of civilians saying exactly what amnesty reported, also the Nazis posted plenty of self incriminating evidence, and now they are all ratting each other out in detention, or rather they were before the Ukrainians killed them (their own people) in a rocket attack using US equipment & satellite intel.

It's like a twisted version of that Swamp Gas thing ffs.

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Ukraine will target Russian forces at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Zelenskiy – video

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has vowed to target Russian troops at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant who fire on Ukrainian towns and cities. ‘Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the station or shoots under the cover of the station must understand that they are becoming a special target for our intelligence, for our special services, for our army,’ said Zelenskiy in a video statement on Saturday evening. Both Ukraine and Russia have accused one another of shelling the nuclear plant, which is the largest in Europe, following multiple incidents in recent weeks. Russian troops captured the station early in the war. G7 nations have called on Moscow to withdraw from the plant to avoid risking nuclear catastrophe


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Is what you get with that idiot in Kiev, they're at War not in some sort of funny movie, useless loss of life. Shame on you Zelenskyy!

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I don't get Russia, they must know where this is coming from, why not carpet bomb the area? Yes, it will hurt People, on the other hand, if that thing blows it will hurt 100's of millions. They could warn in advance, who knows, perhaps some brave citizens might just take it upon themselves to take out those artillerists.

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Russian troops destroy two Ukrainian command posts in past day — top brass


Igor Konashenkov noted that the Russian artillery troops wiped out over 70% of the personnel of a battalion of the Ukrainian army’s 66th mechanized brigade in the DPR
MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Russian forces struck two Ukrainian command posts in the past 24 hours in their special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Monday.

"Operational-tactical and army aviation aircraft, missile and artillery troops continue striking military sites on Ukrainian territory. In the past 24 hours, they struck the command posts of the 112nd territorial defense brigade in the area of Artyomovsk and the 60th infantry brigade in the area of Osokorovka in the Kherson Region," the spokesman said.

The Russian troops also hit the Ukrainian army’s manpower and military hardware, among them nationalist battalions in the areas of the settlements of Merefa in the Kharkov Region, Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, in the city of Nikolayev and Velikomikhailovka in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, the general added.

In addition, the Russian forces destroyed a missile/artillery arms depot in the Nikolayev Region, three ammunition and two fuel depots near Kharkov, Konashenkov reported.

"The following targets were destroyed: a missile/artillery arms depot in the area of Zaichevskoye in the Nikolayev Region, three ammunition depots near the settlements of Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and also two fuel depots for military hardware near Chuguyev and Kovyaga in the Kharkov Region," the spokesman said.

Russia’s air-launched precision missiles incapacitated two traction substations in the Dnepropetrovsk Region in Ukraine, Konashenkov reported.

"In the area of the Apostolovo and Sinelnikovo railway stations in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, two traction substations were incapacitated," the spokesman said.

The Russian artillery troops wiped out over 70% of the personnel of a battalion of the Ukrainian army’s 66th mechanized brigade in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Konashenkov reported.

"In the area of the settlement of Maryinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, artillery strikes by the Russian troops against the combat positions of the Ukrainian army’s 66th mechanized brigade liquidated over 70% of the personnel of the formation’s 3rd battalion," the spokesman said.

Army aviation aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a strike against the Ukrainian army’s 63rd mechanized brigade, eliminating over 160 militants, Konashenkov reported.

"As a result of a strike by army aviation aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces against the combat positions of the Ukrainian army’s 63rd mechanized brigade in the areas of the settlements of Belogorka and Lozovoye in the Kherson Region, the 105th and 107th battalions of that brigade lost over 160 nationalists," the spokesman said.

The Russian forces delivered a strike by precision weapons in the Kharkov Region, eliminating over 100 and wounding more than 50 mercenaries from Poland and Germany in the special military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov reported.

"Precision-guided weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck the temporary deployment site of foreign mercenaries in the area of the settlement of Zolochev in the Kharkov Region, eliminating over 100 and wounding more than 50 militants from Poland and also Germany," the spokesman said.

The Russian forces delivered a strike by precision weapons, eliminating over 260 Ukrainian militants in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Konashenkov reported.

"In the areas of the settlements of Ugledar, Vodyanoye and Dobropolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the strikes by precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces against the combat positions of the Ukrainian army’s 53rd mechanized and 68th infantry brigades wiped out over 260 militants," the spokesman said.

The Russian forces struck a platoon of Ukrainian Msta-B artillery guns in counter-battery fire in the Donetsk People’s Republic in the special military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov reported.

"A platoon of Ukrainian Msta-B artillery guns was obliterated in counter-battery fire near the settlement of Mayorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the spokesman said.

Russia’s strikes also crippled three Ukrainian platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems in the areas of the communities of Zvanovka, Soledar and Zaitsevo, and also four artillery platoons of Giatsint-B guns and three platoons of D-30 howitzers at firing positions near the settlements of Seversk, Artyomovsk, Panteleimonovka, Georgiyevka, Novosyolka and Krestishche in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Novoaleksandrovka in the Kherson Region, the general added.

In addition, the Russian troops intercepted two rockets near the settlement of Novotroitskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Konashenkov reported.

Russian air defense forces shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov reported.

"In the past 24 hours, Russian air defense capabilities shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Maryinka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Chervonoye in the Kherson Region and Udy in the Kharkov Region," the spokesman said.

The Russian troops have destroyed almost 800 multiple launch rocket systems since the beginning of their special military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov reported.

"In all, the following targets have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation: 267 aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,741 unmanned aerial vehicles, 365 surface-to-air missile systems, 4,311 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 799 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,304 field artillery guns and mortars and 4,891 special military motor vehicles," the spokesman said.

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Russia calls on US, EU to push Kiev to stop attacks on Zaporozhye NPP — diplomat

According to Maria Zakharova, the Western approach is not supported by most of the international community members
MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. Moscow strongly urges Washington, Brussels and other Western capitals drop their irresponsible games and intrigues around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and push Kiev toward stopping attacks on the nuclear plant, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Monday.

"We strongly call on Washington, Brussels and other capitals, first of all, European ones, to drop their irresponsible games and intrigues around the Zaporozhye NPP and immediately push Kiev authorities to stop attacks on the station and adjacent territories," she said. "Further connivance of Ukraine’s Western sponsors is a crime, including against their own citizens. These people, like people in Russia and Ukraine, will be exposed to incredible risks if Ukrainian nationalists don’t’ stop their attacks."

She drew attention to the statement on the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP that was signed by a number of Western nations and released by the EU delegation to the International Organizations in Vienna on August 14. "It was a contracted fake about threats to the Zaporozhye NPP’s nuclear and physical security," she said. "The status of this statement, which looks like delayed ‘calls-out’ after the August 11 extraordinary session of the United Nations Security Council called by us over the ongoing Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP, is not quite clear."

"Western countries, again, are resorting to outright lies claiming that threats to the Zaporozhye NPP are created by Russia. Obviously, it runs counter to facts we have cited many times, including at the UN Security Council. No doubt that strikes at the nuclear plant and Energodar are delivered by Ukrainian forces acting at Kiev’s orders. These strikes continued when EU delegates in Vienna were collecting signatures under their statement, instead of strongly condemning [Ukrainian President] Vladimir Zelensky’s regime, which is reveling in its impunity," she stressed.

"Out-of-place statements the European Union issues one by one in attempts to score imaginary political points are unequivocally perceived by the ruling clique in Kiev as a go-ahead to create obstacles to an international IAEA mission’s visit to the Zaporozhye NPP," she said. "We strongly condemn attempts to obstruct this mission. In close cooperation with the agency and its leadership we will do everything necessary for the IAEA specialists to visit the station and give a truthful assessment of the Ukrainian side’s destructive actions."

The Russian diplomat expressed concern over "the statement’s obsession with the ‘Russian threat,’" which is used to distract attention from the West’s foreign policy failures. "We see what all their former vows about commitment to the international laws in the area of nuclear security are worth. It is also obvious what the world will be like if international law in this sphere is replaced by their ‘rule-based order.’ These rules are needed by the West to interpret them in their political interests. Taking into account that the circle of the EU statement’s co-sponsors is quite limited, it can be said confidently that the Western approach is not supported by most of the international community members," Zakharova added.

Located in the city of Energodar, the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is controlled by Russian troops. In recent days, Ukrainian forces delivered several strikes at its territory using unmanned aerial vehicles, heavy artillery and multiple rocket launch systems. In most cases, such attacks are repelled by air defense systems but several shells hit infrastructure facilities and the vicinity of the nuclear waste storage.

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https://tass.com/politics/1493729

Ukraine's terms for IAEA mission to NPP may turn out to be insurmountable — Russian envoy


It is reported that attacks by the Ukrainian forces are repelled by air defense systems but several shells hit infrastructure facilities and the vicinity of the nuclear waste storage
MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. The conditions put forward by Ukraine and a number of Western countries with regard to an IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant may prove insurmountable, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Monday.

"I think the IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye NPP will be worked out in the near future. This is not an easy process, especially since Ukraine and its Western patrons put forward a number of preconditions, which may prove insurmountable in the end," the diplomat pointed out.

"The most important thing for Russia is to ensure the absolute safety of the international mission," Ulyanov stressed. "It is absolutely impossible to do this in conditions of continued shelling," he said. "Therefore, first of all, the Western countries should urge Kiev to stop this outrage, and the Kiev side should cooperate with the IAEA in paving the way for this visit," Ulyanov summed up.

Located in the city of Energodar, the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is controlled by Russian troops. In recent days, Ukrainian forces delivered several strikes at its territory using unmanned aerial vehicles, heavy artillery and multiple rocket launch systems. In most cases, such attacks are repelled by air defense systems but several shells hit infrastructure facilities and the vicinity of the nuclear waste storage.

The Zaporozhye NPP is Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant. With a capacity of around 6,000 megawatt, it generated a fourth of Ukraine’s electricity. Since 1996, it was part of Ukraine’s Energoatom generating company. In March 2022, control over the nuclear plant came over to Russian forces. Now, the plant is operating at 70% of its capacity due to the oversupply of electricity on the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region.

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EU ‘blatantly lying’ about threat to Zaporozhye nuclear plant – Moscow

Accusations that Moscow is jeopardizing the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) contradict the facts and allow Kiev to undermine the International Atomic Energy Agency’s efforts to inspect the facility, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Russia’s response comes after the EU released a statement on Sunday condemning the “unprovoked invasion of Ukraine” and accusing the Russian military of attacking the ZNPP and preventing nuclear and radiation safety from being maintained at the facility.

“Western countries are once again descending to outright lies, arguing that the threats to the ZNPP are created by Russia,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a statement published on the ministry’s website.

“Obviously, this contradicts the facts that we have repeatedly cited, including within the walls of the Security Council. It is undeniable that the attacks on the station and Energodar are carried out by Ukrainian armed groups acting on orders from Kiev.”

Zakharova went on to suggest that the EU’s statement was marked by “biased informational stuffing” and full of “blatant Russophobia and distorted facts.” She noted that the authors of the text were obsessed with the so-called “Russian threat” and were using it to cover up their own foreign policy failures by putting “Russophobic foreign policy views above objectivity and the tasks of nonproliferation and nuclear security.”

The spokeswoman also pointed out that such statements were being used by EU politicians to score “imaginary political points” while giving Kiev the go-ahead to create obstacles for an IAEA inspection of the plant.

“We strongly urge Washington, Brussels and other capitals, primarily European ones, to stop the irresponsible games and intrigues around the ZNPP and immediately influence the Kyiv authorities to force them to stop shelling the plant and its adjacent territories,” Zakharova stated, adding that Moscow is in close cooperation with the IAEA and will do everything necessary to provide its specialists’ with access to the power plant.

Located in the Russian-held city of Energodar in southern Ukraine, the Zaporozhye facility – the largest nuclear plant in Europe – has been subjected to a series of attacks over the past few weeks. Moscow has accused Kiev of launching artillery and drone strikes on the facility, denouncing the operations as “nuclear terrorism.” Ukraine, however, claims Russia is the one targeting the plant in a plot to discredit Kiev’s forces, also claiming Moscow has stationed troops at the facility to “shield” them from danger.

The UN has called the attacks “suicidal” and has proposed sending an IAEA delegation to the site to provide “technical support” and help avoid a further escalation.

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Russia chases off UK spy plane

A Royal Air Force spy plane violated Russian airspace in the Barents Sea near Murmansk, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. A MiG-31 interceptor was dispatched to escort the RC-135 surveillance jet from the vicinity of Cape Svyatoy Nos, near the major bases of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet.

The MiG-31BM interceptor on duty with the border air patrol identified the aircraft and compelled it to stop its violation of Russian airspace, the military said in a statement. Moscow identified the location of the incident as Svyatoy Nos, a cape on the Kola Peninsula, east of Murmansk in western Russia.

While the Russian Defense Ministry offered no further details about the incident as of Monday evening local time, FlightRadar showed a Royal Air Force RC-135 flying off the coast of Murmansk earlier. The RAF spy plane with the designation RRR7255 made several loops before heading for the entrance to the White Sea, violating Russian airspace in the process.

The plane is seen currently flying back to the RAF base in Waddington, Lincolnshire, the hub of the RAF Intelligence Surveillance Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) command.

Monday’s incident was the first incursion of NATO aircraft into Russian territory since the conflict in Ukraine escalated in February. Earlier that month, Moscow said that a US submarine was spotted and chased off from Russian waters near the Kuril Islands in the northern Pacific. The Pentagon denied all allegations.

This is the second British trespass into Russian territory since June 2021, when Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender sailed off the coast of Crimea. The most recent known incident in the Barents Sea was in July 2021, when three nuclear-capable US B-52 bombers approached Russian airspace, but were escorted away before they could trespass.

According to Russian officials, the number of reconnaissance NATO flights near the state border grew by more than 30% in 2021.


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Are We On the Brink of War?

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Once again, the empire pointed the big stick of democracy at the continent of Africa

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Kinda reminiscent of the empire's democratic threats at India, which only encouraged them to buy more Russian oil (https://www.rt.com/business/552224-india-buys-more-russian-oil/)

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Ukraine Has Failed - Pentagon

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Western ‘Superweapons’ Myth Dispelled – Shoigu (https://swentr.site/russia/560922-western-superweapons-myth-dispelled/)

The arms provided to Kiev have not had a significant effect on Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, the defense minister says.


source (https://www.frontnieuws.com/westerse-mythe-van-superwapens-ontkracht/) (Dutch 🇳🇱 + Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

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Russian Army Enters Ukrainian Cities Without A Fight: 'Glad We Were Freed From Criminals:

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In recent days, Dutch 🇳🇱 Journalist Sonja van den Ende paid a visit to the southern Ukrainian coastal town of Berdyansk, located on the Sea of ​​Azov.

Mainstream media journalists, who enter data into their news sites from the comfort of their own home, claimed that on February 27 a Russian "offensive" took place in and around Berdyansk.

Van den Ende spoke to local residents and asked them if they had suffered from the fighting. They said in unison, "No, all was quiet here!"


No fights

According to the media, there would also have been heavy fighting for the city of Melitopol, which Van den Ende has now visited three times. However, according to the Russian army, soldiers entered Melitopol without a fight.

RIA news agency reported that the soldiers were even welcomed by residents. Retirees took to the streets with red flags. Van den Ende confirms this. “What I have heard several times is that there have been no fighting in the city and nothing has been destroyed.”


Free from the criminals

"The people were happy that the Russian army finally came to free them from the criminals as they put it," the journalist writes on her website (https://freesuriyah-eu.translate.goog/2022/08/15/mijn-bezoek-aan-de-stad-berdyansk-een-stad-in-de-dpr-die-het-sovjet-unie-gevoel-heeft-het-westen-heeft-hen-verraden/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en).

For example, former mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov was a member of the neo-fascist Right Sector, a party created by the Kiev regime and sponsored by the West.


Unsafe

Incidentally, the former mayor was welcomed with open arms (https://www.ninefornews.nl/rechts-radicale-oekraiense-burgemeester-en-aanhanger-nazi-ideologie-met-open-armen-ontvangen-in-nederland/) in the Netherlands, where he spoke with, among others, Minister Hoekstra of Foreign Affairs and members of the House of Representatives. Fedorov, like many other radicals, has fled to Europe, where they are granted asylum.

In Berdjansk, Van den Ende spoke to people who were queuing up to apply for a Russian passport. Young people in particular told her that they felt 'unsafe', that the Kiev regime discriminates and forbade them to speak Russian. The elders did not have a good word for President Zelensky and the West.


dutch (https://www.ninefornews.nl/russische-leger-trekt-oekraiense-steden-zonder-slag-of-stoot-binnen-blij-dat-we-zijn-bevrijd-van-criminelen) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[ExomatrixTV]

“Ukraine Counteroffensive” was a Total Bust, Now They’re Losing Even Worse (https://stormer-daily.rw/ukraine-counteroffensive-was-a-total-bust-now-theyre-losing-even-worse/)



dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/oekraine-tegenoffensief-was-een-totale-mislukking-nu-verliezen-ze-nog-meer) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Ravenlocke]

Yesterday they caught a British airplane over Russian space and today this happens

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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/560938-ukrainian-saboteurs-targeted-nuclear-facility-russia/

Ukraine targeted operation of Russian nuclear site – Moscow

Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Tuesday that a series of explosions earlier this month at high-voltage power lines used by the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant were carried out by Ukrainian saboteurs.

The plant is located in Kursk Region, which borders eastern Ukraine. The blasts, which occurred on August 4, 9, and 12, “led to a disruption of the technological process of the nuclear power plant’s functioning,” the FSB said. Six transmission towers were targeted overall. These towers transmit power from the plant to crucial infrastructure, such as industrial sites and transportation systems.

The FSB added that a terrorism investigation has been launched and that a search for the culprits is underway. Security at nuclear sites in Russia has been boosted.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian agents blew up a military storage facility near the town of Dzhankoy in Crimea. It added that power lines, a railway, and several homes were also damaged.

READ MORE: Crimea blasts were acts of sabotage – Russian MoD
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi voiced concern last week over the “very alarming” situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been accusing each other of shelling the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, warning that combat in the area could trigger a nuclear disaster. The plant continues to operate with Ukrainian personnel under Russian control.


https://www.rt.com/russia/560931-crimea-incident-sabotage-military/

Crimea blasts were acts of sabotage – Russian MoD

The incident on Tuesday morning that resulted in explosions at a military site in northern Crimea was an intentional act, an update by the Russian Defense Ministry claims.

Describing its response, the ministry said it was “taking necessary measures to eliminate the consequences of the sabotage.”

The explosions caused damage “to a number of civilian objects, including power lines, a power station, a railroad and several residential houses,” the statement said.

The site hit by the apparent attack is located near the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoy area of the Russian region. The military used it as a temporary ammo depot, it said earlier. The ammunition detonated due to a fire.

READ MORE: Crimean village evacuated after huge explosions
Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, announced a region-wide state of emergency on Tuesday due to the incident.

Officials in Crimea said two civilians were injured in Mayskoye. The lives of both victims are not in danger, the reports said.

Train traffic was also disrupted in Crimea due to damage of the railway. The region’s government said it will deploy additional buses to transport passengers.

Another fire at an ammo depot happened last week at a military airfield near the resort town of Novofedorovka. The incident left one person dead and 14 others injured. The Defense Ministry did not report any findings of foul play behind it.


https://www.rt.com/russia/560912-crimea-ammo-depot-blast/

Crimean village evacuated after huge explosions

Residents of the village of Mayskoye in northeastern Crimea were ordered to evacuate on Tuesday following powerful explosions nearby. The blasts took place at a temporary ammunition depot operated by the Russian military, the Defense Ministry confirmed.

The settlement is located in the Dzhankoy region, near Ukraine, and is believed to have around 2,000 residents.

This is the second incident of this nature on the Crimean Peninsula since the beginning of the month. Last week, a series of explosions occurred at the Saki military airfield, located in the resort town of Novofedorovka. As a result, 14 people were injured and one died

Images on social media purportedly taken at the moment of the incident show a massive ball of fire rising into the air.

According to the Defense Ministry, the ammunition exploded due to a fire at the site. It reported no serious injuries in the incident and said its causes were being investigated.

The head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said he was going to Mayskoye to investigate the situation on the ground.

The official said that according to preliminary reports, two civilians were injured in the village, adding that their lives are not in danger.

Residents are being taken at least 5km away from Mayskoye due to the risks posed by continuing explosions at the military site, Aksyonov said.

Later in the day, the region’s head said rail connection between mainland Russia and western Crimea was disrupted by damage done by the incident in Mayskoye. Aksyonov pledged to organize extra buses for travelers.

