WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1562160244851183617
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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561355-volodin-zelensky-tribunal-mariupol/

Zelensky ‘has reasons to fear’ tribunal – Moscow

President Vladimir Zelensky fears that his complicity in war crimes will be exposed during a planned trial of Ukrainian troops, the speaker of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, has claimed. This is why he threatened to cut off all talks with Moscow if Russia’s ally in Donbass goes ahead with plans to launch a tribunal in Mariupol later this month.

Writing on social media on Tuesday, Volodin said “everybody” is looking forward to the tribunal, except Zelensky, “who considers it unacceptable.”

“He and the Kiev regime have reasons to be afraid,” he added. “He and his inner circle ordered to bomb, shoot and kill peaceful citizens: the elderly, women, children. That is why Zelensky is doing everything to prevent the tribunal.”

The lawmaker was referring to a statement Zelensky made on Monday about the scheduled trial of Ukrainian troops captured by the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), an ally of Russia. The Ukrainian leader called the proceedings a “despicable show trial” and “the line beyond which any negotiations are impossible.”

READ MORE: Zelensky warns against putting neo-Nazis on trial
The DPR captured hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers during the battle for the city of Mariupol, including members of the notorious Azov Battalion, which has in its ranks fighters openly displaying neo-Nazi views and sympathies. Some of them have been accused of committing serious crimes during intensive fighting against DPR militias and Russian troops.

Volodin called for the trial to be held publicly, “so that the world community will know about the crimes against humanity committed by the Kiev regime.”


https://www.rt.com/russia/561277-zelensky-talks-pow-trial/

Zelensky warns against putting neo-Nazis on trial

There will be no more peace talks with Russia if captured Ukrainian Neo-Nazis are subjected to a “show trial,” the country's President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed.

The authorities of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have previously said that they are planning tribunals for suspected war crimes committed by Ukrainian troops, including members of the Azov Battalion, whose ranks include fighters with openly nationalist and neo-Nazi views.

“If this despicable show trial takes place… This will be the line beyond which any negotiations are impossible. Russia will cut itself off from any negotiations,” Zelensky said in a video address early Monday, adding that such a trial would be a violation of international law.

Zelensky’s statement comes after photos appeared on social media allegedly showing large cages being installed on the stage of the Mariupol Philharmonic. Ukraine’s military intelligence service, the GUR, said that the cells will be used to house Ukrainian troops captured by Russian and Donbass forces during the siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. They were largely drawn from the Azov Battalion.

DPR head Denis Pushilin told TASS this month that “active preparations” for the proceedings were underway. “The first tribunal will most likely be held in Mariupol. It will be organized by the end of summer,” he said.

The peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have been stalled since spring.

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://tass.com/politics/1497283?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Russian diplomat accuses Ukraine’s envoy of undermining interethnic accord in Kazakhstan

"Pyotr Vrublevsky's statements once again prove the terrorist, anti-human nature of the Kiev regime, especially against the background of the recent murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina by Ukrainian special services," Maria Zakharova said


MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS/. Ukraine's Ambassador to Kazakhstan Pyotr Vrublevsky is openly engaged in undermining interethnic accord in his host country, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on Tuesday.

"It is impossible to imagine how an ambassador - a person who is supposed to strengthen bilateral relations - is openly engaged in undermining interethnic harmony in the host country, calling for the destruction of citizens of this country on ethnic grounds," the diplomat said in comments on public appeals from Vrublevsky to kill "as many Russians as possible." Over three million ethnic Russians live in the country to which he is the ambassador, she emphasized.

"The telling silence on the part of Kiev about these calls is very revealing. It can’t be called anything other than an endorsement," the diplomat stressed.

"Pyotr Vrublevsky's statements once again prove the terrorist, anti-human nature of the Kiev regime, especially against the background of the recent murder of Russian journalist Darya Dugina by Ukrainian special services," the diplomat said.

Moscow expects Nur-Sultan to react to the Ukrainian ambassador's public call to kill ‘as many Russians as possible’, the spokeswoman went on to say.

"We are sure that Nur-Sultan will react to these statements of the Ukrainian ambassador. We know that he has already been summoned to the republic’s Foreign Ministry. As far as we know, there are also petitions from the citizens of Kazakhstan that demand deportation of this ‘diplomat’ who violated not only elementary diplomatic rules and ethics, including the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, but also Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which envisages up to seven years in prison for ‘inciting social, national, tribal, racial, class or religious hatred’," the diplomat noted.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1562200727652794372
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[Ravenlocke]

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[Johnnycomelately]

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.

[Bill Ryan]

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.There's not a single politician in Europe (with the probable exception of Viktor Orbán) who's anything other than any or all of


A globalist puppet
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Dishonest
Extremely dangerous.

[Satori]

To me the implication of the question was whether she would launch the first strike, because, for example, if it was a retaliatory strike the notion of feeling physically sick would not be applicable. I believe many of us could muster the courage to push the button in retaliation. As, any normal person would already be feeling sick from the realization that a nuclear war had already been started and global destruction was imminent.

Further she did not answer the question, which is how would she feel. It’s apparent to me she is devoid of feelings. Which makes for a perfect lapdog politician.

Also, MAD works, if it works at all (which remains to be seen), when no country, or a person with such power, is willing to be the first to push the button(s). That has been proved on several occasions.

What was disturbing to me was the number of people who applauded her answer.

[Mashika]

Looks like things have escalated very suddenly in the past day or so

Previously, the army had been very careful to not carpet shell or carpet bomb, always being limited and always being careful to allow for the Ukros to surrender or retreat. But i saw these in the past day or so, now it is a "take no prisoners" approach and carpet bombing the hell out of the positions without any care

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/20512
DonbassDevushka/20512

https://t.me/intelslava/35877
intelslava/35877


And just a couple hours ago this happened:
https://t.me/BellumActaNews/81576
BellumActaNews/81576

Looks like someone took the gloves off now

[Johnnycomelately]

There's not a single politician in Europe (with the probable exception of Viktor Orbán) who's anything other than any or all of


A globalist puppet
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Dishonest
Extremely dangerous.


My response was about her reply, which was the point of that literally and functionally staged interaction. I don’t doubt that she is a politician who ticks your boxes, but that was a proper political position.

[Bill Ryan]

And just a couple hours ago this happened:
Russian Strategic Bombers are airborne over Ukraine (https://t.me/BellumActaNews/81576)
Looks like someone took the gloves off nowThat may not refer to the old, but very serviceable, turboprop Tu-95 'Bears'. It might well include the highly sophisticated Tu-160s (first image) and Tu-22s (the second).

With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Tu-160-1.jpg

https://2img.net/h/www.enemyforces.com/aircraft/tu22m_2.jpg

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"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"

[Bill Ryan]

"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

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Their cabability and their culpabiility are two very separate topics.

[Mashika]

Their cabability and their culpability are two very separate topics.

Unlike the Ukronazi state, the Russian Air Force has not hit indiscriminately on civilian zones

And if you would say they did, i would expect you to prove it with facts, not imaginary news, and neither the ones where you purposedly ignore the fact that the UkroNazi army embedded themselves between civilians and used them as human shields in schools and other locations

But we have not seen a real instance of the first case, unlike we see almost daily in Donetsk these days by the Ukros. And we have plenty of evidence (by videos uploaded by the very same UkroNazi army) that they do use schools and other civilian buildings as bases, and there's also plenty of recorded evidence that people were and still are being used as human shields on the side of Ukraine

It's funny that even in the videos that the UkroNazi state tried to use to prove that Russia had hit civilian targets, no later than a day before evidence came up that it had actually been used as a military base and then the news is silenced entirely on the west, everyone stops talking about it at unison (for some reason lol)

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.

A functioning human being should physically recoil at the entire premise of such a dodgy manipulative question

But her emotionless answer... "Yes, I'll press the armageddon button." Truly frightening!

The fact UK's ridiculous mainstream media & pathetic oligarchs are publicly & proudly peddling nuclear war is a sad testament of where the empire's demonic hive brain is

We have to push back against these nutjobs before they drag us all down with them, imo

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"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

Apparently not.

[Mashika]

"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

Apparently not.

Neither does the UkroNazis share their actual actions and plans with you, so it seems

I wonder if you can actually point with very hard facts and evidence, where and when what you are not saying but clearly believe, has happened?

Would be interesting to see if you can, or if you are going to post partial fakes as the usual ones the sorry excuse for human beings down there in Ukraine usually post only to later 'forget' as soon as the truth is uncovered

So, can i hope for you to post something interesting for us to see? There must be something that no one can't debunk, right?

See this one for example, they trust your blindness and sheer dumb hope so much they could not care less to show themselves occupying a school, and then later denying they use schools as military bases

https://t.me/denazi_UA/18931
denazi_UA/18931

Are you going to look away? This is a hard fact, they posted it themselves :)

[Mashika]

And just for the record, a giant reply full of excuses or reasonings is not needed or expected

I want a simple thing

Post irrefutable evidence, in the form of videos or pictures that have not been debunked or proven to be misleading, don't post words

This thread is full of evidence of the crimes of the UkroNazi state, no one comes here and shows evidence of the contrary, and the few that come, do a lot of shameless dumb excusing and never, not even once, have tried to prove or debunk with hard evidence

There has to be some, right? Since the people come here very sure of their beliefs, so let's see that evidence

No one is saying Russia is a saint state, there's always something, but we want to see, i want to see, for once, someone coming here with real hard facts and not just the same boring dumb strategy of talking and never showing anything then running away

I'm about completely fed up of the same dumb/mediocre beating around the bushes, can we act like adults for once? Speak up your mind or say nothing at all

So, let's see it

[Bill Ryan]

"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

Apparently not.Do please explain what you meant by that. :) I can see it was sarcastic, but the intent was lost on me... could you maybe say a little more?

[...aside, in case it's helpful...]
If you'd like to discuss the morality or otherwise of war (and everything that often accompanies it), there's this thread, where there's a very intelligent, interesting and fast-moving discussion in progress. Maybe you might like to post some thoughts there?


Is War Ever Necessary or Justified? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified)

I've made one post on that thread, which was this one (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified&p=1513908&viewfull=1#post1513908). I felt I offered a few reasonable thoughts.

[Kryztian]

There's not a single politician in Europe (with the probable exception of Viktor Orbán) who's anything other than any or all of


A globalist puppet
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Dishonest
Extremely dangerous.


I'm with you 98½% on that one Bill. I would add one other name to the list: Aleksandar Vučić (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Vu%C4%8Di%C4%87), President of Serbia. He remains on good terms with Russia and has not allowed Serbia to get caught up in the sanctions business. Also, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has avoided the sanctions situation.

[Ravenlocke]

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.There's not a single politician in Europe (with the probable exception of Viktor Orbán) who's anything other than any or all of


A globalist puppet
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Dishonest
Extremely dangerous.


I totally agree with what Bill said, and that’s why the tears because she would do it, no hesitation, and they all would do it given the chance.

[Mashika]

Never go full retard

https://t.me/levigodman/4717
levigodman/4717

[Ravenlocke]

Some chatter about tonight’s SMO

https://twitter.com/berningman16/status/1562240953846472704
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https://twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1562210348324646912
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https://twitter.com/witte_sergei/status/1562235433882308609
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[Bill Ryan]

"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

Apparently not.Do please explain what you meant by that. :) I can see it was sarcastic, but the intent was lost on me... could you maybe say a little more?

[...aside, in case it's helpful...]
If you'd like to discuss the morality or otherwise of war (and everything that often accompanies it), there's this thread, where there's a very intelligent, interesting and fast-moving discussion in progress. Maybe you might like to post some thoughts there?


Is War Ever Necessary or Justified? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified)

I've made one post on that thread, which was this one (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified&p=1513908&viewfull=1#post1513908). I felt I offered a few reasonable thoughts.Forgive me... I was being very dumb. (I've had a long day, and I genuinely didn't understand your reply. I knew it was sarcastic, but I don't speak sarcasm, and so I'm not always that good at translating it.)

Now I realize, nearly two hours later (how slow am I? :facepalm: ), that what you really meant was:


The Kremlin's military plans (which it doesn't share with Bill Ryan) include bombing women, children and all those who are not "Nazis".
Bill Ryan is too stupid, or blind [or something] to realize this truth, even after 6 full months of the SMO.

How did I do?

[Johnnycomelately]

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.

A functioning human being should physically recoil at the entire premise of such a dodgy manipulative question

But her emotionless answer... "Yes, I'll press the armageddon button." Truly frightening!

The fact UK's ridiculous mainstream media & pathetic oligarchs are publicly & proudly peddling nuclear war is a sad testament of where the empire's demonic hive brain is

We have to push back against these nutjobs before they drag us all down with them, imo

“A functioning human being should...”. Hey P, this is prescriptive, and so sounds authoritarian. Who the heck are you to say?

“Truly frightening!”. To who? Sounds like a guilty conscience, but just maybe someone made you afraid. No value in being afraid. Peace.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[pounamuknight]

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.

A functioning human being should physically recoil at the entire premise of such a dodgy manipulative question

But her emotionless answer... "Yes, I'll press the armageddon button." Truly frightening!

The fact UK's ridiculous mainstream media & pathetic oligarchs are publicly & proudly peddling nuclear war is a sad testament of where the empire's demonic hive brain is

We have to push back against these nutjobs before they drag us all down with them, imo

“A functioning human being should...”. Hey P, this is prescriptive, and so sounds authoritarian. Who the heck are you to say?

“Truly frightening!”. To who? Sounds like a guilty conscience, but just maybe someone made you afraid. No value in being afraid. Peace.


I'm just a normal guy, mate. Nothing fancy. Just a guy with an natural aversion to armageddon

[Hym]

Who feeds the rabid dogs of war?
Don't people smell them like I do?
How long did the citizens of that country stay silent, now full from the immense and gutless efforts that it takes to be so quiet, so complicit, to not confront generation after generation of nazis? And also here, in the states, there is a deafening silence.....

As citizens of a controlling, contributing, guiding country like the states, what do you do about all of the rich western bastards, seemingly so out of reach to the average, honest citizen's dissent, when they send out their killers.....in their diplomatic monkey suits and uniforms to secure the profits they are after, leaving so many civilians dismembered and dead in their wake?

If you haven't done so yet, I urge you to go on the ground of this war. You are not so remote from the situation as you would tell me, and you know this....naturally. It's as close as the thought, the reality, the sense, the color, the smell of it all.

I look at the country so destroyed and see, without colorization and without any comfort, a land that looks just like it's controllers want it to look.

At every turn, NEVER fully given the air time that honesty demands, we see civilian deaths.... endless civilian deaths..... children, women and young men..... turned to graves,

How quickly does the crooked press, squeeze the truth so far away from humanity's discerning sight and sound....turning, training war into a game...My God! An F'n Game! Real lives turned into a game...WTF?

That same so-called "press" was accurately called "Yellow Journalism" many years ago. Yellow from the piss it so often took on the Truth. It is called the "media" when it is no where near the "middle" of anything of value..

In however long a time it takes to remove the thought, the sight, the sounds, the cries of loved ones away from our care.....it turns those graves into flowers.....doing it's plastic best to digitize and deliver the limbic numbness to you...post haste...
How long does it take to forget that the beauty was borne from the seeds of death and destruction?

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I've seen a Black Sun patch on the uniform of an american military officer, worn while she was working for her multiple masters, alongside the nazis in Ukraine.

Ookraanee-uh/Ukraine raised 3 full generations of rascist, fascist killers who have existed on corporate, american money, while being fully integrated with western military intel agents.

We do have whistleblowers from some departments of this western government, but the ones who will make the deepest changes in any society are the elite killers who've done the most difficult killings, the sometimes easy hits, the highest paid, the most detailed, with the most advanced weaponry possible......and they have the least to lose.

That may surprise some, but once that life has been lived, the only redemption in almost all of their lives is by 'saving the receipts', documenting the deeds of their killing those who confront the darkness, and then by sharing those documents with the world.

Since I've seen much more truths exposed and commonly known as real, more than I ever would have expected, for all of these years, it seems the last set of truths are those ones revealed from the killers themselves. It is a rare mark of a hired killer, usually military trained, being considered a human, yet there have been more confessions and more redemptions than most know about, and it takes more than one Duncan to make a real world of difference.

For some there are more turnings and much more detail to be revealed. All I know is that it surely makes the next incarnation a lot more enjoyable, and the choices more varied.

[Hym]

Language. Funny thing how people use it..Take the word "Mercenary". In almost all cases it is anything but merciful. Again, when a society calls genocide, when anyone calls murder... ethnic "cleansing"... I see the trail of horse manure running back to the soul of a very dark author. Do you see the same thing?

Where was the american democracy when the demon, the uber nazi, the 3rd Reich funded, the SS guided Bandera killed the many Jews alive in Polish villages during WW2? In stark contrast to the valuable lives of every Jew murdered under the same fascist flags, is anyone shocked that the puppet actor now leading the lies calls himself a jew? Really? If there is any consolation, someone should remind him that golum exists.

Is anyone surprised that the americans funded and guided the overthrow of the original, corrupt Ukranian administration, and installed an even more criminal cabal? Where is your taxpayer money going today, dear citizen? Where it has gone to from the beginning, when it was collected by the centralized, private banks who started stealing it from you all of those years ago.

Look at what is left from the words of the president that the idiots of intelligentsia murdered, the whole lot of them, with all of their motives and payouts dependent upon his assassination.

When JFK said he would 'splinter the cia into a thousand pieces and scatter them into the winds', I wonder if he knew that the very same organization, one of the most evil corporations ever to exist on this little planet, yes that self same one, accurately called "The Company", would, instead, live and thrive in so many places those winds have taken it. At this moment, it calls the killings in Ukraine its vacation.

This is the world of the americans and their fellow western, and now eastern, bedfellows. I would ask, not just in Ukraine, where does it not exist and pay out the american monies to the criminals it pays throughout the world?

In a language I know well..."Russ" means "Sweet".
Russ-ih-naa Simrit...
Knowing this and a modicum of the complexities here...
Words are not Experience. Do not let them, in living, become that which they are not....

[Mike Gorman]

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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.

A functioning human being should physically recoil at the entire premise of such a dodgy manipulative question

But her emotionless answer... "Yes, I'll press the armageddon button." Truly frightening!

The fact UK's ridiculous mainstream media & pathetic oligarchs are publicly & proudly peddling nuclear war is a sad testament of where the empire's demonic hive brain is

We have to push back against these nutjobs before they drag us all down with them, imo

“A functioning human being should...”. Hey P, this is prescriptive, and so sounds authoritarian. Who the heck are you to say?

“Truly frightening!”. To who? Sounds like a guilty conscience, but just maybe someone made you afraid. No value in being afraid. Peace.


I'm just a normal guy, mate. Nothing fancy. Just a guy with an natural aversion to armageddon

What I feel/sense about this lady is that she is adopting the 'saber rattling' language of the vapid bureaucrats - their mindless hatred of Russia has brought us to the actual brink of global nuclear warfare, rather than meet with Russia and adopt the intelligent position of accepting that Russia is a valid country with a large population and a vigorous economy, that they are worthy of dealing with and cooperating with-you know the obvious stuff - she claims a point of merit for stating she has the testicular fortitude to initiate nuclear attack, she is a very dangerous, deluded puppet indeed. Yes, the M.A.D situation presumes each participant will press their button, of course: but there is no merit in stating this obvious clause, it is a foregone conclusion, an empty point! Just for stating the obvious in this context she gains applause?
Feeling anxiety with the current situation is not a sign of weakness, it is a very natural outcome - if your life is threatened for real, you cannot help feeling anxious, it is autonomic.
I am way past trying to analyze these people, or devote any rational calories to this end, I simply hope-for-the-best: none of us can influence the true outcomes, at best we might change someone's mind peripherally.
Arguing amongst ourselves, and bitching, sniping achieves nothing.

[Mashika]

"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

Apparently not.Do please explain what you meant by that. :) I can see it was sarcastic, but the intent was lost on me... could you maybe say a little more?

[...aside, in case it's helpful...]
If you'd like to discuss the morality or otherwise of war (and everything that often accompanies it), there's this thread, where there's a very intelligent, interesting and fast-moving discussion in progress. Maybe you might like to post some thoughts there?


Is War Ever Necessary or Justified? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified)

I've made one post on that thread, which was this one (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified&p=1513908&viewfull=1#post1513908). I felt I offered a few reasonable thoughts.Forgive me... I was being very dumb. (I've had a long day, and I genuinely didn't understand your reply. I knew it was sarcastic, but I don't speak sarcasm, and so I'm not always that good at translating it.)

Now I realize, nearly two hours later (how slow am I? :facepalm: ), that what you really meant was:


The Kremlin's military plans (which it doesn't share with Bill Ryan) include bombing women, children and all those who are not "Nazis".
Bill Ryan is too stupid, or blind [or something] to realize this truth, even after 6 full months of the SMO.

How did I do?

At first, i got very confused, i did not remember writing this post! Then i realized it wasn't my post, but could have easily been..... :P

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

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No words :silent::silent::silent::facepalm::facepalm:

https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/20760
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HISTORICAL REFERENCE: CIA declassified document from the CIA reading room on Stepan Bandera.

35 pages, here: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/BANDERA%2C%20STEFAN_0016.pdf. It's in the library as well now.

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https://twitter.com/1ghostofKiev/status/1562159685779734529
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This took place yesterday in Latvia

https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/status/1562429567788527616
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https://twitter.com/ewopen357/status/1562375301220671493
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https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/23/in-just-under-three-weeks-ukrainian-fired-prohibited-petal-mines-maim-at-least-44-civilians-kill-2-in-donetsk-region/

In Just Under Three Weeks, Ukrainian-Fired Prohibited “Petal” Mines Maim At Least 44 Civilians, Kill 2, in Donetsk Region
By Eva Bartlett - August 23, 2022

Ukraine continues to fire internationally-banned anti-personnel mines on civilian areas of Donetsk and other cities in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), in violation of international law and of the mine ban convention Ukraine signed in 1999 and ratified in 2005.

Since July 27, Ukraine has been firing rockets containing cluster munitions filled with banned PFM-1 “Petal” (or “Butterfly”) anti-personnel mines all over Donetsk and surrounding areas. Each rocket contains over 300 of the mines. Already by August 3, the DPR’s Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that Ukraine had fired several thousand of the prohibited mines on Donetsk.

As of August 15, 44 civilians, including two children, have suffered gruesome injuries. Another mine victim died in hospital.

Some days ago, such mines grotesquely maimed a 15 year old boy in Donetsk.

Younger children don’t know that the mines aren’t toys, and elderly often simply don’t see them, or likewise don’t understand the danger, as was the case with an elderly lady with dementia who, on August 8, lost a foot as a result of stepping on a mine while she was going to work in her garden plot.

Tiny but powerful, these insidious mines are designed not to kill but to tear off feet or hands. Their design allows them to float to the ground without exploding, where they easily blend in with most settings and generally lie dormant until stepped on or otherwise disturbed.

According to Konstantin Zhukov, Chief Medical Officer of Donetsk Ambulance Service, a weight of just 2 kg is enough to activate one of the mines. Sometimes, however, they explode spontaneously. An unspoken tragedy on top of the already tragic targeting of civilians is that dogs, cats, birds and other animals are also victims of these dirty mines.

In the grass, or surprisingly even on sidewalks and streets, it is very easy to overlook them or mistake them for a leaf. Even when I’ve seen such mines marked with warning signs or circled, it still took me quite a bit to actually see them.

In its relentless deploying of these mines, Ukraine has targeted all over Donetsk, as well as Makeevka to the east and Yasinovataya to the north. Ukraine has fired them elsewhere, including the hard-hit northern DPR city of Gorlovka, as well as regions in the Lugansk People’s Republic in previous months.

In fact, according to DPR authorities, Ukraine began using the mines in March, during battles for Mariupol, and in May was already firing them into DPR settlements. Also in early May, while in Rubiznhe in the Lugansk People’s Republic, I was warned that Ukraine had been littering nearby areas with the mines, something confirmed by locals when I went to nearby Sievierodonetsk on August 12.

Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield

I first saw the Ukrainian-fired mines on July 30, in Kirovskiy, western Donetsk, just days after Ukraine began showering the city with them.

Mine clearance sappers had isolated mines scattered in a field, to detonate after they had destroyed mines in the courtyard of an apartment complex. Amidst the tall grass, wild plants and garden plots, the mines would have been impossible for a non-sapper to spot, and very easy to disturb and lose a foot or hand in doing so.

Although I’d been assured that sappers had cleared the path, I still watched every step I took. And generally for the duration of my time in the DPR, I looked down while walking, watching for mines that could have been moved by wind or rain.

Behind a wall at one end of the apartment complex courtyard, sapper timer-detonated the eight mines they’d found scattered around the playground, lanes and walkways.

That evening, Ukraine fired more rockets with petal mines at Donetsk, this time targeting the centre of the city. People driving in the streets unknowingly set some off.

On a central Donetsk street the next morning, I saw a grouping of seven mines on a curbside, gathered either by sappers or some courageous local, with warnings to pedestrians and drivers of their presence.

They were so plentiful that marking them however possible was the only way to mitigate the immediate danger of someone randomly stepping or driving over them until they could be neutralized by the sappers.


The rest of the article here:

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/23/in-just-under-three-weeks-ukrainian-fired-prohibited-petal-mines-maim-at-least-44-civilians-kill-2-in-donetsk-region/

[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/ewopen357/status/1562375301220671493
1562375301220671493I added up the 'demilitarized' numbers. The total is 131,014.

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https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1562373415213973504
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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1562427892151201793
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On episode 1 of the show we are joined by Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov, a former Soviet and Russian secret service agent, Lieutenant-General of Foreign Intelligence Service, director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (2009 - 2017). Candidate of Historical Sciences.

O3JTLUPUUHY

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More on the Latvia incident of yesterday, about those protesters that were detained, they are being offered Russian visas

https://twitter.com/LucyGatsby/status/1562448820163661824
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I apologize but I couldn’t help this, Sorry in advance.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/561434-shoigu-ukraine-offensive-pace/

Slow pace of Ukraine operation meant to protect civilians – Moscow

The Russian military campaign in Ukraine is progressing as intended, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said. The relatively slow pace is the result of a conscious decision to protect civilian lives, he stated.

Speaking at an international event on Wednesday, the minister stated that Russia “strictly follows the norms of humanitarian law” in Ukraine, countering claims to the contrary made by Kiev.

“We do everything to avoid casualties among peaceful citizens. Certainly, it slows down the pace of the offensive, but we take this approach consciously,” he added.

Shoigu contrasted Russia’s priorities in Ukraine with those of the US and its allies. The ongoing supplying of weapons to Kiev and other Western policies only prolong the conflict and inflate the human cost, he said.

READ MORE: Ukraine unplugs from Russian power grid
Western nations have accused Russia of launching an unprovoked war of aggression against the neighboring country, and have said their military assistance will continue for “as long as it takes.” Moscow, which believes the operation was necessary to stop NATO’s creeping expansion into Ukraine, says its opponents want to “fight to the last Ukrainian” in order to hurt Russia.

The senior Russian military official was speaking during a ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional Eurasian security group that counts nations such as China, India, and Pakistan among its members.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/561441-zaporozhye-official-car-bomb-assassination/

Zaporozhye official killed in car bombing


The top official in the military-civilian administration of Russian-held Mikhailovka, Ivan Sushko, was killed after his car was blown up by Ukrainian saboteurs, Zaporozhye Region Council member Vladimir Rogov announced on Wednesday.

“An explosive device was planted under the seat of the car of the head of the settlement. As a result of the explosion, Ivan Sushko was wounded and taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he soon died,” Rogov said on Telegram.

Just one day earlier, officials in Kherson Region also reported a blast that was targeted at one of the members of the local administration, according to regional head Kirill Stremousov.

READ MORE: ‘No mercy’ for killers of Russian journalist – Lavrov
He said the perpetrators also used an improvised explosive device and their intended target was Igor Telegin, the deputy head of the department of internal policy of the administration of Kherson Region, which is currently controlled by Russian forces. Stremousov stated that Telegin was not injured as a result of the explosion, which he blamed on local saboteurs.

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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1562296140472561664
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https://www.rt.com/news/561406-youtube-leaked-censorship-ukraine/

Leaked slides detail YouTube’s Ukraine censorship – journalist

A tutorial for YouTube’s content moderators that emerged on social media on Tuesday shows that the Google-owned platform has labeled a number of critical positions on the conflict in Ukraine “hateful” or “extreme” and can censor or demonetize creators on those grounds. While the parent company Alphabet has not confirmed or denied the screenshots’ authenticity, a Polish contractor who shared them has reportedly been fired.

Six screenshots shared by Russian journalist Andrey Guselnikov on Telegram show internal codes and examples of what YouTube has labeled “harmful” or “hateful” content in an online course mandated for content moderators.

According to the slides, the “glorification/promotion of [the] ‘Z’ symbol associated with the Russian military” is labeled “hate” and “extreme” under policy ID 864. So is saying that the conflict “is to denazify the Ukrainian government,” which is what Russian President Vladimir Putin said in February.

Saying that “Ukraine military is attacking its own people” is also considered problematic, ranging from “harmful-misinformation-moderate” (ID 862) to “harmful-misinformation-extreme” (ID 863) if the powers that be decide it amounts to “promotion or glorification.”

There was no clarification whether either standard would apply to factual reports of Ukrainian artillery targeting Ukrainian citizens living in territories under Russian control, for example.

