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Ravenlocke

23rd March 2024, 21:49

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/23/moscow-concert-hall-attack-why-is-isil-targeting

Moscow concert hall attack: Why is ISIL targeting Russia?

Deadly attack in Moscow claimed by ISIL affiliate leaves more than 133 people dead and approximately 100 injured.

More than 133 people have been killed and more than 100 others were injured following a brazen attack on concertgoers at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall before a performance by a Soviet-era rock band on Friday.

Assailants dressed in camouflage uniforms opened fire and reportedly threw explosive devices inside the concert venue, which was left in flames with its roof collapsing after the deadly attack.

Eleven people had been detained, including four people directly involved in the armed assault, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported on Saturday.

ISIL’s Afghan branch – also known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K) – has claimed responsibility for the attack and United States officials have confirmed the authenticity of that claim, according to the Reuters news agency.

Here is what we know about the group and their possible motive for the Moscow attack.

ISIL’s Afghanistan branch

The group remains one of the most active affiliates of ISIL and takes its title from an ancient caliphate in the region that once encompassed areas of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan.

The group emerged from eastern Afghanistan in late 2014 and was made up of breakaway fighters of the Pakistan Taliban and local fighters who pledged allegiance to the late ISIL leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The group has since established a fearsome reputation for acts of brutality.

Murat Aslan, a military analyst and former Turkish army colonel, said ISIL’s Afghanistan affiliate is known for its “radical and tough methodologies”.

“I think their ideology inspires them in terms of selecting targets. First of all, Russia is in Syria and fighting against Daesh [ISIL] like the United States. That means they see such countries as hostile,” Aslan told Al Jazeera.

“They are now in Moscow. Previously they were in Iran, and we will see much more attacks, maybe in other capitals,” he added.

Though its membership in Afghanistan is said to have declined since a peak in about 2018, its fighters still pose one of the greatest threats to the Taliban’s authority in Afghanistan.

Previous attacks by the group

ISKP fighters claimed responsibility for the 2021 attacks outside Kabul airport that left at least 175 civilians dead, killed 13 US soldiers, and many dozens injured.

The ISIL affiliate was previously blamed for carrying out a bloody attack on a maternity ward in Kabul in May 2020 that killed 24 people, including women and infants. In November that same year, the group carried out an attack on Kabul University, killing at least 22 teachers and students.

In September 2022, the group took responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at the Russian embassy in Kabul.

Last year, Iran blamed the group for two separate attacks on a major shrine in southern Shiraz – the Shah Cheragh – which killed at least 14 people and injured more than 40.

The US claimed that it intercepted communications confirming that the group was preparing to carry out attacks before coordinated suicide bombings in Iran in January this year killed nearly 100 people in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman. ISKP claimed responsibility for the Kerman attacks.

Why is ISIL attacking Russia?

Defence and security analysts say the group has targeted its propaganda at Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years over the alleged oppression of Muslims by Russia.

“Russian foreign policy has been one big red flag for ISIS [ISIL],” Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Washington-based Wilson Center told Al Jazeera. “The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Russian actions in Chechnya, Moscow’s close relationships with the Syrian and Iranian governments, and especially the military campaigns that Russia has waged against ISIS fighters in Syria and — through Wagner Group mercenaries – in parts of Africa.”

All of that has meant that Moscow has become a focus of ISKP’s “extensive propaganda war,” said Amira Jadoon, assistant professor at Clemson University in South Carolina and co-author of, The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strategic Alliances and Rivalries.

“Russia’s engagement in the global fight against ISIS and its affiliates, especially through its military operations in Syria and its efforts to establish connections with the Afghan Taliban – ISIS-K’s rival – marks Russia as a key adversary for ISIS/ISIS-K,” Jadoon told Al Jazeera.

Should the Moscow attack be “definitely attributed” to ISKP, Jadoon said, the group hopes to win support and advance “its goal to evolve into a terrorist organisation with global influence” by demonstrating that it can launch attacks within Russian territory.

“ISK [ISKP] has consistently demonstrated its ambition to evolve into a formidable regional entity … By directing its aggression towards nations such as Iran and Russia, ISK not only confronts regional heavyweights but also underscores its political relevance and operational reach on the global stage,” Jadoon said.

Kabir Taneja, a fellow at the Strategic Studies Programme of the Observer Research Foundation – a think tank based in New Delhi, India – told Al Jazeera that Russia is seen by ISIL and its affiliates as “a crusading power against Muslims”.

“Russia has been a target for ISIS and not just ISKP from the beginning,” Taneja, author of the book, The ISIS Peril, said.

“ISKP attacked [the] Russian embassy in Kabul in 2022, and over the months, Russian security agencies have upped their efforts to clamp down on pro-ISIS ecosystems both in Russia and around its borders, specifically Central Asia and the Caucusus,” he said.

In early March, Russia’s Federal Security Service, better known as the FSB, said it had thwarted an ISIL plan to attack a Moscow synagogue.

“The most compelling current motivation for ISIS-K to attack Russia is the Taliban factor. The Taliban is a bitter rival of ISIS, and ISIS views Russia as a friend of the Taliban,” said Kugelman.

Moscow’s close relations with Israel are also anathema to ISIL’s ideology, Taneja said.

“So this friction is not new ideologically, but is so tactically,” he told Al Jazeera.

There’s another factor, too: Largely away from the world’s attention, the armed group has regrouped into a formidable force after setbacks in Syria and Iran.

“ISKP in Afghanistan has grown in strength significantly … and it’s not just ISKP, ISIS in its original regions of operations, Syria and Iraq, also sees [an] uptick in operational capabilities,” Taneja said. Today, he added, it is “ideologically powerful even if not politically, tactically or strategically … that powerful any more”.

That poses a challenge for a distracted world, he said.

“How to combat this is the big question at a time when big power competition and global geopolitical churn has put counterterrorism on the back burner,” Taneja added.

How has ISIL responded?

ISKP social media channels are “jubilant” following the attack on Moscow, said Abdul Basit, a senior associate fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.

“They are celebrating the attack,” Basit told Al Jazeera, adding that supporters are “translating and recirculating the responsibility claim” issued by the ISIL-linked Amaq News Agency.

Basit said that ISIL’s method of operations involves amplifying a propaganda campaign in advance of large-scale attacks and this had been observed in recent anti-Russian messaging. Such attacks “add to the credibility” of armed groups, Basit explained, which then “increases the scope of their funding, recruitment and propaganda”.

More attacks are possible in Russia and elsewhere, he added, given the key role that ISIL recruits of Central Asian origin – particularly Tajiks – played when the group held territory in Syria. They have now returned to the Central Asia region and their intent to carry out attacks has now materialised in capability, Basit said.

Previous attacks in Russia

Moscow and other Russian cities have been the targets of previous attacks.

In 2002, Chechen fighters took more than 900 people hostage in a Moscow theatre, the Dubrovka, demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya and an end to Russia’s war on the region.

Russian special forces attacked the theatre to end the standoff and 130 people were killed, most suffocated by a gas used by security forces to leave the Chechen fighters unconscious.

The deadliest attack in Russia was the 2004 Beslan school siege which was carried out by members of a Chechen armed group seeking Chechnya’s independence from Russia. The siege killed 334 people, including 186 children.

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Ravenlocke

23rd March 2024, 21:54

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ExomatrixTV

23rd March 2024, 21:57

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23rd March 2024, 22:07

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Ravenlocke

23rd March 2024, 22:14

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Jaak

23rd March 2024, 22:24

¨The moment one of the tеrrоrists was captured¨
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¨Footage of the Moscow attack from the shooter’s phone¨
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Bill Ryan

23rd March 2024, 22:49

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1771566048178852131

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My FULL INTERVIEW with Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova before the horrific TERROR ATTACK in Russia.

"The West has no limits in supporting TERRORIST ATTACKS committed by Zelensky against civilians." pic.twitter.com/NLK7jHn7Pp (https://t.co/NLK7jHn7Pp)— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) March 23, 2024
(https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1771566048178852131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)~~~

For those who appreciate Maria Zakharova as I do, this is a real solid-gold treat. It's had over 420,000 views in 7 hours.

Maria is passionate, expressive, VERY articulate in excellent English, and totally dominates the entire thing. (Poor Jackson barely gets a word in. :))

One of my takeaways from the hour-long interview (though it's really more of a one-woman presentation by Maria) was when at about 8:00, in response to a question about whether there was any racism and class division in Russia, she explains simply:
"We never had slavery in our country."
Let that sink in. Of course, thinking about it for a moment, we all know that's true. But it hit me like a lightning bolt. I'd never actually considered that before.

Michel Leclerc

23rd March 2024, 22:59

(...)

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 (...)

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.

(...)

Thank you Shaberon.

Excellent ideas. Imitating, in a way, at a smaller fractal level, the randomness and seeming chaos of contradictory sub-policies pursued by our Deep State Terminators.

A logic which smells of Artificial Intelligence. Decision becoming a “sum over probabilities”.

bojancan

23rd March 2024, 23:36

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Hm... when I am watching this video of shooting... sense to me, that they are not so much like a real professionals... solders... just average guys bought to kill... big tragedy... or mind controlled?

Jaak

23rd March 2024, 23:46

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1771566048178852131

One of my takeaways from the hour-long interview (though it's really more of a one-woman presentation by Maria) was when at about 8:00, in response to a question about whether there was any racism and class division in Russia, she explains simply:
"We never had slavery in our country."
Let that sink in. Of course, thinking about it for a moment, we all know that's true. But it hit me like a lightning bolt. I'd never actually considered that before.

Russia was built by slaves (gulag).Most of Siberia was colonized with slave labor.Who digged the White sea-Baltic canal or built Trans-Siberian railway ? Free people ? More than 100 000 people were slaved to death by jewish overlords Berman,Kogan,Frenkel,Yagoda etc at the canal alone ...
Anybody who disagrees should read the works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Russia also had serfdom for long time which is another kind of slavery.
Also my people(Estonians) were slaves for russia for quite some time ...

Bill Ryan

24th March 2024, 00:00

Bill Ryan

24th March 2024, 00:13

14 (fourteen) Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers are now in the air. We'll know in a few hours what the damage will be.

ExomatrixTV

24th March 2024, 00:14

'Death Awaits Them': Russia Reveals Number Of Troops France Could Deploy In Ukraine:

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Russian intelligence has claimed that a French contingent to be sent to Ukraine is already being prepared by France and initially, it will include around 2,000 troops. The Russian intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin said the French military fears that such a large military unit cannot be transferred and stationed in Ukraine unnoticed and warned Paris of death and destruction in case its troops enter into a war with Russian soldiers.

ExomatrixTV

24th March 2024, 00:29

HILARIOUS: Russian Politician Spanks French 🇫🇷 Journalist in TV Interview:

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NATO is not a defensive alliance. They illegally bombed Yugoslavia (direct violation of the UN Charter). We must never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc.

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 00:40

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🔞‼️ Shocking footage from Crocus, filmed by the terrorists themselves - before being detained they managed to "boast" of their heinous act to the ISIS news outlet‼️

A horrible video shot by the militants themselves has emerged - they mercilessly mock the already dead people. 👇

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Jaak

24th March 2024, 00:42

Russia wasnt importing slaves ? Tens of thousands from my country alone were deported/imported to siberia to be used as slaves.And yeah,camp commandants often acted as overlords and did whatever they pleased with their subjects.Slaves in ancient times were often treated better than gulag prisoners in soviet union.
And yes,ethnicity did play apart. Blond and blue eyed people were the first ones who got sent to massgraves by jewish bolsheviks.Also Stalin wanted to cleanse whole Estonia because they are not slavic but he died before he managed to finish it. Dozens of smaller cultures got pretty much wiped out because they were not slavs like Moksha,Mari,Ingerians,Karelians etc ..
Millions of Germans were imported to soviet union after WW2 to be used as slaves .16 million Germans got replaced after WW2,many of them ended up in soviet camps.
The whole soviet union was tiny minority ruling over slave majority. Lenin had like 9 or more Rolls Royces and he didnt use them to drive workers to factory.Plus 100+ million is swiss bank.All the top communist party lived like aristocrats and had servants while regular people had no freedom of choice much about anything.As long as you work where you are told and as much as told then you wont be sent to gulag where they make you work even more and wont feed you enough...
We can agree to disagree but i do suggest to read in case if you havent Varlam Shalamov´s ¨Kolyma tales¨ or Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn .First one can be found in pdf formation and second one can be found on youtube as an excellent audiobook.
I was born in soviet union and have researched this topic for years...

ExomatrixTV

24th March 2024, 01:12

14 (fourteen) Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers are now in the air. We'll know in a few hours what the damage will be.

Tu-95 Why this Tupolev Nuclear Bomber from the 1950s is still in Service today?

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SilentFeathers

24th March 2024, 01:28

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 01:56

14 (fourteen) Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers are now in the air. We'll know in a few hours what the damage will be.

Is this for sure?
If so, this will probably be just the first wave of retaliation.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🚨‼️ BREAKING: Strategic missile carriers launched.

The AFU has issued a warning regarding the launch of cruise missiles from Tu-95MS strategic bomber aircraft, advising citizens not to disregard air raid sirens and to seek shelter immediately.

The missiles are anticipated to reach Ukrainian territory between 5:40 and 6:00. Additionally, there are ongoing UAV raids, including the use of "Geran/Shahed" drones, with the Nikopol, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions being highlighted as areas under threat from these strike UAVs.

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shaberon

24th March 2024, 05:41

In the days of US slavery, an entire race defined by the color of their skin — ALL of them, every one — was (a) imported, (b) bred, and then (c) imprisoned and forced to work physically for their individual, superior, masters and OWNERS.

That never happened In Russia.

To roll it back, "that" wasn't American. Slavery systems were used in all colonies, the most severe being the Portuguese and the greatest number of African captives taken to Brazil. It was like a parasitism attached to African slavery, which still goes on today. And of course there are plenty of intra-European examples.

Russia got rid of "serfdom" relatively early, and gulag slavery is permissible. According to current U. S. law, slavery is still legal in prison. Russia has no parallel example of colonialism.

American railroads have the example of Atlanta (slave), or, the Great West, which was built by Chinese "indentured servitude" consisting of a pay of fifty cents for some very harsh conditions.

Russia is devoid of the international slave system as it is of Zio-Catholic disputes as characterize European history.

Problems it may have are unlike the socially-engineered flavor we experience in other places.

shaberon

24th March 2024, 05:53

Russia wasnt importing slaves ?

We are distinguishing "Russia" from the Bolshevik and Soviet systems.

Reason being like this. The American Revolution was not anti-monarchist; there was about a 1/3 who would have supported George Washington as King.

Bolshevism and similar platforms are strictly anti-monarchial, i. e., as in removal of the Tsars. "Destroy Kings" is more like a motto of Mazzinism.

With them being gone, there effectively was no "Russia" until the early 21st century.

A huge part of the rationale is because all that represents foreign interference.

shaberon

24th March 2024, 06:24

We've got questions (https://southfront.press/captured-terrorists-are-giving-first-testimony-in-russia-videos-18/):

At least two terrorists faced with the ‘traditional methods’ of preliminary interrogation. One was forced to eat his ear, the other lost his eyelid.

The story is not the story (https://southfront.press/masterminds-behind-moscow-terrorist-attack-used-isis-as-false-flag-to-hide-trace/):

The statement was very general and didn’t provide any details about the attack or the terrorists involved. Amaq released a follow up statement on March 23, along with a blurred photo of the terrorists in front of a makeshift ISIS flag.

Aside from the attached photo, there was no information about the terrorists. ISIS didn’t mention their nationality, names or even their nom nom de guerre, which is very unusual.

ISIS failure to name the terrorists or at least mention their nom de guerre raises suspicion of how much the group really knew about the attack or its real perpetrators.

What further added to the suspicions was the initial confessions of the detained terrorists, who didn’t mention ISIS but talked about receiving money -half a million Russian rubles [$5,418]- and instruction for the attack from unknown handlers over the internet.

The initial confessions as well as the fact that the terrorists didn’t commit suicide after the attack or at least fight until death to resist arrest, as typical for jihadists, indicate that they were not really ideologically motivated, but rather radical mercenaries.

The location where the terrorists were apprehended provided the first hint of who may really be behind the attack in Moscow.

The four terrorists were clearly planning to cross into Ukraine.

Just two weeks before the attack, the U.S. embassy in Moscow called on American citizens in Russia to avoid gatherings without providing a reason.

According to the leaked information, the four terrorists were recruited for the attack by a Tajaki named Salmon Khurasani, who has links to both the CIA and ISIS’ wing in central Asia that is known as the Islamic State – Khorasan Province or ISIS-K. While ISIS didn’t mention that the attack was carried out by its Khorasan wing, initial reports in the Western mainstream media blamed the attack specifically on ISIS-K.

Remember first American response:

Ukraine didn't do it.

Secondly:

Spam Russian-language accusations of ISIS

Another gunman was battered unconscious (https://southfront.press/russian-heroes-attacked-terrorists-with-bare-hands-in-crocus-city-hall/) at the scene.

I would say it is pretty inert for signs of a serious paramilitary event.

More like Antifa.

Rizotto

24th March 2024, 08:01

Opening the link provided by Shaberon above, one sees a long March 23, 2024 South Front article entitled "CAPTURED TERRORISTS ARE GIVING FIRST TESTIMONY IN RUSSIA.
Copying below a particularly interesting portion of that article, near the end:

https://southfront.press/captured-terrorists-are-giving-first-testimony-in-russia-videos-18/

Excerpt:

"Back in October, 2023, a diplomatic scandal broke out in Tajikistan, while the Ukrainian ambassador Valery Evdokimov, ex-chairman of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence, was recruiting mercenaries to the Ukrainian foreign legion. Kiev reportedly ordered to recruit several hundred militants. Any information about the ambassador on the department’s website has been deleted.

A few weeks before the terrorist attack in Moscow, the Embassy officially published an appeal for the hiring of assassins to the alleged Kiev’s Foreign Legion on the page of the Ukrainian Embassy in Tajikistan. Now after the terrorist attack has been completed, the request to search for the killers has been deleted, but the screenshots remain on the social networks."

It would be interesting to see these screenshots, which would be damning evidence that Ukraine was involved in this terrorist attack. Overall, this deadly terrorist attack has so many instances of sloppiness, especially the fact that the killers tried to escape to Ukraine at a time when the whole Russian border region has been on high alert for months. How could these killers think they could escape notice? Their handlers really wanted them to be caught!

But also the fact that the Ukrainian embassy in Tajikistan was advertising in recent weeks hiring "assassins to the alleged Kiev’s Foreign Legion", that's mind-boggling. Leaving gross fingerprints like this all over the place, it's as if the Kiev regime is half-heartedly propping up the ISIS claim of organizing the attack, while the Kiev regime really wants the world to know that they (the Ukrainians) are in fact behind this attack.

Merkaba360

24th March 2024, 08:21

What would be the purpose for ukraine or NATO to plan such an event. How would killing 100 non-soldiers impact the war and benefit the Ukraine/NATO?

A plan to escalate the war and try to break both Russia and NATO financially and to further erode the image of the west, thus collapsing American hegemony faster (shift to BRICS and other)?

Russia has a serious problem of decreasing population with birth rates and their young men dying. Their country is huge. Can nukes keep china from taking eastern russia if it was 1.3 billion chinese with even more money and power in the future vs. 100 million russians (Was 145 million, but pop shrinking due to low birth rates and war deaths and more russians becoming expats).

Or do i got it wrong and the US border invasion (and the war spending and possibly this attack) isn't to destroy America, but to pump up its population, labor force, soldier cannon fodder force, while russia, china, refuse immigration and suffer the consequences of no more growth.

From the evidence we know so far, is there any chance that the terrorists were sent by some group of people in ukraine who have suffered huge death and just wanted to get some kind of revenge. I'm not following it close enough to know, and i guess its still too early to sort out much.

I believe the attack was for 18 minutes? How did they go on for 18 min and escape without military or police being there to stop them? CIA ain't stupid. They wouldn't assume these 4 clowns who are dumb enough to do this for $5,000 in Russia are gonna succeed and easily make it back to Ukraine without Russia figuring out intel on who was behind it. Seems they figured they'd die or get captured, at least 1 of them.

Merkaba360

24th March 2024, 08:36

One more thing that I don't think was mentioned yet. Skull and bones 322. Death. Easter is also calculated off of the spring equinox i believe which is 3/22. Resurrection ritual for this attack in moscow? Look for symbolism around the attackers or place.

Hang on to your seats. Many psychics and mediums saying big things coming, probably by april/may. Jupiter/Uranus conjunction April 20th i think (but in orb already or very soon), Eclipses march 25 and april 8th.
The conjunction is in Taurus (land = farmers protest)?

The more serious things get, the more heroes come out and expose what they know or have.

So, could be a series events escalating everything.

Bruce G Charlton

24th March 2024, 09:12

My thanks to all the Avalon stalwarts who have kept us so well-informed, in such a timely manner, over the past couple of vital days since the Crocus terror attack.

Your work is greatly appreciated - and, for me, irreplaceable.

chrifri

24th March 2024, 09:51

Jaak
Replying to your post 13765:
I certainly can understand your reasoning, and more so because you were born in the Soviet Union and because you grew up in a country that, as you describe well, has suffered under the policies of some of the rulers of the Soviet Union such as Stalin and Lenin. However, I truly believe that it is important to make a distinction between Russia of today and the Soviet Union of the past.

grapevine

24th March 2024, 11:35

Bill Ryan

24th March 2024, 11:50

I haven't been able to find how long it took Russian Military to arrive at the scene. Here in London, response times are very quick these days but of course Russia is so much bigger.
It's been astutely pointed out by several analysts that the target venue was carefully chosen to be some distance from the center of Moscow, also at a time when road traffic would have been high (Friday evening) making it hard for emergency services to reach the scene quickly.

Bill Ryan

24th March 2024, 12:05

From Larry Johnson on his blog, asking all the right questions.

The comments are also well worth reading. One points out:
The look on Putin’s face today is downright telling. Scary, in fact. His tolerance for all this is gone.
That's true. He was inwardly seething with rage, but careful (as always) to maintain his controlled demeanor in public. I've said this before, and been wrong, but now the gloves may really come off.

https://sonar21.com/moscow-terror-attack-rogue-ukrainian-op-or-western-backed

Moscow Terror Attack — Rogue Ukrainian Op or Western Backed?

Lots to cover with respect to Friday’s mercenary terrorist attack in Moscow. Why do I call it “mercenary”? Because it appears that the perps had no ideological axe to grind and were hired for a relatively paltry sum and carried out indiscriminate killing at a public gathering of civilians.

Based on the video evidence released so far in the public domain the planning for this op was not the work of skilled professionals — e.g., they used the same vehicle to travel to and from the attack site, their movements inside the building demonstrated unsophisticated Close Quarter Battle skills and they had poor muzzle discipline, which means they had minimal rifle training.

The Russians got a jump on the investigation because one of the concert goers coldcocked one of the shooters, and the shooter was captured alive. The Russians also followed the escape vehicle and nabbed four of the suspects as they skedaddled for Ukraine.

The western media is doing its damnedest to push the storyline that this was an ISIS attack and dismiss the possibility that it could have been Ukraine. But the initial questioning of the suspects revealed men of limited intelligence — i.e., guys who are not too smart — who told a cock and bull story that they were recruited via a telegram channel by an anonymous source who offered to pay them the princely sum of $5000.

There also is no good explanation why a band of Tajiks were hightailing it for the Ukrainian border. At a minimum that shows a belief that they would find safehaven if they could get across the border. They certainly did not behave like diehard jihadist warriors eager to sacrifice themselves and go to Paradise and cash in the reward of 72 virgins.

I think the Islamic terrorism claim is a red herring and designed to shift attention away from the other indicators that some in the West, at a minimum, had foreknowledge of this attack. How else to explain the March 7 warning by US Embassy Moscow for American citizens to steer clear of event, such as concerts?

And then, as I wrote yesterday, the US State Department was quick to issue a claim exonerating Ukraine for any role in the attack. The fires were still raging at the Crocus facility. That means only one thing — the State Department had intelligence indicating who carried out the attack. But the U.S. apparently did not share that with its Russian counterparts. That lapse alone is simply going to stoke more suspicion in Moscow about Western involvement.

But we already know one thing for sure — that the West has been involved with facilitating a series of terrorist attacks against Russians since the start of the special military operation. What else do you call the artillery and missile strikes on Russian civilians in the Donbass,] and in Belgorod, with munitions that were supplied by the United States and other major NATO countries? At a minimum, that makes western powers an accessory to an act of terror.

Friday’s senseless slaughter of civilians in Moscow serves no broad, political purpose, nor does it advance Ukraine’s military prospects in anyway. It is important to note that the attack has rallied world sympathy for Russia, including some conciliatory comments out of Washington by National Security spokesman John Kirby.

However, it is also important to note the President Joe Biden has said nothing, and has made no contact with Vladimir Putin to express sorrow or empathy. Quite a contrast with Biden’s actions in the wake of the news that Alexey Navalny, a political opponent of Vladimir Putin, had died. Biden was quick to express his fake grief for the death of Navalny.

It appears that the growing death toll from the attack was not caused by bullets, but by smoke inhalation. I still have seen no report explaining how the fire got started. Some speculate that it was caused by a Molotov cocktail. I’m sure those details will be coming out in the next few days. It is also clear from President Putin’s demeanor during his speech today that Russia will retaliate against those responsible for this attack.

I do not think that this act of terrorism is going to change Russia’s military strategy and plans for Ukraine. News from the front shows that Russian forces are continuing to advance all along the front in the Donbass, and are pushing the Ukrainians back towards the Dnieper River. The position of the Ukrainian military is becoming more precarious with each passing day.

As far identifying those responsible for organizing and funding this attack, I have no special insight. I am confident that Russian investigators will be able to trace the origin of the firearms, assuming the serial numbers have not been erased. At this juncture, I am inclined to believe that the West knew something was going to happen based on intelligence out of Ukraine, but did not have specifics other than this was an operation approved by Ukraine’s intelligence service.

Is it possible that some British and/or American intelligence officers had an inkling of what was going to happen? Yes, I think that is highly likely. The one thing I know for certain is that this attack is going to strengthen the will of President Putin, the Russian general staff, and Russia’s intelligence service to put an end to NATO meddling in Ukraine, and the ability of NATO proxies to attack the Russian people. Whoever approved this badly miscalculated and will pay a terrible, but well deserved, price.

So what do you think? Western directed or rogue operation?

SilentFeathers

24th March 2024, 13:32

14 (fourteen) Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers are now in the air. We'll know in a few hours what the damage will be.

Is this for sure?
If so, this will probably be just the first wave of retaliation.

This is a very concerning development, but expected.

As Bojancan said in an earlier post, the attackers at Crocus City Hall didn't seem to be professional soldiers, and unintelligent not to realise they were on a suicide mission. But it has highlighted how vulnerable Russia is to isolated acts of terrorism, and no doubt there will be a huge tightening of security. I haven't been able to find how long it took Russian Military to arrive at the scene. Here in London, response times are very quick these days but of course Russia is so much bigger.

That the USA were so quick to claim Ukraine wasn't responsible is of course suspect. Is US intelligence/technology really better than Russia's or China's?

They surely seemed like amateurs, appearing to not even have a decent escape plan. Or they were abandoned during escape.

The US intelligence is probably better than Russia's, but they have been proven to be pathological liars when it comes to informing anyone of the truth. They are almost always inverted. If they say it wasn't Ukraine and was ISIS, it was likely Ukraine and wasn't ISIS. Plus, if they were actually ISIS they would of not ran and would of went down in a blaze of glory as martyrs.

norman

24th March 2024, 13:43

ISIS was/is a CIA/deep state creation and Putin will very well know that.

Saying ISIS did it is code for "WE did it Vlad, suck on that".

Akasha

24th March 2024, 16:05

ISIS was/is a CIA/deep state creation and Putin will very well know that.

Saying ISIS did it is code for "WE did it Vlad, suck on that".

Let's not forget Mossad in that little love triangle (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109046-Baghdadi-Killed-the-Real-Story&p=1321132&viewfull=1#post1321132).

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:14

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US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson: Ukraine is not involved in the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, the banned ISIS is to blame for everything.

‼️ If only they could deal with the assassination of their own president, Kennedy, so quickly. For more than 60 years, they have not been able to find out who killed him. Or maybe ISIS too? Or will they drag out the specifics for another 60 years, playing any "constructive uncertainty"?

‼️Or take the terrorist attack on Nord Stream? According to the United States (and The New York Times referred to the comments of officials), Ukrainians were involved. However, then the American authorities went to the bottom. So they are still rummaging around there in search of either Kiev or ISIS divers. Not a single word was uttered from Washington calling on Denmark and Sweden not to stop searching for the culprits, and Russia's proposal for an investigation under the auspices of the UN was blocked by the Anglo-Saxons in the Security Council.

All this suggests that over the decades, the political elites of the United States have become adept at skillfully diverting attention from high-profile crimes and all sorts of staging.

Therefore, until the investigation into the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall is completed, any phrase from Washington that justifies Kiev should be considered evidence. After all, the financing of the terrorist activities of the Kyiv organized crime group by American liberal Democrats and participation in the corruption schemes of the Biden family have been going on for many years.

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:22

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Bruce G Charlton

24th March 2024, 17:23

I suspect that the Crocus event has moved things towards another stage of chaotic destruction (as no doubt was intended by those ultimately responsible for it).

I don't know the reliability of this source, or the extent to which he reflects official policy - it is from https://www.rt.com/russia/594811-dmitry-trenin-nuclear-arsenal/ - describing what the author purports to be the Russian POV, post Crocus:

The adversary should not remain in a state of comfort, believing that the war he is waging with the help of another country will not affect him in any way. In other words, it is necessary to put fear back into the minds and hearts of the enemy’s leaders. The beneficial sort of fear, it’s worth stressing.

It must also be recognized that the limits of purely verbal intervention have been exhausted at this stage of the Ukrainian conflict. Channels of communication all the way to the top must remain open around the clock, but the most important messages at this stage must be sent through concrete steps: doctrinal changes; military exercises to test them; underwater and aerial patrols along the coasts of the likely enemy; warnings about preparations for nuclear tests and the tests themselves; the imposition of no-fly zones over part of the Black Sea, and so on. The point of these actions is not only to demonstrate determination and readiness to use available capabilities to protect Russia’s vital interests, but –most importantly– to bring the enemy to a halt and encourage it to engage in serious dialogue.