[Ravenlocke]

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https://sputniknews.com/20220816/uk-applies-for-spy-plane-flight-over-russia-moscow-says-will-not-allow-this-1099660400.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

UK Applies for Spy Plane Flight Over Russia, Moscow Says Will Not Allow This

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom has applied for a reconnaissance aircraft to fly above the territory of the Russian Federation, the Russian Aerospace Forces have been tasked with preventing any border breach, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Tuesday.
"The UK has filed an application with a flight plan for the flight of a UK reconnaissance aircraft RC-135 along a route that also runs over the territory of the Russian Federation. We consider this action as a deliberate provocation," the ministry said.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have been tasked with preventing violations of the Russian airspace, it added.
All possible consequences of this deliberate provocation will lie solely with the UK, the ministry stressed.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1559510290844110853
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[Ravenlocke]

https://readovka.world/news/108354


Kyiv talks of West's readiness to accept Ukraine's surrender

Countries expect Kyiv to fall in order to solve their problems, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said
Some Western countries are ready to accept Ukraine's capitulation so that the problems will resolve themselves, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

"I am often asked in interviews and communications by foreign ministers: 'how much longer will you hold out?' Instead of asking, what else needs to be done to win in the shortest time", – Kuleba said, noting that there is a feeling that some European countries expect Ukraine to "collapse" and all problems will resolve themselves.
In July, Dmytro Kuleba stated that Kyiv would negotiate with Moscow only after Russia's defeat on the battlefield. Other conditions for Ukraine, he believes, are unacceptable.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.rt.com/news/560956-russian-defense-ministry-uk-provocation/

Russia accuses UK of ‘deliberate provocation’

Britain’s Royal Air Force is carrying out a provocative action in Russian airspace, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has warned. The statement came after the UK requested permission for a reconnaissance plane to fly over Russian territory.

On Tuesday, Russian military officials revealed that a “request has been lodged by the UK for the passing of a British reconnaissance plane RC-135 along a route which goes over the territory of the Russian Federation, among other countries.”

The ministry emphasized that it deemed “this action to be a deliberate provocation.”

The statement went on to say that the Russian Air Force had been tasked with preventing any “violation of the Russian Federation’s airspace.”

Moscow also pointed out that “all possible consequences” of the planned reconnaissance flight would “rest solely with the UK.”

The Russian Defense Ministry’s warning comes hard on the heels of another incident involving a British reconnaissance aircraft.

Russia chases off UK spy plane
Russia chases off UK spy plane
On Monday, military officials in Moscow claimed that an RC-135 surveillance jet – the same model as the one mentioned in Britain’s latest passage request – had entered Russian airspace in the Barents Sea near the city of Murmansk and major bases of the country’s Navy’s Northern Fleet. A Russian MiG-31BM interceptor forced the intruder to leave Russian airspace.

This was the first known incursion of NATO aircraft into Russian territory since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in late February.

Earlier that month, Moscow claimed that a US submarine had entered Russian waters and was subsequently chased off near the Kuril Islands in the northern Pacific – which the Pentagon denied at the time.

According to Moscow’s estimates, in 2021 alone, the number of reconnaissance flights by NATO aircraft rose by over 30%.

[Spiral]

no_one_is_forgotten/7649

NewResistance/11804

TheEternalUkrainian2/13500

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1559570685529272320
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https://www.rt.com/russia/560931-crimea-incident-sabotage-military/
Crimea blasts were acts of sabotage – Russian MoD

The incident on Tuesday morning that resulted in explosions at a military site in northern Crimea was an intentional act, an update by the Russian Defense Ministry claims.

Describing its response, the ministry said it was “taking necessary measures to eliminate the consequences of the sabotage.”

The explosions caused damage “to a number of civilian objects, including power lines, a power station, a railroad and several residential houses,” the statement said.

The site hit by the apparent attack is located near the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoy area of the Russian region. The military used it as a temporary ammo depot, it said earlier. The ammunition detonated due to a fire.

READ MORE: Crimean village evacuated after huge explosions
Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, announced a region-wide state of emergency on Tuesday due to the incident.

Officials in Crimea said two civilians were injured in Mayskoye. The lives of both victims are not in danger, the reports said.

Train traffic was also disrupted in Crimea due to damage of the railway. The region’s government said it will deploy additional buses to transport passengers.

Another fire at an ammo depot happened last week at a military airfield near the resort town of Novofedorovka. The incident left one person dead and 14 others injured. The Defense Ministry did not report any findings of foul play behind it.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/560934-ukrainian-men-travel-restrictions/

Zelensky speaks out on travel ban for Ukrainian men

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has announced that men without military experience will be banned from leaving the country as long as martial law is in effect. The statement was posted on the president’s website on Monday in response to a petition urging that men between the ages 18 and 60 be allowed to travel abroad.

The petition, which was signed by over 27,000 people, says many Ukrainian men are unfit for military service but could be useful in other fields. The author argued that if these people were allowed to work abroad, they could help refugees and send back money to aid the military, which, the text says, already has enough capable people.

“Fighting should be fought by able-bodied people. We have many IT, social, creative, technical, and other specialists who can fight on the information front and be more useful working abroad, helping our refugees and supporting the army with earned funds,” the petition reads.

The author claimed that Kiev’s travel restrictions aimed at certain categories of citizens resemble “Soviet practices, which [Ukraine] is gradually getting rid of,” and offered the example of Estonia, which only prohibits travel to those who are the subjects of criminal proceedings.

Zelensky fires security chiefs amid crackdown
Zelensky fires security chiefs amid crackdown
“Therefore, we ask the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, to allow men aged 18-60 who do not have military experience and are of limited fitness to travel abroad,” the petition concludes.

According to Ukrainian law, if an online petition receives more than 25,000 signatures, the president must issue a response. Zelensky replied by pointing to Article 64 of the constitution, which states that freedom of movement may be limited for Ukrainian citizens in the event of an emergency or the introduction of martial law.

The president explained that according to the constitution, during a period of “martial law, the constitutional rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen… may be limited.”

He went on to note that “the abolition of these restrictions is expected to be carried out after the end of the legal regime of martial law.”

Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, approved Zelensky’s decree introducing martial law in the country on February 24, 2022, after Moscow launched its military operation against Kiev. The Rada has since extended the period of martial law several times, most recently prolonging it for an additional 90 days, until November 21.[COLOR="red"]

[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.rt.com/russia/560922-western-superweapons-myth-dispelled/

Western ‘superweapons’ myth dispelled – Shoigu
Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine has served to dispel the myth of Western ‘superweapons’, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during an international security conference on Tuesday.

Speaking at the forum, part of the ongoing Army 2022 expo near Moscow, Shoigu claimed that the weapons provided to Kiev have not had a significant effect on the battlefield, as has been claimed by the West.

“Initially, it was about the supply of Javelin anti-tank systems and some unique drones. More recently, HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and long-range howitzers were being promoted to the role of superweapons by Westerners. However, all of these weapons are being ground up in battle,” the minister said.

Shoigu added that Russian forces are “carefully examining” the Western weapon systems seized on the battlefield in Ukraine, and are “taking into account the features and specific qualities” of these weapons when planning combat operations.

The minister’s statement comes after US Defense Secretary LLoyd Austin announced last week that the weapons sent to Kiev by Washington have proven themselves effective on the battlefield and pledged to send more arms to Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”

No need for nuclear weapons in Ukraine – Moscow
No need for nuclear weapons in Ukraine – Moscow
The US has approved more than $54 billion of economic and military aid to Ukraine since February, while the UK has committed nearly $3 billion in military aid alone, and the EU has spent another $2.5 billion on arms for Kiev.

A large range of equipment, from rifles and grenades to anti-tank missiles and multiple launch rocket systems, has left Western armories for Ukraine, with most entering the country through Poland.

Moscow, meanwhile, has repeatedly warned the West against sending weapons to Kiev, saying it only prolongs the conflict and increases the number of casualties.

[Ravenlocke]

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[9ideon]

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Here we go again...


https://i.postimg.cc/Ls8Ds4tw/Bomb-Alley-93.jpg

Ooh and Spiral, this one's for you, just don't tell the wife, lol.


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[Spiral]

Ooh and Spiral, this one's for you, just don't tell the wife, lol.


https://i.postimg.cc/6qrn0FVC/Sam-Fox-Bosnia-93.jpg

Oh no not sam fox again lol.

But besides that, they are doing it all over again, trying to foster a larger European war, I'm beyond exasperated.

When are we going to learn to turn around and shoot the ******* that are sending us to war.

[9ideon]

Ooh and Spiral, this one's for you, just don't tell the wife, lol.


https://i.postimg.cc/6qrn0FVC/Sam-Fox-Bosnia-93.jpg

Oh no not sam fox again lol.

But besides that, they are doing it all over again, trying to foster a larger European war, I'm beyond exasperated.

When are we going to learn to turn around and shoot the ******* that are sending us to war.

They're out of ideas, their entire plan has backfired. The main plan of total World Domination was never seen to be possible to fail. Still they're going about it like nothing's going on.

I feel sorry for the UK because I am really afraid the entire Nation of England is going to be destroyed, I mean, British Intelligence is trying to have Ukraine blow up Nuclear Power Plants, they also tried it somewhere North-East of Ukraine. It's on the Military Summary channel's Mil Inf Sum for today and I have the feeling England is going to suffer because of this twisted scheme. These People just don't care about anything but control, others be damned! Sickening.

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[Billy]

from John Mark Dougan.

This is my most powerful interview yet. I took Maria/Masha, a fierce liberal from Russia, an anti-war protester to the FRONT LINES of the war in the Donbass to see things for herself, to speak to the people for herself. This woman, with balls of steel, even walked with me through the streets of Svyatogorsk with snipers just 200 Meters away.

0OysQ7yQl_o

A very worthwhile testimony from Masha, :heart:

[ExomatrixTV]

CNN: Ukraine Will Lose The War:

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CNN isn’t usually the place to turn to for the truth, certainly not about U.S. foreign policy, but recently host and noted late night Central Park habitue Richard Quest invited on Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs who shared his opinion that the only resolution to the Ukraine crisis will be a negotiated settlement that leaves Ukraine neutral and doesn’t allow either Russia or the United States to control it. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss both the Ukraine situation and the level of depravity that will get a host permanently banned from CNN.

[Mashika]

Yasinovataya is a town in Donbass that has been hit very hard over the years, to the point that hundreds of houses just simply are obliterated through a single afternoon, then the people rebuild and keep going strong until the next shelling. I truly don't get how much they refuse to just move for the time being to a safer location, they refuse and keep going strong no matter what, it's amazing to see


Some time ago, i almost died on that town, we were there to scout and do some other aid work, then we got shelled to oblivion, in less than 3 hours or so around 100+ houses were turned into nothing, the entire town turned into a giant mess of white toxic dust, you could not see beyond 1 or 2 meters away and there was no place to hide, it was just trtying to get away as fast as possible while being mostly unable to breath. It just turned into hell

Zemfira Suleymanova was sent to that hell on her first mission, i don't get it why, but now she's gone and it's a very sad thing as she was not (i don't think) prepared for a situation like that, but war is war and she won't be forgotten or left behind ever


I still think mistakes are made in this way, why was she sent to a very hot zone on her first mission? Careless acts in a very real war, i don't get it, it makes me upset


https://t.me/wargonzo/7886



Zemfira Suleimanova (1997-2022)

We all recognized Zemfira from the TikTok videos, with the help of which we promoted the party. It would seem that it was not at all a national Bolshevik format, but a young beautiful girl made them so funny and attractive that they collected a bunch of views.

A week ago, she arrived in the Donbass. Help people, recruit, deliver humanitarian aid.

The first trip was to Yasinovataya, from where Mira made reports. During the break between filming, a local mongrel began to flirt with her. I sensed a good person.

On the day of the Volunteer - August 14 - the National Bolsheviks laid flowers at the eternal fire. Zemfira is also in these photos, who knew that they would be the last ...

Well, on August 15, the car in which Mira was going to shoot was blown up by a Ukrainian anti-tank mine near Donetsk. She left around midnight.

Now she is in the party of the dead, along with Eduard Limonov, Ilya Guryev, Evgeny Pavlenko. Sleep well, dear, we will avenge.



https://t.me/adirect/12933
adirect/12933


One of the latest videos of our volunteer and National Bolshevik Zemfira Suleymanova

Zemfira came to Yasinovataya to visit Slavyan, another of our volunteers. He gave a tour of the city and told about himself.

You can see the empty streets of the constantly shelled city, but Zemfira has come from distant Nizhny Novgorod to tell about the people of Donbass and help them. The next trip with food packages was planned to Toshkovka.

Russia should know about such people. We are not going to stop.

https://t.me/adirect/12940
adirect/12940


Yesterday, the National Bolshevik of the World died in Donetsk. The beautiful and talented Valkyrie is no longer with us. War takes the best.

The car with Mira was blown up by an anti-tank mine. In the town. This is the work of the Ukrainian DRG. There is no military sense in mining Donetsk. There is only one reason for this - bestial hatred for ordinary Russian people.

If until yesterday you had doubts about why you should fight the Ukrainians, now you should not have them. Not an ounce of doubt. Not an ounce of regret. Only rage.

[9ideon]

from John Mark Dougan.

This is my most powerful interview yet. I took Maria/Masha, a fierce liberal from Russia, an anti-war protester to the FRONT LINES of the war in the Donbass to see things for herself, to speak to the people for herself. This woman, with balls of steel, even walked with me through the streets of Svyatogorsk with snipers just 200 Meters away.

0OysQ7yQl_o

A very worthwhile testimony from Masha, :heart:

Excellent interview, she (Masha) talks about things at the start of which our own Mashika spoke of as well in a post or two. You can see in her eyes that she is not only shocked by what she experienced in the conflict zone, there's also a broken light in her eyes about realization of the lies we are fed by the West, she basically awoke and broke loose from the brainwash most People in the "Free World" suffer from, pure shock about the sum of it all.

Perhaps this interview should be added to the library, I can see it made lost by YT at some stage.

[Mashika]

Let's not wait for the tremendous reaction and scandal from the 'international community' when they see this. I bet they won't go all 'saddam hussein is a monster' on Elensky, for one reason or another


https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/19517
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[Bill Ryan]

Let's not wait for the tremendous reaction and scandal from the 'international community' when they see this. I bet they won't go all 'saddam hussein is a monster' on Elensky, for one reason or another
The media in the US and EU/UK really does seem to be steadily distancing the 'west' from Elensky. It looks like he's being set up as the fall guy for Ukraine's surprising failure to march all the way to Moscow. :)

(Alexander Mercouris (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal/videos) has been taking note of all this and commenting about it regularly)

[Mashika]

Let's not wait for the tremendous reaction and scandal from the 'international community' when they see this. I bet they won't go all 'saddam hussein is a monster' on Elensky, for one reason or another
The media in the US and EU/UK really does seem to be steadily distancing the 'west' from Elensky. It looks like he's being set up as the fall guy for Ukraine's surprising failure to march all the way to Moscow. :)

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:





(Alexander Mercouris (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal/videos) has been taking note of all this and commenting about it regularly)
Have not listened to them for several days, have to get back to the habit of checking daily :)

[9ideon]

Let's not wait for the tremendous reaction and scandal from the 'international community' when they see this. I bet they won't go all 'saddam hussein is a monster' on Elensky, for one reason or another
The media in the US and EU/UK really does seem to be steadily distancing the 'west' from Elensky. It looks like he's being set up as the fall guy for Ukraine's surprising failure to march all the way to Moscow. :)

(Alexander Mercouris (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal/videos) has been taking note of all this and commenting about it regularly)

It's been done a couple times now, somewhere back in June or so something was up and mainstream (at least over here) was reporting negatively about Ukraine for a day or two. Last couple of weeks it seemed like there was a cut of ties again, for some reason the Chicken of Kiev wormed his way back into Biden's graces.

I would really like to know why though, I mean they have given Ukraine card blanche to commit warcrimes wherever they feel like. The latest being those undetectable French Mines (EMP F2) they fielded over at Eastern Bakhmut, not to speak about the nuclear thing, so what is that wannabe Adolf doing to upset Biden, besides winning a defeat?

[Spiral]

Things are afoot, looks like the "breakthrough" is happening.....

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[ExomatrixTV]

West Can End Fighting (War) In Ukraine Tomorrow – Roger Waters


The Pink Floyd co-founder gives RT his view on why the Ukraine conflict continues and what’s behind US foreign policy.

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Ukrainians can stop dying tomorrow if the US sat down with Russia and made peace, Pink Floyd co-founder and British rock legend Roger Waters told RT in an interview on Friday. Waters said the West seems determined to fight “to the last Ukrainian” because there are fortunes to be made from weapons sales, while American elites wish to rule the world.


“It can be stopped, in my view, tomorrow,” Waters told RT’s Eunan O’Neill. “All it takes is for the Americans to come to the table and say ‘OK, let’s go with the Minsk agreements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements)’. And then it would be over.” Waters pointed out that the current president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, ran on the platform of upholding the Minsk agreements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements) and ending the civil war that started after the illegal 2014 coup in Kiev, and that 73% of Ukrainians voted for him based on that, “so they didn’t have to have a war.”

“The minute he was elected, someone put a gun to his head, I assume, and he changed his mind and didn’t do any of that,” Waters noted.

Asked if the West wanted the conflict to end, Waters replied, “No, of course not.”


“No, they have no interest in ending it. They will fight to the last Ukrainian. Or if they do want it to end, why don’t they end it? Because it’s in their hands, always has been. It’s in NATO’s hands, it’s in Joe Biden’s hands – except it’s not, it’s his … whoever pulls his strings’ hands. And they don’t want it to end. There’s huge fortunes to be made,” he added, in reference to billions of dollars’ worth of weapons the US and NATO countries were sending to Kiev. https://cdni.russiatoday.com/files/2022.08/xxs/62efb01e85f5401c6b14e5c6.jpg (https://www.rt.com/news/560404-pink-floyd-waters-biden-war-criminal/)


Pink Floyd's Waters explains why he called Biden a war criminal (https://www.rt.com/news/560404-pink-floyd-waters-biden-war-criminal/)

Waters has been an outspoken human rights activist for years, saying that his platform is that “all our brothers and sisters, all over the world deserve equal rights irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or nationality,” as outlined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – no more, no less.

A montage of alleged “war criminals” featured on his new concert tour ‘This Is Not A Drill’ includes the face of current US President Joe Biden. Waters defended that choice in last week’s interview with CNN’s Michael Smerconish, which has gained a lot of traction on social media.

Waters pointed out that the interview was “quite a jovial affair” but what CNN ended up posting was “heavily edited” to remove his views on Ukraine and “make me look like an idiot.”

The rock guitarist is on the record condemning the Russian operation in Ukraine as “a criminal mistake,” but told RT it was “a huge mistake for the Americans to try and push NATO right up to the Russian border” as well.

Circling back to the Minsk agreements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_agreements), Waters wondered why they have been memory-holed by the media, when the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians voted for peace but got war instead. While he doesn’t speak Russian, Waters noted that he’s done a lot of reading and research, trying to understand the conflict from a global standpoint.

“I have a dog in the race. My father died in Italy fighting the Third Reich,” he added.

Commenting on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan, Waters told RT that Ukraine and Taiwan are the two hotspots that could trigger the Third World War.

“People don’t take nuclear weapons nearly seriously enough,” he said.

Elaborating on the history and background of China and Taiwan, Waters wondered why the West was so determined to impose its values on others.


“Why should you decide, you, this colonial settlement in North America, why should you get to decide how everybody else in the world behaves?” he told RT. “They want to rule the world, that is what is so dangerous about American foreign policy.”


You can’t rule the world, Joe Biden. You can’t do it, brother. It’s a fool’s errand.

Yet it would be just as wrong if Russia or China had thousands of military bases spanning the world, as the US does, he pointed out. The key feature of George Orwell’s 1984, he noted, is that the three world powers – Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia – were always at war, even if they constantly changed sides.

Waters, 78, co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965. He was the progressive rock band’s frontman, lyricist and vocalist for years, until he left in 1983 to pursue a solo career.

He has also been an advocate against the persecution of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110158-Julian-Assange-YOUR-future), Israeli abuses of Palestinians, and social media censorship, among other things.


source (https://www.rt.com/news/560745-roger-waters-ukraine-america) (video on the source link can not be embedded here on Project Avalon ... I tried everything! :( )
dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/westen-kan-oorlog-in-oekraine-morgen-beeindigen-roger-waters) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

Can any P.A. Admin or Moderator embed this video (https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/roger_waters_1208:2)? ... I followed all instructions did not work! :facepalm:

[ExomatrixTV]

Roger Waters Uncut Video Reveals CNN Hiding The Truth | Redacted With Clayton Morris:

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/u/V/I/j/uVIjf.gaa.mp4


source (https://rumble.com/v1ffl5g-roger-waters-uncut-video-reveals-cnn-hiding-the-truth-redacted-with-clayton.html)




Why Should Us Decide How Everyone Behaves - Roger Waters:

https://rumble-foxo.cdn.rumble.cloud/video/cwg9/s8/2/v/1/T/l/v1Tlf.gaa.mp4


source (https://rumble.com/v1frsr9-why-should-us-decide-how-everyone-behaves-roger-waters.html)



more info here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1512782&viewfull=1#post1512782) :dog:

[JackMcThorn]

Ukrainians can stop dying tomorrow if the US sat down with Russia and made peace, Pink Floyd co-founder and British rock legend Roger Waters told RT in an interview on Friday. Waters said the West seems determined to fight “to the last Ukrainian” because there are fortunes to be made from weapons sales, while American elites wish to rule the world.