Another highlighted phrase under policies 862 and 863 is “US funded bioweapons labs in Ukraine.” Presumably the key word here is “bioweapons,” since the existence of “biological research facilities” in Ukraine was recognized by US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland in a Senate testimony in March, and the Russian military has repeatedly presented evidence that these labs were funded by the US government, and the Pentagon in particular.

One of the slides shows a list of “out of scope” claims, noting there is no “full-scale block on all content” related to the conflict.

YouTube to demonetize all Russian users, ban ‘state media’
YouTube to demonetize all Russian users, ban ‘state media’
According to Guselnikov, the source of the leaked slides is a Polish national named Kamil Kozera, who used to work for Majorel, a contractor hired by YouTube for content moderation. YouTube somehow identified Kozera from the screenshots and had him fired over the leak. RT cannot independently verify the authenticity of the screenshots, and has reached out to YouTube for comment.

The video hosting platform, owned alongside Google by the Silicon Valley behemoth Alphabet, took the unprecedented step in censorship by globally blocking RT, Sputnik and all channels “associated with Russian state-funded media” in early March, expanding on the original ban ordered by the EU authorities in their jurisdiction. It also “paused” all advertising and “all of the ways to monetize” on the platform – such as sponsorships and superchats – in Russia.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in May, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that the company continues to operate in Russia so it can “deliver independent news” to Russians, noting that “What we’re really seeing in this conflict is that information does play a key role, that information can be weaponized.”

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https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1562442119339315203
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https://sputniknews.com/20220824/boris-johnson-arrives-in-kiev-with-new-military-aid-package-1099946560.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Boris Johnson Arrives in Kiev Again, This Time With New Military Aid Package for Zelensky

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev on Wednesday to personally congratulate President Volodymyr Zelensky with Ukrainian Independence Day, bringing along £54 million in fresh military assistance, including tiny Black Hornet microdrones.

"What happens in Ukraine matters to us all. That is why I am in Kiev today. That is why the UK will continue to stand with our Ukrainian friends. I believe Ukraine can and will win this war," Johnson tweeted.

Media swarmed Johnson and Zelensky as they walked down the streets of the capital, flanked by troops in full combat gear carrying assault rifles.

Symbolically, the walking tour included a pass by the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Ukrainian for 'Independence Square'), the site where tens of thousands of pro-European Union demonstrators gathered in late 2013 and early 2014 to protest the decision by the government of then-President Viktor Yanukovych to scrap plans to sign an association agreement with the EU in favor of closer economic ties with Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. The demonstrations turned deadly in February, with dozens of protesters and police officers killed by mysterious snipers, and Yanukovych ultimately overthrown in a coup d'etat orchestrated by Washington and Brussels, giving rise to the Ukrainian crisis and sparking a civil war in the Donbass.
The UK has played a highly active role in training Ukrainian forces for the Donbass conflict, and has committed several billion pounds in military and economic assistance since February and the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. The assistance has included the training of over 22,000 Ukrainian troops via 'Operation Orbital' since 2015, intelligence support, the delivery of thousands of Javelin and NLAW anti-tank missiles, Starstreak man-portable air defense systems, and other lethal and non-lethal military aid. Britain has also played a key secondary role in equipping Ukraine with heavy artillery, sending M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, used M109 howitzers and L119 artillery guns. Britain's BAE Systems is also the manufacturer of M777 towed guns, with the US and its NATO allies sending more than a hundred of the 155mm systems to Ukraine over the past six months.

Johnson's Wednesday trip to Kiev is his latest foray to the Eastern European country amid the security crisis, with the prime minister visiting on June 17, and in early April. The prime minister also traveled to the country on February 1, just weeks before Russia kicked off its special operation.

Johnson's travels come at a difficult time for him domestically, with his approval rating slipping to 22-23 percent in polling by Opinium and YouGov in late June and early July, and the prime minister forced to resign on July 7 after the latest of his government's many internal scandals finally caught up with him. He is now serving as interim PM, with the next general election expected no later than January 2025.

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I didn’t realize the significance of this when I caught it reported on RT but it is,


https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1562412808419131392
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https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1562411679706742784
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https://www.rt.com/russia/561465-russia-azov-commanders-bounty/

Russia places bounty on two Azov commanders

Moscow will offer a reward for any information leading to the capture of two commanders of Ukraine’s notorious Azov regiment who are accused of brutally torturing and murdering Russian POWs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced on its website on Wednesday.

The bounty has been placed on 28-year-old Konstantin Nemichev and 26-year-old Sergey Velichko, who have served as commanders in the Azov regiment. The unit was declared a terrorist organization by Russia’s Supreme Court in June. Both of the fighters have been put on the international wanted list, as well as Russia’s 'ten especially dangerous wanted criminals' list.

“The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has decided to offer a reward for assistance in detaining the commanders of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion Konstantin Nemichev and Sergey Velichko, accused of committing a crime under Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation,” the ministry’s press service wrote, adding that one million rubles (~$16,600) will be paid out for information on each individual.

Nationalist unit executes 100 fellow Ukrainian troops – Russian MoD
Nationalist unit executes 100 fellow Ukrainian troops – Russian MoD
The ministry previously called for the arrest of the two Azov commanders back in May after Russia’s Investigative Committee had identified them as being responsible for “causing multiple bodily harm, including with the use of firearms” to at least eight Russian servicemen, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Both Nemichev and Velichko are currently part of the Kraken regiment operating near the city of Kharkov, which primarily consists of Azov veterans and other neo-Nazi fighters and volunteers.

The regiment describes itself as a special reconnaissance and sabotage unit under the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, operating separately from the Armed Forces. Last week, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed that Kraken forces had executed some 100 fellow Ukrainian soldiers who had abandoned their positions amid a Russian breakthrough in the Kharkov region. According to Moscow, the executions were carried out to “suppress panic and intimidate the personnel of the Armed forces of Ukraine.”

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https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1538830162954964992
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https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1549436750170189824
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https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/8/27/peacemaker-the-ukrainian-website-shaming-pro-russia-voices

The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices

Being blacklisted on Peacemaker can have serious consequences, including the risk of being killed.


Kyiv, Ukraine – Earlier this month, a flock of birds damaged the engines of a Russian passenger jet that took off from a Moscow airport.

More than 200 passengers on board survived a crash landing in a cornfield, and Russian media extolled the pilots as national heroes.

But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

For the pilots, the “blacklisting” means that Ukrainian border guards, who routinely use the database for background checks, will probably not let them in Ukraine.

However, for some others, being put on the list has had more sinister consequences.

Two pro-Russian figures – publicist Oles Buzina and legislator Oleh Kalashnikov – were shot dead in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in April 2015 just days after Peacemaker published their personal information, including home addresses.

A nationalist group claimed responsibility for both murders, prompting Russian media to lash out at Ukraine’s “fascist junta”. Russian President Vladimir Putin purported that the West “prefers not to notice” such killings.

Peacemaker’s founder Anton Gerashchenko does not understand the fuss.

The interior ministry official and former legislator, who has some 300,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter, insists the killings had nothing to do with his publication.

“We are not a punitive body, we are an inquiry office,” Gerashchenko, 39, told Al Jazeera, speaking at a restaurant near Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s lower house of parliament.

Thousands of suspected pro-Russian separatists fighting in southeastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk are arrested and interrogated annually based on Peacemaker’s blacklist, he said.

This practice, which still persists in Ukraine, puts journalists at risk and must be stopped, their names taken off the list.

Gulnoza Said, coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists

Peacemaker’s publications have been used as evidence in more than 100 court cases that involved terrorism and pro-Russian paramilitary groups, according to the Uspishna Varta rights group.

Peacemaker is run by dozens of volunteers who maintain their anonymity, even among themselves, and scrupulously sift through email tips, social networking pages, geo-tagged photos, videos and media reports, Gerashchenko said.

In 2015, they created a fake website for pro-Russian separatists. Thousands registered, and soon enough their inboxes were hacked and their personal data was published.

“Militants joke that they have their own social network – Peacemaker,” said Gerashchenko.

Peacemaker has also identified dozens of Russian servicemen and intelligence officers who fought for or “consulted” the separatists, disproving Kremlin’s claims of not being involved in what it calls Ukraine’s “civil conflict”.

In May 2015, Peacemaker released its most notorious leak – the names, emails and phone numbers of more than 4,000 international journalists accredited by separatist authorities.

The accreditations were essential to avoid detention, harassment and robbery by undisciplined separatists, but Peacemaker called the journalists “accomplices to terrorists”.

Some of the reporters received threats, raising concern among Western governments and human rights groups.

Anton Gerashchenko, Peacemaker founder, speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine on Monday, January 23, 2017 [File: Efrem Lukatsky/The Associated Press]
“Peacemaker’s creators showed that violation of privacy and confidentiality of personal data, arbitrary public accusations, often of large groups of people, including journalists, of certain transgressions or crimes against the state, readiness to expose them to risks are not just tolerated by the state, but also supported by some government figures,” Maksym Butkevych, coordinator of the No Borders Project rights group in Kyiv, told Al Jazeera.

Ukraine’s then-President Petro Poroshenko called the leak a “big mistake”.

Peacemaker announced its shutdown but reopened within days – with an expanded list of journalists.

“We wrote a letter to President Poroshenko on this specific matter, but have never received a response,” Gulnoza Said of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a US-based group, told Al Jazeera. “This practice, which still persists in Ukraine, puts journalists at risk and must be stopped, their names taken off the list.”

In 2015, Moscow launched an investigation into Gerashenko’s “calls for terrorism”, and Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s leader whose enemies have been killed in Russia, Austria and Dubai, promised a “painful response” to Peacemaker’s publications.

Famous characters added to ‘pro-Russian’ blacklist

In January 2017, the SBU, Ukraine’s security service, announced the arrest of two men allegedly hired by Russian intelligence to blow up Gerashchenko’s car. Their trial is still under way.

But Peacemaker kept working.

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who once called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “flawless democrat” and now works for Russia’s largest state-run oil company, was added to the database in August 2018.

Schroeder reportedly said that Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea was “a reality that must one day be recognised”, and Peacemaker accused him of attempting to “justify” the annexation.

Berlin objected to Schroeder’s blacklisting, urging Ukraine to take the website offline, while his wife reportedly said that she feared an attack on her husband.

In August 2018, Peacemaker declared Roger Waters of the Pink Floyd fame a “threat to national security” after the 76-year-old rocker claimed that Russia has more rights to Crimea than Ukraine.

It has also blacklisted former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, several French legislators, former boxing champion Roy Jones Jr and countless Russian pop and film stars for visiting Crimea from Russia – something Ukraine considers illegal border crossing.

Peacemaker has accused British singer-songwriter Roger Waters of being pro-Russian given his stance on Crimea [Silvia Izquierdo/The Associated Press]
For some Ukrainians, being blacklisted is a badge of honour.

In December 2018, Father Hennady Shkil, a priest with a Russia-affiliated Orthodox parish in the southern town of Hola Prystan, was listed as an “opponent” of Ukraine’s religious independence.

“I am proud to be on that list,” Shkil told Al Jazeera.

But some of Peacemaker’s victims are hardly part of a pro-Putin crowd.

Last August, Peacemaker accused Svetlana Alexievich, a Nobel Prize-winning Belarussian writer and Kremlin critic, of “inciting inter-ethnic division” after she mentioned the ethnic Ukrainians who helped German Nazis kill Jews during World War II.

After threats from far-right groups, Alexievich cancelled her speech in the southern city of Odessa.

IT expert Andriy Munchuk was blacklisted in October as one of 500 public servants who happened to be ethnic Hungarians and received Hungarian passports.

Ukraine forbids double citizenship, and Peacemaker branded them “separatists” and “traitors”.

Minchuk said since then, border guards stop and search him every time he crosses the Ukraine-Hungary border in his home region of Transcarpathia.

“They just say I was marked in their database and they have to check me,” he told Al Jazeera.

Gerashchenko said that Munchuk could protest the blacklisting in an email.

He said Peacemaker was inspired by Simon Wiesenthal, a Jewish Nazi hunter whose followers are still on the lookout for surviving Holocaust perpetrators.

“We have enough work for decades to come,” he said, huddling over his iPad that displayed search results in the website’s database.

[Vicus]

A nuclear showdown? One of the greatest 'realist' fears about the Russia-Ukraine conflict is actually groundless, and here's why

The US will not intervene directly, because it’s not an existential crisis for Washington – it stands to lose little from Kiev’s inevitable defeat


Fears that the Ukraine conflict is now bogged down into some sort of stalemate which risks dangerous escalation from the parties involved in order to achieve victory are misplaced. There is only one victor in the Ukraine conflict, and that is Russia. Nothing can change this reality.

Renowned American intellectual John Mearsheimer has written an important article about the conflict, entitled: ‘Playing with Fire in Ukraine: The Underappreciated Risks of Catastrophic Escalation’. The article paints a dark picture about both the nature of the war in Ukraine (prolonged stalemate) and probable outcome (decisive escalation by the parties involved to stave off defeat).

Mearsheimer’s underpinning premises, however, are fundamentally flawed. Russia possesses the strategic initiative – militarily, politically, and economically – when it comes to the war in Ukraine and the larger proxy engagement with NATO. Moreover, neither the US nor NATO is in a position to escalate, decisively or otherwise, to thwart a Russian victory, and Russia has no need for any similar escalation on its part.

In short, the Ukraine conflict is over, and Russia has won. All that remains is a long and bloody mopping up.

The fact is, while US government officials may make bold statements about the need to inflict harm, via proxy, on the Russian military through the provision of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Ukraine, it is the US which has had defeat inflicted on it in terms of the ongoing losses of its Ukrainian proxy military and the destruction of the equipment provided in support. The US, like its NATO allies, has proven to be very good at making bold pronouncements about goals and intent, but very bad at putting them into practice.

There is no ‘military option’ in Ukraine for either the US or NATO because, simply put, there is no military capable of meaningfully executing such an option.

In short, Russia is winning on the ground in Ukraine, and there is nothing either the US or NATO can do to alter this outcome. And once Russia secures this victory, it will be in a far stronger position to insist that its concerns about a viable European security framework be respected and implemented.

At the end of the day, the Ukraine conflict is not an existential one for either the US or NATO; a loss in Ukraine will be another setback – Afghanistan on steroids. But a Ukrainian defeat does not, in and of itself, threaten NATO with collapse or spell the end of the American Republic.

Mearsheimer concludes his article by noting that “This perilous situation creates a powerful incentive to find a diplomatic solution to the war.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. Just as the US would be loath to seek a “diplomatic solution” to the conflicts waged against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Russia would be similarly disinclined to engage in any diplomacy which denied it the full implementation of its core objectives

Back in March, in response to a tweet from Joe Biden which declared “Let there be no doubt that this war has already been a strategic failure for Russia,” I responded by tweeting, “This war will go down in history as a strategic Russian victory. Russia will have halted NATO expansion, destroyed a dangerous den of Nazi ideology in Ukraine, redefined European security by undermining NATO, and demonstrated Russian military prowess, an important deterrent.”

Those words were accurate then, and they remain accurate today.


https://www.rt.com/russia/561376-ukraine-russia-conflict-us/

[Vicus]

Ukrainian spies detained at nuclear plant – Russia

Two workers at the Zaporozhye facility have been providing information to Kiev, the Russian National Guard has claimed


Russian forces have detained two employees of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, who have been providing information on troops and hardware locations to Kiev’s forces, the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) said on Wednesday.

“Apart from that, a violator of access control [to the plant], an accomplice of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who transmitted the coordinates of the movement of columns of Russian military hardware, has been detained,” they added.

After seizing control of the power station on March 4, Russian forces have detained 26 violators of access control to the plant – the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the National Guard revealed. The facility continues to operate with local staff, while Russian troops patrol the premises and check for explosive devices and unexploded munitions, the National Guard said.

They noted that “Specialists of the nuclear, biological and chemical defense of the National Guard, together with colleagues from the Ministry of Defense, daily, several times a day, monitor the situation by measuring radiation levels at control points along the perimeter of the facility.”

In recent weeks, the nuclear power plant and the nearby city of Energodar have been repeatedly shelled by Kiev’s forces. The attacks damaged multiple buildings on the premises of the plant, causing fires and power outages, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Moscow has warned that the continuing attacks could ultimately render the power plant inoperable and might even result in a major disaster similar to the one in Chernobyl in 1986. Kiev and some Western officials, however, have accused Russia of shelling the plant, despite the fact that it is controlled by Russia’s own troops.


https://www.rt.com/russia/561487-nuclear-power-plant-spies/

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ILRUSSO1/status/1562546806109896704
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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1562544670336765952
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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561455-us-aid-arms-ukraine-delay/

‘Months or years’ before US arms reach Ukraine – media

Years could pass before some of the weapons in the upcoming “largest ever” package of US military assistance to Kiev actually reach Ukraine, according to Western media reports.

On Tuesday, a number of mainstream media outlets cited anonymous US officials as describing the impending announcement of a $3 billion package of military aid to Ukraine. If confirmed, it would be the largest of its kind so far. Washington is by far the biggest supplier of military hardware to Ukraine as it fights against Russia.

However, some of the promised equipment “will not be in the hands of Ukrainian fighters for months or years,” according to NBC News, one of the outlets that reported the upcoming package. Included in the package are advanced weapons that are still in the development phase, it explained.

The same caveat was cited by the Associated Press, which said that it may take “a year or two” for the arms to reach the battlefield, according to its sources. Washington expects Ukrainian forces “to fight for years to come,” US officials told the AP.

READ MORE: US to fund more arms for Ukraine – media
The AeroVironment Switchblade 600 drone is an example of a weapon system that was promised to Ukraine months ago but has yet to be delivered. Defense News said this week that the Pentagon plans to sign the contract necessary for sending 10 of the so-called “kamikaze drones” within a month.

Last month, Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov called on foreign suppliers of arms to use his country as a testing ground for new weapons. He pledged to provide detailed reports about the experiences of Ukrainian soldiers with the prototypes provided to them.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/CathyVoganSPK/status/1562275524742787075
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Ravenlocke, I don’t agree with you (the tears). She answered properly. The clip had no mention of a first-strike, and MAD only works if the other side believes you will participate.

A functioning human being should physically recoil at the entire premise of such a dodgy manipulative question

But her emotionless answer... "Yes, I'll press the armageddon button." Truly frightening!

The fact UK's ridiculous mainstream media & pathetic oligarchs are publicly & proudly peddling nuclear war is a sad testament of where the empire's demonic hive brain is

We have to push back against these nutjobs before they drag us all down with them, imo

Interesting the way in which this politician sidestepped John Pienaar's question of "How would it make you feel?".

He didn't ask whether she would do it or not.

Probably a lifelong pattern of manipulation via language. Never forget that sociopaths can be intelligent, educated, respected and congenial.

Truss may be ruthless and clever at deflecting questions, but that does not indicate strong critical or analytical processing.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/EspiritV1/status/1562581771711303680
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https://twitter.com/coope125/status/1562333243910901760
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https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1562506603458600960
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https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/14747

Six months into Ukraine’s collapse, the world has changed forever

Six months after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) by Russia in Ukraine, the geopolitical tectonic plates of the 21st century have been dislocated at astonishing speed and depth – with immense historical repercussions already at hand.

To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the (new) world begins, not with a whimper but a bang.

The cold-blooded assassination of Darya Dugina – terrorism at the gates of Moscow – may have fatefully coincided with the six-month intersection point, but will do nothing to change the dynamics of the current, work-in-progress, historical shift.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) appeared to have cracked the case in a little over 24 hours, designating the perpetrator as a neo-Nazi Azov operative instrumentalized by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) – itself a mere tool of the CIA/MI6 combo that de facto rules Kiev.

The Azov operative is just a patsy. The FSB will never reveal in public the intel it has amassed on those that issued the orders, and how they will be dealt with.

One Ilya Ponomaryov, an anti-Kremlin minor character granted Ukrainian citizenship, boasted he was in contact with the outfit that prepared the hit on the Dugin family. No one took him seriously.

What is manifestly serious, however, is how oligarchy-connected organized crime factions in Russia would have a motive to eliminate Alexander Dugin, the Christian Orthodox nationalist philosopher who, according to them, may have influenced the Kremlin’s pivot to Asia (he didn’t).

These organized crime factions blamed Dugin for a concerted Kremlin offensive against the disproportional power of Jewish oligarchs in Russia. So these actors would have both the motive and the local know-how to mount such a coup.

If that’s the case, it potentially spells out a Mossad-linked operation – especially given the serious schism in Moscow’s recent relations with Tel Aviv. What’s certain is that the FSB will keep their cards very close to their chest – and retribution will be swift, precise and invisible.

The straw that broke the camel’s back

Instead of delivering a serious blow to Russia’s psyche that could impact the dynamics of its operations in Ukraine, the assassination of Darya Dugina only exposed the perpetrators as tawdry killers who have exhausted their options.

An IED cannot kill a philosopher – or his daughter. In an essential essay, Dugin himself explained how the real war – Russia against the US-led collective west – is a war of ideas. An existential war.

Dugin correctly defines the US as a “thalassocracy,” heir to “Britannia rules the waves.” Yet now the geopolitical tectonic plates are spelling out a new order: The Return of the Heartland.

Russian President Vladimir Putin himself first spelled it out at the Munich Security Conference in 2007. China’s Xi Jinping put it into action by launching the New Silk Roads in 2013. The Empire struck back with Maidan in 2014. Russia counter-attacked by coming to the aid of Syria in 2015.

The Empire doubled down on Ukraine, with NATO weaponizing it non-stop for eight years. At the end of 2021, Moscow invited Washington for a serious dialogue on “indivisibility of security” in Europe. That was dismissed with a non-response response.

Moscow took no time to assess that a dangerous US-led trifecta was instead in the works: an imminent Kiev blitzkrieg against Donbass; Ukraine flirting with acquiring nuclear weapons; and the work of US bioweapon labs. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back.

A consistent analysis of Putin’s public interventions these past few months reveals that the Kremlin – as well as Security Council Yoda Nikolai Patrushev – fully realize how the politico/media talking heads and shock troops of the collective west are directed by the rulers of Finance Capitalism.

As a direct consequence, they also realize how western public opinion is absolutely clueless, Plato cave-style, totally captive to the ruling financial class, who cannot tolerate any alternative narrative.

So Putin, Patrushev, and their peers will never presume that a senile teleprompter reader in the White House or a cokehead comedian in Kiev “rule” anything.

As the US rules global pop culture, it is fitting to borrow from what Walter White/Heisenberg, an average American channeling his inner bad, states in Breaking Bad: “I’m in the Empire business.” And the Empire business is to exercise raw power, maintained with ruthlessness, by all means necessary.

Russia broke that spell. But Moscow’s strategy is way more sophisticated than leveling Kiev with hypersonic weapons, something that could have been done at any moment, starting six months ago.

Instead, what Moscow is doing is talking to virtually the entire Global South, bilaterally or to groups of actors, explaining how the world-system is changing right before our eyes, with the key actors of the future configured as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), BRICS+, the Greater Eurasia Partnership.

And what we see is vast swathes of the Global South – or 85 percent of the world’s population – slowly but surely becoming ready to engage in expelling the finance capitalists from their national horizons, and ultimately taking them down: a long, tortuous battle that will imply multiple setbacks.

The facts on the ground

On the ground in soon-to-be rump Ukraine, Khinzal hypersonic weapons launched from Tu-22M3 bombers or Mig-31 interceptors will continue to be employed.

Piles of HIMARS will continue to be captured. TOS 1A Heavy Flamethrowers will keep sending invitations to the gates of hell. Crimean Air Defense will continue to intercept all sorts of small drones with IEDs attached. Terrorism by local SBU cells will eventually be smashed.

Using essentially a phenomenal artillery barrage – cheap and mass-produced – Russia will annex Donbass, very valuable in terms of land, natural resources and industrial power. And then on to Nikolaev, Odessa, and Kharkov.

Geoeconomically, Russia can afford to sell its oil with fat discounts to any Global South customer, not to mention strategic partners China and India. Cost of extraction reaches a maximum of $15 per barrel, with a national budget based on $40-45 for a barrel of Urals, whose market value today is almost double that.

A new Russian benchmark is imminent, as well as oil in rubles following the wildly successful gas for rubles scheme.

The assassination of Darya Dugina provoked endless speculation about the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense finally breaking their discipline. That’s not going to happen. Russian advances along the enormous 1,800-mile battle front are relentless, highly systematic, and deeply invested in a Greater Strategic Picture.

A key vector is whether Russia stands a chance of winning the information war with the west. That will never happen inside NATO’s realm – even as success after success is unfolding across the Global South.

As Glenn Diesen has masterfully demonstrated in his latest book, Russophobia, the collective west is viscerally impervious to admitting any social, cultural, historical merits by Russia.

They have already catapulted themselves into the irrationality stratosphere: the grinding down and de facto demilitarization of the imperial proxy army in Ukraine is driving the Empire’s handlers and its vassals literally nuts.

But the Global South should never lose sight of the ‘Empire business.’ That industry excels in producing chaos and plunder, always supported by extortion, bribery of local elites, and assassinations on the cheap. Every trick in the Divide and Rule book should be expected at any moment. Never underestimate a bitter, wounded, deeply humiliated, declining Empire.

Fasten your seat belts for more of this tense dynamic for the remainder of the decade.

But before that, all along the watchtower, get ready for the arrival of General Winter, whose riders are fast approaching. When the winds begin to howl, Europe will be freezing in the dead of dark nights, lit up occasionally by its finance capitalists puffing on fat cigars.

[ExomatrixTV]

Some truly believe that women are "much better" in politics ... really? ...:


Uk’s Potential Next Pm (https://www.weforum.org/people/liz-truss) Says ‘Ready’ To Use Atomic Weapons If Necessary!


https://cdn.presstv.ir/Photo/2022/8/23/a35524e1-2eba-4e18-988b-293361129e83.jpg (https://www.weforum.org/people/liz-truss)

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (https://www.weforum.org/people/liz-truss) – the frontrunner in the race to become the UK’s next prime minister – has chillingly declared she would be ready to use nuclear weapons even if it meant global annihilation.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss (https://www.weforum.org/people/liz-truss), who is likely to rise to UK's premiership next month, has flatly declared her willingness to use nuclear weapons as needed, even if it meant global annihilation.

"I think it's an important duty of the prime minister and I'm ready to do that," Truss said during a meeting of Conservative Party members in Birmingham on Tuesday when asked how she felt about pressing "the button" and unleashing "global annihilation" if necessary.

She did not even mention the possibility of first seeking a diplomatic solution to avert a nuclear confrontation.

The top British diplomat – who appears likely to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson on September 5 – seemed emotionless as she firmly stated she would order the launch of nuclear weapons in response to the event's host, John Pienaar, who said that he would feel "physically sick" at the prospect, according to local reports.

During the hustings event comprising of Tory party faithfuls at the NEC in Birmingham, Pienaar quizzed Truss about the potential outlook, telling her, "One of the first things that will happen when and if you become prime minister, you'll be ushered into a room, a very private room at Number 10, and there will be laid out in front of you what are called the letters of last resort."

"Your orders to our Trident boat captain on whether you, Prime Minister Liz Truss, is giving the order to unleash nuclear weapons. It would mean global annihilation. I won't ask you if you would press the button, you'll say yes, but faced with that task, I would feel physically sick," Pienaar said.

He then asked, "How does that thought make you feel?"


Truss responded by saying: "I think it's an important duty of the prime minister and I'm ready to do that," repeating, "I'm ready to do that." :facepalm:

Truss (https://www.weforum.org/people/liz-truss) and former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak are the two final candidates in the election race in the Conservative Party for the post of prime minister, which came after Johnson announced his resignation on July 7 after facing numerous political scandals.
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source (https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/08/24/687928/UK-potential-next-PM-says-ready-to-use-atomic-weapons-if-necessary)
dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/de-potentiele-volgende-britse-premier-zegt-gereed-te-zijn-om-atoomwapens-te-gebruiken-indien-nodig) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Bill Ryan]

This is going to be a big thing, however it's spun.

(Maybe the article title should read Mariupol, Donbass...)


https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/international-military-tribunals

International Military Tribunals to be Held in Mariupol, Ukraine

International military tribunals are going to be held in the coming days in Mariupol, Ukraine.

The Russian Embassy in the US put out a statement at 10:47pm this evening [that's 24 August, yesterday], pertaining to the US State Department’s response to upcoming tribunal in Mariupol.

See full statement from the Russian Embassy below.
Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States on the State Department's statement on the upcoming Tribunal in Mariupol:


We have taken note of another groundless accusations against our country related to the Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals.
The upcoming Trial is aimed at bringing justice to war criminals, among which there are Nazis from the Azov Regiment. Washington is clearly afraid of making public the evidence of the inhumane acts committed by the members of this terrorist organization.
The International Tribunal in Mariupol can shed light on the true essence of the Kiev regime, of which the United States diligently creates a bright and heroic image. American citizens will finally learn that in reality, their government is helping those who purposefully kill and torture the Russian people of Donbass and Ukraine.
Russia fully complies with the Geneva Conventions and guarantees Ukrainian captives proper conditions of detention. The same cannot be said of the Kiev regime, which militants mistreated captured Russian soldiers.
Finally, if the US authorities have questions about what happened in Mariupol, they could discuss it with the administration of the Donetsk People's Republic. It is an independent state.

— from https://t.me/EmbUSA/711 (https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/international-military-tribunals?utm_source=email#footnote-1)

Ahem… excuse me what? The US State Dept are talking about Russian Military tribunals for Nazis?