The escalation ladder does not end here. Military-technical steps can be followed by real acts, warnings of which have already been given: for example, attacks on air bases and supply centers on the territory of NATO countries, and so on.

The hopeful version of this strategy is that it will awaken the Western Powers (especially the US) to the realities of the situation. But any such acts by Russia will be spun by Western politics and media as utterly gratuitous, unprovoked and unjust - and the Western masses will probably believe it (not noticing the past two years of Russian restraint, just as the extreme military restraint of the early months of the SMO were unnoticed).

It is a Catch 22 - Russian restraint is interpreted as weakness, but Russian strength is interpreted as conquering intent. Either way, escalation and spread of the conflict proceeds.

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:39

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It is noteworthy that many of last night's strikes were were centred on Stryl.

14 kilometers from the Stryi military airfield there is the largest gas storage facility in Ukraine: the Bilche-Volitsko-Uherskoe underground gas storage facility.

It can store four times more natural gas inside than Germany's largest storage facility. The largest storage facility in Ukraine with a design capacity of 17.05 billion cubic meters. m can accommodate a significant part of the gas that could not be pumped into underground gas storage facilities in the EU. It is known that European countries have been using this facility on the territory of Ukraine for gas storage since August 2023.

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Vicus

24th March 2024, 17:43

Hero teen helps over 100 to safety during Moscow terrorist attack

Islam Khalilov, who worked part-time at Crocus City Hall, led panicked concertgoers to safety amid Friday’s shooting spree

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A teenager who led over 100 people to safety during Friday’s terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall, has been hailed as a hero. 15-year-old Islam Khalilov, who worked part-time in one of the cloakrooms at Crocus City, recounted the events of the tragic evening to Ruptly video agency.

The concert venue situated just outside of Moscow was packed ahead of a gig by the Russian rock band Picnic, when a group of terrorists armed with assault rifles forced their way into the building. They fired indiscriminately at fleeing people and then set the concert hall on fire.

According to the latest estimates, the attack has claimed the lives of at least 137 people, with about 180 injured.

Khalilov told the video agency that “it was when people started running from the escalator, from the stairway” that he realized that an emergency was occurring. The teenager said that he was acting on “instincts” at the time and used his thorough knowledge of the premises to quickly arrange visitors’ evacuation toward another building within the Crocus City complex.

“I started shouting all across the foyer, all across Crocus City Hall - ‘Folks, there’s a shooting! All run to the expo!’ – and I was showing where they had to go and was helping everyone,” he explained.

According to the cloakroom attendant, “there was a stampede, and everyone was in shock at first. No one knew what to do and where to go.”

Khalilov added that he himself was running behind the entire group to make sure he had not left anyone behind.

The teenager admitted to being “really scared” all along, but still managed to make the right use the instructions he’d previously been given on how to evacuate patrons in case of an emergency.

He told Ruptly that, at one point, he had caught a glimpse of one of the terrorists.

“I saw one, [he was] bearded and in green fatigues, he was walking around with an assault rifle,” the teenager recounted.

He also recalled seeing a man getting fatally shot by one of the assailants, adding that he “can’t stop thinking about it.”

The 15-year-old said he doesn’t consider himself a hero, and that he was just doing his job.

Explaining what helped him overcome fear, Khalilov reasoned that “It’s better to sacrifice yourself than to let a hundred people die.”

After Khalilov’s feat had been reported-on by several Russian media outlets, his favorite football club, FC Spartak Moscow, invited him for a get-together and gave him free passes to their matches.

Popular Russian rap artist Morgenstern said he had transferred 1,000,000 rubles ($11,000) to the teenager – something that Khalilov has confirmed to media.

The leader of Russian Muslims, Ravil Guynutdin, has announced that Khalilov would receive a special medal for his bravery.

https://swentr.site/russia/594831-teenager-saved-hundred-crocus-city-attack/

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:43

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Vicus

24th March 2024, 17:48

Ukraine fires barrage of missiles at Crimea – governor 23 Mar, 2024

Kiev’s troops have launched multiple projectiles at the city hosting a key Russian naval base, a top regional official said

Ukraine has fired multiple missiles at the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, Governor Mikail Razvozhayev said in the early hours of Sunday. The city hosts an important naval base and the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

According to Razvozhayev, the ground defenses have shot down more than 10 missiles. He described the attack as “the most massive one in recent times.”

A part of the projectile struck a home, killing a 65-year-old man, the governor said. He added that four more people suffered shrapnel wounds.

Razvozhayev earlier wrote on Telegram that a projectile struck an office building, while parts of another missile hit a five-story residential complex. The authorities continue to assess the damage, he wrote.

Unverified videos posted to Telegram show bright flashes in the sky and several large explosions on the ground. Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Crimea, attempting to strike Russian naval assets with missiles, UAVs and seaborne drones.

On late Saturday evening, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 19 rockets were intercepted in the Belgorod Region, which borders eastern Ukraine. The projectiles were launched from the Czech-made RM-70 Vampire systems, the MOD said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week that a buffer zone must be set up at some point in order to protect the border region from attacks. He made his statement after pro-Kiev units made up of Russian volunteers repeatedly shelled the regions of Belgorod and Kursk and attempted ground incursions.

https://swentr.site/russia/594814-ukraine-fires-crimea-sevastopol/

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:49

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Vicus

24th March 2024, 17:55

Russian Forces Carry Out Strike Against Ukrainian Energy Facilities 6 hours ago

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the progress of special military operation.
The Russian aerospace forces carried out high-precision missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian power facilities over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

"Tonight, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a group strike with long-range airborne precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against electric power facilities, gas production facilities, and assembly and testing sites for unmanned boats," the ministry said.

All of the targets were hit, the ministry added.

"As a result of the strike, the work of industrial enterprises for the production and repair of weapons, military equipment and ammunition was disorganized, and foreign military equipment and means of destruction transferred to Ukraine by NATO countries were destroyed," the ministry said.

At the same time, Russian air defense systems destroyed 172 Ukrainian drones, 11 Storm Shadow cruise missiles and three Neptun anti-ship missiles, as well as 22 multiple launch rocket system shells and other targets, the military said.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240324/russian-forces-carry-out-strike-against-ukrainian-energy-facilities-1117524883.html

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:55

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Russia is preparing a new retaliatory strike: Bombers are again preparing for takeoff
▪️Ukrainian propaganda resources report this with alarm, publishing a map and describing the “situation at Russian airfields”:
➖Aerodrome "Engels". After a night attack, 7x TU-95MS landed. After landing, the sides were already equipped with new X-101/555/55 missiles .
➖Olenya airfield. After a night attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the Olenya airfield , 7x TU-95MS landed. The sides are also being equipped with missiles again.
➖Mozdok airfield . There are 12 TU-22M3 at the airfield, all boards are equipped with Kh-22/32 missiles, there is a high probability of these boards being involved in the next missile attack.
➖Savasleika airfield . MiG-31K are in combat readiness.
❗️ “The probability of departures in the near future is high,” the enemy emphasizes.

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Vicus

24th March 2024, 17:58

Russian Air Defenses Down 22 Vampire Missiles Over Belgorod Region 1 hour ago

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian air defense systems shot down 22 missiles fired by Ukraine from the Vampire multiple launch rocket system at the Belgorod Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

"On March 24, at about 05:50 p.m. Moscow time [14:50 GMT], the Kiev regime's attempt to carry out a terrorist attack using the RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system against targets on Russian territory was foiled. Twenty-two missiles were destroyed over the Belgorod Region by the air defense forces on duty," the ministry said.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240324/russian-air-defenses-down-22-vampire-missiles-over-belgorod-region-1117531591.html

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 17:58

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

24 March 2024

▫️Last night the Russian Aerospace Forces have launched a group strike with long-range airborne precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities of the electric power industry, the gas industry, and assembly and testing sites for uncrewed boats.

▫️As a result of the strike, the work of industrial enterprises for the manufacture and repair of weapons, military hardware, and ammunition has been disorganized, and foreign-made military equipment and means of destruction transferred to Ukraine by NATO countries have been destroyed. All the goals of the strike have been reached.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces have defeated manpower and hardware of 14th, 32nd mechanized, and 57th motorized infantry brigades of the AFU close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region) and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic), and also have repelled three enemy counterattacks.

The AFU losses were up to 140 servicemen, one tank, two pickup trucks, one U.S.-made M777 artillery system, one Msta-B howitzer, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems.

▫️In Belgorod direction, Russian units continue to carry out measures to identify and destroy AFU sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the border areas of Ukraine.

As a result of the fire attack on AFU manpower and hardware, up to 40 servicemen, one Czech-made RM-70 Vampire MLRS combat vehicle, and one German-made Mars multiple-launch rocket system have been destroyed close to Potikhonovo and Zemlyanki (Kharkov region).

▫️In Donetsk direction, as a result of active operations, units of the Yug Group of Forces have occupied more favorable lines, defeated the enemy near Kleshcheyevka, Krasnoye, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic), and also repelled one counterattack by formations of the 80th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU close to Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 300 servicemen, one U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier, three motor vehicles, one U.S.-made M119 howitzer, one D-30 gun, and one field ammunition depot.

▫️In Avdeyevka direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces have improved their front line position as a result of successful actions and repelled nine counterattacks by assault groups of 24th, 47th mechanized, 57th motorized Infantry, 25th airborne, and 3rd assault brigades of the AFU close to Novgorodskoye, Shumy, Tonenkoye, Pervomayskoye, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 360 troops, two tanks, five armored fighting vehicles, and nine motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made M777 howitzer, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems, and one D-30 howitzer have been destroyed.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces have improved their tactical position and inflicted a fire defeat on formations of the 31st Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard near Urozhaynoye (Donetsk People's Republic).

The enemy losses were up to 140 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, one Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system, and one Rapira anti-tank gun.

▫️In Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted a fire defeat on manpower and hardware concentration areas of 65th mechanized and 128th mountain assault brigades of the AFU, the 35th Marine Brigade, as well as the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade near Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region), Gavrilovka, Ivanovka, and Tyaginka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses were up to 50 servicemen and three motor vehicles.

During counter-battery warfare,
two U.S.-made M777 howitzers, one Msta-B howitzer, and one D-30 gun have been destroyed.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged ammunition and UAV storage depots, four P-18 radar stations for detecting and tracking aerial targets, one electronic warfare station, as well as manpower and military hardware of the AFU in 129 areas.

▫️Air defense facilities have shot down 172 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as 11 Storm Shadow cruise missiles, three Neptune anti-ship missiles, four MALD aircraft guided missiles, and 22 HIMARS and Vampire multiple-launch rocket system projectiles.

📊In total, 577 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 16,908 unmanned aerial vehicles, 489 air defense missile systems, 15,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,256 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 8,514 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 20,153 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 18:07

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‼️🇺🇦💡"There are big problems with light in Kharkov," - local Gauleiter

“There is no answer to the question of how long the restoration work will take. Repair teams are working, but there is very serious damage, all transformer substations have been destroyed, the thermal power plant has been destroyed,” he said on the telethon.
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Vicus

24th March 2024, 18:08

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 18:10

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🪖 Russian armed forces hit the Ukrainian Air Force Martynovka airfield in the Nikolaev region

During the strike, Russian fighters today hit two Ukrainian Su-24s that were attacking Sevastopol that night, said Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolaev underground.

Also, at least 30 Ukrainian security forces were killed by a strike by the Russian Armed Forces on Ukrainian Armed Forces locations in Kharkov, including the location of the Lyut assault brigade, Lebedev noted, referring to his Kharkov colleagues. - Ostashko reports

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24th March 2024, 18:22

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🇬🇷👊🇺🇸 In Greece, a train with American tanks was turned around at the port of Alexandroupolis

▪️The train loaded with American tanks was heading to Bulgaria.
▪️People shouted slogans: “Alexandroupolis is a port of the people, not a stronghold of imperialists,” and on the carriages they wrote in red paint: “Murderers, go home.” /rt.com/

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24th March 2024, 18:28

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Beyond understanding’: Donetsk woman gives a powerful speech about Crocus City Hall terrorist attack

“Why are they killing civilians who have nothing to do with this conflict? Because somebody needs this conflict, somebody is fueling it. It is beyond comprehension, it is below any form of human dignity,” a Donetsk woman told Sputnik’s correspondent Russell Bentley.

The woman explained that the attack was especially shocking for her because her husband and son are combat veterans who fought to liberate the Donbass, including in Mariupol.

“If we won’t do it, then who will? That's the ideology of the Russian people: Not to sit somewhere, but to defend our territory, our families. That’s what real men do.”

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24th March 2024, 18:34

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The recruitment of assassins for the terrorist attack in Moscow's Crocus City Hall was organized through the Embassy of Ukraine in Tajikistan, according to a military expert, ex-special services officer, retired Colonel Bakhtiyer Rakhmonov.

A few weeks before the terrorist attack, information appeared on the website of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission about inviting foreigners to join the so-called "International Legion," he noted, providing RIA Novosti with a corresponding screenshot.

The post has already been deleted.

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‼️🇷🇺 One of the terrorists was in Crocus on March 7.

Most likely, he conducted reconnaissance of the area, inspected the premises and planned a terrorist attack.

The photo was taken by a photographer working at the event that day. #Moscow #MoscowTerroristAttack

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24th March 2024, 18:48

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‼️🇷🇺 The conflict in Ukraine began not in 2014, but in 1999, when the West stopped hiding its aggression - Lavrov

Yugoslavia and Ukraine are on a par with subsequent adventures and gross aggressions of the West in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lavrov believes.
💬 “The hegemons tried to perpetuate their dominance by living at the expense of others,” notes the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry in an interview on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the start of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia.
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📊Twenty-five years ago, NATO started bombing Yugoslavia

On March 24, 1999, Western countries launched a series of devastating airstrikes on Belgrade, the capital of the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia, which had been already suffering from a political crisis. The US and its allies declared that the Noble Anvil military op was motivated by "humanitarian" reasons and targeted only the military - but in reality, NATO airstrikes killed at least 2,500 people, ruined national infrastructure and sped up the disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Explore Sputnik’s infographic to learn more about NATO's aggression in Europe.

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 18:55

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Actually, the timing was as follows:

▶️February 25 – An article is published in The New York Times about CIA cells in Ukraine.

▶️February 28 – Victoria Nuland promises Putin asymmetric "unpleasant surprises."

▶️March 5 – Nuland resigns.

▶️March 7 – The US Embassy announces a terrorist attack in Moscow, specifically at a concert within '48 hours.'

▶️March 9 – Shaman performs at Crocus City Hall. (The probable initial target of the attack. That day there was armed security staff, so the attack was postponed).

Two weeks later.

⚡️March 22 – A terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

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24th March 2024, 19:35

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24th March 2024, 20:02

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‼️🇷🇺 JUST IN: Audio of the Crocus terrorist's interrogation using electric shock Russian "data recovery" technique. #Moscow #Russia

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:05

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⚡️ The first two defendants in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus were brought into the courtroom to announce the preventive measure

On the bench are Dalerzhon Mirzoev and Saidakrami Rachabalizoda. The prosecution is asking for arrest.

Each of the suspects is charged with Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “Terrorism resulting in the death of a person.”

⚫️ The article includes life imprisonment.

- Ostashko reports

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771985409917984922

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:11

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🇺🇦 Another resignation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the commander of the training command of the Ground Forces lost his post

Ukrainian Major General Viktor Nikolyuk resigned from his post as commander of the training command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

“I resign as commander of the Ground Forces Training Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he writes.

He clarified that now he will have to lead one of the areas on the front line.

Zelensky is systematically mowing down Zaluzhny’s supporters from leadership positions in the Ukrainian army. Is he really afraid of something? - Ostashko reports

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771979139194540059

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Russia Prepares for Retaliatory Strike: Bombers Ready for Takeoff Again

Ukrainian propagandist sources are reporting with alarm that Russia is preparing for a new retaliatory strike, with bombers once again being readied for takeoff. They have published a map and described the "situation at RF airfields":

- Engels Airbase:

After a night attack, 7 Tu-95MS bombers landed. Following the landing, the aircraft were already equipped with new Kh-101/555/55 missiles.

- Olenya Airbase:

Following a night attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKF) on the Olenya airbase, 7 Tu-95MS bombers landed. The aircraft are also being armed again with missiles.

-Mozdok Airbase:

There are 12 Tu-22M3 bombers at the airbase, all equipped with Kh-22/32 missiles. There is a high probability of these aircraft being involved in the next missile attack.

- Savasleyka Airbase:

MiG-31K aircraft are on standby.

"The likelihood of flights in the near future is high," emphasizes the adversary.

Source: RVvoenkor

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1771976290997788820

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:15

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1771991036220313825

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:21

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1771994611176595811

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:24

Text:

🇷🇺🇺🇦 They report the liquidation of Polyak and Rubin... two Nazis, Syrsky's favorites...
Photo in tweet

https://x.com/TobiAyodele/status/1771995189856350569

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:30

https://x.com/simpatico771/status/1771986892403171679

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 20:38

https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1771998245654237681

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Bill Ryan

24th March 2024, 20:52

grapevine

24th March 2024, 21:28

Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 21:56

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1772015660719128780

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 21:59

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1772013932544167986

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 22:24

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1772006005984882820

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 23:33

Dear Friends, you have to watch (and listen to) this.

For Russians, white cranes are a symbol of reverence and respect paid to those who have lost their lives in wartime.

:heart::heart::heart:

https://t.me/AussieCossack/14773

The text:
The atmosphere at Crocus City Hall in Moscow right now. The song Zhuravli plays. Crowds of people can't hold back their tears.
Zhuravli is a Soviet era memorial song dedicated to those fallen in war sung by Mark Bernes.
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AussieCossack/14773

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1771953451632623997

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 23:39

Text:
Former CIA agent Scott Bennett, appealed to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with a request to grant him Russian citizenship on Russian state TV

He intends to use his diplomatic skills and experience in intelligence for the benefit of Russia

https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1771990422392369237

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Ravenlocke

24th March 2024, 23:57

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🇷🇺⚔️🏴The Basmanny court chose a preventive measure for the terrorist Muhammadsobir Fayzov, who killed 137 people in Crocus - he was detained until May 22

For 19-year-old Muhammadsobir Fayzov, who brutally exterminated people in Crocus, the Basmanny court chose a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months. He was taken to court by ambulance, and he rode on a medical chair to the aquarium, accompanied by two doctors. The terrorist was wearing a medical gown and carrying a urine bag; he was wounded during arrest. It was he who was driving a white Renault and hit an eight-year-old boy when the terrorists were trying to escape from the crime scene

During the meeting, Fayzov communicated through an interpreter. He is registered in Ivanovo, where he previously worked as a hairdresser. Muhammadsobir is the youngest of the entire pack - born in 2004. The photo of this militant was the first to be published online. It was he who was the author of that terrible “first-person” video in which the bastards shot unarmed people - in the footage the operator rejoiced at the deaths and pointed his finger at the sky.

readovkanews

https://x.com/dana916/status/1772024876934512962

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 02:05

https://x.com/anadoluagency/status/1771892246872244250

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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/tajik-president-condemns-terrorist-attack-on-concert-hall-in-russias-moscow-region/3173327

Tajik president condemns 'terrorist attack' on concert hall in Russia's Moscow region

ISTANBUL

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon on Sunday condemned the "terrorist attack" on the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Russia's Moscow region during a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

A statement by the Tajik presidency said Rahmon emphasized that “terrorists have no nationality, no homeland, and no religion,” further expressing his wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured and his condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed in the attack.

"In the mournful hour of national mourning in the Russian Federation, the head of our state emphasized the solidarity of all citizens of Tajikistan with the fraternal Russian people," the statement added.

It also said Rahmon and Putin confirmed their intention to continue close cooperation in fighting "terrorism, extremism, and manifestations of religious radicalism, which pose a serious threat to security."

"In this context, the importance of further strengthening common efforts to maintain contacts and coordination between relevant agencies and services was noted in order to effectively respond to and jointly combat these threats," it concluded.

At least 133 people were killed and 152 others injured after gunmen on Friday opened fire when rock band Picnic was about to perform at the Crocus City Hall just west of Moscow.

Russia's Investigative Committee said it detained 11 people, including four perpetrators, in the border region of Bryansk on their way to Ukraine.

shaberon

25th March 2024, 05:16

That's great to know you can make an international fiasco through the hands of a nineteen year old hairdresser and a guy who can't remember where he lived.

The one posing as Vincent van Gogh is in the act of digesting the severed protuberance.

So, how easy is it to get ISIS to lie for you?

Oh.

You kind of have to reserve judgment here, because, if the claims are relatively accurate, then this kind of work is very cheap. No real obstacle to any interested party. Armed guards on the 9th perhaps were an obstacle. We can figure they have some value especially against morons who don't want to get in a gunfight with better shooters. An armed populace has perhaps an even higher value, but, I understand this mindset does not occur to most populations.

One fist, to the rescue of someone(s) is way better than panic.

The driver maybe wasn't doing so well if he hit a kid? Or it was on purpose?

And way to go getting yourself spotted at the scene on the 7th. That probably means the guy looks so dumb and out-of-place the photographer could easily remember him. That, of course, throws far more suspicion at the Americans.

How much do they know? I was told in the early 90s by someone from recon that there was already way too much satellite imagery than people to check it for stuff.

On that aspect, you have to think in terms of resolution; if we can read your license tag, then, we have to have another wide-angle camera or some other reason to be seeking your car. It is entirely possible for them to know something, for sure, once they have a reason to specifically track a target.

Otherwise, it's not so easy. If Russia has to deal with a barrage of false emergency calls, it's like that.

In the case of Nordstream, I would say, no, it's not possible without a state at least as advanced as Denmark and probably the U. S. to have a remote possibility of even attempting it.

Here, this is so dirty that a Lone Gunman scenario is as plausible as Ukrainian or other state involvement.

Seeing it line up with their increasing momentum against the Russian border and agreeing to help the fleeing Tajiks is, I think, grounds for an investigation.

In the strict sense it doesn't qualify to be Terrorism. It's just First Degree Murder on multiple counts, along with arson and whatever else. Hamas commits a Terrorist act by taking Israeli prisoners and making demands. I can't deny that actually is a crime, however, charges can be dismissed. I don't think the personnel could qualify for something more hardcore like Hamas, that is why they were flounder, gulping around for whatever they could find.

Tintin

25th March 2024, 09:53

Copy posted from here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?122864-Moscow-Terror-Attack-and-impending-escalation&p=1606322&viewfull=1#post1606322):

Here, gleaned from a Telegram channel (maybe DD_Geopolitics) is a useful summary reminder of what Russia has had to contend with over the last three decades or so, some of which led to no escalation, others did. One could include the Kursk submarine incident from 2000 although that may just have been a genuine accident.

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Historic acts of terror toward Russians

❗️After the terrorist attack in the Crocus near Moscow, Vladimir Putin declared March 24 a day of national mourning in Russia.

Since 1993, mourning has been declared in the country 29 times. 28 times - in connection with disasters, accidents, fires, terrorist attacks and the consequences of military operations.

When mourning was declared in the Russian Federation due to terrorist attacks:

- June 22, 1995 - in connection with the death of 129 people as a result of an attack by Chechen militants on June 14 on Budennovsk;

- November 19, 1996 - in connection with the terrorist attack on November 16 in the Dagestan Kaspiysk. After the explosion of the house, 68 people were killed, including 21 children;

- March 21, 1999 - after the terrorist attack in Vladikavkaz, where 52 people were killed;

- September 13, 1999: on the night of September 8-9 in Moscow, an explosion in a residential building claimed the lives of 100 people; due to the terrorist attack on September 13 in a residential building on Kashirskoye Highway, 124 people were killed. In Buinaksk (Dagestan), terrorists blew up a five-story residential building in which the families of Russian officers lived, killing 64 people;

- October 28, 2002 - in connection with the capture of spectators of the musical “Nord-Ost” in Moscow. From 23 to 26 October, 130 people died;

- August 26, 2004 - in connection with the terrorist attacks of August 24, as a result of which Tu-154B-2 and Tu-134A-3 passenger planes taking off from Domodedovo airport exploded almost simultaneously over the Rostov and Tula regions. 89 people died;

- September 6-7, 2004 - in connection with the seizure of city school No. 1 in Beslan by terrorists on September 1-3. 334 people died, including 186 children;

- November 1, 2015 - in connection with the terrorist attack on board an Airbus A321 aircraft in Egypt on October 31. 224 people died, 219 of them were Russians.

Jaak

25th March 2024, 11:24

Strange coincidence . Russian terror attack happened during Purim when jews celebrate mass murder. I recall from previous years that also some terrorist attacks happened during purim.
One of the terrorist got their ear cut off and was made to eat it . Cutting off ears and noses and poking out eyes has been old way of torture by the chosen people...
From wiki ¨On Purim, Ashkenazi Jews and Israeli Jews (of both Ashkenazi and Sephardic descent) eat triangular pastries called hamantaschen ("Haman's pockets") or oznei Haman ("Haman's ears").¨
So yeah,during purim they eat snacks that symbolize eating human ear. Odd.

Tintin

25th March 2024, 11:36

Jaak

25th March 2024, 11:46

Russian terror attack happened during Purim

Well, it has taken place during Ramadan lending further weight to the reality that these perpetrators are most certainly NOT religious fanatics, more mercenary in their comportment.

¨Purim for Hebrew Year 5784 will begin at sundown on Saturday, March 23 and end at nightfall on Sunday, March 24.¨
Just saying,strange coincidence.They do like to celebrate this holiday with massacres/mass sacrifices..

Tintin

25th March 2024, 12:36

Another likely, and as is typical, accurate summary from Simplicius on X (https://twitter.com/simpatico771/status/1772210308460712161). I would add as well that having also seen the satellite footage of the attacks on Sevastopol, which I'll share here soon, the usual cope flimflam that accompanies anything emanating from Kiev/MI-6/Langley is seen to be just that.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦NATO is panicking over its Hypersonic missile gap. Russia just stopped a massive assault on Sevastopol with a full package of NATO's most advanced, fastest (nearly Mach 1) cruise missiles of the Scalp/Storm Shadow variety.
Meanwhile, Kiev is protected by NATO's most advanced air defense systems, from Patriot, NASAMs, SAMP-T, Iris-T, Crotale, Aspides, upgraded Mim-23 Hawks, Avenger, Stormer HVM, etc., and all are utterly useless against Russian hypersonic Iskanders, Kinzhals, and Zircons, which penetrate them as easily as a bee taking nectar from a flower.

This is why NATO will never enter the war in Ukraine, because the current missile gap would allow Russia to strike NATO bases in Poland and elsewhere with full impunity, destroying every target, while NATO's counter attacks against Russia would fail against superior Russian air defenses, which would shoot down 70-90% of NATO's attacks.

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Jaak

25th March 2024, 12:36

Russia been using jammers in Baltic region and near Poland for 2 days straight.Probably to hide their navy/submarine/airplane movement .. Sorry i still dont know how to make tweets visible in this forum,if some mod could send me pm how to do it would be much appreciated.
https://twitter.com/auonsson/status/1772005344845103106
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¨Baltic Jammer has been running for 47 consecutive hours making this the longest run ever.

Red dots show affected area. Yesterday at 22:00Z it changed into a new configuration, green dots.

1614 unique airplanes affected, most of them civilian airliners.

Mod note from Bill:
I've embedded the tweet above. The way to do it is simply to take the numerical part only — in this case, 1772005344845103106 — then highlight that and click the little https://projectavalon.net/images/twitter.gif icon in the formatting menu bar. That's all you need to do.
:thumbsup::highfive:

Bill Ryan

25th March 2024, 13:02

The Russians have just now deployed:

26 Tu-95 Russian strategic bombers, each carrying 6 Kh-55 cruise missiles.
13 Mig-31s, each carrying a Kinzhal hypersonic missile.

That's a heck of a missile attack. My personal guess: the targets for sure include Ukrainian 'decision-making centers', including those in bunkers deep underground.Indeed, early reports say that the SBU (Ukrainian intelligence) building was destroyed in the center of Kiev. A Kinzhal hypersonic missile punched through the middle of it and caused the entire thing to collapse. We'll probably be getting more reports about this later today.

Edit to add:

https://t.me/ZandVchannel/106023
ZandVchannel/106023

Bill Ryan

25th March 2024, 13:57

Translated from Ukrainian:

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A wounded Ukrainian soldier outlined the command’s plan to an American television channel:

“No support, nothing. We fired something heavy 5 times, and they fired 500 times. I don’t know what plans our government has, but this looks like the destruction of our population. Combat-ready and able-bodied. And that's it."
https://t.me/MediaKiller2021/12011

MediaKiller2021/12011

ExomatrixTV

25th March 2024, 14:38

Danny Haiphong (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Danny%20Haiphong), Scott Ritter & Andrei Martyanov: Russia has Demilitarized NATO and Ukraine is FINISHED:

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Former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and military analyst and commentator Andrei Martyanov give their assessment of recent admissions of US and NATO demilitarization oer the course of the conflict Ukraine and what led to the disaster unfolding. This video breaks it all down.

FLASHBACK above video host Danny Haiphong (https://rumble.com/search/all?q=Danny%20Haiphong):

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same speech in German 🇩🇪 here (https://rumble.com/v3f6zjd-danny-haiphong-richtet-sich-an-den-un-sicherheitsrat-zur-ukraine-hilfe-der-.html)

Jaak

25th March 2024, 15:08

“No support, nothing. We fired something heavy 5 times, and they fired 500 times. I don’t know what plans our government has, but this looks like the destruction of our population. Combat-ready and able-bodied. And that's it."
Most of Ukraine is already sold to foreign corporations,some of it before the war and alot of it during the war to pay the debts.What they dont need is Ukrainians,previous landowners etc.
Rebuilding Ukraine will be big business and since the chosen ones want to make second Israel there then yeah,gotta get rid off alot of Ukrainians.
Sad that the Ukrainians havent heard that the holodomor was carried through by jews Kaganovich ,Kogan etc.Now its Jewlenzki,Kholomoisky,Soros etc.
Kholomoisky ethnicly cleansed whole Dnipropetrovsk from all russians before this war escalated.Strange thing that he was president of European Jewish Union at that time.And he used Israeli soldiers to do that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi
https://www.grunge.com/849278/who-is-ukranian-billionaire-ihor-kolomoisky/
Israel’s Secret Plan for a "Second Israel" in Ukraine
1Dec 12, 2014
https://redice.tv/news/israel-s-secret-plan-for-a-second-israel-in-ukraine
Khazars seem to be trying to cleanse and re-occupie old territories of Khazaria.Israel 2.0

"The strategic idea of creating the Menorah Center, the ideology of its structure and content, combining the past, present and future of Jewish life in Dnepropetrovsk, belong to the President of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community Gennady Borisovich Bogolyubov and Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky, President of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, the founder of the European Council of Jewish Communities (European Council of Jewish Communities) and the European Jewish Union (European Jewish Union). They took over the financing of the construction and full implementation of the project of the multifunctional Menorah center.
The Menorah is the largest Jewish multifunctional center in the world."
https://djc.com.ua/public/fck_new_Userfiles/4.jpg

I Wonder if Putin is going to bomb that ? He is friendly with Chabad Lubavitch maffia so probably not ... You never hear Putin critize the chosen ones ..

