WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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NATO does not currently see military threat from Russia — Secretary General

Jens Stoltenberg stressed that NATO should be prepared for threats from Russia and stay vigilant

BRUSSELS, March 11. /TASS/. NATO does not currently see any military threat from Russia against the bloc’s member-states, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference in Brussels.

"We don't see any imminent military threat [from Russia] against any NATO ally," he said, answering a relevant question from journalists.

Nevertheless, Stoltenberg stressed that NATO must be prepared for threats from Russia and stay vigilant. In his opinion, at present Moscow does not threaten the alliance due to the fact that it is preoccupied with Ukraine.

On Monday, Sweden’s flag was officially hoisted at the NATO headquarters in Brussels following its accession to the alliance. Sweden became NATO’s 32nd member.

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Seven Russian regions were attacked by drones 03/12/2024,

At least seven Russian regions were attacked on the night of March 12. Fuel and energy complex facilities are burning in the Oryol and Nizhny Novgorod regions, and seven villages are without power in the Belgorod region. UAVs were also shot down in the Voronezh, Kursk, Moscow and Tula regions.

In the Belgorod region, an unmanned aerial vehicle dropped four explosive devices, damaging a power line. As Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, no one was injured; the villages of Yasnye Zori, Cheremoshnoye, Ustinka, Lozovoye, Rovenek, Petrovka and Solovyovka were cut off. In addition, shelling is underway in the Gorkovsky village of the Grayvoronsky urban district. Residents were asked to go to shelters or basements.

One drone was shot down in the Voronezh region . According to preliminary information, there are no consequences on the ground, Governor Alexander Gusev wrote in Telegram . “At the same time, a danger regime from air targets was not introduced. I keep the operational situation in the region under control,” he added. Later, the danger of a UAV attack was declared in the region .

Six drones were destroyed in the Kursk region : over Fatezhsky, Zolotukhinsky, Kursk, Solntsevsky and Ponyrovsky districts. The consequences on the ground are being clarified, said Governor Roman Starovoyt.

In the Moscow region , a drone was shot down in the Ramensky urban district, said the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin. According to him, the UAV was flying towards Moscow.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, Governor Gleb Nikitin reported a fire at a fuel and energy complex facility after an attack by drones. He did not specify what specific object he was talking about.

In Oryol , an unmanned aerial vehicle fell on a fuel and energy complex facility, said Governor Andrei Klychkov. No harm done. According to RIA Novosti and a number of Telegram channels, a tank with petroleum products caught fire.

In the Tula region, air defense systems on duty destroyed a UAV. No one was injured, there was no destruction of infrastructure, the Tula Ministry of Regional Security reported .

On the night of March 11, the Bryansk and Oryol regions were attacked by drones. Air defense systems destroyed six UAVs.

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Displaced Ukrainian kids want to live in Russia – human rights boss 12 Mar, 2024

Dozens of children rescued from the conflict zone have been reunited with their families

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Some Ukrainian children that were relocated to Russia from the conflict zone prefer to stay there instead of coming back to their own country, Alexander Pavlichenko, head of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights, said on Tuesday.

According to Pavlichenko, some of the children that returned to Ukraine see more opportunities in Russia than in their home country, which he called “a problem.”

“They see better conditions there [in Russia], they see themselves better realized there,” he stated on the air of the TV channel Kiev 24. According to Pavlichenko, the Ukrainian authorities should do more to help the returning kids adapt to living in Ukraine.

“They need constant attention… they need to be included in an active social life, given new opportunities and advantages, so that they do not want to return to Russia,” he stressed.

Just last month, 11 children from Ukraine and Donbass were reunited with their families. They met with their loved ones at the Qatari embassy in Moscow.

“This is the largest group of children during our family reunification activities,” Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, who led the effort, said. She earlier revealed that her department had facilitated the reunification of 48 children with their Ukrainian relatives living either in Ukraine or abroad since the start of the conflict in February 2022. According to the ombudsman, Russia is ready to assist other children displaced by the hostilities to reunite with their relatives, but the process takes time and each request is processed on a case-by-case basis.

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75 Years of NATO Expansion in One Pic

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established by the United States in 1949 as a "collective security" bloc.

NATO has experienced nine waves of expansion since it started with 12 members, with previously non-aligned Sweden joining the bloc on March 7, 2024.
Although NATO casts itself as a purely defensive bloc, history has shown otherwise.
This alliance was established to deter alleged Soviet expansion, yet after the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, NATO did not cease to exist. Despite promises given to late Soviet leaders by the US, NATO proceeded to expand eastward and encircle Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently admitted that he had a “naive idea” that after the end of the Cold War, the West and NATO had “no basis for confrontation with Russia”. However, after years of diplomatic efforts, Putin became “100% convinced” that NATO strategists want to “collapse Russia”.

Have a look at Sputnik’s infographic to learn about the scope of the militaristic bloc.

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The Collapse | Nevelske Has FALLEN! | Pervomaiske Defensive Lines Are On A Brink Of TOTAL Collapse!

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Do your duty, come what may: why do Russian women take up arms and go to front line?

"It's the love for the Motherland that played a role," a 33-year old woman, call sign "Shum" (lit. "Noise"), told Sputnik. "I didn’t immediately manage to enroll in contract service: for almost a year, I delivered humanitarian aid, including to the front line. So I knew what I was getting into."

Shum, an evacuation group medical worker of the "Don" Volunteer Assault Corps, will soon be dispatched to Avdeyevka, a city in the Donetsk region that was liberated by the Russian military on February 17.

"What am I expecting? I can’t say anything about that. During war, you're just waiting for an order. I live according to the principle: 'Do your duty, come what may.'"

Shum says she faced difficulties while enlisting. She argues that if one wants to defend their Motherland, one should be enrolled in the military regardless of one's sex.

Those in the West who believe Russia is waging a "war of aggression" know virtually nothing about Ukraine and the roots of the conflict, she underscored. NATO countries that are continuing to send arms and special ops forces to Ukraine must remember: Russians don't surrender, Shum concluded.

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Courage knows no gender: Shum's journey to the volunteer assault corps

A 33-year female soldier, call sign “Shum” ("Noise"), joined the "Don" Volunteer Assault Corps to defend her Motherland in the special military operation zone. Shum believes that at the front line, there are no "men" or "women," but only "comrades-in-arms."

"How do I prepare [for battle]? I don’t. You can't be prepared for this. What am I expecting? I can’t say anything about that. During war, you're just waiting for an order. I live according to the principle: 'Do your duty, come what may.' It can be scary. But only a fool or a dead person is not afraid of anything. Fear is a natural defense mechanism to survive. It's the so-called self-preservation instinct. He who is not afraid will die."

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After three helicopters were detected, they were hit with an Iskander cluster missile. The attack was not entirely accurate, one helicopter managed to fly away. The other two were destroyed later.

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Ukraine Plans to Mobilize 500,000 New Recruits

The Ukrainian government intends to mobilize 500,000 new recruits, with 330,000 slated for deployment to the front lines to replenish exhausted troops, according to statements from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The remaining 170,000 recruits will reportedly compensate for losses and fulfill other military needs.

However, a significant portion of able-bodied men of military age in Ukraine are reportedly hesitant to join the frontline. An estimated 1.1 million Ukrainians aged 25 to 60, only 3.7 million are theoretically eligible for mobilization. The rest of the potential recruits either fled the country, have disabilities, or are already serving on the front lines.

This publication highlights discrepancies in President Zelensky's statements regarding casualties, contradicting his claim of "only 31,000 casualties." Additionally, despite Zelensky's previous assurance that there would be no demobilization, the Ministry of Defense's announcement suggests otherwise, framing the move as preparation for another wave of recruitment.

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Putin open to Ukraine peace talks, but what are his terms?

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed in an interview with Dmitry Kiselev, director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, that he is ready for peace talks with Ukraine, but stressed that he trusts no one and will seek guarantees.

Russian political scientist Dmitry Evstafiev explained to Sputnik, Putin’s key reservations for any possible negotiations about Ukraine.

- In no way will the so-called “Zelensky formula” be discussed. Putin clarified that the Kiev regime’s proposals are not on the table;

- To achieve lasting peace, it is crucial to ensure that the talks do not simply result in a tactical pause that enables Kiev to rearm. The analyst stressed that the negotiations must be based on “the West’s decision not to supply weapons to Ukraine.”

- A public format and binding obligations are needed. Putin laid out very clearly that Russia needs guarantees, Dmitry Evstafiev stressed.

The political scientist explained that the guarantees Russia requires “can only be given by responsible political figures representing stable Western governments, and must be offered in the form of absolutely binding, signed documents”.

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Russia is ready to resolve conflicts by peaceful means, but guarantees are needed, Vladimir Putin said

"We want, I repeat, we want to resolve all disputes, and this dispute, this conflict, by peaceful means. And we are ready for this. We want to do this. But it should be a serious conversation with the provision of security for the party to the conflict. In this case, we are primarily interested in the security of Russia, of the Russian Federation. We will proceed from this," he said.

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📹 Vladimir Putin acknowledged that Emmanuel Macron's militaristic statements could be related to resentment over the loss of influence in Africa. However, he said that Russia did not interfere and did not expel France on purpose, but that it was African leaders themselves who wanted to cooperate with Moscow.

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📹 Vladimir Putin said that the presence of foreign military contingents will not change the situation on the battlefield, but may lead to serious geopolitical consequences. He cited the example of Poland, which wants to regain Ukraine’s western territories, which it considers historically its own.

"... They dream about it, they want to reclaim territories they consider historically their own that were taken from them by the ‘father of nations,’ Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, and handed over to Ukraine. Of course they want them back. And if official Polish troops are deployed there, they are not going back. Then, other countries that lost their territories as a result of World War II may follow in their footsteps," he said.

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🗣 "I hate to say it, but I don't trust anyone. But we need guarantees," Putin said regarding the likelihood of Ukraine peace talks

"I hate to say it, but I don't trust anyone. But we need guarantees. And the guarantees must be spelled out, they must be guarantees that would suit us and that we would believe in. This is what we are talking about. But right now it is probably too early to talk publicly about what it could be. But we will certainly not buy into some empty promises," he said in interview to Dmitry Kiselev, the director general of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group.


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‘No сhance’ war-weary US will put boots on the ground in Ukraine amid Putin’s warning

President Putin “made it very clear that if the United States or its European allies actually put boots on the ground in Ukraine, they’d probably be at war with the Russian Federation,” political scientist and Russia specialist Dr. Joe Siracusa told Sputnik, commenting on Putin’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya’s Dmitry Kiselev, in which the Russian leader warned that Moscow would treat NATO troops in Ukraine as invaders.

Siracusa is confident that “there is no chance the United States will be involved in the ground war in Ukraine,” even if “sometimes some of the Europeans get very excited about this, particularly the Poles and the French. But it would be very risky on their part because the United States Congress is frankly in no mood to continue funding” the conflict.

As for Russia’s defense industry, which Putin hailed in his interview for its efficiency and cost-effectiveness compared to the US, the academic said it has become clear that Russia can "reproduce or to replenish munitions as soon as they’re used in Ukraine. In fact, I think Russia outproduces Americans by 10 to 1 in terms of ammunition reproduction.”

Siracusa lamented that the Ukrainian crisis has dragged on for as long as it has. "I’m sure that Putin and Biden could have worked this out before the conflict began. Putin has made it very clear since 2007 about the danger of the encroachment of NATO, and the United States has been tone deaf to these suggestions," he stressed.

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Scott Ritter: Putin’s message is warmongers will ‘get more than they asked for’ in fight with Russia

The main takeaway from President Putin’s conversation with Rossiya Segodnya chief Dmitry Kiselev is that those “looking for a contrite Russia, a weak Russia, a compliant Russia” won’t find it in “the Russia that Vladimir Putin was presenting to the world in his interview,” Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and international affairs observer, told Sputnik.

“Instead, what he's saying is that Russia's not looking for a fight, but if somebody wants to bring the fight to Russia, they'll get more than what they asked for. And if the world is looking for peace with Russia, it'll be done on terms that are acceptable to Russia,” Ritter stressed.

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Kiev loses 245 troops in Donetsk area over past day, Russia’s top brass reports

The Ukrainian military lost 7 tanks, 7 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored personnel carriers, 4 motor vehicles, an M777 howitzer, 2 D-20 howitzers, a D-30 howitzer, a Gvozdika motorized artillery system and a Nona self-propelled artillery gun

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military lost roughly 245 troops, a tank and an air defense system in battles with Russian forces in the Donetsk area over the past day, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday, giving the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine.

"In the Donetsk direction, Southern Battlegroup units gained more advantageous sites and positions in active operations and inflicted damage on amassed manpower and military hardware of the Ukrainian army’s 56th motorized infantry, 28th, 42nd and 93rd mechanized, 5th and 92nd assault, 17th tank and 241st territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Krasnoye, Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka and Kurdyumovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said in a statement.

The Ukrainian military lost roughly 245 personnel, a tank, 3 armored combat vehicles, 5 motor vehicles and a Strela-10 surface-to-air missile system. In counter-battery fire, Russian forces destroyed a UK-made AS-90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, a D-20 howitzer, 3 D-30 howitzers, a Gvozdika motorized artillery system and a fuel depot in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Ukraine’s army loses 250 troops in Kupyansk area over past day

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 250 troops in battles with Russian forces in the Kupyansk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Battlegroup West operating in interaction with aircraft and artillery inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 57th motorized infantry brigade near the settlement of Sinkovka in the Kharkov Region and repelled an enemy counterattack near the settlement of Terny in the Donetsk People’s Republic. They thwarted a Ukrainian army attempt to break through into borderline Russian territory in the Belgorod and Kursk Regions. The enemy’s losses amounted to 250 personnel," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian military also lost 7 tanks, 7 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored personnel carriers, 4 motor vehicles, a US-manufactured M777 howitzer, 2 D-20 howitzers, a D-30 howitzer, a Gvozdika motorized artillery system and a Nona self-propelled artillery gun, it specified.

Russian forces repulse 12 Ukrainian counterattacks in Avdeyevka area over past day

Russian forces repulsed 12 Ukrainian army counterattacks and improved their frontline positions in the Avdeyevka area near Donetsk over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Avdeyevka direction, units of the Battlegroup Center improved their forward edge positions in active operations and repulsed 12 counterattacks," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost "as many as 460 personnel, a tank, 3 command and staff vehicles and 17 motor vehicles," it specified.

In counter-battery fire, Russian forces destroyed a UK-made AS-90 Braveheart self-propelled artillery system, a US-manufactured M777 artillery gun, an Msta-B howitzer and a US-made M119 howitzer in the Avdeyevka direction over the past 24 hours, it said.

Russian forces take advantageous sites in south Donetsk area over past day

Russian forces took advantageous sites and inflicted damage on Ukrainian manpower and military equipment in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the south Donetsk direction, units of the Battlegroup East took more advantageous positions and struck manpower and equipment of the 102nd and 128th territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Malinovka in the Zaporozhye Region, Staromayorskoye and Urozhainoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," the ministry said.

Russian forces also repelled a counterattack by formations of the Ukrainian army’s 58th motorized infantry brigade near the settlement of Novodonetskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic," it said.

"The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 150 personnel, two armored personnel carriers and two pickup trucks," the ministry specified.

Russian forces strike four Ukrainian army brigades in Kherson area over past day

Russian forces inflicted damage on four Ukrainian army brigades in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Battlegroup inflicted damage by firepower on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 141st infantry, 23rd National Guard, 126th territorial defense and 35th marine infantry brigades near the settlements of Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye Region, Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, Berislav and Tyaginka in the Kherson Region," the ministry said.

The enemy lost roughly 30 troops, two motor vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system, an Akatsiya self-propelled artillery gun and a Gvozdika motorized artillery system in the Kherson direction over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russian troops destroy 2 Ukrainian Mi-8 gunships, Patriot air defense system in past day

Russian forces destroyed two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters, an arms repair workshop and a US-made Patriot air defense system over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groupings of forces destroyed two Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopters on a site near the settlement of Novopavlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and a workshop for the repair of armament and military hardware near the community of Balakleya in the Kharkov Region," the ministry said.

Russian forces also destroyed a US-made Patriot air defense system at a firing position in the Kharkov Region and struck Ukrainian manpower and military equipment in 129 areas over the past 24 hours, it specified.

Russian air defenses down four HIMARS rockets, 136 Ukrainian UAVs over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down four rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, three French-manufactured Hammer smart bombs and destroyed 136 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the past day, the ministry reported.

"During the last 24-hour period, air defense capabilities shot down 136 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, four rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, six rockets of the Grad multiple rocket launcher and three French-manufactured Hammer guided air bombs," the ministry said.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 577 Ukrainian warplanes, 269 helicopters, 15,362 unmanned aerial vehicles, 485 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,464 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,238 multiple rocket launchers, 8,397 field artillery guns and mortars and 19,709 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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Russian troops carry out night raid on right bank of Dnieper River — governor

The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 30 troops, Vladimir Saldo specified
GENICHESK, March 13. /TASS/. A Russian assault group destroyed a Ukrainian UAV control post and an electronic warfare station in a night raid on the Kiev-controlled right bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo said on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.

"Last night, a joint assault group of fighters from the Dnepr Battlegroup carried out an audacious raid into the right bank of the river. Marine infantry personnel, paratroopers and volunteers disembarked from watercraft at the foot of the Antonovka Bridge. The surprise effect disabled the enemy to react timely. Our fighters destroyed several enemy positions, including an UAV control post and an electronic warfare station, observation, communications and manpower temporary amassment sites," he said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 30 troops, he specified.

"Our fighters returned to the left bank without irretrievable losses," the governor specified.

The Russian assault force disembarked at the place where Soviet soldiers commanded by Vasily Margelov seized the first bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper River in 1944, which was key to breaching Nazi Germany’s defenses, Saldo said.

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Governor of Russia’s Ryazan Region reports casualties in drone attack on oil refinery

Earlier, the local Unified Duty Dispatch Service reported a fire on the premises of an oil refinery

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle has attacked an oil refinery in central Russia’s Ryazan Region, causing casualties, Governor Pavel Malkov said.

"A drone attack on the Ryazan oil refinery has resulted in a blaze. According to preliminary information, there have been casualties," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Two people have been hospitalized in a condition of moderate severity, an emergency hospital worker told TASS.

Emergency services are working at the scene. The local Unified Duty Dispatch Service (EDDS) confirmed fire reports at the oil refinery.

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Press review: Russia’s cybervoting faces DDoS attacks and Moscow pitches frozen asset swap

MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/. Russia is bracing for increased cyberattacks on its online voting system ahead of the presidential election on March 15-17; the Russian Finance Ministry has released the details of a plan for swapping frozen assets with foreign investors; and proposals for putting Western "boots on the ground" in Ukraine may play against Kiev’s interests. These stories topped Tuesday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.



Izvestia: Russia facing increased DDoS attacks ahead of this week’s presidential election

Russia’s online voting system will be subject to increased malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks coming from abroad, experts told Izvestia. However, the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) factored in such systemic stresses in developing the system to bulletproof it against such risks, making it fully prepared for carrying out online voting in the presidential election that starts this Friday, March 15, and runs through Sunday, March 17.

At midnight, the CEC stopped collecting citizens’ applications to vote online. This year, voters in 29 Russian regions, or one-third of the country’s constituent regions, will enjoy the option of casting electronic votes. As of Monday morning, as many as 4.5 mln Russians, excluding Muscovites, have applied for online voting rights, CEC Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said. At the start of 2024, Russia’s total electorate stood at 112.3 mln voters, including those in the new regions of the Donetsk People’s

Republic (DPR), the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region.

However, the growing popularity of the new voting system is fraught with risks, experts warned. And Russia’s intelligence services have provided proof of that: In a statement released on March 11, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said that the administration of US President Joe Biden had instructed American NGOs to lead hacking attacks on Russia’s online voting system.

While it is impossible to completely eliminate cybersecurity risks, they can be minimized by using specialized services for repelling DDoS attacks, creating a backup system on a separate server or resorting to special means for detecting or preventing such attacks, Sergey Lipov, IT director at EdgeCenter, told Izvestia. Threats like these tend to intensify during an election period, given that the electoral process is a critical factor in the country’s political stability, the expert explained.

"In the past few years, the United States has been conducting cyberattacks against Russia, which we have witnessed since the online voting system was first introduced. And they are getting increasingly bigger," said Maxim Grigoryev, head of the Russian Civic Chamber’s working group specializing in public control over voting. "Our Central Election Commission and our law enforcement agencies realize that and are bracing for it. This is why the online voting system is quite well prepared. Moreover, it was built to repel such attacks. I know quite well that they prepared for such risks and included them in the work plan," he told Izvestia.



Media: Russian Finance Ministry rolls out plan for swapping frozen foreign assets

The Russian Finance Ministry has made public the key parameters of a plan to swap frozen foreign assets, in which Russian investors have placed trillions of rubles, for the assets of foreign investors. Under the plan, brokerage house Investment Chamber will oversee the swap. It will solicit applications from Russian private investors from March 25 to May 8. Key risks facing the plan are that foreigners may decline to buy assets from Russian nationals for fear of secondary sanctions and restrictions imposed by European financial regulators on such transactions.

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The consensus among market players, brokers and asset management companies interviewed by Kommersant is that the infrastructure is ready to handle such operations.

The mechanism looks logical to Nikolay Shvaikovsky, head of government relations at Alfa Capital, who told Vedomosti that it could primarily be of interest to retail investors. The asset management company is confident that a substantial volume of assets will change hands as part of the plan, given the strong interest among Russian investors, and it expects similarly solid interest among foreign investors as well.

Dmitry Lesnov, head of client services at Finam, finds the plan quite functional, as well, but thinks its implementation will depend on a number of aspects, primarily the willingness of foreign investors to take part, according to Kommersant.

While the risks for Russian investors will not be very high as the swap will take place within Russian market infrastructure, Investment Chamber will face certain risks as the organizer, a senior executive at a major asset management company said. "The brokerage will be playing a special role in the mechanism for unblocking [the assets], which is not envisioned in the EU sanctions laws. These risks will intensify if sanctioned investors get access to the exchange program," Andrey Timchuk, co-head of the sanctions practice at the Delcredere law firm, warned.

Oleg Gruzdev, a lawyer at Forward Legal, told Vedomosti that the assets swap plan currently represents the only way out for both Russia and the West as an avenue for unblocking the assets. While many assets may remain frozen for some time to come, Russia’s proposed mechanism would make it possible to address the problem at least partially in the coming months, he added.



Izvestia: Proposals for Western 'boots on ground' in Ukraine could damage Zelensky regime

Discussions of French President Emmanuel Macron’s headline-making proposal to send NATO troops to Ukraine have exposed a split in the bloc, which will ultimately play against Kiev’s interests, experts say. Meanwhile, a remark by Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, who said that the presence of NATO forces in Ukraine "is not unthinkable," heightens concerns among Western countries that the Ukraine conflict may escalate to a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.

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In Europe, there are "many voices" calling on the continent to sit down at the negotiating table, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, said. In Germany, as many as 56% of people polled believe that Berlin should do more to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine through talks, Bild reported. And experts believe that public sentiment in other countries is almost identical.

"The political elites in NATO countries are afraid of how both Brussels and Washington may react to calls for peace. And I guess the longer the conflict lasts, the more such calls will be heard," Denis Denisov, an expert at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia. Commenting on the proposal to send troops to Ukraine, he said: "Of course, everybody understands perfectly well that such a step would raise tensions between Russia and NATO countries. And many are actually afraid of that."

The North Atlantic Alliance has other fears, as well. The aggressive rhetoric on the part of France intensifies the visible split in public opinion within the bloc and the growing strife between political forces in individual members of the alliance. And the situation shows, on the one hand, the low level of effectiveness of decisions to send more military aid to Ukraine and, on the other hand, it reveals the lack of a well-designed strategy or any alternative "Plan B."

"In a strategic perspective, the intensified split will certainly play against the interests of the current Ukrainian authorities. Everyone understands perfectly well that the longer the conflict lasts, the more contradictions will arise," Denisov said.

"The Ukrainian authorities expected the West to support them endlessly and that this support would certainly be enough to defeat Russia. The fact that, in reality, things are turning out to be somewhat different from what they were promised has led to a strategic political crisis in Kiev, as Ukraine doesn’t seem to have any Plan B either," said Oleg Nemensky, leading expert at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.

Kommersant: Russian Urals blend oil finds unexpected market

Russian oil companies have been exporting oil to Venezuela, on whose oil market the United States has eased sanctions until April, Kommersant has learned. The risk of renewed restrictions has encouraged Venezuela to increase its own oil imports as much as possible. In this light, the South American country, which exported more than 650,000 barrels of oil per day in February, decided to buy Russian oil for refining domestically.

The Ligera supertanker carrying 1.8 mln barrels of Russian crude is preparing to transport the shipment of Urals blend oil to Venezuela, Kpler told Kommersant. Also, Russia sent 260,000 barrels of diesel to Venezuela in February.

Russian oil and petroleum product shipments to Venezuela are a unique case as Venezuela mostly uses its own heavy crude for refining, mixing it with naphtha or gas condensate for a proper blend. In 2022-2023, the South American economy also purchased oil from Iran, which became its largest supplier. But those purchases were not large.

Venezuela will be the focus of global oil markets over the next month as the Biden administration will have to decide whether to extend its six-month sanctions waiver, Viktor Katona at Kpler predicts. At the same time, Venezuela’s state-run oil and gas major, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), is seeking to benefit from exporting as much of its own oil as possible, which is why its oil exports reached a four-year high in February. According to the analyst, PDVSA currently sells oil for hard currency, which is a much more preferable scenario than previous transactions under an oil-for-debt deal, mostly with Chinese companies. "Urals plays the role of a substitute for Venezuelan oil in this system of coordinates. Urals is easier to refine than any other [Venezuelan] oil, and PDVSA can buy it now that it has generated profits," Katona maintained. And the situation around purchases of Russian diesel meant for domestic consumption looks the same, he continued, as PDVSA has been exporting all its oil volumes to capitalize on the situation as it substitutes those with petroleum products from "friendly jurisdictions," he concluded.



Nezavisimaya Gazeta: State Duma to address German lawmakers

At a meeting later on Tuesday, the Russian State Duma will discuss a draft address to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Russian legislators are seeking to highlight to their German counterparts the recent leaked audio of a classified conversation among senior Bundeswehr (German armed forces) officers about sending long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine and their potential use for hitting targets inside Russia, including the Crimean Bridge.