No one wants america in charge, is the sentiment that encircles the globe inside and outside of the collective west; and yet, the rhetoric remains that america is the way to peace. [Does this make a lick of sense at all?] Representatives of the music industry are usually against war and for peace. Why doesn't Waters put the U.K. on the spot? Are they not as vested equally in the conflict as america? America does not have the track record of continued success in negotiations either. The Russian would listen to the american but the Russian will not concede to this modern and inexperienced american. They wouldn't do it for JFK over 5o years ago. The reason the Russians will listen is their open door policy on continuous diplomacy through conflict. The Russian is looking for professionals and as soon as they see a lack of experience, it's pretty much over: The Russian will crush you with experience.

I would indicate that america cannot end this conflict. In the typical american method, they threw money at the problem expecting it to solve itself. This is what american's do when they have the money: in government or even in business. It is a never ending policy that is generally accepted and touted by the MSM.

If JFK is one of the best examples of american leadership and he failed miserably (https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961) with the Russian; what hope does america really have? None, in my opinion.

[TomKat]

Let's not wait for the tremendous reaction and scandal from the 'international community' when they see this. I bet they won't go all 'saddam hussein is a monster' on Elensky, for one reason or another
The media in the US and EU/UK really does seem to be steadily distancing the 'west' from Elensky. It looks like he's being set up as the fall guy for Ukraine's surprising failure to march all the way to Moscow. :)

(Alexander Mercouris (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal/videos) has been taking note of all this and commenting about it regularly)

Maybe Zelensky went too far blatantly trying to start war between the US and Russia.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

Yasinovataya is a town in Donbass that has been hit very hard over the years, to the point that hundreds of houses just simply are obliterated through a single afternoon, then the people rebuild and keep going strong until the next shelling. I truly don't get how much they refuse to just move for the time being to a safer location, they refuse and keep going strong no matter what, it's amazing to see


Some time ago, i almost died on that town, we were there to scout and do some other aid work, then we got shelled to oblivion, in less than 3 hours or so around 100+ houses were turned into nothing, the entire town turned into a giant mess of white toxic dust, you could not see beyond 1 or 2 meters away and there was no place to hide, it was just trtying to get away as fast as possible while being mostly unable to breath. It just turned into hell

Zemfira Suleymanova was sent to that hell on her first mission, i don't get it why, but now she's gone and it's a very sad thing as she was not (i don't think) prepared for a situation like that, but war is war and she won't be forgotten or left behind ever


I still think mistakes are made in this way, why was she sent to a very hot zone on her first mission? Careless acts in a very real war, i don't get it, it makes me upset


https://t.me/wargonzo/7886



Zemfira Suleimanova (1997-2022)

We all recognized Zemfira from the TikTok videos, with the help of which we promoted the party. It would seem that it was not at all a national Bolshevik format, but a young beautiful girl made them so funny and attractive that they collected a bunch of views.

A week ago, she arrived in the Donbass. Help people, recruit, deliver humanitarian aid.

The first trip was to Yasinovataya, from where Mira made reports. During the break between filming, a local mongrel began to flirt with her. I sensed a good person.

On the day of the Volunteer - August 14 - the National Bolsheviks laid flowers at the eternal fire. Zemfira is also in these photos, who knew that they would be the last ...

Well, on August 15, the car in which Mira was going to shoot was blown up by a Ukrainian anti-tank mine near Donetsk. She left around midnight.

Now she is in the party of the dead, along with Eduard Limonov, Ilya Guryev, Evgeny Pavlenko. Sleep well, dear, we will avenge.



https://t.me/adirect/12933
adirect/12933


One of the latest videos of our volunteer and National Bolshevik Zemfira Suleymanova

Zemfira came to Yasinovataya to visit Slavyan, another of our volunteers. He gave a tour of the city and told about himself.

You can see the empty streets of the constantly shelled city, but Zemfira has come from distant Nizhny Novgorod to tell about the people of Donbass and help them. The next trip with food packages was planned to Toshkovka.

Russia should know about such people. We are not going to stop.

https://t.me/adirect/12940
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Yesterday, the National Bolshevik of the World died in Donetsk. The beautiful and talented Valkyrie is no longer with us. War takes the best.

The car with Mira was blown up by an anti-tank mine. In the town. This is the work of the Ukrainian DRG. There is no military sense in mining Donetsk. There is only one reason for this - bestial hatred for ordinary Russian people.

If until yesterday you had doubts about why you should fight the Ukrainians, now you should not have them. Not an ounce of doubt. Not an ounce of regret. Only rage.


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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1559850144157294592
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https://tass.com/pressreview/1494617?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Press review: Danger lurks along Kiev route for IAEA and why EU can’t shun Russian oil

Kommersant: Russia, Ukraine at odds over route for IAEA inspectors to visit Zaporozhye NPP


The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been shelled for more than 10 days already, and it’s not yet clear whether inspectors from the International Energy Agency (IAEA) could visit the facility.

Though both Russia and Ukraine have claimed they are ready to facilitate a visit, neither of the sides has been able to organize one. The key controversy remains the route for the team of inspectors to get to Ukraine’s Energodar on the left bank of the Dnepr, where the plant is located.

Taking the Kiev route would mean crossing the frontline, which would be a huge risk for the inspectors, since the Ukrainian armed forces are dissimilar and mixed in their nature, Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s non-proliferation and arms control department, told Kommersant.

Senior Fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP) Nikolay Sokov told the paper there were two aspects around the dispute over the route - ensuring the mission’s security and the politics surrounding the war. "There can hardly be any doubt that it would be safer to arrive at the plant from Russia, and yet this route would mean recognizing Russia’s control of the said area by the United Nations and - to a lesser degree - by the IAEA, which is unacceptable for both, especially for the UN," he argued.

According to him, the problem for the IAEA is that the NPP is still controlled by Kiev’s Energoatom, which means that it would be impossible to sidestep the Ukrainian capital along their route. Russia’s state-run nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, has already proposed placing the NPP under its responsibility, but the IAEA cannot agree to that, he said. "The visit is very much needed, but it could only take place if the sides agree on a formula that would not touch upon sovereignty," Sokov said, and while the issue is a question of principle for Ukraine, Russia could show flexibility.

The issue could get some clarity in the next few days though. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres discussed the situation around the Zaporozhye NPP with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu over the phone on Monday, and on August 18-19 the UN chief will visit Ukraine to discuss the issue.

[kfm27917]

nice to see you are back, Mashika

[Ravenlocke]

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[ExomatrixTV]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNBNl4zXMAkAYQw?format=jpg (https://www.frontnieuws.com/toespraak-van-poetin-tot-de-deelnemers-en-genodigden-van-de-10e-conferentie-van-moskou-over-internationale-veiligheid)

President of Russia Vladimir Putin Address to participants and guests of the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security:

August 16, 2022

Ladies and gentlemen,
Esteemed foreign guests,

Let me welcome you to the anniversary 10th Moscow Conference on International Security. Over the past decade, your representative forum has become a significant venue for discussing the most pressing military-political problems.

Today, such an open discussion is particularly pertinent. The situation in the world is changing dynamically and the outlines of a multipolar world order are taking shape. An increasing number of countries and peoples are choosing a path of free and sovereign development based on their own distinct identity, traditions and values.

These objective processes are being opposed by the Western Globalist Elites (https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1Gb0000000LHN2EAO), who provoke chaos, fanning long-standing and new conflicts and pursuing the so-called containment policy, which in fact amounts to the subversion of any alternative, sovereign development options. Thus, they are doing all they can to keep hold onto the hegemony and power that are slipping from their hands; they are attempting to retain countries and peoples in the grip of what is essentially a neocolonial order. Their hegemony means stagnation for the rest of the world and for the entire civilisation; it means obscurantism, cancellation of culture, and neoliberal totalitarianism.

They are using all expedients. The United States and its vassals grossly interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign states by staging provocations, organising coups, or inciting civil wars. By threats, blackmail, and pressure, they are trying to force independent states to submit to their will and follow rules that are alien to them. This is being done with just one aim in view, which is to preserve their domination, the centuries-old model that enables them to sponge on everything in the world. But a model of this sort can only be retained by force.

This is why the collective West – the so-called collective West – is deliberately undermining the European security system and knocking together ever new military alliances. NATO is crawling east and building up its military infrastructure. Among other things, it is deploying missile defence systems and enhancing the strike capabilities of its offensive forces. This is hypocritically attributed to the need to strengthen security in Europe, but in fact quite the opposite is taking place. Moreover, the proposals on mutual security measures, which Russia put forward last December, were once again disregarded.

They need conflicts to retain their hegemony. It is for this reason that they have destined the Ukrainian people to being used as cannon fodder. They have implemented the anti-Russia project and connived at the dissemination of the neo-Nazi ideology. They looked the other way when residents of Donbass were killed in their thousands and continued to pour weapons, including heavy weapons, for use by the Kiev regime, something that they persist in doing now.

Under these circumstances, we have taken the decision to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine, a decision which is in full conformity with the Charter of the United Nations. It has been clearly spelled out that the aims of this operation are to ensure the security of Russia and its citizens and protect the residents of Donbass from genocide.

The situation in Ukraine shows that the United States is attempting to draw out this conflict. It acts in the same way elsewhere, fomenting the conflict potential in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As is common knowledge, the US has recently made another deliberate attempt to fuel the flames and stir up trouble in the Asia-Pacific. The US escapade towards Taiwan is not just a voyage by an irresponsible politician, but part of the purpose-oriented and deliberate US strategy designed to destabilise the situation and sow chaos in the region and the world. It is a brazen demonstration of disrespect for other countries and their own international commitments. We regard this as a thoroughly planned provocation.

It is clear that by taking these actions the Western globalist elites are attempting, among other things, to divert the attention of their own citizens from pressing socioeconomic problems, such as plummeting living standards, unemployment, poverty, and deindustrialisation. They want to shift the blame for their own failures to other countries, namely Russia and China, which are defending their point of view and designing a sovereign development policy without submitting to the diktat of the supranational elites.

We also see that the collective West is striving to expand its bloc-based system to the Asia-Pacific region, like it did with NATO in Europe. To this end, they are creating aggressive military-political unions such as AUKUS and others.

It is obvious that it is only possible to reduce tensions in the world, overcome military-political threats and risks, improve trust between countries and ensure their sustainable development through a radical strengthening of the contemporary system of a multipolar world.

I reiterate that the era of the unipolar world is becoming a thing of the past. No matter how strongly the beneficiaries of the current globalist model cling to the familiar state of affairs, it is doomed. The historic geopolitical changes are going in a totally different direction.

And, of course, your conference is another important proof of the objective processes forming a multipolar world, bringing together representatives from many countries who want to discuss security issues on an equal footing, and conduct a dialogue that takes into account the interests of all parties, without exception.

I want to emphasise that the multipolar world, based on international law and more just relations, opens up new opportunities for counteracting common threats, such as regional conflicts and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and cybercrime. All these challenges are global, and therefore it would be impossible to overcome them without combining the efforts and potentials of all states.

As before, Russia will actively and assertively participate in such coordinated joint efforts; together with its allies, partners and fellow thinkers, it will improve the existing mechanisms of international security and create new ones, as well as consistently strengthen the national armed forces and other security structures by providing them with advanced weapons and military equipment. Russia will secure its national interests, as well as the protection of its allies, and take other steps towards building of a more democratic world where the rights of all peoples and cultural and civilisational diversity are guaranteed.

We need to restore respect for international law, for its fundamental norms and principles. And, of course, it is important to promote such universal and commonly acknowledged agencies as the United Nations and other international dialogue platforms. The UN Security Council and the General Assembly, as it was intended initially, are supposed to serve as effective tools to reduce international tensions and prevent conflicts, as well as facilitate the provision of reliable security and wellbeing of countries and peoples.

In conclusion, I want to thank the conference organisers for their major preparatory work and I wish all participants substantial discussions.

I am sure that the forum will continue to make a significant contribution to the strengthening of peace and stability on our planet and facilitate the development of constructive dialogue and partnership.

Thank you for your attention.


source (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/69166)
dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/toespraak-van-poetin-tot-de-deelnemers-en-genodigden-van-de-10e-conferentie-van-moskou-over-internationale-veiligheid) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

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The normal insert (embed) "link.mp3" audio file does not work on Project Avalon Forum ... but using .mp3 link in a "embed video" like: [ mov ] link.mp3 [ / mov ] does work as you can see below ... but it looks kind a weird!

https://whynotnews.eu/mp3/Ladies_and_gentlemen.mp3


The normal insert (embed) "link.mp3" audio file does not work on Project Avalon Forum...but using .mp3 link in a "embed video" like: [ mov ] link.mp3 [ / mov ] does work as you can see above ... but it looks kind a weird!

I used a Free "Text To Speech (TTS) Reader" called: readloud.net (https://readloud.net) to create a mp3 file (https://whynotnews.eu/mp3/Ladies_and_gentlemen.mp3)!

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/news/561027-nato-intervention-kosovo/

NATO ready to intervene in Kosovo – Stoltenberg

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has reiterated his promise that the bloc will intervene if “stability” is jeopardized in Kosovo during a press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday.

”Should stability be jeopardized, KFOR stands ready to intervene and will take any measures that are necessary to ensure a safe and secure environment and freedom of movement for all the people of Kosovo,” he said.

The leader of the military alliance called on “all sides” to “show restraint and avoid violence,” arguing that diplomacy was the only way forward even while threatening military intervention under the UN mandate if the two parties did not abide by the EU-mediated dialogue.

Stoltenberg is set to hold a meeting with Kosovo PM Albin Kurti later on Wednesday, while Vucic and Kurti will meet on Thursday in Brussels to continue the dialogue.

Kosovo issues warning to Serbia
Kosovo issues warning to Serbia
Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo are running high after the province passed a law requiring Serbs to exchange their Serbian passports for special Kosovo-issued documents and switch out their Serbian license plates for plates issued in Kosovo.

Stoltenberg initially told Vucic NATO would intervene in Kosovo in the event stability was jeopardized during a phone call on August 3, echoing a communique from the NATO mission to Kosovo issued the previous week.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561015-ukraine-crimes-strikes-permission/

No agreement with US forbidding attack on Crimea – Kiev

Ukraine’s pledge not to attack Russian territory with Western-provided weapons does not cover Crimea, Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov said on Tuesday.

Western nations have claimed that their supplies of advanced weapons to Ukraine were conditional on their non-use against targets in Russia, but officials in Kiev have long suggested that Crimea does not fall under that rule, as it considers the peninsula to be its own territory.

In an interview with US government-funded broadcaster Voice of America, Reznikov said the US has not objected to strikes on the territory, which Russia views as its own.

“We have an agreement with the US that we will not use weapons provided by the US and partners against the territory of the Russian Federation. But if we discuss de-occupying… Ukrainian land where the enemy is now, there are no such restrictions,” he said, after being asked about possible attacks against Crimea.

The minister stated that the limiting factor in such strikes would be the range of the weapons it receives from foreign allies. In the same interview, he expressed hope that Ukraine would soon receive MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.

Zelensky aide threatens Europe's longest bridge
Zelensky aide threatens Europe's longest bridge
The Lockheed Martin-made projectiles can be fired by the M142 HIMARS and the M270 MLRS rocket systems, which Ukraine already has, and have a range of up to 300 km, significantly further than the types of ammunition provided by the US so far.

Crimea broke away from Ukraine after the 2014 armed coup in Kiev, which ousted the democratically elected government. Crimeans overwhelmingly voted in a referendum to join Russia, which accepted the bid and enshrined the peninsula’s new status in its constitution.

The move was not recognized by Kiev, which has said it will only seek a peaceful resolution to the crisis after defeating Russia militarily and ousting it from all captured territories, including Crimea.

The administration of US President Joe Biden has said it imposed restrictions on Ukraine, to avoid being directly dragged into a conflict with Russia. Some officials in both the US and Russia have asserted that the conflict in Ukraine is a NATO war with Russia by a proxy. Washington has said its goal in Ukraine is to achieve a strategic defeat of Moscow.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/560985-zaporozhye-nuclear-plant-fake-news/

Moscow rejects nuclear power theft claims


Claims by Ukrainian officials and a former US embassy employee about Moscow bombing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to “steal” Ukraine’s electricity – published by the Wall Street Journal – make no sense, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Recent artillery attacks on the Zaporozhye NPP, which Moscow controls, are a “deliberate step in Russia’s wider goal: stealing [Zaporozhye’s] power by severing its connection to Ukraine’s remaining territory,” the WSJ claimed on Sunday, citing “Ukrainian leaders, international nuclear-power experts and the plant’s staff.”

Those quoted on the record include Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and former “energy chief at the US embassy” in Kiev, Suriya Jayanti. The Journal also claims to have spoken with “plant workers, family members and colleagues who fled to safety” – meaning, Ukrainian-held territory.

Jayanti claimed that Russia wants to disconnect the ZNPP from Ukraine’s electrical grid in order to destabilize global energy markets but also leave Kiev dependent on the EU, where electricity prices are skyrocketing – while omitting to mention that this is largely due to anti-Russian sanctions.

‘Dirty bomb’ in Ukraine would affect nine countries – nuclear expert READ MORE: ‘Dirty bomb’ in Ukraine would affect nine countries – nuclear expert
The report is “a complete demolition of the connection between cause and effect,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, dubbing the WSJ claims “the latest spin of the wheel of disinformation.”

Ukraine has repeatedly targeted the nuclear power plant with artillery, rockets and even kamikaze drones, the ministry noted, adding that Russia has presented evidence of this to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Security Council, among others. Ukrainian forces were also accused of bombing the Kakhovskaya hydroelectic power station – also under Russian control – which supplies the ZNPP with cooling water.

On Tuesday, local administration member Vladimir Rogov told Russian TV that the latest Ukrainian attack came close to breaking a container storing spent nuclear fuel. A strike on the structure would amount to a “dirty bomb,” Rogov said.


Russia and UN discuss crisis at nuclear plant READ MORE: Russia and UN discuss crisis at nuclear plant
A release from 20-30 containers would create a radiation plume that could spread as far west as the Czech Republic and as far south as Turkey, affecting Poland and the Baltic States as well, former Soviet nuclear inspector Vladimir Kuznetsov told RT on Tuesday.

“The conclusion suggests itself: by destroying the energy infrastructure, the Kiev regime is exposing the many millions of people on the European continent to the danger of a nuclear cataclysm, with the connivance of Washington,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said, noting that the WSJ, located across the ocean, clearly doesn’t seem to care.

[JackMcThorn]

You know it is impossible to have a discussion on this thread with the play by play of the war with twits.

Anyone can post main stream media content. What is the point really if it leaves little room for discussion? There is about 14 missives and 19 twits since my last message which could be lost in the shuffle.

Even the so-called 'alt-media' [video content producers] I find a little troublesome, they read the days main stream media and then discuss it. [While disagreeing with most of it.] I find if I had a busy day and didn't read the news that the video content is like a brief recap of the news. It is very predictable after a while when you get to know the personalities. With good critical thinking skills, one can skim the msm and get the idea without some youtuber chiming in their two-cents.

There are many threads that just get posted with daily content and little to no discussion. Is anyone interested in some banter? They bumped the thread regarding signal to noise, so I am not the only one noticing these occurrences.

[Spiral]

You know it is impossible to have a discussion on this thread with the play by play of the war with twits.

Anyone can post main stream media content. What is the point really if it leaves little room for discussion? There is about 14 missives and 19 twits since my last message which could be lost in the shuffle.

Even the so-called 'alt-media' [video content producers] I find a little troublesome, they read the days main stream media and then discuss it. [While disagreeing with most of it.] I find if I had a busy day and didn't read the news that the video content is like a brief recap of the news. It is very predictable after a while when you get to know the personalities. With good critical thinking skills, one can skim the msm and get the idea without some youtuber chiming in their two-cents.

There are many threads that just get posted with daily content and little to no discussion. Is anyone interested in some banter? They bumped the thread regarding signal to noise, so I am not the only one noticing these occurrences.