It was difficult to find but here is the statement from the US State Dept put out today:
By planning to hold so-called ‘tribunals’ in Russia-controlled Mariupol against Ukraine’s brave defenders, the Kremlin is attempting to deflect responsibility for President Putin’s war of aggression and distract from overwhelming evidence of the atrocities Russian forces have committed in Ukraine.

The planned show trials are illegitimate and a mockery of justice, and we strongly condemn them. All members of Ukraine’s armed forces, including domestic and foreign volunteers incorporated into the armed forces, are entitled to prisoner of war status if they are captured and must be afforded the treatment and protections commensurate with that status, according to the Geneva Conventions.

We call on Moscow to comply with its obligations under international law. The United States will continue to firmly stand with the Ukrainian people as they defend their freedom.”
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— from https://www.state.gov/the-kremlins-illegitimate-tribunals-in-mariupol

No way… the Biden Admin are already trying to delegitimize the tribunals because the Russian allegations for these war crimes go all the way up to the top, to include Biden himself for the production of chemical and biological weapons, as well as arming and assisting Nazi Ukrainian forces responsible for war-crimes and atrocities on civilians.

Russian MIL claimed that the US/Ukraine are terrified of the testimony to be given by Ukrainian POWs, because it will further cement and expose the crimes committed by the Kiev and Biden/DNC regimes.

As per usual, the Western media are complete radio silent on this subject, with the exception of Reuters, who puts out their one tiny article about it that doesn’t seem to get circulated. This came out yesterday at 6AM EST, and I don’t know of anyone in the community or the Western world who has mentioned it.
“GENEVA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office expressed concern on Tuesday about plans by Russian-backed authorities to try Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in the port city of Mariupol, possibly within days, saying such a process could itself amount to a war crime.
The Russian-backed authorities appear to be installing metal cages in a hall in Mariupol as part of plans to establish what they were calling an ‘international tribunal’, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told a briefing.”
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— from https://reuters.com/world/europe/planned-trials-ukrainian-prisoners-mariupol-concerning-un-rights-office-2022-08-23

So the international military tribunals are going down in Ukraine, just like Russia said they would. They are trying literal Azov Nazis for crimes against humanity, and the Biden admin don’t like it.

Russia have been extremely transparent in their reporting on Nazi war-crimes and attacks on civilians. While the Liberal Globalist leaders of the West continue to gloss over the fact that they are supporting literal admitted Nazi forces in Ukraine…
Another point of interest is if these are to be true “international military tribunals”, there would need to be multiple countries involved in overseeing the tribunals, and multi-lateral agreement amongst the contributing militaries. So who are the militaries?

I assume today’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization Defense Summit between all the highest ranking Military officials of Eurasia, had something to do with it. They did discuss US war crimes and crimes against humanity today. See my piece on this meeting here.

— from https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/russian-mil-discuss-us-crimes-against

In conclusion, tribunals are happening whether the West or the UN Rights Office likes it or not. Russia will start with Ukrainian POWs, and work their way up the chain. The reckoning has begun.

I don’t know when, if, or how the top players get involved, but Russia have begun their ascent. We’ve been waiting for Military tribunals for 6 years now. It may not be like we pictured it, but it appears something is finally happening.

[Ravenlocke]

This is the response from the UNHumanRights

https://twitter.com/UNHumanRightsUA/status/1562150484533825538
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https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2022/08/reports-possible-trials-ukrainian-prisoners-wars

Reports of possible trials of Ukrainian prisoners of wars
23 August 2022

DELIVERED BY
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani

LOCATION
Geneva

We are concerned by reports that the Russian Federation and affiliated armed groups in Donetsk are planning - possibly in the coming days - to try Ukrainian prisoners of war in what is being labelled an ‘international tribunal’ in Mariupol.

While there are few details available, photos and video footage published in the media and on social media appear to show metal cages being built in Mariupol’s philharmonic hall, apparently to restrain prisoners of war during proceedings.

Under international law, individuals entitled to prisoner-of-war status have combatant immunity and cannot be prosecuted for having participated in hostilities, or for lawful acts of war committed in the course of the armed conflict, even if such acts would otherwise constitute an offence under domestic law.

If prisoners of war are charged with crimes, they are entitled to due process and fair trial guarantees. No sentence or punishment may be passed on them unless it is delivered by an impartial and regularly constituted court.

We recall that international humanitarian law prohibits the establishment of courts solely to judge prisoners of war and that wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial amounts to a war crime.

We are furthermore concerned that prisoners of war have generally been held without access to independent monitors, exposing them to the risk of being tortured to extract a confession. There have also been worrying public statements by Russian officials and members of affiliated armed groups labelling Ukrainian prisoners of war as ‘war criminals’, ‘Nazis’, and ‘terrorists’, thereby undermining the presumption of innocence.

We reiterate our calls to the Russian Federation to grant independent monitors full access to all individuals detained in relation to the armed conflict in Ukraine, by the Russian Federation, including those held by Russian-affiliated armed groups.

ENDS

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https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1562158719835807745
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https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1562728717574873090
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https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1562728724440948736
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https://twitter.com/jaccocharite/status/1562728733177675783
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And here the same info as above

https://twitter.com/srbnews0/status/1562724687339483138
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https://twitter.com/RussiaUN/status/1562608202482880517
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https://twitter.com/EspiritV1/status/1562702911880044544
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https://twitter.com/StandTallEurope/status/1562131347979771905
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https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1562681187340283905

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(At the moment the link to their telegram article is not working or responding.)

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https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1562692138235637760
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https://russiaun.ru/en/news/240822n

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine

Mr. President,

The reason that the Council members at one point decided to avoid connecting foreign leaders via video link is also the desire to avoid the technical glitches that we just saw during the speech of Mr. Vladimir Zelensky. At times it was very difficult to understand him. We hope that our position in favor of the need for participating in meetings of such guests in person -- if only out of respect for them -- has become clearer to those following today's meeting.

Mr. President,

We gathered here yesterday in connection with a specific threat to international peace and security - Kiev's ongoing shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is bringing Europe to the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. We took note of the Secretary General's explanation as for why he did not participate in the yesterday's meeting. However, today's meeting has no formal connection whatsoever to the developments on the ground and it is intended to demonstrate the unwavering support of Western delegations for any actions of the Kiev regime. As it was to be expected, we have heard enough mantras about the Russian aggression. As we have already said, over the past 200 years the West has not been able to come up with any other explanation for the challenges to the European security, except for references to Russia's actions.

Today we have heard a lot of allegations about the catastrophic consequences of the six months of hostilities for the civilian population of Ukraine. Nobody argues that Ukrainians are having a hard time today. However, the responsibility for this lies with the Kiev regime which came to power in 2014 as a result of an anti-constitutional coup carried out with the help of a number of Western States. From the very beginning, the new Maidan authorities have consistently led the country to disaster, encouraging Russophobia and the glorification of Nazi criminals. Thus, according to the most conservative estimates, more than 60 percent of the population of Ukraine was deprived of the opportunity to demonstrate their Russian-speaking identity, contrary to all relevant international conventions and obligations of Ukraine. Western curators, blinded by the geopolitical task of weakening Russia, initially made it clear that they would cover up any crimes of the Kiev authorities and turn a blind eye to all the things they would never allow in their own countries.

The Kiev regime fully demonstrated its criminal nature when it burnt those who disagreed with it alive in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa and dropped bombs and shelled the civilian population of Donbas. In this senseless “crusade” against itself, Ukraine lost Crimea and provoked an armed resistance from the Donetsk and Lugansk residents, who took up arms in the name of freedom and the future of their children.

The rest of the statement to UNSC can be read here:

https://russiaun.ru/en/news/240822n

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https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1562828846424276992
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https://twitter.com/5thSu/status/1562797265655570432
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https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1562822155338797057
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https://twitter.com/thesiriusreport/status/1562764577401884672
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https://twitter.com/thesiriusreport/status/1562745502159872000
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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1562825439420157952
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https://twitter.com/HHunter_Global/status/1562828586566164482
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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/business/561513-russia-india-dont-need-dollar/

Russia and India no longer need US dollar – BRICS president

Russia and India don’t need the US dollar in trade, having turned to national currencies to conduct mutual settlements, BRICS International Forum President Purnima Anand told reporters on Thursday.

“We have implemented the mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and rupees, and there is no need for our countries to use the dollar in mutual settlements. And today a similar mechanism of mutual settlements in rubles and yuan is being developed by China,” she said.

“That means that the BRICS countries are opening up to Russia, offering the opportunity for the country to overcome the consequences of sanctions,” Anand added, as quoted by RIA news agency.

The BRICS president said mutual trade between India and Russia had grown fivefold over the past 40 years. Moscow supplies a rapidly growing volume of oil to India, and in return gets large quantities of agricultural products, textiles, medicines and other products.

Anand also noted that New Delhi considers itself a neutral party in the current sanctions war between the West and Russia, and despite sanctions pressure, will continue cooperation with Moscow “in any areas where necessary.”

READ MORE: India-Russia trade surging, ambassador tells RT
“When Russia’s military operation in Ukraine began, naturally there was pressure on India to stop importing Russian oil. But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to reject this pressure. The Russian side was assured that supplies would not be stopped and the sanctions regime would in no way affect the relationship between our countries,” the forum head stressed.

BRICS an international socio-economic and political forum incorporating five member nations: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

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https://www.rt.com/news/561540-putin-military-size-ukraine/

Putin orders Russian military to boost manpower
The size of the Russian military is set to increase to 1.15 million troops next year, in line with a decree that President Vladimir Putin signed on Thursday.

The document, published on the government’s website, adds 137,000 to the ranks of the Armed Forces from January 1, 2023.

It also instructs the cabinet to allocate the necessary funds for the expansion.

The move comes amid the Russian military operation in Ukraine, launched in late February.

Moscow sent troops into the neighboring country six months ago, 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.”

READ MORE: Kiev was gearing up for military conflict since 2019 – security chief
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.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/561535-security-systems-activated-zaporozhye-nuclear/

Security systems activated at Zaporozhye nuclear power plant – officials

Security systems have been activated at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant after a power outage, which temporarily left the facility without electricity, members of the Russia-backed administration in the Ukrainian region have claimed.

The plant has since been connected to an alternative source of power, according to officials.
The blackout is said to have been caused by massive wildfires in the area, which were started by Ukrainian shelling, theу said.

Damage to Europe's largest nuclear power plant revealed (VIDEO)
Damage to Europe's largest nuclear power plant revealed (VIDEO)
Fires, which have engulfed parts of the steppe and woods surrounding the city of Energodar, led to short-circuits in the local grid, leaving not only parts of Zaporozhye region without power, but also the neighboring Kherson region.

The head of the pro-Russian military-civil administration of Energodar, Yevgeny Balitski, has been quoted by media as saying: “according to preliminary information, because of massive shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces, which has continued since last night, fields and undergrowth caught fire. This led to a short-circuit in the grid.”

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s state-owned Energoatom company, which is the operator of the power plant, has issued a statement saying Russia’s actions have “resulted in the complete disconnection of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant from power supply – for the first time in history.”

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is the largest facility of its kind in Europe. It was seized by Russian forces in early March, soon after Moscow launched its military offensive against Kiev. Since then, the country’s National Guard and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Troops have been guarding the site, with Ukrainian staff continuing to operate the plant.

Over the past month, Russia has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the nuclear power plant, damaging some of the equipment and buildings. Moscow has warned that Kiev is risking a nuclear incident on a similar scale as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster or even worse.

Ukraine, in turn, strongly denies its military is targeting the facility, and accuses Russian troops of deliberately shelling the plant to frame pro-Kiev forces. Moreover, Ukrainian officials and some of their Western supporters claim that Russia is using the plant as a military base, hiding its personnel and hardware on its grounds.

Russian officials, for their part, have repeatedly called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to send inspectors to the facility, saying that such a mission would corroborate Moscow’s version of events.

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https://www.rt.com/news/561561-nato-strategic-challenge-arctic-expansion/

NATO chief outlines Arctic expansion

NATO will increase its military presence in the Arctic on account of Russia and China posing a “strategic challenge” to the bloc there, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg argued, in an op-ed ahead of his visit to the Canadian north.

The Arctic is “the gateway to the North Atlantic, hosting vital trade, transport and communication links between North America and Europe. Ensuring freedom of navigation and unfettered access is essential to keep our economies strong and our people safe,” Stoltenberg wrote in the article, published on Wednesday in Canada’s Globe and Mail.

Due to the “rapidly warming climate,” much of the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer, which unlocks “opportunities for shipping routes, natural resources and economic development” that can be exploited by “authoritarian regimes” like Russia and China, Stoltenberg argued.

Russia is beefing up its Northern Fleet, while China is planning a “Polar Silk Road” to Europe via the Arctic, building the world’s biggest icebreaker and declaring itself a “near-Arctic state,” the Norwegian former politician wrote.

Julia Melnikova: World War Three is off – why NATO can't afford to have Russia as its main enemy READ MORE: Julia Melnikova: World War Three is off – why NATO can't afford to have Russia as its main enemy
To counter this, Stoltenberg wrote, the “defensive alliance” will invest in “new air and maritime capabilities,” conduct more exercises like Trident Juncture and Cold Response, and bolster its presence in the High North overall. The Cold Response drills in Norway, which took place in March and April, involved troops from 27 countries and were the largest NATO Arctic exercise since the 1980s.

Stoltenberg also revealed that he would be visiting the Cold Lake airbase and the Cambridge Bay early-warning radar site in Nunavut as part of his Arctic tour with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

While Stoltenberg talked up the alleged Sino-Russian threat in the region, once Finland and Sweden formally join the alliance, seven out of eight Arctic Council members will belong to NATO. All of them have suspended their activities in the consulting body earlier this year, citing the conflict in Ukraine. Russia, the only non-NATO member of the council, accounts for 53% of the Arctic coastline and more than half of the region’s permanent population.

Russia has warned against the growing militarization of the Arctic, saying that Finland and Sweden joining NATO created a risk of turning the region into a “theater of military operations.”

[Ravenlocke]

The Polar Silk Road. (PSHP)


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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

More input on civilian cruelties

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://readovka.world/news/109412

Ukrainian Army attacks Zaporizhzhia NPP seven times in 24 hours

In the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have launched seven large-caliber attacks on the area of the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

"The shelling was carried out from the firing positions of the Ukrainian forces in the areas of Nikopol, Marhanets, Vyschetarasivka and Chervonogryhorivka, located on the opposite bank of the Kakhovka reservoir. The retaliatory artillery fire of the Russian Armed Forces suppressed the enemy's firepower”, – the ministry said.

Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzya during the UN Security Council meeting, the main topic of which is the threat to the Zaporizhzhia NPP, has already noted that the nuclear safety situation at the plant has deteriorated even more in recent weeks. He also said that the consequence of Kyiv's shelling of the ZNPP is the West's criminal connivance.

Nebenzya also reiterated that Russia is ready to provide the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) with evidence that Moscow is not placing heavy weapons on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia plant.

The plant and nearby Enerhodar are regularly shelled by the Ukrainian military that could eventually lead to disaster. Authorities in Zaporizhzhia region have already developed an evacuation plan in case of an accident at the nuclear power plant as the Ukrainian Armed Forces could strike both the Kakhovskaya HPP (hydroelectric power plant), which operates a cooling system, and the nuclear fuel storage facility.


The Stirol Chemical plant was also shelled again

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[Ravenlocke]

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[ExomatrixTV]

Roger Waters’ Name Added To Ukrainian “Kill List”:

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For more than a decade an anonymous group in Ukraine has maintained a website listing names and, where they have them, addresses and phone numbers of individuals they term “enemies” of Ukraine. A number of the listed individuals have wound up the target of attacks, some of whom were killed. Now Pink Floyd bass player and noted critic of NATO’s role in Ukraine Roger Waters finds he’s been added to the so-called “kill” list. Jimmy and American comedian Roger Waters discuss the peril Roger Waters may be facing as a result of his truth-telling about NATO and the Ukraine War.


ANOTHER $3 Billion Given To Ukraine:

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[Bill Ryan]

For those who appreciate Alexander Mercouris, starting from 31:25 in his video update for today (lasting about 15 mins) you can hear him more energized, emphatic, angered and emotional than at any time I've yet heard him. He's not lost for words, but at one or two points he comes close.

This really is worth listening to. His outrage is about what are now becoming the Ukrainian killing fields — my term, not his. And the responsibility for this lies with the west, not with Russia.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8_1bvwW3Uk

[Rizotto]

Not sure if the following December 2021 TASS article was posted here previously. At any rate, in view of the recent report of botulinum poisoning of Russian troops in the Donbas area, it deserves a closer look.
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UKRAINE CRISIS 22 DEC 2021, 07:26

US brings botulinum toxin to Ukraine — Donetsk Republic

According to deputy chief of the People’s Militia Directorate Eduard Basurin, a 300-kilogram container of this warfare agent, used as a spray, was brought to Mariupol and then moved to the Kharkov region
MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic has evidence that a batch of botulinum toxin (a highly toxic substance causing paralysis) and its antidote has been delivered to Ukraine from the United States, the deputy chief of the People’s Militia Directorate, Eduard Basurin, said on the Rossiya-1 television channel in an interview on Wednesday.

"It is common knowledge that the United States has brought different types of weapons to Ukraine," he said adding that a batch of an antidote for botulinum toxin was delivered in October. Basurin recalled that botulinum toxin was a chemical warfare agent.

"The chemical substance proper was supplied in November," he added. "A 300-kilogram container of this warfare agent, used as a spray, was brought to Mariupol. The poisonous substance was then moved to the Kharkov region."

Basurin confirmed the presence of US military instructors on the engagement line.

"Their task is to make fire emplacements. They obey only certain people. They do not have a common command on the Ukrainian side," he said.

On December 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that the presence of more than 120 members of private US military companies had been identified in the villages of Avdeyevka and Priazovskoye. He stressed that containers with unknown chemical compounds had been delivered to the village of Avdeyevka and Krasny Liman for staging provocations. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolayenko has denied the presence of private military instructors from the US or toxic chemicals in the Kiev-controlled part of Donbass.

https://tass.com/world/1379319

[Tintin]

Gonzalo Lira some months ago highlighted Victoria Nuland's Ukrainian family ties to Nazi collaboration.

With thanks to Eva Bartlett for linking to this very well researched site that provides extensive background on Chrystia Freeland's Ukrainian family links to that same collaboration.

https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F1.htm

For those interested in pursuing this line of research the linked sources and notes offer some fertile pasture.

[Bill Ryan]

Reporting this, for what it's worth. What I can say is that John B Wells (a veteran radio host with a great deal of experience and awareness) is usually very reliable, and is likely to have reliable sources.

https://twitter.com/JohnBWellsCTM/status/15628626164602757131562862616460275713

[TravelerJim]

Just a small data point - I have a good friend who just got back from visiting her family in Germany for a month and the folks there admit come confusion but generally still support the official Ukranian storyline for now, even though they know it will be a tough winter.

Macron of France just said the age of abundance is over. One of the war goals of the West here is to actually contract the European economy. Think the Hunger Games ultimately.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561594-belarus-warplanes-nuclear-weapons/

Belarus delivers on its nuke promise to Putin – Lukashenko

Belarus has finished preparing some of its military aircraft for the possible deployment of Russian nuclear weapons, President Alexander Lukashenko revealed on Friday.

“You remember [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and I said we will modify Belarusian Su jets so that they could carry nuclear weapons. Did you think we were blabbing? It’s all done!” he said, as quoted by national news agency Belta. The remark came as he was discussing NATO’s military deployments near Belarus’ borders.

Lukashenko was referring to his meeting with the Russian president in late June, during which the Belarusian leader shared concerns over Poland’s requests for the US to deploy American tactical nuclear weapons on its soil.

The Poles “are training to deploy nuclear warheads. Could you please at least help us modify warplanes that we have… so that they could carry nuclear weapons,” he said at the time.

READ MORE: Poland makes nuke offer to US
He later estimated that the necessary modifications could be complete within a couple of months.

The US has been training non-nuclear NATO members like Poland how to use its tactical nuclear weapons for decades. Moscow has long called such exercises a violation of Washington’s non-proliferation commitments, which the US has denied.

During the meeting with Lukashenko in June, Putin offered help to modernize Belarusian warplanes at Russian military factories, and to train its pilots to alleviate Minsk’s concerns about NATO.

[Ravenlocke]

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Russia, whose troops currently control and guard the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, has repeatedly condemned the continuing shelling of it by Kiev's forces. Moscow urged western countries to pressure Kiev to stop the shelling in case it causes an incident at the plant which might cause fallout contamination across Europe.
Ukrainian Armed Forces resumed their shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on August 26 with several shells landing not far from the site where radioactive isotopes are stored, the authorities of the nearest city Energodar have reported.

"Ukrainian 'punishers' continue the global nuclear terror, striking at the territory of [the Zaporozhye] nuclear power plant," Energodar administration's spokesperson stated.


The official said that the infrastructure and key nodes of the plant did not suffer any damage this time and that the radioactive background around the NPP remains within normal levels.
The situation around the Zaporozhye NPP has sparked concerns over nuclear safety in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with a major nuclear incident not ruled out if hostilities continue. Russia has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of shelling Energodar and the NPP itself, warning that it could lead to a nuclear disaster that may contaminate the continent.


The IAEA, Russia and France are currently negotiating the possibility of sending the agency's observers to the nuclear power plant. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the prospects of the IAEA mission to the ZNPP in their recent telephone call. However, the deployment of the agency's observers is still being discussed.

[Ravenlocke]

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-previously-cited-high-casualty-rates-now-it-is-now-lowballing-its-numbers.html

Ukraine Previously Cited High Casualty Rates - It Is Now Lowballing Those Numbers

In June several Ukrainian officials admitted that their army had some 700 or even more casualties per day. The numbers were played up to gain access to more 'western' weapons. Since then Ukrainian officials have stated much lower totals of killed and wounded than make sense.

The lowball casualty numbers now are probably convenient to increase moral in Ukraine and to hide from its supporters the inevitable defeat that the Ukrainian army will experience.

This report must be seen in that light.

Russia Hits Train Station in Deadly Attack on Ukraine’s Independence Day - New York Times

A Russian missile hit a train station in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday, in an attack that came as Ukraine celebrated its Independence Day and brought home the harsh reality of the six-month-old war.
The attack, which took place in an area about 74 miles east of the city of Dnipro in Ukraine-controlled territory, was one of the deadliest strikes on the country’s railways since April, when more than 50 people were killed when a rocket slammed into a crowded railway platform in eastern Ukraine.

The previous attack on a train station which killed some 50 people in Kramatorsk was done with a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile fired from a position under Ukrainian control. Since 2019 the Russian military no longer uses Tochka-U missiles. They have been completely replaced with the more effective Iskander missiles. (A month ago the Donetsk People's Republic was said to have received some old Tochka's for counter battery fire against the Ukrainian units that fire at Donetsk city.)

Now lets look at yesterday's attack which happened near the Chaplino railway station in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Direct attacks on trains or train stations have been quite unusual in this war. A few months ago there were some night attacks on trains in the western regions of Ukraine hitting at weapon transports that had come in from the 'west'. But an attack with high casualty numbers is unusual. Russia must have been sure that the train transported military and not civilian stuff.

Here are pictures of the result of yesterday's attack:

/Update/

There is also a short video clip which shows that the passenger train was standing next to freight train that carried military vehicles.

/End-update


That huge attack 'killed at least 22 people'?

Each of the carriages has 10 larger windows each for a compartment that sits six passengers. Additional people may stand or sit in the aisle. At least four carriages were destroyed. If the train has been reasonably full it carried more than 300 passengers. 22 killed is thereby a quite low estimate. In reality there were probably several hundreds casualties.

Here is what the Russian military now says:

An Iskander missile has hit a military train at Chaplino railway station in Dnepropetrovsk Region, destroying over 200 AFU servicemen reserve and 10 units of military equipment on their way to Donbass war zone.
That estimate of casualties of the attack on the Armed Forces of Ukraine sounds more reasonable to me.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1514658&viewfull=1#post1514658

In reference to MoA’s article above, the train was destroyed at Chaplyne station…

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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1563106781835825152
1563106781835825152The Russians would be forgiven for shutting down the whole power station and decommissioning it. That's a complex process and takes time and expertise, but the Russians know exactly how to do that safely.

Given that Ukraine has now cut off its OWN power from there, even though the Russians were keeping it on, I'd imagine the total controlled shutdown of the power station is something being discussed in Moscow right now.

[Vicus]

Kiev was gearing up for military conflict since 2019 – security chief

Ukraine’s ex-president Poroshenko also previously admitted that accepting ceasefire with rebels had been done in bad faith

A top Ukrainian security official has said that Kiev had been gearing up for hostilities with Russia since as early as December 2019. The Russian military had earlier reported uncovering classified Ukrainian documents indicating a planned offensive against Donbass rebels.

The revelation about Kiev’s military preparation was made by Aleksey Danilov, who chairs Ukraine’s national security council, in an interview with the Polish daily Wyborcza on Tuesday.

“We were actually preparing for the war from December 2019, and all the claims that we were not dealing with it are absolutely out of touch with reality,” he was quoted as saying. “If we did not prepare for war, today Russian tanks would be in Warsaw, Prague, Tallinn and Vilnius.”

Danilov was apparently deflecting criticism directed at President Vladimir Zelensky. The Ukrainian leader admitted in an interview with The Washington Post last week that he’d intentionally downplayed US warnings about a possible Russian attack to prevent a mass exodus of Ukrainians. The newspaper called the admission the first serious messaging failure by Zelensky due to a furious domestic backlash he faced. In the interview, the security chief stood by the president’s decision, calling it correct in the long run.

When Russia justified its late February attack against Ukraine, it cited the threat that Ukrainian forces posed to rebel militias and civilians in Donbass. In March, the Russian Defense Ministry published what it claimed to be classified Ukrainian documents proving that a Ukrainian operation in the east was in the pipeline. The Russian military assessed that Kiev would have launched an offensive in Donbass sometime in March, were it not for the Russian intervention.

Moscow recognized the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as sovereign states days before sending troops into Ukraine. Russia demanded a withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the lands claimed by the two republics, which Kiev rejected.

Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24, citing Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk agreements, designed to give the two regions 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.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/561520-danilov-ukraine-preparation-war/

[Vicus]

Not even Pope Francis is safe from Kiev's wrath: Holy Father is latest subject of Ukraine’s fiery judgment
The pontiff incurred Kiev’s wrath once again, for calling a Russian journalist killed in a terrorist attack ‘innocent’

After mentioning the death of Darya Dugina, a young Russian journalist and political activist, Pope Francis has faced the anger of Kiev, which apparently thinks it has the monopoly on “innocence.”

For the past six months, Kiev has lashed out at various government leaders and international organizations, like Amnesty International, for example, which reported on Ukraine’s violations of international law on the battlefield. So it was just a matter of time before the Catholic Church got an earful, too. And that’s what happened this week when Pope Francis, addressing a congregation in the Vatican, mentionegd the death of Darya Dugina, whose life was cut tragically short by a car bombing.

Yet, like a true politician, Ukraine’s Vatican ambassador Andrey Yurash politicized the Pope’s words, saying it was impossible to call Dugina “innocent” when she – together with her prominent father, the political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin – advocated on behalf of Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine.

There are several problems with Yurash’s peculiar brand of moralizing, the first one being that he, much like the Western world in general, conveniently fast-forwarded past eight years of bloodshed in Donbass that has caused millions of people – not just “political ideologues” – to support Russia’s intervention in eastern Ukraine in the first place. I’m not sure what Mr. Yurash was tweeting about in 2014, but somehow I doubt it had anything to do with the unprovoked attacks on Russian speakers in Donbass that have killed thousands.

Second, it was telling how the Pope’s use of the word “innocent” when applied to Darya Dugina triggered such a powerful response from someone who calls himself a diplomat. What’s more, in his tweet, Yurash went on to apparently insinuate that it was the Russians themselves that killed her in order to make her a martyr.

In any case, perhaps the diplomat’s response was to be expected since, as the anti-Russian narrative goes, there are no ‘innocent Russians’ to be found on the planet. They are simply extinct, and in fact may have never existed in the first place. Simply being Russian means guilt through association, that is, association with oneself. Just ask Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas who, in an effort to spare the European continent from those treacherous Russian tourists, is calling for a full visa ban to mitigate the “security threat.”

In fact, all things considered, it was akin to a miracle to hear Pope Francis, the main religious leader of the Western world, not only mention Dugina’s assassination, but to go so far as to call a Russian citizen “innocent.”

In June, Pope Francis challenged the Western narrative that says Russia is to blame for the hostilities in Ukraine, full stop. He did this by alluding to a conversation he had with a “very wise man” who he declined to name. This person told him: “They [NATO] are barking at the gates of Russia. They don’t understand that the Russians … can’t have any foreign power getting close to them.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/561566-pope-killing-russian-journalist/

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

"With the weapons they're equipped and designed to carry, they could do just about anything in Ukraine and after they'd done their job there'd be very little left on the ground at all."

Including, i assume, women, children and all those who are not "Nazis?"I was describing their capability.

As Alexander Mercouris often says, the Kremlin doesn't share Russia's military plans with me.

Apparently not.Do please explain what you meant by that. :) I can see it was sarcastic, but the intent was lost on me... could you maybe say a little more?