Since early this year, the lower house of Russia’s parliament has issued half a dozen such statements addressed to specific overseas audiences. Previously, international relations were the prerogative of the president and the Foreign Ministry, with the Federation Council, or upper chamber of parliament, being involved only partially. Now, the Duma seems to have been given a major mandate for providing informational support for Russia’s foreign policy.

Alexey Makarkin, first vice president of the Center for Political Technologies, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta, that, in fact, the State Duma has been making statements on the country’s foreign policy since the start of the special military operation. "Before, everybody was interested in statements of the president and the Foreign Ministry, while [what] parliamentarians [said] was of lesser interest," he explained.

However, as Russia’s contacts with the majority of parliaments have been severed, Russian lawmakers now mostly visit China, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And the Duma communicates with the West by issuing addresses. These target specific parties and politicians who either favor and support Russia, or are at least critical of their governments’ backing of Ukraine, Makarkin added.

"All these critics may use the very arguments that the State Duma transmits, albeit indirectly. Therefore, the signal from [the Duma headquarters on] Okhotny Ryad will find its audience," he concluded.

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💬 The courts of the Russian Federation, based on evidence collected by the Investigative Committee of our country, continue to pass sentences on Ukrainian militants who committed serious crimes against civilians.

The operator of the electronic intelligence group Pecharsky and the commander of the automobile department Georgiou were sentenced to life imprisonment for cruel treatment of the civilian population, the murder of five people and the attempted murder of two persons, committed by an organized group motivated by political and ideological hatred.

On March 7, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin held an operational meeting in Donetsk of the headquarters for the investigation of crimes committed by Ukrainian formations against civilians and Russian military personnel on the territory of Russia and Ukraine.

The investigation and results of criminal cases involving crimes committed by the Kyiv regime were discussed. Among them are cases of recruitment and mercenarism. A number of citizens of Romania, Poland, New Zealand, and Norway have been charged in absentia. In total, about 700 foreigners are wanted. The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, was informed that after the liberation of Avdeevka, investigators of the Investigative Committee organized work with citizens evacuated to temporary accommodation centers of the DPR. People report crimes committed by Ukrainian militants and indicate the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units that carried out the attacks.

❗️ None of the Nazi criminals will be able to escape punishment. They will be identified and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

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Residents of the village of Podoly in the Kharkov region report interesting news: local guerrillas in the ranks of the AFU "leaked" the location of the Kraken command centre to the Russian security services, after which the Nazi formation was hit by a missile strike.

According to preliminary data, the leadership of the Nazis, who were acting as a barrier force, was destroyed.

It should be noted, that the Kraken are hated by both the local population and Ukrainian soldiers.

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Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk allowed the possibility of exemption from mobilization depending on the level of income.

“If I’m not mistaken, in the 12th or 13th century in England, there was such a thing - ‘tax on cowardice’. When they paid money in order not to become a knight,” said the head of the Rada.

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Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – Marianne
French President Emmanuel Macron’s talk about maybe sending troops to aid Kiev may have been spurred by three assessments produced by the French military that painted a dire picture of the Ukraine conflict, according to the magazine Marianne.

The reports, which have somehow found their way into the weekly’s possession, argued that Ukraine wrecked its Western-trained force in the failed 2023 offensive, has run out of men to mobilize, and that its recent loss in Avdeevka shows it can’t even hold the line against Russia.

“Ukraine cannot win this war militarily,” concludes the first report, written in the fall of 2023, following Kiev’s disastrous ground offensive. It praises the Russian forces as the new “tactical and technical” standard of how to run defensive operations and debunks the media myth of “meat assaults.”

For the West to continue pursuing a military solution in Ukraine would be “the most serious error of analysis and judgment,” the classified document said, according to Marianne.

Sending French troops to Ukraine would be “unreasonable,” one senior officer wrote. “Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!” he added.

The second report, outlining the prospects for 2024, says that Kiev needs 35,000 men per month but is “recruiting less than half” of that number, while Russia enlists 30,000 volunteers monthly. Meanwhile, the 2023 offensive “tactically destroyed” half of Kiev’s 12 combat brigades.

“The West can provide 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but will never be able to print men,” the report said.

One solution it advised was sending Western troops to Ukraine to carry out support tasks in the rear, freeing the Ukrainians for frontline duty.

The second report also acknowledged the Western special forces and “soldiers in civilian clothes” had a far greater presence in Ukraine than officially acknowledged, including “quite a few British,” as well as French naval commandos training the Ukrainians.

The third and latest report, which had the French observers “in cold sweat,” described the Battle of Avdeevka as a possible “rout” of Ukrainian forces. It described how Russia created “hell” for the Ukrainian troops by using massive glide bombs to inflict more than 1,000 casualties per day. The French document also described the Ukrainian retreat on February 17 as “sudden and unprepared.”

At the end of February, Macron made an argument to NATO members that all options for helping Ukraine should be “on the table,” implying the possibility of sending ground troops. The idea was publicly repudiated by most members of the US-led bloc, however.

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‼️🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 The GUR “Legion” captured a Ukrainian village in a fierce battle - the world laughs at the Nazis who announced the capture of Tyotkino
▪️The traitors claimed that they filmed a morning video in a Russian village, but as RVvoenkor immediately wrote, the footage was filmed in Ukraine.
▪️ “We are fighting in Tetkino. The name of the village is further away, we will advance a little later. The streets are heavily shot,” the clowns said against the background of silence in the video.
▪️Experts from different countries have determined the location of the shooting - this is the Ukrainian village of Ryzhevka, not far from Tyotkino across the border.
▪️The idiots from the GUR Legion tried to justify themselves by allegedly filming footage “before the storming of Tetkino.” Although in the video and in the caption the pigs clearly stated that they were already in Tetkino.
▪️Yesterday these clowns announced that they had taken control of Tetkino.
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2 Towns Fall;
French Army Tells Macron War Lost

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In Today's news....


Putin's Threat: Russia Ready for Nuclear Response to US Moves in Ukraine | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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Gravitas | Ukraine War: Putin says Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons
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‘Ukraine Can’t Win The War…’: French Military’s Report Praises Russia, Questions Zelensky’s Goals
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Chay Bowes based in Moscow reports on the so-called "The Freedom of Russia Legion" and the "Russian Volunteer Corps" who are nothing more than Western agency cut-outs akin to ISIS, and the "White Helmets."

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"Western client Media and Ukrainian Delusionists are fawning over the so called "Free Russians" launching what can only be objectively described as Suicide terror attacks against civilians in Belgorod Russia.

Its time for a dose of reality about these Neo Nazi "Heroes" that were banned and ejected from Russia due to their hateful, racist and Nazi ideology but found an enthusiastic welcome in Zelenskys NATO funded and armed Ukraine

These so called 'Ethnic Russians' styling themselves as "The Freedom of Russia Legion" and the "Russian Volunteer Corps" have been painted in Western media as "Russians looking establish a state for all to live in peace with surrounding nations", this delusional narrative ignores the fact that these self proclaimed, numerically irrelevant "Legions", who openly describe themselves as Nazis, have been volunteering themselves as cannon fodder for almost a decade while fighting alongside the morally repellent Azov, Aidar and Tornado battalions in eastern Ukraine.

These widely reviled terrorists attack civilians in Russian territories, such as the ongoing shelling and targeting of civilians in the region of Belgorod.

Lets be absolutely clear, here in Russia the vastly overwhelming sense amongst ordinary people is that these hateful societal rejects have long lost the right to call themselves Russian, its to be expected that wesgern media fails to call them out on who they really are - Nazis,

Its also unsurprising that they also fails to point out that these noble "Legions" which in reality consist of a couple of hundred disaffected racists and psychopath's, consists of representatives from the recently formed Ukrainian national guard regiment Azov, and Right Sector (both known far right racist stalwarts of the Kiev regime) and both of which coincidentally are neo-Nazi organisations that have been banned and recognised as terrorists in Russia.

Another convenient omission by the fawning medial is their widely recognised links to the Ukrainian intelligence services. So, are they really Russians? Well, the majority of those actually flying the Russian volunteer corps banner are not actually Russian at all, take Ukrainian Sonechko Batallion commander, Ruslan Kahanec, for example, this is the man who posted images on Instagram confirming that his unit attacked the Belgorod region. And what about the notorious head of the “Russian Volunteer Corps”, Denis Kapustin, a notorious neo-Nazi who is banned from entering Europe? well, he’s conveniently missing from the western media romanticising the corps that he "commands" he founded the neo-Nazi fashion label “White Rex” and helped to organise the neo-Nazi martial arts scene throughout Europe.

So the next time the Western Media tells you that noble Russians are attacking Russia, or when Spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, states that the US does not approve of its weapons and equipment being used in attacks or operations on Russian territory,

Bear in mind what they and their client media want you to believe, bear in mind that they travel in American MaxxPro armoured vehicles and Humvees, that they carry American rifles, are paid by the CIA via their clients in Kiev and that the United states leaves its morality at the door when it chooses its allies to fight as their proxies."

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Ukraine bombs Russian nuclear power plant periphery 14 Mar, 2024

The blast occurred near tanks containing diesel for backup generators at the Zaporozhye facility, according to management

Ukrainian forces have dropped a bomb near diesel tanks located at Russia’s Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, management at the facility reported on Thursday.

In a video published on social media, plant director Yury Chernuk pointed to a crater in the ground, which he said had been created by an explosive device dropped from a Ukrainian drone.

The bomb itself was composed of explosives wrapped in foil, according to reports, but the location was significant. The crater was just five meters away from the perimeter fence, and tanks storing diesel fuel could be seen in the footage.

The plant has backup diesel generators, which kick in when electricity supply from the power grid is cut off. Its equipment needs to be powered continuously to ensure safe operation, even when nuclear reactors are not online. Blackouts have been a regular occurrence for the site since the beginning of the conflict.

”Destruction of those tanks or a fuel leak may not only cause a fire, but also result in significant loss of diesel reserves. Consequently, the plant’s preparedness for emergencies would be reduced by orders of magnitude,” Chernuk explained.

Another person, who was not identified, suggested that the bombing incident had been part of Ukraine’s intimidation tactics. Kiev considers the plant to be occupied by the Russian military.

The director of the facility noted that Ukrainian forces had targeted the plant days after the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, rotated observers stationed there. The organization told Russian media that it was aware of the incident, but offered no further comment.

Following the incident, the situation was reportedly calm in Energodar, the city where the Zaporozhye power plant is located.

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Ukraine's Military Planning Takeover of Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev by Force - Source 12 hours ago

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Ukrainian military, dissatisfied with the policy of the country's leadership, is planning the takeover of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in Kiev and attracting other Ukrainian armed forces' military personnel to their side, a correspondence on a closed resource obtained by Russian specialists has shown.

Sputnik obtained the correspondence of the chat participants, which showed that the participants discussed a swift takeover of the Verkhovna Rada and attracting the military to their side.

"The most important action that we will need to pull off lightning fast is the takeover of the VR [Verkhovna Rada] at a certain point," one of the chat participants wrote.

Earlier this week, a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies told Sputnik that Russian specialists had gained access to a classified Telegram channel titled "ParaBelum," where commanders and fighters of elite units of the Ukrainian armed forces are "seriously discussing options for overthrowing the current authorities and the command of the Ukrainian armed forces."

"When the staff is recruited, fighters are trained, the mass will be ready," another chat participant said.

"There must be support from the military. Without it, nothing will work. The main driving force. [They] will say from the trenches that [they are] with us, and people will follow," one more chat participant said.

"Especially when the people see that the military is at the helm and the rest of the military is following them - they automatically take the right side," another chat participant added.

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Scenario for Military Takeover of Ukrainian Parliament Was Written by US - Expert 39 minutes ago

A takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament by the nation's military would not be a grass-roots movement, "Other Ukraine" expert Alexander Dudchak told Sputnik, suggesting that the potential rebellion has been orchestrated from the West.

The disillusioned Ukrainian military is planning a takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament or Verkhovna Rada, an exchange from private Telegram channel Parabelum obtained by Sputnik reveals.

"This could be a scenario of replacing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky without holding elections," Alexander Dudchak, researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and expert of the ‘Other Ukraine’ movement, told Sputnik.

The members of the classified chat, composed of commanders and soldiers of elite units of the Ukrainian armed forces, were discussing options for overthrowing the present government and the command of the Ukrainian armed forces following the sacking of Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny.

"The most important action that we will need to pull off lightning fast is the takeover of the VR [Verkhovna Rada] at a certain point," one of the chat members wrote.

They also expressed dissatisfaction with Zelensky’s decisions and the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, who was appointed a month ago to replace Zaluzhny. The alleged coup plotters placed special emphasis on involving Ukrainian troops fighting at the frontline in the anti-Zelensky movement.
According to the researcher, engaging Ukrainian active duty personnel is fraught with risks, given that those in the trenches are closely monitored by foreign mercenaries from ‘barrier detachments’ with orders to shoot any who leave their positions against orders.
If Ukrainian troops are allowed to march towards Kiev that would mean that the regime-change scenario was written in Washington in response to Zelensky's refusal to hold elections this year, Dudchak argued.

Leaders of elite Ukrainian units, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the nationalist Azov and Aidar battalions are also reportedly planning to create a radical party with a military wing.
The expert insists that none of the Ukrainian military and intelligence structures is independent: each of them has either British or US "supervisors".

"The confrontation between the military and the Kiev regime is in general a manifestation of the confrontation between London and Washington," said Dudchak. "The office of the president is under British control, while the military, who supposedly will gather in the name of Zaluzhny, are under Americans, plus the SBU is also a US-backed structure."

The consequences for Kiev would be dramatic and could seriously complicate the Ukrainian military's positions at the frontline, the researcher concluded.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240314/scenario-for-military-takeover-of-ukrainian-parliament-was-written-by-us---expert-1117334224.html

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A little show of advanced tech... Yesterday

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In an interview with Russian media on Wednesday, the Russian president assured that Russia’s nuclear triad is “more modern” than that of any other country, and reiterated that Moscow would never use such fearsome arms unless its statehood is threatened.

Russia’s nuclear-capable Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles have rendered massive US investments into the creation of a missile defense system useless, Vladimir Putin has announced.

“If you calculate how much [the US’] well-known missile defenses cost them, one of the main components for overcoming these missile defenses that we have is the Avangard, an intercontinental missile with an intercontinental-range glide unit. So you cannot compare budgets. We’ve basically nullified everything they’ve done, everything they’ve invested in this missile defense system,” Putin told Dmitry Kiselev, director of Sputnik parent media group Rossiaya Segodnya, remarking on the immense largesse and waste in the US defense industry.

What is the Avangard?

Boosted into orbit on board R-36 and RS-28 Sarmat heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles and deployed as part of the missiles’ multiple reentry vehicle (MIRV) payloads, Avangards can accelerate to speeds of up to Mach 27 (32,200 km) in near-space conditions, dropping to an estimated Mach 15-20 (18,500-23,000 km) by atmospheric drag during descent.

The glide vehicles have a reported independent range of more than 6,000 km, and an explosive power of between 0.8 and two megatons. They’re also available in conventional mode, using the immense kinetic force generated by the high speed at which they hit their targets to destroy an array of strategic objectives.

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Along with maneuverability and speed, the characteristics of their flight, and specifically the weapons’ ability to withstand temperatures of up to 2,000 degrees Celsius are another factor making defense against the Avangard essentially impossible.

“The Avangard is practically covered with plasma [during flight, ed.] and the plasma absorbs electromagnetic rays, thus making the hypersonic vehicle invisible to radar. As a result of high kinetic energy, the Avangard can destroy targets without the use of nuclear weapons. This is a unique tool, and to date no other country in the world has created anything like it,” military historian, defense commentator, and missile and air defense specialist Yuri Knutov recently told Sputnik.

With their carrier rockets having a flight range between 15,200 and 18,000 km, the Avangard can strike any point on Earth.
Up to two dozen Avangards can be packed into a single Sarmat missile, with the rocket also capable of carrying other MIRVs, as well as dummy warheads designed to fool and disperse enemy missile defenses.

The Avangard is one of half-a-dozen new strategic-class weapons in Russia’s arsenal, with these armaments designed to ensure that even if an adversary were to manage to catch Russia off-guard in a nuclear or conventional first strike, the guaranteed response would nevertheless be severe enough to force enemy planners to think twice before launching aggression.

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Good start to the come back... Vice... interesting video...
This war brings human and material losses on both sides... all caused by the brutality and ego of one man....

Putin's Russia: A Country at War with Itself
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Putin Says He’s READY for NUCLEAR WAR; Another $300 Million for Ukraine?

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Lt. Col. Daniel Davis weighs in on the latest on Ukraine and Russa.
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Putin is talking about nukes because Macron is talking about sending the French army into Ukraine. Macron is a fool.


Sigh....These headlines are always incredibly misleading! He's NOT saying that he has any intention of initiating a nuclear war, but simply that if THE WEST initiates such a war then he's prepared to retaliate in kind.

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Good start to the come back... Vice... interesting video...
This war brings human and material losses on both sides... all caused by the brutality and ego of one man....

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Good start to the come back... Vice... interesting video...
This war brings human and material losses on both sides... all caused by the brutality and ego of one man....

Putin's Russia: A Country at War with Itself
7rnFtnDa_OoYou sure follow some mainstream-propaganda channels. :facepalm::facepalm::facepalm:

:focus:

I do not follow MSM... and didn't say everything I am listening and watching it's believable.. here and there it's interesting to heard from different point of view, Bill!!! As this one from VICE... I am sure, you noticed... with my posts, I am not also believer in all alt media either...
All those who are so much into Putin narrations... not all the truthful one...
I am Slovenian and some my friends are Russians... I know some facts from there too!!!
It should be a real free world of free opinions.. but is NOT!
Yes, back to topic! :waving::waving:

PS: And BTW.. Russia is also not like Tucker was showing some areas, shops in Moskva.. it's much more different... and for Russian harder to live... and earn money!

[Matthew]

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Putin is talking about nukes because Macron is talking about sending the French army into Ukraine. Macron is a fool.

Yeah init? 'Fool' is generous.

[Ravenlocke]

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Russian TG channel reports:

The enemy is attacking with armored vehicles and small groups on a number of sections of the border in the Belgorod and Kursk regions
▪️The enemy has been conducting attack operations on the border for the third day, timed to coincide with the Russian presidential elections.
▪️Attempted attacks in the Kursk region in the Tetkino area are carried out by small forces under the cover of artillery fire. Up to groups of 5 militants.
❗️In this area, the enemy achieved no results at all except losses.
▪️12.03 the enemy attacked in the area of Spodaryushino and Nekhoteevka.
▪️From 14.03. The enemy is making the main efforts in the Belgorod region, where in a number of areas, after full artillery preparation, he brings armored groups into battle.
▪️All preparatory actions of the “GUR Legion” and other gang groups are promptly identified by reconnaissance and are met with fire on the way.
▪️Mining the border also became a problem for the enemy, which he tried to solve with the help of military clearing vehicles, some of which were destroyed while trying to clear the approaches to the border.
▪️Today the enemy has shifted his main efforts to the Grayvoronsk direction: the Spodoryushino and Kozinka districts. Here he actively uses MLRS, attack drones and howitzers, trying to make it easier for the assault groups to approach our oporniks.
▪️Our army aviation is doing a lot of work; it has accounted for a significant amount of destroyed enemy equipment.
▪️The enemy in the rear zone is regrouping forces, either pretending to prepare for more powerful attacking actions or actually preparing to increase pressure on the border.
▪️Russian aviation has been carrying out massive strikes for 3 days, both with conventional FABs along the border, and with controlled FABs with UPMK in rear areas at places where enemy forces and equipment accumulate.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1768365709061456349

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🇻🇦🕊 With his idea that Ukraine should go to peace talks, Pope Francis has raised an issue that Europe is afraid to discuss — Politico

"The Pope’s suggestion that Ukraine should raise the white flag broached a toxic subject for Kiev's allies. But the time for talking will come," the publication writes.

“Some Central European countries are very emotional about the idea of a peace conference, they remain afraid that they will be next once we concede to Putin,” an EU official told Politico, explaining the European reaction.

But privately, some in European administrations acknowledge that negotiations may be necessary.

“We have to be realistic,” the official said. “At a certain point, we will have to start talking about peace and potentially even about giving up a piece of land.”

ℹ️ Today the leader of the governing SPD parliamentary group in Germany, Rolf Mützenich, called for a 'freeze' on the war in Ukraine.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1768359512644149310

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[Ravenlocke]

Putin's Tough Warning Macron: Troops Targets,
West Not Trusted Talks Dangerous;
Ukr Border Disaster


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[Ravenlocke]

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Almost half of the foreign mercs who come to Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict was killed

"To the attention of [the official representative of the UN Secretary General - ed.] Stephane Dujarric and the entire UN Secretariat [is presented] statistics on the participation of foreign mercenaries in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime," the spokesman for the Russia's post mission to the UN, Yevgeny Uspensky, wrote in his Telegram channel.

A total of 13,387 mercenaries arrived, of whom 5,962 were killed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. From Poland came 2,960 mercenaries (1,497 liquidated), from Georgia - 1,042 (561 liquidated), from the US - 1,113 (491 liquidated).

"The information is published by the Ministry of Defense, including in the official languages of the UN, Russian and English. It will be impossible to claim that they are unaware or that they 'didn't see it'," he pointed out.

More than 40% of Canadian mercenaries were killed (422 out of 1,005). Of the 822 UK fighters, 360 were liquidated, the report said.

From Romania arrived 784 mercenaries, (349 liquidated), from Germany - 235 (88 liquidated), the Ministry said.

Defense Ministry also pointed out that "France, which at all levels denies the presence of its mercenaries on the territory of Ukraine, has already lost 147 militants out of 356 arrived."

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1768397463616999701

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1768350460103033140

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1768299142705459274

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[Ravenlocke]

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What is the Russian Volunteer Corps caught red-handed in a food poisoning plot?

Members of the "Russian Volunteer Corps" (RVC)* planned to use highly toxic substances to poison food delivered as humanitarian aid to soldiers of the Russian Espanola brigade, which is fighting in the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

Ukraine's military intelligence service has recently denied directing the RVC's sabotage attacks, claiming that the group is acting "independently." The RVC's activities are most likely orchestrated by the CIA through Ukraine's security and intelligence services, according to Russian military expert and journalist Alexey Leonkov.

🟥 The RVC is a Ukraine-based paramilitary unit composed of Russian defectors, which was formed in August 2022.

🟥 The project was designed to create the appearance of a supposedly "powerful" anti-government force in Russia, according to military experts.

🟥 The RVC uses Nazi symbols, including the chevrons of the "Russian Liberation Army" — a collaborationist formation that was led by turncoat Soviet general Andrey Vlasov and fought under Nazi German command during WW2.

🟥 The RVC was spotted acting alongside Ukraine's nationalist Kraken Regiment, responsible for the brutal torture of Russian POWs. Kraken was formed by veterans of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion*.

🟥 The RVC claimed responsibility for sabotage attacks against Russia's Bryansk and Belgorod regions in 2023. Speaking to the German newspaper Bild, an RVC leader stated that the Kiev regime assists the corps.

*Terrorist groups banned in Russia

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1768329417405661361

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From sports field to the battlefield: Who’s in the Espanola volunteer battalion?

The Espanola Battalion is a volunteer military formation made up of fans of major Russian football clubs.

🟥 Created in 2022 to defend the Donbass, football fans from across Russia joined the newly-formed unit. They became part of the Donetsk People’s Republic’s Vostok Brigade, agreeing to set aside any animosities between their respected clubs for a common cause.

“Despite all previous beefs during peacetime, now, for the duration of the special operation, our guys are supporting our own,” Espanola’s commander, who goes by the call sign ‘Spaniard’, told Sputnik in 2022.

Another fighter codenamed ‘Pitbull’ echoed the commander’s stance, saying that the experience of clashes at football matches only helps the members. “Using this spirit, directing it to the right place creates a literal bomb,” he noted.

🟥 The Espanola Battalion’s troops include everyone from sappers and drone operators to assault units, with volunteers with no military experience receiving training before being deployed. As its strength grew, the unit began to recruit skilled fighters, from snipers and saboteurs to electronic warfare and air defense specialists.

🟥 The fighting force has reportedly racked up experience across the front over the past two years of fighting, deploying from Donetsk to Kherson to Zaporozhye.

🟥 In September 2023, Espanola thwarted Ukrainian attacks in Kleshchevka near Artemovsk, Donetsk region, destroying an observation post, a mortar with ammunition and knocking out the enemy from their positions.

🟥 On March 8, Sputnik reached out to female soldier known as ‘Valkyrie’ serving as deputy commander of the assault company in the Espanola brigade. She explained how Russian women fight and defend their Motherland in the special military operation zone.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1768331609776779752

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https://x.com/RT_com/status/1768426894133711312

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https://www.rt.com/russia/594251-fsb-terrorist-cell-poisoning/

Kiev-backed terrorist cell tried to poison soldiers – FSB

A Kiev-backed terrorist cell, which plotted to poison food intended for Russian soldiers on the frontline, has been busted in St. Petersburg, the Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Thursday.

The four members of the group were identified as far-right radicals and members of the ‘Russian Volunteer Corps’ (RDK), a militia affiliated with Ukrainian military intelligence. The conspirators were acting on orders from their leadership and on behalf of the Ukrainian government, the FSB said.

In addition to the alleged poisoning plot, the suspects were surveilling crucial infrastructure in and around Russia’s second-largest city for possible future attacks, the agency stated.

All four persons were arrested and are facing prison terms of at least ten years for being members of a terrorist organization, according to the press release.

Earlier this week, RDK, which includes neo-Nazis in its ranks, and other Kiev-backed militant groups composed of Russian citizens, staged an attempted incursion into the Belgorod and Kursk border regions, using heavy weapons. According to their statements, the Tuesday operation was meant to disrupt this week’s presidential election in Russia, with gunmen pledging to “vote with calibers.”

Russian security forces reported stopping the attack, eliminating 234 fighters, seven tanks, three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and two armored personnel carriers. A video released by the militants and purporting to show them fighting on Russian soil was filmed in a Ukrainian border village, according to geolocation data.

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Scenario for military takeover of Ukrainian parliament was written by US

The disillusioned Ukrainian military is planning a takeover of the Ukrainian Parliament or Verkhovna Rada, according to an exchange from private Telegram channel Parabelum obtained by Sputnik.

"This could be a scenario of replacing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky without holding elections," Alexander Dudchak, researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and expert of the "Other Ukraine" movement, told Sputnik.