Maybe there ought to be two threads, one for up to the minute details of whats going on, which is going to be tweets & Telegrams, because that's were the blow by blow accounts are coming out, and a second one for discussion & opinions from members rather than links & vids etc ?

Members could use links to posts in this thread to make it clear what they are discussing.

I agree there is too much going on in this thread to do both.

[Bill Ryan]

Look at this. (Jeez :facepalm: )

(@Jack McThorn (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?47785-JackMcThorn): What is there to discuss??)

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1559852583140970499
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1559852599247048705
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The link to the telegraph article
https://telegraf.com.ua/politika/2022-08-17/5713835-zaluzhnogo-mogut-zamenit-telegraf-uznal-kto-imeet-shans-vozglavit-vsu

[JackMcThorn]

Look at this. (Jeez :facepalm: )

(@Jack McThorn (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?47785-JackMcThorn): What is there to discuss??)

Evidently, nothing. Thanks for clearing that up.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1512795&viewfull=1#post1512795

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1559905699660009472
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http://worldnews24.over-blog.com/2022/08/un-secretary-general-arrives-in-lvov-guterres-office-on-august-18-a-meeting-between-un-secretary-general-the-ukrainian-and-turkish-presidents-to-be-held-in-lvov.html

UN Secretary General arrives in Lvov — Guterres’ office: On August 18, a meeting between UN Secretary General, the Ukrainian and Turkish presidents to be held in Lvov

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Lvov on Wednesday where on August 18 he will meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the secretary general’s office told Tass.

"Yes, the secretary general is in Lvov," the source said. Later, the office of the secretary general posted a photo of Guterres visiting this Ukrainian city on Twitter.

As Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric reported on Wednesday, the sides will discuss the shelling of a correctional facility in Yelenovka and the situation around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. . Over the past few days, Ukrainian forces have delivered several strikes on the NPP’s premises, using, among other things, drones, heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems.

According to a TASS source at the UN, Guterres may also discuss food exports from the region. In Lvov, the secretary general will hold a separate meeting with Zelensky.

On August 19, Guterres will visit Odessa - one of the three ports within the framework of the Black Sea food exports agreement. On August 20, he will arrive in Istanbul where he will visit the Joint Coordination Center which deals with logistics and inspections of vessels exporting grain and other products.

[Bill Ryan]

Look at this. (Jeez :facepalm: )

(@Jack McThorn (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?47785-JackMcThorn): What is there to discuss??)

Evidently, nothing. Thanks for clearing that up.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1512795&viewfull=1#post1512795My [rhetorical!] question was about the news piece in my post:

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1559564391447773186
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Much opinion that's posted on this thread, I'd argue quite strongly, is self-evident to most aware and well-informed people.

If anyone here even for a moment has a view that this new Ukrainian law is ethical in any way, then they're welcome to leave now. :) There really IS nothing to say, or anything that any Avalon member that I know well would even think of spending time to discuss.

But regarding your post about America (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1512795&viewfull=1#post1512795), I agree 100%, with the rider that JFK may have averted a global war. (Though historically it later emerged that it was actually a Russian submarine commander who did that. See this extremely interesting thread: Two men who saved the world (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111673-Two-men-who-saved-the-world&highlight=saved+world).)

My personal view: the American neocons/neolibs (and there's precious little difference: we could use the term Totalitarian Globalists for both) are among the most dangerous people on the planet.

If anyone wants to state a different view, they're most welcome to, but I'd not spend my own time discussing that either. For me, that's self-evident also.

[Tintin]

from John Mark Dougan.

This is my most powerful interview yet. I took Maria/Masha, a fierce liberal from Russia, an anti-war protester to the FRONT LINES of the war in the Donbass to see things for herself, to speak to the people for herself. This woman, with balls of steel, even walked with me through the streets of Svyatogorsk with snipers just 200 Meters away.

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A very worthwhile testimony from Masha, :heart:

Excellent interview, she (Masha) talks about things at the start of which our own Mashika spoke of as well in a post or two. You can see in her eyes that she is not only shocked by what she experienced in the conflict zone, there's also a broken light in her eyes about realization of the lies we are fed by the West, she basically awoke and broke loose from the brainwash most People in the "Free World" suffer from, pure shock about the sum of it all.

Perhaps this interview should be added to the library, I can see it made lost by YT at some stage.

Thanks :thumbsup:

Just downloading now and shortlisted :highfive:

[JackMcThorn]

My [rhetorical!] question was about the news piece in my post:

I misunderstood your post. Part of my point was the tweets do not lend to discussion. I agree the new law is unethical and further, I think it demonstrates a desperate Ukrainian leadership.

My point about JFK is not that he averted nuclear war, it was that he was ill prepared to deal with the more experienced Nikita Khrushchev and if americans had their scruples, they should be better prepared now, over 5o years later and it is my opinion that they are not. I have read the thread you posted with great interest some time ago.

[9ideon]

You know it is impossible to have a discussion on this thread with the play by play of the war with twits.

Anyone can post main stream media content. What is the point really if it leaves little room for discussion? There is about 14 missives and 19 twits since my last message which could be lost in the shuffle.

Even the so-called 'alt-media' [video content producers] I find a little troublesome, they read the days main stream media and then discuss it. [While disagreeing with most of it.] I find if I had a busy day and didn't read the news that the video content is like a brief recap of the news. It is very predictable after a while when you get to know the personalities. With good critical thinking skills, one can skim the msm and get the idea without some youtuber chiming in their two-cents.

There are many threads that just get posted with daily content and little to no discussion. Is anyone interested in some banter? They bumped the thread regarding signal to noise, so I am not the only one noticing these occurrences.

Maybe there ought to be two threads, one for up to the minute details of whats going on, which is going to be tweets & Telegrams, because that's were the blow by blow accounts are coming out, and a second one for discussion & opinions from members rather than links & vids etc ?

Members could use links to posts in this thread to make it clear what they are discussing.

I agree there is too much going on in this thread to do both.


I agree to the fact it is almost impossible to have a constructed discussion about the state of things due to the volume of tweets etc, they are most welcome though, simply due to the nutrient value of the content, a solution should be found so. Perhaps there is already a Thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-China-and-World-War-III&p=1512946#post1512946) out there we can resuscitate?

[Ravenlocke]

https://thesaker.is/will-the-ukraine-be-partitioned-next-and-if-so-how/

Will the Ukraine be partitioned next and, if so, how?


Interesting info today. First, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has, through the statement of a Colonel General, made the following statement (translated by my friend Andrei Martyanov on his blog): (emphasis added)

Translation: MOSCOW, August 16 – RIA Novosti. Western curators have practically written off the Kyiv regime and are already planning the partition of Ukraine, Foreign Intelligence Service spokesman Colonel-General Volodymyr Matveev said at the Moscow Conference on International Security. “Obviously, the West is not concerned about the fate of the Kyiv regime. As can be seen from the information received by the SVR, Western curators have almost written it off and are in full swing developing plans for the division and occupation of at least part of the Ukrainian lands,” he said. However, according to the general, much more is at stake than Ukraine: for Washington and its allies, it is about the fate of the colonial system of world domination.

Just to clarify, the SVR rarely makes public statements and when they do, you can take them to the bank as the SVR is not in the business of “leaks” from “informed sources” and all the rest of the PR nonsense produced by the so-called western “intelligence” agencies (which have now been fully converted to highly politicized propaganda outlets).

The same day I see this article on the RT website: “Western countries waiting for ‘fall of Ukraine’ – Kiev” in which an interesting statement the Ukronazi Foreign Minister is mentioned:

Several countries in the West are waiting for Kiev to surrender and think their problems will immediately solve themselves, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in an interview published on Tuesday. “I often get asked in interviews and while speaking to other foreign ministers: how long will you last? That’s instead of asking what else could be done to help us defeat Putin in the shortest time possible,” Kuleba said, noting that such questions suggest that everyone “is waiting for us to fall and for their problems to disappear on their own.”

Finally, a while ago, Dmitri Medvedev post this “future map of the Ukraine after the war” on his Telegram account. This maps shows a Ukraine partitioned between her neighbors and a tiny rump Ukraine left in the center.

Now, full disclosure, I have been a proponent of the breakup of the Ukraine into several successor states for a long while now: I gave my reasons for this in my article “The case for the breakup of the Ukraine” written in faraway 2016.

Now, six years later, what are the chances of this happening?

Without making predictions, which is close to impossible right now as there are way too many variables which can dramatically influence the outcome, I want to list a few arguments for and against the likelihood (as opposed to desirability) of such an outcome.

Arguments for the likelihood of this outcome:

First, most of the neighbors of the Ukraine would benefit from such an outcome. Poland would not get the “intermarium” it always dreams about, but it would get back lands which historically belong to Poland and are populated by many Poles. In this map, Romania would also get a good deal, albeit Moldavia would lose Transnistria, which it had no real chance to ever truly control anyway. Romania might, therefore, even absorb all of Moldavia. True, on this map, Hungary gets (almost) nothing, but that is an issue which Hungary must tackle with Poland and Romania, not Russia.
Russia might not even oppose such a development, simply because it makes the Ukronazi problem somebody else’s issue. As long as what is the current Ukraine is fully demilitarized and denazified, Russia will be fine with such an outcome.
The rump ex-Banderastan would be so much reduced in size, population and ressources that it would present little to no threat to anybody. Crucially, the Russians will never allow it to have anything more than a minimal police and internal security force (for at least as long as there remains even *traces* of the Ukronazi Banderista ideology anywhere near Russia). The actual chances of this rump Banderastan to become a threat to anybody would be close to zero. Not to mention that even if that rump Banderastan could become some kind of threat, it would be much easier to deal with it than the threat Russia faced in early 2022.
Objectively, the European countries would get the best possible “out” for them, as being in a constant state of total war by proxy is absolutely unsustainable for countries of Europe.
As for “Biden”, assuming he is still alive and in power (?), it would make it possible for “him” to remove the topic of this latest war lost (again!) by the USA from the headlines and deal with other issues.
The Ukraine has been such a waste of money, billions and billions, that it is essentially a black hole with an event horizon which lets nothing come back out and beyond which anything, money, equipment or men, simply disappear. That is clearly an unsustainable drain on the economies of the West.
Yet, in theory, if a deal is made and all parties agree, then the EU could remove maybe not all, but at least the worst, self-damaging, sanctions it so stupidly implemented and which are now destroying the EU’s economy.
For the USA the biggest benefit from such an outcome could be, in theory, that it would “close” the “Russian front” and allow the US to focus its hatred and aggression against China.
There are, however, also many arguments against such an outcome.

First, the western ruling classes, drunk on total russophobia, would have to accept that Russia won this war (again) and defeated the combined powers of the West (again). This would mean an immense loss of face and political credibility for all those involved in the political war against Russia.
Second, for NATO this would be a disaster. Remember that NATO’s real goal is to “keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down“. In this case, how would an even expanded NATO accept that it could do absolutely nothing to stop the Russians from achieving all their goals?
Next, while the people of the EU are suffering from the devastating economic policies of their rulers, the ruling elites (the EU 1%) are doing just fine, thank you, and don’t give a damn about the people they rule over.
Such an outcome would also directly challenge the US desire for a unipolar world, run by Uncle Shmuel as the World Hegemon. The risk here is a political domino effect in which more and more countries would struggle to achieve true sovereignty, which would be a direct threat to the US economic model.
Such an outcome is almost certain to be unachievable while the Neocons run the USA. And since there are NO signs of the weakening of the Neocons’ iron grip on all the levers of political powers in the USA, such an outcome could only happen if the Neocon crazies are sent back to the basement they crawled out from and where they belong. Not likely in the foreseeable future.
This focus on the partition of the Ukraine overlooks the fact that the Ukraine is not the real enemy of Russia. In fact, the Ukraine lost the war to Russia in the first 7-10 days after the beginning of the SMO. Ever since, it is not the Ukraine per se which Russia has been fighting, but the consolidated West. If the real enemy is the consolidated West, the it could be argued that *any* outcome limited to the Ukraine would not fix or solve anything. At best, it might be an intermediate stage of a much larger and longer war in which Russia will have to demilitarize and denazify not just Banderastan but, at the very least, all of the EU/NATO countries.
While for some the Ukrainian war has been an economic disaster, it has been a fantastic windfall for the (terminally corrupt) US MIC. And I won’t even go into the obvious corruption ties the Biden family has in Kiev. If this “Medvedev solution” is ever realized, then all that easy money would disappear.
Furthermore, while amongst the argument for such an outcome I listed the ability of the USA to “close the Russian front” and focus on China, in reality such an arguments makes a very far-fetched assumption: that it is still possible to separate Russia and China and that Russia would allow the US to strike at China. Simply put, Russia cannot allow China to be defeated any more than China can allow for a Russian defeat. Thus the entire notion of “closing the Russian front” is illusory, in reality things have gone way too far for that and neither Russia nor China will allow the US to take them down one by one.
The EU is run by a comprador ruling class which is totally subservient to the interests of the US Neocons. There are, already, many internal tensions inside the EU and such an outcome would be a disaster for those all those EU politicians who painted themselves into the corner of a total war against Russia, and even if, say, the Poles, Romanians or even Hungarians get some benefit from such an outcome, it would be unacceptable to the thugs currently running Germany, the UK or even France.
The arguments for and against such an outcome I listed above are just some examples, in reality there are many more arguments on both sides of this issue. Besides, what made sense 6 years ago might not make sense today.

For example, this discussion focuses on the “what” but not on the “how”. Let me explain.

I think that I was the first person in the West who noticed and translated a key Russian expression: “non agreement capable” (недоговороспособны). This expression has been increasingly used by many Russian decision-makers, politicians, political commentators and others. Eventually, even the folks in the West picked up on this. So let’s revisit this issue again, keeping in mind that the Russians are now fully convinced that the West is simply “non agreement capable”. I would argue that up until the Russian ultimatum to the USA and NATO, the Russians still left open the door to some kind of negotiations. However, and as I predicted BEFORE the Russian ultimatum, Russia made the only possibly conclusion from the West’s stance: if our “partners” (sarcasm) are not agreement capable, then the time has come for Russian unilateralism.

True, ever since 2013, or even 2008, there were already signs that Russian decision making is gradually moving towards unilateralism. But the Russian ultimatum and SMO are now the “pure” signs of the adoption by Russia of unilateralism, at least towards the consolidated West.

If that is correct, then I would suggest that most arguments above, on both sides of the issue, are have basically become obsolete and irrelevant.

Furthermore, I would like to add a small reminder here: most of the combat operations in the Ukraine are not even conducted by Russian forces, but by LDNR forces supported by Russian C4ISR and firepower. But in terms of her real military potential, Russia has used less than 10% of her military and Putin was quite candid about this when he said “we have not even begun to act seriously“.

What do you think this war will look like if Russia decides to really unleash her full military power, that is the 90% of forces which are currently not participating in the SMO?

Here is a simple truth which most folks in the West cannot even imagine: Russia does not fear NATO at all.

If anything, the Russians have already understood that they have the means to impose whatever outcome they chose to unilaterally impose on their enemies. The notion of a US/NATO attack on Russia is simply laughable. Yes, the USA has a very powerful submarine force which can fire lots of Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles at Russian targets. And yes, the US has a still robust nuclear triad. But neither of these will help the USA win a land war against the Russian armed forces.

And no, sending a few thousands US soldiers to this or that NATO country to “reinforce NATO’s eastern flank” is pure PR, militarily, it is not even irrelevant, it’s laughable. I won’t even comment on the sending of F-35s which is so utterly ridiculous and useless against the Russian Aerospace Forces and air defenses that I won’t even bother arguing with those who don’t understand how bad both the F-35s (and even the F-22s!) really are.

I won’t dignify the EU’s military capabilities with any comment other than this: countries who now seriously advocate taking less frequent showers to “show Putin!” have sunk to such a level of irrelevance and degeneracy that they cannot be taken seriously, most definitely not in Russia.

So where do we go from here?

As I said, I don’t know, there are too many variables. But a few things seem clear to me:

Russia has decided to full unilateralism in her policies towards the Ukraine and the West. Oh sure, if and when needed, Russians will still agree to talk to their western “partners”, but that is due to the long standing Russian policy of always talking to everybody and anybody, even Russia’s worst enemies. Why? Because neither warfare not political unilateralism are an end by themselves, they are only means to achieve a specific political goal. Thus, it is always good to sit down with your enemy, especially if you have been gently but steadily increasing the pain dial on them for a few months! The Europeans being the “great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies” (to quite BoJo) they are might cave in quickly and suddenly or, at the very least, they will try to improve their lot by trying to bypass their own sanctions (Uncle Shmuel permitting, however reluctantly).
The only party with any real agency left with which Russia could seriously negotiate is the USA, of course. However, as long as the USA under the total control of the Neocons, this is a futile exercise.
Should there ever be any kind of deal made, it would only be one which would be fully and totally verifiable. Contrary to popular beliefs, a great many treaties and agreements can be crafted to be fully verifiable, that is not a technical problem by itself. However, with the current ruling classes of the West, no such deal is likely to be hammered out and agreed by all parties involved.
So what is left?

There is a Russian saying which my grandmother taught me as a kid: “the borders of Russia are found at the end of a Cossack’s spear“. This saying, born from 1000 years of existential warfare with no natural borders simply expresses a basic reality: the Russian armed forces are the ones who decide where Russia ends. Or you can flip it this way: “the only natural border of Russia are the capabilities of the Russian armed forces”. You can think of it has pre-1917 Russian unilateralism :-)

Still, this begs the question of the moral and ethical foundation for such a stance. After all, does it not suggest that Russia gives herself the right to invade any country it can just because she can?

Not at all!

While there were imperialist and expansionist wars in Russian history, compared to the West’s 1000 years of wall to wall imperialism, Russia is but a meek and gentle lamb! Not that this excuses anything, it is simply a fact. The rest of the Russian wars were, almost all, existential wars, for the survival and freedom of the Russian nation. I cannot think of a more “just war” than one which 1) was imposed upon you and 2) one in which your sole goal is to survive as a free and sovereign nation, especially a multi-ethnic and multi-religious nation as the Russian one has always been, in sharp contrast to the enemies of Russia which were always driven by religious, nationalist and even overtly racist fervor (which is what we can all observe again today, long after the end of WWII).

Is this just propaganda? If you think so, then you can study Russian history or, better, study the current military doctrine of Russia and you will see that Russia’s force planning is entirely defensive, especially at the strategic level. The best proof of that is that Russia put up with all the ugly racist and russophobic policies of the Ukraine or the three Baltic statelets for decades without taking any action. But when the Ukraine became a de facto NATO proxy and directly threatened not only the Donbass, but Russia herself (does anybody still remember that days before the SMO, “Ze” declared that the Ukraine should get nuclear weapons?!), then Russia took action. You have to be either blind or fantastically dishonest not to admit that self-evident fact.

[Sidebar: by the way, the three Baltic statelets, for which Russia has not use at all, are constantly trying to become a military threat to Russia, not only by hosting NATO forces, but also by truly idiotic plans to “lock” the Baltic with Finland. Combine this was the Nazi anti-Russian Apartheid policies towards the Russian minorities and you would be forgiven for thinking that the Balts really want to be the next ones to be denazified and demilitarized. But… but… – you will say – “since they are members of NATO, they cannot be attacked!”. Well, if you believe that 1) anybody in NATO will fight Russia over these statelets or 2) that NATO has the military means to protect them, then I have got plenty of great bridges to sell you. Still, the most effective way to deal with the Balts is to let them commit economic suicide, which they basically have already done, and then promise them a few “economic carrots” for a change to a more civilized attitude. A Russian saying says that “the refrigerator wins against the TV” (победа холодильника над телевизором) which means that when your refrigerator is empty, the propaganda on TV loses its power. I think that the future of the 3 Baltic statelets will be defined by that aphorism]

So will the Ukraine be partitioned?

Yes, absolutely, it has already lost huge parts of its territory and it will only lose more.

Might the western neighbors decide to take a bite out off the western Ukraine? Sure! That is a real possibility.

But these will all be either unilateral actions or very unofficially coordinated understandings wrapped in plausible deniability (like the deployment Polish “peacekeepers” to “protect” the western Ukraine). But mostly I predict two things will happen: 1) Russia will achieve all of her goals unilaterally without making any deals with anybody and 2) Russia will only allow the Ukraine’s western neighbors to bite off some chucks of the Ukraine if, and only if, those chunks to not represent any military threat to Russia.

Remember what Putin said about Finland and Sweden and Finland joining NATO? He said that by itself, this is not a problem for Russia. But he warned that should these countries host US/NATO forces and weapons systems threatening Russia, than Russia will have to take counter-measures. I think that this is also the Kremlin’s position about the future of any rump-Banderastan and any moves by NATO countries (including Poland, Romania and Hungary) to reacquire territories which historically belonged to them or which have substantial Polish, Romanian and Hungarian minorities.