[...aside, in case it's helpful...]
If you'd like to discuss the morality or otherwise of war (and everything that often accompanies it), there's this thread, where there's a very intelligent, interesting and fast-moving discussion in progress. Maybe you might like to post some thoughts there?


Is War Ever Necessary or Justified? (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified)

I've made one post on that thread, which was this one (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?119327-Is-War-Ever-Necessary-or-Justified&p=1513908&viewfull=1#post1513908). I felt I offered a few reasonable thoughts.Forgive me... I was being very dumb. (I've had a long day, and I genuinely didn't understand your reply. I knew it was sarcastic, but I don't speak sarcasm, and so I'm not always that good at translating it.)

Now I realize, nearly two hours later (how slow am I? :facepalm: ), that what you really meant was:


The Kremlin's military plans (which it doesn't share with Bill Ryan) include bombing women, children and all those who are not "Nazis".
Bill Ryan is too stupid, or blind [or something] to realize this truth, even after 6 full months of the SMO.

How did I do?

I have an update, which might clear up the confusion. It seems you were somehow mixing up Russia with Ukraine.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has now indeed shared his strategy with me. This is what he told me:

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"We strictly comply with humanitarian law during the special operation. Attacks are carried out with high-precision weapons on the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ military infrastructure facilities, including command points, airfields, depots, fortified areas and defense industry sites. At the same time, every effort is being done to prevent civilian casualties. It certainly slows down the advance but we do it consciously,

"Russian troops are engaged in systematic work to restore peaceful life in the liberated areas. We are providing humanitarian aid to locals, restoring infrastructure facilities and life support systems.