Vicus

25th March 2024, 17:24

Ukrainian bar mocks deadly Moscow concert hall attack 24 Mar, 2024

A bar in Kiev, known for its highly politicized and controversial menu, is now selling a new snack set ridiculing the Crocus City Hall massacre that left over 130 dead

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Ukrainian bar mocks deadly Moscow concert hall attack
The ‘Crocus City’ snack set on the Ofenziva bar menu. © ofenziva.ps.me

The ‘art-bar’ Ofenziva (‘Offensive’), located in Kiev, has introduced a new item to its controversial menu, mocking the deadly weekend terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City concert hall. The attack has claimed the lives of at least 133 people, though the search for victims is still ongoing and the death toll is expected to grow even further.

The establishment advertises itself as “the first meme-military art bar” in Kiev in an allusion to online meme warfare. It serves as a platform for various performers, most of whom exhibit nationalist views.

Shortly after the attack, Ofenziva rolled out a new set dubbed ‘Crocus City,’ composed of several fried snacks. The menu item on the bar’s website is accompanied by a photo of the concert hall on fire in the aftermath of the attack.

The venue offers several other themed items on its menu, invariably in questionable taste, including a series of sandwiches with various fillings, dubbed ‘Navalny.’ The sandwich series was introduced shortly after Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny passed away in February.

A pork steak dubbed ‘Darya Dugina’ is also available, rolled out by the bar to mock the death of the Russian political activist and daughter of philosopher Aleksandr Dugin. She was killed in a car bombing back in August 2022; the assassination has been attributed to Ukrainian intelligence services.

The establishment is not the first in Ukraine to feature tasteless political humor in its menu; various establishments mocked the victims of the May 2014 massacre in Odessa, where nationalists killed and burned alive dozens of activists opposing the so-called “Revolution of Dignity.” Pictures of ‘Russian baby’-shaped cakes at Ukrainian restaurants became an internet sensation that year.

Such questionable marketing tactics have become even more widespread amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev, with controversial items rolled out by Ukrainian restaurants repeatedly making the headlines.

https://swentr.site/russia/594828-kiev-bar-moscow-massacre/

Vicus comment:

Sorry for this disgusting article, but it must be know, Russians don't bomb civilians, but maybe some missile get lost and ...

grapevine

25th March 2024, 17:50

Crocus City Hall, ISIS-K, and Russian retribution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LrgOV4DSNM (47:39)
Alexander Mercouris giving a slightly more cautious opinion than Scott Ritter's in saying Ukraine was involved, but said that the manner in which the attackers were captured, ie. fleeing through the woods, being chased by dogs, is not in keeping with ISIS soldiers and says either the ISIS organisation has been seriously downgraded, or something else is going on.

Gwin Ru

25th March 2024, 18:07

...

... Scott Ritter's assembling of the puzzle pieces re Moscow massacre:

🔴SCOTT RITTER LIVE : UKRAINE RUSSIA TERROR ATTACK | NATO'S NEXT MOVE RUSSIA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXN9mcrsdqY) 1:06:53

Streamed 4 hours ago

https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_l2lJOdBqhHK9B9jSvO8hqL03650hT9oJGaZ0rbV5M=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj (https://www.youtube.com/@Reporterfy) Reporterfy Media & Travel (https://www.youtube.com/@Reporterfy)
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🔴SCOTT RITTER LIVE : UKRAINE RUSSIA TERROR ATTACK | NATO'S NEXT MOVE RUSSIA, GAZA , IRAN …

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 18:08

https://x.com/MoonofA/status/1772309205078168049
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/deterrence-by-savagery.html#more (https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/deterrence-by-savagery.html)

Deterrence By Savagery?
March 25, 2024
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
Western colonialism began in the fifteenth century and ended, with a few exceptions, in the mid of the 20th century. It was enabled by the development of technologies and fast population growth. The West then changed to a new model of ruling the world. It talked about human values and human rights and certain rules that would allegedly enable everyone to enjoy those.

The facade did not hold up well. The West, and especially the U.S., abused the 'rules based order' by circumventing international law whenever it did not fit its interests. It continued to apply 'organized violence' under dubious circumstances. The wars against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq were supposed to demonstrate that the West would uphold whatever rules it claimed to exist. But the wars were lost and the U.S. had to retreat from them.

The war in Ukraine is only the latest but most obvious demonstration that the 'rules based order' no longer exists (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-rules-based-order-is-already-over/):
Over the past several decades, the United States has continually placed Moscow in a position either to accept the fait accompli of NATO expansion at the expense of Russian security interests, or to escalate with force and suffer the consequences of increased economic and political ostracization. This disincentive to avoid escalation has been effectively removed. Explicating the altered state of international relations is not cheerleading for the Russian position — although it may be treated as such by those who disingenuously present any realistic assessment of the situation as “appeasement” — but rather illustrating how Moscow has insulated itself from Western ostracization, thus changing the entire balance of power in not only Europe, but the world. Now, it is Russia that has the West on the horns of a dilemma: It can either watch the Kremlin achieve its strategic objectives, guaranteed in a one-sided negotiated settlement or through the continued attrition of Ukrainian forces, or it can escalate with force. Putin’s statement regarding nuclear weapons was not mere rhetoric—it was the Russian president defining the limits of the current conflict from a position of authority.
Anything short of total Ukrainian victory is therefore an implicit admission that the “rules-based” economic and political order has been irreversibly altered.
This morning hypersonic weapons destroyed an SBU headquarters in Kiev just seconds after the air alarm was activated. Western air defenses had failed. Russia has destroyed the myth of the West's superiority in applying organized violence.

Others have taken note. The recent flare up (https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2024/03/24/what-does-the-coup-in-niger-tell-us-about-the-war-in-ukraine/) in U.S. relations with Niger is a consequence of this:
The pressure brought to Niger reveals that Washington is supporting the war against Russia for reasons other than the right of Ukraine to choose its partners and join NATO, or that that right only applies when the partner being chosen is the United States and NATO but not Russia. The core principle, then, is not the right of a sovereign nation to choose its partner, but the right of a sovereign nation to partner with the United States. The American attitude toward Niger and Russia reveals a second lesson. A key response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine was to isolate Russia and reinforce the U.S.-led unipolar world. It has not worked.
The United States has expressed concern that the “Russian Federation is really trying to take over central Africa as well as the Sahel.” Thurston told me that the U.S. is “very worried about Russian influence throughout the Sahel, and it has a particular sting in Niger given the previous closeness of the relationship.”
He added that the United States “seems to regard competition with Russia in Africa as zero-sum; whereas, most African governments don’t see things that way.” And that is the hallmark of the emerging multipolar world that the U.S. is trying to hold back. Saudi Arabia has said “we do not believe in polarization or in choosing between sides.” India’s Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, in his book, The Indian Way, describes the new multipolar world as one in which countries deal “with contesting parties at the same time with optimal results” for their “own self-interest.”
Having lost its two main sources power, the rules based order as a (somewhat) soft power instrument and its military hard power superiority, the West is in need of a new instrument of deterrence, a new tool that allows it to press its interest against the will of other powers.

It found that in demonstrating utter savagery.

The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide. That it will do everything to prevent international organizations to intervene against this.

That it is willing to eliminate everyone and everything that resists it.

Those nations who commit themselves to multi-polarity should steel themselves for what might be visited on them.

Vicus

25th March 2024, 18:10

Ukraine using US-made chemical weapons – Russian diplomat 25 Mar, 2024

Their deployment is a direct violation of international law, Moscow’s envoy to the OPCW has said

Ukraine has repeatedly used chemical weapons provided by the US against the Russian military, a senior diplomat claimed on Monday in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia.

Vladimir Tarabrin, Moscow’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Ambassador to the Netherlands, noted that the use of chemical weapons is a flagrant violation of international law.

“Over the course of the special military operation, we have recorded cases of Ukraine’s Armed Forces deploying chemical weapons manufactured in the US,” Tarabrin said, saying that the deliveries are part of a well-established and illegal scheme of sending non-lethal chemical weapons to Kiev.

He stressed that the use of toxic chemicals by Ukraine has become systematic, as Western backing allows Kiev to violate international law with impunity. According to Tarabrin, the Ukrainian military uses various types of home-made ammunition, grenades, and containers with unknown substances against Russian forces.

The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an arms control treaty administered by the OPCW, an intergovernmental organization headquartered in The Hague, was adopted in January 1993 and came into force four years later. As of August 2022, 193 states had signed the treaty. Ukraine has ratified the document and accepted all its obligations.

The convention bans all member states from producing, acquiring, and stockpiling chemical weapons, as well as transferring them directly or indirectly. The signatories are also banned from using such weapons.

The diplomat stressed that Moscow is attracting the attention of international organizations, especially the OPCW, to the violations.

“I think the US and its dependents can only be stopped by maximum transparency, the identification of specific facts that show that they directly supply, or facilitate the supply, of these substances to Ukraine in violation of the CWC,” he said.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has repeatedly accused Kiev of preparing provocations with the use of chemical weapons, including acts on the territory of Ukraine. Last April, the ministry claimed that Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) was plotting such a provocation with the use of “hazardous chemicals” in the city of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine. Kiev has denied the accusation.

https://swentr.site/russia/594866-ukraine-us-chemical-weapons-russia/

Ravenlocke

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🇺🇦 Ukraine has registered a draft law "on control" over Telegram.

The law plans to oblige Telegram to delete the content of channels "at the request of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine".

Also Ukraine wants to get the right to demand the blocking of both individual users and Telegram channels on the territory of the country.

Also, "providers of public access platforms" (i.e. Telegram) will have to open their representative offices in Ukraine and show their ownership and financial structure at the request of the National Council.

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‼️🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Hellish battles near Marinka: The commander of the 206th TRO battalion spoke about the deplorable state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this area

▪️Recently, the Russian army stormed the positions of Ukrainian militants near Marinka. Due to the fact that the weather was quite difficult, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not have enough night drones with thermal imagers, the assault units of the Russian Armed Forces got within a few hundred meters of the positions, and when they were discovered, the Nazis did not have time to do anything.
▪️ “There are constant drops from drones here, there are drops of various types on the shelters of our infantry, on trenches, not to mention guided aerial bombs, which have become quite a serious psychological factor, because one bomb can really demolish everything,” complains the Ukrainian militant.
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25th March 2024, 18:26

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Confirmed: SBU building hit

‼️🇺🇦💥 The targets of ballistic missiles in Kyiv were SBU buildings - Kyiv Post

▪️Ukrainian media, citing a source in the special services, report that the target of today's strikes on Kyiv was the SBU building.
▪️As we reported earlier, today's missiles have achieved their targets. As a result of the strike, a three-story building in the city center was completely destroyed.
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Missile Strike on Kiev — intel from @don_partizan

Coordinates: 50.4092716, 30.5503017

Today at around 10:30 AM, Russian forces launched a strike on the location of one of the Ukrainian security forces' units in Kiev.

🔻It was established that the strike hit the address at Kikvidze Street, 32 - publicly available sources associate this building with the Civil Defense Headquarters and the Kyiv Academy of Decorative Arts and Design.

🔻In fact, the building was empty, and nobody was inside. Under the "creative academy" there is a large basement space with a separate entrance from Saltykov-Shchedrin Street (this side of the destroyed building is not shown at all).

▪️It is also noteworthy that local residents have repeatedly observed vehicles with black license plates marked with the series C6 parked near the "Academy of Decorative Arts and Design."

📌Black plates are used by the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine. The letters С, Р, Т, and the number 6 are allocated for their use. SBU employees use the code С6, while Р6 and Т6 are designations for the joint use of both services.

🔻Currently, information has been received that the building was a covert facility of one of the structural units of the SBU. Loud claims that it was a "decision-making center" or "headquarters" raise doubts, but it can be confidently stated that the “basement” housed the operational staff of one of the special service's units.

▪️Why exactly this object was targeted will probably remain a mystery, but considering that the SBU is involved in conducting a series of diversions and terrorist acts on the territory of the Russian Federation, it suggests that this location might have been used by employees engaged in recruitment, planning, organizing, and directly implementing such actions.

🔻Unfortunately, a second missile was intercepted in the area of the Kiev Zhulyany airport, and its fragments fell on a building on Hutsulska Street, causing smoke in the area.

@ukraine_watch

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Vicus

25th March 2024, 18:52

Ukrainian security service boasts about attacks on Russian oil refineries 25 Mar, 2024

The US has reportedly urged Kiev to refrain from drone raids due to fears of a gas price surge

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The head of Ukraine’s domestic security service (SBU) has claimed credit for a series of attacks on Russian civilian sites, including the Crimean Bridge and oil refineries.

In a statement on Monday, Vasily Malyuk said transport and oil infrastructure are among “the most painful points” that his agency “hits daily” amid the hostilities with Moscow.

The sites are “legitimate targets” because they “work for the Russian military industrial complex,” the senior official claimed, adding that Ukrainian strikes can happen “even where they are least expected.”

A series of Ukrainian drone attacks have targeted Russian oil sites since mid-January, in some cases causing disruption at the facilities. The Financial Times claimed last week that US officials have urged Kiev to halt the strikes over concerns that they could cause shortages on the global energy market. In particular, the White House is concerned that a hike in gas prices in the US could undermine President Joe Biden’s chances of reelection in November, according to the report.

The Ukrainian government has denied being pressured by the Americans. Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, branded the FT report “fictitious information” in an interview last Friday.

Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are lawful and necessary to undermine its military, he insisted, while claiming that Moscow’s attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure are “genocidal” in intent. Nobody can “dictate to Ukraine the conditions on how to prosecute this war,” Podoliak added.

The White House reiterated its policy not to encourage Ukraine to deliver strikes inside Russia when asked about the FT report by the Ukrainian branch of state-funded news outlet Voice of America.

The Russian military resumed massive long-range strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure last week after a months-long pause. Ukrainian officials said a barrage on Friday caused the most significant damage to the power grid thus far in the armed conflict.

Moscow added several Ukrainian energy facilities to the list of targets it considers legitimate in October 2022. President Vladimir Putin said at the time that the shift in military tactics was justified by the Ukrainian bombing of the Crimean Bridge earlier that month. The attack involved a powerful explosive device being smuggled inside a truck and detonated on the bridge, killing the driver and four other civilians.

https://swentr.site/russia/594867-sbu-ukraine-strikes-oil/

Vicus

25th March 2024, 19:01

Get a Sneak Peek at New Russian Troop Arrivals Training in Special Op Zone

The Russian army's success on the front lines of the special operation zone can be attributed to the soldiers' supreme skills in managing weaponry, carrying out precision strikes and navigating the terrain in the course of combat missions. This is precisely why new Russian troop arrivals undergo thorough military training.

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Newly-arrived Russian soldiers are learning how to aid the wounded at a training ground in the Zaporozhye area.

Earlier this week, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported on Ukraine's losses since the start of the year. According to the Ministry of Defense, so far Ukrainian troops have lost over 71,000 soldiers in 2024.
"In general, the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces during this period [...] exceeded 71,000 people and 11,000 units of various weapons. This is almost three times higher than the same period last year," the defense chief said at a meeting with senior military brass.
These numbers reflect how dire the situation is for the Ukrainian military.
Furthermore, the Kiev regime is suffering such losses specifically because of the superior combat skills that Russian soldiers possess. This edge is attained through the mandatory and rigorous training that all new troops undergo.

Check out Sputnik's exclusive photo gallery to find out more!

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240321/get-a-sneak-peek-at-new-russian-troop-arrivals-training-in-special-op-zone-1117468026.html

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25th March 2024, 19:05

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25th March 2024, 19:38

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"Draft-dodging plagues Ukraine as Kyiv faces acute soldier shortage. The BBC recently reported that 650,000 Ukrainian men of fighting age have fled the country in the past two years, most slipping across its borders with Poland and Slovakia, some with false exemption papers allowing them to exit Ukraine despite a ban on fighting-age men leaving the country.

Since the Russian invasion two years ago around 9,000 draft-evasion proceedings have been opened, according to the Ukrainian interior ministry, but that's just scratching the surface of the draft-dodging and the evasion of registration so enlistment notices can't be issued. Last year nearly 1,300 draft-dodgers found themselves before the courts, but officials acknowledge this is just a small fraction of those avoiding enlistment.

The new draft legislation has been re-written several times and envisages a call-up of another 400,000 Ukrainian troops. It has stalled in the parliament, however, with lawmakers objecting to some punitive measures they regard as unconstitutional, such as restricting the property rights of draft-dodgers, impounding their cars and blocking their bank accounts." https://politico.eu/article/ukraine-faces-an-acute-manpower-shortage-with-young-men-dodging-the-draft/

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“We will definitely defeat these shaitans, both the Nazis in Ukraine and these terrorists” - a native of Tajikistan, fighting for Russia in the Northern Military District, spoke about the tragedy in Crocus

A soldier of the 1430th Guards Regiment, a native of Tajikistan with the call sign “Farah,” went to the Northern Military District zone for mobilization because he sincerely considers Russia his second homeland. Despite the fact that in his native country he faces up to 20 years in prison under the article “Mercenarism,” the fighter was not afraid and never regretted his decision. In a conversation with Readovka, Farah admitted that upon learning about the terrorist attack in Crocus and that his fellow countrymen were terrorists, the first thing he felt was a feeling of guilt.

Meanwhile, Farah is convinced that such cases should not become a reason for interethnic hatred - he himself has been sharing front-line life with Russian colleagues for almost two years and considers them his brothers. The fighter explains that terrorism cannot have a nationality, and it is impossible to find any justification for the actions of these monsters. The only thing that can be done to avoid such tragedies from happening again is to unite and forget all differences in the face of evil.

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 19:45

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‼️🇷🇺 The search operation in Crocus will be completely completed on Tuesday - Governor Vorobyov

▪️Every square meter of the concert hall will be cleared of rubble.
▪️There was a high risk of fire spreading from the concert hall to other objects of the Crocus complex, but this was prevented.
▪️The Help Center in the Moscow region received more than 2 thousand calls, the main part concerned the search for relatives.
▪️About 420 thousand transactions of various volumes received from businesses will be directed to the needs of families affected by the terrorist attack in Crocus.
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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 19:49

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25th March 2024, 19:58

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▪️It will take years to restore the DneproHPP, said Igor Sirota, general director of Ukrhydroenergo.

The exact volume of destruction has not yet been established due to the lack of access to the turbine room of the hydroelectric power station. Now the hydroelectric power station is not working. Clearing the rubble will take about a week.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Captured Ukrainian serviceman: even disabled people without legs and arms are mobilized

Nikolai Mozil was mobilized on 24 January 2024. 'I was taken to the military enlistment office and given a list of doctors I had to undergo voluntarily at the city hospital. Many of the doctors were not there, and I never made it through the medical commission to the end. But the military enlistment office said that it was nothing serious, if something was wrong, they would treat me there. At the military enlistment office I told them that I had three children, but the officers told me that nowadays they can take men without a leg or an arm, and the children will wait for me. Go and fight,' said Nikolai.

Before going into the position on the battle line, the command warned me that if the situation is very bad, it would be better not to be captured, but to blow myself up with a grenade.

'The guide brought us to the observation point, put us in a battered IFV and promised to change us in three days. After three days, Russian servicemen quietly approached us and offered to surrender if we wanted to live. We were afraid to blow ourselves up and surrendered,' said the captured serviceman.

He emphasised that all the command's stories about Russian captivity turned out to be a lie: 'We were very hungry, as we had no food for two days with one chocolate bar for two. Everything we were told about the captivity was not true. If you value your life and have somewhere to go back to, it's not worth it.'

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☠️ The British are shocked by the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kupyansk direction

One of the brigades of the AFU lost more than 85% of its personnel near Kupyansk. Such statistics gave the Ukrainian military commander Dmitry to British journalists from I News.

Before I left London, several Ukrainian brigades invited me to film with them. When I arrived they were so devastated that it was impossible. All but one of these men were dead. It's staggering,
- said a British journalist.

In this direction, noted the publication, it is mainly young mobilised men who are fighting, and most of the middle-aged men were either killed or wounded. At the same time, the AFU fighters themselves say that the command and Zelensky are not paying attention to the current terrible circumstances.

@ukraine_watch

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 20:08

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

25 March 2024

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

▫️In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces have repelled one attack by an assault group of the AFU 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade near Sinkovka (Kharkov region).

The enemy losses were up to 20 troops, two motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

▫️In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces, as a result of active operations, occupied more favorable lines and defeated manpower and hardware of 3rd assault, 79th air assault, 56th motorized infantry, 24th, 28th, 30th mechanized, 46th, and 81st airmobile brigades of the AFU close to Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka, Minkovka, Maximilianovka, and Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 175 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two armored fighting vehicles, including one Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, and three motor vehicles.

In the course of the counter-battery warfare, two Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery systems, one Rapira anti-tank gun, as well as two Nota and Anklav-N electronic warfare stations were eliminated.

▫️In Avdeyevka direction, as a result of successful actions by the Tsentr Group of Forces units, the situation along the front line has been improved, the servicemen have repelled 10 counter-attacks of 25th airborne, 59th motorized infantry, 53rd, 47th mechanized brigades of the AFU near Novogorodskoye, Umanskoye, Tonenkoye, Semyonovka, Pervomayskoye, and Berdychi (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 120 servicemen, six tanks, two armored fighting vehicles, and two motor vehicles.

In the course of counter-battery warfare, one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one D-20 howitzer, one Rapira anti-tank gun, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radar station were eliminated.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Group of Forces' units have improved the tactical situation and inflicted fire damage on the units of 102nd, 121st, 128th territorial defense brigades close to Malinovka (Zaporozhye region), Staromayorskoye, and Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).

The AFU losses were up to 110 Ukrainian servicemen and three motor vehicles.

▫️ In Kherson direction, units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 28th, 65th, and 118th mechanized brigades close to Rabotino, Nesteryanka (Zaporozhye region), and Tyaginka (Kherson region).

The AFU losses were up to 40 Ukrainian troops and nine pick-up trucks.

▫️Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 142 areas during the day.

▫️Air defense facilities have shot down 103 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as 31 HIMARS, Vampire, and Uragan MLRS projectiles.

📊In total, 577 airplanes and 270 helicopters, 17,011 unmanned aerial vehicles, 489 air defense missile systems, 15,598 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,256 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 8,521 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 20,192 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 20:21

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🚨As a result of interrogation Russian investigators discovered the following:

⚠️The organizers of the attack on Crocus were preparing another terrorist attack in the countries of Central Asia.

⚠️Two terrorists probably received instructions in Turkey, the rest were recruited to participate in the terrorist attack in Russia.

⚠️“This was not a “sleeper cell of terrorists in the classical sense.” The candidates were spontaneously recruited in the space of 2-3 weeks.

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 20:25

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 22:24

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠The head of the SBU told the details of the assassination attempts on Kiva, Tatarsky, Prilepin and ex-LPR officials

▪️At the same time, he said that the SBU will not officially take responsibility for these operations. But he made it clear that the Ukrainian special service did it.
According to Vasily Malyuk:
– ex-people’s deputy Ilya Kiva was killed by a 9×19 mm bullet, there was also a control bullet to the head;
➖ blogger Vladlen Tatarsky was killed with a bust filled with explosives. At the same time, Malyuk stated that Tatarsky allegedly introduced the practice of raping Ukrainian prisoners. “He introduced such an underground, prison subculture by organizing the rape of Ukrainian prisoners. He responded karmically for this,” said Malyuk.
➖ writer Zakhar Prilepin exploded in a car on an anti-tank mine, remained alive, but “his pelvis, legs were very injured, and he was left without genitals”;
➖ LPR Prosecutor General Sergei Gorenko was liquidated in his own office: “For a long time they thought that a rocket flew into the window, there were 800 grams of plastic”;
➖ The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, Igor Kornet, came in to shave, but there he was “gotten” by explosives. He survived, but now has a serious disability. - RVvoenkor

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 22:28

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇸🏴 Article by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper (March 25, 2024)

Biden likes ISIS, not peace

The US spin doctors have driven themselves into a trap by claiming that the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow was perpetrated by ISIS, a terrorist organisation banned in Russia. It is also clear why they are doing this. Obviously, they have no other way out.

This includes billions of dollars and an unprecedented amount of arms invested in the Kiev regime, based on corruption schemes, where no accounts were submitted; the use of aggressive rhetoric towards Russia. Hence Washington’s daily effort to cover up for their charges in Kiev and the attempt to shift the blame away from themselves and the Zelensky regime they have nurtured by using the bogey of ISIS (an organization banned in Russia).

And that's where they got caught in their own rusty trap.

What is ISIS?

In the past, Washington actively supported, armed and controlled the mujahideen in Afghanistan as part of its drive to oppose the Soviet Union. Al-Qaeda emerged precisely from that Afghan campaign.

But let us leave Afghanistan for a while and turn to Iraq. In October 2006, the Consultative Meeting of the Mujahideen established a new jihadist group that brought together Al-Masri’s terrorists and other Islamists from the group known as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). Appointed as the leader of this new organisation was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, whom the Americans, for some reason, had released from prison in Iraq not long before. QED!

He established close cooperation with the Islamists in Syria, who were fighting against the legitimate government of Bashar al-Assad. In April 2013, the expanded terrorist organization was given a new name – the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

So, it turns out that after Al-Qaeda, the Americans willingly or unwillingly had a hand in creating yet another monster, ISIS.

In 2015, in response to a request from the legitimate Government of Syria, Russia sent a unit of its Aerospace Forces to help the Syrian army fight the terrorists. This interfered with ISIS’ plans to impose its control over vast territories in Iraq and Syria.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin addressed the UN General Assembly session in 2015, suggesting that a united anti-ISIS front, modeled on the anti-Hitler coalition, should be created. The response was the West’s war face, not a delighted acceptance. Far from helping us to fight ISIS, the US was doing whatever it could to interfere with our effort. Interesting, isn’t it?

At the same time, a US-controlled extremist enclave, the so-called Al Tanf refugee camp, continues to exist in southeast Syria. It has become a haven for terrorists, providing them with training before they are sent to perform missions.

The White House clearly follows yet another tactical line in Syria, where ostensibly it has committed itself to sort the “moderate opposition” from the ISIS terrorists in a clear and informal manner. In all evidence, this is how Washington has planned the whole thing: it wants the conflict to drag on, multiplying the number of victims, while preventing that seat of international terrorism from being definitively eliminated.

Oddly enough, ISIS has adjusted its plans in recent years and now attacks mostly enemies of the US, such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Iranians, the legitimate authorities in Syria, and Russia.

❗️ Is there any logic in this, you would ask? It lies in the money and power. Moreover, in a situation where there is an international legal ban on direct interventions, the ulterior motive is to sow “controlled chaos” and rehash the world order with the help of terrorists.

And now, attention, my question to the White House: Was it really ISIS? Changed your mind yet?

Full article:
https://telegra.ph/Article-of-Russian-MFA-Spokeswoman-Maria-Zakharovas-for-Komsomolskaya-Pravda-03-25

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 22:43

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March 2️⃣5️⃣. Key developments of the Special Military Operation:

▪️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost up to 465 people over the course of the day, according to the Russian MoD;

▪️ Russian forces have advanced in Donetsk, Avdeyevka and south Donetsk directions. Air defence systems destroyed 103 Ukrainian drones and 31 shells of HIMARS, Vampire and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, the Ministry of Defence said;

▪️ Air defence systems intercepted 11 Ukrainian drones over the Rostov region last night, the Russian Defence Ministry said. Two Ukrainian S-200 missiles were shot down over the region at around 3.30pm Moscow time;

▪️ In the Belgorod region, the AFU attacked a Gazelle car on the motorway using a kamikaze drone; the driver and passenger were not injured, regional governor Gladkov said;

▪️ The Kiev city military administration reported that rocket debris fell in the Pechersk district of the Ukrainian capital after explosions;

▪️ The head of the Odessa regional military administration, Oleg Kiper, said Odessa's power infrastructure had been damaged and part of the city was without electricity;

▪️ The Ukrainian military has changed its tactics in the direction of Kherson and is concentrating on shelling civilian infrastructure, Governor Saldo has said.

@ukraine_watch

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 22:58

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⚡️ 📹 Must watch!

👁 This week's "Vesti Nedeli" with Dmitry Kiselev offers a detailed examination of how Western media and officials reacted to the Crocus City Hall tragedy.

❗️ The episode delves into the initial hesitations, the stumbling responses, and the premature efforts to absolve Kiev of any blame.

🔘 Controversy: While the Islamic State is blamed, some voices in the West speculate on other possible orchestrators, including suggestions of involvement by Kiev.

🔘 Western Media's Coverage and Speculation: Varied responses from Western media and officials, with some pushing back on the ISIS narrative and others suggesting different culprits.

🔘 Calls for Investigation: Voices in Europe and the U.S. emphasize the need for a thorough investigation into the attack's origins, including any possible connections to Ukraine.

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 23:17

Please listen to what he says to Alex Jones about the attack on Crocus.

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Ravenlocke

25th March 2024, 23:30

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25th March 2024, 23:34

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26th March 2024, 00:26

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I Wonder if Putin is going to bomb that ? He is friendly with Chabad Lubavitch maffia so probably not ... You never hear Putin critize the chosen ones ..That's an astonishingly stupid question.

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BMJ

26th March 2024, 01:15

shaberon

26th March 2024, 03:56

Most of Ukraine is already sold to foreign corporations,some of it before the war and alot of it during the war to pay the debts.What they dont need is Ukrainians,previous landowners etc.
Rebuilding Ukraine will be big business and since the chosen ones want to make second Israel there then yeah,gotta get rid off alot of Ukrainians.

Yes, that is what we call Capitalism.

Probably need to add a pinch of England and Monaco.

The thing is, that it was not intended to lose. It was intended to use those half-million guys as low wage labor with no rights, so you could have medical experiments, child abduction, organ harvests.