Right now, we are only in the second phase of the SMO (which centers of the Donbass) and Russia has not even initiated any operations to move deeper into the Ukraine. As for the real war, the war between Russia and the combined West, it has been going on for no less than decade, or even more, and this war will last much longer than the SMO in the Ukraine. Finally, the outcome of this war will see tectonic and profound changes at least as damatic as the changes resulting from the outcomes of WWI and WWII.

The Russians understand that what they now really must do is to truly finish WWII and that the formal end of WWII in 1945 only marked the transition to a different type of warfare still imposed by a united, consolidated West, but now not by German Nazis but by (mostly) US Neocons (which, of course, are typical racist Nazis, except their racism is Anglo and Judaic/Zionist).

I will conclude with a short quote by Bertold Brecht which, I think, is deeply understood by Russia today:

“Therefore learn how to see and not to gape.
To act instead of talking all day long.
The world was almost won by such an ape!
The nations put him where his kind belong.
But don’t rejoice too soon at your escape –
The womb he crawled from is still going strong.”

― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

Russia slaughtered a lot of western apes in her history, now is the time to finally deal with the womb from which they crawled out from.

Andrei

PS: FYI – the Russian investigation has declared that the explosions in the airfield in Crimea was an act of sabotage/diversion. Which was the most likely explanation to begin with.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1560267601946611714
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https://www.rt.com/russia/561091-ukraine-zaporozhye-nuclear-contamination/

Russia warns of another Chernobyl over Ukraine's attacks

Ukraine’s ongoing attacks on the Russia-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant may cause a far worse disaster for Europe than the current energy crisis, a Russian Defense Ministry official has warned.

Igor Kirillov, who heads Russia’s Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense Troops, illustrated the likely worst-case scenario of a direct hit on Europe’s largest nuclear plant, during a briefing on Thursday. He showed journalists a map, with plumes of radioactive material from the site reaching Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Belarus and even Germany.

He blamed Ukraine's Western backers for trying to downplay the danger of targeting the atomic plant, and forgetting the lessons of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear incident.

According to Kirillov, both disasters involved “the failure of support systems, the disruption of power supply and partial and complete shutdown of the cooling systems, which led to overheating of nuclear fuel and the destruction of the reactor”.

Ukraine planning nuclear provocation on Friday – Moscow
Ukraine planning nuclear provocation on Friday – Moscow
The fallout of the Chernobyl disaster affected some 20 countries, while causing 4,000 deaths, a major spike in cancer cases, and the permanent relocation of around 100,000 people. The effects of the Fukushima nuclear incident might seem “insignificant” at first glance, but up to 500,000 people have abandoned their homes because of it, he noted.

“Our experts believe that the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces may cause a similar situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant,” Kirillov said.

Strikes by the Kiev forces could render the plant’s cooling systems and other support infrastructure inoperable, which would lead “to overheating of the core and, as a result, the destruction of reactor units at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, with the release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere and their spreading for hundreds of kilometers,” he warned.

“Such an emergency will cause mass migration of the population and will have more catastrophic consequences than the looming energy crisis in Europe,” the military official added.

Moscow has accused Kiev of carrying out 12 attacks on the nuclear facilitity, which provides energy to both Russian- and Ukrainian-controlled areas, since mid-July.

Ukraine insists that Russian forces are shelling the site, while accusing them of stationing military hardware at the plant. The Russian side has denied both accusations, while also urging International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts to visit the Zaporozhye facility to see what is actually happening.





Russian Armed Forces warned of the intention of the United States and Kyiv to cause an accident at the ZNPP
Europe was accused of cutting military aid to Ukraine
Medvedev announced the unwillingness of the Europeans to "sever contacts with Russia"


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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1560278182380466178
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https://www.rt.com/russia/561090-kinzhal-kaliningrad-hypersonic-finland/

Russia relocates jets armed with hypersonic missiles

Three Mig-31 supersonic interceptor aircraft carrying Kinzhal air-to-surface hypersonic missiles have been deployed to Russia’s western exclave of Kaliningrad, the country’s Defense Ministry has announced.

On Thursday, the planes were relocated to Chkalovsk airfield in Kaliningrad Region as part of “additional strategic deterrence measures,” the ministry explained.

During their flight, the Mig-31s worked out interactions with Russian forces stationed in the area, as well as the naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet, it added.

The planes, armed with Kinzhal missiles, will be placed on 24/7 combat duty in Kaliningrad, according to the Defense Ministry.

Russia’s neighbor Finland said later on Thursday that the Mig-31s may have violated its airspace over the Gulf of Finland as they were heading to their destination. According to the Finnish Defense Ministry, an investigation has been launched into the incident.

Russia sends hypersonic missiles to Syria READ MORE: Russia sends hypersonic missiles to Syria
Kinzhal, which means ‘dagger’ in English, can travel at a speed of Mach 12 (around 14,800kph), while constantly performing evasive maneuvers, which is believed to allow it to penetrate any existing air defenses. Several of these missiles have been fired by Russia during the conflict in Ukraine, according to the Defense Ministry.

It’s one of several hypersonic systems developed for the country’s military in recent years, along with the Avangard glider, which is fitted on silo-based ICBMs, and Zircon (Tsirkon) missiles, to be used by the navy.

Kaliningrad, which borders Poland and Lithuania, and has access to the Baltic Sea, also hosts nuclear-capable Iskander missiles.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1560298566043815939
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1560284549162172416
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https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1560284555617214465
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[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/politics/1495495


Russia’s investigators monitor reports of Kiev’s likely provocation at Zaporozhye NPP

It is reported that the Ukrainian forces had shelled the city of Svetlodarsk in the DPR
MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS/. Russia’s Investigative Committee keeps monitoring the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP in case of provocations by the Ukrainian military, the IC’s press-service told the media on Thursday.

"According to evidence available on August 19, the Kiev regime is plotting a major provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. It is planned to implement a criminal scheme by opening artillery fire at the nuclear power plant during the UN Secretary General’s visit to Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists intend to groundlessly accuse Russia of triggering a technogenic disaster. According to experts, such criminal acts create the risk of an emergency," the IC said.

The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Energodar is controlled by Russian troops. Over the past few days, Ukrainian forces have delivered several strikes on the NPP’s premises, using, among other things, drones, heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems. The majority of attacks have been deflected by air defense systems, however, shells hit some infrastructure facilities and the vicinity of a nuclear waste storage facility. The chief of Energodar’s military-civilian administration Alexander Volga said on Thursday all services had been alerted in case of provocations by the Ukrainian military at the ZNPP.

Also, the IC said that the Ukrainian forces had shelled the city of Svetlodarsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Local residents who were in the city’s center during the distribution of water near a school and a hospital were attacked. According to early reports three people, including one child, were killed and twelve others injured. "According to the latest reports a woman born in 1961 was killed and several civilians were injured as a result of the Ukrainian forces’ shelling the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, the urban community Golmovsky and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka," the IC said.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1560304434328096769
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1560205201117700096
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In Mariupol,


https://twitter.com/LucyGatsby/status/1560301144672538625
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/LucyGatsby/status/1560298362821394433
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/LucyGatsby/status/1559247407015157762
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Archer83Able/status/1560320194463109120
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[Vicus]

Dozens of foreign fighters eliminated in strike on Ukrainian base – Russia

More than 90 mercenaries have been killed in a high-precision strike in the city of Kharkov, the Defense Ministry says

Dozens of foreign mercenaries, fighting for Kiev against Moscow, have been killed in an attack on a compound in the city of Kharkov in northeastern Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

“A temporary base of foreign mercenaries in the city of Kharkov was hit with a ground-based high-precision weapon. More than 90 militants were killed,” ministry’s spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov announced during his daily briefing.

The Russian Air Force also struck Ukrainian manpower and military hardware in Kherson and Nikolaev Regions, eliminating 80 combatants and injuring 50 others, he added.

Compounds, hosting foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, have already been targeted by Russia several times this month, leading to multiple casualties.

Thousands of fighters from Poland, Canada, the US, the UK and other countries responded to a call by President Vladimir Zelensky and flocked to Ukraine. In April, the Russian military estimated their numbers at nearly 7,000. However, last month it said that only 2,741 foreign fighters remained in Ukraine.


https://www.rt.com/news/561074-ukraine-foreign-fighters-kharkov/

[Mashika]

Freedom and Democrazy, western values and what not


https://t.me/politblogme/157
politblogme/157




According to Ukrainian journalist Bogdan Butkevich, the 1.5 million people who live in Donbass must be killed.

It’s not the rogue elements in Ukraine who think so. That has been the narrative for all these years.

Such records are numerous.

Ukrainian politician Tymoshenko urged "to take up arms and go to kill these damn katsaps together with their leader". She vowed that she intended to make every effort so that "not even a scorched earth is left of Russia!" (That was in 2014). She called for nuking Russia and the Russians as well.

Irina Farion, who made her political career by promoting hatred towards the Russians living in Ukraine and Russia, has repeatedly called for the killing of everyone who does not speak Ukrainian. She did not even disdain to fight the Russians in kindergarten, where she threatened children who had common Russian names and urged them to "pack their bags and leave for Moscow." Farion called for killing "Russian bio-garbage" as well.

It is worth recalling the statement of the ex-Minister of Interior, Arsen Avakov, who advised "to promise the Russians anything, and then hang them after the victory".

That’s an official Ukrainian state narrative.

[Mashika]

Sometimes, the truth can truly be condensed in a very short paragraph, but only for people who can perceive or is looking for the actual background of the situation :)




Volodin: “Decisions on the refusal of European states from Russian energy carriers, the severance of economic cooperation with our country, the ban on the entry of Russian citizens were made under pressure from Washington.
The conductors of his policy in Europe are England, which abandoned the European Union, and countries that have only a name left of sovereignty: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine. Poland, the Czech Republic and Finland joined this Russophobic coalition in the hope of getting an American handout.

Washington is ready to do everything to maintain its power over the world, sacrificing for this the welfare of citizens and the economy of European countries.


https://t.me/ctrs2018/14007
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[Bill Ryan]

Sometimes, the truth can truly be condensed in a very short paragraphYes! :)

Here's more, from Putin himself.

See The Putin Thread (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118635-The-Putin-Thread), which may become increasingly important. This a paragraph from his speech (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?118635-The-Putin-Thread&p=1512976&viewfull=1#post1512976) at the 10th Moscow Conference on International Security on 16 August: It's a perfect example of condensed truth.

Other paragraphs of his were similarly clear and powerful. There were no representatives there from 'western' nations, but many from Asian, African and South American countries, all listening very carefully indeed.