The Ukrainian armed forces employ scorched earth tactics, blatantly violating international law and acting like terrorists. They establish firing positions in residential buildings, schools, hospitals and kindergartens, deploying tanks and artillery there and using civilians as human shields. They deliberately shell settlements and drop Lepestok anti-personnel landmines with a clear goal to cause as much damage as possible to civilians and civilian infrastructure facilities."
~~~

(It also appears he said pretty much exactly the same thing (https://tass.com/politics/1497555) at a meeting of defense executives from Shanghai Cooperation Organization a couple of days ago)

:P:ROFL:

[Tintin]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1563236633423409158
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1563255131637829633
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Zaporozhie NPP disconnected from Ukraine grid. 20% of electric supply lost

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/NadiaInBC/status/1563262258637328384
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https://twitter.com/EspiritV1/status/1563255525072314368
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https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassyC/status/1563191089246265344
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https://twitter.com/RusEmbUSA/status/1562992789201498113
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Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States:

🔹The State Department continues to disseminate speculation about the “filtration camps” allegedly set up by us in the DPR, as well as the involvement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the destruction of educational, medical institutions and cultural facilities in the LPR.
🔹This is another fake aimed at discrediting the Russian special military operation.
🔹Russia is committed to observing the norms of International Humanitarian Law. Respectfully treats the civilian population and does not strike at civilian infrastructure. Our country supplies Ukrainian refugees with places for temporary accommodation, delivers humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories (more than 45 tons have been delivered only in August).
🔹We have been restoring social facilities that were destroyed as a result of the savage actions of the Kiev regime. The Armed Forces of Ukraine regularly use kindergartens, schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals to deploy their forces and materiel. Even Amnesty International, the well-known NGO, which cannot be suspected of pro-Russian views, acknowledged that fact.
🔹We remind you that back in 2014, representatives of Kiev announced to implement “special measures” against residents of the South-East of Ukraine which were aimed at identifying persons who, as stated, “could be associated with separatists.” Acting Minister of Defense of Ukraine Koval boasted: his department had a “base which was powerful enough” to subject even women and children who decided to leave the combat zone to filtration.
❗️In other words, it was about purging everyone whom the Ukrainian special services would suspect of disloyalty to the neo-Nazis who had settled in Kiev. Since then, the actions of the Ukrainian authorities have become more and more brutal. The United States chose to take no notice of that for eight years. Even now, they don't see it from point-blank range.

[Mashika]

The western mental illness in full display, and in all its glory :)

https://t.me/levigodman/4766
levigodman/4766

You could argue that this person is purposedly twisting reality to attack Russia and it only says to me that someone who is willing to do that to this level, despite knowing she's lying and knowing the full facts, is nothing but a mentally ill person

So:

1. This person fully believes that taking orphan Ukrainian kids out of a war zone, giving them homes, taking care of them and giving them a good not nazi leaning and bandera brainwashing education is "genocide"
2. This person knows fully well that those kids are being helped, but lies and steps as low as possible to twist facts and reality just so she can hurt Russia's image around the world

Both cases just say "She's a very mentally ill person". I just don't see how it can be otherwise

And all western politicians and journalists who support this madness are equally mentally ill at this point. Just like when they lie about Russia shelling the very same nuclear power plant they also complain Russia is occupying :)

Perhaps she's triggered by the "Free" part of the education system, she can't deal with the fact that there's no half a million loan required to get educated around here? Otherwise it is a bit odd she focused on the "free of charge" part like that :P

I wish this was sarcasm, but i have seen other people also complain that taking Ukrainians from Donbass as refugees on the Russian side is genocide somehow, this was even mentioned at some point at the UN some months ago :facepalm:

[Ravenlocke]

The western mental illness in full display, and in all its glory :)

https://t.me/levigodman/4766
levigodman/4766

You could argue that this person is purposedly twisting reality to attack Russia and it only says to me that someone who is willing to do that to this level, despite knowing she's lying and knowing the full facts, is nothing but a mentally ill person

So:

1. This person fully believes that taking orphan Ukrainian kids out of a war zone, giving them homes, taking care of them and giving them a good not nazi leaning and bandera brainwashing education is "genocide"
2. This person knows fully well that those kids are being helped, but lies and steps as low as possible to twist facts and reality just so she can hurt Russia's image around the world

Both cases just say "She's a very mentally ill person". I just don't see how it can be otherwise

And all western politicians and journalists who support this madness are equally mentally ill at this point. Just like when they lie about Russia shelling the very same nuclear power plant they also complain Russia is occupying :)

Perhaps she's triggered by the "Free" part of the education system, she can't deal with the fact that there's no half a million loan required to get educated around here? Otherwise it is a bit odd she focused on the "free of charge" part like that :P

I wish this was sarcasm, but i have seen other people also complain that taking Ukrainians from Donbass as refugees on the Russian side is genocide somehow, this was even mentioned at some point at the UN some months ago :facepalm:

This transgender guy is the one that I remember is running as a reporter with the AFU and called on having Gonzalo Lira and I think Eva Bartlett on kill list for criticizing the AFU. It was at the time when Gonzalo went missing. I don’t trust anything from him, he’s a disinformant.
I remember even Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone) had a run in with this guy on Twitter, and exposed him but since it’s months ago it’s forgotten.

[Tintin]

The western mental illness in full display, and in all its glory :)

https://t.me/levigodman/4766
levigodman/4766

You could argue that this person is purposedly twisting reality to attack Russia and it only says to me that someone who is willing to do that to this level, despite knowing she's lying and knowing the full facts, is nothing but a mentally ill person

So:

1. This person fully believes that taking orphan Ukrainian kids out of a war zone, giving them homes, taking care of them and giving them a good not nazi leaning and bandera brainwashing education is "genocide"
2. This person knows fully well that those kids are being helped, but lies and steps as low as possible to twist facts and reality just so she can hurt Russia's image around the world

Both cases just say "She's a very mentally ill person". I just don't see how it can be otherwise

And all western politicians and journalists who support this madness are equally mentally ill at this point. Just like when they lie about Russia shelling the very same nuclear power plant they also complain Russia is occupying :)

Perhaps she's triggered by the "Free" part of the education system, she can't deal with the fact that there's no half a million loan required to get educated around here? Otherwise it is a bit odd she focused on the "free of charge" part like that :P

I wish this was sarcasm, but i have seen other people also complain that taking Ukrainians from Donbass as refugees on the Russian side is genocide somehow, this was even mentioned at some point at the UN some months ago :facepalm:

Colonel Douglas Macgregor recently said in an interview with Judge Napolitano that the western public were being fed, and I quote: "a deluge of fiction."

He got that right.

For anyone seeing the name Sarah Ashton-Cirillo please do be aware that this individual is a former male linked to the western disinformation machine with I think prior military links.

In any case, they're - or IT is - completely nuts.

I'm not going to embed this excruciating example of its idiocy - it's way too embarrassing - but a link to the mindset of this entity can be endured, for example, here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Jqf3O9q2GpBe/

[Jamie]

Not sure if the following December 2021 TASS article was posted here previously. At any rate, in view of the recent report of botulinum poisoning of Russian troops in the Donbas area, it deserves a closer look.
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UKRAINE CRISIS 22 DEC 2021, 07:26

US brings botulinum toxin to Ukraine — Donetsk Republic

According to deputy chief of the People’s Militia Directorate Eduard Basurin, a 300-kilogram container of this warfare agent, used as a spray, was brought to Mariupol and then moved to the Kharkov region
MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic has evidence that a batch of botulinum toxin (a highly toxic substance causing paralysis) and its antidote has been delivered to Ukraine from the United States, the deputy chief of the People’s Militia Directorate, Eduard Basurin, said on the Rossiya-1 television channel in an interview on Wednesday.

"It is common knowledge that the United States has brought different types of weapons to Ukraine," he said adding that a batch of an antidote for botulinum toxin was delivered in October. Basurin recalled that botulinum toxin was a chemical warfare agent.

"The chemical substance proper was supplied in November," he added. "A 300-kilogram container of this warfare agent, used as a spray, was brought to Mariupol. The poisonous substance was then moved to the Kharkov region."

Basurin confirmed the presence of US military instructors on the engagement line.

"Their task is to make fire emplacements. They obey only certain people. They do not have a common command on the Ukrainian side," he said.

On December 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that the presence of more than 120 members of private US military companies had been identified in the villages of Avdeyevka and Priazovskoye. He stressed that containers with unknown chemical compounds had been delivered to the village of Avdeyevka and Krasny Liman for staging provocations. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolayenko has denied the presence of private military instructors from the US or toxic chemicals in the Kiev-controlled part of Donbass.

https://tass.com/world/1379319


It's horrendous to think that this could be used in the form of a weapon, that would be pure evil.

Sadly I can't help myself, but all my mind is thinking is that this is simply Zelensky's & his cabinet followers private supply of Botox treatment... after all, given how often they're on TV promoting their 'poor us' propaganda to the gullible Western media, they need to keep up there beauty treatments. :rolleyes:

[ExomatrixTV]

Combined Arms ... A Look At Russian Air Ops in the Donbas (https://sonar21.com/combined-arms-a-look-at-russian-air-ops-in-the-donbas/)



dutch (https://www.frontnieuws.com/gecombineerde-wapens-een-blik-op-russische-luchtoperaties-in-de-donbas) 🇳🇱 (+ Multi-Language Options). 🦜🦋🌳

[Bill Ryan]

There's not a single politician in Europe (with the probable exception of Viktor Orbán) who's anything other than any or all of


A globalist puppet
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Dishonest
Extremely dangerous.



I'm with you 98½% on that one Bill. I would add one other name to the list: Aleksandar Vučić (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Vu%C4%8Di%C4%87), President of Serbia. He remains on good terms with Russia and has not allowed Serbia to get caught up in the sanctions business. Also, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has avoided the sanctions situation.:thumbsup:

And (as of yesterday) maybe the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman.

https://praguemorning.cz/the-crucial-cause-behind-energy-crisis-is-green-fanaticism-says-czech-president

The Crucial Cause Behind Energy Crisis is ‘Green Fanaticism,’ Says Czech President

[ExomatrixTV]

The Uncomfortable Truth About Zelensky | ft. Scott Ritter:

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full interview: youtu.be/J4rhvCv5_hc (https://youtu.be/J4rhvCv5_hc)

[Ravenlocke]

EU calls "urgent meeting" to address "energy crisis." They're losing/hurting, will call PUTIN soon.

Emil Cosman in this short video gives an astute analysis with an unrivaled touch of humor, on an otherwise grim issue facing the world of today. Winter is coming, the consequences of the EU sanctions against Russia…were supposed to stifle Russia and backfired.

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1563602594949484544
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The Duran also a short video regarding same topic as above, the sinking EU economies and the energy crisis facing EU and the Balkan states.
They all went along with the sanctions in March now winter is coming…

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1563599686044471296
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[Mike Gorman]

There's not a single politician in Europe (with the probable exception of Viktor Orbán) who's anything other than any or all of


A globalist puppet
Incompetent
Irresponsible
Dishonest
Extremely dangerous.



I'm with you 98½% on that one Bill. I would add one other name to the list: Aleksandar Vučić (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Vu%C4%8Di%C4%87), President of Serbia. He remains on good terms with Russia and has not allowed Serbia to get caught up in the sanctions business. Also, the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has avoided the sanctions situation.:thumbsup:

And (as of yesterday) maybe the President of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman.

https://praguemorning.cz/the-crucial-cause-behind-energy-crisis-is-green-fanaticism-says-czech-president

The Crucial Cause Behind Energy Crisis is ‘Green Fanaticism,’ Says Czech President

This is the template for the rest of the western world, the billionaire green club is based on outright lies and nonsensical computer modeling driven by rubbish data - lies, damned lies & statistics, as Mashika so eloquently repeats the level of lying in this event is just mind boggling, we are confronted by bad actors and bad faith at every stage.

[Tintin]

As the Telegram text commentator pointed out as I was viewing this: "Guess he won't be invited back then."

:muscle:

Rabbi Michael Finkel on Ukrainian TV, date unknown

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/Nazi_groups_in_Ukraine/Israeli_Rabbi_Michael_Finkel_on_Ukrainian_TV_August_2022.mp4

[Mashika]

Rumor has it that the Ukros are turning into mole people, they live on trenches and rarely go out, digging down deeper and deeper day and night :P

This is the very definition of getting pounded

https://t.me/swodki/154230
swodki/154230


Shooting from first person point of view. An epic video of Russian artillery covering a dugout with Ukrainian servicemen in the SMO zone.

[Ravenlocke]

Not confirmed but reported except most likely fake news

https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1563873820414443521
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https://twitter.com/runews/status/1563871273012412422
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[Tintin]

I don't remember seeing this posted here on this thread, and although quite a lot of the ground has already been discussed in quite some detail before is further emphasised here with the combined intellectual clout of both Alexander Mercouris and Scott Ritter in conversation with Norwegian Professor Glenn Diesen.

Every utterance in just under 2 hours I simply can't repudiate, at all.

It's beyond excellent and has an energy that I'd say surpasses previous examples of these conversations that we've listened to here before.

Amongst other salient observations are these I share with Alexander: that our country (UK) position regarding Ukraine has been an embarrassment and one that invokes a sense of shame. I'd go as far as to say that it's been nothing short of xenophobic flim flam - our politicians an international disgrace.

Scott, and he isn't the only commentator to have almost pleaded for it, is as desperate as all of us might be for mature voices to prevail and a diplomatic platform to be encouraged and built prospectively in dealings with Russia npt the least of which involves the security infrastructure that Europe should now seek to adopt in concert with Russia's very reasonable demands made, and typically ignored, back in December of 2021.

There are more takeaways but this might be a good summary:

Ukraine lost the war in May and Russia has succeeded in demilitarising NATO as a result of the economic blowback on the 'west' (inc. NATO) and its (the west's) inability to provide for ammunition losses or be able to sustain any kind of conflict now due to its vastly depleted industrial base.

Scott's anecdotes are too, as always, very illuminating.

Recorded August 19th.

Discussing Ukraine. Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter and Alexander Mercouris

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https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1564040773829799936
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https://sputniknews.com/20220828/shelling-of-energodar-by-ukrainian-troops-leaves-nine-injured---local-administration-1100096267.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


Shelling of Energodar by Ukrainian Troops Leaves Nine Injured - Local Administration

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The shelling of the city of Energodar in the Zaporozhye region has left nine people injured, two of whom are in serious condition, the head of the regional military-civil administration Yevgeny Balitsky said.


On Sunday, the city authorities said that four artillery strikes had been carried out by Ukrainian troops, targeting Energodar's residential district. Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the regional military-civil administration, said on Telegram after the strikes that seven people were injured in the shelling.
"Today, at about 22.00 [19:00 GMT on Sunday], artillery strikes were inflicted on the residential area of ​​the fifth microdistrict of Energodar by Ukrainian armed formations. …At the moment, nine victims, two of whom are in serious condition, are in intensive care: the man has a complex leg injury, the woman has a chest injury, pneumothorax [collapsed lung]. Doctors are fighting for their lives," Balitsky said on Telegram.
He specified that Ukrainian troops had made three targeted hits on residential buildings and there is a kindergarten in one of the buildings’ courtyards.
Balitsky said that about 40 parked cars were damaged by shrapnel, 25 got burned down, and window frames and windows were broken in many apartments.

According to the head of the regional military-civil administration, work of special commissions for assessing and eliminating the consequences of the Ukrainian troops’ shelling has begun and Zaporozhye authorities will provide assistance and support to all those affected.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (ZNPP) had been shelled again by Ukrainian troops. Three shells fell in the area of a special building of the ZNPP, which stores new TVEL nuclear fuel and solid radioactive waste. One shell fell next to the ZNPP's sixth power unit, and five others landed opposite a pumping station, which provides cooling for one of the reactors.

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[9ideon]

What's up with the reports on that Ukrainian Offensive near Kherson supposed to have started couple hours ago?

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564239047010254849
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564228492346146816
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https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564240947982094336
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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561699-un-iaea-mission-nuclear-zaporozhye/

Timeline for UN mission to Zaporozhye nuclear plant revealed


The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has formed a delegation that will visit Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine as early as this week, the watchdog’s chief, Rafael Grossi, announced on Monday. The plant has been under Russian control since March and has been repeatedly shelled by Ukrainian forces.

“The day has come, IAEA’s Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporozhye (ISAMZ) is now on its way. We must protect the safety and security of Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest nuclear facility,” he wrote on Twitter, adding that he is “proud to lead this mission,” which is set to arrive at the site later this week.

Earlier, Grossi said the goal of the mission is to see what exactly is happening at the plant, assess its integrity, speak to both Russian and Ukrainian staff, and establish a permanent presence on the ground.

UN assembles team for Zaporozhye nuclear plant – NYT
UN assembles team for Zaporozhye nuclear plant – NYT
On Saturday, the New York Times reported that the IAEA delegation consists of independent experts from “mostly neutral countries,” and neither the US nor the UK have any representatives on the team due to their strong support for Kiev.

On Sunday night, Ukrainian forces shelled Energodar, the city where the plant is located, the local authorities said. According to Evgeny Balitsky, the head of the pro-Russian military-civilian administration, three residential houses were deliberately hit by artillery fire, injuring nine people, with two sustaining heavy wounds.

The city authorities also claimed that the attack was meant to torpedo the IAEA mission. “This provocation by Kiev-controlled militants is aimed at derailing the visit of the IAEA chief to the Zaporozhye NPP,” they said.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of attacking the nuclear plant and Energodar, while warning that the shelling could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the 1986 Chernobyl incident. Kiev insists that Russian forces are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.


https://www.rt.com/russia/561742-ukraine-nuclear-power-plant-hit/

Kiev shelling damages roof of nuclear reactor fuel storage – official

A Ukrainian strike has hit a reactor fuel storage at the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, local authorities said on Monday.

The roof of the building has been damaged as a result of the attack, Vladimir Rogov, the spokesman for Zaporozhye Region’s administration, said on Telegram.

He also posted a photo of a hole in the roof that was supposedly caused by the strike.

The affected storage facility holds fresh nuclear fuel for the reactors of the plant, which is the largest in Europe.

Russia said earlier that a Ukrainian drone targeting the nuclear facility had been shot down.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Kiev's forces of targeting the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant – which has been under Russian control since March, but operated by Ukrainian staff – with artillery and ‘kamikaze’ drones.

Moscow urges ‘all nations’ to pressure Kiev over nuclear site
Moscow urges ‘all nations’ to pressure Kiev over nuclear site
It warned that those attacks could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the 1986 Chernobyl incident. Radioactive material could potentially reach Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Belarus, and even Germany in a worst-case scenario.

Ukraine, meanwhile, has claimed that the Russian forces have turned the nuclear plant into a military base and that they’ve been shelling the facility themselves to pin the blame on Kiev.

Russia has repeatedly denied those accusation and urged for international inspectors to visit the site to assess the situation for themselves.

Earlier on Monday, International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi announced that such a mission will take pace after all, with IAEA specialists expected to arrive at the Zaporozhye plant this week.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561707-dugina-murder-second-suspect/

Second suspect identified in Dugina assassination

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has identified a Ukrainian man, named Bogdan Tsiganenko, as an accomplice in the plot to murder Russian journalist and political activist Darya Dugina.

The daughter of the well-known philosopher and ‘Eurasia’ advocate Aleksandr Dugin, was killed in a Moscow car bombing earlier this month.

Tsiganenko allegedly helped the primary suspect, Natalya Vovk, obtain a fake Kazakhstani passport and assemble an improvised explosive device, which she later used in the crime, according to the statement.

The suspected 42-year-old bombmaker entered Russia from Estonia in late June and left a day before the bomb attack on August 20, the FSB said on Monday. The IED was made at a rented garage, the agency added. The FSB believes that the two acted together as members of a “Ukrainian sabotage-terrorist group.”

The agency released images and footage said to show Tsiganenko traveling with Vovk in her car, receiving falsified car plates for the vehicle, and entering and leaving Russia.

The statement also provided new details about the assassination itself. The FSB released footage showing Vovk surveilling Dugina at a parking lot of the family festival where she presumably planted the bomb. The Ukrainian woman followed her target in her car and set off the explosion, which killed Dugina on the spot, according to the FSB.

READ MORE: Dugin names target of attack that killed his daughter
Dugina was a vocal critic of the government in Kiev and a supporter of Russia’s military action in Ukraine. She was also the daughter of controversial philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, who Western media has long described as a secret influencer of Russian foreign policy.

After Vovk was identified as the primary suspect in the case, Russia accused Ukraine of masterminding the assassination. Kiev has denied any involvement.

Vovk managed to leave Russia after killing Dugina, crossing into Estonia, according to the FSB.

[Kryztian]

Shell CEO Warns Energy Crisis May Last More Than One Winter


Van Beurden stresses need for efficiency savings, rationing
European Union looking at steps to bring down power prices

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/shell-ceo-warns-energy-crisis-may-last-more-than-one-winter

By Stephen Treloar
August 29, 2022 at 9:33 AM EDT

European oil major Shell Plc cautioned that Europe may have to brace for a string of winters with exorbitant power bills and electricity rationing as Russia squeezes gas supplies.

“It may well be that we have a number of winters where we have to somehow find solutions through efficiency savings, through rationing and as a very, very quick build out of alternatives,” Chief Executive Officer Ben Van Beurden told reporters at a conference in Stavanger, Norway. “That this is going to be somehow easy or over, I think is a fantasy we should put aside -- we should confront the reality.”

Europe is facing an energy crisis as Russia curbs gas flows following its invasion of Ukraine. That’s fueling a sixfold increase in prices from a year ago. While German gas stores are filling up faster than expected, the country risks not being able to go through the winter if Moscow halts flows to the region’s largest economy.

The European Union said it’s planning urgent steps to push down soaring power prices that are laying bare the limitations of the current electricity market design. Governments across the region have already set aside some 280 billion euros ($278 billion) in relief packages.

Last month, Shell’s CEO said energy markets are likely to remain tight, with supply to be constrained and prices volatile “not only for the remainder of this year but well into next year.”

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561731-novaya-kakhovka-ukraine-attacks/

Civilians evacuated to shelters as Ukraine attacks Russian-held town

The Russian-controlled city of Novaya Kakhovka in Ukraine’s Kherson Region is evacuating civilians due to constant artillery attacks by Kiev’s forces, the local administration reported on Monday.

“Over 24 hours, there were some ten rocket salvos, each including six or eight or more rockets. Many civilian objects were damaged by them,” including a city market and a driving school in the city center, the Kakhovka district’s head, Vladimir Leontyev, told the media.

He said Ukraine was using US-provided HIMARS rocket launchers to harass the city, which is located on the left bank of the Dnepr River and hosts a hydroelectric power plant. Ukrainian forces are stationed on the opposite side of the river.

A Ukrainian military spokesperson claimed on Monday that Kiev’s forces have launched an offensive in the south of the country, which includes Kherson Region, where Novaya Kakhovka is located.

Natalya Gumenyuk, who spoke on national TV on behalf of Ukraine’s southern command, declined to offer any details about the purported operation, only claiming that Kiev’s forces breached the “first line of defense” of the Russian forces.

Zelensky aide explains Ukraine's ‘information warfare’
Zelensky aide explains Ukraine's ‘information warfare’
Ukrainian officials have for months teased a looming offensive to retake the city of Kherson and push Russian forces back from Kherson Region. But earlier this month, Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, explained that these types of promises should be considered part of information warfare against Russia.

“Certainly, all public comments are part of information warfare. We need to demoralize the Russian army,” he told the BBC in an interview.

Sergey Aksyonov, the head of Russia’s Crimean Republic, which borders Kherson Region, dismissed Gumenyuk’s words as “fake news, like the previous ones.” He suggested that the claim was made for Kiev’s “Western masters who need to be shown action.” In reality, Ukraine’s forces are suffering significant losses on the southern front, Aksyonov claimed.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/561758-ukraine-counter-offensive-fails/

Ukraine’s attempt at counter-offensive has failed – Russia

Ukraine’s much-heralded “counter-offensive” in Kherson has “failed miserably,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday, listing the losses suffered by Kiev at the end of the day. Ukrainian forces attempted to attack in three directions on orders of President Vladimir Zelensky but made no gains, Moscow said.

Russian troops caused “great losses” to the Ukrainian attackers during the day’s battles, including 26 tanks, 23 armored fighting vehicles, nine more armored vehicles, two SU-25 ground-attack jets and more than 560 troops, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday evening.

The enemy's another attempt at offensive actions has failed miserably.

Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian outlet Suspilne quoted Southern Command spokesperson Natalia Humeniuk as saying that “offensive actions in various directions” had begun, “including in the Kherson region.” She offered no details, however, saying only that “any military operation needs silence.”

By Monday evening, however, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine mentioned only a Russian attack near the village of Potemkino.

Zelensky made many mistakes – Ukrainian mayor READ MORE: Zelensky made many mistakes – Ukrainian mayor
Kiev has been talking about a “Kherson counteroffensive” all summer, while soliciting more weapons and ammunition from its Western backers. In a video address to the people on Sunday, Zelensky vowed that “Ukraine will return” to Donbass – as well as Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kherson and “definitely to Crimea.”

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/561735-iaea-zaporozhye-nuclear-plant-ukraine/

Exact dates for IAEA mission to 'targeted' nuclear site named – WSJ

Experts from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will examine the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant between August 31 and September 3, in an effort to assess the situation at the site amid fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

“The inspection will begin on Wednesday and last until Saturday,” the WSJ reported, citing an internal Ukrainian government document.

According to Morgan Libby, a former IAEA official, the agency’s mission may end up being the most important since the 1986 Chernobyl incident. “Everything else pales in comparison,” he told the paper.

On Monday, Rafael Grossi, the watchdog’s chief, announced that the agency had formed an expert group to visit the NPP, which has been under Russian control since March but is largely still operated by Ukrainian personnel.

“The day has come, IAEA’s Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporozhye (ISAMZ) is now on its way. We must protect the safety and security of Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest nuclear facility,” he wrote on Twitter.

Kiev shelling damages roof of nuclear reactor fuel storage – official
Kiev shelling damages roof of nuclear reactor fuel storage – official
Grossi said the delegation would assess the damage sustained, check safety and security systems and speak to both Russian and Ukrainian staff on the ground. A New York Times report released on Saturday said that the IAEA’s team consists of 14 experts from “mostly neutral countries.” Neither the US nor Britain will reportedly have any representatives in the group given that Russia had dismissed those countries as “unfairly biased” over their support for the government in Kiev.

Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of attacking the nuclear plant, while warning that the shelling could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the Chernobyl incident. However, Kiev insists that it is Russian forces who are shelling the site while stationing military hardware there.

On Sunday, Kiev shelled Energodar, the city where the plant is located, injuring nine people and hitting three residential houses with artillery fire, local authorities said, claiming that “the provocation” was aimed at “derailing the visit of the IAEA chief to the Zaporozhye NPP.”

In early August, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that “targeting of the territory of the nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian armed forces is potentially extremely dangerous activity,” which may lead to catastrophic consequences.

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[9ideon]

Extra Update on the counteroffensive by Ukraine.

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[Bill Ryan]

A fabulous piece by M.K. Bhadrakumar on Indian Punchline, published on 27 August.

He stresses how increasingly few nations in the world are supporting the west's belligerent stance on Russia, the support for Ukraine among European citizens is waning (as they themselves begin to suffer), and how Zelensky himself is becoming isolated and (maybe justifiably) paranoid.

For those with no time to read the whole article, here's a delicious paragraph: :)
Zelensky’s teflon coating is peeling off. His drug addiction is out in public view. The regime is shaky, as the wave of purges in the Ukrainian security establishment shows. According to Turkish President Recep Erdogan who met Zelensky in Lvov recently, the latter sounded insecure and unsure whether he is being fully kept informed of the ground situation.

https://indianpunchline.com/ground-beneath-zelenskys-feet-is-shifting

Ground beneath Zelensky’s feet is shifting

Reading and rereading the US President Joe Biden’s statement (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/24/statement-from-president-biden-on-ukraine-independence-day/) last Monday on Ukraine Independence Day, one is reminded of English poet John Keats’ immortal line, ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.’ Three things are striking.

Biden repeatedly invoked the abiding nature of the US’ relationship with the Ukrainian people. But in the entire statement, he never once mentioned the Ukrainian government or the leadership of President Volodymyr Zelensky. A careless omission?

Second, Biden underplayed to the point of ignoring the intense US-Ukraine partnership at state-to-state level. The regime in Kiev is unthinkable without robust US support. Third, most important, Biden was silent on the war as such, which is at a decisive stage at present.

As recently as on August 18, twenty prominent American national security professionals urged the Biden administration (https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3605064-us-must-arm-ukraine-now-before-its-too-late/) to “to produce a satisfactory strategic narrative which enables governments to maintain public support for the NATO engagement over the long term… (and) move more quickly and strategically, in meeting Ukrainian requests for weapons systems.”

But Biden neatly sidestepped all that. Even when he spoke of the latest tranche of arms for Ukraine worth $2.98 billion, Biden expressed the hope that the weapon systems may ensure that Ukraine “can continue to defend itself over the long term.” (Emphasis added.)

American analysts estimate that the $2.98 billion weapons package is radically different in its dispensation mechanism. Thus, while military aid hitherto was drawn from pre-existing stockpiles of US weaponry and equipment, this time around, the aid package will be purchased or ordered from defence contractors.

John Kirby, the spokesman for the National Security Council, admitted to reporters that some of the aid in the latest package could be dispensed more slowly than other parts of the package depending on defence contractors’ current stocks. He vaguely said, “It’s going to depend, quite frankly, on the item that we’re talking about. Some stuff probably will still need some production time to develop.”

In effect, the military-industrial complex may have more to celebrate in Biden’s announcement than Zelensky. The Biden administration is moving away from depleting US current stockpiles, as European allies are also doing.

According to Mark Cancian (https://www.csis.org/analysis/latest-aid-packages-ukraine-new-systems-trade-offs-mysteries-and-long-game), Senior Adviser, International Security Program at the CSIS, Biden’s latest $2.98 billion package “will sustain the Ukrainian military over the long term but take months or even years to implement fully… Thus, this (package) will sustain the Ukrainian military over the long term, likely postwar, rather than increase its capabilities in the near or medium term…

“This means that the U.S. ability to provide equipment rapidly may be diminishing… The administration may need to ask Congress for more money soon. Although the bipartisan consensus for supporting Ukraine remains strong, there may be a fight with the progressive left and isolationist right about the wisdom of sending money abroad when there are pressing needs at home.”

This is almost the same dilemmas that the US’ European allies are facing. The prestigious German think tank, Kiel Institute for the World Economy reported last week (https://www.ifw-kiel.de/publications/media-information/2022/ukraine-support-tracker-newly-committed-aid-for-ukraine-drops-to-almost-zero/): “The flow of new international support for Ukraine has dried up in July. No large EU country like Germany, France, or Italy, has made significant new pledges.”

It said the EU commission is pushing for larger and more regular aid packages to Ukraine, but the enthusiasm is lacking at the member country level — “Major EU countries such as France, Spain, or Italy have so far provided very little support or remain very opaque about their aid.”

Waning domestic support is the main factor. Even in Poland, there is “refugee fatigue”. The inflation is the all-consuming concern in the public opinion. The German magazine Spiegel has reported (https://www.rt.com/news/561602-scholz-party-internal-opposition-ukraine/) that Chancellor Olaf Scholz is facing dissent within his own party ranks from those who want Berlin to stop providing Kiev with weapons and instead want the chancellor to engage in dialogue with Russia.

On Thursday, Chancellor Scholz made a significant remark (https://www.rt.com/news/561606-scholz-weapons-ukraine-biden/) at a public event in Magdeburg that Berlin will not provide Kiev with arms that could be used to attack Russia. Scholz explained that Berlin’s goal in sending weapons is to “support Ukraine” and “prevent an escalation of the war into something that would be very different.” He said he was echoing Biden’s thinking.

Indeed, while on the one hand, the United States continues to exert military pressure on Russia, hoping to break the resistance of its long-term strategic adversary, on the other hand, over the past two months, Washington has repeatedly signalled that it is not seeking victory, but a final solution to the Ukraine problem through peaceful negotiations.

As in Germany, there is a huge amount of anti-war pressure in the US too, especially among Democratic Party and the academic elite, as well as retired high-ranking officials and business executives, calling on the administration to stop heating up the situation around Ukraine. if the Democrats lose the midterm elections, or if the Republicans come to power in 2024, then the war could take a fundamentally different turn. Over time, similar changes are highly likely to occur in Europe too.

Already, the steady decline in the intensity of the impact of European and US sanctions against Russia speaks for itself. The Economist, which is a virulent critic of the Kremlin, admitted this week that the expected knockout blow from anti-Russia restrictions “has not materialised.” The magazine wrote: “Energy sales will generate a current-account surplus of $265 billion this year (for Russia), the world’s second-largest after China. After a crunch, Russia’s financial system has stabilised and the country is finding new suppliers for some imports, including China.”

On a sombre note, the Economist wrote, “The unipolar moment of the 1990s, when America’s supremacy was uncontested, is long gone, and the West’s appetite to use military force has waned since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Again, internationally, the support for Ukraine outside of the western bloc has dropped dramatically in the recent months. Kiev’s proposal on Wednesday to condemn Russia attracted the backing of just 58 out of 193 UN member states, whereas, at the March 2 UN GA session, 141 member countries had voted for a non-binding resolution to condemn Moscow.

Equally, Zelensky’s teflon coating is peeling off. His drug addiction is out in public view. The regime is shaky, as the wave of purges in the Ukrainian security establishment shows. According to Turkish President Recep Erdogan who met Zelensky in Lvov recently, the latter sounded insecure and unsure whether he is being fully kept informed of the ground situation.

Zelensky’s erratic behaviour is not exactly endearing him, either. Pope Francis is the latest figure to be chastised by Kiev — because the Pontiff remarked that Darya Dugina was “innocent.” The Vatican ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive Kiev’s protest.

The German daily Handelsblatt wrote today (https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/ukraine-krieg-selenskis-entzauberung-verschwieg-er-seinem-volk-die-wahrheit/28619264.html) that the “internal cohesion” of the Ukrainian government “is in danger. There are serious allegations against the president… At home, the Ukrainian president, who is celebrated abroad as a war hero, is under pressure… The comedian has become a warlord… The 44-year-old has so far been able to switch and act freely with his team, which is partly made up of colleagues from his television production company. But the grace period now seems to have expired.” The daily forecast an approaching political upheaval by winter.

Biden carefully distanced himself from the Kiev regime and focused on the people-to-people relations. Even if the Americans know the Byzantine corridors of power in Kiev, they cannot afford to be explicit like the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who predicted last week that the Ukrainian military may stage a coup (https://www.rt.com/russia/561532-medvedev-military-coup-kiev/) and enter into peace talks with Russia.

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Sometimes I think the Russians place way too much trust in western governments, even when they know it is foolish, perhaps they hope there are some good people among them, they don't understand how much they are feared and loathed, it is beyond their understanding because they are good people-that is how it strikes me anyway.

[Bill Ryan]

And here's an interesting statistic. (I know many Avalon readers are well aware how important this topic is, and will continue to be for a while. But everyday citizens, dependent on the mainstream media, are becoming increasingly more anxious about matters closer to home, including their very personal economic survival when their own governments are openly betraying them.)

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[Mashika]

This is interesting, from here i can speculate a bit, but this seems to confirm some stuff i heard before in the form of "The ukros are using the howitzers so much that they break them constantly"

Maybe it wasn't that they overused it, maybe it was something else with the guns?

If this is true, then we could assume at least one of

1. The west is sending faulty armament to Ukraine, very expensive faulty armament
2. The Ukros are misusing the armament, possibly because of bad, insufficient training?
3. Western armament is crap, and it has been exposed badly now, once used on a real war. There could be a conspiracy here, that the 'partners' who have bought those guns knew the limitations/faults and pretended not to, because they assumed no one would ever figure out (there will never be a real war in our lifetime), and there was money to be made in buying/selling that crap, this would be a multinational conspiracy to buy guns with tax payers money at very high prices, guns that don't work... :sherlock:


I get the feeling that it is option 1. Those guns sold to Ukraine are faulty, and the scheme works like this:

1. Get all the arms that did not pass the field tests and are defective, but were kept for training/parts
2. Give them a quick 'paint job', exchange any non working parts so that the guns work for a while without any issues
3. Pretend these are fully working, field and war ready guns
4. Sell them at a good price to Ukraine and pretend surprise when the guns break after a few weeks (because of course they will break, the 'paint job' also used 'cheap paint')
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Profit???

Looks like Ukraine has been badly scammed by the western 'partners', they unloaded all their faulty equipment into Ukraine and are now planning to buy actual functional equipment with the money they earned/will earn in the coming years, from this war :)

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[Bill Ryan]

This is interesting, from here i can speculate a bit, but this seems to confirm some stuff i heard before in the form of "The ukros are using the howitzers so much that they break them constantly"From what I've heard, one major problem with the M777s howitzers is simply that they aren't designed for continuous heavy use, like the Russian artillery systems.