The classified chat members, composed of commanders and soldiers of elite units of the Ukrainian armed forces, were discussing options for overthrowing the present government and the command of the Ukrainian armed forces following the sacking of Commander-in-Chief General Valery Zaluzhny.

Leaders of elite Ukrainian units, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Nationalist Battalions are also reportedly planning to create a radical party with a military wing.

Dudchak does not believe that would be a grass-roots movement, suggesting that the potential rebellion has been planned by Ukraine's Western patrons in response to Zelensky's refusal to hold elections this year.

"The confrontation between the military and the Kiev regime is in general a manifestation of the confrontation between London and Washington," said Dudchak. "The office of the president is under British control, while the military, who supposedly will gather in the name of Zaluzhny, are under Americans, plus the SBU is also a US-backed structure."

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1768301207515287907


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[Ravenlocke]

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🇩🇪 The West has accepted Ukraine's defeat and is trying to negotiate with Russia — Focus

The German magazine Focus reports that the West has finally come to terms with the inevitability of Ukraine's defeat. Ukrainian troops are retreating, the sanctions policy has failed and the political crisis in some countries has left Kiev without Western aid.

The author notes that many Western companies are tired of the conflict and are looking forward to returning to the Russian market. He believes that Western politicians are now looking for a deal with Putin because they realise they have no choice.

The article points out that Russia has made a lot of progress recently. As well as advancing on the battlefield, Moscow has managed to reroute supply chains, save its economy and greatly improve its relations with countries in the Global South.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1768355623320572077

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1768245679795712099

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https://www.rt.com/news/594281-nato-stoltenberg-missiles-black-sea-fleet/

NATO-supplied missiles used in attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet – bloc chief
Ukraine has used NATO-supplied missiles to strike Russian Navy vessels in the Black Sea, the bloc's secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, acknowledged on Thursday, adding that he considers the area to be of “great strategic importance.”

Earlier this month, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian Navy ship off the coast of Crimea with the help of several seaborne drones.

Similar incidents have taken place during the course of the conflict, with Kiev’s biggest hit to date being the Moskva, the former flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which sank on April 14, 2022. Some of the attacks have involved air-to-surface cruise missiles, with some military experts speculating that British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles could have been used.

At a press conference on Thursday, Stoltenberg said that “one of the big victories that Ukraine has achieved is actually to be able to push back the Russian Black Sea Fleet and to destroy many other ships,” ensuring an “open corridor from Odessa all the way to the Bosporus.”

He noted that “some of the missiles, some of the systems that have been so critical in opening this corridor have been, of course, provided by NATO Allies.”

His comments come as Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, warned on Wednesday that the situation has reached the point where high-ranking US officials are saying the West needs to help Ukrainians “strike deep in Crimea.” In other words, he said, “the direct involvement of the United States in the conflict has been officially recognized.”

Antonov noted that the direct participation of Ukraine’s Western backers in the conflict would have the “most unpredictable consequences” for the world.

The ambassador was responding to a comment made by CIA Director William Burns during a hearing at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Monday. Burns argued that additional funding would allow Ukraine to conduct more “deep penetration strikes in Crimea,” continue targeting Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, and eventually “regain the offensive initiative.”

Also on Monday, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR), Kirill Budanov, announced that Kiev’s recent attacks on the peninsula are paving the way for a “serious operation in Crimea.”[COLOR="red"]

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[norman]

RUSSIAN SOLDIER CAPTURES PREGNANT UKRAINIAN SOLDIER

RUSSIAN SOLDIER #1: Do you have weapons?

UKRAINIAN SOLDIER: No, no weapons.

RUSSIAN SOLDIER #1: Arms! Lift up your arms!

RUSSIAN SOLDIER #2: Let’s go, but slowly, don’t rush!

RUSSIAN SOLDIER #1: (speaking into radio) Seroyga, Control. Don’t move.

RUSSIAN SOLDIER #2: Hold it! I’ll check.

UKRAINIAN SOLDIER: Please don’t hit me! I’m pregnant!

RUSSIAN SOLDIER #2: What are you doing here if you are pregnant?!

UKRAINIAN SOLDIER: Please don’t leave me here!

Video at link:
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/russian-soldier-captures-pregnant-ukrainian-soldier

(https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/russian-soldier-captures-pregnant-ukrainian-soldier/)https://rumble.com/v4jd9bc-russian-soldier-captures-pregnant-ukrainian-soldier.html
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[Tintin]

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Putin is talking about nukes because Macron is talking about sending the French army into Ukraine. Macron is a fool.

Yeah init? 'Fool' is generous.

It's been suggested, with good reason I think, that a reason, and perhaps the prevailing one, that sees Macron spewing this rhetoric is that someone of French military importance was killed during the recent Russian targeting of a NATO facility in Ukraine. Apologies I don't immediately recall exactly when that was - a couple weeks back, I think - but that episode had been reported here.

[Matthew]

...
Putin is talking about nukes because Macron is talking about sending the French army into Ukraine. Macron is a fool.

Yeah init? 'Fool' is generous.

It's been suggested, with good reason I think, that a reason, and perhaps the prevailing one, that sees Macron spewing this rhetoric is that someone of French military importance was killed during the recent Russian targeting of a NATO facility in Ukraine. Apologies I don't immediately recall exactly when that was - a couple weeks back, I think - but that episode had been reported here.

A personal vendetta? I don't easily believe Macron would be following his own desires here. It's probably a bunch of spin to motivate the French people... that's my best guess.

[Tintin]

...
Putin is talking about nukes because Macron is talking about sending the French army into Ukraine. Macron is a fool.

Yeah init? 'Fool' is generous.

It's been suggested, with good reason I think, that a reason, and perhaps the prevailing one, that sees Macron spewing this rhetoric is that someone of French military importance was killed during the recent Russian targeting of a NATO facility in Ukraine. Apologies I don't immediately recall exactly when that was - a couple weeks back, I think - but that episode had been reported here.

A personal vendetta? I don't easily believe Macron would be following his own desires here. It's probably a bunch of spin to motivate the French people... that's my best guess.

Who knows! Perhaps he's channelling his inner Napoleon, and we know what happened last time around with that. But, yes, 'fool' is probably a little light an ad-hom. Deluded parasitic concubine of the dark lord, with a trans for a 'wife', may be more accurate. Perhaps he's also upset about that revelation.

:focus:

[ExomatrixTV]

Frontline Diary of an American Officer | RT Documentary (https://rumble.com/v4gf1dx-frontline-diary-of-an-american-officer-rt-documentary.html)

"Donbass is where the bombs and the bullets are raging. This is where people are dying. This is where the buildings are exploding. So, I wanted to see firsthand the scars of war, the wounds in the street, the rubble of the buildings being collapsed. I wanted to see the soldiers that were fighting and hear from them about why they were fighting, how this fighting started and their opinion," says Scott Bennett (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Scott%20Bennett), former officer of the US Army. In November 2023, he visited Donbass to make a documentary-diary of his own. What are the impressions of the American officer after daring trips to the frontlines? How does he think about the Russian special forces training? Why is he now convinced of Russia's inevitable victory? To gain personal experience within the Russian Army, Scott Bennett spent several days with the "Nevsky" unit in Soledar. To learn more about their frontline life, check out their channel on Telegram at: t.me/BTGR_NEVSKIY (https://t.me/BTGR_NEVSKIY)


source (https://rumble.com/v4gf1dx-frontline-diary-of-an-american-officer-rt-documentary.html)

[Vicus]

Russian Air Defense Downs 7 Vampire MLRS Missiles Over Belgorod Region

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian air defense systems have destroyed seven Vampire MLRS missiles over the Belgorod Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

"On March 15, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on targets on the territory of Russia using the RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system was stopped at about 08:15 Moscow time [05:15 GMT]. On-duty air defense systems destroyed seven missiles in the air over the Belgorod Region," the ministry said in a statement.
As Sputnik earlier explained, the Vehicle Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (or VAMPIRE for short) is essentially a portable kit capable of firing 70mm laser-guided rockets such as, for example, the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System.

Three Children Killed as Result of Night Shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian Troops

Three children were killed as a result of a night shelling of the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, Donetsk Mayor Alexey Kulemzin said on Friday, adding that a shell hit a private house.

"As a result of the barbaric night shelling by Ukrainian ... [military] of the Petrovskyi district of our city, a shell hit one of the private sector houses ... followed by a fire. Three children died — a girl born in 2007, a girl born in 2021 and a boy born in 2014," Kulemzin wrote on Telegram.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240315/russian-air-defense-downs-7-vampire-mlrs-missiles-over-belgorod-region--1117342230.html

[Vicus]

EU can ‘f*** off’ with its gold demand – ex-Russian president 15 Mar, 2024

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on Moscow to return gold sent to the Russian Empire by Romania in 1916

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vehemently rejected the EU’s demand that Moscow return gold that it claims belongs to Romania, describing it as “impudence.”

On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Moscow to send back 91.5 metric tons of gold and cultural artifacts that were exported to the Russian Empire in 1916-1917 by Romania.

Writing on his social media page on Friday, Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, stated that “I don’t even know how to respond to such impudence.”

”The EU has stolen $300 billion worth of Russian assets and is now demanding that Russia return gold to Romania. There is nothing to say except f*** off,” Medvedev wrote.

Previously, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had pointed out that in 1935, the USSR had already returned a portion of the valuables to Romania as a “sign of good will.” She also recalled that the Soviet Union had forgiven Romania all of its debts for the “troubles and destruction” that it caused in Russia during World War II, when Bucharest was an ally of Nazi Germany.

That was “despite all the atrocities that Hitler’s Romanian allies committed on our land. And this is no less than $300 million in reparations, i.e., if converted to today’s money, it would be something in the region of $4 billion,” Zakharova wrote on her official Telegram channel.

The spokeswoman went on to state that if these Romanian debts to Russia and the Soviet Union were expressed in terms of bullion, they would be equivalent to 1,365–1,665 tons of gold, which is “20-25 times more than Romania’s entire gold reserve that was sent to Russia in 1916-1917.”

Zakharova claimed that Romania was now using “Russophobic platforms, such as the European Parliament, which is ready for any excuse to force onto us its century-old phantom debts.”

She suggested that Bucharest’s demand may be part of a desperate attempt to fix the “deplorable situation” in Romania’s “national economy, against the backdrop of farm strikes throughout the country.”

https://swentr.site/russia/594327-medvedev-russia-romania-gold/

[Vicus]

Medvedev responds to Zelensky ‘peace plan’

The senior Russian official has proposed a “soft” alternative that would see Ukraine absorbed by his country

A “reasonable” peace agreement with Ukraine would involve Moscow taking full control over the country, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.

The senior official mocked the peace plan proposed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, which has been backed by the West as the only way to end the conflict with Russia. First unveiled in late 2022, the proposal amounts to Moscow conceding military defeat, according to the Russian leadership.

“Everyone, including those brazen Western liars, understands that even in a less complicated situation peace can be achieved either through reasonable compromise or after one of the sides capitulates,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy head of the Security Council, wrote on social media on Thursday.

Since the Ukrainian proposal can only be taken with “loathing” and a “sense of shame,” Medvedev said he had come up with a “soft” alternative. This would involve formal capitulation by Kiev, the dissolution of the Ukrainian government, and the UN-monitored election of a new parliament. The new legislature in Kiev would be tasked with paying reparations to Russia and ultimately ratifying a treaty of union, under which Moscow would assume full sovereignty over Ukraine.

The comments came after Switzerland announced that it will host a new round of talks on the ‘Zelensky formula’ this summer. Bern has urged the inclusion of Russia in the talks, unlike during every previous summit, although neither Kiev nor Moscow has agreed.

The Russian government believes the entire process to be a ruse.

Russia is prepared for peace talks “based not on a wish list somebody came up with after taking psychotropic substances, but on the realities… on the ground,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview this week.

Any stable truce with Ukraine will have to address Russian security concerns caused by NATO’s expansion in Europe, he added. Considering the lack of trust in Moscow after so many Western promises given to it were broken, that bridge would be difficult to cross, according to the Russian leader.

https://swentr.site/russia/594272-medvedev-peace-formula-ukraine/

[ExomatrixTV]

WW3 ALERT: France’s Macron Threatens Full Invasion of Ukraine, Orders Loading of Hydrogen Bombs on Fighter Jets — Friday LIVE (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllYZWyExL)


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[Michel Leclerc]

WW3 ALERT: France’s Macron Threatens Full Invasion of Ukraine, Orders Loading of Hydrogen Bombs on Fighter Jets — Friday LIVE (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllYZWyExL)


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Not accessible, John... Another source?

[ExomatrixTV]

WW3 ALERT: France’s Macron Threatens Full Invasion of Ukraine, Orders Loading of Hydrogen Bombs on Fighter Jets — Friday LIVE (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllYZWyExL)



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Not accessible, John... Another source?


https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllYZWyExL

[Bill Ryan]

WW3 ALERT: France’s Macron Threatens Full Invasion of Ukraine, Orders Loading of Hydrogen Bombs on Fighter Jets — Friday LIVE (https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllYZWyExL)

1RDxllYZWyExLNot accessible, John... Another source?https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllYZWyExLStill not available. but the title "WW3 ALERT: France’s Macron Threatens Full Invasion of Ukraine, Orders Loading of Hydrogen Bombs on Fighter Jets — Friday LIVE" is outdated or possibly just a plain lie.

Here's the updated situation, as explained a few hours ago by Alex Christoferou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran. His promised speech to the nation was merely an interview, and it was a trainwreck.

Macron's shambolic interview, cowers to Putin's warning


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmElJL8SUJA&t=2s

[Open Minded Dude]

Elections are going well in the new Russian zones. Roeper's report as a voluntary poll worker/observer from there (he's the third from the right on the foto).

https://www-anti--spiegel-ru.translate.goog/2024/ein-erster-eindruck-von-den-praesidentschaftswahlen-in-saporoschje/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Travel report

A first impression of the presidential elections in Zaporozhye

from Anti-Spiegel
March 16, 2024 5:43 am

https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/saporoschje-wahl.jpg

The presidential elections in Russia last three days this year. This makes a lot of sense, especially in the new Russian territories that the West still calls Ukrainian, because Ukraine is shelling gatherings of people. The aim of extending the elections over three days is to prevent many people from being in the polling stations at the same time.

Mobile election workers have been out in the areas near the front since February 25th to give people the opportunity to exercise their right to vote. Since Friday, these mobile poll workers have been everywhere in Zaporozhye, ringing every doorbell to offer people the opportunity to vote. The polling stations themselves only open on Sunday, which is also intended to avoid crowds as much as possible.

We election observers were in several towns on Friday and examined the preparations at the polling stations as well as accompanying mobile poll workers. Here I give a first impression of what we saw.

We found the first group of mobile poll workers in a residential area when they were in a square in front of apartment buildings. The mood was good and it was unsurprising that everyone without exception was for Putin, because in Zaporozhye a lot of construction and renovation is going on incredibly quickly. The country roads that I was able to experience for the first time in March 2022 are all new. Hundreds of kilometers of roads that had not been maintained for decades were renovated. Backyards, parks and playgrounds are also being renovated.

But there is another reason for the pro-Putin mood, because people now have more money in their pockets. In Ukraine, with its low salaries, the additional living costs for electricity, water and heating are at the same level as in Germany. So they eat up the salaries, which is especially true for pensioners, because the additional cost bills are often higher than the pension.

Now people pay the Russian tariffs for additional housing costs, which are many times lower, while at the same time pensioners receive the much higher Russian pensions. Many pensioners have told us that they finally no longer have to ask their children for money and can suddenly even buy new household appliances.

For many, the election is a real celebration and in fact I have heard more than once how people on the street congratulated each other on the election day. Since people associate this new, unfamiliar prosperity directly with Putin, it is hardly surprising who they vote for. Many people are looking for mobile poll workers in their neighborhood so they can vote.

I know this really sounds like Russian propaganda, but that's what you're experiencing here.

Of course there are other voices, there are the so-called “Zhduni” (“Waiting”), so called because they are waiting for Ukraine to return. But they are clearly in the minority and we only saw one man who made a grumpy expression as he passed by and who “purely happened” to be carrying two plastic bags, one of which was bright yellow and the other blue.

Since the mobile election workers have been on the road since February 25th, the voter turnout was already 56 percent when we arrived at the central election commission that evening. People's willingness to vote is really strong and you can expect a high voter turnout in this area.

But there is also bad news, as two election offices in the neighboring Kherson region were attacked with rockets and in Berdyansk, a city in the Zaporozhye region, a poll worker was killed by a car bomb a few days ago. Ukraine is doing everything it can to intimidate people in the new Russian territories, but it is having the opposite effect. The Ukrainian terror is driving people into the arms of Russia and they want to make a statement by voting. At least that's what several people have told me.

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🇺🇦 Ukrainian military registration and enlistment officers drove a man to attempt suicide

▪️Employees of the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment office in Transcarpathia broke into the hotel, tied up a young man, accusing him of illegally attempting to cross the border.
▪️According to his girlfriend, after this the guy was taken to the TCC of the city of Khust, where he was beaten until he decided to commit suicide. - ISZ reports

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The Czech Republic is negotiating with Greece purchasing weapons for Ukraine.

Athens is ready to sell:

▪️2000 127 mm Zuni air-to-ground missiles;

▪️ 180 unnamed anti-tank missiles;

▪️ 90,000 90 mm anti-tank and anti-aircraft shells;

▪️ 70 American-made M114A1 155-mm howitzers;

▪️ 4 million rounds.

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FSB foils Kiev’s terrorist attack on Trans-Siberian Railway

The Russian national was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in Lvov, underwent sabotage training and was sent to Russia for committing terror attacks with the use of improvised explosives on railway trains delivering cargo for the special military operation

MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled a terrorist attack on the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Urals plotted by a Ukrainian military intelligence agent, the FSB press office told TASS on Saturday.

"The FSB has detained a Russian citizen born in 1962 who plotted a terror attack at a railway hub of the Trans-Siberian Railroad in the Sverdlovsk Region on an assignment from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Department," the press office said in a statement.

The Russian national was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in Lvov, underwent sabotage training and was sent to Russia for committing terror attacks with the use of improvised explosives on railway trains delivering cargo for the special military operation, it specified.

"The suspect confessed to the wrongdoing and is cooperating with the investigative team," the press office said.

During investigative measures, investigators "seized communications equipment from the suspect for clandestine contact with his supervisor, a device for derailing trains and money transferred by the Ukrainian intelligence for plotting and committing crimes," it said.

Investigators have opened a criminal probe against the suspect under part 3, article 30 and part 2, article 205 of Russia’s Criminal Code ("An Attempted Terrorist Act"). The suspect has been taken into custody. Measures continue to document the suspect’s criminal activity, the press office said.

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West did everything over year to disrupt Russian presidential election — diplomat

Maria Zakharova pointed out that the West has organized misinformation campaigns and influence in the cyber sphere: from spreading the corresponding content to blocking the apps of Russian organizations on digital platforms, which is also "a very serious element of influence"

MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Moscow’s Western opponents actively tried over the past year to disrupt the Russian presidential election, Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS on Saturday.

"Our opponents stirred up not just a week or a month ago. It seems to me that over the past year they did everything to either disrupt the presidential election or prevent it from being held or distort the conception of the elections in different ways," the diplomat said.

The West has organized misinformation campaigns and influence in the cyber sphere: from spreading the corresponding content to blocking the apps of Russian organizations on digital platforms, which is also "a very serious element of influence," she pointed out.

The West also used paid opposition that turned out to be "agents of influence and simply hirelings," the diplomat explained.

"That is, all methods were used," she pointed out.

"But nothing helps it [the West]," she stressed.

The unity of Russian citizens amidst the country’s presidential election causes the West’s fury, Zakharova said.

"The country has consolidated and is a single whole. Moreover, this is unity in the face of the threat that is evident and unity, what is especially important, for solving the tasks that we face," the diplomat said.

"This causes savage fury, hatred and aggression and they are already foaming, you know, coming out with some green pus. Let them choke on it," she said.

The Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament, officially designated March 17, 2024 as the day of the presidential election. The Central Election Commission (CEC) then announced that voting would take place over three days on March 15-17.

Four candidates are vying for the top office, namely New People party nominee Vladislav Davankov; self-nominated candidate and incumbent President Vladimir Putin; Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) nominee Leonid ****sky; and Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) nominee Nikolay Kharitonov.

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Issue of Crimea’s affiliation resolved forever, says Russia’s top diplomat

Crimea has clear-cut prospects of its further development and Russia has resolved many problems inherited from Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out

MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. Crimea and Sevastopol are integral parts of Russia and the issue of their affiliation is closed forever, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a video address on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the peninsula’s reunification with Russia on Saturday.

"The issue of the affiliation of Crimea and Sevastopol is closed. The peninsula is an integral part of Russia," the top diplomat stressed.

Crimea has clear-cut prospects of its further development and Russia has resolved many problems inherited from Ukraine, Lavrov pointed out.

"Over the past years, many problems inherited from Ukraine have been resolved. With clear-cut prospects of their further development, Crimean residents can look into the future with confidence and optimism," he added.

"Ten years ago, on March 16, 2014, Crimean residents determined their future independently and consciously, having reunited with Russia. I congratulate the peninsula’s residents on the decade of the historic reunification with Russia. I wish them health, well-being, prosperity and all the best," Russia’s top diplomat said.

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🇺🇦 There are already Ukrainian villages in which there are no men left - The Washington Post

▪️A difficult situation is developing with Ukrainian villages in which there are no men left. All of them were killed, conscripted or immigrated.
▪️Nevertheless, military registration and enlistment office employees come into such villages and try to mobilize at least someone.
▪️The publication cites as an example the story of Olga from the village of Makiv, whose husband was caught on the street and, despite numerous illnesses, was declared fit within 10 minutes and sent to the front. - ISZ reports

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‼️💥 A missile danger siren has been launched in Belgorod and the Belgorod region - Governor Gladkov

The air defense system went off. Most likely, the Ukrainian Nazis again opened fire on the city with MLRS. Authorities urge people not to go near windows and to take shelter in rooms with solid walls.
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Odessa Strike Kills Top Ukrs,
Putin Retaliates Strikes,
Rus Gains Avdeyevka;
Scholz Macron Quarrel


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The overwhelming majority of parliamentarians (451) from Germany's ruling coalition voted in the European Parliament to supply Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev, while 46 were against and 49 abstained, according to Bild.

The resolution stated, among other things, that Ukraine really needs high-tech air defense systems and long-range cruise missiles, “such as Taurus, Storm Shadow and Scalp.” It also mentioned modern combat aircraft, various types of artillery and ammunition, and drones.

Earlier, Mikael Valtersson, a former Swedish Armed Forces officer and the chief of staff of the Sweden Democrats Party, noted that no matter what decision is ultimately made, it won’t change the balance of power on the battlefield. The missiles might “help Ukraine for a short while to avoid losing more ground, but it won’t change the war in the long run,” the observer stressed.

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Russians across the world vote in presidential elections

Russian citizens living in foreign countries have an equal and fair chance to vote for their candidate in the 2024 presidential elections.

On March 11, the electoral commission announced that voting will also be available abroad at 295 polling stations in 144 countries.

These voting stations are hosted in Russian embassies, consular offices, centers of compatriots living abroad, or military units.

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Odessa Strike Kills Top Ukrs,
Putin Retaliates Strikes,
Rus Gains Avdeyevka;
Scholz Macron Quarrel

MeyVN-djbiIAt the start of this new video, just an hour old, Mercouris states that he's received very reliable private information that the actual objective of the attempted Ukrainian incursions into the Belgorod region was to gain control of a nearby Russian facility in which nuclear weapons are stored.

Mercouris stated that he had been told both the number of stored weapons and their yield, which he said was substantial. He also stated that the facility was (of course) extremely heavily guarded and defended.

This would surely have to be most alarming to any rational politician or military commander in NATO, in the extreme event (however unlikely) that Ukrainian special forces might actually gain control of a Russian nuclear weapon.

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⚡️ Putin receives reports from the military about attempted attacks on the Belgorod and Kursk Oblasts

This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

At the moment all attacks are reflected. According to Peskov, the attempts of the AFU to invade Belgorod and Kursk regions last night were thwarted so that the enemy did not even manage to reach beyond the border, with irrecoverable losses of the AFU amounting to 60-70 per cent.

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Russian TG channel reports:

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SITUATION AT 20:00

🔴 Today the enemy continued attempts to break through our territory in the Grayvoronsky district, namely in the village. Sdaryushino and Kozinka. All attempts were repulsed with heavy losses for the enemy.

🔴 The enemy continued to use a large number of armored vehicles, including tanks. The enemy still has the strength to continue his unsuccessful (crazy) attempts. Our troops, meanwhile, are actively destroying enemy concentrations using various types of weapons.

🔴 The enemy also traditionally conducted senseless shelling of peaceful settlements in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, including the city of Belgorod.

🔴 Towards evening we expect repeated attempts at massive shelling, as well as the use of attack UAVs by the enemy.

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Russia thwarts Ukrainian incursion attempt (DISTURBING VIDEO)
The latest attempt by a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group to break into Russian territory has been repelled, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

Kiev’s forces tried to enter the village of Kozinka, located in Russia’s Belgorod Region close to the border with Ukraine, the ministry said on Saturday. The incursion was thwarted by the Russian military and the Border Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB), it added.

Later in the day, the ministry published a clip, which it said showed the destruction of Ukrainian saboteurs in Kozinka.

It is not clear when the footage was captured, as the same village was the target of a failed infiltration attempt on Thursday. According to Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, residents were evacuated from Kozinka as the situation escalated.

Drone footage showed around a dozen Ukrainian fighters using an explosives detector to get through minefields and reaching a private home in the village – where they were shelled by Russian artillery.

After being forced out of Kozinka, the saboteurs ended up in an open field and were targeted by kamikaze drones, according to the footage.
Also on Saturday, the Ukrainian military shelled the Russian city of Belgorod with a Czech-made RM-70 Vampire multiple rocket launch system, killing two people and injuring three others, Gladkov said.

Kiev’s forces have intensified their artillery and drone strikes on Russian territory over the past week. They have also attempted several major incursions into Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk Regions. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, they all failed, with Ukraine suffering over 1,500 casualties and losing dozens of pieces of equipment, including a number of tanks and APCs.

READ MORE: ‘Neo-Nazi Kiev regime’ tried to disrupt Russian elections – Putin
On Friday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin condemned the attacks as criminal acts by the “neo-Nazi regime” in Kiev aimed at disrupting the presidential election, which is being held in Russia from March 15 to March 17.

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🚫 Command has sacked the spokesman of the Ukrainian air force, Yuriy Ignat, who liked to confirm the Russian army's strikes.