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These objective processes are being opposed by the Western Globalist Elites, who provoke chaos, fanning long-standing and new conflicts and pursuing the so-called containment policy, which in fact amounts to the subversion of any alternative, sovereign development options. Thus, they are doing all they can to keep hold onto the hegemony and power that are slipping from their hands; they are attempting to retain countries and peoples in the grip of what is essentially a neocolonial order. Their hegemony means stagnation for the rest of the world and for the entire civilisation; it means obscurantism, cancellation of culture, and neoliberal totalitarianism.
~~~

This was extremely important. Never before has a major world leader voiced these truths about the unipolar globalist agenda.

[Spiral]

txdpr/1447

"Bloody business on Ukrainian body organs.
Who benefits from deaths and wounds of Ukrainians? Another reason why Kiev regime do not care about their people and why the war in Donbass was beneficial.

Illegal withdrawal of body organs from wounded Ukrainians that had been going on for the last 8 years has culminated. “To the last Ukrainian” – now it sounds even more creepy. Deceitful “care” about Ukrainians turned out a business."

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1560441970711228416
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https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukraine-veterans-us-aid-soldiers-war/

Ukraine war veterans on how Kiev plundered US aid, wasted soldiers, endangered civilians, and lost the war


“The weapons are stolen, the humanitarian aid is stolen, and we have no idea where the billions sent to this country have gone,” a Ukrainian complained to The Grayzone.


In a video sent via Facebook messenger in July, Ivan* can be seen standing next to his car, an early 2010s model Mitsubishi SUV. Smoke is pouring out of the rear window. Ivan laughs and pans his phone’s camera across the length of the vehicle, pointing out bullet holes. “The turbocharger died in my car,” he said, panning his phone toward the front of the vehicle. “My commander says I should pay to repair it myself. So to use my own car in the war, I need to buy a new turbocharger with my own money.”

Ivan flipped the camera toward his face. “Well, you ****ing mother****er members of parliament, I hope you **** each other. Devils. I wish you were in our place,” he said.

Last month, Ukraine’s parliamentarians voted to give themselves a 70% salary increase. Filings indicate the raise was enabled and encouraged by the billions of dollars and euros of aid that have poured in from the US and Europe.

“We, the Ukrainian soldiers, have nothing,” said Ivan. “The things the soldiers have been given to use in the war came directly from volunteers. The aid that goes to our government will never reach us.”

Ivan has been a soldier since 2014. Currently, he’s stationed in the Donbas region, where he is tasked with using small, consumer-grade drones to spot Russian positions for artillery targeting. “There are so many problems on the frontline now,” he said. “We don’t have an internet connection, which makes our work basically impossible. We have to drive to get a connection on mobile devices. Can you imagine?”

Another soldier in Ivan’s unit sent us a video of himself from a trench near the frontlines in Donbas. “According to documents, the government has built us a bunker here,” he says. “But as you see, there are only a few centimeters of a wood covering over our heads, and this is supposed to protect us from tank and artillery shelling. The Russians shell us for hours at a time. We dug these trenches ourselves. We have two AK-74s between 5 soldiers here, and they jam constantly because of all the dust.

“I went to my commander and explained the situation. I told him it’s too hard to hold this position. I told him I understand this is a strategically important point, but our squad is broken, and no relief is coming for us. In 10 days, 15 soldiers died here, all from shelling and shrapnel. I asked the commander if we could bring some heavy equipment to build a better bunker and he refused, because he said the Russian shelling could damage the equipment. Does he not care that 15 of our soldiers died here?”

“If you tried to explain the situation Ukrainian soldiers are facing to an American soldier, they would think you were insane,” said Ivan. “Imagine telling an American soldier that we are using our personal cars in the war, and we’re also responsible for paying for repairs and fuel. We’re buying our own body armor and helmets. We don’t have observation tools or cameras, so soldiers have to pop their heads out to see what’s coming, which means at any moment, a rocket or tank can tear their heads off.”

Illya*, a 23 year-old soldier from Kiev, says his unit is facing the same conditions in another part of the Donbas region. He joined the Ukrainian Army shortly after the war started. He has a background in IT and knew such expertise was in high demand. “If I had known how much deception there was in this Army, and how everything would be for us, I never would have joined,” he said. “I want to go home, but if I flee, I face prison.”

Illya and the other soldiers in his unit lack weapons and protective gear. “In Ukraine, people cheat each other even in war,” he said. “I’ve watched the medical supplies donated to us being taken away. The cars that drove us to our position were stolen. And we have not been replaced with new soldiers in three months, though we should have been relieved three times by now.”

“Everyone is lying”: US doctor describes shocking corruption

Samantha Morris*, a doctor from Maine, went to Ukraine in May to try to help provide medical training for soldiers. “The first time I crossed the border from Poland, I had to hide my medical supplies under mattresses and diapers to prevent them from being stolen,” she said. “The border guards on the Ukrainian side will just take things, and tell you, ‘we need this for our war,’ but then, they just steal the items and resell them. Honestly, if you don’t hand-deliver donations to the intended recipients, the items will never reach them.”

Morris and a few other American medical professionals began to hold training courses in Sumy, a mid-sized city in northeastern Ukraine. “We drew up a contract with the governor in Sumy, though all they provided to us were meals and lodging, and the lodging was just us sleeping in the same public university we held our training courses in,” she said. “The Sumy governor had a friend, a local businessman, and he demanded that this businessman be added to the contract as a ‘liaison’ between us and the city of Sumy. And as a liaison, he would get a percentage fee of the contract. Our lawyers tried to negotiate the businessman out of the contract, but the governor of Sumy wouldn’t budge. We ultimately just signed the contract so we could hold our trainings.”

In the two months she spent in Ukraine, Morris says she encountered theft and corruption more times than she could count. “The lead doctor at the military base in Sumy has ordered medical supplies from and for the military at different points in time, and he has had 15 trucks of supplies completely disappear,” she said. The military first aid kits she had intended to give to soldiers once they graduated her training program were stolen. She saw the same kits for sale at a local market days later.

“I got a call from a nurse at a military hospital in [the Ukrainian city of] Dnipro,” Morris recalled. “She said the president of the hospital had stolen all the pain medications to resell them, and that the wounded soldiers being treated there had no pain relief. She begged us to hand-deliver pain medications to her. She said she would hide them from the hospital president so that they’d reach the soldiers. But who can you trust? Was the hospital president really stealing the medications, or was she trying to con us into giving her pain medications for her to sell or use? Who knows. Everyone is lying.”

Donated protective military equipment and combat medical supplies have flooded Ukraine’s online marketplaces. Sellers are careful to hide their identities, often creating new vendor accounts for each sale and willing to fulfill orders exclusively by mail. “We have found armored helmets given as aid from the Americans for sale on websites,” Ivan said. “You know, inside the helmet, the class of protection and brand are written. We saw this brand before and realized the helmets were the ones given to us as aid. Some of us tried to contact the sellers to set up a meeting, so we could prove they were selling stolen aid, but they were suspicious and stopped responding to us.”

Ivan says he has heard about the theft of weapons donated from Western countries, but pointed out that several soldiers in his unit are sharing a single AK-74. “I wouldn’t know about how they’re stealing the weapons, because the weapons never reach the Ukrainian soldiers in the first place,” he said. “And if they were giving more than small missiles and rifles, if they were giving us what we actually need to fight Russia, they would be weapons too big to steal.”

“I don’t think they want us to win”: Ukrainians scoff at Western aid

Ivan is not optimistic about Ukraine’s chances to win the war. “There won’t be a Donbas left,” he said. “The Russians will destroy it, or they’ll control all of it, and then they’ll move on to the south. And now, as it is, I’d say 80% of the civilians who have stayed in Donbas support Russia and leak all of our location information to them.”

When asked if he thought the US and European countries truly want Ukraine to win the war, Ivan laughed. “No, I don’t think they want us to win,” he said. “The West could give us weapons to make us stronger than the Russians, but they don’t do this. We know Poland and the Baltic countries want us to win, 100%, but their support isn’t enough.”

“It is obvious that the US doesn’t want Ukraine to win the war,” said Andrey*, a Ukrainian journalist based in Mykolayiv. “They only want to make Russia weak. No one will win this war, but the countries the US is using like a playground will lose. And the corruption related to the war aid is shocking. The weapons are stolen, the humanitarian aid is stolen, and we have no idea where the billions sent to this country have gone.”

Andrey is especially appalled by the lack of services provided to internally displaced Ukrainians. “It really isn’t a mystery why everyone wants to go to Europe,” he said. “There’s a refugee center near Dnipro, for example, and displaced people are only allowed to stay there for three days. And it’s 45 or 50 people in one big, open room with one bathroom and a tiny kitchen. Horrible conditions. So after the three days, if they have no money, no clothes, nothing, they are kicked out and have no choice but to go back to their homes in dangerous areas. We must ask our government where all the aid money has gone, when our soldiers don’t have what they need, and our civilians don’t have safe places to stay.”

Foreign journalists cover up grim reality with triumphalist delusions

Before the war started, Andrey spent several years reporting on corruption and crooked politicians in Ukraine. After an investigation into a government official in Odessa resulted in death threats against his wife and young daughter, Andrey sent them to live with relatives in France. “Ukraine is a democracy, right? So the government won’t press on you in an official way. First, you get phone calls warning you to stop. Then, they offer you money to stop. And then, if you refuse to be bought, you should be prepared for an attack.

“Real journalism is dangerous here,” he continued. “You see, since the war started, we have these new star reporters, and every day, they write that ‘Putin is bad, the Russian soldiers behave very badly…today, the Ukrainian army killed 1,000 Russians and destroyed 500 Russian tanks.’ They get a million followers on Twitter because they lie, and this isn’t real reporting. But if you write about the corruption in the Armed Forces, and have real examples…you won’t be famous, and you’ll be in trouble.”

Andrey has been picking up extra work as a fixer, arranging interviews and translating for foreign journalists in Ukraine to cover the war. “I have worked with about a dozen journalists from different countries in Europe,” he said. “All of them have been shocked. They left Ukraine shocked. They said they could not believe the situation here. But this shock did not make it into any of their articles about the war. Their articles said that Ukraine is on the road to victory, which is not true.”

Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers confirm Ukraine’s Armed Forces endanger civilians

In July, we spent the night at a hotel in Kramatorsk and were concerned to see that neo-Nazi Azov battalion soldiers were among the hotel’s guests. On August 4th, Amnesty International published a study revealing that since the start of the war in February, Ukrainian forces have endangered civilians by establishing bases in schools and hospitals and operating weapons systems in civilian areas, which is a violation of international law.

Amnesty International now plans to “re-assess” its report, in response to a massive public outcry after its publication, but Ukrainian soldiers and foreign volunteers have confirmed that Ukrainian armed forces maintain a heavy presence in civilian areas. “Our bases were mostly built in Soviet times,” said Ivan. “So now, Russia knows our bases inside and out. It’s necessary to spread the soldiers and weapons out to other places.”

A former US serviceman who goes by the moniker “Benjamin Velcro” was a volunteer fighter for the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ official unit for foreign volunteers. He spent five months in various parts of Ukraine, and says that soldiers being stationed in civilian areas was a common occurrence.

“Whenever I hear that Russia bombed a school, I just kinda shrug,” the American foreign fighter said. “Because I garrisoned inside a school. That’s a fact. The school didn’t have kids in it, so it’s not like they were endangering children. So all it takes is for Ukraine to say, ‘Ah! They hit a school!’ And that cumulates into an easy media narrative on their part.”

Like Ivan, Velcro is also pessimistic about Ukraine’s chances to win the war. “Man, I want everything in the world for Ukraine to win this. I want Ukraine to get its pre-2014 borders back. But do I think that’s tenable? No. You can’t sustain a war by crowdfunding forever.”

*Several interview subjects requested to be quoted under assumed names to protect themselves from potential danger

[ExomatrixTV]

Ukraine War Veterans On How Kiev Plundered Us Aid, Wasted Soldiers, Endangered Civilians, And Lost The War (https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukraine-veterans-us-aid-soldiers-war/)



dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/oorlogsveteranen-uit-oekraine-over-hoe-kiev-amerikaanse-hulp-plundert-soldaten-verspilt-burgers-in-gevaar-brengt-en-de-oorlog-verliest) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1560402233661038592
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https://thecradle.co/Article/news/14486

French Foreign Legion arrives in Yemen to secure gas facility

National Salvation Government (NSG) in Yemen has expressed concern over what it called “suspicious” activity by US and French troops stationed south of the war-torn country.

The discussion took place during a parliamentary session held by NSG officials on 17 August.

The suspicious activity cited by the NSG refers to a claim made by Yemen’s former Foreign Minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, who said that French Foreign Legion, a French military force comprising of foreign nationals, has arrived in Yemen’s Shabwah province to secure control of the Balhaf gas facility.

The former minister said that there are French “preparations being made to export gas from the Balhaf facility … in light of increased international gas prices,” and in an attempt to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian fuel amid the global energy crisis exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine.

Al-Qirbi also suggested that the French move “could be the reason for events in Shabwah,” referring to recent clashes between UAE-backed mercenary groups and Islah Party forces affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Saudi-backed President Leadership Council (PLC).

In July, Paris and Abu Dhabi signed an energy cooperation deal for the joint production of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

According to reports from earlier in the year, the energy cooperation between the two countries is aimed at securing control over Yemeni gas resources through the Balhaf facility, which is owned by French multinational oil and gas company TotalEnergies SE.

Al-Qirbi noted that the recent arrival of French forces to the area is meant to “provide protection for the facility.”

France has recently fallen under scrutiny over its involvement in the brutal, Saudi-led war against Yemen.

On 2 June, a number of rights groups announced the filing of a lawsuit in a Paris court against three French arms-producing companies, alleging that they are complicit in war crimes committed in Yemen for the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The Yemeni people have demanded the withdrawal of all illegally occupying foreign forces in the country, including recently deployed US military troops, who are there under the pretext of fighting terrorism and aiding the coalition.

According to Abdulaziz Saleh bin Habtoor, Yemen’s Prime Minister, the recent looting operations carried out by the Saudi-led coalition have been taking place under US directives, as part of a scheme by Washington to secure control over Yemeni oil through its Gulf allies.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1560656601668657152
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https://www.rt.com/news/561164-putin-us-prolong-ukraine/

US military expert backs Putin’s claims
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not wrong to blame the US for working to prolong the fighting in Ukraine, a high-profile American military expert has told Newsweek.

The respective goals of Washington and Kiev in the conflict contradict each other, claimed Sean Spoonts, a US Navy veteran and editor-in-chief of the Special Operations Forces Report (SOFREP) website.

“It seems like while Ukraine would like to end the war quickly and decisively defeat Russian forces and drive them out of their country, US policy almost seems designed to prolong the conflict hoping to bring about the collapse of Russia itself, both militarily and economically,” he said.

“That goes a lot further than [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s goal, which is to simply get Russian armies out of his country and regain lost territories in Donbass, Lugansk and Crimea,” he added.

Donbass is a historic, cultural and economic area that includes the People’s Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk, which declared their independence from Ukraine after a coup in Kiev in 2014, and were recognized as sovereign states by Russia before the launch of its military operation in late February.

The SOFREP editor-in-chief was commenting on the statement made by Putin earlier this week, in which the Russian leader insisted that by “pumping the Kiev regime with weapons, including heavy weapons,” the US was “trying to prolong this conflict” in Ukraine. He also said the Ukrainians have been assigned the role of “cannon fodder” in Washington’s “anti-Russia project.”

Putin accuses US of trying to 'prolong' war in Ukraine
Putin accuses US of trying to 'prolong' war in Ukraine
The US has been the prime backer of Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia, providing the country with billions of dollars in military and financial aid, as well as intelligence data. Washington’s deliveries to the Ukrainian military have included such sophisticated hardware as HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, M777 howitzers, and combat drones.

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.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561153-kraken-execute-ukrainian-soldiers/

Nationalist unit executes 100 fellow Ukrainian troops – Russian MoD

Some 100 Ukrainian soldiers have been executed by nationalist fighters from the “Kraken” regiment for abandoning their positions, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed in a daily briefing on Friday.

After Russian forces carried out an assault on Ukraine’s 58th motorized infantry brigade on August 14 near the settlement of Udy in the Kharkov region, the remnants of the formation fled their positions and retreated, ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said.

In order to “suppress panic and intimidate the personnel of the Armed forces of Ukraine,” fighters from the neo-Nazi “Kraken” regiment “demonstratively executed 100 servicemen of the 58th motorized infantry brigade who abandoned their positions” near Udy, the official said.

The “Kraken” regiment describes itself as a special reconnaissance and sabotage unit under the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, operating separately from the Armed Forces. Moscow considers it to be an offshoot of the notorious neo-Nazi “Azov” regiment which suffered a crushing defeat in the city of Mariupol back in May.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has accused the battalion of committing several war crimes since the beginning of the conflict, and believes it to be responsible for brutally mistreating Russian POWs.

Zelensky's elite battalion destroyed – Russia
Zelensky's elite battalion destroyed – Russia
While there is no information on how many fighters the “Kraken” regiment has, some estimates suggest it is about 1,800 soldiers strong, most of whom are Azov veterans and volunteers. Over the course of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense has regularly reported the elimination of hundreds of fighters from the “Kraken” regiment as well as from other nationalist divisions.

In its Friday update, Russia’s MoD reported destroying temporary deployment points of the “Azov” and “Aidar” formations near the city of Soledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and claimed to have eliminated over 50 neo-Nazi fighters as well as 12 units of military equipment.

[pyrangello]

World
Strange Corporate Decisions This Week
World Hal Turner 18 August 2022 Hits: 36575

Earlier this week, I received two reports that WALMART had allegedly "canceled billions of dollars in orders."

I was **not** able to get more info such as specific types of products or specific suppliers, or specific country of origin, so since I couldn't verify it, I didn't report it.

Minutes ago, I got this:


"My wife works for amazon web services (AWS) and they just canceled 40% of the marketing budget, froze hiring, and canceled all employee travel today"

It was done on a video call about 50 minutes ago.

I am endeavoring to verify it, so treat it as RUMOR right now . . . but here's the thing:

If these claims prove true, this is a major indicator of bad **** coming.

Especially the travel part. AWS has assets in China, Taiwan, and Eastern Bloc countries.

UKRAINE

Two days ago, I got word that the US/NATO shipped four (4) nuclear ARTILLERY shells to Ukraine. Word was that the Ukrainians were to use those shells to hit the Zaporazyhe Nuclear Power Plant. A nuke artillery shell would certainly be able to penetrate a Reactor Containment building, and even a relatively tiny nuke blast would rupture a reactor, causing a radiation leakage disaster. BUT . . . they claimed . . . the fact that a nuke artillery shell was used will be MASKED by the reactor leaking radiation. So Ukraine would blame the Russians for mishandling the reactor causing it to blow up when, in reality, Ukraine caused it.

I thought this was a bit over-the-top, especially since the US unilaterally ended their nuclear artillery manufacturing and dismantled all their nuclear shells in the year 2004. HOWEVER, not all NATO countries did the same.

So it is possible that there are a few nuclear artillery shells still around, and if the US/NATO are actually the madmen that I believe they are, then some numbskull might have actually come up with a plan like this. Plausible deniability with a leaking reactor being blamed for radiation caused by the blast of nuclear artillery.

But since I could not verify **ANY** component of that story, I did NOT report it, either.

Which brings me to Ukraine, today.

There is a MJAJOR offensive taking place in Ukraine since yesterday. Russian Artillery was literally pounding from every part of the 150km long front line.

Today, Ukraine hit back inside Russia itself, with blasts in Belogorad. Then we had numerous reports of Ukraine missiles fired at the Kerch Strait Bridge. Then, no additional info -- at all. Weird.

Two hours after the alleged missile attack against the Kerch Strait Bridge, air raid sirens sounded in Kiev. Then . . . nothing.

All this is getting too weird, but I tell you these things because I have now found out that, this afternoon (eastern US Time) Russia told its people at the Zaporazhye Nuclear Power Plant they "are not to go to work tomorrow."

I HAVE VERIFIED THIS CLAIM.

So now, I look at the alleged WALMART order cancellations, the AWS 40% marketing budget cut, hiring freeze, and employee travel ban, along with what I've verified about Russians at the Nuclear power plant being told to stay home tomorrow, and I start to wonder to myself, is the intel I got about nuclear artillery shells factual and is tomorrow (or this weekend) when the plant at Zaporazyhe gets hits?

It's certainly within the realm of possibility that big boys got a quiet warning to scale down ahead of something major.

WALMART is incredibly connected with government and might have gotten a sort of "heads-up" that everything is going to **** this month" so they are planning accordingly . . . and maybe canceled Billions in orders?

And AWS has hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts, so maybe they too got a sort of heads-up, and decided to cut the marketing budget and halt employee travel etc.?

Then too, it was just this month that no less than Henry Kissinger told a media outlet that "things will escalate in mid-August." Here we are.

I run all this past you so you can get a small glimpse into the info pouring in to me, and how hard it is to sift through apparently unrelated things, to come up with a picture of what might actually be.

Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant Reports 6-8 Explosions
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/zaporozhye-nuclear-power-plant-reports-6-8-explosions


URGENT: US on verge of becoming party to Ukrainian conflict, Moscow warns
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Washington’s continued support for Kiev during Moscow’s military operation has put the US on the verge of becoming party to the Ukrainian conflict, Russia’s deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Ryabkov has said.

“We don't want escalation. We’d like to avoid a situation, in which the US becomes a party to the conflict, but so far we don’t see any readiness of the other side to take these warnings seriously,” Ryabkov told Rossiya 1 TV channel on Friday.

Moscow rejects Washington's explanation, that providing Ukraine with weapons and other aid is justified by Kiev’s right to self-defense, he pointed out.

“Excuse me, what kind of self-defense is it if they are already openly talking about the possibility of attacking targets deep in the Russian territory, in Crimea?” the deputy FM wondered.

According to Ryabkov, such statements are being made by the Ukrainian side “not just under the blind eye of the US and NATO, but with the encouragement of this kind of sentiment, approaches, plans and ideas directly from Washington,” Ryabkov insisted.

The ever more obvious and deeper involvement in Ukraine in terms of countering our military operation, in fact, puts this country, the US, on the verge of turning into a party to the conflict,” he reiterated.

The US has been the strongest supporter of Kiev amid its conflict with Russia, providing Kiev with billions of dollars in military and financial aid, as well as intelligence data. Washington’s deliveries to the Ukrainian military have included such sophisticated hardware as HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, M777 howitzers and combat drones.

Reuters reported on Friday that US President Joe Biden is about to announce another lethal aid package for Kiev of around $800 million.

An unnamed official from the Biden administration told Politico on Thursday that the White House had no problem with Ukraine attacking Crimea, which became part of Russia after a 2014 referendum staged in response to a violent coup. The US believes that Kiev can strike any target on its territory, and “Crimea is Ukraine,” the American official insisted.

There have recently been a number of explosions near a Russian ammunition depot and at a military airfield in Crimea, which the Defense Ministry said were acts of “sabotage.” However, Ukrainian authorities haven’t officially confirmed involvement in the attacks.

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.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1560656011891200001
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[pyrangello]

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-warns-macron-large-scale-catastrophe-looms-ukraine-nuclear-plant
Putin Warns Macron "Large-Scale Catastrophe" Looms At Ukraine Nuclear Plant
Tyler Durden's Photo
BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, AUG 19, 2022 - 11:50 AM

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a phone call Friday where the focus was ensuring the avoidance of disaster at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine. For weeks the site has emerged as the single most concerning hotspot in the conflict, given the possibility of nuclear accident.

Over the past week tit-for-tat accusations between Russian and Ukrainian forces have intensified amid warnings of "another Chernobyl" if the standoff doesn't deescalate. Russia, which has about 500 of its troops occupying the nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, has blamed Ukrainian forces for repeat shelling of the sensitive facility.

Putin in Friday's call warned Macron about the potential for "large-scale catastrophe" at the plant, blaming Kiev for the continued shelling and the deterioration of safe operations.

This is such BS , after all that was done to contain Chernobyl , I dont believe Putin would damage this , I do believe other bad actors out there would, they dont care and we are all expendable in their eyes

[9ideon]

^^^

Waste of Space Cocos Macron is getting involved on the backhand always, like no one knows the serpent he really is. Trying to smooth things over, smiling and holding the backstab knife neatly behind his back. Can't really see anyone taking that poor excuse for a Male serious.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Vicus]

Nationalist unit executes 100 fellow Ukrainian troops – Russian MoD

Moscow says the execution of soldiers who abandoned their positions was meant to intimidate other Ukrainian fighters

Some 100 Ukrainian soldiers have been executed by nationalist fighters from the “Kraken” regiment for abandoning their positions, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed in a daily briefing on Friday.

After Russian forces carried out an assault on Ukraine’s 58th motorized infantry brigade on August 14 near the settlement of Udy in the Kharkov region, the remnants of the formation fled their positions and retreated, ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said.