They're not that strong, and are made to quite some extent of titanium. That's so they're as light as possible (therefore can easily be moved around by heli) and are really intended for "sniper"-type artillery use, i.e. precision shooting at specific targets on a "shoot-and-scoot" basis. (Meaning, fire a few rounds, then move to another location, then fire a few more rounds, rinse and repeat, etc.)

That's a whole bunch of words! But what it really adds up to is that when they're very heavily over-used, they just tend to break.

Russian equipment (of any kind!) tends to be strong, simple and sturdy. American equipment (of any kind!) tends to be over-engineered, complex, very dependent on spare parts and good maintenance, and the operators usually have to be very well-trained. There are a ton of examples of both... ranging from Lada cars to the F-35 fighter jet. :)

[Mashika]

This is interesting, from here i can speculate a bit, but this seems to confirm some stuff i heard before in the form of "The ukros are using the howitzers so much that they break them constantly"From what I've heard, one major problem with the M777s howitzers is simply that they aren't designed for continuous heavy use, like the Russian artillery systems.

They're not that strong, and are made to quite some extent of titanium. That's so they're as light as possible (therefore can easily be moved around by heli) and are really intended for "sniper"-type artillery use, i.e. precision shooting at specific targets on a "shoot-and-scoot" basis. (Meaning, fire a few rounds, then move to another location, then fire a few more rounds, rinse and repeat, etc.)

That's a whole bunch of words! But what it really adds up to is that when they're very heavily over-used, they just tend to break.

Russian equipment (of any kind!) tends to be strong, simple and sturdy. American equipment (of any kind!) tends to be over-engineered, complex, very dependent on spare parts and good maintenance, and the operators usually have to be very well-trained. There are a ton of examples of both... ranging from Lada cars to the F-35 fighter jet. :)

Maybe the American one is built like that, but there are several others also failing constantly. It also reminds me now of something else, the Javelin and other systems delivered to the Ukrainians most times do not work, or have batteries that only last for 5/10 minutes, so the Ukros started to ditch them as soon as they had to leave a position, because they said "it's heavy to carry around and it doesn't work, the batteries die in 10 minutes before we can use them"

And then there was a picture i could not find, of a rocket that was fielded in 1984 and the last maintenance recorded on the log was also at some point in 1984, the US sent a rocket batch they bought in 1984 and that had never been tested or gone through maintenance since then? How is that even possible?

[9ideon]

Mashika

3. Western armament is crap, and it has been exposed badly now, once used on a real war. There could be a conspiracy here, that the 'partners' who have bought those guns knew the limitations/faults and pretended not to, because they assumed no one would ever figure out (there will never be a real war in our lifetime), and there was money to be made in buying/selling that

That seems to be the main thought indeed. Like the West has not really been tested against a real fighting force, like Russia or China, hell... even Iran for that matter. Therefore the equipment we use is b-rate because of that same fact, being, there is not really that much stress on the hardware when used against smaller and lesser equipped forces, plus, do not forget that Nato likes to attack from the air first.

Been saying it for a while, out gear is not as good as we think it is, it's not built to last.

On a side note, the Dutch did not have any bullets for the army about 2 years ago, I bet you that money went to build roads and crap (sarcasm).

[Bill Ryan]

And then there was a picture i could not find, of a rocket that was fielded in 1984 and the last maintenance recorded on the log was also at some point in 1984, the US sent a rocket batch they bought in 1984 and that had never been tested or gone through maintenance since then? How is that even possible?Yes, it makes little sense! :) It's almost as if at least some of the weapons shipments were really political gestures rather than serious, practical attempts to assist Ukraine on the battlefield.

Adding to your speculation, maybe there are factions within the Pentagon that are deliberately and knowingly doing this, which the non-technical US State Department in Washington wouldn't know anything about.

Maybe not all those reading this thread are aware of this: one example of the craziness is that the Javelin battery packs are often ancient. All batteries run down to zero when unused and in storage for years. (Think of your own car battery which you use to start your car every day. It's exactly the same.) And the shipped Javelin missiles usually never arrived in Ukraine with any spare, new, fully-charged batteries. (Or even a user's manual! Truly. :facepalm: )

One reason might simply be to get rid of all the old inventory so that new (and modern!) weapons can be contracted... but yes, it's an excellent question that seems to have to point to either malice or incompetence.

[Orph]

One reason might simply be to get rid of all the old inventory so that new (and modern!) weapons can be contracted.....
This is what I assumed was happening all along. Have to get rid of the old to make more money manufacturing the new. Whether they work properly or break down doesn't matter. All that matters is the money to be made.

[9ideon]

Mashika

And then there was a picture i could not find, of a rocket that was fielded in 1984 and the last maintenance recorded on the log was also at some point in 1984, the US sent a rocket batch they bought in 1984 and that had never been tested or gone through maintenance since then? How is that even possible?

I doubt that these rockets are from the US, the amount of wars they have fought would have included the M270 (Rocket Artillery 1983).


The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. The first M270s were delivered to the U.S. Army in 1983. The MLRS has since been adopted by several NATO countries.
Therefore I do no think they're from the US, let's see which countries might have these M270's.


On 7 June 2022, British defence secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK would send three (later increased to six) MLRS to aid Ukrainian forces. On 15 June, Germany's Scholz cabinet also announced it would send three of its MARS vehicles from German Army stocks. Ukraine announced they had received the first M270s on 15 July. The German defence secretary Christine Lambrecht announced the arrival of the vehicles they contributed on 26 July 2022.
It has to be Germany, they have not really been doing a lot of that old war, they'd have older rockets still in stock, there's loads of 'm there not used over the years.


Some 1,300 M270 systems have been manufactured in the United States and in Western Europe,[vague] along with more than 700,000 rockets. Production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian Army.

[Mashika]

Mashika

And then there was a picture i could not find, of a rocket that was fielded in 1984 and the last maintenance recorded on the log was also at some point in 1984, the US sent a rocket batch they bought in 1984 and that had never been tested or gone through maintenance since then? How is that even possible?

I doubt that these rockets are from the US, the amount of wars they have fought would have included the M270 (Rocket Artillery 1983).


The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. The first M270s were delivered to the U.S. Army in 1983. The MLRS has since been adopted by several NATO countries.
Therefore I do no think they're from the US, let's see which countries might have these M270's.


On 7 June 2022, British defence secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK would send three (later increased to six) MLRS to aid Ukrainian forces. On 15 June, Germany's Scholz cabinet also announced it would send three of its MARS vehicles from German Army stocks. Ukraine announced they had received the first M270s on 15 July. The German defence secretary Christine Lambrecht announced the arrival of the vehicles they contributed on 26 July 2022.
It has to be Germany, they have not really been doing a lot of that old war, they'd have older rockets still in stock, there's loads of 'm there not used over the years.


Some 1,300 M270 systems have been manufactured in the United States and in Western Europe,[vague] along with more than 700,000 rockets. Production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian Army.

No, those were small rockets for TOW launchers i believe, not for larger systems like the one you mention

There is a well recorded history by now of anti-tank missile failures, and i wonder if a lot of it has to do with expired rockets and bad/outdated systems on top of the bad batteries

"US Anti-Tank Missiles Are ‘Struggling To Fire’ In Ukraine; Leaked Documents Reveal A Poor Hit-To-Miss Ratio"
https://eurasiantimes.com/us-anti-tank-missiles-are-misfiring-in-ukraine-javelin/

[Bill Ryan]

"US Anti-Tank Missiles Are ‘Struggling To Fire’ In Ukraine; Leaked Documents Reveal A Poor Hit-To-Miss Ratio"
https://eurasiantimes.com/us-anti-tank-missiles-are-misfiring-in-ukraine-javelin/And —>

https://19fortyfive.com/2022/06/problem-ukraine-needs-tech-support-for-javelin-anti-tank-missiles

(an astonishing article! — dated 16 June)

Problem: Ukraine Needs Tech Support for Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles

What is the number for Javelin missile tech support? One of the great downsides of our “high-tech world” is that when things go wrong, and a solution can’t readily be found, users must pick up the phone and call the dreaded “tech support” to resolve the issue. According to a 2016 survey, Americans will spend upwards of 43 days of their life (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-average-american-will-spend-43-days-of-his-life-on-hold-2016-02-04) on hold waiting for tech support! This problem is made worse by the fact that in recent years, tech support has stopped being available 24/7, and calls must be made during “normal business hours.”

That is bad enough when the cable box isn’t working or the computer is locked in an endless reboot cycle (https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-windows-7-infinite-reboot-loop/#:~:text=With%20Windows%2010%20stuck%20in,device%2C%20then%20restart%20the%20computer.), and rarely is life on the line. However, for some Ukrainian warfighters, the lack of tech support for their FGM-148 (https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/05/javelin-the-missile-that-is-slaughtering-putins-tanks-in-ukraine/) Javelin portable anti-tank missile systems (https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/05/watch-a-javelin-missile-strike-a-russian-tank-in-ukraine/) is a deadly serious problem.

As first reported by The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/14/ukraine-javelin-assistance/) this week, though the Pentagon had rushed to send (https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/04/ukraine-is-getting-a-big-shipment-of-javelin-missiles-to-fight-russia/) more than 5,000 Javelins to Ukraine, many are inoperable. The weapons arrived, but the training modules, spare batteries, and other basics that the U.S. military relies on to use the Javelins failed to make it.

The paper of record quoted Mark Hayward, a U.S. Army veteran and volunteer trainer, who explained, “We’re sending equipment. But have we decided not to do tech support?”

Hayward said that Ukrainians have had to cannibalize electrical components from a video game controller after an expensive component was found to be defective. In another case, a Javelin was thought to be broken until it was in fact discovered that the user instructions were “gummed up” via Google Translate.

Lack of Tech Support

The Ukrainians couldn’t call tech support – and yes, in the 21st century defense contractors do offer such remote help for many systems. However, the missile launcher’s instruction cards that included the support hotline’s phone numbers were not included in the shipments. According to the Post, Hayward opened several units and found that the cards were missing.

It has been reported that the call center that provides tech support remains an important asset for U.S. troops, who may be unable to solve problems on their own in the field. However, it appears that the Biden administration hasn’t actually extended that level of tech support to Ukraine.

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) hasn’t addressed whether support-line cards were actually removed before the transfer of the weapons. For now, we can simply assume Ukraine wasn’t offered a “Gold Plan” with their Javelins!

Basic Training

The FGM-148 Javelin has been a highly effective weapon, one that has been credited with destroying scores of Russian tanks in Ukraine. However, it is also a complex system that is far more complicated to operate successfully than other shoulder-fired weapons. In fact, it is shipped to units with a 258-page user manual (https://newsunrolled.com/world/35069.html) – in English of course. It also requires special batteries and an argon coolant to operate.

Early in May, U.S. lawmakers even expressed concerns (https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3020390/defense-officials-hold-media-brief-on-the-training-of-ukrainian-military/) that Ukrainian fighters weren’t getting the necessary training to operate the Javelin.

“Obviously the Javelins have the ability to significantly help Ukrainian forces,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) had told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last month. “But what we’re hearing is that the new Ukrainian troops are not provided adequate training to operate these $200,000 weapons systems.”

The issue was so great that the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense requested that the United States also provide Javelin training kits. Ukrainian Brig. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, confirmed the need for the Javelin training kits to The War Zone last month (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-worried-it-cant-train-enough-troops-on-javelins).

Each Javelin missile reportedly costs (https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-has-no-number-to-call-to-troubleshoot-its-200k-javelin-missiles) roughly $200,000, while the entire shoulder-fired system (one missile and a reusable targeting system) totals around $440,000, based on 2023 budget documents. It would be an extreme waste of U.S. taxpayer dollars if those weapons are supplied and Ukrainians can’t actually use them – especially if it was because of the lack of a training manual or a tech support number to call.

Of course, for a soldier on the ground in Ukraine, it may not just cost money – it could cost that fighter his life.

[Ravenlocke]

Yes I agree with both Mashika and Bill re old equipment, etc.
I remember our local US news said from the start of the war the US approved package was to include military equipment the US no longer wanted to maintain or use. Also remember seeing news here and there that nato countries were passing old equipment to Ukraine. I remember even Czechoslovakia sent some old Russian tanks and here’s a tweet from April, about that.

https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1511320271168360452
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[JackMcThorn]

I was in the american navy from 1993-1999, half of the time on destroyers that were originally built in the 196os. My primary task was that as a machinist and manufacturing various components out of mostly metal for ships, submarines, and aircraft.

The ocean is a pretty unforgiving environment to begin with but on deployments to the Persian Gulf, you also have sand blowing across the gulf that you have to contend with, in addition to 3o year old vessels with constant maintenance and upgrades.

You would not believe how often technicians from various MIC companies would ride the ships at opportune times to provide support on [mostly electronic equipment, radars, some weapons systems, etc.].

There is always something breaking. Ship's personnel do they best that they can, then it is up to shore command for depot level repairs, and then the worst case scenario it is up to the shipyard which is mostly civilian workers.

I cannot speak much about army equipment, but by the sounds of it, it is similar.

American stuff is not as solid as you might think - to begin with. Of course they have sent all the old equipment to Ukraine because they don't want to deal with it in the field. The american technicians that are in uniform know what works and what doesn't. They often report these issues to the chain of command to no avail. I'll give you an example.

On board ship we had 2 systems for processing sewage waste for about 3oo souls on one destroyer. Each system was designed to send sewage into the ocean when at sea. I think it was greater than a few miles from the shore. Sea water was used to discharge the sewage, so when ever a toilet flushed, the contents immediately left the system to overboard. Otherwise, each system had one holding tank where the sewage was stored until it could be pumped at sea, or to the conventional shore sewage system.

Well these two systems had a pump that was of a unique design. A design that might work great in theory; but poorly in execution. [I was on 2 different destroyers with the same problem.] The pump wouldn't pump to shore. So the guys reported the pump failure every time we got into port and sometimes a new pump would be ordered to replace the old one, but the original problem was never fixed [and new pumps are expensive to keep replacing]. So raw sewage from 3oo souls from one destroyer would be sent overboard [in port] by God knows how many ships. [and this was over 2o years ago.]

It's sad really. I saw a lot of good military technicians leave the navy. Why? Because they could make twice as much money as a civilian with 1/2 of the aggravation.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Spiral]

Re the artillery, I spent hours looking into this because it didn't really add up.

The "M777" to use the name everyone is using, is a British gun, designed by BAE systems for the British army & paratroops with the view that artillery had limited tactical use in modern warfare esp for a small force like UK has which has to punch well above it's weight.

This is because, as 9ideon pointed out NATO expects to use air power to deliver ordinance at distances.

The fact that the US army has taken it on as their main field gun is somewhat odd, as they traditionally like to use bullets, shells & bombs like they are going out of fashion, so you would think they would have developed their own heavy duty gun that could be used 24/7 like the Russian ones, but they too have obviously adopted the the "air power is all" mantra.

What is playing out on the ground must clearly show that "real" warfare (as opposed to dealing with tribesmen with AKs & IEDs) really still does require serious artillery, esp with the kind of AA systems that are now fielded by modern forces.

I strongly suspect that there has been some serious re-appraisals within the "Top Brass", & the armaments companies are drawing plans as we speak, much like they have had to re-evaluate the tiny calibre bullets now used by NATO that have proved fairly hopeless against fanatics on capatagon.

[9ideon]

Mashika

And then there was a picture i could not find, of a rocket that was fielded in 1984 and the last maintenance recorded on the log was also at some point in 1984, the US sent a rocket batch they bought in 1984 and that had never been tested or gone through maintenance since then? How is that even possible?

I doubt that these rockets are from the US, the amount of wars they have fought would have included the M270 (Rocket Artillery 1983).


The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. The first M270s were delivered to the U.S. Army in 1983. The MLRS has since been adopted by several NATO countries.
Therefore I do no think they're from the US, let's see which countries might have these M270's.


On 7 June 2022, British defence secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK would send three (later increased to six) MLRS to aid Ukrainian forces. On 15 June, Germany's Scholz cabinet also announced it would send three of its MARS vehicles from German Army stocks. Ukraine announced they had received the first M270s on 15 July. The German defence secretary Christine Lambrecht announced the arrival of the vehicles they contributed on 26 July 2022.
It has to be Germany, they have not really been doing a lot of that old war, they'd have older rockets still in stock, there's loads of 'm there not used over the years.


Some 1,300 M270 systems have been manufactured in the United States and in Western Europe,[vague] along with more than 700,000 rockets. Production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian Army.

No, those were small rockets for TOW launchers i believe, not for larger systems like the one you mention

There is a well recorded history by now of anti-tank missile failures, and i wonder if a lot of it has to do with expired rockets and bad/outdated systems on top of the bad batteries

"US Anti-Tank Missiles Are ‘Struggling To Fire’ In Ukraine; Leaked Documents Reveal A Poor Hit-To-Miss Ratio"
https://eurasiantimes.com/us-anti-tank-missiles-are-misfiring-in-ukraine-javelin/

Most hits are propaganda articles, you know, 300 missiles disabled 280 of Putin's tanks (https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-small-ukraine-force-is-killing-russian-tanks-with-us-javelin-missiles-2803289), crap like that.

Have found something on this page (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895717709000752) (there are 35 different PDF's downloadable for this science magazine, perhaps someone should look for the library).



A mathematical model is developed for an anti-tank missile and its guidance algorithms. The aerodynamic model is separated into two parts, the airframe and external lifting surfaces in order to model damage to the airframe. Radar data is compared to that of the proposed model and it is shown that the model accurately replicates the true flight dynamics.

Two types of field handling damage are modeled, a damaged mid-body wing with 50% of its planform area missing, and an un-deployed mid-body wing. Monte Carlo simulations are performed for each type of damage and the eight possible mid-body wing locations. The results predict that the anti-tank guided missile’s performance in response to damage is extremely sensitive to the radial location of damage.

Vertical mid-body wing damage had little effect on performance while damage to horizontal and adjacent mid-body wings resulted in significant failures. The failure mode demonstrated was not a large increase in impact errors, but rather failure of the seeker used for guidance due to excessive roll and yawing of the airframe.

Fig. 16 shows the roll and yaw angles for both damaged and missing mid-body wing 1 according to Fig. 6. Mid-body wing 1 is horizontal and generates lift in normal flight.

Reduction or absence of lift from the right side of the airframe creates a roll torque that must be compensated by the guidance algorithms. The roll torque produced will be positive when climbing and in altitude hold but negative during terminal guidance.

Roll for an undamaged airframe remains small throughout the flight. However, a significant increase in roll is observed during climb and a negative roll during terminal guidance with a mid-body wing is missing. A damaged wing shows similar changes but to less an extent of a missing mid-body wing.

Variation in roll from damage also affects yaw. As the airframe rolls, the asymmetry from mid-body wing lift and drag forces results in yawing torque. In addition to asymmetry, saturation of the control fins is significant because in order to cancel large roll torques from damage during terminal guidance, the fins must be differentially canted.

If large amounts of deflection are used to roll stabilize the airframe, then less control is available for pitch and yaw control. The effect of both rolling and yawing motion from damage can be seen in the cross range in Fig. 17.

During the final seconds of terminal guidance the large asymmetric forces generated result in a final swerve away from the target.

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Check that article, real science, loads of equations and so on, very impressive.

Anyway what do you make of this Mashika?

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-war-depleting-u-s-ammunition-stockpiles-sparking-pentagon-concern-11661792188

Ukraine War Is Depleting U.S. Ammunition Stockpiles, Sparking Pentagon Concern

The level of one type of combat rounds in storage is ‘uncomfortably low,’ says a defense official

A series of blasts at military facilities have prompted residents and tourists to evacuate Crimea, an area of Ukraine that has been controlled by Russia since 2014. Here’s why the peninsula, a key base for Moscow’s forces, is a new front in this war. Photo composite: Eve Hartley
The U.S. has during the past six months supplied Ukraine with 16 U.S. rocket launchers, known as Himars, thousands of guns, drones, missiles and other equipment. Much of that, including ammunition, has come directly from U.S. inventory, depleting stockpiles intended for unexpected threats, defense officials say.

One of the most lethal weapons the Pentagon has sent are howitzers that fire high-explosive 155mm ammunition weighing about 100 pounds each and able to accurately hit targets dozens of miles away. As of Aug. 24, the U.S. military said it had provided Ukraine with up to 806,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition. The U.S. military has declined to say how many rounds it had at the start of the year.

In recent weeks, the level of 155mm combat rounds in U.S. military storage have become “uncomfortably low,” one defense official said. The levels aren’t yet critical because the U.S. isn’t engaged in any major military conflict, the official added. “It is not at the level we would like to go into combat,” the defense official said.

The U.S. military used a howitzer as recently as last week to strike at Iranian-backed groups in Syria, and the depletion of 155mm ammunition is increasingly concerning for a military that seeks to plan for any scenario.

As of Aug. 24, the U.S. military said it had provided Ukraine with up to 806,000 rounds of 155mm ammunition. A Ukrainian service member with howitzer shells this summer.Photo: STRINGER/REUTERS
The Army said the military is now conducting “an ammunitions industrial base deep dive” to determine how to support Ukraine while protecting “our own supply needs.” The Army said it also asked Capitol Hill for $500 million a year in upgrade efforts for the Army’s ammunition plants. Meanwhile, the service is relying on existing contracts to increase production of ammunition, but it hasn’t signed new contracts to account for the higher amounts it will need to replenish its stocks, according to Army officials.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley has been conducting monthly reviews of the U.S. arsenal to determine whether the readiness levels are still appropriate given the needs for the ammunition in Ukraine, according to U.S. military officials. The U.S. last week provided Ukraine with a different size howitzer ammunition, 105mm, a reflection, in part, of the concern about its stocks of 155mm ammunition, the officials said.

The looming ammunition shortage isn’t for lack of funds, according to those familiar with the issue. The U.S. announced this week that it was setting aside nearly $3 billion for long-term aid intended to help Ukraine, bringing the total spent on weaponry for the country to $14 billion, and the Biden administration’s Pentagon budget request for next year is $773 billion.

“This was knowable. It was foreseeable. It was forewarned, including from industry leaders to the Pentagon. And it was easily fixable,” said Mackenzie Eaglen, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank in Washington.

What is needed, she said, is for the government to spend money to fix the problem.

“There are some problems you can buy your way out of,” she said. “This is one of them.”

The Pentagon’s buying process generally starts with the military determining its

requirements, which are then reviewed and then bids solicited from the private sector. But since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, industry officials have complained that the Pentagon hasn’t always communicated those requirements, which often change, creating delays, and leaving defense contractors unable to prepare for more production.

Dormant supply lines often can’t be switched on overnight, and surging production of active lines can take time. Companies are already producing 155mm ammunition, but not at the capacity yet that the Pentagon will need to replenish its stocks.

In the U.S., it takes 13 to 18 months from the time orders are placed for munitions to be manufactured, according to an industry official. Replenishing stockpiles of more sophisticated weaponry such as missiles and drones can take much longer.

Even a yearlong delay is a problem precisely because ammunition shortages can pop up quickly given the rate they can be drawn down in a conflict.

“Nations assume the risk that war is not going to take place, and have the assumption they can react when they need to,” said Brad Martin, director of the Institute for Supply Chain Security at the Rand Corp. “It simply might not be true that you can ramp up” production quickly, he added.
Defense and congressional officials familiar with the issue attribute the looming shortage to a number of factors. The Pentagon’s bureaucracy has been slow to provide new contracts to replenish its stocks and has been reluctant to share its long-term needs with industry.

They also attribute part of the problem to the lack of coordination between part of the Pentagon that works to quickly supply Ukraine with weapons and the bureaucracy responsible for buying equipment. “The contracting process is much slower than the drawdown, and there is just not a lot you can do about that,” one congressional staffer said.

Speaking on an earnings call July 19, Jim Taiclet, chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp., said the Pentagon has yet to put the contracts in place or coordinate with industry to buy more supplies, a process that often takes two to three years.

The Defense Department needs to “shift gears” if it wants industry to prepare for more orders, he said. “And I can tell you the clutch isn’t engaged yet.”

[Mashika]

Mashika

And then there was a picture i could not find, of a rocket that was fielded in 1984 and the last maintenance recorded on the log was also at some point in 1984, the US sent a rocket batch they bought in 1984 and that had never been tested or gone through maintenance since then? How is that even possible?

I doubt that these rockets are from the US, the amount of wars they have fought would have included the M270 (Rocket Artillery 1983).


The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored, self-propelled, multiple rocket launcher. The first M270s were delivered to the U.S. Army in 1983. The MLRS has since been adopted by several NATO countries.
Therefore I do no think they're from the US, let's see which countries might have these M270's.


On 7 June 2022, British defence secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK would send three (later increased to six) MLRS to aid Ukrainian forces. On 15 June, Germany's Scholz cabinet also announced it would send three of its MARS vehicles from German Army stocks. Ukraine announced they had received the first M270s on 15 July. The German defence secretary Christine Lambrecht announced the arrival of the vehicles they contributed on 26 July 2022.
It has to be Germany, they have not really been doing a lot of that old war, they'd have older rockets still in stock, there's loads of 'm there not used over the years.


Some 1,300 M270 systems have been manufactured in the United States and in Western Europe,[vague] along with more than 700,000 rockets. Production of the M270 ended in 2003, when a last batch was delivered to the Egyptian Army.

No, those were small rockets for TOW launchers i believe, not for larger systems like the one you mention

There is a well recorded history by now of anti-tank missile failures, and i wonder if a lot of it has to do with expired rockets and bad/outdated systems on top of the bad batteries

"US Anti-Tank Missiles Are ‘Struggling To Fire’ In Ukraine; Leaked Documents Reveal A Poor Hit-To-Miss Ratio"
https://eurasiantimes.com/us-anti-tank-missiles-are-misfiring-in-ukraine-javelin/

Most hits are propaganda articles, you know, 300 missiles disabled 280 of Putin's tanks (https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-small-ukraine-force-is-killing-russian-tanks-with-us-javelin-missiles-2803289), crap like that.

Have found something on this page (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895717709000752) (there are 35 different PDF's downloadable for this science magazine, perhaps someone should look for the library).



A mathematical model is developed for an anti-tank missile and its guidance algorithms. The aerodynamic model is separated into two parts, the airframe and external lifting surfaces in order to model damage to the airframe. Radar data is compared to that of the proposed model and it is shown that the model accurately replicates the true flight dynamics.

Two types of field handling damage are modeled, a damaged mid-body wing with 50% of its planform area missing, and an un-deployed mid-body wing. Monte Carlo simulations are performed for each type of damage and the eight possible mid-body wing locations. The results predict that the anti-tank guided missile’s performance in response to damage is extremely sensitive to the radial location of damage.

Vertical mid-body wing damage had little effect on performance while damage to horizontal and adjacent mid-body wings resulted in significant failures. The failure mode demonstrated was not a large increase in impact errors, but rather failure of the seeker used for guidance due to excessive roll and yawing of the airframe.

Fig. 16 shows the roll and yaw angles for both damaged and missing mid-body wing 1 according to Fig. 6. Mid-body wing 1 is horizontal and generates lift in normal flight.

Reduction or absence of lift from the right side of the airframe creates a roll torque that must be compensated by the guidance algorithms. The roll torque produced will be positive when climbing and in altitude hold but negative during terminal guidance.

Roll for an undamaged airframe remains small throughout the flight. However, a significant increase in roll is observed during climb and a negative roll during terminal guidance with a mid-body wing is missing. A damaged wing shows similar changes but to less an extent of a missing mid-body wing.

Variation in roll from damage also affects yaw. As the airframe rolls, the asymmetry from mid-body wing lift and drag forces results in yawing torque. In addition to asymmetry, saturation of the control fins is significant because in order to cancel large roll torques from damage during terminal guidance, the fins must be differentially canted.

If large amounts of deflection are used to roll stabilize the airframe, then less control is available for pitch and yaw control. The effect of both rolling and yawing motion from damage can be seen in the cross range in Fig. 17.

During the final seconds of terminal guidance the large asymmetric forces generated result in a final swerve away from the target.

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0895717709000752-gr16.jpg

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0895717709000752-gr17.jpg


Check that article, real science, loads of equations and so on, very impressive.

Anyway what do you make of this Mashika?

I would need to go through it, will try to do in the following days :)

One thing i can say is, as far as the Kornet missile, and in my experience, it doesn't fail that way (or i have lacking experience over a long period of time enough to show those issues). The kornet is a bit difficult to use properly but it's very effective, i don't know truly how it compares to similar systems from the US or NATO, i mean modern fully functional ones and not old versions like what i think Ukraine is receiving

That page looks very interesting, great find, thanks

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/pressreview/1499755?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Press review: Why EU officials met in Prague and cracks appear in Berlin’s Ukraine policy

Vedomosti: IAEA may leave permanent observers at Zaporozhye plant

A mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is on its way to the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP), according to agency director Rafael Grossi. A delegation of 13 people is expected to stay there until September 3, but a group of agency specialists may remain at the nuclear facility to monitor the situation in the future, Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said. According to Vedomosti, Moscow is interested in this visit, looking forward to the mission's assistance in ensuring the station’s security.

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IAEA mission to arrive in Zaporozhye NPP within days — diplomat
The shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power facility in Energodar by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has intensified this month, the newspaper writes. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian side accused the Russians of self-inflicted attacks. Artillery strikes occasionally caused damage to various structures and power lines, and the nuclear power plant was even disconnected from the Ukrainian energy system on August 25.

I The IAEA mission has no political authority and can only examine how and to what extent the NPP follows health and safety standards, expert in international law Sergey Glandin told Vedomosti. Based on the review's findings, the UN Security Council may pass a resolution requiring countries to embark on or refrain from taking specific steps.

The IAEA mission is in charge of determining the extent of the damage caused by the shelling, as well as the safety of units and infrastructure. The most that the delegation can do with regards to the shelling is to list specific hits in the report, Atominfo editor Alexander Uvarov.

https://tass.com/politics/1499841?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

IAEA inspection team arrives in Kiev — CNN

It is reported that the experts led by Grossi will also have to evaluate staff conditions at the plant and take urgent measures to ensure safety there


MOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. A 14-member team from the International Atomic Energy Agency led by its Director General Rafael Grossi has arrived in Kiev, CNN reported on Tuesday.

The delegation was seen by CNN reporters in a Kiev hotel. No information is yet available on when the mission will arrive at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

Grossi said earlier that the IAEA mission to the Zaporozhye plant had been formed and would arrive there later this week. The inspectors would assess the physical damage to the plant and check the facility’s security and safety systems. The experts led by Grossi will also have to evaluate staff conditions at the plant and take urgent measures to ensure safety there.

The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, located in the city of Energodar, is controlled by Russian troops. The Russian Ministry of Defense has said Ukrainian forces have inflicted several strikes on the territory of the station in recent days, using, in particular, drones, heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems. In most cases, the attacks are repelled by air defense systems, but some shells hit the infrastructure and the area around the nuclear waste repository, thereby posing a threat of radiation leakage.

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/561816-russia-ukraine-counter-offensive-losses/

Russia releases new estimate of Ukrainian counter-offensive losses

Russian forces have taken out hundreds of Ukrainian troops and dozens of tanks and armored military vehicles after repelling an ill-fated offensive in the south of the country, the Defense Ministry claimed on Tuesday.

A statement added that officials believe the failerd operation was mounted at the personal order of President Vladimir Zelensky.

“The effective actions by the Russian forces destroyed 48 tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles, 37 other armored combat vehicles, eight pickups with heavy machine guns and more than 1,200 Ukrainian servicemen in one day,” they outlined. The Ministry added that Kiev sustained these losses during a botched offensive whose directions led to Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog, and other cities in southern Ukraine.

The ministry went on to say that Moscow’s forces routed the units of the 128th Ukrainian Mountain Assault Brigade, which had been redeployed from western Ukraine to take part in the operation. “Five service members from this brigade laid down their arms and gave in,” the ministry added.

Russian forces also wiped out “more than 200 militants, including about 40 foreign mercenaries” as well as more than 20 armor units, according to the military.

The Russian Defense Ministry’s statement comes after its claim on Monday that the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson had “failed miserably.” At the time, the ministry put Kiev’s losses at 26 tanks, 23 armored fighting vehicles, nine more armored vehicles, two jets and at least 560 troops.

Ukrainian attempt at counter-offensive has failed – Russia
Ukrainian attempt at counter-offensive has failed – Russia
Kiev has been talking about a “Kherson counteroffensive” all summer, while soliciting more weapons and ammunition from its Western backers. In a video address to the people on Sunday, Zelensky vowed that “Ukraine will return” to Donbass – as well as Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Kherson, and “definitely to Crimea.”

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/news/561810-us-ukraine-biolabs-purpose/

US government issues statement on biolabs abroad

Biological laboratories in Ukraine and other foreign countries were never used to develop weapons, the US government claimed on Monday, in a joint statement with other participants in the program.

Nine countries, including Ukraine, are included in the explanation, which was issued months after Russia accused Washington of maintaining a secret overseas germ warfare program.

“Our governments have partnered openly and transparently through the Biological Threat Reduction Program, which is a part of the US Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program,” the statement read.

“These partnerships are devoted exclusively to peaceful purposes; they have nothing to do with weapons.”

Apart from the US and Ukraine, the statement was released by Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and the Philippines.

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The countries added that the purpose of the program is to “protect the health of humans and animals in our countries, including in the prevention, detection, and control of infectious disease outbreaks.”

They said the importance of surveillance and response to infectious disease has been highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In March, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed it had found documents in Ukraine which showed that Ukrainian biological laboratories partnered with the US in research involving dangerous pathogens, such as plague and anthrax. President Vladimir Putin said in April that Russia has evidence that the laboratories were used to develop “components of biological weapons.”

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky denied that Kiev was developing any weapons of mass destruction and said the laboratories were only conducting “ordinary” scientific research.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564710535735771141
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1564647974935855104
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[Ravenlocke]

Here’s Mark Sleboda with his explanation of the current Russia hatred, Russophobia.

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1564476186910248960
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[Mashika]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564710535735771141
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The Russian military channels are starting to talk a lot about this, not good news, mostly insults and people considering him a traitor and the person who ruined Russia for a generation and so on. It's actually sad to watch

[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564710535735771141
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The Russian military channels are starting to talk a lot about this, not good news, mostly insults and people considering him a traitor and the person who ruined Russia for a generation and so on. It's actually sad to watchMasha, what's your personal view of Gorbachev? I was saddened just now to hear the news (and I wish they'd posted a more youthful photo, as most in the west remember him! :heart: ) — I had always felt he was a good guy, doing his best for what is now Russia.

But I may well not understand (or know about) a very great deal. Am I being naive? :flower:

[Mashika]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564710535735771141
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The Russian military channels are starting to talk a lot about this, not good news, mostly insults and people considering him a traitor and the person who ruined Russia for a generation and so on. It's actually sad to watchMasha, what's your personal view of Gorbachev? I was saddened just now to hear the news (and I wish they'd posted a more youthful photo, as most in the west remember him! :heart: ) — I had always felt he was a good guy, doing his best for what is now Russia.

But I may well not understand (or know about) a very great deal. Am I being naive? :flower:

Growing up, i saw him a few times (3 or 4), i always thought he meant well and he felt sad and tired somehow, or maybe frustrated or disappointed in life? Don't know

I don't think he meant bad, he truly believed in what he was doing, but it turned out that he was mislead in several ways, he trusted too much on people he should have not and then the bad times came in the 90s, everyone blamed it on him and i don't think he ever recovered from that

As people in the west says, i think he "put all his eggs on just one basket"

[Mashika]

In a way, maybe the right word is "he felt defeated"

I think he realised he had been used by several people, and that all the hard work he did and the future he envision was not going to happen, it was a fake vision and he got mislead and pushed into enabling the destruction of Russia

That's how i see it and from some stuff i learned over the years it looks like it was true, he meant to create a new country, but the real plan behind the scenes was to tear Russia down to a town of peasants and poor workers, and by the time he understood that it was too late to stop it

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1564714198294216704

https://projectavalon.net/Gorbachev.jpg

https://www.rt.com/russia/558272-gorbachev-dies-soviet-leader/

Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only president of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, in Moscow.

His death was reported on Tuesday night by the Central Clinical Hospital, which said in a statement that “Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and prolonged illness.”

According to the news agency TASS, Gorbachev was hospitalized at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, at the request of his doctors, and had been under medical supervision ever since.