The command of the Ukrainian Air Force has dismissed the spokesman of the Kiev Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, who liked to confirm successful strikes by the Russian army.

Ignat is also remembered for the fact that at the very end of last year he declared the "amazing efficiency" of the Ukrainian air defense, which was unable to shoot down any of the 300 Russian X-22 missiles fired since the beginning of the SMO.

Apparently, the spokesman was asked to resign because of the totality of his "achievements".

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This is not the kind of video the Ukrainian authorities wanted to get, having organized an attempt to break through the Russian border near Belgorod in order to disrupt the Russian presidential election.

"Who did you want to scare? The Russian people?" Putin asks.

Russian intelligence became aware of the planning of this breakthrough and the AFU's plans to reach Belgorod two weeks before these events. Measures have been taken.

The PR campaign of the Ukrainian Nazis completely failed. As a result, the irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are 1.5 thousand, about 500 people were killed. Hundreds of Nazi armored vehicles were destroyed.

Tanks with German crosses are greeted with fire on Russian soil.

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And today that deeper truth is that this is Europe’s war with Russia because with a Russian victory in Ukraine they are at the mercy of all the world’s major energy producers — the US, Russia, the Middle East.

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Kirby, EU can send troops UKR without US.
Latvia, RUS must be defeated.
Scholz makes fool of Macron

Alex mentions in this video that the Belgorod operation is mainly to achieve two goals.

- disrupt the Russian elections and embarrass Putin
- unconfirmed reports the other goal was to get to a weapons storage facility roughly 20 kilometers from the the border and some of the reports claim that this storage facility had tactical nuclear weapons on site.


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The head of Solar Group, a subsidiary of Rostelecom, Igor Lyapunov, revealed Saturday that on the first day of the #RussianElections, more than 90,000 cyber attacks originating from #Ukraine and North America targeted the elections portals.

Lyapunov stated that such an unprecedented number of cyber attacks indicates that the collective West is fighting against Russia, adding that attacks originated from "Ukraine and other locations in Western #Europe as well as North #America."

He added that an unprecedented major cyber attack took place yesterday at 12:47 #Moscow time targeting the electronic voting platform peaking at more than 2.5 million clicks per second, a load that has caused a delay in the portal.

Earlier today, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova revealed that #Washington was using hackers and compiled a package of misleading information to be published on the eve and during the election day to influence the voting process in the Russian presidential elections.

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⚡️ In the Belgorod region, after the air defence forces repelled an air attack by the AFU, according to preliminary information, 8 people were injured in the village of Oktyabrsky.

This was reported by the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov:

A 15-year-old boy sustained a shrapnel wound to the knee joint, a man a non-penetrating shrapnel wound to the chest, a woman a shrapnel wound to the right shin and another a shrapnel wound to the head. Another man suffered multiple shrapnel wounds to his back and arm. Three men treated themselves at the District Central Regional Hospital: one had shrapnel wounds to his head and a penetrating wound to his abdomen and upper and lower extremities, and two others had shrapnel wounds to their lower extremities.

Ambulance crews have taken all the injured to medical centres in Belgorod. All necessary medical assistance is being provided.
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Damage in Oktyabrsky settlement: windows were broken in several flats in two blocks of flats, roofs and fences were cut in four private houses and one farm building. Four cars and a bus were also damaged.
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Video of the consequences of yesterday's Iskander missile attack on the former Mriya sanatorium complex at Kovalevsky's dacha in Odessa. According to updated data, as a result of the success of “Bavovnya”, more than 50 Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries were killed

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🚨🇫🇷 France Protests

“Macron - your war we don’t want it”
“Macron - your war we won’t do it”

Yesterday Protestors congregated across France to protest Macrons plans to involve France directly in the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

Ordinary people are no longer buying into the Deep State orchestrated Agenda.


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Video of the consequences of yesterday's Iskander missile attack on the former Mriya sanatorium complex at Kovalevsky's dacha in Odessa. According to updated data, as a result of the success of “Bavovnya”, more than 50 Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries were killed

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All night long, NATO aircraft took out the seriously wounded in the Odessa Mriya recreation center, after a missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces yesterday.

In the morning, corpses were still being pulled out from under the rubble. Mostly French, Poles and Georgians. Shortly before that, Americans and Germans also lived there. Operators and maintenance personnel of the air defense complexes.

The exact figure for the destroyed mercenaries will soon be told by the chief doctor of the 411 military hospital of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Odessa, who manages the morgues on the territory.

Previously, more than 120 people lived in the destroyed buildings. At 15.00, the official data of the mercenaries killed in Odessa is 21 people. In fact, about the same number will not survive. They were taken to the intensive care units of the city.

11 people were immediately taken to Romania by NATO helicopters. About 60 more people were injured in various degrees.

The mercenaries were not only stationed in Mriya, there was a coordination headquarters for the entire foreign legion in the south of Ukraine.

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The Ministry of State Security of Transnistria - about the attack from Ukraine: Today, a fire occurred on the territory of one of the military units of Tiraspol, which arose as a result of an explosion. It was previously established that the explosion occurred as a result of a kamikaze drone attack, the flight of which was recorded from the side of the Clover Bridge [Odessa region].

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 “Russia 1” reports that Russian intelligence, 2 weeks before the enemy’s attack on the Belgorod region, knew about the enemy’s plans to attack the border regions and had an idea of where the enemy was going to attack.

As part of the preparations, the group was strengthened, and conscripts, on Putin’s orders, began to be replaced with contract soldiers and special forces.

Excellent intelligence work and good preparation for the "warm welcome"

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West Leaders Avoid Odessa,
Macron Chaos,
Retreats 3 Villages


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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Russian Defense Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

17 March 2024

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, have inflicted a fire defeat on enemy formations near Kislovka (Kharkov region).

Three counterattacks by assault groups of 30th, 32nd mechanized, and 57th motorized infantry brigades of the AFU have been repulsed close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses were up to 90 servicemen and four motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system and one UK-made FH70 howitzer have been destroyed.

▫️In Belgorod direction, Russian troops have repelled enemy attacks and foiled all attempts by Ukrainian militant sabotage and reconnaissance groups to infiltrate into the border territory of the Russian Federation near Kozinka (Belgorod region).

As a result of aviation, drone, and artillery actions, up to 65 Ukrainian fighters, one Czech-made Vampire MLRS combat vehicle, and one D-20 gun have been eliminated.

▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces have taken more favorable lines and positions and defeated formations of 28th, 42nd, and 93rd mechanized, 17th tank, 5th, 92nd assault brigades of the AFU, and the 104th Brigade of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense close to Bogdanovka, Krasnoye, Kurdyumovka, Pershe Travnia, Kleshcheyevka, and Andreevka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 200 soldiers, two armored fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles.

▫️In Avdeyevka direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have defeated concentration areas of enemy manpower and hardware close to Tonenkoye, Severnoye, and Orlovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

In addition, nine counterattacks by assault groups of 24th, 47th, 53rd mechanized, 59th motorized infantry, 3rd assault, and 78th air assault brigades of the AFU have been repulsed close to Leninskoye, Shumy, Novobakhmutovka, Vodyanoye, Berdychi, and Pervomaiskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 380 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and ten motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, two D-20 guns, one Msta-B howitzer, and two D-30 howitzers.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, as a result of successful offensive operations, units of the Vostok Group of Forces have liberated Mirnyoe (Zaporozhye region) and also repelled one counterattack by an assault group of the AFU 72nd Mechanized Brigade near Vodyanoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were over 120 troops and three motor vehicles.

▫️In Kherson direction, as a result of coordinated actions by units of the Dnepr Group of Forces, manpower and hardware of 65th mechanized and 128th mountain assault brigades of the AFU, 121st and 126th brigades have been hit close to Novodanilovka, Rabotino, and Zherebyanka (Zaporozhye region), as well as Olgovka, Mikhailovka, and Nikolskoye (Kherson region).

The enemy losses were over 40 servicemen and two motor vehicles.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have struck assembly and testing sites for uncrewed boats, one temporary deployment point for a battery of IRIS-T surface-to-air missile systems (Odessa region), one workshop for the assembly and training of unmanned aerial vehicles near Priluki (Chernigov region), as well as AFU manpower and military hardware in 127 areas.

Air defense facilities, electronic warfare means, and small arms fire have shot down 168 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, 23 Czech-made Vampire MLRS rockets, and one S-200 surface-to-air guided missile that had been converted for use against ground targets.

📊In total, 577 airplanes, 269 helicopters, 15,849 unmanned aerial vehicles, 486 air defense missile systems, 15,509 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,241 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,434 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 19,875 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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NATO has boots on the ground in Ukraine – Putin
It is no secret that NATO soldiers are present on the ground in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, noting that those service members are facing extremely grim prospects.

Speaking to his supporters and reporters on Sunday night after the end of the presidential election, in which he is expected to win by a landslide, Putin stressed that Moscow was well aware of the US-led military bloc’s push to deploy troops in Ukraine.

“We hear both French and English speech there. There is nothing good in this, first of all for them, because they die there and in large numbers,” he said.

He also weighed in on a potential full-scale conflict between NATO and Russia, warning that it could not be ruled out. “Anything is possible in the modern world… But everyone knows that this would be one step shy of a full-scale World War II. I don’t think that anyone is interested in that.”

French President Emmanuel Macron suggested last month that the West “cannot exclude” the possibility of sending soldiers to aid Ukraine. Later, he also described Russia as an “adversary,” insisting, however, that Paris is not “waging war on” Moscow.

Commenting on Macron’s remarks, Putin noted that while NATO troops in Ukraine are expected to act as an auxiliary force, helping Kiev train its military, “this is not much different from what mercenaries are doing there now.” Russia, he added, wants France not to escalate the conflict but to help find a peaceful solution to hostilities.

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"You're here and it means that not everything is lost for the United States," Putin told NBC News correspondent, Keir Simmons, who was the only foreign journalist on President Putin's campaign trail. In 2021, the Russian President sat down for a major interview with Keir Simmons.

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Putin’s full speech with English interpretation, just over 8 minutes.

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🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense Top News

▫️ Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, within the framework of his visit to the troops of the Southern Military District at the command post of the Black Sea Fleet, heard reports of the fleet command and staff officers on the current situation, and also the Russian Minister of Defense inspected the progress of construction of a new military hospital in Sevastopol.

▫️ Voting in the Russian Federation's presidential election has been completed in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The turnout was 99.8 %.

▫️ In Belgorod direction, Russian troops have repelled attacks and foiled all attempts by Ukrainian militants to infiltrate into the border territory of the Russian Federation by sabotage and reconnaissance groups near Kozinka (Belgorod region).

▫️ As a result of successful offensive operations in South Donets direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces have liberated Mirnoye (Zaporozhye region).

▫️ The Ukrainian Air Force’s Mi-8 helicopter flying towards Kozinki (Belgorod region) was shot down close to Lukashovka (Sumy region) by Verba man-portable air defense system crew of the grouping of troops covering the state border of the Russian Federation.

▫️ The Russian Ministry of Defense shows forward air controllers in the South Donetsk direction, specialists from the fire support group in Kupyansk direction, and Uragan MLRS crews in Avdeyevka direction in action.

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🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸Romania is building Europe's largest NATO base, a $2.5 billion project, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier on the Black Sea." The base was built in the middle of a mountain plateau and will become the center of command and control of troops in South-Eastern Europe. It will be 17% larger than Ramstein.

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‘Jamming’: How Electronic Warfare Is Reshaping Ukraine’s Battlefields

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NATO is on suicide watch after Putin scores a KNOCKOUT blow:

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NATO is on suicide watch after Vladimir Putin won re-election in a landslide victory over the weekend. He received over 87% of the vote with over 99% of the vote counted. The Western press is saying that elections were a scam and that Putin shut down his major opposition because Boris Nadezhdin was not allowed to run and Alexei Navalny was killed. Redacted correspondent Mike Jones joins us to break down the truth.

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🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸Romania is building Europe's largest NATO base, a $2.5 billion project, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier on the Black Sea." The base was built in the middle of a mountain plateau and will become the center of command and control of troops in South-Eastern Europe. It will be 17% larger than Ramstein.



What is a NATO base? Someone has to own it.

Ramstein is American, like most of Bavaria.

What "troops are in southeastern Europe"?

Sounds like a big waste of money to trick someone into something.

Romanians are some of the greatest people, with some of the worst sellout leadership anyone can ever dread. Perhaps comparable to Lebanon. I would not expect that they realistically live in fear of being overrun by millions of Red Commies. As soon as you make that new project, you turn into a big, tasty target for some very unforgiving weapons.

Really? In 2024, someone thinks "new NATO bases" are the thing to do? Pfft. Well, yeah, for the stock market I guess, but not in reality.

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It's quite something that this video has been released, at all, frankly. As an historical footnote it really resonates given when this was recorded and what we do now know to be truthful.

Which French governmental office this was recorded in I'm uncertain of, but, I think it's a priceless release :)

Remember, this was two days before the Russian intervention and around the time of Vladimir Putin's address to the Russian people:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022-02-22_The_call_between_Emmanuel_Macron_%2B_Vladimir_Putin_on_20_Feb_2022_%28recorded%29.mp4

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... "... We don't give a s**t about the separatists' proposals..."... sauf que les séparatistes, et ben, y sont Russes [except that the separatists, well, they're Russians.]

It's kinda like having a Gaza Strip between Ukraine and Russia...

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Rus Breakthrough:
Orlovka Captured, Ukr Defence Collapses;
RUSI Study Rus Attrition,
West Cannot Win


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Russian EW weapons make enemy drones and missiles drop like flies

The Krasukha-S4 self-propelled electronic warfare (EW) system has upset the Ukrainian military's applecart since the beginning of the Kiev regime's botched counteroffensive attempt.

Western media raised the alarm last July: since March 2023, Ukraine's GPS-guided Excalibur projectiles and thousands of drones have begun falling out of the sky.

Leaked Pentagon documents from the last spring revealed that Ukrainian air strikes with the US-made JDAM-ER bombs had repeatedly missed their targets.The precision-guided rockets fired by the US HIMARS MRLS also failed to achieve their desired effects on multiple occasions.

The reason for this is Russia's powerful electronic warfare (EW) systems. The Krasukha-S4 is considered to be the most effective system in its class, capable of jamming radio waves across a wide range of frequencies and boasting the range of over 300 kilometers.
The EW system generates jamming signals that render enemy drones, ballistic missiles, guided projectiles, aircraft and ground based radars ineffective.

The self-propelled complex can operate in any area, in all weather conditions, thwarting the enemy strikes and reconnaissance activities.

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❗️French mercenaries have been spotted in Bulgaria on their way to Ukraine?

Locals claim to have seen convoys of French mercenaries and equipment near the town of Sliven, flying to Sofia and then travelling by truck to Ukraine.

The day before, the US Navy cargo ship Leroy A. Mendonica delivered to the port of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece a shipment of military equipment to be deployed in Europe as part of the "reinforcement of NATO forces on the continent".

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🇫🇷France is already preparing a contingent to be sent to Ukraine, which will initially consist of about 2,000 military personnel, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, has said.

The French military unit in Ukraine will become a legitimate and priority target for the Russian armed forces.

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Nearly 9,000 children to be evacuated from Belgorod region due to shelling

According to Vyacheslav Gladkov, 16 people were killed and 98 were injured over the past week due to the shelling in the Belgorod region

TASS, March 19. The authorities of the Belgorod region have decided to evacuate some 9,000 children to other regions of Russia due to the shelling carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Tuesday.

"A large number of villages are being evacuated today. We are currently planning to evacuate about 9,000 children from Belgorod, the Belgorod region, Shebekinsky district, and Grayvoronsky district. On March 22, 1,200 children will be sent to Penza, Tambov, and Kaluga. Next - the Stavropol region," he said.

According to the governor, 16 people were killed and 98 were injured over the past week due to the shelling in the Belgorod region. On Tuesday, a minor was injured as a result of an attack carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.


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❗️One of the children injured in the shelling of Belgorod district is transferred to Moscow

Doctors say the boy's condition is serious.

And briefly, other events at this hour:

▪️Germany has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine worth 500 million euros. This was announced by Defence Minister Pistorius at a press conference.

▪️China is in favour of holding a peace conference on the situation in Ukraine, with equal representation from Moscow and Kiev, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.

▪️Volodin advised 'offended' European leaders to go to Putin's reception room to congratulate him, apologise and talk about their sins.

▪️German prosecutors have brought charges against a Bundeswehr soldier for allegedly working for Russia's 'secret service'.

▪️The State Duma passed at first reading a bill on holding the World Friendship Games in Russia.

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🇷🇴🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺The militants of the “Russian volunteer complex” turned out to be Romanian mercenaries

Increasingly, confirmation is coming that, under the guise of militants from the “Russian Volunteer Corps,” foreign mercenaries and nationalists from the special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate are trying to attack the Belgorod and Kursk regions.

In particular, Romanian mercenaries fighting on the side of Kyiv and united in the Getika battle group posted a video where a car with the flag of the Russian Volunteer Corps was lit, which may indicate the participation of Romanians in raids in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.

It was stated that “when we received press groups in Nikolaev and the impression was created that we were doing little for military operations, we were preparing a large-scale operation together with comrades from the Legion “Freedom of Russia”, the Siberian Battalion, the RDK, Chechens from Ichkeria, free brothers from Belarus, Georgia and many other "wolves" from the forests of the free world. We carried out raids on their [Russian] border villages, but found no active police stations or authorities. Russia is ready for nuclear war, but not able to defend its land borders."

Let’s leave the propaganda statement of the Romanians out of the picture, but the fact of their attack on Russian territory should be sorted out at the level of the foreign ministries of the two countries.

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The United States conducted a test of a fully operational hypersonic missile prototype of the All-Up-Round AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon in Guam on Sunday, the US Air Force said in a statement.

“A B-521H Stratofortress conducted a test of the All-Up-Round AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon. This test launched a full prototype operational hypersonic missile and focused on the ARRW's end-to-end performance. The test took place at the Reagan Test Site with the B-52 taking off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam on March 17, 2024, local time,” the statement said.

While the statement did not disclose whether the test was successful, it noted that the test acquired valuable, unique data and was intended to further a range of hypersonic programs.

Meanwhile, Russia and China are the first countries to field strategic hypersonic weapons systems, with Moscow putting the Kinzhal (lit. "dagger") missile into operation in late 2017, and the People’s Liberation Army following suit by unveiling the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle in 2019.

Russia got a head start on its hypersonics program thanks to Soviet-era research in the field starting in the early 2000s, after the Bush administration unilaterally scrapped of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty – a 1972 Soviet-US agreement which placed severe limitations on the creation of anti-ballistic missile defenses and intended to stop the arms race.

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Ukraine’s losses ‘in the millions’ – retired Polish general
Ukraine’s losses in the conflict with Russia should be counted “in the millions,” the former chief of the Polish General Staff, Rajmund Andrzejczak, has claimed. Kiev “is losing the war” and does not have the resources to sustain the fight against Moscow, he added.

In an interview with the Polsat broadcaster on Monday, the retired general described Ukraine’s battlefield situation as “very dramatic” and insisted that “there are no miracles in war.”

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s decision to replace his top general, Valery Zaluzhny, with Aleksandr Syrsky has failed to make a significant difference as the same issues remain for Kiev’s new commander-in-chief, Andrzejczak added.

According to the retired general, Ukraine is suffering deficits in equipment and manpower, with losses taking their toll on its capabilities.

“They are missing over 10 million people. I estimate that the losses should be counted in the millions, not hundreds of thousands. There are no resources in this country, there is no one to fight.”

“The Ukrainians are losing this war,” Andrzejczak stated, pointing to media reports suggesting that Kiev is running out of anti-aircraft missiles to protect itself from Russian strikes.

Echoing warnings from several Western leaders in recent weeks, Andrzejczak called for arms production to be boosted and argued that the West should prepare for a full-scale conflict with Russia within two or three years. Russian President Vladimir Putin has insisted that Moscow has no plans or interest in attacking NATO.

READ MORE: Top US senator tells Ukraine to draft younger soldiers
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu stated last month that Ukraine had lost more than 444,000 troops since the start of the conflict in February 2022. The hostilities have also triggered an exodus of Ukrainian refugees, with almost 6.5 million recorded worldwide, according to UN data.

Officials in Kiev have repeatedly complained that Western arms shipments have been inadequate. Those calls have grown louder as US President Joe Biden’s request to provide an additional $60 billion in aid remains stalled in Congress, due to Republican demands to strengthen American border security.

Kiev is also mulling a new mobilization bill that would lower the minimum draft age for men from 27 to 25, with reported plans to send 500,000 new troops to the frontline.

Against this backdrop, the Russian military last month pushed Kiev out of the strategic Donbass city of Avdeevka, also liberating several nearby settlements. The former stronghold has been on the front line since 2014 and was frequently used by Kiev to shell residential blocks in the nearby city of Donetsk.

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Russia to respond to expulsion of diplomat from Moldova — MFA

On Tuesday, Russia’s ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov was summoned to the Moldovan Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Russia will respond to Moldova's decision to declare as persona non grata an employee of the Russian embassy due to the holding of the Russian presidential election in unrecognized Transnistria, the Foreign Ministry has told TASS.

"Russia will give an appropriate response," the Foreign Ministry said.

On Tuesday, Russia’s ambassador Oleg Vasnetsov was summoned to the Moldovan Foreign Ministry.

"A protest was expressed in connection with the organization of the Russian presidential election in the Transnistrian region of Moldova, contrary to the position of the Moldovan authorities," the Moldovan Foreign Ministry said.

This year, Moldova banned the organization of elections anywhere outside the Russian embassy. Only one polling station operated in Chisinau. However, six more were opened in Transnistria, which is a home to more than 250,000 Russian citizens. As many as 30 polling stations functioned in Moldova and Transnistria in the 2021 elections.

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Ron Paul Predicted Today’s Disasters. What’s Next?

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Unlock the full interview here (https://bit.ly/3RCq6cc)

For a man who correctly predicted most of the big disasters of the last twenty years, Ron Paul is remarkably humble.

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Russian troops liberate Orlovka community in Avdeyevka area — top brass

Russian forces destroyed roughly 40 Ukrainian militants and 2 infantry fighting vehicles, preventing Kiev’s new provocations near the border with the Belgorod Region

MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated the community of Orlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"In the Avdeyevka direction, units of the Battlegroup Center liberated the settlement of Orlovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and improved their forward edge positions," the ministry said in a statement.

Russian forces improve frontline positions in Kupyansk area over past day

Russian forces improved their frontline positions and destroyed roughly 30 Ukrainian troops in the Kupyansk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Western Battlegroup inflicted damage on the enemy by firepower in active operations and improved their forward edge positions. The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 30 personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, two US-made M777 artillery systems and a Czech-made Vampire multiple rocket launcher," the ministry said.

Russian forces destroy 40 Ukrainian militants in border area near Belgorod Region

Russian forces destroyed roughly 40 Ukrainian militants and 2 infantry fighting vehicles, preventing Kiev’s new provocations near the border with the Belgorod Region, the ministry reported.

"In the Belgorod direction, Russian forces continued measures to prevent Ukrainian subversive/reconnaissance groups from penetrating the border area. Air strikes and artillery fire against amassed Ukrainian manpower and equipment in Ukraine’s border districts close to the settlement of Kozinka in the Belgorod Region destroyed as many as 40 personnel, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 3 motor vehicles," the ministry said.

Russian forces destroy over 215 Ukrainian troops in Donetsk area in past day

Russian forces struck Ukrainian army units in the Donetsk area, destroying over 215 enemy troops and 5 combat vehicles over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Battlegroup took more advantageous sites and positions and inflicted damage on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 79th air assault, 46th airmobile and 118th territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Novomikhailovka, Razdolovka and Georgiyevka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Ukrainian army lost over 215 personnel, 3 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 4 motor vehicles," the ministry said.

In counter-battery fire, Russian forces destroyed a Polish-manufactured Krab self-propelled artillery system, two Gvozdika motorized artillery systems, a D-30 howitzer and an S-60 anti-aircraft gun, it specified.

Russian forces repulse six Ukrainian counterattacks in Avdeyevka area over past day

Russian forces repulsed six Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Avdeyevka area, eliminating roughly 125 enemy troops over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Russian forces repulsed six counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 47th, 53rd and 59th mechanized brigades near the settlements of Pervomaiskoye, Tonenkoye and Berdychi in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy lost as many as 125 personnel, 2 armored combat vehicles and 5 motor vehicles," the ministry said.

In counter-battery fire, Russian forces destroyed a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, an Msta-B howitzer, two D-20 howitzers, a D-30 howitzer and an MT-12 Rapira anti-tank gun, it specified.

Ukraine’s army loses 130 troops in south Donetsk area over past day

The Ukrainian military lost roughly 130 troops and three combat vehicles in battles with Russian forces in the south Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the south Donetsk direction, units of the Battlegroup East inflicted damage by firepower and repulsed two counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army’s 72nd mechanized brigade near the settlement of Staromayorskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The enemy’s losses amounted to 130 personnel, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles and a Gvozdika motorized artillery system," the ministry said.

Russian forces improve frontline positions in Kherson area over past day

Russian forces improved their frontline positions and destroyed roughly 30 Ukrainian troops and a US-made artillery system in the Kherson area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Battlegroup improved their forward edge positions in well-coordinated operations and inflicted damage on amassed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 65th mechanized brigade and 121st territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Rabotino and Pyatikhatki in the Zaporozhye Region. The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 30 personnel, 2 motor vehicles, a US-made M777 artillery system and a D-30 howitzer," the ministry said.

Russian forces hammer Ukrainian troops, military hardware in 114 areas over past day

Russian forces struck Ukrainian manpower and military equipment in 114 areas over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Operational-tactical aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck the Ukrainian army’s manpower and military hardware in 114 areas," the ministry said.

Russian air defenses down 143 Ukrainian military drones over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 143 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and 38 rockets over the past day, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities destroyed 143 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and shot down 38 rockets of the HIMARS, Olkha, Grad and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems," the ministry said.

Russian forces destroy 270 military helicopters in Ukraine operation

Russian forces have destroyed 270 Ukrainian military helicopters and 577 enemy warplanes since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the ministry reported.

"In all, the following targets have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation: 577 warplanes, 270 helicopters, 16,135 unmanned aerial vehicles, 486 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,534 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,244 multiple rocket launchers, 8,456 field artillery guns and mortars and 19,933 special military motor vehicles," the ministry said.