There would have been no need to slaughter Ukrainians as the deals were already set. The stupidity was in thinking "Russia is about to collapse" and massing an army. I would say at that point, they were wrong for believing their own lies, and these are unintended consequences.

This goon:

Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky, President of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine, the founder of the European Council of Jewish Communities (European Council of Jewish Communities) and the European Jewish Union (European Jewish Union)

was involved with John McCain in Syria.

In the long run, he got most of the Fifth Column exposed/flushed.

There, again, they thought some false news and a few militias would work as usual. It didn't. Dr. Assad is doing much better than most of them.

When we see the near futility of NATO capabilities versus Russian, then, I think we can say some eighty years' work is a complete failure.

Tintin

26th March 2024, 10:57

Some commentary here from various individuals on the events of the past few days.

Alexander Bastrykin, Head of the Investigative Committee of Russia on the timeline of the terrorists movements on the evening of March 22nd relating to the Crocus City Hall atrocity:

🇷🇺 Statement from the Head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin

➡️Bastrykin reported that terrorists arrived at "Crocus City Hall" at 19:58 and left the building at 20:11.

➡️Bastrykin informed Putin that upon the terrorists' apprehension, two AK-74 rifles, over 500 rounds of ammunition, 28 magazines, and bottles with traces of gasoline were discovered.

➡️Bastrykin stated that over 200 searches and seizures have been conducted in connection with the "Crocus" terrorist attack, with items of significance to the investigation confiscated.

➡️The "Crocus" attack was meticulously planned and prepared, according to Bastrykin.

➡️He mentioned that all the accused confessed to their involvement in preparing the attack during questioning and in court.

⚠️ The suspects in the "Crocus" attack provided detailed testimony about the masterminds and those who assisted in its preparation, Bastrykin added.

➡️Of the total casualties, 40 people died from gunshot wounds, 45 from fire, a total of 139 people died, Bastrykin reported.

➡️Bastrykin informed Putin that the contents of all fire suppression systems at "Crocus" are being examined, and an expert has been appointed for an assessment.

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On Zelensky's comments surrounding the Crocus City Hall atrocity, French journalist Vincent Hervouet had this to say on French national television yesterday:

"When you hear Mr. Zelensky's explanation that Russian special services did it - it is very stupid. And then when he claims that Ukraine has never resorted to terrorism - he's making a mockery of the world. Because even without talking about Nord Stream, we are still waiting for the official truth about the car-bombed murder of intellectual Dugin near Moscow, or rather his daughter, who was killed when she started the car. Then there is the murder of an anti-Ukrainian military blogger and the attack on a cafe in St. Petersburg. These are attacks that were claimed by the Ukrainian services."

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Concerning the missile strikes on Kiev on March 25th (yesterday) the following analysis from Donbas Partizan (https://t.me/don_partizan/4625) via their Telegram account:

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Today's missile strike on Kiev, analysis by Donbass Partizan (https://t.me/don_partizan/4625)

Today, around 10:30 a.m., RuAF launched a strike on the location of one of the UkA military units in Kiev.

➡️It has been established that the strike hit Mykhaila Boichuka St, 32 - publicly available sources link the building to the Civil Defense HQ and the Kiev Academy of Decorative Arts and Design.

🐻In fact, the building was vacant and no one was inside. Under the "creative academy" is a large basement with a separate entrance from Saltikova-Shchedrina Street (this side of the destroyed building was not shown at all). In addition, more than a year ago (just when the Civil Defense HQ were "evicted") ventilation and air purification systems were installed in the inner courtyard.

⚠️ It is noteworthy that local residents have repeatedly observed vehicles with black [military] license plates of the series C6 in the parking lot near the "academy."

ℹ️Black plates are used by the SBU and the GSSSZIU (State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine).

➡️At the moment, information has been received that the building was a covert facility of one of the structural units of the SBU. Loud statements that it was a "decision-making center" or "headquarters" raise doubts, but it can be said with confidence that the "basement" housed the operational staff of one of the special services units.

Why exactly this object became the target of strikes will probably remain a mystery, but considering that the SBU is involved in carrying out a number of diversions and terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation, it suggests that employees who were involved in recruitment, planning, organization, and direct implementation of such actions could have been located here.

Unfortunately, the second missile was shot down in the area of "Zhuliany" airport, and the fragments fell on the building on Hutsulska Street, causing smoke in the area.

Tintin

26th March 2024, 11:20

"President Putin approved impunity for the Russian services, like in the second
Chechen war, to do what is needed and broadcast it as an example. By the way… this
is exactly what Ukraine’s Nazis are awaiting when Ukraine falls…
If you see in the next days all the images and footage of the torture of these guys…
They are approved by President Putin and designed to show everyone in the Russian
world (ex-Soviet space and further) what awaits them in such cases. And President
Putin knows very effectively how to manage such a campaign. I hinted in one of my
articles already how Chechnya was “physically” cleansed and what awaits Ukraine."

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Article link: Avalon Library (https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Moscow_Crocus_City_Hall_terror_incident_%28March_2024%29/2024-03-25_The_Crocus_Disaster_%5Bi%5D_The_terrorist_attack_and_its_consequences_by_Aleks_%28Black_Mountain_ Analysis_on_Substack%29.pdf)

The following very interesting commentary from Black Mountain Analysis on Substack and the author named Aleks.

The Crocus Disaster [i] - The terrorist attack and its consequences

https://avalonlibrary.net/Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Moscow_Crocus_City_Hall_terror_incident_%28March_2024%29/2024-03-25_The_Crocus_Disaster_%5Bi%5D_The_terrorist_attack_and_its_consequences_by_Aleks_%28Black_Mountain_ Analysis_on_Substack%29.pdf

Tintin

26th March 2024, 11:42

"It was quite instructive how quickly the client media in the West assigned at the behest of their government masters, blame to ISIS. Operation Timber Sycamore, the brainchild of the CIA in 2013, painted a facade of liberty while orchestrating a theatre of chaos and constant tension. Under the pathetic guise of nurturing democracy in Syria, the CIA, with MI6 and Mossad et. al, engaged in a calculated charade, peddling "moderate rebels" as a smokescreen and middleman for their real agenda. This not-so elaborate ruse was not just about arming purported freedom fighters; it was an orchestrated pipeline funneling lethal aid and vast sums of black budget money to the very epicenters of radicalism. ISIS and Al-Nusra, draped in the banners of Wahhabi extremism, were not mere byproducts of conflict but the beneficiaries of a coldly calculated Western strategy that saw their barbarism as a necessary evil in the pursuit of hegemonic dominance." - by Gerry Nolan, The Islander on Substack

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Another excellent article from Gerry Nolan via Substack, and also copied to the Avalon library.

Source: https://islanderreports.substack.com/p/shadows-and-ashes-the-crocus-city

Shadows and Ashes: The Crocus City Hall Massacre and the Covert War's Phantom Menace ISIS, Cui Bono?

Published March 24th, 2024

By: Gerry Nolan

As the dust settles on the ruins of Crocus City Hall, a venue once echoing with the anticipation of music, now a silent witness to a horrific massacre claiming 137 lives, a chilling narrative unfolds, revealing more than the mere act of terror. Before the ashes could cool, before the world could grasp the magnitude of the atrocity, unsolicited denials from the US and Ukraine pierced the air, their haste betraying a foreknowledge disturbing in its implications. Their rush to disclaim responsibility, even as Russia had yet to cast blame, paints a damning picture of awareness and complicity in a tragedy that Moscow hadn’t even attributed to them—how revealing their swiftness, how telling their fear.

The narrative, meticulously woven with the threads of premature denials, is laid bare against the backdrop of a tragedy that saw gunmen storm the Crocus City Hall, transforming a night of revelry into a nightmarish inferno. The attackers, armed with Kalashnikovs and combat ammunition, claimed the lives of innocents, including three children, leaving a trail of 180 wounded. The swift seizure of 11 suspects by Russia’s FSB, some detained near the Ukrainian border, only deepens the intrigue, pointing towards a web of complicity pointing towards the US via neo-nazi puppet Ukraine.

It was quite instructive how quickly the client media in the West assigned at the behest of their government masters, blame to ISIS. Operation Timber Sycamore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore), the brainchild of the CIA in 2013, painted a facade of liberty while orchestrating a theatre of chaos and constant tension. Under the pathetic guise of nurturing democracy in Syria, the CIA, with MI6 and Mossad et. al, engaged in a calculated charade, peddling "moderate rebels" as a smokescreen and middleman for their real agenda. This not-so elaborate ruse was not just about arming purported freedom fighters; it was an orchestrated pipeline funneling lethal aid and vast sums of black budget money to the very epicenters of radicalism. ISIS and Al-Nusra, draped in the banners of Wahhabi extremism, were not mere byproducts of conflict but the beneficiaries of a coldly calculated Western strategy that saw their barbarism as a necessary evil in the pursuit of hegemonic dominance.

It's starkly revealing that in Syria, despite ISIS commandeering vast caches of U.S. weaponry, and while illicit oil flowed freely through Turkey, the U.S. astonishingly allowed ISIS to thrive unchecked. It wasn't until Russia intervened in 2015 that ISIS saw its oil smuggling revenue—and subsequently its stronghold—severely smashed, thanks to concerted Russian and Iranian efforts. Evidently, the U.S. had a vested interest in the survival of ISIS's fake caliphate, using it as a pretext to perpetuate the destabilization of Iraq and Syria. This chaos served dual purposes: it legitimized the West's ongoing plunder of Iraqi and Syrian resources and future, under the guise of combating a terror that, ironically, they enabled and allowed to flourish.

The barbaric attack in Moscow, executed with cold precision during the sacred month of Ramadan, stands as a stark testament to the perverse nature of these ideologically bankrupt movements. As Pepe Escobar points out, no genuine Islamic faction, claiming to represent the sanctity of pure Islam, would sanction, much less perpetrate, atrocities in such a holy period. Yet, this heinous act, far removed from any semblance of religious fidelity, underscores the manufactured essence of these terror outfits. Fueled by the clandestine largesse of Western intelligence, these groups operate not on the basis of organic ideology but as pawns in a larger game of shadowy manipulations, their existence sustained by an unending flow of covert funds and arms.

Embedded within this horrific event is the stark reality of the once-mighty ISIS, now a shadow of its former self, propped up by unseen benefactors for their own nefarious purposes. The emergence of ISIS's Khorasan Province as the figurehead in this and other attacks should be understood not as a resurgence of a defeated foe but as a calculated move by those who benefit from the chaos it brings. This version of ISIS, particularly its Afghan faction, has served as a convenient destabilizing factor post-Taliban ascendancy, with ties tracing back to the darkest corners of international intrigue, where American connections with radical Taliban factions under Sirajuddin Haqqani lurk ominously.

The stark reality is that ISIS could not have sustained itself without substantial external support, operating not from a base of ideological or economic self-sufficiency but as a war machine fueled by dark money and strategic interests. This entity, fundamentally composed of illiterate radicals with no genuine military training or capability, was transformed into a force capable of seizing territories, a feat impossible without the curriculum of covert warfare and logistical support provided by shadowy patrons.

Now, as the vestiges of ISIS's influence wane, the remnants of the Khorasan Province serve as a poignant reminder of the group's puppet status, desperately claiming responsibility for atrocities in a bid to sustain their relevance. This echoes the broader manipulation at play, where powers like the US and its vassal the UK, through their actions or inactions, have perpetuated the lifecycle of terror groups for strategic gain, casting long shadows over regions like Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, which fall within their spheres of influence.

Cui bono?

In the murky theater of modern conflict, where the lines between statecraft and shadow operations blur, the tragic spectacle at Crocus City Hall emerges not merely as an act of terrorism but a calculated maneuver in a wider strategic game. Amid the smoldering ruins and the grief of lost lives, the swift denials from Ukraine and the United States before any accusations were cast point to a deeper complicity, a premeditated awareness that cannot be ignored. This haste to disassociate, to cast off culpability even in the absence of direct blame, underscores a tacit admission of involvement, a silent acknowledgment of a role played behind the curtains of geopolitical intrigue.

As the world grapples with the aftermath of this massacre, the premature denials from the US and Ukraine stand as a testament to their guilt, a reflection of their deep-seated fear that the global majority might finally see beyond the veil of misinformation. This incident, while a tragedy of unspeakable proportions, serves as a clarion call to peel back the layers of propaganda, to question the narratives fed by those who operate in the shadows, and to demand accountability for the architects of chaos who orchestrate terror from the safety of their covert world.

The spotlight, then, inevitably turns to Ukraine, to figures like Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), and the shadowy operations of its Security Service (SBU). These entities, emboldened and entwined with Western intelligence, particularly the CIA, have not shied away from the limelight, boasting of operations that strike at the heart of Russia. Yet, this bravado, encapsulated in a boastful piece by The Washington Post in October, only serves to peel back the layers of a narrative the West seeks to obscure. The article's own narrative reveals the deep ties to the CIA, framing Ukraine and Budanov as frontmen for a more sinister conductor – Washington.

This narrative is not without precedent. The trail of actions attributed to Ukraine's covert forces – from the assassination of journalists in Russia to the murder of Daria Dugina, the terror attacks on the Kerch Bridge, and the relentless shelling of Donetsk city center – paints a portrait of a neo-Nazi state emboldened and financed by the West. Each act of terrorism, cheered from afar, underscores the West's, particularly the United States', commitment to a proxy war waged to the last Ukrainian. Yet, why the absurd claim of ISIS involvement now? The answer lies in the fear gripping the West as it faces the inevitable Russian response to these provocations.

The West, led by the United States, finds itself at a strategic impasse, its ambitions defeated on the battlefield, now seeks to escalate tensions through chaos reminiscent of Operation Gladio to keep its alliance of vassals at a constant state of war with Russia. However, in its machinations, it faces a critical dilemma – the necessity to mask its involvement, to obfuscate the truth from a Western populace unprepared to confront the reality of their governments' actions. Thus, the ludicrous attribution to ISIS serves a dual purpose: it maintains the veneer of plausible deniability for the West while attempting to paint Russia as the aggressor in any retaliatory measures it might undertake.

In this elaborate chess game of power and deception, the ultimate losers are the innocent lives caught in the crossfire, the pawns sacrificed for cynical gain. The tragedy at Crocus City Hall, therefore, is not an isolated event but a manifestation of a broader, more malignant strategy aimed at sustaining a perpetual state of conflict, in an existentialist gambit to keep the hegemony alive. As the world stands on the precipice of escalation, the question of "cui bono?" looms large, with the answer pointing unequivocally towards those who seek to profit from the perpetuation of chaos and division. The US. Now when Putin in his remarks immediately following this horrific terrorist attack stated resolutely that all those responsible would be held accountable, how far will that accountability ultimately go?

The tragedy at Crocus City Hall, thus, transcends its immediate horror, becoming a damning condemnation of the hidden hands—particularly those of the US—that manipulate the strings of global terror for their nefarious ends. It challenges us to look beyond the surface, to see the unseen architects of a malignant world order built on deception and bloodshed, and to hold them accountable in the court of global opinion. The echoes of their premature denials, in their revealing haste, mark not just a moment of tragedy but a watershed in our understanding of the dark undercurrents shaping this ominous chapter.

ExomatrixTV

26th March 2024, 11:49

Ron Paul Goes AFTER VICTORIA NULAND, US Ukraine Policy On Tucker Carlson's Show:

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Tintin

26th March 2024, 11:59

AVALON LIBRARIAN/ARCHIVIST UPDATE

Folks, just a very brief update here concerning the appalling Crocus City Hall terror attack, which only too readily brings to my mind the horrors of the Route 91 festival back in 2017 (https://avalonlibrary.net/?dir=Las_Vegas_Route_91_October_2017).

There's a dedicated directory which is being updated with critical imagery, articles, and developments in general now in the library, and obviously ongoing for the time being while its front-and-centre.

DIRECTORY LINK: https://avalonlibrary.net/?dir=Ukraine/2022_Russian_invasion_%28Operation-Z%29/Moscow_Crocus_City_Hall_terror_incident_%28March_2024%29

Here are the current contents and as with all library content downloadable for your own personal archives. Obviously [Graphic] content has been flagged as such:

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grapevine

26th March 2024, 13:09

Yet again a great on point update by Col. Douglas MacGregor.

"This was the LAST straw for Ukraine, it's over" Col. Douglas MacGregor | Redacted w Clayton Morris

Redacted
26 March 2024

Col. Douglas MacGregor says this attack on Moscow was the last desperate move from a desperate Zelensky and they will pay the price.

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Thanks for this BMJ. Slightly off topic, but relevant to the future, I was particularly interested at the conversation from 21:45 - "Our Country Our Choice", a 3rd Party instead of the American Two Cheeks of the Same Backside. If only it gets off the ground . . . and I think it will when and if people are desperate enough.

Back on topic, Colonel MacGregor is of the same opinion as Scott Ritter and Alexander Mercouris, but the biggest surprise for me was that ISIS are STILL being funded by the USA.

grapevine

26th March 2024, 15:20

I'm currently listening to George Galloway Live on You Tube. Scott Ritter is saying there's strong implication that Ukraine was involved in the Crocus attack as when the car left Moscow and sped towards Ukraine, the terrorist mobiles were being tracked and repeated calls were being made to Ukraine who were arranging a safe passage for them through the border.

Unfortunately the show itself is long (still live) and won't be broken up into separate videos for a couple of days. However, once it's finished I'll post the entire MOATS show on the George Galloway thread later this evening,

Here now is the relevant segment as mentioned above. Investigations have now moved on but I still think it's worth posting . . .

INTERVIEW: Did Ukraine plot the Moscow massacre? Scott Ritter sifts evidence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FVg90sPTUM 19.25 mins

Bill Ryan

26th March 2024, 15:40

This was published on TASS (the Russian official news agency) just uner 3 hours ago, so this has to be significant. It's the closest thing yet to a formal Russian statement blaming Ukraine for the Crocus City Hall massacre.

Given the international sensitivity of all this, Bortnikov would never have stated this without Putin's approval. He'd never have expressed a loose personal opinion without strong evidence in the FSB's possession. If this were to turn out to be entirely incorrect, it'd be a major embarrassment for both the FSB and Putin himself.

https://tass.com/emergencies/1766181

US, Britain, Ukraine behind Crocus City Hall attack — FSB chief

The United States, Britain and Ukraine are behind the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the chief of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has told the media.

"We believe that this is true. In any case, we are now talking about the factual information we have. This is general information, but they have a long record of this sort," he said after participating in an enlarged meeting of the Prosecutor General's Office board, when asked whether the US, Britain and Ukraine were behind the terrorist attack.

Bortnikov believes that Ukraine has been trying to prove it is capable enough.

"What is it expected to do to demonstrate its capability? It is expected to carry out sabotage and terrorist acts in the rear. This is what both the chiefs of Ukraine's special services and the British special services are aiming at. US special services have repeatedly mentioned this, too," he said.

He pointed out that there was a large amount of information in the public space "showing that the West and Ukraine are out to cause greater harm to our country."

Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 16:20

Text:
We launched our own investigation into the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, and a day later the Interpol leadership declared its readiness to assist in the investigation — Sergey Lavrov

"I do not remember that Interpol volunteered to help us investigate the terrorist attack on the Nord Streams, although we appealed to the UN Security Council. Therefore, we will not need such assistance with the manifestation of double standards and with the promotion of a theory convenient for the West," the Russian Foreign Minister said.

There is no need for any investigation at all. The terrorist attack was committed by those who are fighting against Russia - the USA, UK, Ukraine. And Russia, if it has decided to fight, then it should fight and not investigate who is the main culprit. The main culprit of the United States, who doubts this?

https://t.me/vicktop55/23165

https://x.com/vicktop55/status/1772628401590845452

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 16:26

Text:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🏴 The head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's GUR Budanov is a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces, as are all those who commit crimes against Russia. The SBU should be recognized as a terrorist organization, - Russian FSB Director Bortnikov.

"Why is he still alive? - Everything is ahead" - Bortnikov about the head of the Ukrainian GUR

❗️In addition, the FSB director said that the U.S., Britain and Ukraine were behind the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

Slavyangrad

https://x.com/dana916/status/1772631089078505535

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 16:52

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1772589632397492316

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https://tass.com/emergencies/1765977?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Moscow court arrests eighth suspect in Crocus City Hall terrorist attack case

The court has detained Alisher Kasimov until May 22

MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Moscow’s Basmanny court has detained the eighth suspect in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack case, a TASS correspondent reported.

According to the correspondent, the suspect is Kyrgyzstan's Alisher Kasimov, who rented an apartment to the perpetrators of the terrorist attack.

"[I hereby rule] to satisfy the appeal of the prosecutor's office to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention," the judge said.

The court has detained Kasimov until May 22. The defense asked that he be placed under house arrest. The court's decision has not yet taken effect and is subject to appeal.

Kasimov was born in the city of Osh. He is a Russian citizen and has three children. He owns a cafe in Krasnogorsk.

On March 25, Moscow’s Basmanny court arrested four perpetrators of the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack: Dalerjon Mirzoyev, Saidakram Rachabalizodu, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Faizov. Later, their three supposed accomplices, Aminchon Islomov, Dilovar Islomov, and their father Isroil Islomov, were also arrested.

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just over the Moscow city limits. The current death toll is 139, and 182 people were injured. Eleven individuals suspected of being involved in the terrorist attack have been apprehended, including four gunmen who were detained in the Bryansk Region, southwest of Moscow, as they attempted to seek refuge by crossing the nearby Ukrainian border. President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address that, according to preliminary information, the Ukrainian side had prepared "a window" in the border especially for the terrorists to cross undetected. He promised to identify and punish all those who were behind the attack on Crocus City Hall.

Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 16:57

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1772622101502935298

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https://tass.com/politics/1766193?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=smm_social_share

Russia delivers strike at Ukrainian intelligence decision-making centers

The Ukrainian military lost more than 425 troops, four electronic warfare stations and a counter-battery radar in battles with Russian forces in the Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported

MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russian forces delivered a combined strike by long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukrainian intelligence decision-making centers and sites and foreign mercenaries’ deployment areas over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"During the last 24-hour period, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a combined strike by seaborne and ground-based long-range precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against SBU [Ukrainian Security Service] decision-making centers and sites, military-industrial enterprises and deployment areas of Ukrainian Neo-Nazi formations and foreign mercenaries. All the targets were struck. The goals of the strike were achieved," the ministry said in a statement.

On March 16-22, Russian troops delivered 49 retaliatory strikes with precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles in response to Kiev’s shelling of Russian populated areas and attempts to break through into its territory, the ministry reported.

On March 24, Russia’s Aerospace Forces delivered a combined strike by air-launched precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against Ukrainian electric power and gas-extracting industry sites and naval drone assembly workshops.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with Security Council permanent members that the enemy’s strikes delivered against Russia’s populated areas during the presidential election would trigger a retaliatory strike.

Russian forces take better positions in Kupyansk area over past day

Russian forces improved their frontline positions in the Kupyansk area, eliminating roughly 20 enemy troops over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Kupyansk direction, units of the Western Battlegroup inflicted damage by firepower on enemy forces and improved their forward edge positions in active operations The Ukrainian army’s losses amounted to 20 personnel and 2 motor vehicles," the ministry said.

Kiev loses over 425 troops in Donetsk area over past day

The Ukrainian military lost more than 425 troops, four electronic warfare stations and a counter-battery radar in battles with Russian forces in the Donetsk area over the past day, the ministry reported.

"The Ukrainian army lost more than 425 personnel, 2 armored combat vehicles and 7 motor vehicles. In addition, Russian forces destroyed four electronic warfare stations, a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station and a US-manufactured M777 howitzer," the ministry said.

Units of Russia’s Southern Battlegroup took advantageous positions and inflicted damage on formations of the Ukrainian army’s 54th and 93rd mechanized and 81st airmobile brigades near the settlements of Belogorovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Kleshcheyevka and Verkhnekamenskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, it specified.

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

Russian forces improved their frontline positions and repulsed four Ukrainian army counterattacks in the Avdeyevka area, eliminating roughly 280 enemy troops and two tanks over the past day, the ministry reported.

"In the Avdeyevka direction, units of the Battlegroup Center inflicted damage on enemy formations and improved their forward edge positions. They repulsed four enemy counterattacks," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army lost "as many as 280 personnel, 2 tanks, 2 armored combat vehicles and 6 motor vehicles," it specified.

In counter-battery fire, Russian forces destroyed two US-made M777 howitzers, a UK-made AS-90 self-propelled artillery gun, a D-20 howitzer and a Gvozdika motorized artillery system in the Avdeyevka direction over the past 24 hours, the ministry reported.

Russian forces destroy 105 Ukrainian troops in south Donetsk area over past day

Russian forces destroyed roughly 105 Ukrainian troops and 2 British howitzers 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 105 personnel, five motor vehicles and two UK-made FH70 howitzers and also a Gvozdika motorized artillery system," the ministry said statement.

Russian forces destroy 50 Ukrainian troops in Kherson area over past day

Russian forces struck Ukrainian army units in the Kherson area, destroying roughly 50 enemy troops and a US-made howitzer 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 by firepower on amassed manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian army’s 65th mechanized and 108th territorial defense brigades near the settlements of Rabotino and Novosyolovka in the Zaporozhye Region," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in the Kherson direction over the past 24 hours amounted to 50 personnel, 3 motor vehicles and a US-made M777 howitzer, it specified.

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

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

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

Russian air defenses down 131 Ukrainian UAVs over past day

Russian air defense forces shot down 131 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and two S-200 surface-to-air missiles converted into strike weapons over the past day, the ministry reported.

"During the last 24-hour period, air defense capabilities shot down 131 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, two S-200 surface-to-air missiles converted for striking ground targets and 15 rockets of the HIMARS and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems," the ministry said.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 577 Ukrainian warplanes, 270 helicopters, 17,142 unmanned aerial vehicles, 489 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,604 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,256 multiple rocket launchers, 8,531 field artillery guns and mortars and 20,215 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.

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Crocus City Hall terror attack meant to create chaos in Russia — security service chief

Alexander Bortnikov also noted that Donbass and the Belgorod Region are at the epicenter of Ukraine’s attacks

MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. The terror attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall was meant to destabilize the situation in Russia, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said.

"To rock the boat, to stir panic in society. You see what is going on along the combat engagement line. Ukraine’s notorious counteroffensive has failed and they need to do something to show their worth," he told journalists.

He also noted that Donbass and the Belgorod Region are at the epicenter of Ukraine’s attacks. "Now, our armed forces are pushing terrorists and militants further away from Donbass. What is happening in the Belgorod Region? That's where they're focusing in order to cause a stir among the people about what is going on at the border and in border regions. So, the only thing they can do to demonstrate their strength is to stage acts of sabotage and terror attacks in the rear," Bortnikov said, adding that this is what Ukraine wants.

"The Americans have spoken about this more than once. A lot of information circulated in the public space indicates that the West and Ukraine are seeking to do as much harm to our country as possible," he stressed.

According to earlier reports, the terrorists who attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue were expected in Ukraine, where, according to Bortnikov, they were supposed to be met as heroes.

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just over the Moscow city limits. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the current death toll is 139, but may rise. The Moscow Region Health Ministry said that 182 people were injured.

Eleven individuals suspected of being involved in the terrorist attack have been apprehended, including four gunmen who were detained in the Bryansk Region, southwest of Moscow, as they attempted to seek refuge by crossing the nearby Ukrainian border.

President Vladimir Putin said in a televised address that, according to preliminary information, the Ukrainian side had prepared "a window" in the border especially for the terrorists to cross undetected. He promised to identify and punish all those who were behind the attack on Crocus City Hall.

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‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺Cryptor from the FSB Academy: Who is the new NSDC Secretary Litvinenko.

▪️Zelensky removed Danilov and appointed a new head of the National Security and Defense Council. .
▪️In 1994, Alexander Litvinenko graduated from the Moscow Institute of Cryptography at the FSB Academy (then the Federal Counterintelligence Service). That is, he became a professional cryptographer.
▪️Then he worked for 4 years at the SBU in the government communications department.
▪️Since 1998, Litvinenko has worked for 7 years at the Institute for Strategic Studies, where he also makes a career from senior consultant to first deputy director. And in 2007 he returned to the SBU - deputy head of the Department of Information and Analytical Support.
▪️After working for two more years in the “office”, Litvinenko returned to scientific work again. And then, after the Maidan, in 2014 he became the deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, where Poroshenko worked mainly under Turchynov.
▪️But even before working in the Security Council, the future head of intelligence graduated from the British Royal College of Defense Sciences (RUSI).
▪️In August 2019, Zelensky fired Litvinenko from the Security Council and sent him back to head the Institute for Strategic Studies.
▪️In 2021, he was appointed head of the SVR.
▪️Last year, Litvinenko stated that the Russian Federation intends to wage a long war of attrition with Ukraine and is counting on a “global redistribution of the world” in the next 10-15 years.
▪️And also that Putin intends to destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine, annex as much territory as possible, and install a government controlled by Moscow on the unoccupied part.
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26th March 2024, 17:15

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️Ukraine faces electricity shortage after Russia’s most powerful retaliation strike
▪️In Friday's missile attack, only DTEK lost half of its generating capacity.
▪️"Several types of generating facilities were hit, a large number of thermal power plants were hit, and a hydro-generating facility was hit. The second part - the enemy hit a lot of Ukrenergo network nodes, transformers, etc... This attack simultaneously destroys the system's ability to transmit electricity and underestimates our generation capabilities,” said Yasno CEO S. Kovalenko.
▪️Recovery will take “months.” Although earlier there were estimates that it would take years to restore the same Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant or the Kharkov fifth thermal power plant.
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CHPP-5 in Kharkov is now out of service - Photos of the effects of shelling on Ukrainian infrastructure have appeared online.

Most of the substations in Kharkov are also out of service or severely damaged.

Similarly, substations in Krivoy Rog were severely damaged.

@ukraine_watch

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 17:24

🇷🇺⚔️🏴“I told him, rent out the apartment only to Russians”.

The Investigative Committee asks the court to arrest the eighth accused in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus - Alisher Khatamovich Kasimov. He rented out an apartment to terrorists in Putilkovo near Moscow. The mother of Kasimova, who was arrested, said that she did not believe in her son’s guilt: “I told him, rent out the apartment only to Russians, but he needed money, he has three children and a mortgage, he needed to pay it off, and he rented it to these people "

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26th March 2024, 17:39

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A Russian reconnaissance drone has videotaped a Ukrainian evacuation team dumping the bodies of dead Ukrainian servicemen in a frontline forest plantation.