In order to “suppress panic and intimidate the personnel of the Armed forces of Ukraine,” fighters from the neo-Nazi “Kraken” regiment “demonstratively executed 100 servicemen of the 58th motorized infantry brigade who abandoned their positions” near Udy, the official said.

The “Kraken” regiment describes itself as a special reconnaissance and sabotage unit under the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, operating separately from the Armed Forces. Moscow considers it to be an offshoot of the notorious neo-Nazi “Azov” regiment which suffered a crushing defeat in the city of Mariupol back in May.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has accused the battalion of committing several war crimes since the beginning of the conflict, and believes it to be responsible for brutally mistreating Russian POWs.

While there is no information on how many fighters the “Kraken” regiment has, some estimates suggest it is about 1,800 soldiers strong, most of whom are Azov veterans and volunteers. Over the course of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense has regularly reported the elimination of hundreds of fighters from the “Kraken” regiment as well as from other nationalist divisions.

In its Friday update, Russia’s MoD reported destroying temporary deployment points of the “Azov” and “Aidar” formations near the city of Soledar in the Donetsk People’s Republic, and claimed to have eliminated over 50 neo-Nazi fighters as well as 12 units of military equipment.

https://www.rt.com/russia/561153-kraken-execute-ukrainian-soldiers/

[Vicus]

West will brush Ukraine biolab allegations under the carpet just like those of Kosovo organ trafficking

Western narrative control kicks into overdrive to shift blame, whitewash culprits, or make sure inconvenient lines of questioning are never pursued

In crisis after crisis, Western narrative control kicks into overdrive to shift blame, whitewash culprits, or make sure inconvenient lines of questioning are never pursued

Perhaps we should remind ourselves of the post-Cold War Western formula announced during the heady days of the early 2000s, an era marked by another famous American political quote, Karl Rove’s “we’re an empire now and, when we act, we create our own reality.” As Tony Blair’s policy adviser, Robert Cooper, nonchalantly put it on the pages of The Guardian in April 2002: “The challenge to the postmodern world is to get used to the idea of double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative security. But when dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era – force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary to deal with those who still live in the 19th century world of every state for itself. Among ourselves, we keep the law but when we are operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle.”

if properly investigated and proven true, could serve as an indictment of what could be America’s use of Ukraine as a vast pathogen testing ground. And since the Western media mostly chose to ignore it, the ambassador was certainly not going to make a statement they would have to quote, drawing attention to the issue. And now that Twitter has suspended the Russian Foreign Ministry’s account for daring to quote key parts of Kirillov’s media presentation about the possible origins of Covid-19, Burns and company don’t have to say anything at all. If it’s memory-holed by the social media, then it’s as if it never happened.

That’s the modus operandi of the Western elites – it’s not the truth that matters, but successfully managing the narrative so that it doesn’t leave room for doubt in people’s minds. In other words, they think they can do whatever they want.

Zakharova just recently more fully described the house of horrors over which Thaci allegedly presided: “Kosovo is the territory of ‘black’ transplantation. People were dissected alive, taking out internal organs for sale to those people in the West… In the West they stood in line for organ transplant operations. And they began to receive these organs when Kosovo turned into a terrible black hole in which people disappeared, who were not just killed, but killed to sell their internal organs.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/560766-west-ukraine-biolab-shift-blame/

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1560647828732518400
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https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1560389780449464321
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[Ravenlocke]

https://readovka.world/news/108814

Zaporizhzhia NPP threatens world with an atomic catastrophe for 7 years

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant requires an urgent intervention of the plant's creators, the Russian power engineers. The service life of the nuclear power units expired back in 2015-2018, and the continued operation of the rusty equipment threatens to be disastrous even without shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, the Ukrainian authorities have concealed the truth from the international community and international energy organizations, counting on overhauls. And now they are trying as if to destroy traces by shelling the plant with artillery. Readovka has at its disposal an official letter from one of the plant's technicians. During a visit to the NPP of Head of Operational Safety Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fuming Jiang on January 16, 2020, the technician literally ran after Mr. Fuming the entire inspection warning about the approaching disaster at the nuclear power plant. The man has been struggling to say that the shelf life of the nuclear reactors went out five years ago (unit 1 and 2 in 2015, unit 3 in 2017, unit 4 in 2018, and the fifth in 2020). The operation of all reactors had to be halted urgently, and the Soviet equipment (the units were launched in the 1980s-1990s) had to be inspected by the plant's designers – Russian nuclear specialists, the technician warned. Nevertheless, Fuming along with the plant management pretended that the inspection went smoothly and there was no itchy employee with a panicked mood. The official verdict of the IAEA's 2020 inspection was "no violations detected, equipment is operating properly." The NPP's management fired the technician, but his preoccupation with the situation made him write a letter with an appeal to the European public and environmental international organizations, the text of which was made available to Readovka.

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After appeals of the NPP employee to the IAEA small changes did occur – the press service of Zaporizhzhia NPP suddenly reported that power unit No. 4 will be shut down for 125 days for overhaul. "Allegedly this is previously planned work," says the author. But power unit No. 4 already underwent an overhaul in 2019, it needs equipment replacement, not an overhaul, insists the NPP employee.

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Kyiv had reportedly regularly allocated money to ensure safety at the station, though the sums of money were so small that it sufficed only for the warning systems, because it needed billions of dollars to repair the units, which Ukraine did not have. Moreover, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the ruling party have other reasons to turn a blind eye to the barely making ends meet. The fact is that nuclear power generation is much cheaper than thermal power plants. It would be more reasonable to give the leadership in providing energy to the nuclear power plant, but then where would the director of DTEK, the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, get the money from? To understand the situation, it is necessary to know that the DTEK group (Ukrainian thermal power plant) generates two-thirds of all energy produced in Ukraine. Akhmetov finances the "Servant of the People" faction in the Rada and is formally Zelenskyy's backbone. The Ukrainian president himself, having distanced himself from Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and taken the side of billionaire philanthropist George Soros and the IMF in the disputes about the land law and Privatbank, needs the support of Akhmetov. As for the oligarch, nuclear power prevents him from making money. What is happening at the NPP now? Even though the Zaporizhzhia plant has been controlled by Russian troops since March, it continues to operate for Kyiv, but only at 20% of its total capacity. The plant sends electricity to Ukraine and is legally controlled by Ukrenergoatom. Ukraine bombs the plant every day, with shells hitting the cooling system.

If it fails and specialists do not immediately repair the damage, the plant will begin to overheat, increasing the risk of disaster for the reactor itself. This shelling actually has two calculated goals. Firstly, by shelling the plant, the Kyiv regime expects to conceal from the world community the real state of affairs at the NPP, which will raise big questions for the people in charge, primarily Zelenskyy. Secondly, the NPP accident will provoke a violent reaction of the environmental world community against Russia, which will surely be pinned as the alleged "aggressor country". The threat is posed by the spent fuel at the power plant - Ukraine stores it in 200 concrete containers without any special protection, which, according to safety regulations, should not be there. During the next shelling there is a probability that the containers will be hit, and then heavy fractions of the dirty fuel with radiation, will get into the air. There is a huge chance of contamination. The first victims will be, of course, the personnel who are still operating two of the six units. The consequences of the disaster could be severe, depending on the scale of this leak - the radioactive wave could travel a radius of up to 845 km and cover Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Volgograd, and even Smolensk. The distance between the Zaporizhzhia plant and Moscow it is 900-950 km. But again, the radius of impact depends on wind direction and climatic conditions. Emissions can also cover eastern Europe - Bulgaria, Slovakia, Turkey. Or it could land on the coast of Turkey, the Krasnodar region, or Romania. Elimination of the emergency will also be complicated because of the fighting, Sergey Kondratyev, deputy department head at the Institute of Energy and Finance said.[COLOR="red"]

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1560980645941313536
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Ukrainian forces attempt to sow panic with attacks on Crimea

Apparently, the closer is August 24 (six months of the Free Trade Zone and Independence Day), the sacred date for Kyiv, the more active Ukrainians and pro-Ukrainian forces will act in information and psychological warfare.

Today's incidents in Crimea are yet another attempt to pressure the mentality, sow panic, and inflate network overreaches. Plans to "liberate" Kherson have been replaced by conventional terrorism. All of this, of course, has been coordinated with Washington and London, because it was not for nothing that the American press reported that the US allowed its weapons to be used against Crimea, since the White House still considers the peninsula to be Ukrainian.

Earlier it was reported that an UAV in Sevastopol was shot down by the air defense post, it fell on the roof of the headquarters and caught fire. Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev stated that the UAV was shot down by an air defense post right above the fleet headquarters.

Crimea and Yevpatoriya are also reported to be under attack, though the Russian military performs its tasks clearly, professionally and efficiently, effectively shooting the targets in the air.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561113358161661954
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561114253276356608
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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561214-ukraine-chemical-poisoning-moscow/

Russian soldiers in Ukraine hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning – Moscow

Several Russian soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine have been hospitalized with severe chemical poisoning, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

Traces of Botulinum toxin Type B, which is an “organic poison of artificial origin,” have been discovered in samples taken from the servicemen, the ministry said, accusing Kiev of “chemical terrorism.”

The Russian troops were “hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning” after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31, the statement said.

“The Zelensky regime has authorized terrorist attacks with the use of toxic substances against Russian personnel and civilians” following a string of military defeats in Donbass and other areas, the ministry insisted.

Moscow plans to send laboratory tests from the soldiers to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Botulinum toxin, often called the “miracle poison,” is one of the most toxic biological substances known to science. Produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria, it blocks the release of the acetylcholine neurotransmitter, causing muscle paralysis.

Botulinum toxin Type A has been used in medicine in small doses in recent decades, especially to treat disorders characterized by overactive muscle movement. It’s also well known in cosmetology under its shortened name, Botox.

READ MORE: Russia warns of Ukrainian false-flag chemical attack
However, Botulinum toxin poses a major threat as a bioweapon due its ease of production and distribution, and the high fatality rate resulting from poisoning. Recovery is only possible after a lengthy period of intensive care.

[Rizotto]

Thanks Ravenlocke for posting that RT article. Quote from above article:
"The Russian troops were “hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning” after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31, the statement said."

Anybody has any idea of the contamination mechanism for this 'Botulinum toxin' in this case? Sprayed by drones? Directly sprinkled in the source of drinking water or food provided to these Russian soldiers?

There could be a connection to the bio labs all over Ukraine, sponsored by USA. Only psychopaths would unleash such toxins.

[9ideon]

Thanks Ravenlocke for posting that RT article. Quote from above article:
"The Russian troops were “hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning” after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31, the statement said."

Anybody has any idea of what the mechanism of this 'Botulinum toxin' contamination could be in this case? Sprayed by drones? Directly sprinkled in the source of drinking water or food provided to these Russian soldiers?

There could be a connection to the bio labs all over Ukraine, sponsored by USA. Only psychopaths would unleash such toxins.


Botulinum neurotoxins, causative agents of botulism in humans, are produced by Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic spore-former Gram positive bacillus. Botulinum neurotoxin poses a major bioweapon threat because of its extreme potency and lethality; its ease of production, transport, and misuse; and the need for prolonged intensive care among affected persons. A single gram of crystalline toxin, evenly dispersed and inhaled, can kill more than one million people. The basis of the phenomenal potency of botulinum toxin is enzymatic; the toxin is a zinc proteinase that cleaves neuronal vesicle associated proteins responsible for acetylcholine release into the neuromuscular junction. As a military or terrorist weapon, botulinum toxin could be disseminated via aerosol or by contamination of water or food supplies, causing widespread casualties. A fascinating aspect of botulinum toxin research in recent years has been development of the most potent toxin into a molecule of significant therapeutic utility.

All four forms of botulisms (food borne, infant, wound and animal) cause illness through a common pathway regardless of the manner in which the toxin gains systemic access

Botulinum neurotoxins are the most poisonous poison known to the humankind produced by strains of C. botulinum. The lethal dose for a person by the oral route is estimated at 30 ng. The two most likely mechanisms for use of botulinum toxin as a terrorist weapon include deliberate contamination of food or beverages or via an aerosol release.

Source (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3028942/)


My two cents, water or food contamination.

[pyrangello]

Comparing these past articles and actions to a year ago, this all looks very bad for the future. The insane are now running the asylum.

[Spiral]

Thanks Ravenlocke for posting that RT article. Quote from above article:
"The Russian troops were “hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning” after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31, the statement said."

Anybody has any idea of the contamination mechanism for this 'Botulinum toxin' in this case? Sprayed by drones? Directly sprinkled in the source of drinking water or food provided to these Russian soldiers?

There could be a connection to the bio labs all over Ukraine, sponsored by USA. Only psychopaths would unleash such toxins.

The Russians have discovered drones with containers that looked like they were for dropping some form of liquid in abandoned Ukrainian bases a while back. But we are also seeing terrorist type events behind the Russian lines, and now actually in the heart of Russia, so it's anyones guess at this point.

Maybe even artillery shells, if so are they supplied by NATO & if so, is that yet another line they have crossed ?

[9ideon]

Comparing these past articles and actions to a year ago, this all looks very bad for the future. The insane are now running the asylum.

Been like that for couple thousand years so, it's only now that they've fully gone open about it again, it was like this before, it's nothing new, we just do not remember because it has been over 100 years since "Nobility" lost power to rule. Now they're just called "Politicians", "Leaders", (self proclaimed) Elite etc.

These People have been killing, raping and stealing for thousands of years, they're the ones who instigated genocide on for example Native Americans, they're the ones putting People against each other, spread hate, create issues between religious People, filling the minds of generations with false hope, create World Wars, they are the true plague on this planet and always have been.

[Bill Ryan]

This is an excellent and on-topic discussion chaired by Gonzalo Lira and published yesterday. Recently, he's been holding 'round tables' (this is #15), some more focused and successful than others. This one stands out (for me) because it was all about Ukraine.

The guests here are Clayton Morris and Lindsey Snell. Both are impressive, and both used to be mainstream journalists. Clayton Morris hosts the YouTube channel Redacted (https://www.youtube.com/c/RedactedNews/videos), and Lindsey Snell's website is ishgal.com (https://ishgal.com/about/). Lindsey in particular has contacts with Ukrainian soldiers and international mercenaries in Ukraine. Her accounts fo what they have told her are compelling, and she enlarges on this several times in this conversation.


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

To complement this, this is a recent [excellent] Lindsay Snell video: (5 August)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NBTq-34b0

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561318272372559872
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[ExomatrixTV]

Jordan Peterson on Putin and War in Ukraine:

Gl-9GIvnJ2k


Full Conversation with Jordan Peterson and Lex Fridman here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY8aFSY2zv4)

[Tintin]

Thanks Ravenlocke for posting that RT article. Quote from above article:
"The Russian troops were “hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning” after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31, the statement said."

Anybody has any idea of the contamination mechanism for this 'Botulinum toxin' in this case? Sprayed by drones? Directly sprinkled in the source of drinking water or food provided to these Russian soldiers?

There could be a connection to the bio labs all over Ukraine, sponsored by USA. Only psychopaths would unleash such toxins.

I just wanted to second the 'Thanks' to Ravenlocke for these super helpful and informative updates. I really appreciate these and I know others here do too :flower:

:focus:

[Bill Ryan]

Thanks Ravenlocke for posting that RT article. Quote from above article:
"The Russian troops were “hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning” after being stationed near the village of Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye Region on July 31, the statement said."

Anybody has any idea of the contamination mechanism for this 'Botulinum toxin' in this case? Sprayed by drones? Directly sprinkled in the source of drinking water or food provided to these Russian soldiers?

There could be a connection to the bio labs all over Ukraine, sponsored by USA. Only psychopaths would unleash such toxins.

I just wanted to second the 'Thanks' to Ravenlocke for these super helpful and informative updates. I really appreciate these and I know others here do too :flower:
I echo that. :highfive: I'm one of I suspect quite a few members who refuse to ever use a smartphone and therefore have no easy access to Twitter or Telegram. So I find all these ongoing updates invaluable.

[Ravenlocke]

I am sorry I bring depressing news but I feel it needs to be looked at😔

Now about the chemical attack, this Rt article was published in June as a warning and the poisoned soldiers was discovered at the end of July.

https://www.rt.com/russia/556854-provocation-ukraine-russia-military/

Russia warns of Ukrainian false-flag chemical attack

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) is plotting “another provocation with the use of hazardous chemicals” as part of Kiev’s smear campaign against Moscow, Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed on Wednesday, amid the ongoing military offensive in the neighboring country.

Speaking at a briefing, the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said that the incident allegedly being planned is set to take place in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine. He claimed that Ukrainian territorial defense units have already been provided with protective hazmat suits and are now participating in training within a chemical attack scenario.

“According to the plan of the Kiev scriptwriters,” Mizintsev claimed, “units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will launch artillery strikes on the border regions of Russia from the settlements of the Sumy region. After a staged retaliatory fire attack, allegedly carried out by the Russian armed forces, Ukrainian special services plan to spray potent poisonous substances in the provocation area.”

After the staged incident is recorded by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, it will be “used to subsequently accuse the Russian armed forces of using chemical weapons against civilians,” the chief of the National Defense Control Center said, citing “available reliable information” obtained by the Russian military.

Kiev has not yet commented on the allegations.

Mizintsev stressed that Russian forces do not use chemical weapons and that the country’s stockpiles have been destroyed in accordance with international agreements.

‘Syrian scenario’ possible in Ukraine, Russia warns READ MORE: ‘Syrian scenario’ possible in Ukraine, Russia warns
Since the launch of the Russian attack on Ukraine in late February Moscow and Kiev have repeatedly accused each other of various war crimes, each in turn then denying any culpability. Russia has repeatedly warned of possible chemical attacks by the SBU. In April it also accused the US of planning to use weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Ukraine in order to frame Moscow. Kiev and its Western supporters have been denying these accusations.

Over the last two months Moscow has been publishing information about a sprawling network of US-funded biolabs scattered across Ukraine. It claims that the secret installations have been involved in questionable research and allegedly in the development of biological weaponry. US officials confirmed the existence of “biological research facilities” in Ukraine, but said Washington only provided what they called “assistance” for efforts that did not involve the development of bioweapons.

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1561316512069197824
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561363408284532737
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561364755335581696
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[Ravenlocke]

NATO is heating things up☹️


https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561322433407336449
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With August 24 on the horizon..,

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561341963860860928
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https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561341976569647107
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561355898852892672
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[Ravenlocke]

More from RT on the chemical poisoning,
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1561367534498095106

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[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/defense/1496425?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Russian army destroys ammunition depot with HIMARS missiles near Odessa — Defense Ministry

MOSCOW, August 21. /TASS/. The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed with Kalibr cruise missiles an ammunition depot in the Odessa Region, where missiles for US multiple rocket launchers HIMARS were stored, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Sunday.

"High-precision sea-based long-range Kalibr missiles near the village of Mayorskoye in the Odessa Region destroyed an ammunition depot with missiles for the American HIMARS multiple-launch rocket systems and Western-made anti-aircraft systems," Konashenkov said.

The Kalibr (NATO classification: SS-N-27 Sizzler) is a Russian cruise missile developed and produced by the Novator design bureau in Yekaterinburg (part of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern). The Russian Armed Forces currently use two modifications of these missiles: Kalibr-NK (ship-based) and Kalibr-PL (mounted on submarines).

The exact characteristics of the Kalibr are not known for certain. According to various data, range of these missiles is up to 375 km against sea targets and up to 2,600 km against land targets, maximum weight of the warhead is 500 kg.

The complex entered the service of the Russian Navy in 2012. The missiles were first used during the military operation in Syria. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the missile was used on 13 occasions, with a total of at least 99 missiles fired at terrorist targets.

The complex entered the service of the Russian Navy in 2012

https://tass.com/defense/1496429

Russia's air defense systems shoot down 9 Ukrainian drones — Defense Ministry

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that a total of 267 aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,785 drones, 367 surface-to-air missile systems, 4,359 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 810 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles
MOSCOW, August 21. /TASS/. Russian air defense systems have destroyed nine Ukrainian drones and intercepted one missile fired from the Olkha multiple rocket launcher overnight, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Sunday.

"Russian air defense systems shot down nine Ukrainian drones in the area of Staromlynovka and Gorlovka settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic. One missile fired from the Olkha multiple rocket launcher was also intercepted near Kamenka in the Kharkov Region," the spokesman said.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that a total of 267 aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,785 drones, 367 surface-to-air missile systems, 4,359 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 810 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles, 3,323 field artillery and mortar guns, and 4,984 pieces of special military vehicle equipment have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Vicus]

Warning! super runt! :mmph:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1513527&viewfull=1#post1513527

My jaw drop to the floor watching previous post! I'm done with "all" "west" plastic "values" ...forever and ever!

that is distillate Nazism 100% !!! hate to the biggest potency!

Our Masha warn us many times: they are like rabid dogs...they celebrate death! they must be put down!

But for me they are worse, not dogs (noble creatures) but Hyenas, they enjoy corpses...

I want to see trials were they are hanged, don't waste bullets, and filmed like they did to Saddam ...

And then show videos all over the places to show that NEVER will be forgotten nor Forgiven!

Fück ukro :ukraine: orcs!

[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/defense/1496261

Russia to submit evidence of Kiev’s chemical terrorism to OPCW - top brass

Russian troops on a mission near Vasilyevka in the Zaporozhye Region had been hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning on July 31

MOSCOW, August 20. /TASS/. Russia is preparing official confirmation of tests taken from Russian troops hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning upon completing their mission in the Zaporozhye Region for sending to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"The evidence of the Kiev regime’s chemical terrorism will soon be submitted to the OPCW," the ministry said in a statement.

Russia’s top brass reported earlier on Saturday that Russian troops on a mission near Vasilyevka in the Zaporozhye Region had been hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning on July 31. Tests showed botulinum toxin type B was used against them. A thorough analysis by experts from a St. Petersburg-based military medicine research center confirmed the presence of this highly-toxic man-made chemical.

[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/world/1496441

Situation at Zaporozhye NPP under control — local official

He added that the radiation background at the station was natural
MOSCOW, August 21. /TASS/. The situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is under control and no strikes by Ukraine’s artillery were recorded on Sunday, a member of the main council of the Zaporozhye Region’s military-civilian administration said.

"As for the situation at the Zaporozhye NPP, it is regular and under control. Everything is normal. Today there were no strikes," Vladimir Rogov told the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.

He added that the radiation background at the station was natural. "That is, not only does it not surpass [the norm] but it is much lower," the official explained.

The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant located in Energodar is controlled by Russian troops. Over the past few days, Ukrainian forces have carried out several strikes on the Zaporozhye NPP’s premises, using, among other things, drones, heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems. The majority of attacks have been deflected by Russia’s air defense systems, however, some shells struck various infrastructure facilities and the vicinity of a nuclear waste storage facility.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