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The EU summit on March 21-22 will make decisions on transitioning the EU economy to a war footing, joint weapons procurement, increasing the military budgets of member countries, and accelerating the delivery of ammunition to Kiev - according to a letter from the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, to the meeting participants.

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🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸Romania is building Europe's largest NATO base, a $2.5 billion project, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier on the Black Sea." The base was built in the middle of a mountain plateau and will become the center of command and control of troops in South-Eastern Europe. It will be 17% larger than Ramstein.



What is a NATO base? Someone has to own it.

Ramstein is American, like most of Bavaria.

What "troops are in southeastern Europe"?

Sounds like a big waste of money to trick someone into something.

Romanians are some of the greatest people, with some of the worst sellout leadership anyone can ever dread. Perhaps comparable to Lebanon. I would not expect that they realistically live in fear of being overrun by millions of Red Commies. As soon as you make that new project, you turn into a big, tasty target for some very unforgiving weapons.

Really? In 2024, someone thinks "new NATO bases" are the thing to do? Pfft. Well, yeah, for the stock market I guess, but not in reality.

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Work has begun on what is to be NATO’s largest base in Europe, situated near the Black Sea port city of Constanța, Romania. The existing Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base is to be expanded, with the government allocating €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) of funding for the project.

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https://www.rt.com/news/594478-graham-ukraine-draft-more-recruits/


Top US senator tells Ukraine to draft younger soldiers
US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has urged the Ukrainian parliament to pass a highly controversial mobilization bill that would lower the minimum conscription age from 27 to 25 to compensate for battlefield losses. At the same time, he advocated a scheme in which the US would provide Ukraine with loans instead of non-repayable aid.

Kiev announced general mobilization in February 2022 shortly after the start of the conflict with Russia, with men between 27 and 60 eligible to be called up, although those over the age of 18 could also volunteer. In December, Ukrainian officials proposed a bill expanding the draft bracket, with reported plans to send as many as 500,000 fresh soldiers to the front line.

On Monday, Graham traveled to Kiev to discuss continued US support for Ukraine with President Vladimir Zelensky. Speaking to reporters, he said that he hoped that those eligible to serve in the Ukrainian military would join the fight. “I can’t believe [the conscription threshold] is at 27,” he added, as quoted by the Washington Post. “You’re in a fight for your life, so you should be serving — not at 25 or 27.”

“We need more people in the line,” he said.

Graham also stressed that Ukrainians need to serve regardless of whether the US sends arms to Kiev or not. “No matter what we do, you’re fighting for you.”

The US has struggled to approve President Joe Biden’s aid request earmarking $60 billion for Ukraine due to Republican opposition demanding that the White House do more to enhance security on the southern border.

Moreover, Graham appeared to endorse the approach of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump who has advocated providing aid to Kiev in form of loans on “extraordinarily good terms.”

“I was very direct with President Zelensky. You can expect me to always be in your corner, but it’s not unfair for me to ask you and other allies: Pay us back down the road, if you can,” the senator said.

Graham’s call for Kiev to extend the draft bracket comes as Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu last month estimated Ukrainian losses since the start of the conflict at more than 444,000 troops. Meanwhile, Zelensky has claimed that Kiev has suffered only 31,000 dead.

Last year, President Vladimir Putin said that Western countries seemed determined “to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.” He also noted at the time that while the West could provide Kiev with new arms, Ukraine’s manpower is not limitless.

[Ravenlocke]

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺The Bodies Are Piling Up Near Kupyansk

Though the ISW has only reported marginal gains in the Kupyansk, a Ukrainian infantryman told journalist Catherin Philip of the Times of London that they have been "losing so many people; there are so many bodies we can't even bring them all back."

This is due in part to Russias massive increase in the use of glide bombs. As Slavyangrad reported earlier today, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Russia increased the amount of glide bombs used last year 16 times in just the first few months of year. “These bombs completely destroy any position,” Zhorin, another soldier from wrote. “All buildings and structures simply turn into a pit after the arrival of just one.”

As these infantryman huddle in basements, afraid to leave for fear of the devastation that might rain down upon them, they rely solely on drones, but they're nowhere near enough. The ability of Russian forces to maintain their positions within EW makes even drones a nearly useless means of defense.

Slavyangrad

https://x.com/dana916/status/1770141561298325696

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NATO Chief's visit part of effort to pull Armenia out of Russia's orbit

Jens Stoltenberg’s visit to Armenia was timed with a “window of opportunity” for the alliance to try to up-end strategic relations between Russia and Armenia, Stanislav Pritchin told Sputnik.

NATO’s Secretary General wrapped up his tour of the South Caucasus on March 19 with a stop in Armenia, after visiting Azerbaijan and Georgia.

💬 "Trying to pull Armenia out of the orbit of Russian influence and cooperation is a goal in itself [for NATO]," said the associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. Stoltenberg’s visit to Yerevan was aimed at reinforcing Armenia’s “drift to the West” and timed to coincide with its freezing of CSTO membership, agreed Stanislav Tarasov, political scientist, an expert on the Middle East and Caucasus.

"It seems to close the circle of NATO’s previously-launched operation in the Transcaucases," he said.

Events in the South Caucasus are now greatly influenced by what is unfolding in the Middle East, amid the Palestine-Israel conflict, Tarasov stressed.

"So, on the one hand, it is clear that Russia is gaining the upper hand in the conflict with Ukraine and will further strengthen its position in the post-Soviet space. On the other hand, a ‘tsunami’ is approaching from the southern direction. Thus, NATO is actually drawing the states of the region, on the one hand, into confrontation with Russia, and on the other hand, drawing them into the zone of destabilization of the Greater Middle East. This is precisely the very prospect that shrewd politicians in the Caucasus should avoid at all costs," said the analyst.

Tarasov compared Nikol Pashinyan to Volodymyr Zelensky, suggesting that Armenia might be the next "geopolitical victim" of Western influence, risking its statehood.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1770226559187919329

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Maria Zakhrova:

"The Ministry of Armed Forces of France denies the information voiced by the Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin about the presence of French military personnel in Ukraine and Paris's readiness to send a contingent of 2,000 people to this country.

Do French authorities really refuse their citizens again?"

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1770174493090283779

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https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1770198099216204205

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[ExomatrixTV]

Putin: "War with NATO is possible and this would be WW3":

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The EU is pushing a new war time economy to ramp up ammunition production to battle Russia. French President Macron says sending troops to Ukraine might have to happen and Putin says this will lead to WW3.


Scott Ritter: Russia has DESTROYED the U.S. Military and Putin is Exposing the Truth:

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Former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter explains how Putin's interview on Tucker Carlson exposed waning U.S. supremacy in all fields military and political, showing millions of people in the West that Russia is ready to assume global leadership.

[shaberon]

Work has begun on what is to be NATO’s largest base in Europe, situated near the Black Sea port city of Constanța, Romania. The existing Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base is to be expanded, with the government allocating €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) of funding for the project.


Ok, it's nothing new. It's the Cold War RoAF 57th (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoAF_57th_Air_Base) that was shut down in 2004 after being used by the United States to pound Iraq.

Then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoAF_57th_Air_Base):



On 1 May 2007, the Mihail Kogălniceanu aerodrome was established with the mission to coordinate the aeronautical activities in the area of responsibility, to ensure the Support of the Host Nation for the armed forces in transit, and to represent the interface between the foreign armed forces that carried out activities on the aerodrome and the public authorities represented locally. On 1 June, the Administrative Center-Mihail Kogălniceanu Airport (Military Unit 01837) was established and took responsibility of the location. On 1 January 2014, Mihail Kogălniceanu Aerodrome changed its organizational structure, by assimilating the Mihail Kogălniceanu Administrative Center, subordinated to the General Staff of the Land Forces.

On 10 June 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced the winners of the first stage of the contract for the base upgrades. Three companies and 22 subcontractors will participate in the works. The state secret-level classified project is set to finish in almost 9 years. Construction began in 2024 on the south side of the future base, where a high-capacity electrical network and access roads are being built.


According to the Army (https://www.army.mil/article/272512/transfer_of_authority_at_mihail_kogalniceanu_air_base):



The U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, “Task Force Mountain”, commanded by Maj. Gen. Gregory Anderson and the 82nd Airborne Division, “Task Force 82”, commanded by Maj. Gen. Pat Work conducted a transfer of authority ceremony at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, Dec. 15, 2023.

The ceremony hosted by V Corps Commander Lt. Gen. John Kolasheski, who spoke on the role Anderson’s Division played and how that role will be filled by the 82nd Airborne Division, marked the end of a nine-month rotation for TF Mountain, out of Fort Drum, New York, and the beginning of TF 82 rotation attended by distinguished guests, partners, and NATO allies.

“I want to express sincere gratitude for the incredible service of Maj. Gen. Anderson and the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division over the past nine months, you continue to burnish your incredible mountain legacy,” said Kolasheski. “In turn, I wish to offer my warmest welcome to Pat Work and the paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division and good luck as you accept your responsibility in the strategically important part of Europe.”

Paratroopers from TF 82 began arriving at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in late November out of Fort Liberty, N.C. The one-for-one unit replacement does not change current force posture levels. The transition aligns with a U.S. national-level decision to sustain a presence in southeastern Europe supporting our NATO allies and partners.

“[Maj.] Gen. Work and the mighty 82nd Airborne, with their Army’s historic division, is going to move it even further in 2024 with integrated plans, integrated warfighting, more complex combined arms formations, better infrastructure, from which to fight from and overall better capabilities, they’re going to be great teammates,” said Anderson.



It's an ever-bloating sack of garbage that helps Romanians transition from Romanian culture to plasticland.

In southeastern Europe, we support our NATO ally, Turkey, but not that ally of none, Israel, or at least they don't say anything about this.

They did mention "fighting" at least three times. Think the 82nd is up for it? You have been deceived.

It's an American base that might potentially host NATO troops some day, if the nine-year plan is effective at all. Remember, this gives everyone plenty of chances to withdraw from the pseudo-alliance. Remember that your country can exit the military dictatorship at will. Seems to be plenty of free advertising to do so these days.

I bet there are 20-30 rich Romanians who would strongly prefer you do *not* know this basic fact, but, from what I can tell, escape is relatively easy.

[shaberon]

This thing is going to age rapidly and die off, like a cicada molting:





On Monday, Graham traveled to Kiev to discuss continued US support for Ukraine with President Vladimir Zelensky. Speaking to reporters, he said that he hoped that those eligible to serve in the Ukrainian military would join the fight. “I can’t believe [the conscription threshold] is at 27,” he added, as quoted by the Washington Post. “You’re in a fight for your life, so you should be serving — not at 25 or 27.”



"You should be serving"--well, obviously the door for volunteers is open, so, if they should, they would.

What does this mean he is saying? We insist to conscript you against your will.

This is super easy to say, right?

Some day the best Ukrainian future will be to enlist, so you can surrender and rehabilitate in Russia.

Didn't mention that somewhere around 33-35 is usually the upper limit for conscription, which means they are already heavily relying on undesirables.

If it thinks Ukrainians should be legally obliged to the grinder, and Iran is somewhere you just shoot with ICBMs, could it be a Zionist?

I must admit he definitely represents a certain stripe of the American people.

Axiomatically, we cannot be under the same government. It will not work. That would be like France directly sending personnel to Ukraine. Completely retarded. Everything just seems to get stupider by the day. He is like that Israeli propaganda guy, utterly clueless as to how they are seen outside of their captive audience.

[Tintin]

Dimi really should do stand up, perhaps at the Bolshoi.

More vitriolic pirouettes (https://twitter.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1770353213008461870) follow :) :laughs:



Medvedev:

“Actually, for the common good, it wouldn't be bad if the restless French sent a couple of regiments to Banderaland. It's quite problematic to hide such a large number of servicemen, thus making the task of their systematic extermination not the most difficult, but a supremely important one.

But oh, what a benefit it would bring! With so many coffins being sent to France from a distant foreign land, it would be impossible to conceal the mass death of professional soldiers. And this time, there won't be any deflecting with references to mercenaries choosing their own fate and exercising their right to life. These unfortunate souls will become full-fledged combatants as part of the intervention contingent. Their destruction will be a top priority and glorious task for our Armed Forces.

But for the roosters in the French leadership, this will be akin to the guillotine. They will be torn apart by enraged relatives and vengeful representatives of the opposition who were led to believe that France isn't at war with Russia. And for other restless fools in Europe, it will serve as a valuable lesson.

Once again, Pushkin's immortal lines will become relevant:

So send them to us, Vitia,
Your embittered sons:
There's a place for them in the fields of Russia,
Among graves not foreign to them.”

Mind you there is a precedent to all this dimwitted buffoonery. The British National Archives has a copy of the Operation Unthinkable (1945) documents and it may be worthwhile reminding ourselves. The operation was tipped to commence July 1st, 1945 (extracted from Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable)):


"The initial primary goal of the operation was declared as "to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire. Even though 'the will' of these two countries may be defined as no more than a square deal for Poland, that does not necessarily limit the military commitment".[3] (The Soviet Union is referred to as Russia throughout the document, a metonym that was common in the West throughout the Cold War.)

The chiefs of staff were concerned that both the enormous size of the Soviet forces deployed in Europe at the end of the war and the perception that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin was unreliable caused a Soviet threat to exist in Allied-held Western Europe. The USSR had yet to launch its attack on Japanese forces and so one of the assumptions in the report was that the Soviets would instead ally with Japan if the Western Allies commenced hostilities.

The hypothetical date for the start of the Allied invasion of Soviet-held Eastern Europe was scheduled for 1 July 1945, four days before the United Kingdom general elections.[7] The plan assumed a surprise attack by as many as 47 British and American divisions in the area of Dresden, in the middle of Soviet lines.[7] That represented almost half of the approximately 100 divisions available to the British, American and Canadian headquarters at that time.[5]

The plan was considered by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee as militarily unfeasible due to an anticipated 2.5:1 superiority in divisions of Soviet ground forces within Europe and the Middle East by 1 July, when the conflict was projected to occur.[8] Most of the offensive operation would have been performed by American and British forces, as well as Polish forces and as many as 10 divisions of the German Army, remobilised from prisoner-of-war status. Any quick success would be caused by surprise alone. If a quick success could not be obtained before the beginning of winter, the assessment was that the Allies would be committed to a protracted total war. In the report of 22 May 1945, an offensive operation was deemed "hazardous"."

"Hazardous" - yup, I'd say :)

Here they are:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Operation%20Unthinkable%20%281945%29/Operation_Unthinkable_CAB120-691.jpg

[Tintin]

"A representative of the Deutsches Freiwilligkorps (German Volunteer Corps) said on the group's official page that a pan-German and pro-Ukrainian unit is fighting in the Belgorod region against Russian border guards and ground forces." - via Simplicius on X (https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1770323124401086649)

Can't say I'm surprised, of course. Braggarts, one and all.

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-03_%28March%29/2024-03-19_Representative_of_the_Deutsches_Freiwilligkorps_%28German_Volunteer_Corps%29confirms_that_a_pan-German_and_pro-Ukrainian_unit_fighting_in_Belgorod_region_against_Russian_border_guards_and_ground%20forces.mp4

...along with some "Battlegroup Getica" Romanians who have also provided some footage (Romanian with Russian subtitles). The gist of this is that they confirmed their involvement in the cross-border incursions into Belgorod region:

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Video_%2B_photographic_coverage/2024-03_%28March%29/2024-03-19_Romanian_mercenaries_Battlegroup_Getica_admitted_that_they_took_part_in_the_attack_on_the_border_ areas_of_Russia.mp4

[Tintin]

...
Putin is talking about nukes because Macron is talking about sending the French army into Ukraine. Macron is a fool.

Yeah init? 'Fool' is generous.

It's been suggested, with good reason I think, that a reason, and perhaps the prevailing one, that sees Macron spewing this rhetoric is that someone of French military importance was killed during the recent Russian targeting of a NATO facility in Ukraine. Apologies I don't immediately recall exactly when that was - a couple weeks back, I think - but that episode had been reported here.

For the sake of some completion here is the France24 (https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240118-russia-says-targeted-french-mercenaries-in-long-range-strike-on-ukraine-s-kharkiv) piece that covered the attack in Kharkov, actually on January 17th, 2024 - time flies:

Source: France24 (https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240118-russia-says-targeted-french-mercenaries-in-long-range-strike-on-ukraine-s-kharkiv) - https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240118-russia-says-targeted-french-mercenaries-in-long-range-strike-on-ukraine-s-kharkiv

Headline:

Russia says targeted French mercenaries in long-range strike in Ukraine

[Vicus]

“We have no need to fight for this power”: an entire platoon of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered in the DPR

https://topcor.ru/uploads/posts/2024-03/thumbs/dffc00627f_output.webp

Another case of mass surrender of Ukrainian military personnel was recorded in the zone of a special military operation. This time, near Georgievka in the DPR, 18 nationalists surrendered to the Russian military at once. The commander of the unit that surrendered immediately stated that he and his men refused the exchange.

"We received an order from our commanders to march to Georgievka to reinforce those who remained there. While we were moving towards the village, we were hit by Russian artillery, as a result of which we had four killed and five wounded. When we arrived at the village itself, it turned out that there was no one there to help. I decided to surrender. I got in touch with the Russians, and we all surrendered, my entire platoon "

– said the commander of the nationalist unit.


He added that he does not consider himself a traitor to his homeland, but is responsible for the lives of his subordinates and does not want them to die because of his wrong decision. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces officer stated that he and his people do not want to be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war.

"We made a collective decision not to be included in the exchange lists, because nothing good awaits us in Ukraine. We will either be imprisoned or sent back to slaughter. There is no need for us to fight for this power "

– summed up the Ukrainian Armed Forces officer.


Let us note that all Ukrainian military soldiers and officers who voluntarily surrendered are treated in accordance with the principles of humanity. They are provided with warm clothing and food, and the wounded are provided with medical care.

https://en.topcor.ru/45525-nam-nezachem-voevat-za-jetu-vlast-v-dnr-v-plen-sdalsja-celyj-vzvod-vsu.html

[Vicus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYMOSmyQC4

3 hours ago

[Vicus]

Scott Ritter: Putin's 'dedicated work' added to reinvigorated Russia


Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Putin started to rise to political prominence during the country's times of trouble in the 1990s, when the very existence of the Russian nation was up in the air, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.


Speaking to Sputnik, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter looked back at Putin's previous years of presidency in light of the Russian head of state's election victory. According to Ritter, the process of reinvigorating the Russian nation was one of the key achievements by Putin.


The ex-US Marine Corps intelligence officer said:

"One should understand that this process 'didn't happen in a vacuum' and was the byproduct of a quarter century of dedicated work on behalf of Vladimir Putin for Russia and the Russian people."

"The pride that Russians have in their country, the pride he has in being a Russian leader, that Russia is a civilization that must be taken into account by the rest of the world, that a world without Russia is a world that cannot exist. It seems, however, people don't understand where this is coming from."

Ritter noted:

"You see, the root of all of this passion for Russia comes from the decade of the 1990s, the time when the very existence of the Russian state, of the Russian people, of the Russian nation was being called into question. It came in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was born of the dark times of the failure of perestroika, which saw former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's failed gambit to transition from a communist society into one where Western market capitalism could prevail.


"At the time, criminal oligarchs took over, hijacked the Russian economy on behalf of ostensibly western allies, who weren't true allies, rather people [...] who were seeking to dominate Russia politically and economically. This was the decade that Vladimir Putin grew into political prominence.

"Vladimir Putin was a product of the 1990s. He saw the reality of the 1990s and he understood that Russia could never allow itself to go back to those times. He understood that if Russia didn't break free of the path that it was headed on during the decade of the 90s, there would be no Russia."

https://www.sott.net/article/489920-Scott-Ritter-Putins-dedicated-work-added-to-reinvigorated-Russia

[ExomatrixTV]

MSNBC Reporter’s vs Facts From Trump Supporters About Ukraine!

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The reporter didn’t care about all the countries US have invaded.

[Michel Leclerc]

“We have no need to fight for this power”: an entire platoon of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered in the DPR

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Let us note that all Ukrainian military soldiers and officers of the Russian Armed Forces who voluntarily surrendered are treated in accordance with the principles of humanity. They are provided with warm clothing and food, and the wounded are provided with medical care.

https://en.topcor.ru/45525-nam-nezachem-voevat-za-jetu-vlast-v-dnr-v-plen-sdalsja-celyj-vzvod-vsu.html

..officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces you may want to correct..

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“We have no need to fight for this power”: an entire platoon of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered in the DPR

https://topcor.ru/uploads/posts/2024-03/thumbs/dffc00627f_output.webp

Another case of mass surrender of Ukrainian military personnel was recorded in the zone of a special military operation. This time, near Georgievka in the DPR, 18 nationalists surrendered to the Russian military at once. The commander of the unit that surrendered immediately stated that he and his men refused the exchange.

"We received an order from our commanders to march to Georgievka to reinforce those who remained there. While we were moving towards the village, we were hit by Russian artillery, as a result of which we had four killed and five wounded. When we arrived at the village itself, it turned out that there was no one there to help. I decided to surrender. I got in touch with the Russians, and we all surrendered, my entire platoon "

– said the commander of the nationalist unit.


He added that he does not consider himself a traitor to his homeland, but is responsible for the lives of his subordinates and does not want them to die because of his wrong decision. In addition, the Ukrainian Armed Forces officer stated that he and his people do not want to be exchanged for Russian prisoners of war.

"We made a collective decision not to be included in the exchange lists, because nothing good awaits us in Ukraine. We will either be imprisoned or sent back to slaughter. There is no need for us to fight for this power "

– summed up the Ukrainian Armed Forces officer.


Let us note that all Ukrainian military soldiers and officers of the Russian Armed Forces who voluntarily surrendered are treated in accordance with the principles of humanity. They are provided with warm clothing and food, and the wounded are provided with medical care.

https://en.topcor.ru/45525-nam-nezachem-voevat-za-jetu-vlast-v-dnr-v-plen-sdalsja-celyj-vzvod-vsu.html

You can see the video of their surrender here,

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1605520&viewfull=1#post1605520

[Ravenlocke]

🇨🇦🇺🇦 Ukraine received another package of financial assistance from Canada

Ottawa transferred $1.5 billion to Kyiv, Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal said. With this money, the Zelensky regime plans to compensate for the budget deficit and ensure the implementation of social programs for Ukrainians.

❗️ Previously, Justin Trudeau’s cabinet promised to allocate $2.2 billion in financial and military assistance to Ukraine this year, as well as another package of $125 million, which will include “support for Kiev in cyberspace,” assistance with mine clearance and humanitarian programs. It turns out that in March Canada had already practically exhausted the entire annual budget allocated to support Zelensky.

By the way, a little earlier the Canadian authorities suspended arms supplies to Israel. IDF war crimes in the Gaza Strip horrified even the country's Nazi parliament. However, the actions of Ukrainian terrorists in Ottawa are stubbornly ignored.

Ostashko reports


https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1770569466591543706

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🇪🇸🤡Spain to transfer 20 Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine

The tanks have been stored at an army base near the city of Zaragoza. They will be disassembled and sent for repair in the near future. The terms of the repair and the transfer of the tanks to Ukraine have not yet been determined.

Last year, Spain delivered 10 Leopard 2A4 tanks to the Ukrainian armed forces. The total amount of military aid granted by Madrid to Kiev currently stands at €190 million.

@ukraine_watch
https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1770532988410806358


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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1770506956714758236

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March 2️⃣0️⃣. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:

▪️The losses of the AFU in the special operation zone have exceeded 71,000 men and 11,000 weapons since the beginning of the year. This is almost three times higher than the figures for the same period last year, Shoigu said.

▪️According to Shoigu, the AFU's losses in attacks on border posts in the Belgorod and Kursk regions over 8 days totalled more than 3.5 thousand people, 790 of whom were irreparable losses.

▪️The Russian military in the direction of Belgorod has completely cleared the settlement of Kozinka of the remnants of Ukrainian fighters and is continuing measures to prevent the infiltration of Ukrainian saboteurs, the Defence Ministry said in a bulletin.

▪️Russian forces have improved their position on the front line in the direction of Kupyansk and Avdeyevka, occupied more favourable lines in the direction of Donetsk and improved their tactical position in the southern direction of Donetsk.

▪️Putin thanked the residents of the Belgorod region and other border areas for their courage and promised to do everything to support them.

▪️Russia could respond in the same way to an enemy that attacks civilian infrastructure, but it has its own plans, Putin said.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1770553430819446912

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❗The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during attacks on the border points of the Belgorod and Kursk regions over 8 days amounted to more than 3.5 thousand people, of which 790 were irretrievable losses - Shoigu.

23 tanks, 34 armored vehicles, including 11 Bradleys, five Vampire MLRS launchers and an Mi-8 helicopter were destroyed.

❗The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone since the beginning of the year have exceeded 71 thousand people and 11 thousand weapons.

This is almost three times higher than the same period last year, Shoigu said.

In addition, since the beginning of the year, four Abrams tanks, five Leopards, 27 Bradley vehicles, six Himars launchers, 11 air defense missile launchers, including five Patriots, have been destroyed.

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1770559328119914533

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🇺🇦⚔️🇮🇹A 16-year-old Ukrainian neo Nazi "refugee" brutally attacked migrants in the subway in Italy:

A machete with the words "White power" engraved on it, a knife, several hammers, a flag with Benito Mussolini's title "The Duce", as well as a copy of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" were seized from a 16-year-old Ukrainian arrested in Milan.

A citizen of Ukraine is accused of attacks in the Milan subway. It is reported that the young Ukrainian chose his victims on the basis of "geographic affiliation". In two incidents, natives of Sri Lanka were affected by his actions.

UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

https://x.com/dana916/status/1770517268528501041

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Is the Ukraine Oversight website a PR stunt to convince House Republicans to fork out?

A new site titled "Ukraine Oversight" has been launched by the Pentagon to inform Americans about Washington's oversight of US made-weapons and equipment provided to Ukraine.

The website has been created at a time when Team Biden is desperately trying to ram a $60 billion Ukraine aid package through the GOP-controlled House. Republican lawmakers remain skeptical about sending more aid to Ukraine, citing the lack of oversight, Kiev's endemic corruption, and failures on the battlefield.

The new site contains a flurry of documents concerning audit and evaluation efforts, but fails to provide any clarity about where some of the funds have gone.

The Pentagon admitted in January that it had not properly tracked some $1 billion in weapons sent to Ukraine, despite over 400 personnel taking part in the oversight of Ukraine aid. As of February, the Pentagon watchdog had initiated 50 criminal probes into alleged theft, fraud, or corruption linked to Ukraine aid.