The Ukrainian military is doing this both to hide losses and to avoid paying financial compensation to their families, a source in Russian law enforcement told Sputnik.

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 17:43

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26th March 2024, 17:47

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🇺🇦💰By the end of the year, Kiev must pay $2.9 billion to the IMF for servicing previously received loans

Peak payments occur in March and September: each time they need to pay more than $700 million.

That is why Ukraine was so eager to receive a tranche of $800 million from the IMF in March - so that almost all of these funds could be immediately returned to the fund.

In total, Kiev must pay the IMF $14.4 billion for debt servicing by 2030.

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Pentagon’s ‘new’ Ukraine aid package was spent months ago – Politico

A $300 million spending package for Ukraine approved by the US Congress last week will not provide fresh aid for Kiev because the money was actually spent months ago, Politico reported on Tuesday.

The allocation for Ukraine was part of a $1.2 trillion spending package signed by President Joe Biden on Saturday, which will ensure funding for the US government until October.

The $300 million goes into the Pentagon’s Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), a mechanism used by Washington to funnel arms to Kiev, and which funds contracts for future arms and equipment deliveries. The money, however, “is not available for us to use now” due to how the initiative works, a US official told Politico on condition of anonymity.

In reality, the $300 million for Kiev was obligated back in November, when the Pentagon announced a support package which it said exhausted the remaining USAI funds. The Department of Defense has since reported that an accounting trick allows it to produce another military assistance package worth $300 million under existing authority.

It has reevaluated weapons drawn from its stockpile for Ukraine under a separate mechanism at net book value rather than replacement value, which tends to be higher. The approach, however, leaves a $10 billion hole in the Pentagon budget, since it doesn’t have enough funds to replenish its arsenal, officials admitted this month.

Continued American assistance to Kiev has been stifled by partisan divisions. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives is blocking over $60 billion in funding for Ukraine that the White House has been demanding for months.

The additional funds in the stopgap bill were approved by lawmakers this week in a moment of bipartisanship, even if symbolic rather than practical, Politico said.

Speaker Mike Johnson has indicated that a vote on further Ukraine aid may happen after the threat of a government shutdown in 2024 is alleviated. The chamber, however, is currently in recess, meaning any progress is unlikely before April.

READ MORE: West not acting out of love for Ukrainians – Borrell
Moscow has accused the West of waging a proxy war against Russia, using Ukrainians as cannon fodder. No amount of Western aid will alter the outcome of the conflict, Russian officials have insisted, warning that arms deliveries also stand in the way of a reasonable peace deal.

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26th March 2024, 17:57

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26th March 2024, 18:20

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🏴 The head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's GUR Budanov is a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces, as are all those who commit crimes against Russia. The SBU should be recognized as a terrorist organization, - Russian FSB Director Bortnikov.

"Why is he still alive? - Everything is ahead" - Bortnikov about the head of the Ukrainian GUR

❗️In addition, the FSB director said that the U.S., Britain and Ukraine were behind the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

Well that's just great as retribution will likely befall the innocent population in each country and not the perpetrators themselves, who won't give a flying crap about the loss of their country's civilians.

Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 18:27

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 18:44

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Maria Zakharova’s TG Channel:

Bloomberg: Putin’s circle does not believe in Ukraine’s involvement in the terrorist attack.

Masterpiece news. Simply the mother of all fakes. It turned out to be especially fortunate that it came out today, given that Vladimir Putin was “surrounded” in the morning by Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with the entire central apparatus of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Director of the FSB Alexandra Bortnikova.

And Nikolai Patrushev and Alexander Bortnikov also gave an interview on the topic of the involvement of the USA, Britain and Ukraine in the tragic events at Crocus City Hall.

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 20:34

Scott Ritter: On the Brink of Nuclear War : CIA & MOSCOW ATTACK

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26th March 2024, 20:47

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‼️🇵🇱🏴‍☠️The command of the Polish army reports the unexpected death of Brigadier General Adam Marczak
▪️Some Western and Russian resources link the general’s death with information that appeared on the Internet about an attack on a buried command post in Chasov Yar.
▪️“We regret to inform you that on Tuesday, 26 March 2024, the Chief of Staff of the EU Operational Command Althea in Mons, Brigadier General Adam Marczak, died,” the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command announced.
▪️It is specified that the death was unexpected, but “for natural reasons, during free time from duty.”
▪️ “Waging someone else’s war has its consequences,” foreigners who do not believe in death from natural causes write in the comments.
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‼️🇵🇱🇪🇸🇷🇺Poles are urgently buying apartments in Spain so that they have somewhere to escape from the war with Russia - http://Wyborcza.pl

▪️The number of Poles planning to buy housing in Spain is three times higher compared to 2023, writes the Wyborcza newspaper.
▪️The reason is the war in Ukraine and the possibility of starting a war on the territory of Poland. Pensioners and young people are most interested in real estate.
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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 20:52

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Ilya, the 8-year old boy who was hit by the terrorists' car on purpose, is on the recovery 🙏

The boy is still in the hospital, today he had a second surgery but he already wants to get on the ice as soon as possible.

By the way, Spartak hockey players have already visited him, presented him with merch and conveyed words of support. Even Ovechkin promised to call him! - FRWL reports

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 21:10

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 21:44

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March 2️⃣6️⃣. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:

▪️The director of the Russian Federal Security Service, Bortnikov, has said that the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, Budanov, is a legitimate target for the Russian armed forces.

▪️The Ukrainian Security Service should be recognised as a terrorist organisation, Bortnikov said.

▪️Ukraine has failed on the front line, so it is organising sabotage and terrorist attacks in the rear, including in the Belgorod region, the director of the Federal Security Service said.

▪️Secretary of the Russian Security Council Patrushev: Many things indicate that Ukraine is behind the terrorist attack in Crocus, special services and law enforcement agencies "will tell about it in time".

▪️The Russian armed forces have launched a group attack on decision-making centres, facilities of the Security Service of Ukraine, enterprises of the military-industrial complex, as well as locations of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries, the Defence Ministry said.

▪️Russian air defence systems destroyed 131 Ukrainian drones during the day, shot down two S-200 missiles and 15 HIMARS and Vampire shells, the defence ministry said in a summary.

▪️A terrorist attack was prevented in the Samara region. An accomplice of Ukrainian terrorists wanted to organise an explosion in the building of a humanitarian aid centre, but blew himself up with his own bomb while being detained, the Russian Federal Security Service reported.

▪️Spanish Foreign Minister Albares said the Spanish government would not send troops to Ukraine, saying Kiev had not asked for them.

▪️Moscow's Basmanny court on Tuesday arrested in absentia the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Malyuk, who admitted the previous day that his agency had been involved in attacks on oil refineries in Russia.

▪️Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba said the absence of the 'bloody patriot' was the reason why the Ukrainian armed forces were losing ground.

@ukraine_watch

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Ravenlocke

26th March 2024, 22:03

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27th March 2024, 16:44

Vicus

27th March 2024, 17:10

Sergeant of the Russian Armed Forces: Ukrainian Armed Forces militants poisoned water in the springs before the entry of Russian troops

In an attempt to stop the offensive of the Russian army, the Kyiv authorities and militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who are difficult to define by the generally accepted status of “soldiers,” are ready to do literally anything, including openly terrorist methods prohibited internationally. At the same time, ordinary citizens living in those territories that Kyiv considers “its own” often suffer from the actions of Ukrainian nationalists.

Thus, the driver of a water truck based on Kamaz 5350, Sergeant of the Russian Armed Forces Rudolf Grigoryan, who has been participating in the special operation since its first days, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants poisoned water in the springs in each region before Russian troops entered there. Every day he had to drive tens of kilometers to the front line and back, to Russian territories. The corresponding video was published by the Russian Ministry of Defense in its official Telegram channel.

There was this rumor: on the territory of Ukraine, in every region where Russian troops entered, persecution took place

- said the serviceman.

Based on this information, the command decided to deliver water to the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces in the special operation zone from Crimea. Our military drivers also saved civilians from possible poisoning by supplying them with drinking water. Although this work is not directly related to participation in combat operations, it is associated with considerable risk. In particular, during one of the flights, a convoy of cars, one of which was driven by Grigoryan, came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result, the sergeant received numerous shrapnel wounds, including penetrating ones. The soldiers managed to evacuate on their own and get to the hospital.

For personal courage and participation in hostilities, Rudolf Grigoryan was awarded the medal “For Courage”. After treatment and completing a rehabilitation course, he returned to duty and continues to perform dangerous, but very important work, providing water to our military and civilians in the territories liberated from Ukrainian nationalists.

At the beginning of December last year, the head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Safety Troops (RCHBZ) of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, said at a briefing that the Armed Forces of Ukraine deliberately infect water sources with pathogenic biological agents, including drinking water, as well as food supplies and animal feed. . In particular, in November of the same year, in the village of Chernigovka in the Zaporozhye region, specialists from the Russian Ministry of Defense, together with Rosselkhoznadzor, established the deliberate nature of the outbreak of African swine fever. Then more than seven thousand pigs were slaughtered. According to General Kirillov, the purpose of such infections is to “stimulate social tension, increase population dissatisfaction with the actions of Russian authorities, as well as create threats to food security” in the liberated territories.

https://en.topwar.ru/239147-serzhant-vs-rf-boeviki-vsu-travili-vodu-v-istochnikah-pered-zahodom-rossijskih-vojsk.html

Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:23

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ Ukrainians don’t want to go to the front: 40 thousand draft dodgers were counted in the Ivano-Frankivsk region

According to the deputy head of the regional TCC, these men are officially wanted by the police. He also added that the police have the right to forcibly transport people in this base to the TCC under the procedure of administrative detention.
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Vicus

27th March 2024, 17:29

Upgraded Supersonic Onyx Missile Gets Boost From New Active Homing Head 6 hours ago

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The Onyx anti-ship missile, commissioned in 2002, boasts an impressive over-the-horizon firing range. Utilizing the "fire-and-forget" principle, it is effective in electronic warfare conditions and features a reduced radar signature. The upgraded Onyx-M version has the capability to hit targets as far as 800 kilometers away.

The Onyx supersonic cruise missile, part of the Bastion coastal missile system, has been modernized based on experience from the special military operation. According to a source in the Russian defense industry, the new missile is capable of hitting ground targets with great accuracy.
The recently upgraded missiles now feature new active homing heads, enabling them to accurately target ground objects belonging to the Ukrainian military. Recent developments have showcased this improved capability. Furthermore, work is underway to bolster the Onyx missiles' resilience against electronic warfare, ensuring even greater precision when targeting enemy assets.

Earlier reports stated that the range of the Onyx missiles would be extended to 1,000 kilometers. Work on enhancing this capability is in full swing right now. In 2021, it was announced that the Onyx system underwent modernization, allowing for the integration of various carriers, transitioning from its original role as an anti-ship missile to a more versatile universal missile system. This upgrade enables the use of Onyx missiles from surface ships, submarines, land-based platforms, and air carriers.
Furthermore, the modernized Onyx missile system now has the capability to engage targets both at sea and on land, marking a significant development within the Strategic Air Defense Forces.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240327/upgraded-supersonic-onyx-missile-gets-boost-from-new-active-homing-head-1117576364.html

Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:30

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🇲🇩 Yesterday, events were held in Balti, Moldova, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi occupation. Hundreds of Balty residents took part in a procession and the laying of flowers at the Eternal Flame.

As our readers inform us, in Balti they honor the memorable date in spite of the country's leadership.

▪️For the current Romanian team of President Maia Sandu, such dates are truly mournful, as the Romanians, allies of the Nazis, participated in the occupation of Moldova.

▪️For example, recently in Orhei district near Transnistria they opened a monument to "Romanian heroes fallen in World War II", which was consecrated by representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The priests of the Romanian church, together with veterans of the Transnistrian conflict, at that time were fully accusing Russia of occupation since the 19th century.

🔻Just last week, commemorative events in honor of the liberation from the Nazis were also held in Soroca. And August 24 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Chisinau. On this day, perhaps, the reaction of Sandu's office will be very revealing. After all, the current Moldovan government does not hide its hostility to the remembrance of the war.

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:34

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🤡World Bank to lend Ukraine $1.5bn

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal has said that the World Bank will provide Kiev with a $1.5 billion budget replacement loan.

"The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a decision to provide $1.5 billion to Ukraine as part of a loan to support development policy. Of this amount, $984 million will come from Japan and $516 million from the UK," he said.

According to Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko, the funds will be used to support Ukraine's state budget and economic recovery, and to finance priority social and humanitarian expenditures of the state budget.

@ukraine_watch

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:37

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‼️🇺🇦💥A powerful blow was delivered to an enemy facility in Kharkov by aviation
Arrival in the Shevchenko district, local media joke.
Two strong explosions occurred in the city.
Local resources clarify that the strike was carried out by aircraft with adjustable bombs - FAB with UPMK.
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Vicus

27th March 2024, 17:37

‘Boy King’ Who Cried Wolf: Macron’s Constant Threats to Send Troops to Ukraine Signals ‘Weakness’ 1 hour ago

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The backlash from Emmanuel Macron’s hawkish rhetoric about deploying French forces to Ukraine continues to smolder, with a French ex-top general bashing him as a narcissistic “child king” playing a dangerous game, and US officials voicing “anger” that he may have given the game away about just how far NATO is willing to go in the Ukrainian crisis.

Former French defense minister Herve Morin has excoriated President Macron over his idea of deploying thousands of French servicemen in Ukraine, warning about the “hubris” of provoking Russia, a nuclear power, and stressing that France’s limited conventional military capabilities have left even Paris’s weapons assistance to Kiev “very mediocre,” to say nothing of a potential troop deployment.

“These are the provocations of a child king,” Morin said in an interview with Le Point on Wednesday, pointing out that Macron has disingenuously threatened to send the military while refusing to give the Kiev combat aircraft it has asked for.

“Macron is a narcissist” who has been “locked up in a castle with a courtyard for seven years,” the former defense minister said, citing the publication of the president’s “ridiculous” boxing photo as “further proof” of his disconnect from reality.

If anything, the ex-Sarkozy-era defense minister said, Macron’s excessive talkativeness on the deployment of troops in Ukraine has only weakened France from the standpoint of strategic ambiguity. “He talks too much,” Morin said. Russia, meanwhile, obviously has absolutely no interest in confronting NATO, Morin said, unless were to think that the country’s leadership “has psychiatric problems.”

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:44

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU decided not to transfer profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine - Politico

▪️Five billion of profits were decided to be left to the investment fund Euroclear, which holds the majority of Russian assets, as a “buffer” - in order to pay current and potential lawsuits from Russia and other countries.
▪️Previously, the European Commission proposed using 90% of these revenues to purchase weapons for Kyiv.
▪️Ukraine insists on receiving these funds, saying that this amount is equivalent to a year of the IMF program.
💬 “I have never heard that 5 billion euros is a buffer for Euroclear. This is too much money to be a buffer,” said the Ukrainian Minister of Justice.
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MSM, even in Germany, is starting to understand what is really happening in Ukraine:

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 The war in Ukraine is unlikely to last a few more years - Welt

▪️This year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be forced to go into deep defense and has no prospects of regaining lost territories; on the contrary, an active offensive by the Russian Armed Forces should be expected.
▪️Russia is trying to break through the first line of defense of Ukraine in 18 places (this has already been done near Avdeevka), however, the second and third lines of defense are much weaker than the first and the risk of a breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces into the interior of the country is now great.
▪️Ukraine faces a “critical phase” if the West does not quickly hand over many more weapons.
▪️The West completely underestimated Russia's military capabilities. Moscow has enough resources to continue fighting for several more years.
- RVvoenkor

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:52

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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱⚡In addition to the death of this general, obituaries for several more military personnel appeared in Poland during the same period:

- Allegedly in Lubliniec and allegedly during training in the use of explosives, an accident occurred, as a result of which two soldiers died.

- Allegedly, during a mountain training exercise in the Tatras, an avalanche occurred, as a result of which a Polish special forces soldier died.

All these reports appeared after the news of a strike by the Russian Iskander tactical missile system on a bunker in the Chasov Yar area, where NATO officers, including senior US and Polish officers, were stationed to plan military operations. - ISZ reports

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Vicus

27th March 2024, 17:54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsQir8vQRGw

Military Summary And Analysis 2024.03.27

Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 17:57

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇨🇾 Russian State Duma (Parliament) has filed an official request to the U.S., German, French and Cypriot justice departments to investigate terror acts allegedly committed by Ukraine and U.S.-backed operatives.

These include Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Daria Dugina assassination as well as many other crimes.

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 18:06

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Have you missed Ignat? Don't!

In Ukraine, the new spokesperson for the Air Force is quite amusing too! Now, the Air Force service claims once again that "Russia has run out of missiles."

According to Ilya Yevlash, the speaker of the Ukrainian Air Force, the utilization of hypersonic Zircon missiles by the Russian Federation is linked to a shortage of other types of missiles.

"The fact that they are resorting to using them most likely indicates that they are already facing a shortage of weapons; otherwise, they would not resort to using them. Generally, this type of missile is anti-ship and is only employed in specific scenarios."

Yevlash believes that if Russia had sufficient reserves of Kalibr, Iskander, and other missiles, they would opt for those instead of Zircon. However, he also added that this could be a strategy by Russia to test Ukrainian air defense systems.

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🇺🇦🤡Telegram is unambiguously a problem for Ukraine's national security, - GUR head.

"I am absolutely against the oppression of freedom of speech, but this is too much. That is, we have any person who can make a channel and start writing whatever he wants on it," Budanov said.

Slavyangrad

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 18:09

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🇦🇺 ⚔️🇷🇺 Australia proposes new law to ban Russians from the country

Under the new legislation, the Australian Immigration Minister would be able to impose a ban on visa applications from any country he deems detrimental to national interests. The law would not only apply to asylum seekers or economic migrants, but even prospective tourists.

The Albanese government has reportedly singled out nationals from Russia, Iran, Iraq, Zimbabwe, and South Sudan for an entry ban. The official pretext is that these countries allegedly don’t cooperate with Australia’s attempts to deport their nationals who were unsuccessful asylum applicants.

Australian opposition parties have criticised the rushed legislation for being “transparent as a brick”, “botched”, and “chaotic”, while incurring the risk of inviting “unintended consequences.” Meanwhile, Australia’s Human Rights Law Center has denounced the bill as a “bald form of discrimination based on nationality.”

The Albanese government has been a stalwart supporter of the NATO proxy war in Ukraine, providing the Zelensky regime with weapons and funding. The Australian Prime Minister is one of the few world leaders who notably declined to express his condolences to Russia following the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack last week.

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ExomatrixTV

27th March 2024, 18:11

“They’ve Wanted To Overthrow Russia For Years!” – Fmr Rep. Ron Paul:

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According to former GOP House Representative and staunch libertarian Ron Paul, elements within the United States government have for years been plotting how to overthrow the current Russian regime. The recent terror attacks, he says, were likely an outgrowth of those elements feeling that they needed to act before Ukraine capitulates and concedes defeat to Russia.

Jimmy and Due Dissidence host Keaton Weiss discuss the sociopathic strain that leads U.S. Deep State officials to believe they have the right to brazenly control other nations.

Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 18:16

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❗️The main part of Maria Zakharova's statements:

▪️Only Ukraine has not condemned the terrorist attack on the Moscow City Hall, although the whole world, including Western countries, has strongly condemned it.

▪️Paris has not sent concrete proposals to the Russian Foreign Ministry on how to combat international terrorism; if France is interested in this issue, it should stop providing military assistance to Kiev.

▪️The words of the Moldovan Defence Minister that there are Moldovan mercenaries in the AFU show the hypocrisy of Chisinau's alleged neutrality.

▪️Britain has refused to share the results of the investigation into the Salisbury incident, saying that "legal procedures" are still underway.

▪️The West is dragging Interpol into a political game to cut Russia off from the organisation's information resources and then from its membership.

▪️The Lithuanian foreign minister's call to "not lose focus" after the terrorist attack is "forbidden", and the Estonian foreign minister's linking of the terrorist attack to Moscow's allegedly aggressive policy is a reason to doubt its appropriateness.

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Maria Zakharova:

💬” From dozens of countries on different continents, words of support are still coming to Moscow now and all these days in connection with the tragedy in Crocus City Hall on March 22.

🕯 Spontaneous memorials to the victims have already appeared in dozens of cities around the world. In memory of the victims, people bring flowers, candles and soft toys to Russian foreign institutions. We received overwhelming support from all over the world. And we are grateful to literally everyone, regardless of status or position, for the words of support and sympathy that were addressed to our country, our people. As a sign of solidarity with Russia, mourning was declared in Nicaragua, the Republic of Serbian Bosnia and Herzegovina and Abkhazia.

The UN Security Council condemned the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk and honored the victims with a minute of silence. Members of the World Organization called on all states to actively cooperate with Russia to bring all those involved to justice. UN Secretary-General A. Guterres, after an initial, rather vague statement (which was made allegedly on his behalf by secretariat staff), then personally condemned the attack in the strongest possible terms.

The reaction of the countries of the “collective West” is noteworthy. Having realized that the reactions of the World Majority were different, they realized that they would no longer be able to “sit back”, remain silent, or play with words. The Anglo-Saxons and their European allies began to issue terse words of condemnation of the terrorists. Moreover, they followed the path trodden by the Skripals, Novichok, and Nord Streams - without waiting not only for the results of the investigation, but even for more or less verified official information - they immediately found the culprit in the form of the banned terrorist organization ISIS.

⚠️ Both the White House and the State Department stated that “Ukraine has nothing to do with this.” Based on what data and what information did they make this conclusion? Only one thing is clear - they began to excuse the Kiev regime in order to excuse themselves.

Because everyone understands perfectly well that there is simply no independent Kyiv regime without Western financial and military assistance.”

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🎖The State Duma awarded teenagers who showed heroism during the Crocus tragedy.

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Victoria Volchikhina, Elizaveta Terekhova, Nikita Ivanov, Islam Khalilov, Artemy Filimonov, Alexander Zhurik. They were presented with letters of gratitude from the deputies, laptops and souvenirs with the symbols of the lower house of parliament.

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🇷🇺 The Governor of the Bryansk Region awarded the Akhmat fighters who distinguished themselves in detaining the terrorists who participated in the attack on Crocus City Hall in the region.

Bogomaz expressed gratitude for the joint efforts to detain dangerous criminals who were trying to reach the border and enter the neighboring state. - FRWL reports

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27th March 2024, 18:20

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 18:46

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Ukraine Leaks reports:

“How Ukrainian special services recruit and train terrorists

On Solovyov Live I spoke about a ready-made system for recruiting people to commit illegal actions and terrorist acts. One way is the “Gradual Involvement” method. It consists of completing tasks that become more and more difficult each time.

See the video for all the details!”

@ukr_leaks_eng

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 18:51

Rus Crocus Inv Focus Ukr,
Intel Chief Danilov Sacked,
Rus Heaviest Bombing Kharkov,
Odessa Blackouts

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Ravenlocke

27th March 2024, 18:56

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shaberon

27th March 2024, 21:05

Back on topic, Colonel MacGregor is of the same opinion as Scott Ritter and Alexander Mercouris, but the biggest surprise for me was that ISIS are STILL being funded by the USA.

Let's take this from G. Nolan (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?114491-WW3-Ukraine-US-vs.-Donbass-Russia&p=1606498&viewfull=1#post1606498) as quoted above:

This not-so elaborate ruse was not just about arming purported freedom fighters; it was an orchestrated pipeline funneling lethal aid and vast sums of black budget money to the very epicenters of radicalism. ISIS and Al-Nusra, draped in the banners of Wahhabi extremism, were not mere byproducts of conflict but the beneficiaries of a coldly calculated Western strategy that saw their barbarism as a necessary evil in the pursuit of hegemonic dominance.

Okay. House of Saud = British-installed puppet, possibly a crypto-Jew from Iraq.

Wahhabism = divide and conquer hegemony to secure the region for the Suez Canal in the 1850s.

Al Qaeda = first computerized database of "extremists for hire", 1979

ISIS is protected by the Americans in Syria.

Taliban was *also* spawned by this, although, they appear to have turned colors, like the Nigeriens and many others, I could probably even say V. Putin at first was highly motivated to bond with the west, and, well, changed his mind due to experience.

ISIS has never attacked NATO or Zion.

So what we have is an overweaning influence from the 1770s which has never blinked. Didn't affect Palestine or have any Zionist notions at first. Israel and Oil are two relatively new thorns in the side.

We are seeing a strategy which has passed its expiration date, which does not somehow grant ISIS a new beneficiary or strategic ideologue. They "sleep" when not making news. Not a very good day job. But in most cases, yes, they would add suicide bombs or fight to the death, and not, for example, stage a flimsy getaway and sing.

If I had to guess, I'd say MI6 sounds more like "Mazzinists" interested in *any* kind of random violence, whereas CIA seems a bit more tucked into plans and tactics such as coups. The recruitment that happened here will be interesting. The tendency would be, if a private individual is implicated, that governments can wash their hands; but, of course, it is possible to act privately in lock step with governmental intentions. Like if you pay $20,000 for a Safari about the pleasure killing of humans. That would be a personal decision, which happens to get aimed at political targets.

Bill Ryan

27th March 2024, 21:47

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Here is a reasonable account of the evidence that suggests the possibility that the Crocus terror attack may have been staged. Of course, this does not mean that it was, but ignoring evidence isn't going to bring anyone closer to the truth.

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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?

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27th March 2024, 22:14

Ravenlocke

28th March 2024, 00:53

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🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense Top News

▫️ In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and hit manpower and hardware of the 3rd Assault, 56th Motorized Infantry, 28th, 30th Mechanized, 46th and 81st Airmobile brigades of the AFU near Zaliznyanskoye, Bogdanovka, Chasov Yar, Kleshcheyevka, and Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic). The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 Ukrainian troops, two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles.

▫️ Air defense units shot down 210 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and shot down 21 HIMARS and Vampire MLRS projectiles during the day.

▫️ The Russian Defense Ministry shows Tula paratroopers in Seversk direction, Su-25 ground-attack aircraft, Grad MLRS crews, Dnepr Group's FPV drones in action.

▫️ Artillerymen of the Zapad Group of Forces wipe out Ukrainian terrorist formation's positions in Ukrainian territory bordering Kursk region.

▫️ AFU tank position was eliminated in Artyomovsk direction.

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28th March 2024, 00:59

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: 'We're suffering heavy casualties - one in two'

The POW said that of the group of fellow soldiers with whom he underwent training in Estonia, every second man died in six months - a total of 17 people. Most of the casualties were due to Russian drones.

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Ravenlocke

28th March 2024, 01:07

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian soldiers and civilians were tortured by Ukrainians, UN report
▪️From December to February, captured Russian soldiers and civilians were tortured by Ukrainians, the UN Human Rights Office reports.
▪️So, 8 people said that they were held in the basements of houses, probably in the Kharkov region. Some of them spent days there, others up to 1.5 months. 13 prisoners of war reported that during interrogation they were beaten with wooden sticks and were also subjected to electric shocks using military field telephones or other electrical devices.
▪️Ukrainians also staged executions, and in two cases threatened with sexual violence.
▪️In addition, the UN reported about Kyiv’s persecution of the Russian-speaking minority and the Orthodox Church.
▪️At the same time, for some reason the UN did not talk about the reprisals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against our captured soldiers, but accused the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly executing 32 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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28th March 2024, 01:19

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"Russia is not going to fight with NATO, that's just nonsense"

Vladimir Putin spoke with military pilots in the Tver region. Key statements by the President:

“It was not Russia that moved towards the borders of NATO countries, but they came close, we are only protecting our people.”

— Words about a possible attack on Poland, the Baltic states and the Czech Republic are a way to deceive the population of the countries.

— NATO is a North Atlantic bloc, but it even reaches into Asia and Latin America.

— Today’s conflict would not have happened if the security interests of the Russian Federation had been taken into account after the collapse of the USSR.

— Russia will destroy F-16s in Ukraine in the same way as it destroys Western tanks and other equipment.

— If F-16s are used against the Russian Armed Forces from airfields of third countries, they will become a legal target for the Russian Federation.

— When I hear statements that Russia is for Russians, a feeling of anxiety arises.

— We must never forget that Russia is a multinational and multi-religious country.

— Infringing on any nations within Russia will destroy the country.

— Representatives of all the peoples of Russia show their best side on the battlefield.
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Ravenlocke

28th March 2024, 01:24

Daniel Davis……. Deep Dive

Col. Jacques Baud: the TRUE Origins of the Russia/Ukraine War

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Ravenlocke

28th March 2024, 01:29

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‼️🇺🇦🇵🇱 In Poland, the general in charge of training the Armed Forces of Ukraine is recalled due to a counterintelligence check

▪️Against the background of an inspection by the Military Counterintelligence Service, the Polish Ministry of Defense announced the dismissal of Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinsky, who, in particular, participated in the International Support Group for Ukraine.
▪️The basis for Gromadzinsky’s recall was the start of a military counterintelligence check in connection with “receipt of new information about the officer.”
▪️The Polish Ministry of Defense does not provide details, but indicates that we are talking about “an investigation into access to state secrets.”
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Ravenlocke

28th March 2024, 01:42

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Moscow to respond to Latvia’s expulsion of Russian diplomat, MFA says

Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins earlier decided to declare a Russian diplomat persona non grata
MOSCOW, March 27. /TASS/. Moscow will respond to Latvia’s decision to expel a Russian diplomat, a Russian Foreign Ministry official told TASS.

"Russia will give an appropriate response," the official said.

Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins earlier decided to declare a Russian diplomat persona non grata. The Latvian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the diplomat must leave the country by the end of the day on April 10.

ExomatrixTV

28th March 2024, 02:20

Putin blames US and Ukraine for orchestrating ISIS terror attack on Moscow:

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We know that the crime was committed by radical Islamists, whose ideology the Islamic world itself has been fighting for centuries. But we also see that the United States, through various channels, is trying to convince its satellites and other countries of the world that, according to their intelligence data, there is supposedly no Kiev trace in the Moscow terrorist attack, that the bloody terrorist attack was carried out by followers of Islam, members of the ISIS organization banned in Russia.

We know by whose hands this atrocity was committed against Russia and its people. We are interested in who the customer is. In the course of joint work between our intelligence services and law enforcement agencies, it is necessary to obtain answers to a number of questions.

For example: are radical and even terrorist Islamic organizations really interested in striking Russia, which today stands for a fair solution to the escalating Middle East conflict? And how do radical Islamists, who position themselves, by the way, as devout Muslims, professing so-called pure Islam, commit serious atrocities and crimes during the holy month of Ramadan for all Muslims?