A divisive figure, supporters credit him with having played a key part in bringing about an end to the Cold War, while opponents accuse him of aiding in the fall of the Soviet Union and a major loss to Moscow’s prestige and global influence.

Perestroika, glasnost, private business and the presidency

Born in 1931 into a peasant family in southern Russia, in his teens Gorbachev operated combine harvesters on collective farms. His party career started early in his student years, when he studied law at Lomonosov Moscow State University. His ascent through the ranks was relatively rapid, and in 1985 he became the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making him the highest ranking official in the USSR.

During his time in office, Gorbachev aimed to re-energize the stalled Soviet economy, which was riddled with inefficiency, overblown defense spending and creeping corruption. He called for urgent reorganization and modernization, but soon expanded his reform to political and social structure of the whole nation.

The policy of 'perestroika' was announced in 1986 as an attempt to reorganize the economy. More a political movement, the “restructuring” aimed to give more independence to ministries and large state-owned enterprises. It also introduced some free market-style reforms. In 1988, Gorbachev permitted establishing private enterprises in the country for the first time since Vladimir Lenin’s “New Economic Policy” of the 1920s.

Another policy proclaimed was 'glasnost'. Gorbachev aimed to bring transparency into society, ease the Communist Party’s control over the media and release political prisoners. This was a radical change, since control over public speech had previously been an essential part of the Soviet regime.

Gorbachev also proposed a constitutional change to move to a presidential system and created a new political body called the Congress of People’s Deputies. The 2,250 members were elected in the Soviet Union’s first semi-competitive parliamentary election. On March 15, 1990, following a vote in the Congress of People’s Deputies, Mikhail Gorbachev became president of the USSR.

Soviet pullout from Afghanistan, end of Cold War

Gorbachev’s foreign policy, also known as the “new thinking,” marked a period of significant improvement of relations between the Soviet Union and Western countries, replacing the era of Cold War hostilities.

In 1986, he announced plans to withdraw Soviet troops from Afghanistan, but it took three more years to complete the pullout.

The Soviet-Afghan war was a major point of criticism for the West. It also cost the Soviet Union at least 15,000 casualties, put additional strains on an already creaking bureaucratic planned economy and filled the country with veterans suffering from combat stress disorders.

The reengagement with the West paved the way for several key disarmament treaties to be signed. Moscow and Washington agreed to dismantle their intermediate-range conventional and nuclear missiles – the very precise weapons that could tempt the military into using nuclear weapons on a limited scale, but still trigger global mutual annihilation. Under Gorbachev, Moscow unilaterally stopped all nuclear tests.

Moscow’s relations with the Eastern Bloc countries also underwent a radical change. Earlier, Soviet troops always served as the final argument, should one of the countries of the Cold War-era Warsaw Pact try to shift its allegiance. But Gorbachev’s liberalization included the right of self-determination for those nations. This was jokingly called the “Sinatra doctrine” after the singer Frank Sinatra, alluding to his song, 'My Way' as countries were allowed to determine their own internal policies. A string of revolutions in 1989 ousted European Communist regimes, and in 1990 West and East Germany reunified as one country.

For his efforts in easing international tensions, Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.

In a statement accompanying the award, the Nobel Committee said that the president of the Soviet Union had played a “leading role” in the international peace process.

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Gorbachev is also well-known for having played a key role in the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of a split Europe and divided world in the times of the Cold War.

After the fall of the Nazi regime as a result of World War II, Germany had become two separate countries by 1949. The Federal Republic of Germany (or West Germany) was run by the Western Allies, while the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was controlled by the Soviet Union. Berlin was located inside East Germany, but it was shared by both West and East Germany, with the Berlin Wall dividing the territories of the two states.

Built in 1961, the wall separated families and loved ones for 28 years. It was eventually toppled on the night of November 9, 1989. During a visit to West Germany earlier in 1989, the Soviet leader declared that every nation can "freely choose its own political and social system" and that Moscow would "respect for the right of all peoples to self-determination."

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the dawn of a new age – the end of the Cold War and the bipolar world – and it paved the way for Germany’s reunification in 1990.

Collapse of the Soviet Union

The partial democratization of Soviet society under Gorbachev led to a surge in nationalist and anti-Russian sentiment in most of the 15 Soviet republics. But this drive for independence was not always peaceful. On several occasions, Moscow ordered the use of force against violent riots, as the nationalist course in certain regions was seen as capable of spawning much greater violence in the future if the government failed to act. However, the use of force only caused bigger protests.

The frozen conflicts in ethnic enclaves around the country, such as Nagorno-Karabakh and Trans-Dniester, as well as the 2008 war in South Ossetia, are the legacies of those events.

Amid growing tensions within the USSR, Gorbachev attempted to draft a new union treaty. However, a group of hardline Soviet top officials, who called themselves the “State Committee on the State of Emergency,” attempted to stage a coup and to remove Gorbachev from power to prevent the signing of the new union treaty.

Gorbachev initially denounced the move as illegal, but later the same month acknowledged it and announced his resignation as president.

Controversy, post-Soviet contributions

Gorbachev’s policies made him popular in the West, but in his own country he remains a controversial figure to this day. He is praised by many for his disarmament initiatives, the unification of Germany, instigating the fall of the Iron Curtain and ending the Cold War, as well as for granting the Eastern European countries the right of self-determination.

However, the former Soviet leader also faces significant criticism, mostly at home, from those who believe that his policies weakened the Soviet Union and its successor, Russia, and were the major cause of the collapse of the USSR.

Some critics particularly say that, by moving forward with his disarmament initiatives, including the unilateral ones, he undermined the military and industrial might of the Soviet Union, while others accuse him of failing to prevent NATO from expanding further eastwards and eventually reaching Russia’s borders.

After his resignation, Gorbachev created the International Non-Governmental Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation), which is both a research center and discussion platform, as well as an NGO overseeing humanitarian charity projects.

In 1993, at the initiative of representatives of 108 countries, Gorbachev established Green Cross International, a non-governmental environmental organization, which now has offices in 23 countries around the world.

In 1999, he also became one of the initiators of the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit, which meets every year to discuss global threats, such as violence and wars, poverty, crisis situations in the world’s economy and the environment, according to the Gorbachev Foundation website.

Between 2001 and 2009, Gorbachev also co-chaired the St. Petersburg Dialogue, an annual Russian-German forum held in turn in both countries and attended by politicians, entrepreneurs and young people.

The former Soviet leader has also visited about 50 countries since 1992. He has been given more than 300 awards, diplomas, certificates of honor, and honorable distinctions, according to the Gorbachev Foundation.

Gorbachev has also written dozens of books, which have been published in 10 languages.

“I was doing my best in bringing together morality and responsibility to people. It’s a matter of principle for me. It was high time to put an end to the rulers’ wild cravings and to their highhandedness. There were a few things I have not succeeded in, but I don’t think I was wrong in my approach,” he wrote in his political article of faith, published by the Gorbachev Foundation.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Bill Ryan]

What's up with the reports on that Ukrainian Offensive near Kherson supposed to have started couple hours ago?

Here's an excellent analysis of the events on the ground (and the rather awful and overwhelming losses suffered by the Ukrainians) by Alexander Mercouris.

He explains how (of course :facepalm: ) this so-called "counter-offensive", much touted by the western media, was a desperate political gambit ordered by Zelensky — but a very poor military one, almost certainly opposed by the Ukrainian military commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhny.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38ERMtBBV0

[Tintin]

Some light relief :)

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[Mike Gorman]

The bluster and posturing, the bullsh1t and propaganda, Ukraine is beautifully represented in that GIF of the weed usurper among the body builders, mainstream western media is a disgrace.

[Tintin]

Ukraine War Is Depleting U.S. Ammunition Stockpiles, Sparking Pentagon Concern

The level of one type of combat rounds in storage is ‘uncomfortably low,’ says a defense official.......

....In the U.S., it takes 13 to 18 months from the time orders are placed for munitions to be manufactured, according to an industry official. Replenishing stockpiles of more sophisticated weaponry such as missiles and drones can take much longer.



That's an interesting timeline, and a lengthy one if accurate.

What may need to be borne in mind, and the reason why Russia are not, and won't be running out of munitions, is that they had planned for an eventuality such as the Ukraine situation many many years in advance perhaps from even as long ago as 2014 concerning Ukraine at least.

Also, and I didn't know this before recently, Russia are using something in the region of 60,000 artillery shells a day whereas that was the sum total of artillery shells that US/NATO used in Iraq in 2003 during the (continuing) Gulf War.

That's quite some number.

[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1564824736219160579
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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/EspiritV1/status/1564928078245142531
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1564664685936476162
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https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/14989

Ukraine: Somewhere between Afghanization and Syrianization

One year after the astounding US humiliation in Kabul – and on the verge of another serious comeuppance in Donbass – there is reason to believe Moscow is wary of Washington seeking vengeance: in the form of the ‘Afghanization’ of Ukraine.

With no end in sight to western weapons and finance flowing into Kiev, it must be recognized that the Ukrainian battle is likely to disintegrate into yet another endless war. Like the Afghan jihad in the 1980s which employed US-armed and funded guerrillas to drag Russia into its depths, Ukraine’s backers will employ those war-tested methods to run a protracted battle that can spill into bordering Russian lands.

Yet this US attempt at crypto-Afghanization will at best accelerate the completion of what Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu describes as the “tasks” of its Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine. For Moscow right now, that road leads all the way to Odessa.

It didn’t have to be this way. Until the recent assassination of Darya Dugina at Moscow’s gates, the battlefield in Ukraine was in fact under a ‘Syrianization’ process.

Like the foreign proxy war in Syria this past decade, frontlines around significant Ukrainian cities had roughly stabilized. Losing on the larger battlefields, Kiev had increasingly moved to employ terrorist tactics. Neither side could completely master the immense war theater at hand. So the Russian military opted to keep minimal forces in battle – contrary to the strategy it employed in 1980s Afghanistan.

Let’s remind ourselves of a few Syrian facts: Palmyra was liberated in March 2016, then lost and retaken in 2017. Aleppo was liberated only in December 2016. Deir Ezzor in September 2017. A slice of northern Hama in December and January 2018. The outskirts of Damascus in the Spring of 2018. Idlib – and significantly, over 25 percent of Syrian territory – are still not liberated. That tells a lot about rhythm in a war theater.

The Russian military never made a conscious decision to interrupt the multi-channel flow of western weapons to Kiev. Methodically destroying those weapons once they’re in Ukrainian territory – with plenty of success – is another matter. The same applies to smashing mercenary networks.

Moscow is well aware that any negotiation with those pulling the strings in Washington – and dictating all terms to puppets in Brussels and Kiev – is futile. The fight in Donbass and beyond is a do or die affair.

So the battle will go on, destroying what’s left of Ukraine, just as it destroyed much of Syria. The difference is that economically, much more than in Syria, what’s left of Ukraine will plunge into a black void. Only territory under Russian control will be rebuilt, and that includes, significantly, the bulk of Ukraine’s industrial infrastructure.

What’s left – rump Ukraine – has already been plundered anyway, as Monsanto, Cargill and Dupont have already bagged 17 million hectares of prime, fertile arable land – over half of what Ukraine still possesses. That translates de facto as BlackRock, Blackstone and Vanguard, top agro-business shareholders, owning whatever lands that really matter in non-sovereign Ukraine.

Going forward, by next year the Russians will be applying themselves to cutting off Kiev from NATO weapons supplies. As that unfolds, the Anglo-Americans will eventually move whatever puppet regime remains to Lviv. And Kiev terrorism – conducted by Bandera worshippers – will continue to be the new normal in the capital.

The Kazakh double game

By now it’s abundantly clear this is not a mere war of territorial conquest. It’s certainly part of a War of Economic Corridors – as the US spares no effort to sabotage and smash the multiple connectivity channels of Eurasia’s integration projects, be they Chinese-led (Belt and Road Initiative, BRI) or Russian-led (Eurasian Economic Union, EAEU).

Just like the proxy war in Syria remade large swathes of West Asia (witness, for instance, Erdogan about to meet Assad), the fight in Ukraine, in a microcosm, is a war for the reconfiguration of the current world order, where Europe is a mere self-inflicted victim in a minor subplot. The Big Picture is the emergence of multipolarity.

The proxy war in Syria lasted a decade, and it’s not over yet. The same may happen to the proxy war in Ukraine. As it stands, Russia has taken an area that is roughly equivalent to Hungary and Slovakia combined. That’s still far from “task” fulfillment – and it’s bound to go on until Russia has taken all the land right up to the Dnieper as well as Odessa, connecting it to the breakaway Republic of Transnistria.

It’s enlightening to see how important Eurasian actors are reacting to such geopolitical turbulence. And that brings us to the cases of Kazakhstan and Turkey.

The Telegram channel Rybar (with over 640k followers) and hacker group Beregini revealed in an investigation that Kazakhstan was selling weapons to Ukraine, which translates as de facto treason against their own Russian allies in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). Consider too that Kazakhstan is also part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the EAEU, the two hubs of the Eurasian-led multipolar order.

As a consequence of the scandal, Kazakhstan was forced to officially announce the suspension of all weapons exports until the end of 2023.

It began with hackers unveiling how Technoexport – a Kazakh company – was selling armed personnel carriers, anti-tank systems and munitions to Kiev via Jordanian intermediaries, under the orders of the United Kingdom. The deal itself was supervised by the British military attaché in Nur-Sultan, the Kazakh capital.

Nur-Sultan predictably tried to dismiss the allegations, arguing that Technoexport had not asked for export licenses. That was essentially false: the Rybar team discovered that Technoexport instead used Blue Water Supplies, a Jordanian firm, for those. And the story gets even juicier. All the contract documents ended up being found in the computers of Ukrainian intel.

Moreover, the hackers found out about another deal involving Kazspetsexport, via a Bulgarian buyer, for the sale of Kazakh Su-27s, airplane turbines and Mi-24 helicopters. These would have been delivered to the US, but their final destination was Ukraine.

The icing on this Central Asian cake is that Kazakhstan also sells significant amounts of Russian – not Kazakh – oil to Kiev.

So it seems that Nur-Sultan, perhaps unofficially, somehow contributes to the ‘Afghanization’ in the war in Ukraine. No diplomatic leaks confirm it, of course, but bets can be made Putin had a few things to say about that to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in their recent – cordial – meeting.

The Sultan’s balancing act

Turkey is a way more complex case. Ankara is not a member of the SCO, the CSTO or the EAEU. It is still hedging its bets, calculating on which terms it will join the high-speed rail of Eurasian integration. And yet, via several schemes, Ankara allows Moscow to evade the avalanche of western sanctions and embargoes.

Turkish businesses – literally all of them with close connections to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) – are making a killing, and relishing their new role as crossroads warehouse between Russia and the west. It’s an open boast in Istanbul that what Russia cannot buy from Germany or France they buy “from us.” And in fact several EU companies are in on it.

Ankara’s balancing act is as sweet as a good baklava. It gathers economic support from a very important partner right in the middle of the endless, very serious Turkish economic debacle. They agree on nearly everything: Russian gas, S-400 missile systems, the building of the Russian nuclear power plant, tourism – Istanbul is crammed with Russians – Turkish fruits and vegetables.

Ankara-Moscow employ sound textbook geopolitics. They play it openly, in full transparence. That does not mean they are allies. It’s just pragmatic business between states. For instance, an economic response may alleviate a geopolitical problem, and vice-versa.

Obviously the collective west has completely forgotten how that normal state-to-state behavior works. It’s pathetic. Turkey gets “denounced” by the west as traitorous – as much as China.

Of course Erdogan also needs to play to the galleries, so every once in a while he says that Crimea should be retaken by Kiev. After all, his companies also do business with Ukraine – Bayraktar drones and otherwise.

And then there’s proselytizing: Crimea remains theoretically ripe for Turkish influence, where Ankara may exploit the notions of pan-Islamism and mostly pan-Turkism, capitalizing on the historical relations between the peninsula and the Ottoman Empire.

Is Moscow worried? Not really. As for those Bayraktar TB2s sold to Kiev, they will continue to be relentlessly reduced to ashes. Nothing personal. Just business.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ReadovkaWorld/status/1564898546012372992
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[kfm27917]

There's mounting evidence that the war in Ukraine could have been over by this point, but key Western backers of Kiev sought to sabotage the potential for peaceful settlement through negotiations. That's precisely what regional Ukrainian media reports concluded as early as May, soon after the UK's Boris Johnson showed up in the capital on a "surprise" visit to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time the month prior

This is what a bombshell story in Ukrainska Pravda said at the time, but which was almost completely ignored in Western mainstream media:

According Ukrainska Pravda sources close to Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, who appeared in the capital almost without warning, brought two simple messages. The first is that Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with.

And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/western-allies-led-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal

[ExomatrixTV]

It's even Worse than we Thought, and Zelensky is laughing about it | Redacted with Clayton Morris:

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Ukrainian officials caught stealing billions of dollars in U.S. aid to their country. E.U. declares an energy emergency as Russia halts gas shipments to Germany. California tells citizens to stop charging their electric cars. And you won't believe who's in charge of the new IRS expansion.

[9ideon]

Ukrainians attempted to seize the power plant at Zaporozhye.

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

More on the Zaporozhye NPP attempt

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1565140167828144128
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https://www.stalkerzone.org/kherson-for-ukraine-becomes-scarier-than-ilovaisk/

Kherson for Ukraine Becomes Scarier Than Ilovaisk

August 31, 2022

Ukrainian troops lost more than 1,200 people during the day in Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and other regions. Up to this point, the biggest defeat of Kiev was the Ilovaisk cauldron in 2014, but even there the number of military personnel killed was less. What was the tactical plan of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and why did it result in heavy losses for them?



On Tuesday, the Russian Defence Ministry released detailed data about the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the failed attempt of the Ukrainian troops to develop a counteroffensive in Kherson and other regions. The enemy suffered large-scale losses – 48 Ukrainian tanks, 46 infantry fighting vehicles and more than 1,200 servicemen were destroyed over the past day. Thus, the attempt to counterattack was not crowned with strategic success for Kiev, but brought heavy losses to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in manpower and equipment.

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the failure of the August offensive are comparable to those that Ukraine suffered during the breakthrough from the Ilovaisk pocket in Donbass on the same days eight years ago, military commentator Yury Podolyaka noted on his Telegram channel. “It might be a coincidence, but Zelensky launched an adventurous ‘offensive’ in the Kherson region on the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine, which was timed precisely with the Ilovaisk events,” Podolyaka notes. “This is, apparently, so that the days of remembrance do not multiply – in one day to commemorate both the Ilovaisk dead and the Kherson ones.”

Recall that in mid-August 2014, the offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard and the irregular nationalist battalions “Azov” and “Dnepr-1” in the Donetsk region with an attempt to reach the Russian border was stopped by the DPR militia led by Aleksandr Zakharchenko, Mikhail Tolstykh (Givi), Arsen Pavlov (Motorola) and Aleksandr Khodakovsky. By August 26, 2014, Ukrainian troops were trapped in a cauldron near the city of Ilovaisk, and during an attempt to break out the UAF and the nationalist battalions suffered extremely serious losses.

The official reports of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry included 366 dead, but the investigative commission established by the Verkhovna Rada at that time concluded that the army lost more than a 1000 (killed). The head of the commission, a deputy of the then convocation of the Rada from “Batkivshchyna” Andrey Senchenko, in an interview with LigaBusinessInform, called the Ilovaisk defeat at that time “the most severe defeat of the Ukrainian forces”.

“The Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine have suffered the biggest one-time losses in recent months,” Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defence magazine, told the VZGLYAD newspaper. However, he links Zelensky’s decision to launch a counteroffensive not with the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine, but with the EU summit being held in Brussels at the level of the heads of military departments and the Foreign Ministry. “In particular, the issue of further assistance to Ukraine from the EU is being discussed there. It was for this meeting that Zelensky demanded a counteroffensive, counting on military success,” Korotchenko believes.

READ: UAF Corpses Discovered near Debaltsevo After Latest Failed Breakthrough Attempt

“However, the offensive turned into senseless death and further escalation between Zelensky and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny, so Kiev was left with a broken trough,” the source believes. We will remind that the opinion is expressed that General Zaluzhny warned the political leadership of Ukraine in advance that an attempt by the UAF at a counteroffensive in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog direction would end in failure. “It was a completely senseless massacre, in fact, Ukrainian servicemen were used as cannon fodder. And their lives are on Zelensky’s conscience,” Korotchenko stressed.

“Such a huge number of victims for the Ukrainian Armed Forces suggests that the tactics of the military-political leadership of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not changed since the Ilovaisk pocket.

Like back then, Petro Poroshenko, and now Zelensky herded their fighters to slaughter – for the sake of creating a beautiful picture about a ‘counteroffensive’, about ‘Ukraine’s fight on the front line of all Europe against the ‘horde of orcs’.

Probably, the figures of losses and video recordings of military operations will then be presented to the leadership of Western countries in order to bargain for new supplies of weapons and money,” says Aleksandr Perendzhiev, an associate professor of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of Russian Economic University of G. V. Plekhanova and member of the Expert Council of Officers of Russia.

“Another goal of Zelensky, apparently, was the desire to rehabilitate himself for the recent defeats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in other parts of the front,” the expert believes. “Such a victory would be widely spread throughout the entire Ukrainian and Western media space. But winning was probably a fallback for him – losing was just as good. Now, according to his plan, the West will be horrified by the number of victims among Ukrainian soldiers, and then active assistance to Kiev will resume,” the source added.

READ: The St Petersburg Forum Speech the West Didn’t Expect

The PR offensive of Ukrainian troops in the south was prepared on a grand scale, experts admit. For the first time in five months, a fully-fledged enemy offensive was attempted on this sector of the front, said military commander Roman Saponkov, who is in the special operation zone. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces used quite large means. Up to 20 tanks and up to 2 infantry battalions were deployed at each of the three sites,” the source said.

It should be noted that exactly the same number of tanks – 20 units – was assigned to the UAF formation that unsuccessfully tried to break through the front in Donbass, near the village of Kodema near the town of Bakhmut (DPR). “In the area of Kodema, the enemy attempted a counteroffensive, it was successfully repelled, 20 tanks and 30 militants were destroyed,” Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the DPR People’s Militia department, said on Tuesday. Also, judging by the description, in both cases – during the offensive on Kherson and in the battles near Kodema – the UAF used diversionary strikes.

The rest of the article,

https://www.stalkerzone.org/kherson-for-ukraine-becomes-scarier-than-ilovaisk/

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565273265089675266
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https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565274428149301249
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https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565283365862998017
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https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565340488336412674
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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565339060742152192
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https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565280427140603905
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[Bill Ryan]

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565331010056728576
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And wow. :facepalm: This had to be another of Zelensky's wild direct orders, effectively sending most of those men straight to their deaths.

And almost impossible to explain rationally. Why do this when the IAEA delegation was right there on the spot??

It had to be a desperate attempt to prevent the inspectors from seeing what was really happening there, maybe by ushering them out of the way telling them they were in danger as the Ukrainian special forces were going to recapture the plant and stop the Russians from doing whatever it was the Ukrainians claimed they were doing.

There'll be a LOT more commentary on all this in the next 24 hours, with many smart analysts scratching their heads in bewilderment.

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Ukraine66251776/status/1565361174631383043
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[9ideon]

Bill

https://i.postimg.cc/fyQ0BQ2g/Instr.png

If this would be the case and Russian troops do find Western Participants not of that foreign legion, well, that would by definition be seen as partaking in the war, Nato would officially have chosen a side to fight on. I wonder how the Russians are going to interpret this.

https://i.postimg.cc/Gmmb0g67/Roland-of-England-Combo.jpg

So, the Ukrainians dug up the Roland of England (Ship top pic), I have had the pleasure of knowing the Roland of England personally, been on it, drank on it and on many, many occasions laughed at it. One time in particular when we passed it on our own vessel and noticed it not moving, passengers onboard, they ran out of fuel (gasoline), I wonder now if the owners might have been Ukrainians, were it not that this happened in 1990, hahahahaha. In any case, not much seems to have changed when it comes to the Roland of England.

Roland you magnificent legend, may you fare well in barge heaven.

[Mashika]

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565331010056728576
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And wow. :facepalm: This had to be another of Zelensky's wild direct orders, effectively sending most of those men straight to their deaths.

And almost impossible to explain rationally. Why do this when the IAEA delegation was right there on the spot??

It had to be a desperate attempt to prevent the inspectors from seeing what was really happening there, maybe by ushering them out of the way telling them they were in danger as the Ukrainian special forces were going to recapture the plant and stop the Russians from doing whatever it was the Ukrainians claimed they were doing.

There'll be a LOT more commentary on all this in the next 24 hours, with many smart analysts scratching their heads in bewilderment.

There is a theory going on already, based on timeline events

1. The IAEA mission was supposed to be on the plant on 31 August or so, they decided to delay the arrival and instead the head of the mission went to kiev and talked in private to Elensky

2. Then, they finally went there, but specified that even though they had scheduled to be on the plant until 3 September, the visit may last less than that because they 'already have all they need'

3. They get delayed by a few hours on a checkpoint, by the Ukrainian military, after 3 or so hours they finally move towards the plant

4. All meanwhile, the Ukrainians prepare the invasion of the plant, and all those delays give them time to be on position and close enough to reach the plant in what seems like a pre-planned timeline of events

So the theory is, the Ukros were meant to invade the plant just as the mission arrived, then take them hostage and under the "the Russians are shelling the plant trying to take it back" force a situation in which the UN would demand that the demilitarized zone gets created around the plant, which would definitely cause what Ukraine has been wishing for a lot of time now, that if this demilitarized zone thing happens, then the war will stall completely indefinitely, kind of a North/South Korea situation maybe. So the IAEA delayed and delayed just to time it right with the Ukro invasion and then be unable to do any of the work they were supposed to do, as the plant would be in chaos and they would be suddenly hostages or get trapped in the escalation. It seems very suspect, to be honest

But the operation failed, now the IAEA mission is saying they will not stay for long? That's odd, what changed that caused them to leave so soon? :)

Why did the head of the mission go talk with Elensky first?, then how come the Ukros at that checkpoint were opposed to let them pass? Wasn't there a direct order from the very top to let them through? Doesn't make sense unless it was preplanned to delay them there until the special ops groups had landed on the plant and were ready to take it over. It's all about the timing maybe

Oh, just saw this

https://t.me/asbmil/4576
asbmil/4576



at About 06:00 Moscow time, Ukrainian troops landed on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir three kilometers northeast of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in two sabotage groups of up to 60 people on seven boats and attempted to seize the power plant. They were British trained individuals recently transferred from Poland. The Kremlin claims that this was an MI6 planned operation orchestrated by Boris Johnson and that Russia had information about the plan and was aware of it happening. Full statement from Russia:

The Kremlin was aware of the plans of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take advantage of the arrival of the IAEA mission and carry out an amphibious landing in order to try to seize the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and make statements for days that it was Russian special forces. Under ideal conditions for the work of the DRG, they calculated the task of taking the mission itself hostage and keeping the nuclear power plant under mines, making demands for the complete withdrawal of Russian troops to the territory of Crimea.

Russia claims that Boris Johnson brought the plan of operation and some of the instructors with him as a demobilization chord of his premiership, but if the GUR was successful, he would have refused to transfer power— referring to an international emergency threatening a catastrophe on a planetary scale. At the moment, 47 DRG fighters have been destroyed, three have been taken prisoner (!), Two are in serious condition between life and death. A group of 12 people is blocked on three sides and cut off from the water and boats, by 15:00 the CTO will be over.

Zelensky's statement on this situation is expected in the late afternoon, the head of the IAEA Mission has already been notified of the situation, as well as UN Secretary General Guterres. The operation was coordinated by MI6 officers from their headquarters in the suburbs of Kyiv (Ukrainian sources confirmed everything the Kremlin said so far, as well as confirming the failures and ambush of Ukrainian special forces)

All 64 DRGs have recently completed training in the UK and traveled from Warsaw to Odessa on 29 August.

- claims Russian Defense Ministry

Russian Armed Forces & Air Force was immediately deployed and sunk the boats. Ka-52s arrived at the same time raising hell onto Ukrainian special forces.

Ukrainian sources claim that the AFU is furious and trying to figure out how Russia was aware of the operation and where it went wrong



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[Spiral]

Another view on todays events...

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[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1565370138072956934
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https://twitter.com/ChannelOne_eng/status/1565312752050208771
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[9ideon]

Mashika

So the theory is, the Ukros were meant to invade the plant just as the mission arrived, then take them hostage and under the "the Russians are shelling the plant trying to take it back" force a situation in which the UN would demand that the demilitarized zone gets created around the plant, which would definitely cause what Ukraine has been wishing for a lot of time now, that if this demilitarized zone thing happens, then the war will stall completely indefinitely, kind of a North/South Korea situation maybe. So the IAEA delayed and delayed just to time it right with the Ukro invasion and then be unable to do any of the work they were supposed to do, as the plant would be in chaos and they would be suddenly hostages or get trapped in the escalation. It seems very suspect, to be honest

I can buy this, typical West playbook.

[rgray222]

Another casualty of the war but not on the battlefield. Of course this is a CNN story so it really does need to be verified.

Head of Russian oil giant Lukoil dies after falling from hospital window, reports state media

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/a49b7ba1-1029-4211-957d-e48772b81c0d.jpg
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oil Company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, attends an awarding ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 21, 2019.

The chairman of Russian oil and gas giant Lukoil — which spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine — has died after falling out of a hospital window, state news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS reported Thursday.

Ravil Maganov died at the Central Clinical Hospital west of Moscow, according to the reports, which cite the hospital and law enforcement sources.

"The incident occurred around 07:00 am Moscow time in the Central Clinical Hospital ... The man fell out of the sixth-floor window and died as a result of his injuries," a source told TASS.

Lukoil confirmed Maganov’s death in a statement published on its website, saying only that the executive died "following a severe illness" and making no mention of a fall.

"We deeply regret to announce that Ravil Maganov, Chairman of PJSC LUKOIL Board of Directors, passed away following a severe illness," the statement read. "Ravil Maganov immensely contributed to the development of not only the Company, but of the entire Russian oil and gas sector."

Russia's second largest oil company made headlines in early March after speaking out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"The Board of Directors of LUKOIL expresses herewith its deepest concerns about the tragic events in Ukraine. Calling for the soonest termination of the armed conflict, we express our sincere empathy for all victims, who are affected by this tragedy," reads a statement from the board of directors to shareholders, staff and customers published March 3.

"We strongly support a lasting ceasefire and a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy,” added the statement.

Lukoil produces more than 2% of the world's crude oil and employs more than 100,000 people.

RIA Novosti quoted a law enforcement source who said the businessman "most likely committed suicide."

"Yes, we can confirm the fact [of death]. Investigating authorities are working on the spot to establish the causes of the incident," the source said, according to RIA.

At least five prominent Russian businessmen have reportedly died by suicide since late January, according to previous CNN reporting.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-01-22/h_3b48974f387168c9c3e73a7c9949889a

[Bill Ryan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRmtI-bOxPITwo days old (and time moves fast now!), but bumping this as (a) I'm a diehard Doug Macgregor fan, and (b) his answers to a bunch of very good questions are as razor-sharp concise, straight to the point, and bullseye accurate as one would ever wish.

My fantasy pick: Tulsi Gabbard for President, and Macgregor as her VP. (But sadly, that has to be in an alternative universe, far, far away :) )

:focus:

[Mashika]

:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::ROFL::bigsmile:



If someone calls you, introduces himself as the President of Ukraine, asks for money, weapons and to hate Russia, do not pay attention.

Probably just some kind of drug addict.


https://t.me/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/3590
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[Mashika]

Mashika

So the theory is, the Ukros were meant to invade the plant just as the mission arrived, then take them hostage and under the "the Russians are shelling the plant trying to take it back" force a situation in which the UN would demand that the demilitarized zone gets created around the plant, which would definitely cause what Ukraine has been wishing for a lot of time now, that if this demilitarized zone thing happens, then the war will stall completely indefinitely, kind of a North/South Korea situation maybe. So the IAEA delayed and delayed just to time it right with the Ukro invasion and then be unable to do any of the work they were supposed to do, as the plant would be in chaos and they would be suddenly hostages or get trapped in the escalation. It seems very suspect, to be honest

I can buy this, typical West playbook.

Yeah, and there's a reason all these talks happen in person behind closed doors, even like Boris Johnson traveling all the way over there just to talk to Elensky. They can't risk a phone conversation, no matter how secure the line is, they just can't risk getting recorded talking about these things, it would mean the end for all of them and the collective west narratives. So they have to take a trip to talk in person, so there is no record whatsoever or any risk of leaks of what they truly plan and conspire

[9ideon]

Mashika

So the theory is, the Ukros were meant to invade the plant just as the mission arrived, then take them hostage and under the "the Russians are shelling the plant trying to take it back" force a situation in which the UN would demand that the demilitarized zone gets created around the plant, which would definitely cause what Ukraine has been wishing for a lot of time now, that if this demilitarized zone thing happens, then the war will stall completely indefinitely, kind of a North/South Korea situation maybe. So the IAEA delayed and delayed just to time it right with the Ukro invasion and then be unable to do any of the work they were supposed to do, as the plant would be in chaos and they would be suddenly hostages or get trapped in the escalation. It seems very suspect, to be honest

I can buy this, typical West playbook.

Yeah, and there's a reason all these talks happen in person behind closed doors, even like Boris Johnson traveling all the way over there just to talk to Elensky. They can't risk a phone conversation, no matter how secure the line is, they just can't risk getting recorded talking about these things, it would mean the end for all of them and the collective west narratives. So they have to take a trip to talk in person, so there is no record whatsoever or any risk of leaks of what they truly plan and conspire

There's must be speculation about what the F@B knows simply by tapping conversations, I wonder a lot about it. Our PM does not use smartphones, he uses the older model phones, but they can be tapped into as well, if certain People would have certain conversations from this guy, well, if used at the right time that could prove to be mightier than a weapon. I can imagine this could be even more disastrous in case of bigger players. I love wondering about these things it gives the mind many options.

See, I wonder what the story is on the West front (East when you are Ukrainian), up there at around Izium, apparently Ukrainians are massing Panzers and troops up there. I can't see that this is just to take Izium.

I am also surprised that these attacks in the South were not coordinated at the same time as the one they're very obvious preparing for. They did use the Southern attack to try and get Russia fully concentrated and committed to repel that attack, it is not far fetched they gambled, or perhaps even assumed (arrogance) that Russia would take troops from the area of the power plant to strengthen the area of under attack. I mean, they can't be that stupid assuming Russia didn't see that coming.

Spiral (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1515681&viewfull=1#post1515681) had some post on that:


The Kremlin was aware of the plans of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take advantage of the arrival of the IAEA mission and carry out an amphibious landing in order to try to seize the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and make statements for days that it was Russian special forces
So perhaps Mashika, very maybe, there's a bug up the Chickens buttocks and Москва is listening in, would be priceless. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/scared/scared0008.gif

[Ravenlocke]

https://tass.com/world/1501295

Up to 12 people from IAEA mission decided to stay at Zaporozhye — local authorities

The experts are supposed to assess the staff’s working conditions and take urgent measures to provide safety and security guarantees for the facility
ENERGODAR, September 1. /TASS/. Between eight and 12 people from the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will remain at the Zaporozhye nucler power plant in Ukraine, Alexander Volga, the head of Energodar’s military-civilian administration, said on Thursday.

"As of now and, according to the information that I have been provided with, between eight and twelve people [from the IAEA mission] will remain staying here," Volga said speaking to journalists.

Earlier in the day, the IAEA team arrived at the Zaporozhye NPP located in the city of Energodar. The delegation is on a fact-finding mission to estimate the material damage to the plant and to evaluate the operational capabilities of the plant’s safety and security systems.

The experts are supposed to assess the staff’s working conditions and take urgent measures to provide safety and security guarantees for the facility.

Energodar, which is the site of the Zaporozhye NPP, Europe’s largest nuclear power facility, has been the target of shelling attacks by the Ukrainian military over the past few weeks. For its strikes against the nuclear power plant, the Kiev regime is using drones, heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems. In most cases, the attacks are repelled by Russian air defense systems. However, some rockets hit the NPP’s infrastructural facilities, including nuclear waste storage sites.