The website graciously provides a handy form for media inquiries, but with a slight twist: "This form is not intended for the reporting of fraud, waste, or abuse." Meanwhile, Ukrainian whistleblowers are left with the delightful task of navigating US federal agencies, either trying to articulate their concerns over the phone to US operators, or attempting to decipher the intricate English-language forms on their websites.

Is it just an illusion, or are the real priorities of the website focused on PR rather than catching fraudsters?


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🇷🇴⚔️🇷🇺 Romania: NATO’s indispensable outpost against Russia

Fighters from the Romanian mercenary group ‘Getica’ claim to have taken part in a series of hit-and-run raids in Russia’s border regions, posting videos of their operations on social media. But mercs aside, Romania has long played an important role in NATO’s proxy conflict against Russia.

🔶 Joining NATO in 2004, Romania became a key garrison in the bloc’s effort to ring Russia from the Baltic to the Black seas.

🔶 When the Donbass crisis escalated in 2022, 1,000 US troops were immediately sent to Romania, with NATO troop numbers reaching 4,700 soldiers by the end of the year.

🔶 Romania is building NATO’s largest European military base, with the $2.7 billion project set to expand the 57th Air Base near the Black Sea port city of Constanta. When ready, the facility will cover nearly 30 square km, and be able to host 10,000 NATO troops.

🔶 The Deveselu Military Base in southern Romania hosts the US Navy’s Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense System. Russian officials have warned that the facility’s MK-41 vertical launch systems could easily be calibrated to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles into Russia.

🔶 Romania has sent an array of arms to Ukraine, from TAB-71 APCs and M1981 artillery to a domestic variant of Grad rocket artillery and small arms.

🔶 Bucharest will “support Ukraine” for “as long as needed,” President Klaus Iohannis vowed to German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier last May.

🔶 Romania hasn’t always been such a pliant client state. From 1965-1989, Romania was the enfant terrible of the Warsaw Pact, defying Soviet proposals to increase arms spending, and working to establish closer ties with the US.

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Hot takes from the lunatic asylum

"Philisopher" Slavoj Zizek during the Piers Morgan Uncensored show said that Ukraine should be given nuclear weapons to stop Putin, calling the last a dark conservative religious fanatic. "They [Russians] are no less than Arabs," said Zizek, "fanatical religious fundamentalists."

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"The initial primary goal of the operation was declared as "to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire. Even though 'the will' of these two countries may be defined as no more than a square deal for Poland, that does not necessarily limit the military commitment".


Yes as we see they were intimidated by Soviet forces which is exactly what caused the Cold War. After forming the Iron Curtain, the Soviets had no interest in conquering western Europe, and would have lacked the capability to do so. Obviously the Allies took it very seriously.

In what these days, we would probably call, a genocidal act, the American use of nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians was reciprocally a message sent to intimidate the Soviets. And it worked. America could not have really swarmed Russia with nuclear bombers at the time, but they felt it as an existential threat.

By opening her doors, Russia learned most of the tricks of the trade of the western fleecing class.

I guess we might say Ukraine did too, and decided to keep it.


Well, for a bit on how its provinces were shuffled to someday become Ukraine, the French must have forgotten the Second Polish War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia):


The Treaty of Schönbrunn, concluding the 1809 conflict between Austria and France included a clause that transferred Western Galicia from Austria and annexing it to the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. This move was seen unfavorably by Russia, perceiving the territory's annexation as a potential threat for a French invasion point.


Committed to Catherine the Great's expansion policy, Alexander I issued an ultimatum in April 1812, demanding the evacuation of French troops from Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. When Napoleon chose war over retreat, between June 8 and 20, the troops remained in constant motion, enduring arduous marches amid intense heat. Napoleon's primary objective was to defeat the Imperial Russian Army and compel Czar Alexander I to rejoin to the Continental System. From 21–22 June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte stayed at Vilkaviškis Manor (in Polish: Wilkowiszky).


In a span of fewer than six months, the campaign exacted a staggering toll, claiming the lives of nearly a million soldiers and civilians.

As early November arrived, snowfall and frost complicated the retreat. Shortages of food and winter attire for the soldiers and provision for the horses, combined with relentless guerilla warfare from Russian peasants and Cossacks resulted in significant losses. Once again more than half of the soldiers perished on the roadside succumbing to exhaustion, typhus and the unforgiving continental climate. The once-formidable Grande Armée disintegrated into a disordered multitude, leaving the Russians with no alternative but to witness the crumbling state of the invaders.

On 5 December, Napoleon departed from the army at Smorgonie in a sled and returned to Paris. Within a few days, an additional 20,000 people succombed to the bitter cold and diseases carried by lice...signifying a staggering loss of approximately 380,000 lives throughout the campaign, half of which resulted from diseases.

This catastrophic outcome shattered Napoleon's once-untarnished reputation of invincibility.


Loop rewind, same thing.

The Duc de Choiseul had gotten French manufacturing into a lucrative position with a new National Military Academy, and, it worked really well, up to about that point. It hasn't actually started working, but, it hasn't stopped trying.

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Andrei Martyanov | Putin's Victory and The Global Paradigm Shift | Mar. 20, 2024

Source: Fiorella Isabel youtube (https://www.youtube.com/@FiorellaInMoscow)

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I have a long chat with author and military analyst Andrei Martyanov on Putin's recent victory, the state of the Ukraine war, multipolarity, global conflicts, Russia's modern political structure, where the US/WEST are going, and where Russia is going.

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Pushing for War – Ukraine About to Fall

For some time, I have reported that Special Forces have been in Ukraine, and Russia knows that. Now, leaked documents have confirmed that reality. Even in Vietnam, there were special forces there well before any official invasion. Ukrainians have used this, claiming that NATO is in Ukraine and hiding in schools using children as cover. Russia has been deploying thermobaric weapons, also known as a vacuum bomb, which is a type of explosive munitions that work by dispersing an aerosol cloud of gas, liquid, or powder, and it is more deadly than a conventional weapon of the same size. It uses the air around it, and this sucks in the oxygen – hence the vacuum bomb. Americans have been killed on the battlefield there, but they are private mercenaries. CNN reported that the dead American was Special Forces.

I have renowned sources, and I have been warning that the figures all along that Ukraine was winning have been nothing but propaganda being pushed by NEOCONS and Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law, who runs the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which is all about promoting war. They have been putting out the nonsense that Russia is losing and is weak to sell the idea that the West should just walk in and destroy Russia, and the Russian people will cheer for saving them from Putin.

I could say the same that the Americans would cheer if the Russians came to save us from the warmongering Democrats and RINOs to take out Washington and save us from Climate Change/Wokeness. Americans would not cheer, and neither would Russians. We both still have our own countries, irrespective of the leader in power. Both are just absurd statements.

Putin is popular despite the BS from the ISW because he was NOT a Communist, and he was NOT an oligarch. To the Russian people – he was their savior from a corrupt government despite the nonsense that others put out because their assets were seized for illegal trading in Russia. Nobody wanted the opposition to Putin, for they were representing the old world of the USSR that nobody wanted to return to.
Like the Institute for the Study (promotion of) War (ISW), NATO is also an organization that only promotes war; when communism fell in 1991, NATO should have been disbanded or drastically reduced. Instead, it moved eastward, showing it was never about communism. The entire threat was supposed to have been COMMUNISM – not the Russian people as a race. NATO needs to keep the threat of war alive, or they will lose their jobs.

The NEOCON movement really got started because the Communists’ mantra was to spread their economic religion, Marxism, to the world. Marxism so indoctrinated them that they thought this was the way of the future and that it would eliminate the business cycle. It also just happened to hand absolute power to the government. Keynes also tried to eliminate the business cycle. This dream of perpetual economic growth and endless deficit spending without ever paying a price down the road has been popular for it hands politicians complete power to regulate everything.

The New York Times was cheering Stalinism and stressed that this was the solution to the Great Depression. They were promoting Communism as most of the media back them, and they were putting out pure propaganda. It took the New York Times until 1990 to admit that their reporting covered up the truth about Stalin and the massive starvation in an effort, like Schwab, once again, to sell “equality” as our salvation. The New York Times covered up more than 7 million people who died of starvation in the Ukraine famine because it exposed that Communism had failed. The New York Times wrote that their reporting on the Russian Revolution constituted “some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper.” They never revoked their jouranlist’s Pulitzer Prize for writing fake news about Stalin.

strongly recommend you watch the movie “Mr. Jones.” This exposes the TRUE STORY of how the New York Times tried to support Communism in the United States back then, with their top journalist, Walter Duranty (1884-1957), who was their main man in Moscow—the New York Times promoted him to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on how Communism was Utopia and our future. When Gareth Jones (1905-1935) reported in March 1933 that this was all a lie, the truth finally began to appear.

This is what we face ONCE AGAIN with mainstream media promoting World War III. They NEVER seem to give 2 cents for the people. This is always about their perceived agenda, as they did with COVID. We need a revolution in mainstream media, which has fallen so far that the vast majority no longer trust anything they report, and this is worldwide.

I reported from my sources that 100,000 Ukrainians had been killed in the first few months of 2022. I got the typical hate mail that claimed I was putting out Russian propaganda. My sources were from Ukraine – not Russia. Then Ursula delivered a speech and said 100,000 had already died. Zelinsky had her take that out of her speech, claiming that it was CLASSIFIED information.

Trust me, if Zelensky is assassinated, it will be by Ukrainians who have figured out this guy is a puppet and is destroying his own country with a deal to be whisked off to a villa in Miami when the last Ukrainian falls. He is a comedian in high heels with ZERO expertise in military matters. He has suspended all elections because he would never win an election there after what he has done to Ukraine.

Only after more than 500,000 Ukraians are now dead have the press there begun to publish the truth. Borris Johnson flew urgently to Ukraine to ensure that Zelensky would reject any peace deal because the West was using Ukraine to try to weaken Russia so NATO could then move in for the kill. NOBODY ever expected Ukraine to defeat Russia, which had troops that were 10x that of Ukraine, without drafting people. The West has used the Ukrainian people for their objectives. Zelensky was never allowed to negotiate for peace. He was to destroy his own country for a villa in Miami.

We are now approaching that point where Ukraine is on the verge of losing everything. The first cyclical turning point of importance will be April 19/20, 2024. Zelensky has betrayed his own people, and some are starting to wonder if it is not payback for their hatred of Jews.

It was Lazar Kaganovich (1893-1991) was Stalin’s right-hand man, who proposed and carried out the taking of food from Ukraine that left 7 million dead. The Ukrainians were wrong to blame Russians when Kaganovich was Ukrainian. Behind the facade of propaganda about Russia taking the food, Kaganovich was Jewish and many scholars quietly think he proposed that to also punish the Ukrainians for joining Hitler and exterminating Jews.

Only after becoming president did Zelensky claim publicly to be Jewish, who converted to Christianity, and his children were baptized Christian. Here, he is in an act joking about how they used to confiscate the wealth of Jews and Russians. Some wonder if he is not the 21st Century version of Kaganovich. TRUST ME – If Zelensky is assassinated, it will not be because of Putin. Many people now see him as a traitor to their own people. Even the Neonazis are starting to see he is another Kaganovich.


We are rapidly approaching the point where Ukraine may collapse. This is why Macrone came out and talked about sending in NATO Troops. We are approaching the day when the last Ukrainian is about to fall.

Europe wants war at all costs BECAUSE the financial system is collapsing. They never consolidated their debts, as I warned them that the Euro could not survive long-term without a single national debt. All they accomplished was to transfer the currency risk to the bond markets.

Meanwhile, NATO has changed the terms that the US would approve F16s only to defend Ukraine. NATO says they have permission to fly into Russia to attack anything inside Russia. There is NO HOPE to avoid war without a wholesale change in leadership among ALL Western governments because they now NEED war. There are plenty of people who are just brainwashed and think what the world needs is to destroy Putin. The sanctions did not work, and our computer warned the West that it would lose. This is total insanity.

Others are silently cheering war in hopes of reducing the population, all to reduce CO2.

They just hope they got enough when they emerge from their bunkers.

Nobody seems to think about the future or WHAT IF they are wrong.

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I had a new discussion with
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NATO: "You need to have water, flashlights, and a radio on batteries to make sure you survive the first 36 hours.”

As NATO, which Fidel Castro called the ‘most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind’, loses its iron grip over the world, NATO now warns its citizens to prepare for war against Russia🇷🇺 or another one of NATO’s seemingly endless list of adversaries.

While the global south looks with optimism to a multipolar world, NATO seems hell-bent on doing everything to destroy the new power centres of the multipolar world.

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😁 The place of action is the Kiev metro. In a new series of "Mobilisation" the drafting death reapers wanted to send an elderly man to the front, but were rebuffed. The result was an interesting battle of four military commissariat workers against an old man and a babushka armed with a chair.

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💥Smerch MLRS crews wipe out artillery crews of Ukrainian terrorist formations in border area in Belgorod region

A Zoopark radar station crew located the deployment of enemy MLRS and foreign-made howitzers in the border area in the Belgorod region. Smerch MLRS crews promptly moved to firing positions after acquiring their targets. The crews eliminated US-made M777 howitzers, Grad MLRS, and armored fighting vehicles of Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

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🇸🇰⚔️🇪🇺 Slovak wildcard PM Robert Fico could bring EU house of cards crashing down

Looming presidential elections in Slovakia have sparked concerns in European legacy media that the victory of a left-wing ally to Prime Minister Robert Fico could solidify the populist’s positions in the pursuit of a more independent foreign and domestic policy. Sputnik asked Slovak politician Peter Marcek, chairman of the Slavic Unity party, what it is about Fico that’s so unnerving to the establishment.

“Robert Fico has been in office for only four months, but he has begun to implement the right policies. He has begun to pursue policies for his people, for his country,” Marcek said. “He refused to support Ukraine, stopped the supply of weapons to Ukraine, agreeing only to humanitarian assistance and saying that Slovakia would only provide such aid. Fico also doesn’t agree with many of the economic laws adopted by the European Union – which are adopted to benefit the EU itself, rather than its members.”

Across Europe, the growing popularity of politicians like Fico in Slovakia and Orban in Hungary stems in part from Brussels’ suicidal energy policies, Marcek said.

“When sanctions were introduced against Russia, it did not kill the Russian economy, maybe only creating problems at the very start, but Russia was able to find other markets. We bought oil and gas from Russia at reasonable prices, now we pay the Americans four times more. Our standard of living has dropped significantly,” he explained.

Amid the present crisis, the EU will have to change its policy, “or the EU will collapse.” It’s as simple as that, according to the observer.

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Caravan of conscience: Italian rockers deliver humanitarian aid to the Donbass

Banda Bassotti is one of Italy’s best-known revolutionary rock bands, holding concerts all around the world. Since 2017, the band has organized an annual “Anti-Fascist Caravan” to deliver humanitarian aid to Donbass residents in need, despite obvious pressure from Western governments.

This year’s caravan attracted volunteers from Spain, Italy, Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia and Nicaragua and provided essential items to hospitals and orphanages.

“Banda Bassotti are friends, comrades and a true example not just for those in Europe and Donbass but also for the people around the world, because humanity as a whole is one big family, and they [musicians] fight for a better world for all,” reports Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley.
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Why Russia resurrected the Dnepr Flotilla

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced this week that the country has reestablished its legendary WWII-era Dnepr Flotilla. This is not a symbolic move, as the mighty river dividing Ukraine in two parts remains a crucial frontline: Ukraine is holding the right bank, while Russian forces are controlling the left across hundreds of kilometers.

Sputnik queried experts to get a sense of some of the tasks the naval group may be expected to carry out.

🔶“The Dnepr River Flotilla’s formation is connected with the need to strengthen our forces in the southwestern direction,” Russian Academy of Military Sciences corresponding member Alexander Bartosh told Sputnik.

🔶“This is a significant and important step aimed at strengthening our position in operations on waterways,” Bartosh emphasized, saying he expects the flotilla’s missions to include foiling enemy landing, sabotage and reconnaissance operations and providing support to Russian ground forces, and possibly even being used to support Russian forces in ops in the enemy hinterland.

🔶“This idea has been around since the very start of the special military operation, since in some areas the line of contact was along the river,” Dmitry Zhavoronkov, a military expert specializing in the Russian Navy and military shipbuilding, told Sputnik.
“So in my view, the decision is an absolutely correct one. The line of contact runs up along the Dnepr River right up to the outskirts of the city of Zaporozhye,” he said.

🔶Zhavoronkov emphasized the need for the military to pay “special attention” to “various unmanned vessels, including unmanned boats and kamikaze attack vessels, relay boats, air defense boats and electronic warfare vessels” to protect manned ships and enable the flotilla to wage unmanned naval drone warfare operations of its own.


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🇪🇺 Eurosceptic parties are on the rise despite the EU's efforts to curtail the trend

🇸🇰Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has become a thorn in the side of the European bureaucracy after moving to abolish the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Per Fico, the office was used by his predecessor to purge opposition. The EC has threatened to take action against Bratislava.

Nonetheless, the Eurosceptic trend is gaining steam across the bloc, especially on the right wing of the political spectrum:

🇵🇹 Portuguese conservative party the Democratic Alliance (AD) came out on top during the March legislative elections, with populist right-wing Chega gaining 50 seats, up from 12 in 2022.

🇳🇱 Populist right-wing politician Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party's (PVV) victory in the Dutch general election in November 2023.

🇩🇪 German polls show that if elections were held today, the nation's conservative Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party would be the second largest.

🇮🇹Brothers of Italy, a national-conservative party, won the Italian general election in 2022. The party's head, Giorgia Meloni, is the incumbent prime minister of Italy.

🇫🇷 In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party is leading over Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance in the polls for June's European elections.

🇦🇹 The Freedom Party of Austria, a right-wing party, is currently leading in polls and has every chance of winning Austria's legislative elections, which will be held in fall 2024.

✅ It is expected that European conservative parties will expand their presence in the EU Parliament in the aftermath of the June 2024 election.

The rise of the anti-establishment right in the EU is at least partially due to the decade-long migrant crisis and the recent involvement of Brussels in the Ukraine conflict, which has led to an economic slowdown, soaring inflation, plummeting living standards, and an energy crisis, according to international observers.

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t...) "Philisopher" Slavoj Zizek during the Piers Morgan Uncensored show said that Ukraine should be given nuclear weapons to stop Putin, calling the last a dark conservative religious fanatic. "They [Russians] are no less than Arabs," said Zizek, "fanatical religious fundamentalists."

Propagandist Piers Morgan was approvingly nodding his head, agreeing with Zizek's position and even added that the absence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine gave the green light to Putin.



Well, well, well – that “philosophical” clown Zizek finally unmasked. Hyped by the promoters of “philosophy as a show” for decennia. Of the same “quality” as Bernard-Henry Lévy, that French “nouveau philosophe”.

Defending clear criminal political positions – glamoured by their public persona.

To be understood, from a philosophical position, as CIA or Deep State assets aiming at leading astray the social class of the “intellectuals” in the West, by “philosophically” embellishing their criminal statements and actions.

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"Freedom Bonds": US Wants $50BN Bond For Ukraine Backed By Frozen Russian Assets

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/freedom-bonds-us-wants-50bn-bond-ukraine-backed-frozen-russian-assets

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Europe dangerously deluded on Ukraine’s lost war
NATO can’t save Ukraine from defeat and Europe’s leaders fear what happens next when that day inevitably arrives

https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/europe-dangerously-deluded-on-ukraines-lost-war/


Revitalizing European Air Defense
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The latest Ukrainian electronic warfare system may soon become obsolete in front of the Russian “Geraniums”

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The competition between unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare systems never stops. In the Kyiv offices they fear that the newest Ukrainian electronic warfare system, Pokrova, which has recently appeared, may quickly become outdated.


The Russians have begun installing advanced equipment in the kamikaze UAVs "Geran-2" (piston) and "Geran-3" (jet) that help overcome jammed areas of airspace and carry out night strikes on Kiev, Odessa and other large cities. They started talking about this after the Ukrainian equipment, designers and engineers who study and analyze downed drones of the Russian Armed Forces recently saw devices equipped with a new system of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) data communication antennas. This technology increases the resistance of UAVs to signal jamming and is designed for stable determination of the location (geographic coordinates) of ground, water and air objects, as well as low-orbit satellites.

Now “Geran-2” and “Geran-3” are standardly equipped with a new version of the Comet antenna module, consisting of eight receivers, instead of the old version with four antennas for receiving signals from spacecraft. The “Comet” is placed in a shielded space inside the UAV airframe and this effective module ensures high reliability. All antennas are hidden there in the case, and are not located outside as before. A pair of thermal batteries were added to power this system and improve its qualities.

Faced with this technology, the Pokrova electronic warfare system turned out to be potentially vulnerable and unproductive. The Ukrainian system consists of a fixed antenna device that sends false data to Russian missiles and drones. The development of the device was carried out by experts in electronic warfare of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as local companies Falcons and Kvertus

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A new powerful weapon has appeared in the arsenal of the Russian Aerospace Forces

three-ton FAB-3000 aerial bombs. The updated version of these munitions, as experts suggest, is equipped with universal planning and correction modules, which significantly increases their combat effectiveness and accuracy of hitting targets.

The appearance of three-ton FAB-3000s in the arsenal of the Russian Aerospace Forces is causing concern within NATO, as noted by military expert Andrei Klintsevich. This is due not only to the mass production of these ammunition, but also to their potential to cause devastating damage to enemy infrastructure and warehouses.

At the same time, the question is raised about the organization of planning and correction modules for such large-scale munitions, as well as which air forces will be involved in their use. Among the possible carriers of the FAB-3000 are the Tu-22M3 strategic bombers and Su-34 front-line bombers, which indicates high flexibility in the choice of platforms for using these bombs.

Created back in Soviet times, the FAB-3000 has an ammunition weight of 1200 kg and is designed to hit a wide range of targets, including industrial facilities, urban and port facilities. The potential damage radius is 46 meters, and the fragmentation field generated by the explosion can reach 260 meters.

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Ukraine suffered the most powerful blow in the last two years 2024-03-22

In the next series of morning strikes carried out by the Russian Armed Forces, the military airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, was one of the targets. Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, in a conversation with RIA Novosti, emphasized that this airfield regularly appears as a target due to preparations for receiving American F-16 aircraft, which significantly increases its strategic importance.

In addition, from Khmelnitsky there were reports of two explosions on the outskirts of the city, which further aggravates the situation in the region. The wave of attacks was complemented by strikes on a tank factory in Kharkov and the Motor Sich aircraft engine plant in Zaporozhye, reflecting the strategic focus of attacks on facilities that are key to Ukraine's defense industry and military power.

The consequences of these attacks are noticeable not only in the damage to critical production facilities, but also in the overcrowding of military hospitals in Sumy, which indicates a high level of casualties among the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Let us recall that the airfield in Starokonstantinov has already experienced the power of the Russian Armed Forces when, at the end of May 2023, five Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft were destroyed here. These actions fit into the overall pattern of large-scale attacks, as evidenced by President Zelensky's words about the attack of more than 60 drones and 90 missiles on Ukraine, demonstrating the ongoing tension in the conflict and its serious consequences for both sides.

https://avia-pro.net/news/po-ukraine-nanesyon-moshchneyshiy-udar-za-poslednei-dva-goda

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A unique T-100 tank is being developed in Russia 2024-03-22

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In the West, the news of a new Russian supertank, dubbed the “Black Armata” and temporarily designated as the T-100 by Western analysts, aroused great interest. The development of this cutting-edge tank model was detailed in the American publication Military Watch Magazine, drawing attention to its outstanding characteristics and potential impact on the battlefield. This information is provided by AiF.

The Black Armata is based on an improved version of the T-80BVM, one of the key examples of Russian tank technology. One of the most noticeable features of the new product is the ability to move in reverse at speeds of up to 25 kilometers per hour - a figure comparable only to the American Abrams tank, equipped with a gas turbine engine. This characteristic sets the Black Armata apart from other tanks and emphasizes its maneuverability and speed capabilities.

American experts note that the experience of a special military operation emphasized the importance of quickly maneuvering equipment on the battlefield: the ability to quickly open fire and quickly leave a position without having to turn around. Unlike other models, such as the Proryv tank, whose reverse speed is limited to five kilometers per hour, the new Black Armata will be able to instantly move away from enemy fire, demonstrating a high degree of combat adaptability and effectiveness.

https://avia-pro.net/news/v-rossii-razrabatyvayut-unikalnyy-tank-t-100

[kfm27917]

"Terrified" Joe Biden Demands Ukraine Halt Strikes On Russian Refiners As It Is Sending Oil Prices Surging

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/terrified-joe-biden-demands-ukraine-halt-strikes-russian-refiners-it-sending-oil-prices

[Vicus]

Ukrainian bombing kills woman walking dogs (VIDEO) 22 Mar, 2024

A Ukrainian strike in Russia’s Belgorod Region has killed a woman who was walking her dogs, with two other people injured in the attack, local Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said.

In a statement on Friday, Gladkov noted that while Russian air defense systems had been activated, the attack still resulted in several casualties. One Ukrainian shell exploded meters away from the woman with her dogs, the governor said.

“[She] died at the scene from her wounds. One of the dogs was killed, the other was picked up by the woman’s daughter,” Gladkov added, expressing condolences to the victim’s relatives.

A video shared on social media shows the woman and the two pets on the sidewalk before a sudden explosion nearby. The victim immediately collapses and remains motionless, while one of the dogs shows signs of life.

Ukrainian attacks also wounded a woman who was hit by a shell fragment in her lower body and a man who received a head injury, Gladkov said. He noted that they had been hospitalized and are receiving all the necessary treatment.

The shelling caused damage to residential buildings in Belgorod, with windows shattered in 31 apartments, one private household, and four healthcare facilities, the governor stated. Twelve cars were damaged, four of which were completely burned out. There has also been damage to property elsewhere in Belgorod Region, he added.

The area, along with other Russian territories bordering Ukraine, is routinely targeted by artillery and drone attacks by Kiev. One of the deadliest strikes in recent weeks in Belgorod occurred on December 30, killing 25 people and injuring more than 100 others. Further Ukrainian shelling of the city in mid-February claimed seven lives.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month that Moscow could establish a “cordon sanitaire” on Kiev-controlled territories to protect the Russian population from indiscriminate strikes.

https://swentr.site/russia/594690-woman-with-dog-killed-belgorod/

[Vicus]

Russian military wipes out saboteurs near Ukraine border (VIDEO) 21 Mar, 2024

Several Kiev-affiliated armed groups have attempted to cross the frontier recently, with Moscow repelling all assaults

Russian forces have destroyed several temporary bases near the Ukrainian border used by sabotage units, the Defense Ministry said in a series of statements on Thursday. The Russian military has also released video clips purporting to show the strikes.