These, as well as other, more specific, professional questions for an objective investigation of the crime committed in Moscow, have to be answered. One thing is absolutely clear: the terrible crime committed on March 22 in the capital of Russia is an act of intimidation, as I have already said.

And the question immediately arises: who benefits from this? This atrocity may be only a link in a whole series of attempts by those who have been fighting our country since 2014 at the hands of the neo-Nazi Kyiv regime. And the Nazis, as is well known, never disdained to use the most dirty and inhumane means to achieve their goals.

Especially today, when their advertised counter-offensive has completely failed. This is already recognized by everyone and is not disputed. The Russian Armed Forces hold the initiative along the entire line of combat contact, and all the measures taken by the enemy to stabilize the front do not bring success.

Hence the attempts to enter and gain a foothold in our border territories, shelling, including using multiple launch rocket systems, of peaceful neighborhoods, civilian infrastructure, including energy infrastructure, attempted missile attacks on the Crimean Bridge and the peninsula itself.

Bloody acts of intimidation, such as the terrorist attack committed in Moscow, quite logically fit into this series. The goal, as I already said, is to sow panic in our society and at the same time show our own population that all is not lost for the Kyiv regime.

shaberon

28th March 2024, 02:29

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal has said that the World Bank will provide Kiev with a $1.5 billion budget replacement loan.

"The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved a decision to provide $1.5 billion to Ukraine as part of a loan to support development policy. Of this amount, $984 million will come from Japan and $516 million from the UK," he said.

According to Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko, the funds will be used to support Ukraine's state budget and economic recovery, and to finance priority social and humanitarian expenditures of the state budget.

This sounds like news-speak perhaps best interpreted as "a loan to pay the other loan" (IMF).

I think it would be fair to say the two institutions are a bit like twin sharks prowling the tank.

I can't say I can fathom why such a robust amount would appear to come from Japan, or, if the Japanese know anything about the decision-making process either.

I believe the sharks will accept timely payments in lieu of asset seizure, if such is the long-term goal.

The post-conflict scenario is rather like the major stakeholders such as Cargill, etc., being relatively unaffected, and most everything else scrapped and firesold to creditors.

"Development" and "recovery" are two entirely inappropriate words written to mask the scent of Vultures.

Tintin

28th March 2024, 11:26

Excerpts from Ambassador Gennady Gatilov’s opening statement during his briefing with members of ACANU (https://www.acanu.ch/index.html) (Association of Accredited Journalists at the UN)

This, from March 26th:

On March 22, our country was hit by a terrorist attack, the scale and brutality of which Russia hasn’t seen for the past 20 years. 137 people confirmed dead and over 180 injured in the tragic events at the Crocus City Hall. We are grateful to the host country, UN high-ranking officials, fellow diplomats and ordinary Swiss citizens for expressing their sympathies, condolences and condemnation of the attack. As our President has stated, all perpetrators will face fair and inevitable punishment, whoever they may be, whoever directed them.

🗳️ During the recent presidential elections in Russia, the will of over 76 million of its citizens, 87% of whom voted for Vladimir Putin, is evident. We do not care that certain Western states consider the elections unfair - we have the statistics and numbers that say otherwise. The Russian people have expressed their unequivocal support and trust in the political and economic course of the country's development. Which, among other things, means that Russia will continue to uphold its sovereign and independent foreign policy and protect its citizens across all Russia and its new regions.

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian crisis could have been resolved in April 2022, until the Western mentors of Zelenskiy convinced him to pursue a violent path. A big miscalculation, which has already led to unnecessary loss of life, and one that will be the undoing of the Zelenskiy regime.

🇺🇳 As far as UN Geneva affairs are concerned, the current situation within the UN Human Rights Council continues to be especially disturbing. There is an urgent need to prevent the increasing trend of turning the Council into an instrument, which caters to political whims of just a single group of countries, punishing other governments for their independent domestic and foreign policies.

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Well said that man :muscle:

Tintin

28th March 2024, 12:07

Placeholder ONLY post for this forthcoming documentary which we should really archive after its release:

Source/website: https://filmsasiedzi.pl/

NEIGHBORS: Last Witnesses of the Ukrainian Genocide against Poles

Background (excerpt)

Trailer: https://filmsasiedzi.pl/film/zwiastun-filmu/

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From the director:

A documentary film is being made about the Ukrainian genocide against Poles in 1939-1947 and Banderism in the 21st century. Premiere of a documentary film directed by Jacek Międlar entitled "Neighbors. “The Last Witnesses of the Ukrainian Genocide against Poles” is scheduled for July 2024. The film will be publicly available and will be released in six languages: Polish, English, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian and Czech.

The Polish authorities, through tacit acceptance of Banderism, de facto legitimize the cult of murderers of Poles. This must end badly, because anyone who allows the victims' memory to be tarnished deserves neither respect nor to be treated seriously. It's high time that, in the era of permanent repetition of historical lies and attempts to "rewrite history", a film was created that would put the lie to all historical manipulations and falsifications.

I have several dozen original interviews with Witnesses of the Ukrainian genocide against Poles, which I conducted [author of the description: Jacek Międlar] in the years 2019-2024. I use fragments of these recordings in the production of the film, because I believe that the accounts of Witnesses are the most valuable evidence today in the case of the Ukrainian genocide against Poles, and it is to them, the Witnesses of these events, that we should give a voice in the first place. Moreover, the film includes, among others: it will include other archival materials and statements by experts (professors of history and political science), social activists and "rank and file" citizens.

The film is based on my book entitled "Neighbors. The Last Witnesses of the Ukrainian Genocide against Poles”, the next volumes of which I am still writing.

With respect
JACEK MIĘDLAR

Gwin Ru

28th March 2024, 15:55

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... change of the Russian objective in Ukraine: switched from SMO to WAR!

Scott Ritter: Analyzing the Moscow Concert Attack (https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom/streams) 34:56

2,452 views Streamed live 45 minutes ago

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Scott Ritter: Analyzing the Moscow Concert Attack

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Vicus

28th March 2024, 20:52

Russia May Not Need to Recognize Zelensky's Legitimacy After May 21 - Lavrov 5 hours ago

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia may not need to recognize Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the legitimate leader of Ukraine after his presidential term expires on May 21, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday.

"Speaking of May 20 and what will happen on May 21, let us live until that time first. Perhaps there will be no need to recognize anything then," Lavrov said, while commenting on Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia's remark that Zelesky's decision not to hold a presidential election would make him illegitimate as the Ukrainian leader from May 21.

The presidential election was supposed to take place in Ukraine in the spring of 2024 in accordance with the country's legislation. However, the Ukrainian constitution prohibits holding elections under martial law, which has been in effect in the country since the beginning of Russia's military operation.

In February, the Ukrainian parliament approved the extension of martial law in the country for another 90 days.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240328/russia-may-not-need-to-recognize-zelenskys-legitimacy-after-may-21---lavrov-1117615416.html?rcmd_alg=collaboration2

Vicus

28th March 2024, 21:23

Russian soldier thanks Biden for sending Abrams tanks to Ukraine :chuckle:

RT.com
Sun, 03 Mar 2024

The troops are offered bonuses for each piece of Western equipment they destroy.

https://www.sott.net/image/s35/701617/super/65e4f94785f540434b0fd5c3.jpg
A US M1 Abrams tank.

Russian soldiers have apparently recorded a video in which one of them mockingly thanks US President Joe Biden for supplying Kiev with Abrams tanks and giving the troops the opportunity to earn some extra cash for destroying them. This comes amid reports of several US-made heavy armor pieces being destroyed in less than a week.

A short clip that surfaced on social media features an apparent Russian serviceman in full military gear. "We, Russian warriors express our sincere gratitude to you for the Abrams tanks that the US is supplying to Ukraine," he says, addressing Biden in English.

The man goes on to explain that Russian troops are offered bonuses for each piece of Western equipment they destroy, and asks Biden to send more Abrams tanks, as those that have arrived in Ukraine "are very few" and the troops have to spend a lot of time hunting them down.

The US announced the delivery of 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in January 2023, but they did not arrive until the autumn, and were absent from the front line until February of this year.

The soldier added that there are not enough American tanks in Ukraine for every Russian serviceman to receive their bonuses, and offered Biden a 10% commission for each tank they destroy. He also suggested that Biden should get a Russian MIR debit card to make it easier for the soldiers to send him the money.

The video ends with the serviceman mockingly praising Biden as "a true patriot and the best US president," while expressing hope for "a mutually beneficial partnership." "Together, we will win!" he adds.

Earlier on Sunday, it was reported that an Abrams tank and a US-made mine-clearance vehicle based on an Abrams chassis were destroyed in Donbass. Last week, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the destruction of the first US-made heavy armor in the Ukraine conflict.

https://www.sott.net/article/489477-Russian-soldier-thanks-Biden-for-sending-Abrams-tanks-to-Ukraine

Jaak

28th March 2024, 23:47

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Sadly most of russians share the same opinion and think baltic region is something that is theirs.At this point Estonia is more than 50% slavic and most of them are Putin supporters.Which means that they want Estonia to be taken over by Russia.Soviet re-union.
My unpopular opinion - if russians like history so much then lets adapt these borders.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Europe_814.svg/1280px-Europe_814.svg.png
But yeah they dont want to go that far with their history....Estonians have been in same place for 10 000 years,probably longer than anybody else in europe....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Estonia
its weird that these slavic mongoloids think they have any right for this land but sadly they do and most likely they will occupie it once again.Just a matter of time.

Jaak

29th March 2024, 00:32

Russia still jamming in Baltic region and has expanded.Most likely to hide military logistics.
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No idea why it shows a tweet about that ship,i did not add that. *

pounamuknight

29th March 2024, 03:38

shaberon

29th March 2024, 04:17

My unpopular opinion - if russians like history so much then lets adapt these borders.

The reason we would not want to do that is because Kievan Rus was an imported Swedish system that was brought in by invitation because the "system of Khazaria" was basically non-existent. Relatives had basically never stopped killing each other for land inheritances. The interesting part is that Sweden had been trading through there and obtaining products from the Black Sea or beyond for centuries. And, the Ukrainian region became...lawless and violent enough for them to take power.

History of Estonia tells me it was disconnected from the main flux for a thousand years:

The Pre-Roman Iron Age began in Estonia about 500 BC and lasted until the middle of the 1st century AD. The oldest iron items were imported...

A good example of being attacked for what you think:

...crusaders initiated raids into part of what is present-day Estonia in 1208. Estonian tribes fiercely resisted the attacks from Riga and occasionally themselves sacked territories controlled by the crusaders.

So, it was not a country, and undoubtedly, north-eastern Europe becomes a bone of contention between Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia, and it turns out that Russia became victorious. Places that would become Estonia were surrendered by Sweden and by treaty were given to Russia.

I would say the moment of Estonia's entrance into Russia marks the most important topic that receives no attention, two treaties known as the Peace of Westphalia 1648 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia):

They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing a calamitous period of European history that killed approximately eight million people.

Several scholars of international relations have identified the Peace of Westphalia as the origin of principles crucial to modern international relations, collectively known as Westphalian sovereignty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty).

I would suggest we all should look into what that is and why has it been brushed aside and forgotten.

No other Peace Treaties are like that, instead, they seem to be pre-determined to fail, often in terms of money, or making artificial borders for divide and conquer tactics. You might as well call the Treaty of Versailles, Complete Damnation. Almost everything else is like that, at least, in terms of the western "Powers" that drafted it all.

If they hadn't done that, the Nazis could not have plowed the area, and so forth. That wasn't Westphalian.

Neither were the Soviets.

During its earlier period in the Russian Empire:

By 1819, the Baltic provinces were the first in the Russian empire in which serfdom was abolished, enabling an increasing number of farmers to rent or purchase land, as well as triggering a wave of internal migration of landless rural Estonians into the growing cities. These moves created the economic foundation for the coming to life of the Estonian national identity, as the country was caught in a current of national awakening that began sweeping through Europe in the mid-19th century.

Estonia as a unified political entity first emerged after the Russian February Revolution of 1917.

That's superficially like Ukraine. At times the area has been half occupied by two Empires. At others, bits and pieces of it have been in various hands, and it has been compelled to be a battleground for the entire advent of military technology. It experienced a "Jewish migration" long before anyone thought of Israel.

The idea that Russia "just wants to capture Alaska" eludes me, but, I can understand the tense relations.

Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 07:40

Russia still jamming in Baltic region and has expanded.Most likely to hide military logistics.
1773440789965685126

No idea why it shows a tweet about that ship,i did not add that. *

https://x.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1773410733088264326

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https://insiderpaper.com/over-1600-european-planes-affected-by-mysterious-gps-jamming/

Over 1,600 planes affected by mysterious GPS jamming across Europe

More than 1,600 planes have been hit by mysterious GPS jamming across Europe since Sunday, Daily Mail reported. Many fear Russia is behind this.

Extent of GPS jamming of planes across Northern Europe revealed

Planes flying over and near the Baltic Sea in northern Europe have faced technical issues due to jamming. A total of 1614 planes, mostly civilian, have reported problems since then.

A map shared on X by an open-source intelligence account, which monitors interference, displays incidents spread across Poland and southern Sweden, reported lbc.co.uk.

Although most incidents seem to be in Polish airspace, OSINT blogs have mentioned that planes flying in airspace belonging to Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia, and Lithuania have also experienced interference problems.

According to lbc.co.uk, there seems to be minimal to no interference in Belarus, a strong ally of Russia, or in Kaliningrad, the Russian province separated from the mainland by sea and land.

Newsweek stated that the increase in interference is mainly linked to the Kaliningrad region, where Russia is thought to possess significant resources for electronic warfare.

Russian military’s advanced interference capabilities raise concerns for NATO

According to a Lithuanian defense source, the Russian armed forces have various military equipment designed for interfering with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as jamming and spoofing, with different ranges, durations, and intensities.

A prominent military expert highlighted that Russia’s superiority in electronic warfare should serve as a warning for the UK’s military.”Those capabilities are used to create an ‘atmosphere of threat and a sense of helplessness in society”, a Polish Defense Ministry official said.

Dr. Melanie Garson, who is an associate professor of International Security at University College London, shared her thoughts with Forces.net about the recent European planes GPS jamming incident.

The UCL professor said: “Russia particularly has previously had an edge on this and they have necessity. The mother of invention over the last two years during the war have actually actively solidified their capabilities in this regard.

They’ve had the chance to use it more concretely and there’s a real concern that, particularly NATO, currently doesn’t match that capability.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13241019/More-1-600-planes-hit-mysterious-GPS-jamming-Europe-Russia-feared-responsible.html

More than 1,600 planes are hit by mysterious GPS jamming across Europe - with Russia feared to be responsible
Perkin Amalaraj
Planes have been suffering GPS malfunctions in Western airspaces
More than 1,600 planes have been affected since Sunday
Russia is a leading player in electronic warfare

More than 1,600 planes have been hit by a mysterious interference that many fear Russia is behind.

Planes flying over and around the Baltic Sea in northern Europe have been suffering technical problems caused by jamming since Sunday, with 1614 planes, mostly civilian, reporting problems since then.

While most of them appear to be taking place in Polish airspace, OSINT blogs have reported that planes flying in German, Danish, Swedish, Latvian and Lithuanian airspace have suffered interference problems.

Notably, little to no interference appears to be taking place in Belarus, a staunch Russian ally, or Kaliningrad, the Russian province separated from the mainland by sea and land.

The planes appear to be suffering from GPS jamming, which can confuse pilots as this can make them believe they are in a different location than they actually are.

Newsweek reported that the uptick in interference can largely be attributed to the Kaliningrad region, where Russia is believed to have significant resources for the use of electronic warfaRe.

A Lithuanian defence source told the outlet: 'Russian armed forces have a wide spectrum of military equipment dedicated for GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) interference, including jamming and spoofing, at varying distances, duration and intensity.'

A leading military expert said that Russia's dominance in the electronics war should be a 'wake-up call' for the UK's military.

Dr Melanie Garson, associate professor of International Security at University College London, told Forces.net: 'Russia particularly has previously had an edge on this and they have necessity.

'The mother of invention over the last two years during the war have actually actively solidified their capabilities in this regard.

'They've had the chance to use it more concretely and there's a real concern that, particularly Nato, currently doesn't match that capability.'

Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 08:04

Text:

Summary of the fighting on the Ukrainian front from the Russian telegram channel Two Majors on the morning of March 29, 2024

In the second half of the night, the Russian Armed Forces launched missiles from strategic missile carriers Tu-95ms and 3 MiG-31K.

Explosions were reported in the early morning in the Odessa region, the city of Stryi in the Lviv region, Kremenchuk and Mirgorod in the Poltava region, Shepetovka and Khmelnitsky in the Khmelnytsky region, Korosten in the Zhytomyr region, Kanev in the Cherkasy region, Dnepropetrovsk and in the city of Burshtyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.

The enemy claimed the use of missile weapons from the territory of Crimea and the Geran UAV, which indicates the combined nature of the strikes. Immediately after the explosions, power outages were reported in different regions of Ukraine.

There are no significant changes in the situation in the Kherson direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to strike at civilian infrastructure. A gas station and an electric substation in Kakhovka were shelled.

On the Zaporozhye front, there are counter battles in the area of Rabocino and Verbovoye. The enemy uses a lot of drones and cluster artillery ammunition. The enemy is preparing a second line of defense at Orekhov.

In Novomikhailovka (south of Marinka), the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in the center of the village, fighting is going on for every building.

The assault on Semenovka continues west of Avdiivka: our troops are attacking the settlement from the south.

In the direction of the Chasov Yar, the AFU counterattacks at Ivanovsky (Krasny). Apparently, the enemy is trying to buy time to build up forces in the Chapel, an important node of defense. There are battles in Bogdanovka and Kleshcheyevka.

The AFU continues shelling the Belgorod region from MLRS, strikes with drones. One wounded civilian was reported in the New Tavolzhanka of the Shebekinsky urban district. At night, 15 air targets were shot down on approach to Belgorod.

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1773619924918833550

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Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 08:07

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1773595328140222503

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🇷🇺⚡The Russian MoD has confirmed the destruction of major energy facilities in Ukraine. Blackout across Ukrainian cities.

Truly not something to get excited about considering the Kremlin let Ukraine have power for 2yrs while the Americans cut off Iraq in a week.

Energy facilities were never damaged during Autumn and winter.

You still think this is a war? If it was 1,5mil Ukrainians would be collateral just like in Iraq.

https://x.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/1773604328609022017

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Ewan

29th March 2024, 08:33

these slavic mongoloids

Seriously? Your true colours, or is that quoted from the tweet?

Bruce G Charlton

29th March 2024, 08:48

Off-topic - but highly relevant wrt commenter "Jaak" (and others)

The thing about paranoid and persecutory delusions (beliefs that are false, strongly held, powerfully-motivating, in practice irrefutable), is that they cannot be contradicted by further knowledge or experience.

Once a person has decided that X is "out to get them", is-harming or will-harm them in some way; then the whole cognitive apparatus is orientated towards collecting evidence based on this assumption. The assumption shapes the entire realm of facts, interpretation and theory.

This happens at the individual level; but also the long-standing, and sometimes all-consuming, resentments of history are understandable in this way. e.g. In the world today one race may attribute its low socio-economic situation to the effect of racism; while another race infers the reality of massive and worldwide racism despite occupying the highest socio-economic status and power. Once the assumption of racism is made, and once a person (or race) builds its motivational system around racism - there is no possible empirical evidence or argument that can shake this delusion.

I have termed these "theory of mind" delusions; because they are based on normal cognitive processes (i.e. they are Not psychotic) and instead are rooted in a false inference concerning the intent and motivations of others - but this false inference cannot be corrected by evidence, because other people's minds are not transparent, and can only be inferred indirectly.

https://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/delusions.html

What this means is that recognizing and critiquing the basis of underlying assumptions is of extreme importance. We all base our understanding upon assumptions of a metaphysical kind, that can neither be proved nor refuted; therefore we have a profound individual responsibility to examine our own baseline assumptions about the world wrt coherence, and "good-ness" - because some assumptions sustain a good life and society, while others are deeply pernicious in their effects.

Jaak

29th March 2024, 11:07

its weird that these slavic mongoloids...

Smearing Russian people like this is pretty much the language of Nazi racial theory of Mongoloid Untermensch (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html)

52877

Super disturbing, mate :thumbsdown:

That ¨nazi racial theory¨ or eugenics was brought to Germany from USA...
Most russians today are 25% or more mongols.They were ruled over by mongols for 400 years or so.
Have you honestly read that book ? Can you point out which parts of it are anti slavic ?
http://www.mourningtheancient.com/truth-untermensch2.jpg
http://www.mourningtheancient.com/truth-untermensch2.jpg
Yeah i dont have any special love for russians.I see them as a threat for Estonia .History has shown that this threat is real.Doesnt mean that i hate them.
When i was 16 I got beaten to hospital by 3 russian guys just because i was Estonian. And oh how many times i had to run to escape from same faith.Same and much worse things have happened to my friends. If i started to tell all my stories it would be a very long post. Maybe you should investigate why russians are so full of hate towards estonians ?
By the way i have lived together for years under same roof with ukrainians,russians and belarussians and i probably know more slavic people than anybody else in here...

Bill Ryan

29th March 2024, 11:33

1773315738201206808They're joking around. They want to take California, but were wondering whether to just leave Poland alone.
:ROFL:

Bill Ryan

29th March 2024, 11:40

Jaak

29th March 2024, 13:01

these slavic mongoloids

Seriously? Your true colours, or is that quoted from the tweet?It's not in the tweet. The stronger Russia is growing economically and geopolitically, and the more decisively they're defeating Ukraine in the SMO, the more Russophobic Jaak's posts are becoming.

It just bothers me that i see my country ,culture and people dissapear in my lifetime and get replaced by russians . I have whole spectrum of experiences with russians,very good and very bad ones.Some of my best and most trustworthy people i know are slavic .But i do see that we are as different as Inuits and Jamaicans. For example Slavs have a level of brutality that is not normal for estonians. Look up what is ¨Dedovshchina¨ ,good example.If they treat their own people like this then imagine how they treat someone who they think is different or perceive as an enemy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedovshchina

I dont take the side of neither ukraine or russia.i think this game is rigged and scripted and sadly thats an unpopular opinion. Putin playd along the covid hoax immaculately and is following the path of WEF and agenda 2030.Who was the first wave Putin sent to Ukraine ? The youngest and most inexperienced ones who perished quickly... It´s like they want to kill off as many slavs as possible while making a ton of $$$$ while doing it.

Disagree with my opinion,its ok. But i would prefer not to be labeled anything if thats ok.We can agree to disagree or politely debate with facts :handshake:
I have studied russian culture,history and literature for quite some time and i dont know if anybody russophobic would bother to do that.
I have read the works of Solzhenitsyn over and over again and he is probably my favorite author. Although he also had a view that Estonia should be united with Russian empire... I understand his point of view,but i disagree with it. Hope you can do the same :cheers:

Solzhenitsyns speech about Ukraine and Russia is an rather good one,and helps to drift back towards topic.Sorry for derailing...
https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/02/voice-prophet-solzhenitsyn-ukraine-crisis-joseph-pearce.html
And his nobel prize acceptance speech is also worthy to listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITbFdTaB_E

Jaak

29th March 2024, 13:16

1773315738201206808They're joking around. They want to take California, but were wondering whether to just leave Poland alone.
:ROFL:

You would not believe how many russians believe and agree what is sayd in that video and much more crazy things.Like that they built the pyramids and pretty much whole world and they should rule the world once again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world

Tintin

29th March 2024, 13:38

Tintin

29th March 2024, 13:47

Jaak

29th March 2024, 13:51

Bruce G Charlton

29th March 2024, 14:10

@TinTin: "Jaak: serious question - are you trolling us here?"

Serious question - if he was, would he admit it? ;)

Either way; whether a paid shill/ troll, or deluded anti-Russian, Jaak never-does, and never-will, substantively respond to evidence or reason.

Whatever the motivation (which can only be guessed at) IMO Jaak is taking up too much space on this vitally important thread, and wasting too many peoples' time.

Tintin

29th March 2024, 14:46

No,not trolling. I guess you think it sounds like trolling because the information is unacceptable for some reason ?
Russians see themselves as descendants of romans. Their alphabet and religion came from Byzantine greeks who also escaped towards Russia after Byzantine was conquered by the ottomans.Step back the history a bit more and you might understand why they think like that.

https://www.rbth.com/arts/history/2017/03/30/why-do-russians-call-moscow-the-third-rome_730921

Sorry for unpopular opinions. I try not to in the future.

Thanks for answering the question.

This isn't aimed at you specifically, just a general observation:

As Bruce has pointed out this IS a vitally important thread and isn't really a space for bonkers ideas such as recourse to loaded biased Wikipedia entries, crackpot theories on Russian inspired attacks against themselves (FFS :facepalm: ) ie parroting piss poor Western propaganda which is so so very lame indeed (have we learned nothing with the combined several hundred thousand years of collective experience and intellect we have here on the forum?), and a whole host of other utter drivel spewing from mouthpieces who are simply manifesting limburger scented fart circles every time they utter anything.

I say to folks, always: an informed viewpoint and an opinion are not the same thing.

Opinions are the heuristic device of those that avoid the responsibility of actually thinking. Opinions: just regurgitation of chthonic narrative framers very lame flimflam - the perfidy of poltroons: don't fall into the trap. And more importantly still, please don't propagate them. Critique them, for sure, but don't facsimile them.

If you detect some irritation on my part here, then, yes, I'm irritated.

We are all BETTER than this here :rose:

Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 15:08

Text:
🇷🇺🇺🇦Massive combined attack
on the night of March 28 to 29, 2024

Today's massive night attack by the Russian Armed Forces differed significantly from previous ones based on the use of a wide range of weapons. A combined strike was carried out using Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles, Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Kh-59 cruise missiles, Caliber cruise missiles and Geranium kamikaze drones -2" .

🔻The main emphasis was placed on the use of Geranium-2 strike UAVs; their total number increased significantly and amounted to over 70 units. This strategy of the Russian troops can be explained by the fact that kamikaze drones perform two main functions: weakening air defenses and striking targets.

🔻The attack occurred just a week after the previous raid, during which irreparable damage was caused to the entire energy infrastructure of Ukraine. These include the defeat of the DneproGES , and a massive blow to energy facilities in the Odessa and Kharkov regions, the consequences of which Ukrainian power engineers have not been able to eliminate as of now, and so on .

🔻At present, it can be argued that the destruction of generating capacities will definitely affect the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and (if attacks continue) will affect the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to use railway transport to transfer their reserves and equipment.

https://t.me/militarySummaryHub/3227

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1773684389488079286

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https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1773699692309762478

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Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 17:27

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1773705921396400265

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🥀 A passerby who helped save people during the terrorist attack in Crocus has died.

35-year-old Karen Yengibaryan worked in a company installing outdoor advertising and was nearby at the moment of the terrorist attack. He pulled people out of the smoke and took them to doctors, and gave his jacket to the victim. As a result, Karen inhaled carbon monoxide overnight and caught a severe cold. The very next day he was admitted to the hospital with a high fever. He was not saved.

Tomorrow, media reports, a farewell to Karen will take place at the Armenian Temple Complex. He is survived by his wife, whom he married only three years ago. - FRWL reports

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1773754413242290274

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Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 17:35

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1773752473770996134

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https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1773705233928962372

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Ravenlocke

29th March 2024, 17:55

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1773753885607288849

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https://www.rt.com/russia/595136-moscow-terrorists-ukraine-link/

Terror mastermind told attack suspects to flee to Kiev – investigators
The chief suspects in last week's terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow have testified that their orders came from a mystery man who told them to flee to Ukraine afterwards, the Russian Investigative Committee announced on Friday.

Security services detained the four suspected perpetrators near the Ukrainian border last Saturday. The attack claimed 144 lives and left over 200 people hospitalized.

In their initial testimonies and during their subsequent interrogations, the suspects said the attacks were prepared in coordination with “a man who introduced himself to them under a pseudonym,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement. He communicated with them by voice messages sent over Telegram, it added.

“On the instructions of the coordinator, after committing the crime, the terrorists drove in a car towards the Russian-Ukrainian border to subsequently cross it and arrive in Kiev to receive the promised reward,” the law enforcement agency said.

The Investigative Committee has said it is continuing to “verify the involvement of representatives of Ukrainian special services in organizing and financing the terrorist attack.”

Russian special forces intercepted the four suspected perpetrators last Saturday, en route to the Ukrainian border. They were identified as nationals of Tajikistan and initially described by officials as “radical Islamists.”

The terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) has claimed responsibility for the massacre. The US and EU have insisted that ISIS-K was the sole culprit and that Ukraine was in no way involved.

Moscow, however, remains skeptical. President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the heads of the FSB and the Investigative Committee have all claimed that multiple clues point to Kiev’s involvement. Lavrov described the West’s insistence on Ukraine’s innocence as suspicious in itself.

On Thursday, the Investigative Committee revealed that the four suspects had received “significant sums of money” from Ukraine, in the form of cryptocurrency. The funds were then used to prepare the attack on Crocus City Hall, the agency said.

norman

30th March 2024, 02:55

. . . . Lavrov described the West’s insistence on Ukraine’s innocence as suspicious in itself. . . . . .

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Of course it is. Bait to waver Russia from it's "Special Military Operation in Ukraine" mission statement. Anything else would be multipolar "War", even in the accusations stage.

shaberon

30th March 2024, 03:03

Russians see themselves as descendants of romans. Their alphabet and religion came from Byzantine greeks who also escaped towards Russia after Byzantine was conquered by the ottomans.

Descent of the Roman Empire, which was really eastern, the Byzantine Empire.

The Black Sea had been a Greek cultural sphere since 600 B. C. E.; Rome *never* compared to this, even remotely. Nothing said Sweden was trading with Italy.

Byzantium, of course, had already linked into Russian territories well prior to the Ottomans. And no, not as a crusade, like the thing that hit all of Europe.

Russia would have restored it if Greece had not sold herself out to the Bavarian system.

So, yes, it is highly Byzantine, that is the whole point.

I personally do not take these as trollish posts. Jaak said he was not adamantly 100% "anti-Russian" on a racist level, and, yes, I can categorically see several disturbing factors to provoke it. Trying to post this especially when English is not your native language is going to be difficult. Correspondingly, we would have to admit that some Russians are also into political or racist slander, oppression, etc., and for example I would hope that does not build to a majority view so that Russia pancakes Estonia like the Soviets did.