And to think a couple of years ago I watched an episode from the series The Blacklist that the story was about this.


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[Ravenlocke]

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[ExomatrixTV]

Politico Calls Out Ukraine For War Crimes!

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Immediately upon publication of a recent report criticizing the Ukrainian military for using civilians as human shields, Amnesty International was roundly accused of spreading pro-Russian propaganda – this despite numerous previous Amnesty reports calling out war crimes and human rights abuses committed by the Russian military. Now Politico has leapt to Amnesty’s defense with an opinion piece arguing that a human rights organization like Amnesty isn’t supposed to take sides but rather report on the reality of crimes committed by any participant in hostilities. Jimmy and The DIve host Jackson Hinkle discuss why a decidedly establishment outlet like Politico would be willing to defend Amnesty for going out on a limb to criticize the saintly Ukrainians.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/head-of-ukraines-sbu-in-kirovograd-found-dead

Head of Ukraine's SBU in Kirovograd found dead

A regional head of Ukraine’s SBU intelligence services has been found dead at his home in central Ukraine, the prosecutor general’s office said on Sunday.

Oleksandr Nakonechny was found by his wife with gunshot wounds in a room of their apartment in the city of Kropyvnytsky late Saturday after she heard gunfire, the office wrote on Telegram.

Police have opened an investigation into the death but made no further comments.

A local politician, Andrii Lavrus, wrote on Telegram that Nakonechny had shot himself. The information could not be immediately confirmed.

Nakonechny has headed the SBU in the Kirovograd region since January 2021.

In July, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the head of the SBU, his childhood friend Ivan Bakanov, saying he did not do enough to rid the agency of what he called spies and collaborators.

Zelensky said there would be a revision of SBU personnel, and several senior officials at the agency have been fired over the past several months.

Read more: Russian political thinker Alexander Dugin's daughter assassinated

Earlier today, it was reported that Russian political commentator Darya Dugina was killed in a large explosion while driving on a highway in her father's car, 20km away from Moscow.

Preliminary reports suggest that a homemade explosive device may be involved, however, investigators have not yet confirmed it.

Following this incident, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that if the official investigation confirms any trace of Ukrainian involvement in Darya Dugina's assassination, then Kiev is deemed to have implemented a state terrorism policy.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1561322224333729792
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[Rizotto]

Here's an April 2022 article on these drones left behind by retreating Ukrainian forces:

"Russian forces find Ukrainian drones equipped with liquids’ containers and sprayers"

"Moscow, SANA- The Russian forces announced that, during a search of the headquarters of a Ukrainian military unit, they found unmanned aircraft equipped with containers for liquids and spraying machines

“Three of these drones were found, with a payload of up to 40 kg, and plastic tanks for liquids with a capacity of 30 liters were installed on them, in addition to control devices that contained coordinates for the locations of the Russian forces and the populated areas planned to be sprayed,” a military source told RT website on Wednesday.

The source added that these drones are apparently used to spray toxic substances to harm either the Russian armed forces or the civilian population and agricultural lands.

The Russian Ministry of Defense had published documents obtained in Ukraine stating that the Ukrainian “Motor Sich” Corporation asked the Turkish company that manufactured Bayraktar drones about the existence of systems and mechanisms for spraying liquids from them.

Ruaa al-Jazaeri"

https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=269258

[Mashika]

https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3514
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This is the Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan. He says that it is necessary to kill as many Russians as possible: “the more Russians we kill now, the less our children will have to kill.”
Only the ambassador of a terrorist regime can say that. For 8 years, the Kyiv Nazis killed silently, blaming Moscow for everything, now they are openly talking about plans for a national purge.

[Mike Gorman]

Evil man, from a wicked regime

[Tintin]

Source: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69189

Video address on National Flag Day
August 22, 2022

http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big/FjqQr67xTUjgcisWsIxGY2xakMII1hP9.jpg

Friends,

Today, we are marking National Flag Day. We pay respect to Russia’s official state symbol that, along with its emblem and anthem, represents its sovereignty and independence and asserts the continuity between generations of our multi-ethnic people.

Our flag that was raised on Russia’s first warship over three centuries ago, remained Russia’s symbol in difficult, challenging periods of its history – under Peter the Great when the Russian Empire was still forming, on the battlefields of World War I, and amid the dramatic changes of the contradictory, arduous 1990s. On August 22, 1991, the white, blue and red flag once again flew over Russia.

Today, it has become a fixture of our life as an inalienable element of Russian statehood, a symbol of the unity of our people and their devotion to the Fatherland and readiness to uphold national interests.

The national flag symbolises our faith in our traditional values that we will never give up – truth and justice, solidarity and mercy, and respect for Russia’s centuries-long uninterrupted history, the achievements and victories of our ancestors that inspire us to care for and defend our Motherland and never permit any foreign hegemony or diktat. The desire to live according to our own will, to choose our own path and to follow it, has become part of our people’s genetic code.

Russia is a strong, independent world power. On the international stage, we are committed to pursuing only such policies that meet the vital interests of our Fatherland.

The national flag and the unfading Red Banner of Victory instil in the rising generation an appreciation for the values of patriotism, citizenship and responsibility for the future of the Motherland. From September 1 of this year, all schools in the country will begin every school week with a ceremony of raising the flag and singing the anthem.

I am confident that Russia’s national flag will always remain a sacred symbol for all generations of our citizens. It will inspire them to military glory, professional achievements and new heights in science, culture and sports. It will make them proud of their Motherland.

Happy National Flag Day, friends!

[Tintin]

WARNING: so very real, and noisy, and on the basis of this extended trailer likely to be one to watch with abs of steel.

This graphically illustrates the realities of combat which only recently the likes of Patrick Lancaster have been able to do justice.

At the Edge of the Abyss (FRAGMENTS OF THE FILM).

Description:


At the Edge of the Abyss. The battle for Mariupol through the eyes of a witness

"When will you finally show the film about Mariupol?" (https://t.me/RealdocProductions/186) you keep asking.

There's no need to worry; non-stop, meticulous work is being done on this picture, as we want to introduce a new level of quality. We've already gone through three and a half terabytes of footage, made a nine-hour rough cut, and came to the conclusion that this should be not a movie, but rather a three-part mini-series.

In the meantime, just for you, we've collected, a short cut of some of the most striking episodes, a snapshot from the Battle of Mariupol: the taking of two buildings.

We offer you the opportunity to watch this through the eyes of shock troops belonging to the Somali Battalion and understand the price of every such moment. Here and now, you will see the war as it really is, and understand why the people of Mariupol were waiting for the Russians to come.

P.S. You can contribute to the creation of the film by providing support, which we still really need, both to finish post-production, and also to film new material.

Realdoc Telegram Chanel: https://t.me/RealdocProductions

Max Fadeev archive 2014-2015 Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/maxfadeev

QIWI : https://qiwi.com/n/MAXCHRONICLER
Sberbank: 4276380177227563 (Dmitriy)
Tinkoff: 5536913836868766 (Dmitriy)

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[Ravenlocke]

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(Soledar was bombed with petal mines and RU have taken Mariyinka.)

[Ravenlocke]

Apparently Twitter is hiding this account.

The tweets are now private until later.


https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561715772740849666
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[Tintin]

The War You Don't See - John Pilger, 2011

This should also probably live on the Propaganda Wars thread as well. As extensive a document as one may need as a reference, and I still do think relevant here with regard to propagandizing conflict - nothing has changed. The contrast between the NATO approach to the civilian population/s and the Russian approach in both Syria and now Orcraine is starkly evident from the footage shown here. The stupefication of the 'western' public is almost as complete as is possible around current events - this film serves as a historical footnote, and a warning.

Peerless work as always from John Pilger.

Duration: 01:36:33

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Source: http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-you-dont-see



In The War You Don't See, John Pilger returns to the subject of war reporting and its critical role in the making of wars. This ‘drum beat’ was the theme of Pilger's 1983 documentary Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime, a history of war journalism from the Crimea in the 19th century (‘the last British war without censorship’) to Margaret Thatcher's Falklands War in 1982.

The War You Don’t See analyses propaganda as a weapon in Iraq and Afghanistan. The title refers to censorship by omission – ‘the most virulent form of censorship,’ said Pilger – and the collusion of journalists in nominally free societies such as Britain and the United States.

The film begins with shocking footage from Iraq in 2007. An American Apache gunship opens fire on a Baghdad street, killing in cold blood two Reuter journalists, along with Iraqi civilians. There is no provocation – the victims are unarmed. One of the Apache crew comments ‘Nice’ as he murders people at a safe distance. Titled ‘Collateral Murder’, the video was leaked to WikiLeaks by soldier Bradley (later Chelsea) Manning.

‘Selling’ the 2003 invasion of Iraq is the centrepiece of Pilger's film. The news media is exposed as a source of illusions, such as a non-existent link between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of 9/11. A CIA witness says the primary aim of intelligence supplied by the Pentagon is to manipulate public opinion.

In a series of remarkable interviews, prominent journalists in Britain and the United agree that, had they and their colleagues challenged rather than amplified and echoed the deceptions of their governments, the invasion of Iraq might not have happened.

Former CBS newscaster Dan Rather tells Pilger that ‘tough, digging, aggressive questions’ might have prevented the war, while Rageh Omaar, the BBC's man in Iraq, says, 'We failed to press the most uncomfortable buttons hard enough,’ and reporter David Rose – who campaigned in The Observer for the invasion – refers to ‘the pack of lies fed to me by a fairly sophisticated disinformation campaign’ and agrees that journalists are guilty of war crimes.

Perspectives such as these, coming from a notoriously defensive industry, are rare – as is the appearance of the editor-in-chief of ITV News and the BBC’s head of newsgathering, who defend an institutional bias, not altogether convincingly.

Previously unscreened footage shows a 2004 attack on the Iraqi city of Fallujah by American and British forces that left thousands dead. An independent American journalist’s report and photographs of mass graves never appeared in mainstream media. In occupied Palestine, reports Pilger, the intimidation and killing of non-Western journalists by the Israelis are seldom reported.

The War You Don't See marks the rise of WikiLeaks, whose founder and editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, tells Pilger that his organisation gives ‘conscientious objectors’ within ‘power systems’ a means of informing the public directly, a landmark in journalism.

‘The lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth,’ concludes Pilger, ‘or their blood is on those of us who are meant to keep the record straight.’

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The film:

https://avalonlibrary.net/John_Pilger/The_War_You_Don%27t_See_-_John_Pilger_%282011%29.MP4

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1561721415727988737
1561721415727988737Not so much underestimated, but fabricated.

Most reading here will know this, but there's very strong evidence that the real numbers of Ukrainian 'demilitarized' (meaning killed + wounded) are more like 90,000, or 180,000, or maybe even more.

And a personal note. Alexander Mercouris stated this most elegantly and graciously at the start of his video update yesterday (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oCKbF7Owfc):

When millions of people (not only in Russia) were angered and grieving about the death of Daria Dugina 48 hours ago, several hundred Ukrainian soldiers, some of them almost equally innocent and unprepared, will have been killed in that same day — very probably in far more grievous, protracted and terrible ways.

Stalin himself said:
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.
:flower:

[Ravenlocke]

Today at 2:00pm

https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1561650182915166208
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[Ravenlocke]

Donetsk bombed daily, just on Saturday alone, 2 civilians killed, 11 wounded, today the RT press visits the childrens ward in hospital.

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1561745015273046017
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TobiAyodele/status/1561775384592539650
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Correction, no evidence it was shot down! Just spotted operating in Crimea region.
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1561760678548996096
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[Ravenlocke]

However in Cape Fiolent Crimea

https://twitter.com/ILRUSSO1/status/1561744898625339392
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[Vicus]

Today is Russia national flag day.

Russia’s first symbols
The traditional symbol used by medieval Moscow princes, who brought together Russian principalities and created a unified state, was the figure of a horseman, which can be found on seals dating back to the 13th century. For a long time, it was just a knight on horseback holding a spear or a sword. Sometimes it was not even a warrior. Thus, Vasily the Blind used a seal depicting a horseman with a falcon on his arm.

However, Yury of Moscow linked the image to his patron saint, St. George, and then it was made to represent one of the icon’s best-known deeds – the slaying of the dragon with a spear. Ultimately, St. George became the classic symbol of Moscow heraldry and can still be seen on Moscow’s coat of arms and on the shield in the middle of the national equivalent.

If a picture can speak volumes , it is this:

https://cdni.russiatoday.com/files/2022.08/original/62ffb16f2030277f217900f4.jpg

"Empire of lies" , "Great Satan", ring a bell?

And who was "the father of lies"?, "who is a murder from the beginning"...

Think hard...

https://www.rt.com/russia/561163-russian-flag-history/

[Ravenlocke]

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[Vicus]

A funny thing, for amusement... :bigsmile:

‘Russian actors’ may attempt to split society – German intelligence


Germany’s domestic security agency has warned that protesters may end up advancing Moscow's agenda

Germans protesting over issues such as surging energy prices may be exploited by extremists, conspiracy theorists, and activists seeking to delegitimize the government, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, has warned. The protesters may even be unwittingly doing Russia’s bidding, the agency claimed.

The chilling warning issued last week said that “legitimate protests [in Germany] are being hijacked by enemies of democracy for their own purposes.”

“So far there have been no signs of widespread anti-state protests or violent mass riots,” looming, the head of the BfV, Thomas Haldenwang, acknowledged. Nevertheless, the agency is on the lookout for red flags.

“We are closely monitoring whether the agitation on the internet is reflected in a mobilization for activities relevant to the protection of the constitution in the real world,” he said.

The agency claimed that “right-wing extremists” were trying to attribute “the economic effects of the Russian war of aggression” in Ukraine to “alleged incompetence of the democratic parties.”

Such individuals have linked the surging energy prices in Europe with globalization, the statement said.

Energy prices in Germany spiked after the EU sought to punish Russia for its operation in Ukraine by decoupling European economies from Russian commodities, including hydrocarbons. Meanwhile, other nations, such as China and India, have ramped up their imports of Russian coal, crude oil and natural gas, some of which is reportedly being re-sold to Western nations at a premium.

German “extremists” who see a connection between the globalized world and European economic troubles aim to “exploit” the growing discontent of ordinary citizens “to undermine trust in the state, government and democracy in the long term,” the BfV said.

The public resentment is being fueled by Russia, the agency claimed, accusing “Russian actors” of using “targeted dissemination of false information” about pressing issues such as energy costs or possible food shortages.

The BfV didn’t offer any examples of such activities in the statement, but Haldenwang assured that Russia was determined “to divide the society in Germany.”

Meanwhile, in “the left-wing extremist scene” the security agency noticed a growth of anti-military sentiment and criticism of defense contractors. :clapping:


https://www.rt.com/news/561300-protests-germany-extremists-russia/

[pyrangello]

Alleged Car Bomber Identified - Ukraine Nazi WOMAN - Member of Azov (NAZI) Battalion! ( Bill u had it right on, watch the video of them screening the car)

https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/alleged-car-bomber-identified-ukraine-nazi-woman-member-of-azov-nazi-battalion

[ExomatrixTV]

Sanctions on Russia BACKFIRE as Ruble Is Soaring:

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1561404256976097281

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50 minute video with English subtitles, worth a watch.

Description:

On August 14, the " #azov Brain Rot" #documentary premiered. The film features exclusive footage and eyewitness accounts, as well as filmed testimonials by captured Azov militants and foreign mercenaries who surrendered in #Mariupol. In addition, the film contains expert commentary and accounts of the #civilians who were tortured and humiliated by neo-Nazis.

The documentary elaborates on the ideology of nationalist battalions as well as their neo-pagan beliefs and the widespread use of #Nazi symbols.

The film’s creator, journalist, and television host Marina Kim visited the detention facilities where Azov members were being held captive in #Yelenovka (DPR), days before the #Ukrainian Army attack using a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. The attack killed more than 50 prisoners of #war.


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[ExomatrixTV]

Russia Advance in Donbass, US Weapon Supplies to Kiev Dwindle, Russia Accuses Kiev of Dugina Killing:

https://sp.rmbl.ws/s8/2/V/X/v/t/VXvtf.caa.mp4


source (https://rumble.com/v1gymwf-russia-advance-in-donbass-us-weapon-supplies-to-kiev-dwindle-russia-accuses.html)

[Bill Ryan]

An interesting report from Zero Hedge, published an hour ago.


https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-says-russian-mass-trial-captured-mariupol-fighters-will-make-peace-talks

Zelensky Says Russia's Mass Trial Of Captured Mariupol Fighters Will Make Peace Talks "Impossible"

It's obvious at this point that Ukraine's military is seeking to expand strikes inside Russian-controlled Crimea, which this month has become an unprecedented first following a brutal, grinding more than half-year of war. Zelensky has called for its "liberation" - but if this weren't enough to ensure that the conflict will continue to burn for at least the near to medium-term future (the war is possibly set to endure for years, according to the predictions of some US defense officials), Zelensky's latest remarks on Monday suggest that any potential ceasefire negotiations aren't even so much as anywhere on the horizon.

Zelensky called the idea of negotiations with Moscow "impossible" if Russia moves forward with plans for a mass trial of captured Mariupol defenders. "If this despicable show trial takes place, if our people are brought into this scenery in violation of all agreements, all international rules, if there is abuse … this will be the line beyond which any negotiations are impossible," Zelensky said Monday (https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/rosiya-sama-sebe-vidrizhe-vid-peregovoriv-yaksho-vlashtuye-s-77185).

"Russia will cut itself off from the negotiations," he stressed. "There will be no more conversations. Our state has said everything." Russia too has of late been expressing a similar position of being closed to talks, blaming Kiev and its Western backers, and President Putin is expected to dig in his heals further especially after the recent Crimea attacks as well as the car-bombing of Alexander Dugin's daughter Darya on Saturday night.

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Via Reuters: A bus carrying members of the Ukrainian armed forces, who surrendered to Russian forces at the besieged Azovstal steel mill.

In the comments he confirmed he is in ongoing conversation with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over what Ukraine is dismissing as a show trial, saying that he expects the UN to issue clear condemnation.

"Everyone understands everything," Zelensky said. "They understand what the occupiers are doing and what it threatens," he added of international powers. "And they understand that Ukraine will not tolerate this. It will not tolerate tormenting of people about whom only one thing can be said: they are heroes of their homeland, they defended the freedom of their people from invaders on their land."

Russian foreign ministry officials have meanwhile complained separately that it's the UN itself largely to blame for lack of any diplomatic process towards a negotiated settlement to the war (https://www.ft.com/content/c9381570-5e3c-4e89-a5a0-7a98bbd880f6):
Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, told the Financial Times that the UN should be playing a bigger role in attempts to end the conflict and accused the US and other Nato countries of pressing Ukraine to walk away from negotiations.

There would be no direct talks between Putin and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he said. "Now, I do not see any possibility for diplomatic contacts," Gatilov said. "And the more the conflict goes on, the more difficult it will be to have a diplomatic solution."
As for the hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who spent literally months holed up in the cavernous Azovstal steal plant while under siege by numerically superior Russian forces, Kremlin authorities have said they mostly make up the neo-Nazi Azov battalion. Earlier Russian media reports additionally alleged that some foreign fighters may have been in their midst as well.

Ukraine officials and pundits are livid over the planned optics of the trial...

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Already, some foreign fighters, including UK nationals, were in months past sentenced to death by a local pro-Russian Donetsk court (https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/uk-outraged-after-2-british-mercenaries-handed-death-sentence-pro-russian-donetsk). It's entirely possible and even likely that the captured Azov members will be issued the same sentence. Without doubt, Moscow will seek to "send a message" with this trial. Russian forces have accused Azov battalion of being genocidal and of committing 'terrorism' against civilians.

The trial is also sure to capture global headlines and likely elicit UN condemnation, also given that - as The Hill (https://thehill.com/policy/international/3610680-zelensky-knocks-russian-plans-to-put-captured-ukrainians-on-trial/) reports - "Ukraine’s military intelligence arm warned on Friday in a Telegram post (https://t.me/DIUkraine/1127) that Russia has been remodeling the Mariupol Chamber Philharmonic and installing iron cages in the building for a trial on Wednesday, which marks Ukraine’s independence day and six months since the war began."

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Via Reuters: A bus carrying members of the Ukrainian armed forces, who surrendered to Russian forces at the besieged Azovstal steel mill.


Ooh, look, Ubermenschen!

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Some very interesting takes on topics like world population (the world is actually running out of people), energy, geopolitics and the Russia/Ukraine situation.


Peter Zeihan is an American geopolitical analyst, author, and speaker. He analyses data from geography, demographics, and global politics to understand economic trends and make predictions. His latest books is, 'The End of the World is just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization'.

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Russia to present proofs of Ukrainian shelling of Zaporizhzhia NPP at UN Security Council meeting

The continuous Ukrainian attacks on the plant may lead to a worldwide disaster

On August 23, at Russia's request, the UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on the situation around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP). According to Russian official Vladimir Rogov, the regional authorities have collected all materials proving the shelling of the plant by the Ukrainian forces.

According to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the risk of nuclear conflict has become the most serious in decades. He noted that dialogue must prevail in the situation with the Zaporizhzhia NPP. The organization, according to Guterres, may organize an IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) visit to the plant via Kyiv.

Last week, the Russian ambassador to the US visited the US State Department and discussed the situation, according to the American diplomatic office. On August 22, the station was again shelled by Ukrainian militants with American weapons killing a civilian that was passing by at the time. The person died from shrapnel wounds.

The plant and Energodar, a nearby city, are regularly shelled by the Ukrainian military which could eventually lead to disaster. The authorities in the Zaporizhzhia region have already developed an evacuation plan in case of an accident at the nuclear power plant. The Ukrainian Armed Forces could strike both the Kakhovskaya hydro power plant (HPP), which operates a cooling system, and the nuclear fuel storage facility.

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/08/22/is-the-u-s-giving-ukraine-some-weapons-secretly-00053079

Is the U.S. giving Ukraine some weapons secretly?

Rumors are swirling around Washington that the United States has provided Ukraine with more weapons than the administration has announced publicly.

On Friday, a senior Pentagon official said the U.S. had been quietly supplying the Ukrainians with High-speed Anti-Radiation missiles — used for targeting radar systems — for some time. “[W]hen we first announced the initial provision of HARM missiles, the way that we characterized it in the announcement was not specific. We described that we were providing a counter-radar capability,” the official said.

Two days later, Yahoo! News published a story that argued the recent attacks on Russian targets in Crimea weren’t the result of special operations teams carrying explosives, as Ukraine suggests. Instead, the blasts were the result of long-range missile strikes, former U.S. special operators told MICHAEL WEISS and JAMES RUSHTON. But Ukraine doesn’t have any missiles with the range to strike Saki air base in Crimea, they noted — at least not with the missiles America and its partners publicly say they transferred.

One possibility, per Weiss and Rushton, is that the U.S. has secretly sent the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, to Ukraine. If true — and it’s not clear that it is — that would go against what the administration has said publicly. In July, national security adviser JAKE SULLIVAN told the Aspen Security Forum that sending those missiles would further provoke Russia and potentially instigate World War III.

Okay, so maybe NatSec Daily was overthinking things. But then today, two people familiar with the move said the U.S. included Excalibur precision-guided munitions in the Aug. 19 weapons package, even though the administration didn’t publicly announce them. Furthermore, a document sent by the administration Friday to lawmakers, and seen by NatSec Daily, lists what was in the latest $775 million package, noting that what goes to Ukraine isn’t “limited” to what’s featured in the notification.

We admit this is all speculation. No member of the administration confirmed or even hinted that there were secret shipments of weapons to Ukraine. Even if there were, there’s little to no chance they’d share a classified decision with us.

But if there's anything to the secret-weapons theory, some experts would be supportive of the more-quiet approach. “It’s gratifying that the administration appears to be talking less and doing more in terms of the weapons transfers. That’s good because it gives the Russians a little bit of uncertainty about what we’re doing,” said the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ TOM KARAKO.

The whispers about the U.S. giving Ukraine more than it lets on are only growing, not dying out. We’ll stay on it to see if it’s part of the D.C. rumor mill or there really is something to it.

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Zelensky ADMITS He Hid Truth About Russian Invasion:

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After the info on the troop movements and so on he gets into a possible new law that might come into effect in Russia I believe tomorrow, it has to be voted on first though. It would make Ukraine a terrorist State, apparently this bill or law was files end of July. Just listen to his explanation of that law.

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ad jimmy Dore:
occasionally, interesting facts are passed on by this person and himself I find pretty bearable but his little team of servile buffoons full of greasy glee is despicable.

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