Last week, several groups, presumably made up of Russians fighting for Kiev, attempted to force their way from Ukraine into the country's Belgorod and Kursk regions. Moscow’s forces repelled the attacks. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev's forces suffered more than 1,500 casualties, losing seven tanks, three Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and two armored personnel carriers.

In recent days, Ukrainian forces have intensified their shelling of Russia's border regions, killing and maiming multiple civilians.

In a post on its Telegram channel, the ministry shared footage apparently captured by a drone, showing “preemptive air and artillery strikes” on Ukrainian targets near the border with Belgorod Region.

https://swentr.site/russia/594619-russian-mod-strikes-border-ukrainian-saboteurs/

[Vicus]

Ukraine's Energy System Subjected to Largest Attack of All Time - Ukrenergo Head 9 hours ago (Updated: 7 hours ago)

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e8/03/16/1117486222_0:246:960:786_1920x0_80_0_0_89beee1e91f0d395dc79c985cbce46cf.jpg.webp

MOSCOW, (Sputnik) - Ukraine's energy system was subjected to the largest attack of all time with group strikes hitting the country's thermal and hydroelectric power plants, Ukrainian power grid operator Ukrenergo head Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said on Friday.

"The morning attack on the energy system of Ukraine was the largest of all time, it is characterized by the fact that combined means of destruction were used. The attack was carried out in different regions of Ukraine, on thermal and hydroelectric power plants, as well as on main substations operated by Ukrenergo," Kudrytskyi said.
Damage to energy facilities has been recorded in many regions, especially in Kharkiv, where the scale of damage is greater than in other regions, the official said, noting that the target was power grid facilities in different regions of Ukraine – generation facilities, high-voltage substations, substations of distribution operators.

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/images/07e8/03/16/1117484869.png

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240322/russian-strikes-paralyze-ukraines-power-grid-heres-what-was-hit-1117484767.html

[kfm27917]

Moscow's Largest Concert Hall Attacked; Explosions & Mass Shootings Reported0

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/mass-shooting-attack-explosions-moscows-largest-concert-hall-reports

[Jaak]

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1771234606898974776
The moment tеrrоrists entered the Crocus City Hall in Moscow
Reports that more than 100 people are trapped by the fire following the terrоrist attack
https://twitter.com/i/status/1771233311668461732
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Automatic rifle fire inside the Crocus City Hall (music venue) in Moscow
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Seems like bigger event than Beslan or that Nord/Ost theatre .I wonder who will be blamed and how will Russia react... Seems like step closer to WW3

[Ravenlocke]

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US embassy in Moscow hinted at upcoming terrorist attack one month before Crocus Hall shooting

"The Embassy is monitoring reports that extremists are planning to attack large gatherings in Moscow, including concerts, in the near future, and US citizens should avoid large gatherings for the next 48 hours,” the embassy wrote in a statement published on its website on March 7.

When the warning was first issued, it raised eyebrows among Russian observers since there was no public information suggesting that a terrorist attack was likely. The US embassy has yet to clarify what potential terrorist threat it was referring and where it got the intelligence from.

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At least 5 terrorists shot people at Crocus, special forces arrived on the scene, people were evacuated from the roof of the burning building
▪️One of the eyewitnesses describes the terrorists: At least 5 bastards, bearded. They act like prepared and trained militants. At the moment of passage to the building, the guards and people standing at the doors were killed. Then the main entrance was blocked.
▪️Terrorists are armed with AKM assault rifles. Some carry loads of various ammunition. At least two of the attackers were carrying backpacks, possibly containing Molotov cocktails.
▪️The shooting began simultaneously both in the auditorium and in the foyer, where crowds of people were at that moment. The terrorists set fire to the chairs in the hall, from where the fire spread throughout almost the entire building.
http://t.me/RVvoenkor

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[Jaak]

https://twitter.com/LXSummer1/status/1771246561139302481
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¨The number of people injured in the shooting in Crocus has increased to 130 - russian media. SOBR began storming the Crocus City Hall building - according to preliminary data, four criminals managed to escape from the crime scene. Firefighters also entered the building.¨

[Ravenlocke]

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⚡️🇷🇺SHOOTING AT MOSCOW MALL, OVER DOZEN REPORTED KILLED per unconfirmed info as top vid shows moment "camouflaged men" mercilessly open fire at people with automatic weapons while unverified bottom left vid shows carnage as pools of blood seen everywhere.

Enormous smoke cloud overtakes entire block in bottom right vid from Crocus Mall in Moscow - developing situation.

Boost us here and subscribe for updates
@IntelRepublic

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[Ravenlocke]

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https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1771235189219328464

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[Ravenlocke]

From RT,

Reporter mentions there was a recent advisory to US embassy for citizens to leave the country because they suspected that there was going to be an attack in Moscow

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1771254251160764789

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[Jaak]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJTE-3VWIAAm5B-?format=jpg&name=medium
What kind of bullets make this kind of effect ? Also alot of people seem to be moving although they get shot many times from very close range.Tiny bit suspicious.
Its from this video
https://twitter.com/i/status/1771234240245411864
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[Ravenlocke]

🚨Russian SLAMS the US Government for possibly withholding key intelligence about today's terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

"If the United States has or had reliable data in this regard, then it must be immediately transferred to the Russian side." - Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova

https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1771256710021410897

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1771235195188048259

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📢The White House reacts to the Moscow Crocus City Hall terrorist attack:

1. The White House officially denies having any advanced knowledge of the Moscow Crocus City Hall attack.

2. The US Government believes that there is no indication at this time that Ukraine or Ukrainians are involved the shooting. There is no connection to Ukraine according to the White House.

3. The White House refused to answer a provocative question on whether or not there is a link between the shopping mall attack and so called "instability in Russia".

https://x.com/aussiecossack/status/1771245145234763997

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1771261564672147907

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

Ukr Disasters Pile Up: Rus Missile Strike,
Power Cuts, FAB-3000, Rus Advance,
Kremlin Floats Ukr End

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
#MariaTelegram
#Zakharova
Maria Zakharova, 22 March

🗨️The White House said it sees no indication that Ukraine or Ukrainians were involved in the terrorist attack in Moscow

On what basis do officials in Washington draw any conclusions in the midst of the tragedy about anyone's involvement? If the United States has or had reliable information on this matter, it must be immediately handed over to the Russian side.

And if there is no such data, then the White House has no right to issue indulgences to anyone.

All those involved, according to the Russian leadership, will be identified by the competent authorities.📷

Maria Zakharova
The U.N. secretary-general's office said it was saddened by reports of the shooting.

🗨️SADDENED? SHOOTING? Is it a fight in a shooting gallery, or what?

On the air, people with the last of their strength transmit footage of a monstrous bloody terrorist attack, which evokes not "sadness", but horror, shock, consternation, unconditional condemnation, righteous anger and compassion for the victims.

👉https://t.me/s/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
#DmitryTelegram
#Medvedev
#Zakharova
Dmitry Medvedev, 22 March

To the families of those killed in the terrorist attack - sincere condolences, spiritual strength to all the relatives of the victims.

Terrorists understand only retaliatory terror. No trials and investigations will help if force is not countered by force, and deaths are not met with total executions of terrorists and repression against their families. World experience.

If it is established that these are terrorists of the Kiev regime, it is impossible to deal with them and their ideological inspirers in any other way. All of them must be found and ruthlessly destroyed as terrorists. Including officials of the State that committed such an atrocity.

Death for death.

👉https://t.me/s/medvedev_telegram

https://x.com/_MariaZakharova/status/1771271084400095685

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Worldsource24/status/1771280212250013780

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1771279104706277469

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇺🇦🏴⚔️🇷🇺❕ Look for someone who benefits.

Ukrainian call centers are spamming Russian law enforcement hotlines, spreading false reports of terrorist attacks and attacks throughout the country.
By doing this, the enemy is trying to sow panic in the country, as well as overload law enforcement services, which are obliged to respond to every such message.

After this, the questions remained: who is behind all this?

❗️While the Ukrainian authorities deny involvement in the terrorist attack in Moscow, massive calls are coming from Ukraine with messages about bomb threats in Russia.

It's not us, but here you go...

Logic!

NGP exploration

https://x.com/dana916/status/1771268738207158273

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🏴🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 ❗️The Archangel of Special Forces writes about the surge in Ukrainian telephone terrorism

They started calling the hotline number 112 from Ukrainian and spoofed numbers in order to sow panic.

The messages convey different addresses (schools, shopping centers) about alleged shootings and armed interventions.

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🇺🇦🏴⚔️🇷🇺❗️ Ukrainians online rejoice over the terrorist attack and laugh at the death of Russians in reviews of Crocus

Those who decided to open the Crocus page on Google maps noticed that in reviews of the shopping center, Ukrainians had already begun to rejoice that Russians died there. The enemy rejoices because the terrorists shot 40 innocent people.

For now, reviews are not regulated in any way.

worldpravda
Readovka

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[Ravenlocke]

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🌍 Countries that have so far condemned the terrorist attack in Moscow:

Italy
Belarus
Kyrgyzstan
Turkey
Pakistan
Egypt
Cuba
Kazakhstan
Venezuela
Azerbaijan
Armenia
Germany
USA

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Text:

Terrorists have attacked the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. At around 8pm today, before a concert by the band Piknik, they broke into the building and began shooting civilians. New timeline:

- At least five terrorists entered the building from at least two sides - through the car park and the main entrance. They began firing indiscriminately into the crowd, which had come to see the Piknik band perform.

- For the time being, 40 people were killed and more than 100 injured.

- The terrorists set fire to the concert hall. The fire quickly spread throughout the building. The supporting structures began to collapse. The fire, which now covers 12900 square metres, has not yet been contained.

- More than 50 emergency services are at the scene. FMBA reported that blood and blood components will be accepted from 8.30am on 23 March.

- Checks have been stepped up at all transport hubs and airports in the capital.

- All mass events for the coming weekend have been cancelled in Moscow, Moscow Oblast and many other regions of the country.

- The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has recommended the cancellation of all university classes in the near future.

- The US, UK, France, Iran, UAE, Serbia, Armenia and many other countries have expressed their condolences over the terrorist attack.

- The search for the terrorists continues, Rosgvardiya reported.

@ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771286080194519510

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[Ravenlocke]

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🇷🇺⚔️🏴 The beginning of the shooting at Crocus was caught on the recorder of a passing car - a white Renault car, from which the terrorists got out, was seen. They opened fire on people in the car park, rushing towards the entrance.

Terrorists entered the building through at least two points - the car park and the main entrance.

ukraine_watch

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Sprinterfactory/status/1771288511926120651

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[ExomatrixTV]

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Maybe similar operation or related:


Operation Gladio - Full 1992 documentary BBC .....part of a CIA Strategy of Tension (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59643-Operation-Gladio-Full-1992-documentary-BBC-.....part-of-a-CIA-Strategy-of-Tension)
NATO Cognitive Warfare (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries)

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[ExomatrixTV]

1771246142778474764
Maybe similar operation or related:


Operation Gladio - Full 1992 documentary BBC .....part of a CIA Strategy of Tension (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?59643-Operation-Gladio-Full-1992-documentary-BBC-.....part-of-a-CIA-Strategy-of-Tension)
NATO Cognitive Warfare (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?117876-Behind-NATO--s-cognitive-warfare.-Battle-for-your-brain-waged-by-Western-militaries)

[Ravenlocke]

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Security forces are searching for two vehicles believed to be used by the perpetrators of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack.

The first is a silver Renault with license plates from the Tver region.

The second vehicle is a gray Renault Fluence.

Instructions to locate it have been distributed to authorities in Moscow, the Moscow region, and nearby regions.

https://x.com/301military/status/1771285473639469442

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
🇺🇲🏴⚔️🇷🇺CIA Vet: Why is the US rushing to deny Ukrainian involvement in Moscow terrorist attack?

The Biden administration has no basis for confidently declaring that Ukraine had nothing to do with the Moscow terrorist attack, former CIA and State Department analyst Larry Johnson told Sputnik.

“We still don’t know how many shooters there were. We don’t know what the weapons were. We don’t know what the firearms were. We don’t know what the explosives were. We don’t know how many were actually killed, how many wounded, but yet the US State Department knows that it was not Ukraine. And [this statement] comes on a day that one of the CIA propaganda outlets came out and said that the Biden White House and the intelligence community were very concerned about what they call ‘brazen’, unwarranted attacks by Ukraine,” he said.

Johnson added that he suspected that the tS had information about the attack beforehand did not share it with Russia.

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[Bill Ryan]

Larry Johnson has already been interviewed about this incident. He strongly suspects the attack was by Ukraine, and I'm sure most Russians think so too. The video title is interesting — and may be quite correct.

Terrorist Attack on Moscow - Ukraine Committing Suicide?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4jjguZ-_5s

[bojancan]

That’s absolutely appalling... and wicked.... no one has any right to do such a monstrous thing....
Putin will not let that go....
And they say now is ISIS??????? I am thinking... and who made ISIS???? We know!

ISIL claims responsibility for Moscow concert attack
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[Ravenlocke]

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Kremlin: Putin briefed by ministers on Moscow terror attack response

▪️ The heads of the FSB, Interior Ministry, Investigative Committee and Rosgvardia have reported to Putin on the progress of the investigation into the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall

▪️Putin was briefed by the Minister for Emergency Services on the measures being taken to offer all forms of help and save the lives of those who suffered during the terrorist attack

▪️ At the same time Putin held a conversation with Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko and Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov. They informed Putin about measures taken to help the victims of the attack.


More than 60 people were killed in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, Russia's Investigative Committee said, adding that the number of victims could increase

110 adults and 5 children are now in hospitals after the terrorist attack, 60 adults are in grave condition, Moscow Region Governor Vorobyov said

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🇫🇷🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺❗️HERE WE GO

REGULAR TROOPS from France, Germany and Poland have arrived, by rail and air, to Cherkassy, south of Kiev.

A substantial force. No numbers have been leaked.

They are being housed in schools.

For all practical purposes, this is a NATO force.

Let the games begin.

Pepe Escobar

https://x.com/dana916/status/1771294084344197368

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/Sprinterfactory/status/1771349899268829253

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[shaberon]

He just got in (https://tass.com/world/1763865):




NATO and EU states must prepare for a long-term conflict with Russia, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said.

"We must understand that we have a long conflict with Russia ahead of us. This involves NATO and the EU. We must prepare to it accordingly," he said in an interview for Deutsche Welle [deemed foreign agent in Russia]. According to the foreign minister, this primarily concerns Baltic states and Poland.

Billstom noted that Sweden plans to send a part of a mechanized battalion to Latvia, and will reinforce its naval forces near the island of Gotland and the Baltic Sea. He added that Sweden already patrols the airspace in this region and uses its submarines for similar purposes.

Previously, the foreign minister noted that he considers reinforcement of Gotland, which is often being referred to as a "huge aircraft carrier," the most urgent task.



You're stuck with that for twenty years.

Whenever I say you can get out of NATO, it means after serving this probation.

It's not physically possible to remove the Swedish attitude for twenty years now.

Does this sound right? You must make a new Iron Curtain, all across the Baltic region, ASAP.

Oh, yeah. Swedish expertise is the cream of the crop for:


Cannons

Witchburning

Eugenics


And then I guess this premise of Neutrality gives you little motive to remain in the Cold War or Arms Race. But forming a pact isn't neutral. It is unclear to me what "conflict" he is referring to, but, I believe he believes it.

[DNA]

https://www.infowars.com/posts/isis-reportedly-claims-responsibility-for-moscow-terrorist-attack/

Alex Jones is reporting that Isis is taking credit for the terrorist attack in Moscow.

This has me worried. Isis in case you guys didn't know is a proxy army of the United States created by Obama and Hillary Clinton and senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Funded and armed by the United States. All but destroyed by Trump.
Now refunded and armed by Biden.
This article says isis is taking responsibility for a terrorist attack in Moscow.
That's not good.
If we know Isis is a proxy army for the United States you better damn know the Russians know.

[Rawhide68]

As a Swede living in Stockholm Sweden, joining NATO was not a majority choise of the people in this country.

Bad guys like Tobias Billström are NeoCons not supported by more than 10% of the population here in Sweden.

If I had to have a say in this debate about joing NATO, I would have said NO!


To me the NATO of today, is like a hollow shell of hate driven by money war mongering and idiots.

Somehow Tobias Billström probably have been bought by the non mentionible 3 letter organisation from USA.


Thats my theory at least

[Rizotto]

March 21, 2024
Oh look, Turdeau/NATO’s propaganda machine, the CBC, has strong opinions about Putin once he won the elections:

What would it take to dismantle Putin’s regime?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDeOvPZWaM&t=526s

Gosh, what would indeed make Russians change their mind? Terror attacks, maybe?

March 22, 2024
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240322/probe-will-inevitably-reveal-who-ordered-crocus-attack-elite-russian-anti-terror-unit-vet-1117500152.html
‘I Have No Doubt Moscow Terror Act Was Provoked by Ukraine’: Elite Russian Counter-Terrorism Veteran
Sergei Goncharov, a veteran of the elite Russian Alpha anti-terrorism unit, says he has no doubt in his mind that Russian investigators will ultimately find the masterminds behind Friday’s deadly attack on Crocus City Hall, and has an inkling about the man most directly responsible. …
Specifically, Goncharov believes Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov* – who has threatened repeatedly to target Russian civilians, is most directly responsible for Friday’s carnage. ...

March 22, 2024
But wait! CBC has rushed to declare who the culprits are, and by gosh, they’re not Ukrainians… They’re ISIS!
Moscow concert hall attack: Why ISIS would target Russia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imjTlwL5Pe4

They expect us to forget about the fact that the ‘west’ supported ISIS during the Syria conflict, and that ISIS was most likely created by the ‘west’ to destroy Syria, who was saved only by Russia.

Anyway, if CBC says the terrorists were ISIS, then it’s quite safe to conclude that this terror attack was organized by Ukraine and the ‘west’. Thanks CBC, you make connecting the dots so much easier.

[Rizotto]

Why are European leaders like Macron so obsessed with getting Ukraine to ‘win’ against Russia, to the point of risking WW3 by placing their troops in Ukraine to combat Russia? Their claim that they need to prevent Russia from invading the rest of Europe is complete BS, everybody with 2 brain cells knows that.

There is a connection between Ukraine’s war against Russia and Israel’s war against Palestinians, Syria and Lebannon. The cabal of globalists that are running NATO and the ‘west’ have placed very high stakes on destroying Russia, which is their main obstacle to their cornering the oil market & trade routes to Asia. Ukraine is in the EU centre of this global shakedown.

Richard Medhurst hit the nail on the head in this analysis below.

The Hidden Reasons Behind the War on Gaza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTuGZ2MdKpU

[Jaak]

https://twitter.com/warintel4u/status/1771481224197902468
https://twitter.com/warintel4u/status/1771481224197902468
- Why did you shoot people?
- For money, half a million rubles.

Moscow attacker:

"They told me to go and kill people, no matter what kind."

The attacker says he was contacted by a certain “assistant to the preacher,” whom the militant listened to on social networks.

The detainee was offered 500 thousand rubles to kill as many people as possible.

The place was named anonymously via Telegram, the weapon from the cache was handed over by the person who ordered the terrorist attack.

The terrorist in the video managed to receive 250 thousand rubles before the attack.

HEAD OF RUSSIA'S DEFENCE COMMITTEE STATEMENT:

"Ukraine and its patrons are the main stakeholders in the terrorist attack on Moscow's concert hall. If the information about Ukraine's involvement in the terrorist attack is confirmed, there should be a clear answer on the battlefield."

[ExomatrixTV]

French 🇫🇷 Army Going to Ukraine Will Be a DISASTER:

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The truth is: be at 1k or 15k French troops - what difference does it make? It's a drop into a sea, considering the scale of this war. As for Transnistria - yes, French can pull off the capture, as Transnistrian forces have massively outdated equipment. But there are Russian peace keepers, attacking them will be akin to declaring a war, just like what happened in Georgia in 2008. To summarize: Napoleon wannabe better zip his up and sit down. It's not a French 🇫🇷 war.

[ExomatrixTV]

Russia Says US-Starlink Spy Satellites “Legitimate Targets,” Warns Of Military Retaliatory Measures:

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Russia said it was aware of US attempts to utilise commercial satellite operators like SpaceX for intelligence purposes, Reuters reported on March 20. Russia cautioned that such moves made the satellites “legitimate targets for retaliatory measures, including military ones.” Earlier, Chinese military and state media accused the United States of threatening global security. Watch the video to know more.

[Jaak]

https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1771464724342857847
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Russian Security forces have released this photo of one of the men arrested for the terror attack in Moscow

11 people have been arrested.

The death toll in Moscow stands at 93 and 145 injured.

https://twitter.com/Sentletse/status/1771481104924451160/video/2

https://twitter.com/aussiecossack/status/1771474543145566230
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Ive seen plenty of videos whats happening in Russian prisons.This guy will later get broomstick treatment and other kinds of torture for sure...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1771482041499963630
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[Jaak]

https://www.infowars.com/posts/isis-reportedly-claims-responsibility-for-moscow-terrorist-attack/

Alex Jones is reporting that Isis is taking credit for the terrorist attack in Moscow.

This has me worried. Isis in case you guys didn't know is a proxy army of the United States created by Obama and Hillary Clinton and senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Funded and armed by the United States. All but destroyed by Trump.
Now refunded and armed by Biden.
This article says isis is taking responsibility for a terrorist attack in Moscow.
That's not good.
If we know Isis is a proxy army for the United States you better damn know the Russians know.

https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1771438094736150622
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¨Remember when Ukrainian fighters were caught wearing ISIS patches as was reported by
@TheCradleMedia ? You see any CIA asset can put on an ISIS badge , what does it matter when they all work for the US anyway.¨

[Jaak]

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¨Another one of the terrorists that participated in the Moscow attack was reportedly detained in Bryansk region.¨
So their plan was to escape to Ukraine ..?

[ExomatrixTV]

Zelenskyy Sold Ukraine To US Corporate? John F. Kennedy's Nephew RFK Jr. (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120744-Robert-F.-Kennedy-jr.-May-Run-for-Presidency-Challenging-Joe-Biden-2024) Adds To Russia Explosive Claim:

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Ukraine is already opening up for big investment, and hand-rubbing has been happening over a potential business bonanza. War-hit Ukraine might not look like a good financial investment, with no end in sight. Kyiv engaged BlackRock and JPMorgan in 2023 to help set up a fund to raise public capital. But has the Russia-Ukraine war created a massive profit opportunity for leading U.S companies?

[Bill Ryan]

¨Another one of the terrorists that participated in the Moscow attack was reportedly detained in Bryansk region.¨
So their plan was to escape to Ukraine ..?Yes, and we'll be hearing more about this today, for sure. Putin has already stated in an address to the nation that Russia has proof that Ukraine had set up a 'window in the border' intended to enable the attackers' escape to Ukraine.

Russia has all four of the attackers in custody, who have already said they were promised half a million rubles (= $5,400, not much!!) to kill as many citizens as possible.

RT has reported (https://www.rt.com/russia/594786-death-toll-increases/) that the death toll is now confirmed as 133.

My personal comment:

Victoria Nuland, in her now-infamous remark a few weeks ago that "Russia will have some surprised coming", must have known about this. We know already that she has no ability to keep her mouth shut about certain things.

If ISIS was indeed involved in some way, they will have only been an intermediary proxy. It may be that they were themselves paid to "take responsibility" for the incident. But the Russian authorities will know the entire story very soon, if not already, from the 4 attackers who were captured.

[Jaak]

Thank you Bill for making the tweets visible! i still havent figured out how to do it ...
At this point i would not be surprised if this attack was cordinated by Russia/Putin . All other inconvenient topics got overwhelmed by this.Russia gets to play victim and a whole lot more of opressive laws and circumstances can be established ....And people will not protest but cheer for it. Well ,lets see what comes out of it. Who will benefit most ?

[Bill Ryan]

At this point i would not be surprised if this attack was cordinated by Russia/Putin . All other inconvenient topics got overwhelmed by this.Russia gets to play victim and a whole lot more of opressive laws and circumstances can be established ....And people will not protest but cheer for it.Avalon's mission is to inform and educate. We seem to be failing. :)

:focus:

[Jaak]

I do try to educate and inform. My opinions aint usually emotional because i do try to research all kinds of things to their depth .
But i do suggest to flip through this other forums posts which has dozens and dozens of examples that Russia is still following the path of NWO and WEF . This game of chess might be rigged and moves might be pre-determined to have certain outcomes...
Thats why i aint trusting Putin.
https://vigilantcitizenforums.com/threads/russia-through-the-hidden-eye-continuation.10926/

But yes sorry for going offtopic,i try to avoid it in the future :highfive:

[Bill Ryan]

Thats why i aint trusting Putin.
Here are some of the the reasons why this could not possibly be a Russian false flag event.


Putin doesn't NEED to do this. Russia is winning the conflict easily, more and more each day, and most people in Russia 100% support him. And so do most of the global majority (the 'global south'), who watch everything very closely. (This is why he'd never need to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, either. That's just not necessary.)



If Putin did orchestrate this himself, the western media would immediately be saying so and proving it to everyone. That'd be the quickest way for Putin to be removed from power by the Russians themselves. They'd do it within a day.



For that reason, even if Putin was the devil himself (which he is not! :)), he'd never take that risk. It'd be a really dumb thing to do. And Putin is an intelligent man, whatever else anyone might think of him. Again, it's just not needed.



Four of the attackers are in custody and are being interrogated closely. Seven others have been arrested as well. There's a lot of very hard evidence already. If that trail of evidence leads back to the Kremlin, the attackers would be telling the Russian investigators exactly that. But they're not.



Occam's Razor. (= The simplest and most obvious hypothesis is usually the correct one.) This was a Ukrainian plan, exactly the kind of thing Budanov would want to do. Even Victoria Nuland knew this was going to happen. Remember her recent visit to Kiev?

[Vicus]

Putin on Moscow Terrorist Attack: No One Will Be Able to Sow Discord in Russia 3 hours ago (Updated: 55 minutes ago)

In his speech, the Russian president expressed his condolences to the victims, declared a national day of mourning and vowed to fight international terrorism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dubbed the attack on the concert hall a “bloody barbaric terrorist act that claimed the lives of dozens of innocent people," during his address to the nation.
The president expressed certainty that medics “will do everything possible and even the impossible to preserve the lives and health of the wounded."
Putin thanked everyone who helped save people during the attack, including paramedics and Special Force professionals, as well as ordinary people who volunteered to help.
Putin likewise declared March 24 a national day of mourning and stressed that anti-terrorist and anti-sabotage measures have been implemented in Russia to prevent further tragedies. Referring to the ongoing investigation, Putin said that four suspects of the terror attack have been arrested -“all those who shot and killed people – are detected and detained."