This guy is not John Birch screaming fear and hate across the world needlessly. Issues are simmering there that the rest of us don't have to deal with.

Bill Ryan

30th March 2024, 11:31

Important developments. (This investigation is moving at record speed)

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240330/money-transfers-proof-that-crocus-terrorists-for-hire-followed-orders-from-ukraine-1117652604.html

Money Transfers Proof that Crocus 'Terrorists for Hire' Followed Orders from Ukraine

A report by Russian investigators has confirmed the discovery of data on the receipt of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine by the perpetrators of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. Furthermore, a cryptocurrency account supposedly used by the organizer and perpetrators of the crime has been discovered.

It is of paramount importance that data in the technical devices seized from the suspects in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack has confirmed their connection with the Ukrainian side (https://sputnikglobe.com/20240328/russian-investigators-has-evidence-of-crocus-terrorists-connection-with-ukrainian-nationalists-1117613926.html#:~:text=Russian%20Investigative%20Committee%20Has%20Proof%20of%20Crocus%20Terrorists %27%20Connection%20With%20Kiev%20Nationalists), Kirill Kabanov, chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, told Sputnik.

Initial data received from those detained in the case related to the terrorist attackindicated Ukraine pulled the strings. However, the fresh report by the Russian Investigative Committee points to the Ukrainian special services, and “we must understand that they are directly connected with the CIA and MI6 and MI5,” Kabanov said.
❗️ Sputnik has discovered a possible cryptocurrency wallet intermediary in the terrorist attack at Crocus

A cryptocurrency wallet, the number of which was posted on a Telegram channel linked to the Voice of Khorasan (a Telegram channel linked to ISIS-K), reportedly transferred… pic.twitter.com/8eOGuQA7PE (https://t.co/8eOGuQA7PE)
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 30, 2024 (https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1773954197458767933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)“That is why the West is trying to cover this up, blaming an outlawed international terrorist organization for everything. In order to save face, and to hide the fact that Ukraine itself is a huge terrorist organization,” Kabanov, who is also a member of the Human Rights Council, said.

The ongoing investigation into the attack at Crocus City Hall has discovered proof of the connection of the terrorists who carried out the heinous crime with Ukrainian nationalists, the Russian Investigative Committee said on March 28.

"The initial results of the investigation fully confirm the planned nature of the terrorists' actions, careful preparation and financial support from the organizers of the crime. As a result of working with the detained terrorists, analyzing the technical devices seized from them, analyzing information about financial transactions (https://sputnikglobe.com/20240327/russias-state-duma-presses-western-nations-to-probe-terrorism-financing-1117580579.html), evidence of their connection with Ukrainian nationalists has been obtained," the Russian Investigative Committee said on Telegram.

The terrorists received significant amounts of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine, Russian investigators added.
❗️ Russia has obtained evidence that the Crocus City Hall terrorists received significant sums of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee has reported.
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 28, 2024 (https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1773364076602655190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)Russia's special services have completed their task by uncovering this proof, yet they "refuse to hear us in the West, the world’s mechanisms don’t work," said Kirill Kabanov.

“The Americans can get away with brandishing an empty vial and using it as a pretext for starting a war and destroying an entire state, as was the case with Iraq (https://sputnikglobe.com/20230205/colin-powells-career-ruining-un-testimony-1106969315.html#:~:text=Colin%20Powell%27s%20Career%2DRuining%20UN%20Testimony). Unfortunately, I am not at all sure that our evidence of cryptocurrency transfers will be heard. Although for citizens of many countries this might add to their perception of reality," the expert noted.

For people in Western countries whose leaders remain committed to supporting the regime holed up in Kiev, a reality check as to what is really happening in Ukraine is long overdue, the analyst believes.

“It is very important that they begin to understand everything that is happening regarding Ukraine, including in their own countries. For us, it was clear from the start who was behind this terrorist attack... I think it's time for the world to understand this too,” Kabanov remarked.

A shooting occurred on March 22 at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in the city of Krasnogorsk, just outside Moscow, followed by a massive fire. A Sputnik correspondent who witnessed the attack reported that a number of gunmen in camouflage broke into the music hall, shooting people point-blank and throwing incendiary bombs. The Russian Investigative Committee said that at least 143 people were killed and 360 injured as a result of the attack. The four main suspects in the case — all citizens of Tajikistan — were detained and charged with terrorism.

As part of the ongoing investigation, a cryptocurrency account allegedly used by those behind the attack and the perpetrators has been discovered, through which an amount equal to half of what was promised to the terrorists for the attack on the concert hall was transferred.

A link to the account was posted on Voice of Khorasan, a Telegram channel affiliated with ISIS-Khorasan.

Regarding the uncovered financial transactions, "the fact that we proved that the transfers are connected with Ukraine is evidence that these monsters didn’t just receive support, but were paid for executing the order," Kabanov pointed out, adding:

“They were executing orders coming from Ukraine. These are not just some ideologically motivated terrorists. Absolutely not. These are killers for hire. Yes, they are radical, yes, they profess a radical ideology, but they are just murderers who were hired by the so-called 'civilized world' precisely so that they would commit these terrible crimes.”
❗️ People detained in Tajikistan for possible links to the Crocus City Hall attackers are also suspected of links to ISIS*, a source in Tajikistan's intelligence services told Sputnik.
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 29, 2024 (https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1773652391356740064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)As for tracking where the funds came from and where they were sent, it’s not as difficult as it might seem, said the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee.

“We have efficient mechanisms here in Russia, including monitoring, which, in principle, can track any payments, even in cryptocurrency. Such monitoring is used to uncover evidence in criminal cases, for example. There are special techniques employed by intelligence agencies, which are not publicly disclosed, to track such transfers. We must understand that any action on the Internet leaves a trace, and not only on the Internet. It’s like dragging a sleigh through the snow,” Kirill Kabanov concluded.

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30th March 2024, 17:18

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Ravenlocke

30th March 2024, 17:18

Here is some more information regarding the above news about cryptocurrency used in the Crocus terrorist attack.

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Sputnik has discovered a possible cryptocurrency wallet intermediary in the terrorist attack at Crocus

A cryptocurrency wallet, the number of which was posted on a Telegram channel linked to the Voice of Khorasan (a Telegram channel linked to ISIS-K), reportedly transferred a sum amounting to about half of what was promised to the terrorists on the day of the attack at Crocus. Details:

▪️ The wallet in question is on the Tronscan platform. It first became active on March 13, 2024, when tokens for the small amount of $2.19 were received there. The number of this wallet appeared in one of the extremists' channels the day before.

▪️ The channel in question was run by an admin with the nickname Mavlavi_56. The same user also managed another Telegram channel called Voice of Khorasan. According to a source, the second Telegram channel was used to recruit the terrorists who attacked Crocus.

▪️ Mavlavi_56 published a post three times with the title "Collecting funds to help captive families and children - Mujahid – Muhajirs," where the address of the abovementioned wallet was given (once on March 18 and twice on March 20).

▪️ On the day of the tragedy, serious activity started in the wallet. There were four transfers of $325, $550, $550, and $1,100. The first one, for $325, took place at around 10 a.m. (presumably an advance payment), the rest were made from 21.30 to 22.30 Moscow time (1.5 h - 2 h after the first reports about the terrorist attack). Almost immediately, the amounts left the wallet in an unknown direction.

▪️ Adding up all four transfers makes $2,525, or about 232,000 rubles (at an exchange rate of about 92 rubles per dollar at the time). One of the accused, Faridun Shamsiddin, said after his arrest that he had been promised half a million rubles for the attack and that about half of it was transferred to a card.

▪️ The day after the terrorist attack, no transactions were carried out using this cryptocurrency wallet.

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30th March 2024, 17:25

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US political support for the ‘terrorist’ Ukraine regime evaporating – journalist

Russian media has revealed new links between the Kiev regime and last week’s terrorist attack outside Moscow, with cash and cryptocurrency provided to the attackers found to have come from Ukraine.

As the increasingly desperate regime launches attacks on Russian civilians in Belgorod and elsewhere, speculation has intensified that elements within Ukraine’s military and intelligence service may have played a role in last Friday’s incident. Independent journalist Dan Lazare joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program Friday to weigh in on the claim.

“To me, the fact that four of the accused were apprehended while making a dash for the Ukrainian border and were caught just a short distance away – I mean, to me that speaks volumes,” said Lazare. “It certainly strongly suspects that there were collaborators on the Ukrainian side.”

“We can't help but harken back to the assassination of Darya Dugina in 2022. That was the daughter of the Russian political philosopher Aleksandr Dugin,” the journalist added. “She was killed in a car bomb in Russia. At first the Ukrainian government denied any involvement whatsoever, and the US backed it up. And then a few weeks later the US admitted that the act was done by the SBU, the Ukrainian intelligence service.”

“I strongly suspect we'll learn the same thing here,” said Lazare, suggesting Ukrainian officials may have played a role in the “act of brutal terrorism.” “And, if that is true, if my suspicions prove correct, this will be a real game changer. Russia will feel justified in responding… and the US will not be in a position to say no to Russia and will have a very hard time continuing its political support of Kiev.”

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Is ISIS-K* another tool of the CIA?

The Biden administration’s immediate attempt to blame terrorist group ISIS-K for last Friday’s terrorist attack outside Moscow has generated suspicion, noted The Critical Hour host Wilmer Leon Friday. “Now we find out that this whole ISIS-K, which was supposed to be created in Afghanistan, that the leader of the organization actually has ties – and numerous ties – to the CIA,” he noted.

“I'm not very surprised,” responded independent journalist Dan Lazare. “There really has been a tangled relationship between al-Qaeda** and its various offshoots in US intelligence.”

“A study found out that most of the equipment, ammunition and weaponry that ISIS was using in Syria had come from the US,” he added.

The United States has historically utilized Islamic extremists to help achieve its geopolitical objectives, perhaps most famously when the country backed Islamist "resistance groups" known as the mujahideen in their fight against the the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Some Mujahideen fighters went on to form Al Qaeda, which tragically struck within the United States on September 11, 2001.

More recently the US has backed Islamic extremists in Syria in its effort to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. The country’s destabilization has allowed ISIS to find safe haven, another extremist group that emerged in the aftermath of the United States’ disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq.

“There's been some very strange overlaps in recent years where ISIS or ISIS-K and its positions have been oddly coincident with those of the US,” said Lazare. “It is very hostile to Hamas, for example, it's very hostile to Iran, and it's hostile to Russia.”

* ISIS (also known as Daesh/ISIL/IS/ISIS-K/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries.
** Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization banned in Russia and other states.

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30th March 2024, 17:29

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Ukraine was one of the main trial sites for a drug causing various forms of cancer, which was tested on patients at a Mariupol hospital

Sputnik has obtained documents proving that drug trials were held with the support of local officials and in the interests of Western pharmaceutical companies. Patients in the Psychiatric Department of Mariupol Hospital No. 7 were the main test subjects.

The documents were found in the basement of the hospital during renovation. In particular, they mentioned testing of the experimental drug SB4 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

At the time, it was planned to test the drug on 152 patients in Ukraine.

Companies such as Pfizer (US), AstraZeneca (UK, Sweden), Celltrion (South Korea), Novatris International AG (Switzerland, US), IQVIA (formerly Quintiles and IMS Health Inc., US, UK), Sanofi (France), Galapagos NV (Belgium), Janssen Pharmaceuticals (now Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Belgium), Abbott Laboratories (US), Covance (now Labcorp Drug Development, US), and Merck KGaA (Germany) are mentioned in the documents.

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30th March 2024, 17:42

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Foreign ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic missions laid flowers and wreaths in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the memorial near the 'Crocus.'

The ceremony was attended by ambassadors from several dozen countries, with representatives from the USA, EU countries, Africa, and Latin America present.

After the ceremony, white balloons were released into the sky in memory of those who died in the 'Crocus City Hall'

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30th March 2024, 17:57

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🇷🇺 Deputy Maria Butina declared the right of Belarus to try those accused of the terrorist attack in Crocus. The country allows the death penalty.

"Unfortunately, the tragedy became common to us, because citizens of Belarus died there. I am quite well aware of your legislation, including the death penalty, which is present. In this case, this is the murder of two or more people, so you have exactly the same right to try these people as the Russian Federation. I think that there is a discussion going on between the competent authorities... Negotiations are underway," said MP Maria Butina. - FRWL reports

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British propaganda media outlet, The Mirror newspaper, and former British Army commander Colonel Richard Kemp, have branded two British men fighting in Russia's Donbas region as "traitors."

Why are these men being called "traitors"? Did they commit treason against the British state? No, they fought on the side of Russia.

This begs the question, how does this make them "traitors"? If they have not committed an act of treason and treachery against the British state, what makes them both "traitors"?

To call them both traitors is to announce that Britain is officially at war with Russia. We all know that the British state has been launching an undeclared war on Russia for a long time, but they have been too scared to officially declare war on the Russian Federation.

Is the claim that these two soldiers are "traitors" a final admission that Britain is at war with Russia?

Colonel Kemp has also called for their arrest if they return to Britain. It is likely that they could be arrested under the Foreign Enlistment Act, a British law that forbids British citizens from joining foreign militaries that are fighting nations which Britain is not also officially at war with. If taken to the letter, British mercenaries and terrorists that have joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) could also be liable for arrest, but we all know they won't be, "British democracy" is selective and never equally applied. Britain is not "officially" at war with Russia, so their arrest under this act would not be legal (but when does the British state ever observe the law, even its own?), or is the British state ready to admit that it is at war with Russia?

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30th March 2024, 18:02

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🇷🇺🇩🇪 Zakharova, commenting on statements by the head of the German Foreign Ministry that Putin allegedly "wants to drag NATO into the conflict," advised her to buy a map and a history textbook:

💬 "I would like to ask Baerbock: is she not aware that it was not Russian bases surrounding NATO countries, but NATO expanding eastward along Russia's perimeter? Buy Annalena a map, a history textbook, and some gum, so she talks less nonsense."

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30th March 2024, 18:17

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🇩🇪 A committee of experts in the German parliament has concluded that Article 5 of the NATO Charter on collective defence cannot be invoked if a member state of the bloc sends troops into Ukraine and Russia subsequently attacks them, the DPA news agency reported.

“If troops of a NATO member state engage in collective self-defense (Article 51, UN Charter) in favor of Ukraine in an existing conflict (between Russia and Ukraine) and are attacked by the other party to the conflict (Russia) in the course of the battle in the conflict area, this does not constitute a case of Article 5 NATO Treaty,”
- the agency quotes excerpts from a yet-to-be-published report by the Bundestag's Council of Experts.

According to the experts, the article, which provides for the possibility of a collective response by NATO, can only be invoked if such a clash takes place on the territory of alliance members. According to the experts' conclusion, the deployment of French troops in Ukraine would be permissible, but would not mean that all the other countries of the alliance would automatically become parties to the conflict.

The Western politicians are bursting through the Overton window they are opening in front of our eyes.

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The danger of Ukraine's defeat in the war is growing — German opposition leader Merz in Die Welt

"Russia has switched its entire economy to military use and is producing weapons and ammunition in quantities that far exceed its current needs. This means that Russia is massively rearming far more than it is using in the war against Ukraine," said Leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz.

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Ravenlocke

30th March 2024, 18:21

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Ukraine plans more political and military reshuffles amid battlefield failures

Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, Oleksandr Syrsky touted plans to bring in new officers to the Ukrainian armed forces, which he announced on Friday in his first interview since his appointment.

Syrsky, who as commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces earned himself the grizzly nickname of the “Butcher" among the troops, did not say how many of officers who served under his predecessor, General Valery Zaluzhny, would be ditched.

Syrsky admitted that the Russian army has a six-fold advantage in artillery over the Ukrainian one. He added that the number of Russian servicemen also exceeds Ukrainian troops.

He also claimed “a review of internal resources” had allowed the military to reconsider drafting the 500,000 new recruits which Zelensky previously claimed Zaluzhny wanted. Although he did not give a revised figure, Syrsky said it would be “significantly” smaller.

In a separate development, Zelensky has fired today a number of advisers and assistants, the website of the president’s office reported. Among them are Sergey Shefer, director and founder of the ‘Quartet-95’ studio, who allegedly gave Zelensky a lucky ticket into national politics.
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🇺🇦 Zelensky's press secretary named the reason for Schaefer's dismissal

The dismissals of several advisers, the first assistant and the authorized representative of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky are related to the optimization of the staff of the office of the head of state. This was announced by Zelensky's press secretary Sergei Nikiforov.

📝 “Today’s dismissals of advisers and assistants to the president are related to the optimization of the staff of the president’s office. Vladimir Zelensky expects similar efforts from other authorities,” Nikiforov said. - Ostashko reports

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Ravenlocke

30th March 2024, 18:27

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Russian forces carried out 58 airstrikes, including via Tsirkon missiles, in 7 days

All designated targets were hit

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. The Russian Armed Forces carried out 1 massive and 57 precision strikes, including via Tsirkon cruise and Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic ballistic missiles, in the past 7 days, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

According to the Ministry, missile and drone strikes hit Ukrainian military industrial complex, Armed Forces and Security Service (SBU) decision-making centers, unmanned speedboat assembly shops, arsenals, fuel depots, air defense objects, energy infrastructure and temporary deployment locations for special operations forces and foreign mercenaries.

All designated targets were hit, the Ministry added.

Avdeyevka direction

Ukrainian forces lost over 1,870 troops and 13 tanks in the Avdeyevka direction in the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"Over the past week, Ukrainian forces lost more than 1,870 troops, 13 tanks, 20 armored combat vehicles and 50 cars in that direction," the ministry said.

Also, 30 field artillery pieces, including five US-made M777 howitzers, a US-supplied M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery mount and a German-made Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzer as well as a Grad multiple rocket launcher were struck with counter-battery fire there, the ministry added.

Donetsk direction

Russian forces liberated the settlement of Krasnoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and repelled 12 Ukrainian counterattacks in the past week, with the enemy losing over 2,360 troops and 105 pieces of equipment, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Among other enemy weapons, five tanks, 16 armored combat vehicles, and 23 field artillery pieces, including 11 foreign-made ones, as well as 61 cars were destroyed.

Kherson direction

The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 370 troops and 5 M777 howitzers on the Kherson direction, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

"The enemy lost over 370 troops, 2 tanks, 7 armored combat vehicles, 29 automobiles and 13 field artillery guns, including 5 US-made M777 howitzers," the Ministry said.

According to the Ministry, Battlegroup ‘Dnepr’ inflicted damage to personnel and vehicles of Ukraine’s 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, 28th, 65th and 118th Mechanized brigades, 35th Marine Brigade and three territorial defense brigades near Rabotino, Novosyolovka, Nesteryanka, Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye Region), Ivanovka, Mikhaylovka, Gavrilovka and Tyaginka (Kherson Region).

Kupyansk direction

Over the past week, Russian forces repelled 11 enemy counterattacks in the Kupyansk direction, with Ukrainians losing roughly 310 troops and 46 pieces of equipment, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

In particular, the enemy lost two tanks, three armored combat vehicles, 22 cars, and 19 field artillery pieces, including two US-supplied howitzers, an M777 and an M198, and a French-made Caesar self-propelled howitzer, the ministry reported.

South Donetsk direction

Ukrainians sustained over 860 casualties and lost two Krab self-propelled howitzers and two British-supplied FH-70 howitzers in the south Donetsk direction.

"Enemy losses amounted to over 860 troops, four armored combat vehicles, 35 cars, and seven field artillery pieces, including two Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzers and two British-supplied FH-70 howitzers," according to the report.

Ukrainian surrender

A total of 18 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered in the past seven days, the Russian Defense Ministry also said.

"During the past week, 18 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered," the Defense Ministry added

Rockets, missiles, drones

Over the past week, Russian air defenses and aircraft downed 171 Ukrainian MLRS projectiles, and 1,208 drones, as well as 11 British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles, three Neptune anti-ship missiles and four US-made ADM-160 MALD missiles.

In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 577 Ukrainian warplanes, 270 helicopters, 17,773 unmanned aerial vehicles, 489 surface-to-air missile systems, 15,644 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,257 multiple rocket launchers, 8,582 field artillery guns and mortars and 20,381 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the Russian Defense Ministry concluded.

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Mass graves of civilians discovered in Avdeyevka, aide to DPR head says

Igor Kimakovsky pointed out that so far dozens of bodies have been identified as those of local residents who refused to leave the city

DONETSK, March 29. /TASS/.

Mass graves of civilians have been discovered in Avdeyevka, an aide to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) told TASS.

"Similarly to Mariupol, mass graves have been discovered in Avdeyevka. There are several sites. According to the local population, victims of Ukrainian repressions were buried in these so-called mass graves, among others," Igor Kimakovsky said.

He pointed out that so far dozens of bodies have been identified as those of local residents who refused to leave the city.

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30th March 2024, 18:34

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Number of those injured in Moscow terrorist attack revised upward to 551

As of 6:00 a.m. Moscow time on March 30 there were 695 casualties, including 15 children

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s department in the Moscow Region has revised the number of people injured in last week’s terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall upward to 551.

"As of 6:00 a.m. Moscow time (3:00 a.m. GMT - TASS) on March 30, 2024, there were 695 casualties, including 15 children, in the terrorist attack, of whom 144 people, including five children, have been killed," the ministry said in a statement.

Health officials told TASS that the majority of people hurt in the attack have been receiving outpatient treatment.

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack targeted the music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just outside the Moscow city limits.

All four gunmen have been apprehended, while five others are believed to have aided them, according to investigators. The Russian Investigative Committee said the perpetrators had links with Ukrainian nationalists.

Last Sunday, Russia declared its first nationwide mourning since 2018.

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Investigators identify 134 people killed in Crocus City Hall attack

Genetic tests are being carried for other, not yet identified bodies

MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. The investigators identified 134 people that died in the Crocus City Hall attack, the Investigative Committee press office told TASS.

"The investigators work with the victims, questioning them about the circumstances of this crime. Currently, the investigation has been able to identify 134 people that died in the terror attack. Genetic tests are being carried for other, not yet identified bodies," the committee said.

"The investigators, forensics specialists and experts work around the clock. Investigation operations are being carried out at the crime scene, as well as with the suspects," the committee said.

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30th March 2024, 18:44

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🇺🇦New Evidence Emerges of Ukraine’s Horrific “Forced Fertilization” Program, Inspired by Nazi Lebensborn

The Foundation to Battle Injustice has uncovered shocking evidence of egregious violations of women’s rights by Ukrainian authorities through a monstrous “socio-medical experiment” with roots tracing back to Nazi Germany’s infamous Lebensborn program. After a months-long investigation involving sources including a former high-ranking SBU official, a Ukrainian Health Ministry official, and a direct victim, the Foundation has verified the existence of a forced fertilization program in Ukraine.

They have identified the specific methods and facilities used to kidnap women and hold them in specialized incubator laboratories against their will to be forcibly impregnated. Disturbingly, the Foundation has also named the high-ranking Ukrainian officials responsible for operating this reprehensible program, which sees Zelensky’s regime exploiting state resources to locate, abduct, illegally detain, and medically violate unsuspecting victims.

The abhorrent idea of forcibly impregnating women on a mass scale first emerged under the Nazis in 1935. Heinrich Himmler, creator of the SS and key architect of the Holocaust, sought to redefine motherhood by exploiting women to create a “racially pure population” for Germany. As millions of German soldiers died in the war, Nazi officials hatched the Lebensborn (“fountain of life”) program – a controlled breeding system where unmarried women deemed “racially pure” were ordered to bear children fathered by Nazi officers, to produce a master “Aryan race.”

Shockingly, Zelensky’s Ukrainian regime now appears to have resurrected key aspects of this ghastly chapter of history by launching its own large-scale program of forcibly impregnating women, embracing the twisted practices once developed by Nazi scientists and officials.

According to the Foundation to Battle Injustice, Ukraine has allegedly created a vast legal framework of secret resolutions from Zelensky, the SBU security service, and the Health Ministry. These documents are claimed to allow Ukrainian women to be legally detained in specialized “incubator” medical facilities.

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30th March 2024, 18:51

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norman

31st March 2024, 00:12

Looks like Zelenski and his Ukraine is getting close to throwing a switch to transform the whole situation.

A wild guess:

Some kind of stand down and peace offer to Russia, but one that Russia cannot accept, creating a new phase of contention with very different dynamics that involve the forces of other countries.

Bill Ryan

31st March 2024, 11:43

An interesting new article on Zero Hedge, reposted from The Epoch Times.

Personal comment: 5 (five) Abrams tanks have been destroyed, not 4, but the original article may have been written slightly earlier. All the factors described apply.

https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/destruction-american-made-m1-abrams-tanks-sign-ukrainian-desperation

Destruction of American-Made M1 Abrams Tanks is a Sign of Ukrainian Desperation

Thirty-one M1 Abrams tanks were delivered to Ukraine in September/October of 2023 (https://www.voanews.com/a/all-31-abrams-tanks-in-ukraine-us-military-confirms-to-voa/7313918.html) only to effectively disappear from the news for about four months. Now with the reported destruction of the fourth M1 Abrams tank (https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/russia-blows-up-4th-u-s-made-m1-abrams-tank-near-avdiivka-ukraines-stocks-reduced-to-27-101710162139611.html) in a span of 12 days, they are back in the news. And the fact they are back in the news is a sign of how desperate things are for Ukraine.

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There are a number of plausible reasons that Ukraine did not deploy the Abrams and their freshly trained crews (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/ukrainian-soldiers-complete-training-abrams-tanks-00113668)to the frontlines until just recently (https://sg.news.yahoo.com/us-made-m1-abrams-seen-184156126.html), and none of them are mutually exclusive.

First, while a properly supported M1 Abrams is very effective, it is highly maintenance intensive and guzzles gas. So, before they could be used at all effectively, the proper support infrastructure and logistics needed to be in place. Also, by the time the Abrams could be properly supported by Ukraine, it was facing heavily fortified lines that included tank traps, trenches, tank-killing drones, massed artillery fires, and minefields that have proved devastating to Ukraine’s other tanks. And with the failure of Ukraine’s counteroffensive (https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/ukraines-counteroffensive-between-a-rock-and-hard-place-5459893), it made sense to keep the gas-hungry/maintenance-intensive Abrams in reserve for defensive operations when Russia inevitably began its own offensive operations.

All of the above reasons are legitimate, but arguably the biggest reason may be that it was believed by Ukraine and the Biden administration that the propaganda value Russia would reap from their destruction was far greater than any value they would bring to Ukraine in uselessly throwing them against the fierce and devastatingly effective defenses (https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-defenses-more-deadly-than-any-military-saw-decades-general-2023-7) of the Surovikin Line (https://www.australiannationalreview.com/state-of-affairs/how-the-surovikin-line-works-in-ukraine-analysis-of-the-military-chronicle/).

That Russia recognized the propaganda value of destroying Western “wonder weapons” is demonstrated by its creation of tank-killer groups (TKGs) (https://eurasiantimes.com/russia-unleashes-tank-hunter-unit-to-obliterate-western-mbts/) whose focus is destroying and/or capturing any modern armor provided to Kyiv by the United States and its NATO allies.

To encourage the TKGs, Russian businesses and officials reportedly offered cash bounties for the destruction of Western military equipment (https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/01/30/russian-troops-offered-bounties-for-destroying-western-tanks-in-ukraine-a80086) in Ukraine. Aleksandr Osipov, the governor of Russia’s Zabaikalsky Region, reportedly signed an order in January 2023 promising local soldiers 3 million rubles ($37,000) for capturing an operational Leopard 2 tank, or 1 million rubles ($12,000) for destroying one. Fores, a Russian chemical manufacturing company, issued a press release stating that “Fores will pay 5 million rubles (https://www.newsweek.com/russian-company-reward-destroy-us-abrams-tanks-1777528) [$70,700 U.S.] for the first trophy. The payment for every next one [Leopard 2 or Abrams] … will be 500,000 rubles [$7,070 U.S.].”

With Russians paying special attention to the Abrams, it is not hard to imagine that Ukraine and the Biden administration quickly agreed that rushing the “game-changing (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraine-awaits-arrival-of-u-s-tanks-that-could-be-game-changer-in-fight-against-russia)” Abrams into lethal environs to become propaganda fodder was not the favored course of action.

However, with the devastating losses in men and materiel suffered by Ukraine, Ukraine is running low on everything, including ammunition, men, morale (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/08/ukraine-soldiers-shortage-infantry-russia/)—and tanks. And with Russia having shifted from conservation of forces operations to limited offensive operations, denying fodder for Russia propaganda has taken a back seat to battlefield realities, and Ukraine is desperately throwing everything it has into defensive operations to slow down Russian advances. And that everything includes the 31 Abrams.

How the Abrams were destroyed illustrates why the Ukraine-Russian battlefield is arguably the most hostile environment for tanks ever. According to unverified reports from Russian media, the first Abrams was destroyed when it came under attack by units of the Samara 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade after being spotted by a reconnaissance drone. First it was struck by a kamikaze drone and then finished off by grenade launchers. The second Abrams was put out of action (https://www.newsweek.com/video-shows-russia-destroy-second-us-made-abrams-tank-week-1875790) by Russia’s Army Group Center, which successfully used two first-person-view unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The third Abrams was lost in battle to a T-72B3 main battle tank (https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/03/06/upgraded-t-72b3-destroyed-the-m1-abrams-with-its-first-shot/) that used its powerful gun-fired anti-tank missile, something Abrams do not have, to take out the Abrams with a single shot. The fourth Abrams tank looks like it was destroyed by artillery (https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/03/11/mine-explosion-and-artillery-take-down-4th-5th-us-supplied-m1-tank/).

The use of the gun-fired anti-tank missiles such as the 9M119M Refleks (http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product1677.html), which is standard on advanced T-72 tanks, including the T-72B3 and the highly cost-effective T-90M (https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-t-90m-tank-cost-has-a-quality-all-of-its-own-5333387), allows Russian tanks to outrange Abrams and get in the first shot. This capability illustrates the fact that modernized T-72 tanks, when properly employed and supported, are a threat to even the most advanced of Western tanks.

As was to be expected, the destruction of the M1 Abrams tanks has been trumpeted by Russian media (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m1-abrams-tanks-are-being-destroyed-ukraine-russia-209884) and social media. But given that both Challenger (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/09/05/ukraine-has-lost-its-first-challenger-2-tank/?sh=55d168f365f9) and Leopard 2 (https://dcweekly.org/2023/11/07/russian-military-forces-destroy-leopard-2-tanks-and-receive-rewards/) tanks have been destroyed in the last few months, and that Ukrainian morale is already low (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/low-morale-grips-ukrainian-forces-as-russians-grow/), losing the Abrams at this stage of the war probably had less impact than if they had been destroyed shortly after arriving in Ukraine.