On the morning of September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian troops attempted to disembark at 07:00 at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, near the Vodyanoe village. The landing was thwarted by Russia’s Armed Forces, when they sunk two self-propelled barges carrying saboteurs that departed from Nikopol.

Also, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, at 06:20 Moscow time, the Kiev regime carried out a landing by two Ukrainian sabotage groups with a total number of up to 60 people on seven speedboats on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir, three kilometers north-east of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. The Defense Ministry reported that the Ukrainian servicemen were blocked by units of the Russian National Guard and the Russian Armed Forces.


UN Security Council to hold briefing on Ukraine on September 22 — program of work

According to the document, the UNSC will hold a meeting on "maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine"
UNITED NATIONS, September 1. /TASS/. The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on "maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine" on September 22, according to the provisional program of work of the UN Security Council, which was released on Thursday.

France is holding the presidency of the UN Security Council in September.

Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said earlier that Russia had requested a UN Security Council briefing for September 6 over Kiev’s ongoing shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

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[Mashika]

Some morons on the Ukro Twitter side don't even understand combat but they still need to have an opinion. It bothers me, very honestly, how wrong and dumb they can be but still always find a way to say something, so unaware of their own ignorance

In this case, some moron looked at this video and saw the Ukrainian soldiers raising their rifles above their heads and shooting on the Russian soldiers direction, somehow the moron thought this was bad and a 'desperate' action. In reality, this is a very normal tactic for very close combat, like in trenches or similar, you can't show your head and get it blown up so you shoot like that because you can't directly see the enemy and you are too close to expose yourself, the enemy could be just 3/4 meters away from you for all you know

https://t.me/antinatocoalition/741
antinatocoalition/741

The twitter warrior has the Ukrainian flag, he supports Ukraine, but here he thinks they are "desperate", his ego is bigger than his giant forehead, the foolishness.... :)
https://t.me/DonbassDevushka/22390
DonbassDevushka/22390


Here's an example of the Russian guys doing the exact same thing. Ukros are on the left, the two guys on the higher ground.

Russian guys on the right side, unable to see the Ukros but they know they are there, so they shoot from above the head trying to hit them blindly, it's an uphill battle, hard to win that one so they ended up retreating after a while.

This is expected due to the terrain and they obviously had to shoot from above their heads, otherwise they would have to hike and then would get killed by the guy above that has full control over the situation and would see them coming easily. This is close combat tactics and anyone who went through training for close trench combat would do the exact same
https://t.me/FilatovCorr/374
FilatovCorr/374

Also if you need to do something like what the guy did, shoot a rocket or grenade, you need the support fire like that, just shoot in the general direction of the enemy so they have to take cover and this opens a window in which the rocket will be launched against the enemy position, this also is a very normal tactic and nothing special about it

How to take serious a person so ignorant? And the internet is full of them, but this is also why a lot of people who follow those morons assume things and have a completely broken idea of what's truly going on, on both sides

[Bill Ryan]

Some may have already heard about this, but here's Ania K from Poland, a multilingual, very lovely and aware person indeed, reporting on the ridiculous black comedy of Elensky renting his Italian villa for €50,000/month (the same in USD) to... a Russian couple.

:facepalm::ROFL:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91nugSnW5ak

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/status/1565456650038919169
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[Ravenlocke]

Gonzalo Lira explains a Rumor about what happened at the Zaporozhye NPP.

https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1565333242445692929
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https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1565333253489319936
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https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1565333260032516098
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https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1565333267263508480
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[Tintin]

More on the Sarah Ashton-Cirillo creature here, if anyone is interested:

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[Tintin]

Response of MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova to a media question regarding Ukrainian provocations aimed at disrupting the international mission of the IAEA

1773-01-09-2022

Source: MFA of the Russian Federation (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1828093/)

Question: How would you comment on the new shelling of the Zaporozhye NPP and the attempt to seize the plant this morning by subversive groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine?

Answer: On September 1, the international mission of the IAEA at the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP) enters the main phase . Early in the morning, the Agency's team headed by Director General R. Grossi and accompanied by representatives of the Department of Security of the UN Secretariat moved towards the station along the agreed route.

The implementation of this extremely important measure, designed to open the eyes of the international community to the real source of the threat to the security of the ZNPP, which is the Ukrainian side, is clearly not to the liking of Kyiv. The moment of truth is inexorably approaching.

In this regard, on the eve of the Kiev regime was carried out an attempt to disrupt the mission of the IAEA at the ZNPP. Ukrainian artillery staged another massive shelling of the station and the nearby city of Energodar. Four shells exploded at a distance of 400 meters from the first power unit of the ZNPP. The meeting place of the IAEA mission with Russian specialists in the area of ​​the village of Vasilievka was also hit. Along with this, on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir, 3 km northeast of the ZNPP, the Kyiv regime landed two sabotage groups with a total number of up to 60 people. The saboteurs were blocked by the forces of the Russian military.

We perceive all these actions only as a manifestation of the desperate desire of the Ukrainian leadership and the armed formations under its control to prevent the appearance of representatives of the IAEA at the ZNPP by any means. We also note the absence of any reaction to what is happening on the part of the Western curators of Kyiv, who continue to encourage any recklessness of V. Zelensky. They should remember that such criminal connivance makes them accomplices in sabotage and other subversive steps taken by Bandera.

The Russian side did everything in its power to ensure that R. Grossi and his team make a safe trip to the ZNPP and do their job. We pay tribute to their courage and willingness to work literally under Ukrainian fire.

At present, the IAEA experts have arrived at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and are starting work in accordance with the plan.

In the event of new attempts by Kyiv to disrupt their work by shelling or sabotage, all responsibility for the consequences will fall entirely on the V. Zelensky regime and its curators, as well as their “support group” in the West.

[Tintin]

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[Tintin]

"I don't know, I haven't had a text from Shoigu, Hang on, let me check." (makes to check phone) :)

More incisive commentary from Scott Ritter here in conversation with Ania K recorded August 30th 2022.

He's pretty animated here, and bang on the money especially concerning the need for the 'Polish' government to, and I quote: "Wake up!" around the pure fiction that Russia might invade Poland :facepalm:

There's more, as the title suggests of course. Very good this one :flower:

SCOTT RITTER ON WHEN THE SHOOTING STOPS;THE ROAD MAP OF WEAPONS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN ZAPORIZHZHIA

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[Tintin]

"The existence of the Myrotvorets “death list” is an instrument of terror and should be taken down at the insistence of the U.S. Government. The failure of the Ukrainian government to shut down the Myrotvorets Center and condemn its activities would constitute material support of terrorism." - Scott Ritter


SCOTT RITTER: The Death List
August 31, 2022

Source: Consortium News (https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/31/scott-ritter-the-death-list/)

The odious legacy of Stepan Bandera drives the suppression of those who dare challenge the narrative of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict promulgated by the Ukrainian government, its Western allies and a compliant mainstream media.

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Stepan Bandera monument in Ternopil, Ukraine, 2017. (Mykola Vasylechko, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

In May 1986 I received orders to attend a counterterrorism awareness course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. For the next two weeks I learned about the various terrorist threats facing the United States military, and was taught various skills to overcome them, such as high-speed evasive driving, counter-surveillance methodology and reactive shooting techniques.

Upon my return to Twenty-Nine Palms, where I was stationed as a Marine Corps intelligence officer, I was given the task of putting my newly learned skills to work by carrying out a base-wide counterterrorism exercise. I borrowed a scout-sniper team from the infantry battalion on base, and set them up in an apartment off base, where I turned them into a terrorist cell tasked with collecting intelligence on the senior officers who lived and worked on the base. The only rule was that the terrorists could not engage with civilians — no families were to be impacted by the drill.

Over the course of the next 30 days, my terrorist team was able to “assassinate” every battalion commander, the regimental commander and the base commander, using improvised explosive devices and sniper fire — and had the photographs to prove it.

The takeaway from this exercise was that if someone wanted you dead, you were probably going to die.

Vigilance was your only real defense — to be alert for anything suspicious. In short, to live a life governed by paranoia. In the age of terrorism, if you feel like someone is seeking to do you harm, it is probably because someone is seeking to do you harm.

Using Those Skills

Throughout my professional life, I have had occasion to use the skills I learned at Fort Bragg on several occasions — I was targeted for assassination while working as a U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq and I was informed that I was the subject of a “hit” put out by the Russian mafia for my role in breaking up an illicit missile component smuggling ring.

I would conduct a 360-degree inspection of my vehicle before entering it, looking for signs of tampering. And I would conduct counter-surveillance drills while driving, accelerating at odd intervals to see if anyone kept pace, or rapidly exiting a highway to see if anyone followed.

Today, I’m a 61-year-old writer living in the suburbs of Albany, New York. It’s a quiet neighborhood, where everyone knows everyone. And yet, due to recent circumstances, I once again find myself inspecting my vehicle before getting inside, keeping a watchful eye out for strange vehicles driving down my street and conducting counter-surveillance maneuvers while driving.

Why the paranoia? Simply put, my name has been added to a Ukrainian “kill list.” Think I’m getting too wound up? Ask the family of Daria Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin. Both she and her father were on the same list. Both were targeted for death by an assassin dispatched by the Ukrainian security services. Only a last-second change of plans, which put Alexander Dugin behind the wheel of a different car, kept him from being killed in the blast that took the life of his daughter.

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Daria Dugina. (1RNK, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

I’ve been writing for some time now about the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation and their publication in mid-July of a “blacklist” containing the names of 72 intellectuals, journalists, activists and politicians from several countries who were labeled “Russian propagandists” by the Ukrainian government for having the audacity to speak critically, yet factually, about the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

I took umbrage over this list for several reasons, first and foremost that the salaries of the Ukrainians who compiled this list appeared to be paid by the U.S. taxpayer using funds appropriated by Congress for that very purpose. The idea of Congress passing a law which empowered the Ukrainian government to do something — suppress the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and a free press — that Congress was Constitutionally prohibited from doing angered me.

[Related: SCOTT RITTER: Chuck Schumer’s War on Free Speech]

So, too, did the fact that the Center for Countering Disinformation announced the existence of this “blacklist” at a function organized by a U.S.-funded NGO and attended by State Department officials who sat mute while their Ukrainian colleagues labeled the persons on this list “information terrorists” who deserved to be arrested and prosecuted as “war criminals.”

At the time, I cautioned that the use of such inflammatory language meant that the “blacklist” could be turned into a “kill list” simply by having a fanatic decide to take justice into his or her own hands. Given that the U.S. government funded the creation of this list, organized the meeting where it was presented to the world and gave an implicit stamp of approval to the list and its accompanying labeling through the attendance of U.S. government officials, these fanatics don’t have to be foreign sourced. Plenty of people in the U.S. adhere to the same hate-filled ideology that exists in Ukraine today and which gave birth to the “blacklist.”

Some of them are my neighbors.

In June I drove down to Bethel, New York (the site of the original Woodstock music festival), to participate in a Spartan Obstacle Course Race. To get there, I had to drive past Ellenville, a sleepy little town that is home to a camp belonging to the Ukrainian American Youth Association which, every summer, coordinates with the Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms of Ukraine to hold a “Heroes’ Holiday” honoring veteran of the Ukrainian People’s Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

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The camp boasts a “Heroes’ Monument”, consists of a 42-foot-tall structure with a Ukrainian trident at the top flanked by the busts of Yevhen Konovalets, Symon Petliura, Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera —four leading figures in the history of Ukrainian nationalism, all of whom were involved in the murders, collectively, of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles and Russians.

Bandera has been elevated to the status of a national hero in Ukraine, and his birthday is considered a national holiday.

That a monument to men responsible for genocidal mass murder and who, in the case of two of them (Shukhevych and Bandera) openly collaborated with Nazi Germany, could be erected in the United States is disturbing.

That every year Ukrainian-American adherents of the odious ideology of Stepan Bandera gather to celebrate his legacy at a “children’s camp” where the youth are arrayed in brown uniforms that make them look like what they, in fact, are — ideological storm troopers for a hateful neo-Nazi ideology that promotes the racial superiority of the Ukrainian people, is an national abomination.

From Ellenville to Bethel, I saw evidence of this hateful reality in every blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag fluttering in the wind — and every red-and-black banner of the Bandera-worshipping Ukrainian neo-Nazi fanatics that fluttered next to them.

Stepan Bandera Legacy

The legacy of Stepan Bandera is at the very heart of what passes for Ukrainian nationalism today. It dominates the political arena inside Ukraine, where all competing political ideology and affiliations have been outlawed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

It is behind the suppression of all dissenting voices — foreign and domestic — that dare challenge the narrative about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict being promulgated by the Ukrainian government, its Western allies, and a compliant mainstream media.

After Consortium News published my letter to my New York congressional delegation (Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Paul Tonko), in which I called them out for voting for Public Law 117-128 appropriating $40 billion in U.S. taxpayer money to underwrite the Ukrainian government and military, there was concerted action by others impacted by the Ukrainian “blacklist,” which the legislation had funded. This was led by Diane Sare, the LaRouche Party candidate challenging Schumer for his Senate seat.

The publicity about congressionally-funded suppression of free speech appeared to be too much for those who are complicit in a frontal assault on the U.S. Constitution. The Center for Countering Disinformation’s “blacklist” was removed from the internet.

Victory, however, was short lived. Within days of the Center for Countering Disinformation’s “blacklist” being taken down, a list published by the Ukrainian “Myrotvorets” (Peacemaker’s) Center incorporated names that had been on the Center for Countering Disinformation “blacklist.”

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Coat of Myrotvorets staff member with field version of their emblem on sleeve. (Shao, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

The Myrotvorets list has been in existence since 2014 and has been described as “effectively a death list for politicians, journalists, entrepreneurs and other public figures who have been ‘cleared for firing’” by the list’s creators.

Daria Dugina’s name was on that list.

And now so is mine, along with several other Westerners, such as Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett and British rock musician Roger Waters.

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he Biden administration is silent about this abomination.

So is Congress.

According to 6 USCS § 101, the term terrorism is



“any activity that involves an act that is dangerous to human life or potentially destructive of critical infrastructure or key resources; and is a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State or other subdivision of the United States; and appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”

There is little doubt that the murder of Daria Dugina was an act of terrorism perpetrated on behalf of the Ukrainian government. (Her photo on the list now has the word “liquidated” written diagonally across it in red.)

While the Ukrainians deny any such allegations, Russian authorities have assembled a convincing factual case to the contrary.

The existence of the Myrotvorets “death list” is an instrument of terror and should be taken down at the insistence of the U.S. Government.

The failure of the Ukrainian government to shut down the Myrotvorets Center and condemn its activities would constitute material support of terrorism.

The U.S. should also recognize any organizations which embrace the ideology of Stepan Bandera as terrorist entities — including those responsible for raising a new generation of brown-shirted neo-Nazis in the heartland of America.

The “Hero’s Monument” in Ellenville must be closed, and the statues of Bandera and the other three Ukrainian nationalists removed from public view.

It is a national disgrace that U.S. citizens are subjected to death threats from an erstwhile ally of the United States for simply exercising their Constitutional right of free speech. The adherents to the ideology of Stepan Bandera, in Ukraine and in the United States, must be treated as terrorists, and prosecuted with the same level of intensity and purpose as were the followers of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.

Until this is done, I will have no choice but to take the appropriate precautions to make sure that neither my family nor I suffer the fate of Daria Dugina.

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[9ideon]

While the Ukrainians deny any such allegations, Russian authorities have assembled a convincing factual case to the contrary.

Been seeing this couple times, every time I have to think about Ukraine's official response towards the Pope, you know, that comment concerning Darya Dugina, they already acknowledged involvement by commenting the way they did.

Ooh and Elensky, the Chicken of Kiev, Aka the Pope of Dope!

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Ukraine Suffers Massive Losses as Kherson Offensive Stalls and Russia Counterattacks

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Physical integrity of Zaporozhye nuclear plant ‘violated several times’ – IAEA chief

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has confirmed that damage had been done to the Russian-held Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine, but refrained from naming the guilty party.

“It’s obvious that… the physical integrity of the plant has been violated several times. By chance or by deliberation, we don’t have the elements to assess that, but this is the reality that we have to recognize,” Grossi told reporters after returning to Ukrainian-controlled territory on Friday.

“I worried, I worry and I will continue to worry about the plant until we have a situation that’s more stable, that’s more predictable,” he added.

Grossi, who headed the team of IAEA experts that arrived at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on Thursday, said that he “saw a lot” during the visit, personally inspecting some of the “key areas” at the facility, including emergency systems, diesel generators and control rooms.

The atomic agency was “not going anywhere” from the plant now, he assured reporters, reiterating that the UN nuclear watchdog plans to establish a permanent presence at the facility.

The official also said that some experts from his team will remain at the station until Sunday or Monday to “dig deeper” and collect more data for the report.

UN thanks Russia for keeping nuclear team safe
UN thanks Russia for keeping nuclear team safe
Russia said that Ukraine has shelled the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and sent commandos to storm it on Thursday in a failed attempt to use the UN inspectors as “human shields.”

Grossi acknowledged that the security situation at the plant was “difficult” during his visit. “There were moments where fire was obvious – heavy machine gun, artillery, mortars,” he said, adding that on two or three occasions things got “very concerning” for the UN team.

Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been under Russian control since March, but has continued to be operated by the Ukrainian staff. The IAEA chief has praised the “incredible degree of professionalism” of those employees, saying that he saw them “calm and moving.”

Moscow accused Kiev forces of repeatedly targeting the nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, in August. It warned that those attacks could trigger a disaster that would eclipse the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, with radioactive material potentially reaching Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Belarus, and even Germany.

Ukraine has claimed that Russian forces have turned the power plant into a military base and that they’ve been shelling the facility themselves to pin the blame on Kiev.

READ MORE: Ukraine planned to use IAEA team as ‘human shields’ – Russia
Russia has repeatedly denied those accusations and urged that international inspectors visit the site so that they could assess the situation for themselves.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/562044-russian-defense-minister-ukrainian-counteroffensive/

Russian defense minister comments on Ukrainian counteroffensive

The Ukrainian military is suffering heavy casualties as it tries to retake territories seized earlier by Russian forces in southern Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said.

Speaking on Friday during a conference call at the ministry, Shoigu stated that “the Ukrainian armed forces’ attempts at an offensive continue on the Nikolaev-Krivorozsk and other directions, and the enemy is suffering considerable losses.”

The minister went on to allege that the counteroffensive had been planned by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s office “solely to create the illusion before the Western backers that the Ukrainian military is able to conduct an offensive.”

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Shoigu also claimed that Russian forces had taken over a village in Kherson region and reached the administrative border with Nikolaev region.

On Tuesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry issued a statement claiming that its troops had killed over a thousand Ukrainian service members as well as “foreign mercenaries” and destroyed dozens of tanks and armored military vehicles in just one day.

A day earlier, officials in Moscow proclaimed that the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kherson region had “failed miserably.”

The Ukrainian government has been talking about a counteroffensive in the south of the country for several months now. In a video address on Sunday, President Zelensky promised to also reclaim the whole of Donbass, parts of the Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions currently held by Russian forces, as well as Crimea.

[Mashika]

The free world, democracy, human rights and other BS stories

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[Mashika]

"The existence of the Myrotvorets “death list” is an instrument of terror and should be taken down at the insistence of the U.S. Government. The failure of the Ukrainian government to shut down the Myrotvorets Center and condemn its activities would constitute material support of terrorism." - Scott Ritter


SCOTT RITTER: The Death List
August 31, 2022

Source: Consortium News (https://consortiumnews.com/2022/08/31/scott-ritter-the-death-list/)

Until this is done, I will have no choice but to take the appropriate precautions to make sure that neither my family nor I suffer the fate of Daria Dugina.

I'm going to go out of my way to point this out:


It is lamentable that he made the list and now fears for his life, but, the list has been there for several years, and kids have made that list several times in the past, and no one on the west cared

He cares now because he made the list? One day before he realized he was on the list, did he care at all about it? He sure knew of the existence of that list, if he has the intel he seems/claim to have, but why didn't he do or say anything about it in the past and only until he go affected? Did he talk about it ever or made a clear statement about it? I don't recall any but maybe i'm wrong

See this is the problem i have with some people, they don't truly care until they find themselves at the end of the barrel, but before that they go happily around not even giving it a second thought because they feel protected and that it does not matter because it is "very far away"

In a way, Dasha's death has proven that these days, nothing happening is "very far away", as we can see now by Scott Ritter's behavior and actions. Maybe this will cause some effect in the end, and give some more meaning to Dasha's sacrifice :)



The existence of the Myrotvorets “death list” is an instrument of terror and should be taken down at the insistence of the U.S. Government.


Wasn't there some news a week or two ago, that it did seem the list website was hosted at least partially on NATO servers?



The failure of the Ukrainian government to shut down the Myrotvorets Center and condemn its activities would constitute material support of terrorism

The US is participating in it, and people have died because of it. The US is a terrorist sponsoring state by all definitions they have put out there

I find it rather naive that Scott Ritter thinks the US has nothing to do with the death list and that they can do something about it, as if they were not aware or totally supporting of it.

Wake up Scott Ritter, stop living on the American exceptionalism bubble, your government knows and doesn't care, and they pay for it, and you are on that list and if you die because of it, they will do nothing about it

That's the true nature of that beast, wake up

[shaberon]

Did I miss something?


A counterattack at Kherson was advertised.

Net results, 50+ destroyed tanks, 100+ other vehicles, 2,000+ KIA, and HIMARS proved itself to be worthless in combat. Otherwise they won, right?


Who understands the "suicide strategy"?

I heard it was all MI6.

I suppose that show will be over soon, leaving less to protect Odessa.

Six months into this and Ukraine cannot manage a small offensive maneuver in their own territory. And everyone dies! This sounds a lot like British and American leadership.

Death cult.

Sadly I was informed that the west is not just going to "wake up" to how abominable it really is.

They might impeach Biden after the mid-terms, but that is just an exercise in superfluity.


It may be difficult for some to say that Satan rules supreme, from the top to the bottom, in perpetuity, everything around here. I mean I know they have their Bibles and stuff, but that doesn't change anything.

I don't really know how to tone it down so that I don't "lose the audience", and of course any kind of stealthy step-by-step buildup is not going to happen either. Chances are that only tremendous suffering will ever get their attention, maybe.


Anyone else think this is funny? There goes my President, sending over missiles that do two things, kill civilians and get their users killed. This is not 1961 where you have to wait to hear about it fourth hand from the Dominican Republic. That is basically what is happening right now, in a "-cide" that I'm not even sure has an appropriate title yet.

Aside from the slight irony that there is nothing new in this, it keeps going on.


Can anyone even attempt to define something that is actually stupider than the words and deeds of American and British governments. Are they not just criminally insane, but, in fact, so stupid that you could not draw a better picture of an idiot whatsoever?

Is the deafening silence just the sound of monopolar world order already gone?

Does the Anglosphere now represent the 15% of the world that it actually is?

The best deal is to stop listening to these clowns, make them shut up and listen to you.

[9ideon]

He cares now because he made the list? One day before he realized he was on the list, did he care at all about it?


This is the problem I have with a lot of People too, had some comments made about it here as well. Now that events are unfolding and things are getting "real" and certain People are seeing that elements might come their way, suddenly we all need to care. Completely bypassing the fact that some of us were already caring about aspects of how this Planet is being run into the ground while they were still runnin' round catching butterflies.

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It's like dealing with a spoiled Kid from time to time, stamping feet towards a fit to get attention now that bubble has burst.

That said, I had no clue about that list until they killed Darya Dugina and saw it on a YT vid.

That Lukaschenko comment on the war in Ukraine ending soon because of a military coup, I feel that is simply to clown that sockpuppet in Kiev, I mean he's paranoid beyond the realm of insanity, perhaps there's hope he'll go full Adolf and start executing people left right and center in a way that they have no other option but to get rid of him, self fulfilling planted seed.

After that speech Biden did about the Trump supporters and their "threat" to Democracy we can safely assume that hiding their intention and insanity is now of the past. One can see in the speech that the Usurper is lying when addressing Maga as a dangerous threat. Like when he says that they "fan(?) the flame of political violence, he blinks very fast with the eyes 3x1 (before/during violence), means he's lying, he does it every time he addresses the People and dictates that they (MAGA) are violent. That man truly makes me sick and it is a shame he's old, a good long vacation in a Siberian resort would do wonders to types like that, especially for around 30 to life.

[Mike Gorman]

It is difficult to not be impressed by Katie Hopkins, I know she is a self confessed "Gob****e" or someone who mouths off a lot, but she is actually giving lots of people support and emotional reinforcement, plus her political instincts are spot on, she is a true B.S detector, a true journalist and raconteur - just my 2 cents worth here, I like Katie enormously.

[Brigantia]

It is difficult to not be impressed by Katie Hopkins, I know she is a self confessed "Gob****e" or someone who mouths off a lot, but she is actually giving lots of people support and emotional reinforcement, plus her political instincts are spot on, she is a true B.S detector, a true journalist and raconteur - just my 2 cents worth here, I like Katie enormously.

I also like what she says, but I've read her mainstream bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins)and I suspect that she is a spook (my emphasis below).


As a child she believed she was "going to be the colonel of the forces. I loved the military. I loved the discipline, the rigour, the big shouty men." She instead studied economics at the University of Exeter, receiving sponsorship from the British Army's Intelligence Corps. She spent weekends with the Officers' Training Corps.

She completed her military training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but suffered an epileptic seizure during the final passing-out ceremony, and as a result was unable to take up her commission. Hopkins said she kept her epilepsy secret while attending Sandhurst, as this would have prevented her from being commissioned.

A medical is part of the initial process of joining the Army, whether they confirm that by obtaining medical records I'm not sure, but I find it suspect that she had a seizure right at the end of her Sandhurst training.

She then went on to have a high profile career in journalism which is a ripe recruiting ground for spooks, and has been a very divisive figure; people love her or hate her. Is the aim divide and conquer? Was she recruited for her future role right from the start?

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[ExomatrixTV]

Joe Biden's EVIL Speech & Ukraine's "Democracy" Connection: Do They Want That Here?:

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[kfm27917]

The Russo-Ukrainian War: A Six Month Retrospective

https://www.sott.net/article/471672-The-Russo-Ukrainian-War-A-Six-Month-Retrospective

[ExomatrixTV]

Revealed: U.K. SABOTAGED Russia/Ukraine Peace Deal In April!:

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[Bill Ryan]

A detailed summary of all the recent military developments in Ukraine... some of which are even a little hard to believe.

Alexander Mercouris deploys his gift of very expansive vocabulary to stress how


the Ukraine military is in deep, catastrophic crisis
Ukraine's recent military decisions were disastrous and almost certainly doomed to failure from the outset
the Ukraine senior military command in Kiev seems to be distancing itself from what was clearly a whole bunch of asinine (and criminal) political decisions
it's not at all impossible now (as Alexander Lukashenko, the Resident of Belarus, has strongly hinted) that there might be a military coup in Kiev to remove Enelzky from power before he personally orders thousands more Ukrainian soldiers to their very probable deaths.

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And, as if to somehow mirror all the desperate irrationality displayed in Kiev, European politicians, not to be outdone, are similarly proceeding at full speed towards their own destruction and that of their countries' economies.

Ukraine Disaster: Troops Surrounded on Ingulets River;
Europe Disaster: Gazprom Suspends Nord Stream 1


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

[Mashika]

And, as if to somehow mirror all the desperate irrationality displayed in Kiev, European politicians, not to be outdone, are similarly proceeding at full speed towards their own destruction and that of their countries' economies.


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https://www.rt.com/russia/562110-zaporozhye-nuclear-plant-ukraine/

Moscow reveals details of latest Ukrainian assault near Zaporozhye nuclear plant


Russia’s defense ministry has confirmed that Ukraine has made yet another attempt to take over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant late on Friday, revealing some details of Kiev’s operation, which failed.

Over 40 motor boats, divided into two groups and carrying over 250 Ukrainian special operations troops and foreign mercenaries, tried to land on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir not far from Energodar, host city of the nuclear power plant, a ministry statement said on Saturday.

The attackers were quickly spotted and struck by Russia’s Su-30 jets and Ka-52 attack helicopters. Those strikes sunk some 20 boats, while the rest turned around and retreated. The remaining Ukrainian troops were than targeted by the Russian artillery as they tried getting ashore in the Ukrainian-controlled territory, the ministry said.

According to Moscow, the failed attack on the nuclear power plant saw 47 Ukrainian service personnel killed, including ten foreign mercenaries, with at least 20 others wounded.

Kiev’s special forces attempted to storm the facility despite the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) being there, the defense ministry stressed.

Kiev attempts new raid near Zaporozhye nuclear plant – local official
Kiev attempts new raid near Zaporozhye nuclear plant – local official
Ukraine attempted a similar attack ahead of the arrival of the IAEA team at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on Thursday. It was also repelled by Russian troops, with the Ukrainian assault force suffering heavy losses.

Moscow has suggested that Kiev’s plan was to capture the nuclear plant and then use the staff of the UN nuclear watchdog as “human shields” to maintain control over it.

Russia has been insisting on international inspectors coming to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant as it accused Ukraine of repeatedly shelling the facility in recent weeks and of risking a disaster that could affect many countries in Europe.

Ukraine claims that the Russian forces who have been in control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant since March have turned it into a military base and that they’re striking the station themselves in order to pin the blame on Kiev.

READ MORE: Ukraine admits shelling area around nuclear plant
IAEA chef Rafael Grossi, who headed the team of inspectors at the facility, has confirmed that the physical integrity of the plant “has been violated several times,” but added that it was impossible to determine if the damage was deliberate or accidental.

[Vicus]

The next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the so-called "Ramstein 5", will be held at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany on September 8.

“U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III is scheduled to host an in-person Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, September 8, 2022,” reads the press release of the US Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa.

As noted, the Pentagon Chief invited ministers of defense and senior military officials from around the world to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and various security issues facing U.S. allies and partners.

As reported, the Ukraine Defense Contact Group was created in April at the initiative of the United States. The first meeting took place at the German Ramstein Air Base at the end of April, after which this format got the name "Ramstein".

The last meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group was held in July.


https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-defense/3560403-next-ramstein-format-meeting-scheduled-for-september-8.html

[shaberon]

I am pleased that 70,000 Czechs told their government to go straight to hell. This is maybe the last European culture I have any hope for. Maybe it is because they were the first people I ever met. How did this happen? I walked in their house. I was three; they were retired.

See if anyone ever does that again.

Wait, I forgot. A child is to be sealed in a ziploc bag, wrapped with duct tape, and kept as weak and ignorant as possible. I see numerous grown examples of this around me all the time. If Prague has not yet been sucked out to this level, please save some tiny little chip of territory and try to keep what is already yours. If anyone makes a country looking like ours, you are a death cult. It's not fun and it is not even remotely interesting.

While we're at it, could we just revoke the English language?

I went so far as to see what it would mean to live in Prague, and, it says you have to learn the language. But I always have people around me who cannot speak English. Does that make a personal animosity, not really, but it is a bit like something broken or missing.


How reprehensible is this?


On September 2, a US-made AeroVironment Switchblade 300 loitering munition crashed near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) which is held by the Russian military.



The AFU struck a water elevator in the Novaya Kakhovka area...


And yet, they say, 20,000 Call of Duty players traveled internationally in order to get rich playing "this". The ones that could, left. I got that from the guy whose leg no longer works, but, he says, if it does, he would like to go back. Apparently in the "foreign legion" or whatever you would like to call it, the ratio of civilians to soldiers was ten or twenty times as many. I can whip up some tar and feathers, or, we could make stocks, neither one of which is terribly cruel, although it is a little unusual. Once you see it every day, you wouldn't think so. Or we could just give them crucifixes with an America Buffalo sitting on it. That sounds good. Take the buffalo to the pond.


Do you all get this? Meaning, apparently it is about as easy to go to Ukraine as you could to some other places like Yemen, if you would like to volunteer as a proxy? Why is that so accessible to mouth breathers from Stoke on Trent?

[norman]

Fully armed Russian Navy ships navigate between Britain and Ireland

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-02-russian-navy-ships-navigate-between-britain-ireland.html


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A group of Russian Navy Ships

https://strangesounds.org/2022/08/heavily-armed-russian-navy-ships-sail-between-britain-and-ireland.html has been seen entering the Irish Sea in what is being considered an aggressive move. There are strong signals the ships will sail up and around the United Kingdom and this will move them close to the main submarine base of Faslane.

https://strangesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Heavily-Armed-Russian-Navy-Ships-Sailing-Between-Britain-And-Ireland.jpg

The group is led by the Slava class cruiser Marshal Ustinov and it is accompanied by the Udaloy class destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov and tanker Vyazma.

The exact positions of the Russian cruiser and destroyer (http://weaponstechnology.news/) are currently not visible. But the tanker is reporting its position on automated identification system or AIS. It has passed the entrance of the English Channel and is sailing in the Irish Sea.

The HMS Lancaster, a Royal Navy Duke-class frigate, is shadowing the vessels.

The Marshal Ustinov departed from the Mediterranean Sea on August 24 and has slowly moved closer to the United Kingdom.

The Russian warships are assumed to be going back home after six months of being deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to assist Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

When the warship was deployed there in January it prepared live firing exercises in the Irish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which stirred controversy at the time.

The exercises, which include the firing of missiles, raised concerns because of their closeness to underwater communications cables. Russia ultimately agreed to move the exercises farther into the Atlantic Ocean and out of the EEZ after the Irish government protested against it.

The Marshal Ustinov was one of the various ships included in planned naval exercises off the coast of County Cork in Ireland last February, which was generally viewed as an incitement to the West in anticipation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian Navy ships taking unusual route alarms Irish and British defense officials

Russia is allowed under international law to navigate through the Irish Sea as long as it stays outside Irish and U.K. territorial waters, which extend about 22 kilometers off each nation’s coast.

Nevertheless, it is a very uncommon route for Russian Navy ships and the maneuvers are expected to cause concern among Irish and British defense officials given the strained international condition.

Previously it has been more common for Russian Navy ships journeying to their northern ports to take the travel east through the English Channel or western route around Ireland.

Another Russian ship was noticed acting strange off the Irish south coast in August.

The Akademik Pashin, a naval oil tanker, was seen leaving the English Channel on August 17 and suddenly sailing west along Ireland’s south coast, moving within 140 kilometers at times.

Defense sources indicate it was likely assisting other Russian ships in the region.

The Marshal Ustinov is the sister ship of the Moskva, which was sunk by Ukrainian forces in the Black Sea in April. (Related: USA targeting of Moskva ship is Russia’s “Pearl Harbor” … RETALIATION is Putin’s next move, and the USA just handed him all the domestic support he needs (https://naturalnews.com/2022-04-21-usa-targeting-of-moskva-ship-is-russias-pearl-harbor.html).)

But Marshal Ustinov is a more modernized ship with upgraded systems and weapons, and is a major component of the Russian Navy’s northern fleet.

As a fully armed guided missile cruiser (http://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/02/russia-sends-slava-class-cruiser-ustinov-in-the-mediterranean/), Marshal Ustinov is well equipped with 16 SS-N-12 Sandbox (P-1000 Vulcan) supersonic anti-ship missiles and 64 SA-N-6 Grumble (S-300F Fort) area air-defense missiles.

It is also armed with twin-mounted AK-130 130mm (5 in)/L70 dual-purpose guns, including six AK-630 30 mm (1.2 in) close-in weapons systems.

The route that the warships have taken on their homeward journey seems provocative, apparently sending a strong message to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members.

It also serves as a notice to Ireland, which is not a member of NATO. In a number of ways, Ireland can be considered a weak spot on Europe’s western border.

At the moment, the warships appear to have taken a U-turn and are sailing southwest. Nevertheless, this is a fluid situation that people need to watch closely.