“They tried to flee and they were moving towards Ukraine where, according to preliminary data, there was a window prepared from the Ukrainian side for state border passing," he stressed.

Overall, 11 people have been detained and Russian security services are looking into the accomplice chain, trying to identify those who provided vehicles, planned escape routes and prepared weapon stockpiles.

“It is evident that we are facing not a meticulously and cynically planned terrorist attack, but rather a prepared and organized mass killing of peaceful defenseless people. The felons were purposely going to kill in cold blood, to shoot our citizens, our children. Like Nazis some time ago committed atrocities on occupied territories, they planned to stage a public execution, a bloody action aimed at instilling fear," Putin explained.

“Terrorists, murderers, abominations that do not have and cannot have nationality will meet their ill fate – retribution and oblivion. They have no future," Putin said.

"No one will be able to sow the poisonous seeds of discord, panic and feud in our multinational society," Putin concluded.

He urged people to avoid panicking and ethnic feuds in the multinational society.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240323/putin-addresses-russian-citizens-after-crocus-city-hall-terrorist-attack-in-moscow-region-1117510092.html

[Vicus]

Three children killed in Moscow concert hall attack – hospital data

Some of those hospitalized are as young as seven, according to officials

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.03/l/65fec0dc2030270fc75e4968.jpg

Three children have died as a result of a terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall outside Moscow on Friday night, according to hospital data posted on the Moscow Region’s Health Ministry website.

At least five children were among those hospitalized after the massacre, officials have said.

Several witnesses say there were multiple families with their children among the Friday night crowd in the building when the shooting began.

“People carried their children in their arms. No one knew where it was safe at the time, there was this incomprehensible feeling of what could meet us in the hall, or on the street,” lawmaker Ayder Metshin, who was there for the concert, told RT.

https://swentr.site/russia/594759-children-injured-moscow-concert/

[Bill Ryan]

Occam's Razor. (= The simplest and most obvious hypothesis is usually the correct one.) This was a Ukrainian plan, exactly the kind of thing Budanov would want to do. Even Victoria Nuland knew this was going to happen. Remember her recent visit to Kiev?Here's the reference: :)

The text: (the video of her speech is included)
A month ago (to the day!) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Victoria "F the EU" Nuland promised they laid to Ukraine would allow the to "accelerate the asymmetric warfare that has been most effective" and that Putin is "sure to face some nasty surprises."

Nuland left her post as the Deputy Secretary of State 10 days prior to this video. Moscow civilians were killed today in an act of terrorism (asymmetrical warfare).
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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1771370235159048358
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[Gwin Ru]

...

... normal Scott Ritter analysis free of minced words:


ScottRitter/1938

https://t.me/ScottRitter/1938

[Bill Ryan]

From Sputnik International:


https://sputnikglobe.com/20240323/this-is-not-isis---rossiya-segodnya-editor-in-chief-on-moscow-concert-hall-attack-1117508480.html

This Is Not ISIS - Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief on Moscow Concert Hall Attack

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Editor-in-chief of RT and "Russia Today" Margarita Simonyan

Ukraine and the West have resorted to false flag operations to persuade everyone that ISIS* was behind the terror attack in the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow, said Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya.

The head of the media group stressed that the names and faces of the perpetrators are already known to authorities and that the terrorists gave everything away during interrogation.

“It immediately became obvious why US media were claiming in unison that it was ISIS," she said.

Simonyan explained that the perpetrators were chosen to carry out the attack in a manner that would allow the West to persuade the international community that ISIS was behind the attack.

“Basic sleight of hand. The level of a railway thimble-rigger," she added." It has nothing to do with ISIS. It's Ukrainians."

She added that the enthusiasm displayed by Western media when they tried to persuade everyone that ISIS was responsible even before arrests were made gave them away completely.

“This is not ISIS. This is a well-coordinated team of several other, also widely known, abbreviations," Simonyan concluded.

The shooting occurred on Friday evening in the Crocus City Hall concert venue just outside Moscow and was followed by a massive fire, claiming at least 143 lives.

In the hours following the attack, Western media insisted that radical jihadist organization ISIS was behind it, while Ukrainian officials also said that they had nothing to do with the tragedy.

However, suspects were detained in Russia's Bryansk region near Ukrainian border. According to the data provided by law enforcing agencies, they had a support base on the other side of the border.

Moreover, while Kiev rushed to deny its involvement into the shooting, Ukrainian secret services have a long track record of terror attacks on Russian territory, from shelling in the Belgorod region to assassinations of political scientist Daria Dugina and journalist Vladlen Tatarsky.

[mizo]

As Telegram, was allegedly used to enlist the Moscow terrorist how long will be to for the call to take down the platform, as well as discord, X, and many of similar platforms world wide?

[SilentFeathers]

If you poke the Bear in the eye over and over again it'll eventually bite your arm off.....

[Ravenlocke]

Text:
⚡️Terrorists tried to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border and had contacts with the Ukrainian side - FSB of the Russian Federation

The militants planned to cross the border and had contacts on the Ukrainian side. The terrorist attack at Crocus was carefully planned. The weapons for this were prepared in advance in a cache. All the militants were detained within a few hours of each other in the Bryansk region near the border with Ukraine.

Source: the detained terrorists planned to cross the border of the Russian Federation with Ukraine in the Bryansk region, they had an approximate square in the forest through which they wanted to escape, where their accomplices were supposed to meet them.

Russian special services did not allow them to reach the departure point, opening fire on the car. The terrorists were detained by officers of the Border Service of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.



https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771462646937604603

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[Bill Ryan]

And this.

https://t.me/AussieCossack/14739

The text:
Russian rescuers discovered a Kalashnikov assault rifle discarded by one of the Crocus City Hall terrorists.
The handle of the Kalashnikov was decorated with the traitor's flag and inscription of the Ukrainian Government supported extremist group which uses the slogan “For the freedom of Russia.”
This is the same mob who tried to organise a botched invasion of Belgorod. This is massive.
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[Ravenlocke]

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Video interrogation of terrorist with bandage where his ear was cut off.

🇷🇺 The terrorists threw away their weapons before being detained.

Another captured terrorist, who speaks Russian poorly, stated during interrogation that the militants dropped the weapons on the road in the Bryansk region. #Russia #Moscow

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1771530492296278423

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Ukraine should prepare for Phase II.

Up until now, it has been a military attrition operation against UA, and we're almost there...

Yesterday, Peskov stated that Russia is at war, which was further confirmed by a western terrorist attack against Russian civilians aimed at destabilizing the bonds between Christians and Muslims in Russia.

The last time Putin acted against a terrorist group, it had devastating consequences for the attacker. Regardless of kinship, when a wayward relative begins harming their own family, they must be stopped.

This incident represents a significant failure on the part of NATO/CIA/SBU/EU — all part of the same group.

The response will be given on the battlefield, but resource expenditure will increase daily. That's certain.

It was about time.

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771461688673337555

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1771454994094375013

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Text:
Terrorists from Crocus reportedly went towards the Ukrainian border, where apparently they were promised a corridor from that side.

And they keep telling us about “citizens of Tajikistan.”

These are citizens of a terrorist black hole whose operators will sooner or later be named.

At the same time, the Washington regional committee is creating propaganda nonsense that the terrorist attack shows something weak in Russia.

This is told to us by a country where shootings are served for breakfast in schools several times a year.

A line at the Botkin Hospital in Moscow, people donating blood. Despite the wet weather, hundreds of Muscovites came. They are warmed up with hot tea.

— Image of the future
https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1771452713605464323

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There is no doubt that the terrorist attack was prepared by Kiev; the route of departure of the terrorists speaks for itself.

The fact that the perpetrators turned out to be Tajiks is also nothing strange - both Western special services and Ukrainian ones have been working with Islamists in Russia for a long time, while in our country, for some reason, they have stopped fighting Islamism and opened the border to crowds of migrants (these are not Russians from the Baltics and other anti-Russian countries, who have to go through fire and brimstone to obtain Russian citizenship).

So the environment for recruitment is very rich.

Source: https://t.me/historiographe/11899


https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1771458985008513499

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[Ravenlocke]

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771581596019159347

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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
All four perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Crocus have been found and arrested. The most important information about them:

- They were detained in the Bryansk Oblast a few hours apart, they intended to cross the Russian-Ukrainian border, the militants had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side, the FSB said;

- Putin noted that the perpetrators of the Crocus shooting were moving towards Ukraine, where a "window" had been prepared for them. A total of 11 people have been detained in connection with the terrorist attack;

- All the gunmen are foreign citizens, said Irina Volk, and clips of the interrogation of two of them were published by Margarita Simonyan @margaritasimonyan;

- One of them, a man born in 1998, arrived on 4 March from Turkey, where his documents had expired;

- He was offered to kill "whatever" people by unknown persons via Telegram, whose full names and surnames he does not know. He does not know their full names. The clients came to the militant a month ago through a certain preacher whose teachings he had studied. The price was half a million roubles;

- He received half the money on a card he lost in the forest, the clients provided them with weapons and they chose the location;

- The terrorist leader did not speak Russian, he lived in a hostel with his friend Mukhamad, and 10-12 days before the attack he met a certain Abdullah;

- This Abdullah, whom the terrorist allegedly recognised from his orientation card, had bought a car, ostensibly to drive a taxi;

- The third militant questioned said he was 30 years old and claimed not to understand Russian; according to him, his accomplices threw all the weapons out of the car onto the road before they were arrested;

- The fourth terrorist (pictured right) worked in a hairdressing salon. Now the salon is receiving threats.
https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771599871247573000


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[Ravenlocke]

Text:
Message from Donetsk: This is a battle for good against evil

Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley gives an impassioned speech at a impromptu memorial in Donetsk dedicated to the victims of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack.

“Everyone of these war crimes and terrorist acts simply prove that this is a war of evil against humanity. One side can massacre women and children in cold blood, and one side simply can’t. So, we all have to choose sides and do what we can.”


https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1771604620189503860

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The terrorists ran down an eight-year-old boy in their car when leaving Crocus City Hall near Moscow

Igor, the father of the injured child Ilya, said that they went to the concert with the whole family - he, his wife, 11-year-old daughter and son.

“When the shooting started, we managed to quickly get out of the hall. At first they wanted to hide in the toilet, but at the last second we changed our minds. Now we understand that this was the right decision. I carefully led the family out of the building, we ran into the street...

"And just as the thought appeared in my head that we were safe, we saw that same Renault car rushing towards us at full speed and deliberately knocking down our son and running into him.

"It [the car] hit my daughter and me tangentially and we suffered minor bruises. My son suffered a traumatic brain injury, a broken collarbone and a broken hip. Doctors are not making any predictions yet. We just ask everyone to keep him in your prayers."

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Military expert and former KGB officer Valery Shiryaev agrees that the attack in Crocus was planned seriously:

— The weapon was used to create panic. And the main bet was made on the well—studied properties of the crowd, poisoning by combustion products and the temperature of the fire," he notes. Gorenje.

According to Shiryaev, the place and time for the terrorist attack were also chosen for a reason — because of the remoteness of the Crocus from the center of Moscow and heavy traffic, the security forces could not quickly arrive at the scene.

The attack itself was carried out "in full accordance with the plan, without failures, in just 18 minutes.

" "Not experienced taxi drivers," as the terrorists introduced themselves, will tell a lot of interesting things. They are clearly with serious combat training.

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Failure of British Policy in Russia - Ian Proud, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

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A Moscow schoolboy took 100 people out of the Crocus during a terrorist attack
15-year-old Islam worked part-time in the wardrobe of the concert hall. At a difficult moment, the guy proved himself to be a hero, was not afraid and did not panic. But he says he was just doing his job and followed the instructions clearly.
During the attack and the subsequent fire, Islam guided people. Noticing that people ran into a dead end — towards the toilet, the teenager took matters into his own hands and began to lead the evacuation. He was able to lead people out of the narrow passage into the territory of the Expo, and then through the office to the street.

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Scott Ritter: Terrorist Attack in Moscow Does Not Look Like ISIS' Handiwork

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Washington’s attempts to pin the blame for the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow on ISIS appears suspect due to the perpetrators’ behavior, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.

Pointing out the fact that the terrorists were apprehended while fleeing towards Ukraine, Ritter remarked how “people of violence” have a tendency to “navigate towards their ‘true north’” at the end of the day.

“What I mean by that is, let's take a special forces team operating behind enemy lines: if they're compromised, they try to go home, they try to escape and evade towards the friendly lines,” he explained. “ISIS has loyalty to their perverted version of religion, God. Their ‘true north’ is to become martyrs, to navigate home to heaven.”
Scott Ritter: Evidence points to Ukraine and the CIA in Moscow terror attack.
“If this was something planned by Ukraine, then it means it was something planned by Ukraine under the direction of the CIA to carry out an American policy objective, which seeks the strategic defeat… pic.twitter.com/k5kJ0SdHsM (https://t.co/k5kJ0SdHsM)
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 23, 2024 (https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1771537786195091477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)“But that's not what these terrorists did,” he continued. “Their true north was Ukraine, and they were navigating toward Ukraine. And that's all we need to know about this. This was an attack that was linked to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Who was behind this attack? Who are the masterminds? The Russian security services will find out. But whoever they are, they reside in Ukraine.”

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Scott Ritter: Evidence points to Ukraine and the CIA in Moscow terror attack

“If this was something planned by Ukraine, then it means it was something planned by Ukraine under the direction of the CIA to carry out an American policy objective, which seeks the strategic defeat of Russia,” the former US Marines intelligence officer said in a video comment for Sputnik.

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🇷🇺 The authorities of the Chechen Republic urge Russians not to follow the lead of their enemies and not to stir up hatred towards Tajiks

The Minister of National Policy of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, addressed his fellow citizens to remind them of the real goals of escalating ethnic hatred on the part of Russia’s external opponents.

In particular, Dudayev recalled that “terrorists have no nationality” and called not to threaten Tajiks online and “not to write: they say it’s time to send Tajiks to your home.”

“Tajiks are at home here. At least hundreds of thousands of Tajiks who have lived in our country for centuries,” the minister said.

In addition, he remembered the convicted Nikita Zhuravel, who received a sentence for burning the Koran. The minister said that Zhuravel published photographs from Orthodox churches in order to pit two religions against each other after his crime.

“On the surface there was an attempt to set a representative of one faith against a representative of another. We've been through it all. Therefore, I warn you once again: we should not contribute to the creation of nationalist sentiments.”

“Therefore, now we should not follow the lead of the Satanists. This is their trick, the ultimate goal is to undermine interethnic peace, stability, harmony on the territory of our country,” he clarified.

📢 Such tragedies should unite our society, and not divide and play off for the sake of a common enemy. - Ostashko reports

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Victoria Nuland: Farewell to the queen of US foreign policy disasters

Sometimes, major policy changes are anticipated and even symbolised by mere bureaucratic decisions.

This could certainly be the case for the US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, who recently announced her retirement after three and a half decades serving as a senior US foreign policy official under ten different secretaries of state. She has probably decided to leave what appears more and more like a sinking ship.

The decision, which has been accompanied by scant coverage in western mainstream media, incontrovertibly signals the abject failures of the Biden administration’s policies, especially in Ukraine and the Middle East.

The first was supposed to isolate and sanction Russia and bring it to its knees, hopefully triggering a regime change in Moscow.

The second was the unwavering support extended to Israel to reaffirm a Pax Americana in the region through the Abraham Accords, crowned by a deal with Saudi Arabia, and to silently sweep the Palestinian question under the rug.

Two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, Kyiv, short of funding and weapons, seems to have no capability left to affect the war's trajectory.

Sanctions against Russia backfired spectacularly, creating massive problems for Europe’s industrial competitiveness. Ultimately, Moscow has been isolated only by the western countries, while its political and trade relations with the rest of the world are unaffected. On the contrary, they are growing, as is its economy.

In the Middle East, notwithstanding Washington's massive support to Israel in its war in Gaza - for which the US is borderline complicit in a genocide - the Netanyahu government is blatantly ignoring the Biden administration’s pleas to restrain its military offensive and to allow humanitarian aid to a starved Palestinian population.

A ceasefire, or a humanitarian truce, remains elusive, as does a deal for the dual release of the Israeli hostages and the Palestinian prisoners. Finally, an Israeli-Saudi deal seems more distant than before.

Confrontational policies

In the pantheon of US power, the US undersecretary of state for political affairs is the third-ranking member of the US State Department, after the secretary and their deputy. Nevertheless, it is the real engine of US foreign policy.

Nuland has not been just a high-level US diplomat, she has been the spearhead, the golden girl of the US warmongering neoconservative and liberal interventionist movements, which in barely two decades have given humanity the Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine and Palestinian disasters.

In such a desolate landscape, then, if any face should be associated with the last decade's US policy on Russia and, particularly, with the critical file of Ukraine, it is Nuland’s.

Her career, in which she held top positions within the US foreign service, witnessed the progressive deterioration of US-Russian relations and also US-China relations, to the point where the risks of military confrontation in Europe and East Asia haven't been as high since the most hectic days of the Cold War.

Nuland married Robert Kagan, one of the key founders of the neoconservative think tank Project for a New American Century, which strongly advocated aggressive US military intervention around the world. Nuland shared Kagan's views on Russia, and pursued an obsessive anti-Russian policy, becoming one of the most vocal advocates of the fateful Nato’s eastwards expansion.

In fact, so relentlessly has she pursued them, that she has now helped create an increased risk of a major global conflict that could affect three strategic theatres at the same time: Europe, the Middle East and East Asia.

It is a rare thing, even in the glorious annals of US diplomacy, to have had an official combine Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia to produce so much damage.

From 1993 to 1996, Nuland was chief of staff to US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, the architect of the Clinton’s administration policy on Russia. The 1990s were the happy years of the US-Russia relationship, at least from the American standpoint.

Russia's then President Boris Yeltsin was much loved by the US foreign policy establishment because he was weak and ready to execute all the “instructions” coming from Washington. Among them, the disastrous economic shock therapies, including fake privatisations, which created a class of oligarchs that seized control of the country's resources and accumulated immense fortunes that were syphoned out of the country.

But these were not good years for the general Russian population, whose level of poverty plunged to Stalin-era levels. These were the years that slowly created the conditions for Vladimir Putin’s rise to power.

Under Yeltsin, Russia was not only keen to adopt US-prescribed economic remedies but also to tolerate acts blatantly detrimental to its historical interests, such as the Nato-led war which broke Kosovo from Serbia in 1999.

Foreign policy blunders

In the George W Bush administration, Nuland served on the foreign policy staff of Vice President Dick Cheney. History can tell us how much damage US foreign policy caused at that time, starting with the Iraq disaster.

From 2005 to 2008, Nuland was the US ambassador to Nato. At the infamous Nato summit in Bucharest in April 2008, she pressed allies to grant membership action plans to Ukraine and Georgia.

When the German and French governments refused, she was involved in the blunder in which Nato promised that Ukraine and Georgia would one day be admitted.

Later, in the first Obama administration, she was spokesperson for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and present at the creation of two further disasters: the regime change war in Libya, which turned the country into a failed state, and the unrealistic “Assad must go policy”, which helped transform a peaceful uprising in Syria into a brutal civil war, creating one of the worst humanitarian disasters of the 21st century.

However, her most important accomplishment, for which she deserves an imaginary academy award for foreign policy blunders, was her handling of the Ukrainian file in her capacity as assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs under the second Obama administration.

There, she organised the “Maidan coup”, according to the Russian narrative, where she brilliantly succeeded in bringing Ukraine under the western political umbrella and ousting Ukraine's legitimately elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. This overturned a previously agreed political deal brokered by European powers to avoid Ukraine descending into chaos. Famously, in a leaked call to the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, she said "**** the EU" at the time.

Bloody and tense years followed, especially in the Donbas region, where fighting broke out between the new US-backed regime in Kyiv and pro-Russian forces in the east, and the relationship between Russia and the West deteriorated after the former, as a reaction, seized control of Crimea.

Moral bankruptcy

Three years later, what Nuland leaves behind is nothing short of disastrous.

She has accomplished an increased risk of a major global conflict that could affect three strategic theatres at the same time: Europe, the Middle East and East Asia.

US moral standing has been severely injured, and, in the best case, the global rest are indifferent to US pleas and narratives.

Western democracies are also facing moral bankruptcy in the rubble of Gaza while the International Court of Justice has accepted to inquire if Israel, whose right to self-defence has been uncritically supported for too long by the West, is committing a genocide.

The only words of common sense are coming from Pope Francis who, in the case of Ukraine, has urged the international community to recognise how desperate the situation is and to consider peace negotiations to spare further casualties; even the pope was not spared shameful attacks on him from those distorting his words.

In the Middle East, the picture is similarly gloomy. Like the Ukraine situation, the conflict in Gaza is reaching a stalemate, while the risk of escalation remains high, especially with a potential major conflict looming along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Meanwhile, US leverage over Israel has zeroed, and the Biden administration blindly perseveres in preaching its narratives of good and bad.

Last year, when Wendy Sherman stepped back as US deputy secretary of state, Nuland was nominated as acting deputy secretary of state. Nuland was close to being crowned and it would have been the coronation of her career.

But in what was probably one of its smartest decisions, the Biden administration picked the National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, Kurt Campbell, for the job. Campbell had been the architect of another failed policy, Hillary Clinton’s pivot to Asia.

Let’s at least hope that Campbell does not turn China into what Russia was for Nuland.

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Full Address Of Russian President Viladimir Putin To Russians In Connection To The Terrorist Attacks In Moscow.
ISIS/ISIL = CIA/MI6 has claimed responsibility for Moscow terrorist attack.

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Wikipedia quote: "2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Reports of Azhievs decision to join the fight against Russia in Ukraine first appeared in March 2022[14] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Azhiev#cite_note-14) and were confirmed in October, when the prime minister of the government-in-exile of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechen_Republic_of_Ichkeria), Akhmed Zakayev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhmed_Zakayev), appointed him as deputy commander-in-chief of the armed Ichkerian forces.[15] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Azhiev#cite_note-15)[16] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Azhiev#cite_note-16) Footage of Azhiev fighting on the front lines in the Battle of Bakhmut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bakhmut) appeared in January 2023.[17] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Azhiev#cite_note-17)


Chechen Leader Spotted in Bakhmut, Fighting Against Russia

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Ajnad al-Kavkaz leader Abdul Hakim al-Shishani pictured in Bakhmut, Ukraine where he reportedly traveled with 70 fighters from Idlib Governorate, Syria to fight against Russia.


source (https://theatlasnews.co/conflict/2023/01/09/chechen-leader-spotted-in-bakhmut-fighting-against-russia/)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Azhiev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam_Azhiev)

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🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Defense Top News

▫️Vladimir Putin addressed to the citizens of Russia on the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces have liberated Krasnoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and improved tactical situation on the front line.

▫In Avdeyevka direction, the enemy has lost up to 350 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, and five motor vehicles.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of the AFU in 149 areas.

▫️The Russian Ministry of Defense shows Su-25 ground-attack aircraft, Msta-B howitzers, Uragan MLRS crews, Verba MANPADS and Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile systems, artillery spotters, S-60 anti-aircraft systems, Tor-MU air defense systems, and servicemen of the 42nd Guards Division in action within the special military operation, as well as footage of Spodaryushino (Belgorod region) liberated by the Russian troops.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺❗️Several air targets were also shot down in Sevastopol, a child was injured, Governor Razvozhaev said

According to information from the Sevastopol Rescue Service, at the moment a message has been recorded that in the area of ​​the street. In Shcherbak, the child received a shrapnel wound, said city governor Mikhail Razvozhaev.

The smoke in the area of ​​Sevastopol and Southern bays is the military using standard means of camouflage.

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Twenty-eight bodies were found in a restroom at Crocus City Hall, with another fourteen discovered on an evacuation staircase.

Sources indicate that families have been laying together, some in final embraces. Numerous mothers were found embracing their children and shielding the kids with their bodies.

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Terror Network Destroyed,
Big Ukr Defeat ivanivske Falls


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As a Swede living in Stockholm Sweden, joining NATO was not a majority choise of the people in this country.

Bad guys like Tobias Billström are NeoCons not supported by more than 10% of the population here in Sweden.

If I had to have a say in this debate about joing NATO, I would have said NO!


To me the NATO of today, is like a hollow shell of hate driven by money war mongering and idiots.

Somehow Tobias Billström probably have been bought by the non mentionible 3 letter organisation from USA.


Thats my theory at least



Yes, exactly.

Our countries are seized by a minority of incredibly violent individuals. It's nothing new, it just gets posted immediately instead of some diffuse Eugenics program worming its way through the halls of academia. Again, this mainly comes from Oxford, Cambridge, and the US Ivy League, heartily picked up and implemented by Germany and Sweden in particular. We are pretty sure that Nazi ethnic cleansing is still what we are witnessing today.

Yesterday's event is an example of Mazzinism, which is to co-opt any normal sort of reform or revolutionary movement, and work on the principle of random acts of violence for money.

That's why I would say a lot of it is not really "planned", or "timed", because it is just an advertisement for something spontaneous against anyone; untargeted.

Of course, the source of funds may be "timing" their pulse after, say, some cryptic US announcements and the removal of Vi-cto-ria Nu-land, but it is easily believable the money was for "something", because such schemes have already been uncovered in Ukraine.

Sure, some similar events like perhaps Kristallnacht are planned to develop a particular strategy, but this could easily have been a spur-of-the-moment plan by the perpetrators. At least the FSB deals with real danger and prevents some amount of it; the American DHS has not done anything that I am aware of, except be exposed for failing to report the minor DC incident of damage inflicted by Americans.

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 In the West they fear that Vladimir Putin will place all the blame for the terrorist attack in Crocus on Ukraine

Mr. Putin said in a five-minute televised address that someone in Ukraine tried to help the attackers escape across the border from Russia before they were detained by Russian security services, New York Times columnist Anton Troyanovsky commented on the Russian leader's address today.

The material says that in this way Putin laid the foundation for accusing Ukraine of a terrorist attack.

📢 For some reason there was no place in the article for such circumstances as the detention of suspected terrorists on the way to Ukraine in the Bryansk region, as well as past terrorist attacks organized by the State Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine in Russia (the murder of Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky).

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