Still, having three M1 Abrams tanks destroyed (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/m1-abrams-tanks-are-being-destroyed-ukraine-russia-209884) in just over a week, and the fourth destroyed (https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/03/11/mine-explosion-and-artillery-take-down-4th-5th-us-supplied-m1-tank/) within a 12-day span, did provide a boost for Russian morale that Ukraine and the United States would dearly love to have avoided.

Jaak

31st March 2024, 14:34

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bojancan

31st March 2024, 16:15

There is no chance of Russia taking all of Ukraine, as the local resistance would be extreme in the west, but Russia will certainly gain more land than they have today, Billionaire Elon Musk has predicted, adding, the longer the war goes on, the more territory Russia will gain. He urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop fighting and settle for a negotiated settlement with Russia. Watch the video for more details....

'More Victories For Putin': World's Second Richest Man Predicts Battlefield Doom For Ukraine
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Ravenlocke

31st March 2024, 17:47

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La Tribune: France will transfer hundreds of VAB armored personnel carriers to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which are more than 40 years old.

This old equipment is “still working,” said French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

Instead of VAB, the French army will receive new generation Griffon vehicles.

@ukr_leaks_eng
https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1774385704983810058

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True, anyone besides NATO geniuses…

American billionaire Elon Musk advised Kiev to move on to dialogue with Moscow before Ukraine completely loses access to the Black Sea.

According to the businessman, if the war lasts long enough, Odessa will fall:

“Attacking a larger army with deep defenses, minefields and strong artillery, when Ukraine lacked defensive resources and air superiority, was a tragic loss of lives! Any fool could have predicted this."

@ukr_leaks_eng

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1774381834555556288

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Important news for Sunday morning, March 31:

🔷 At about 07.00, 10 rockets from the Ukrainian Vampire MLRS were destroyed in the air over the Belgorod region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

🔷 The southern group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery, improved the situation along the front line, and also destroyed more than 100 Ukrainian drones per day. This was reported by the senior officer of the group’s press center Sergey Rumyantsev.

🔷 Five powerful explosions occurred in Stryi, Lviv region in western Ukraine.

🔷 A fire occurred at an energy facility in the Odessa region. Several settlements were left without electricity, local media reported.

🔷 The CTO regime has been declared on the territory of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk in Dagestan, the operational headquarters for the region report.
FSB special forces blocked terrorists in several apartments in residential areas of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk.

🔷 The mayor of Paris announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes would not be welcome - Le Monde newspaper: "I want to tell Russian and Belarusian athletes that they will not be welcome in Paris. At the same time, I want to tell the athletes from Ukraine that we will support them with all our might.” - FRWL reports

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Ravenlocke

31st March 2024, 17:51

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🇺🇸 The American clothing, footwear and accessories brand Guess announced a donation of 10 million rubles to victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the company’s press release.

The founders of the Guess Inc corporation, brothers Paul and Maurice Marciano, decided to send money to the Russian Red Cross, which will be used to provide psychological assistance, treatment in sanatoriums, as well as providing rehabilitation means to those affected by the tragedy. It is noted that fashion designers will donate five million rubles from their side and five million rubles from the Guess Russia fund.

“We stand shoulder to shoulder with those affected by this tragedy, as well as with all our employees and clients from Russia,” said the creative director of the brand, Paul Marciano, and called on his clients to provide financial assistance to the victims. - FRWL reports

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1774303483547512861

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Ravenlocke

31st March 2024, 17:59

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🇷🇺 Russia has officially accused Ukraine of involvement in the terrorist attack at Crocus. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“The investigative actions carried out by the Russian competent authorities indicate that the traces of the latest terrorist attacks lead to Ukraine. “Russia has sent a demand to the Ukrainian authorities for the arrest and extradition of all those involved,” the statement said.

Russia also demands from Ukraine the arrest of the head of the SBU Malyuk, in connection with his statements about his involvement in the bombing of the Crimean Bridge and in the murder of a number of people in the Russian Federation (in particular Tatarsky).

The Russian Foreign Ministry threatens Ukraine with liability for “violation of obligations under anti-terrorism conventions.”

Russia issues an ultimatum to the Kiev regime immediately stop any support for terrorist activities and compensate for the damage caused to the victims

Ukraine denies to this moment any involvement in the terrorist attack at Crocus

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage from the camera of one of the so-called militants. RDK, which tried to break into the village of Kozinka, Belgorod region, but were eliminated by border covering forces.

The video is published by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. It is noted that all militants speak exclusively Ukrainian. ISZ reports

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🇷🇺 We publish the full text of the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement

⚡️ The bloody terrorist act committed on 22 March in Krasnogorsk, which shocked the whole world, is by no means the first terrorist attack against our country in recent times. Investigations carried out by the competent Russian authorities show that the traces of all these crimes lead to Ukraine.

Other barbaric terrorist attacks using explosive devices have claimed the lives of journalists D.A. Dugina and M.Y. Fomin (V. Tatarsky), seriously injured the writer E.N. Prilepin and killed his driver A.I. Shubin, killed five people in the bombing of the Crimean bridge, and injured 42 people in an explosion in a café in St. Petersburg. The killings and injuries of civilians, including children, were accompanied by attacks by the terrorist organisation Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).

❗️ In this connection, the Russian Foreign Ministry has sent the Ukrainian authorities demands under the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (ICBT) and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (ICSFTU) for the immediate arrest and extradition of all persons involved in the terrorist attacks in question.

These demands include the arrest of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), V. Malyuk, who on 25 March cynically admitted that Ukraine had organised the bombing of the Crimean bridge in October and revealed details of the organisation of other terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation.

☝️ The fight against international terrorism is the duty of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately cease all support for terrorist activities, extradite those responsible and compensate the victims. Ukraine's violation of its obligations under the anti-terrorist conventions will entail its international legal responsibility.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺Residents of the city of Chasov Yar are forced to leave their homes, which will then “transition” into the status of strongholds for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Ukrainian army is actively preparing to defend the city, as Russian units have already been spotted on its outskirts.

At the same time, there is no talk of a centralized evacuation of the local population by Kiev.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1774481463548825726

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Ravenlocke

31st March 2024, 18:13

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Ravenlocke

31st March 2024, 18:22

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Russian glide bombs change the course of the war in Ukraine - The Sunday Times

▪️Trenches provide little protection from the intensifying air campaign. According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba, Moscow dropped 700 high-explosive bombs in 6 days.
▪️Russia began using such bombs early last year. But their destructive effect was most clearly demonstrated during the battle for Avdiivka, when Russian fighter-bombers fired 250 of these bombs into the city over two days.
▪️Bombs can be fired 40 miles behind the front line and fall to the ground in a matter of minutes, making them difficult for Ukrainian air defenses to shoot down.
▪️Russia is currently producing the FAB-3000, weighing three tons, and at the end of this year will begin production of the Drill glide bomb, which carries cluster munitions.

Source:
https://thetimes.co.uk/article/why-russias-glide-bomb-assault-is-changing-the-war-in-ukraine-7m0jn3q7l#:~:text=KAB%20and%20FAB%20glide%20bombs,recognisable%20trajectory%20%E2%80%94%20to%20shoot %20down.

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/1774441634429620614

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Ravenlocke

31st March 2024, 18:34

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🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian athletes will not be welcome in Paris at the 2024 Olympics, — Mayor Anne Hidalgo

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be "not welcome" in Paris during the 2024 Olympics, the head of the French capital said in an interview with a journalist from Le Monde newspaper.

"I want to tell the Russian and Belarusian athletes that they will not be welcome in Paris. And I want to tell the Ukrainian athletes and the entire Ukrainian people that we support them very much," she said.

However, 🇨🇵🇮🇱Israel to participate in Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony

https://insidethegames.biz/articles/1143423/israel-confirms-open-ceremony-paris-2024

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Bill Ryan

31st March 2024, 19:25

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🇫🇷⚔️🇷🇺🇧🇾 Russian athletes will not be welcome in Paris at the 2024 Olympics, — Mayor Anne Hidalgo

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be "not welcome" in Paris during the 2024 Olympics, the head of the French capital said in an interview with a journalist from Le Monde newspaper.

"I want to tell the Russian and Belarusian athletes that they will not be welcome in Paris. And I want to tell the Ukrainian athletes and the entire Ukrainian people that we support them very much," she said.]From this post of mine (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?121538-Predictions-for-2024&p=1592755&viewfull=1#post1592755) in December:

Russia will hold its own version of the Olympic Games, but it'll be boycotted by the US. (This might not happen until 2025, though all the plans will be laid in 2024.)

Just sayin'! :):P

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ExomatrixTV

31st March 2024, 23:46

Ukraine War Is A Money Laundering Scheme FOR BLACKROCK! – RFK Jr.:

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Tucker did a story on Blackrock and 2 weeks later he was fired.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will run for President in 2024 (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?120744-Robert-F.-Kennedy-Jr.-will-run-for-President-in-2024)

Ravenlocke

1st April 2024, 01:13

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Rus Missile Strike,
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3rd Town Falling, Ukr Troops Bombed,
Huge Losses; Neocons Unlimited War

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Ravenlocke

1st April 2024, 01:27

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Ukrainian DTEK is losing 80% of its generating capacity; repairs will take 18 months

The head of Ukraine's largest private energy company DTEK said five of its six power plants were damaged or destroyed and 80% of its generating capacity lost after attacks in recent days.

DTEK today provides about a quarter of the country's needs. The company said the raids on March 22 and 29 affected heat and hydro production “in almost all regions” and distribution facilities were destroyed.

The CEO said his company suffered a $300 million loss on equipment alone, with labor costs costing half that.

DTEK has spent $110 million rebuilding 10 neighborhoods hit by Russian attacks last year, two-thirds of which have now been destroyed again. Repairs will take “months, and in some cases, a year and a half.”

geonrgru

#Ukraine
🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff

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Tintin

1st April 2024, 09:50

From Simplicius The Thinker's Lyceum (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/jacques-baud-and-the-russian-way), received today:

"All the above is demonstrably false and known to be false by the rapporteur in question. The notion that Russia is taking 25,000 to 30,000 casualties a month is ludicrous. Artillery accounts for about 70% of casualties on both sides and by every estimate Russia is firing five or ten times as many shells as Ukraine. Russia has carefully avoided frontal assaults to preserve manpower.

No one disputed the data I presented. And no one believed that Russia is taking 25,000 casualties a month. Facts weren’t the issue: The assembled dignitaries, a representative sampling of the foreign policy establishment’s intellectual and executive leadership, simply couldn’t imagine a world in which America no longer gave the orders. They are accustomed to running things and they will gamble the world away to keep their position." - David P. Goldman

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Jacques Baud and the Russian Way of War

Published: April 1st, 2024

I wanted to do a relatively brief post mostly devoted to this extraordinary new talk by Jacques Baud with the Duran folks, Mercouris and Christoforou.

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If you haven’t seen this yet, watch at least the first half hour, or a little more, which is the most profoundly meaningful stretch. Incidentally, according to his wiki, today just happens to be Mr. Baud’s birthday as well, so happy birthday to him.

Jacques Baud worked in military intelligence, studying the Soviet way of fighting in the Cold War, and recounts his most poignant observations in the differences between how Russia and the West conduct warfare. The reason I found it particularly enjoyable is because it accords so well with my own theories, particularly in articles like this one:

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And thus feels like a bit of vindication, in that sometimes I’ve felt the lone reed bending in the wind, and it’s often discouraging or at least exhausting to realize that the vast majority of the commentariat simply doesn’t comprehend the clashing philosophies, which inevitably undermines their analyses.

Mr. Baud eloquently corroborates the Russian holistic approach to war, noting that it has not changed much since Soviet times. In his estimations, it is a very methodical and analytical approach, but also one—almost contradictorily—treated and studied as an art form, thus the moniker ‘Operational Art’.

His most paradigm-breaking assessments revolve around how Russia approaches the planning of wars around a strategic and operational framework, whereas the West sort of rudderlessly flounders “in the moment”, and has exhibited little conception of military operations beyond the tactical. Elucidating points include Baud’s explanation of the West’s actions in various African and MidEast theaters as just guys going around shooting guns, with little strategic depth or focus on end goals beyond that.

Of course, he may or may not miss the fact that this is to some extents by design, in the spirit of the famous quips about America’s MidEast wars not being fought to be won, but rather to make money for defense contractors. But whatever the actual originating reason is, it doesn’t dismiss the fact that the West’s strategic and operational sense for the battlefield has likely well atrophied as a result. Whether you’re doing something ‘intentionally’ or not, if you do it long enough, you will degrade your institutional ability to operate otherwise.

The only thing to the contrary I’ll say, in the effort of tempering any wild flights of exaggeration to one extreme or the other, is that things are not as clear cut and uniform as simply: “Russia is the best, West is totally clueless.”

We know there are gradations of each on both sides. There are some Russian generals that make even modern Western generals look like Napoleon, and the war has revealed some incredibly deep corrosion within segments of the Russian Armed Forces. We’ve seen endless blunders and miscalculations from Russian forces at every tier of command, and there are many gaps and blind spots in the Russian approach to war. No one has the one-size-fits-all perfect system—if they did, that country would likely rule the world unchallenged.

But it’s in the cumulative sense of the armed forces as a whole, living, breathing organism, we can say without too much exaggeration that in the current historical frame, Russia appears to much better grasp the most fundamental and important precepts of winning real wars compared to the West. We see this categorically demonstrated, for example, in the Russian vision of warfare consistently winning out and being proven superior over the approach of the West in the SMO.

For instance, the West’s philosophy of concentrating on prestige, precision systems for ‘surgical’ victories has now undoubtedly been trumped by Russia’s revival of the conventional ‘mass production war’.

In the clash of philosophies in armor, Russia’s approach to its tanks has likewise seemingly proven its superiority as Western tanks are now roundly deemed inadequate for modern peer combat. Same goes for many other advanced and expensive weapons systems.

In the clash of organizational philosophies it may be less clear, but the long-celebrated Western approach to NCO-heavy “small unit leadership” has clearly not shown advantage over Russia’s putatively more ‘centralized’ force structure.

Clearest of all, of course, has been the question of strategic and operational approach. I’ve written before how the Western-led Ukrainian forces have not once been able to envelop Russians in a single cauldron. Meanwhile, Russian generals somehow continually manage to entrap the NATO proxy force in cauldrons in virtually every major battle, leading to incalculably disproportionate losses.

So that is all to say that, while the differences aren’t as clear cut as Mr. Baud’s passionate appeal may suggest, it’s safe to say that the general cut of his comparisons is overall quite accurate. And truth be told, it will likely only get more accurate as time progresses. That’s because the Russian forces are learning and only improving their storied knowledge and strategic culture, while in the West the pillars of this knowledge are being torn down on a daily basis, replaced with DEI indoctrination and other distractingly degrading modern contrivances.

And further look at the cast of clowns and freaks that the West continues to appoint to its highest leadership positions. Even in spite of all its weaknesses and intransigent corruptions, there’s no way Russia will have the worst of it when it comes to the West’s precipitous degradation of military culture.

The easily demonstrable veracity of this is being witnessed on a daily basis. Each new day brings some new shocking news: yesterday it was another US Navy vessel catching fire, today it was the 4th Apache chopper crash in just the past 2 months alone; that’s not to even mention the general state of things—Baltimore bridge, anyone?

And so, to cap this little digest, I want to present this exceptional new article (https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/america-has-no-ukraine-plan-b-except-more-war/) making the rounds, which perfectly dovetails with the overarching thrust of Jacques Baud’s thesis:

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The author, David P. Goldman, recounts his attendance last weekend of some kind of Bilderberg-esque meeting on Ukraine—with an indirect reference to Chatham House rules—between various former cabinet members, senior military officials, academics, etc.

(the article continues....)

Vicus

1st April 2024, 13:19

Kremlin responds to Zelensky's remarks on talks with Russia
RT
Sat, 30 Mar 2024

The Ukrainian president has suggested that a return to 1991 borders is no longer a precondition for negotiations.

Ukraine must take into account the fact that its borders have changed drastically since the beginning of its conflict with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, commenting on the prospects for peace talks.

Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky suggested in an interview with CBS News that a return to 1991 borders was no longer a precondition for negotiations with Russia. However, he still insisted that Kiev must regain the territory it lost to Moscow in 2022.

That year, four former Ukrainian territories - Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in a public referendum. They followed the Crimean peninsula, which did the same in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev.

Following the 2022 referendums, Zelensky banned all talks with the current Russian leadership, focusing instead on a formula for ending the conflict that calls for a complete withdrawal of Moscow's forces from all of the aforementioned territories. While Russia maintains it is open to talks with Kiev, it has dismissed that idea as "detached from reality."

Commenting on Zelensky's remarks, Peskov told RIA Novosti on Saturday that "the geopolitical reality has changed dramatically since the beginning of the special military operation. The borders of both Ukraine and the Russian Federation have changed."

He further noted that Russia has already incorporated the four former Ukrainian regions, emphasizing that this reality "cannot be ignored."

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova suggested that the change in Zelensky's stance is due to him being "nervous." "He has an election coming up. Or no election?" she said. The Ukrainian president has previously indicated he has no plans to green light a vote, citing martial law, which has drawn criticism both at home and abroad.

Zelensky's comments followed a statement by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, who said that Kiev might engage with Moscow at some point after a summit in Switzerland later this year, which is widely expected to revolve around Zelensky's peace formula. Russia has said it does not plan to attend the event, even if officially invited.

https://www.sott.net/article/490270-Kremlin-responds-to-Zelenskys-remarks-on-talks-with-Russia

Vicus

1st April 2024, 16:27

Russia destroys three Ukrainian warplanes – MoD 31 Mar, 2024

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FILE PHOTO. A Su-25 ground attack jet of the Ukrainian air force.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Sunday that it has destroyed three Ukrainian Su-25 close air support warplanes. The military jets were stationed at the Voznesensk airfield in Nikolaev Region, a strategically important area in the south of the country.

The operation was conducted using tactical aircraft, missile forces and troops’ artillery, the ministry said without providing details. It also reported the destruction of a guidance radar array, a combat control vehicle, three S-300 anti-aircraft missile system launchers and two ammunition warehouses. In addition, it damaged a storage facility for unmanned aerial vehicles. The Ukrainian Armed Forces and its military equipment were targeted in 126 areas, according to the briefing.

In October, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Moscow’s forces had received new military systems, which at the time allowed them to shoot down 24 Ukrainian planes in just five days. He did not provide further details.

TASS news agency later reported, citing sources, that Russia had used an S-400 Triumph air defense system, which has a 400km range.

Ukraine’s dwindling jet fleet is believed to consist mainly of Soviet-era Su-27 and MiG-29 fighters, Su-24 frontline bombers, as well as a handful of Su-25 close air support planes.

Several NATO member states have promised to donate their F-16 fighter jets to Kiev and have trained Ukrainian pilots to fly them, but no deliveries have been made yet. Russia has warned the West that fielding the nuclear-capable jets will represent an unacceptable escalation of the Ukraine conflict.

https://swentr.site/russia/595181-su-25-jets-nikolaev/

Ernie Nemeth

1st April 2024, 16:43

Vicus

1st April 2024, 16:49

Worthy Use of NASA Budget: Mars Program Technology Found in Ukrainian Drones Yesterday

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Russian experts have identified batteries and aluminum alloys used by the US space agency NASA in the Mars program while studying captured Ukrainian drones.

Russian experts have found batteries used by the US space agency in the Mars program while reverse engineering captured Ukrainian drones, Dmitry Kuzyakin, general director of the Center for Development of Integrated Unmanned Solutions, told Sputnik.
The center deals with the full cycle of first-person view (FPV) combat applications, from drone production to training and piloting unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

"The first FPV drone we acquired had a battery similar to the one used by the US in NASA's Mars mission. It seems that Ukraine assembled FPV drones with its US 'partners', and these batteries were installed in order to use the drones in winter with severe negative temperatures," Kuzyakin explained.

He also said that these batteries are extremely expensive to use in such makeshift devices.

The developer added that aluminum alloys similar to those used in the US space program were also found in the captured Ukrainian drones. According to Kuzyakin, the special properties of such an alloy are crucial in space, but useless in an ordinary drone.

“It [aluminum alloy] consists of 70% ordinary alloys and 30% various homeopathic additives that provide aluminum stability in a vacuum. Why does an FPV drone need such aluminum?" Kuzyakin wondered.

However, thanks to such a "filling", Russian engineers can obtain "a lot of useful information" and data, Kuzyakin concluded.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240331/good-use-of-nasa-budget-mars-program-technology-found-in-ukrainian-drones--1117668917.html

Vicus

1st April 2024, 17:29

See How Russian Servicemen Examine German-made Marder IFV 5 hours ago

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Trophy German Marder IFV fully restored by Russian military engineers.

Last week, Russian forces captured their first German-made Marder IFV as a trophy near Avdeyevka. Ukrainian troops panicked during an unsuccessful counterattack and retreated, abandoning the machine, the Russian Defence Ministry reported.

After the first captured German Marder infantry fighting vehicle was evacuated from the contact line in the Avdeyevka region, Russian engineers began to study it and identify its vulnerabilities.

The Infantry Fighting Vehicle has been captured and is ready for action. It has been restored by the Tsentr Group of the Russian Armed Forces engineers.
Last summer, the Russian Defense Ministry displayed Western weapons captured during the special military operation. Visitors to Army-2023 had a chance to see that this "top-notch" equipment is no match for the Russian Armed Forces.

continue:

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240401/see-how-russian-servicemen-examine-german-made-marder-ifv-1117680585.html?rcmd_alg=collaboration2

ExomatrixTV

1st April 2024, 20:56

The Basic Principles of War Propaganda:

01. "We don't want war, we are only defending ourselves!"
02. "Our adversary is solely responsible for this war!" (Their attacks were "unprovoked").
03. "Our adversary's leader is inherently evil and resembles the devil".
04. "We are defending a noble cause, not our particular interests!"
05. "The enemy is purposefully committing atrocities; if we are making mistakes, this happens without intention".
06. "The enemy makes use of illegal weapons".
07. "We suffer few losses, the enemy's losses are considerable".
08. "Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause".
09. "Our cause is sacred".
10. "Whoever casts doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor".

Anne Morelli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda)

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳

chrifri

1st April 2024, 21:24

Bill Ryan

1st April 2024, 21:32

In light of the fact that Russia is now mass deporting Muslims in response to the terrorist attack, if Shaberon would like to retract his statement that we should learn how to get along with our minorities like Russia has...Dear Ernie, as best I understand, Russia is deporting undocumented illegal migrants.

The Russian population has a very good relationship with the Muslims among them. A good example of this is the Chechen community, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim yet is now fiercely loyal to Russia and has provided tens of thousands of the strongest and most fearless fighters in the SMO.

shaberon

2nd April 2024, 06:33

In light of the fact that Russia is now mass deporting Muslims in response to the terrorist attack, if Shaberon would like to retract his statement that we should learn how to get along with our minorities like Russia has...

Can you quote whatever you are referring to?

The main statement I have made recently is that "we should learn how to remain relevant in a world that no longer takes our point of view seriously".

In esprit de corps, here is an anniversary we missed (https://southfront.press/210-years-ago-russian-army-entered-paris-history-lesson-for-russophobic-french-elites/):

210 years since the Russian Army entered Paris. On March 19 (31), 1814, cavalry squadrons led by Russian Emperor Alexander I at the head of the Allied forces solemnly entered the French capital. The fall of the French capital led to the abdication of Emperor Bonaparte and put an end to the long-standing Napoleonic wars.

After only 18 hours of fighting, Paris, the largest city in Europe, hung a white flag.

The attack on Paris began at 6 a.m. on March 30. The surrender was signed at 2 a.m. on March 31 in La Vilette. The number of defenders of the city was estimated up to 45 thousand fighters. The fierce assault broke their will to fight. Alexander I remembered what the French did to Moscow and declared that the troops will not storm the French capital only if the French Army leaves it. The peace treaty approved by the victors did not provide for the payment of reparations.

Paris was the largest city in Europe with the population of 714,600. The allies approached it from the northeast in three main columns totaling up to 100,000 soldiers, including 63,000 Russians. As the troops moved towards the center of Paris, the mood of the locals changed. Parisians, who expected imminent reprisals for Moscow, which was devastated in 1812, saw that the Russian units were behaving with restraint and friendliness.

After Paris was captured, on April 6, Napoleon, who lost his Great Army in Russia, abdicated in Fontainebleau and was exiled to the island of Elba.

On the anniversary of the fall of Napoleonic Paris, Moscow reminded leaders of the modern France of the lessons of history.

Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, congratulated the French authorities on the 210th anniversary of the entry of the Russian army into Paris after Russia’s victory in the Patriotic War of 1812:

“Happy holidays to the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the entire Russophobic stratum of the current French authorities! At the time, their predecessors did not appreciate Russia’s peacefulness and paid a heavy price for it. We are for peace and cooperation, but on an equal basis. We highly appreciate our unique experience of interaction with France, but whoever brings the sword will … (fall by the sword).”

“In Russian history, this campaign is designated as the Foreign campaigns of the Russian army, held together with the armies of the allies — Prussia, Austria, Sweden, Great Britain, as a result the states of Europe were liberated from French oppression,” the message reads.

“Russia played a crucial role in keeping France within its borders and took French cities under its protection, preventing looting by Prussian and Austrian troops. By decree of Alexander I, the Russian army, ensured the inviolability of the collections of the Louvre and other French museums, historical monuments,” the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled.

The Russian Foreign Ministry gave the history lesson to Paris in response to the boorish statement of the mayor of Paris that Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be welcome in Paris, while Paris is very supportive of Ukrainians.

Jaak

2nd April 2024, 12:29

I wonder how these drone-planes managed to fly so deep into Russia without being detected.
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ExomatrixTV

2nd April 2024, 14:46

NATO Helps Organize Strikes On Sovereign Russian Territory. Patrushev. Active Involvement In War? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4RtNreT6qw)

ExomatrixTV

2nd April 2024, 18:29

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Ravenlocke

2nd April 2024, 21:40

Daniel Davis - Deep Dive
Approaching the Endgame in Ukraine w/Col Doug Macgregor

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Ravenlocke

2nd April 2024, 21:45

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From the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation dated April 2, 2024.

Enemy losses yesterday were:
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750 military personnel
10 armored vehicles, including 5 tanks
18 artillery systems
54 units of special vehicles
195 UAV
electronic warfare station "Enklav-N"
electronic warfare station "Nota"
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In the Kupyansk direction, a field ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed. A warehouse for aviation weapons and a workshop for the production and maintenance of unmanned aerial vehicles were also destroyed.
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During the day, air defense systems shot down 41 rockets from the HIMARS and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems.

#summary
🇷🇺 Sofa General Staff

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1775205753738944563

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Ravenlocke

2nd April 2024, 21:57

Israel Strikes Iran Generals;
Kharkov Empties No Power;
Rus Reaches Chasov Yar,
Breakthrough

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

▪️Shoigu told a conference call at the defence ministry that Kiev was trying to gain a foothold on certain borders and positions, but had not achieved its goals anywhere, while Russian forces were continuing to push the AFU westwards;

▪️403 square kilometres of new regions have come under the control of the Russian armed forces, the AFU has lost more than 80,000 servicemen and 14,000 units of various weapons since January, the minister added;

▪️Shoigu: Russian troops are responding asymmetrically to the offensives of Ukrainian militants; in March, high-precision weapons and drones carried out 190 group and two massive strikes on Ukraine, hitting military and energy infrastructure facilities;

▪️The Ukrainian terrorists was defeated during the day, 16 attacks and counter-attacks were repelled, Kiev lost about 750 soldiers and five tanks, many artillery pieces, including those from the US, UK, Poland, the Defence Ministry said in a summary;

▪️Russian aviation and artillery destroyed an air weapons depot and a drone production and maintenance facility; air defences shot down 195 drones and 41 missiles from HIMARS and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems;

▪️Russia's Federal Security Service said on Tuesday that together with customs officers it had uncovered a smuggling channel of explosives from Ukraine to Russia via EU countries; explosives were found in a shipment of church utensils and 27 ready-to-use homemade bombs camouflaged in icons were seized;

▪️The head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, described as unacceptable a repetition of the scenario of the Istanbul talks in spring 2022, when Kiev gets a break to pump the AFU with weapons and carry out a regrouping of troops.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1775274888405881006

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Ravenlocke

2nd April 2024, 22:06

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❗️Russian forces approach Chasov Yar

It is reported that the advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces are about 600-700 metres from the outskirts of Chasov Yar, and an important forest belt has been taken. The AFU are fortifying themselves in the town, turning residential buildings into strongholds.

Active assaults are underway, with snipers operating from apartment blocks.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1775230665480405133

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1775250387710120023

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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺❗️ Hey Americans, British and Europeans, this is what your taxes are paying for as you struggle to live!
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🇺🇦🇬🇧Zelensky purchased Highgrove House, formerly owned by King Charles III, for £20 million

Highgrove House has been used by Prince Charles since 1980 as a country residence in which he and Princess Diana raised their children, Prince William and Harry. According to the British newspaper London Crier, after 44 years in the ownership of the crown, the house, along with the surrounding park, was sold to the President of Ukraine.

Grant Harrold, the king's former butler, said that according to his information, the sale deal was completed on February 29, 2024, during the visit of Zelensky's wife to the UK. The transaction amount was 20 million pounds sterling. The sale of Highgrove House was also confirmed by staff involved in maintaining the former royal residence. Most of them were laid off on March 21, 2024.

King Charles III, from the very beginning of the conflict, took a strong pro-Ukrainian position.

Numerous visits of Ukrainian representatives to the UK confirmed the king’s sympathy for Zelensky. Elena Zelenskaya became a particularly frequent guest. According to British media, she formed a very close relationship with Queen Camilla, wife of Charles III.

According to Grant Harrold, the secrecy of Buckingham Palace, especially aggravated in recent months due to the illness of King Charles III and Kate Middleton, suggests that official confirmation of the sale will have to wait several weeks or months. It remains unclear how exactly Zelensky was able to convince the British monarch to sell his residence and with what funds he made the purchase.

Also, on 12 January 2024, the UK government announced additional funding for Ukraine of £2.5 billion for 2024/2025. -Slavyangrad
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