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A short (8 minutes) video by TIME Correspondent, Simon Shuster, who traveled to Ukraine in the summer of 2019 to investigate white supremacists militias that are recruiting people to join their fight. He seems to have changed his tune, and like the rest of the MSM, the Nazi ideology has largely been airbrushed out of the Ukraine story.
I have issues with Patrick Lancaster, he has a few accounts on Twitter under different names, and someone else called him out on YT in 2014 video(Which im looking for now) as being a Russian asset.
IDK he just seems to be right in the thick of it and co mingle among troops where no one else can.
Just my .02
I could be completely wrong.
Now that Ilyich Plant is clear, I guess we are going to watch some form of law mold itself before our very eyes. Kiev has attempted to make the claim that "all the foreigners are a part of Ukraine Armed Forces" as things like this may happen to for instance the British fellow:
Unconfirmed reports from the DPR state that he will NOT be viewed as an official enemy combatant / POW adherent to Geneva codes, but as a mercenary.
So in other words, we don't really know, yet, but Russia will make its own decisions, which no one will be able to do anything about. Maybe it will "set a precedent" at least in some places. Death penalty is an option in the Baby Twins, or, you could get the second option, a lifetime of relatively humane slavery, somewhere, in an unspeakable amount of territory.
I mean maybe you can just get a few years imprisonment, just maybe.
Nice of him to go there and not actually fight, as the roles of many of these units appear to be retreat and surrender. So that part is believable.
Here is an Indian response to the overall NATO mission:
The British madar chod gandoos are the worst liars, cheats, perverts backstabbers, good thing that we Indians now own their s****y little frozen island in the middle of nowhere.
Do they? I bet he means real estate and businesses.
That British fellow presents as being a definite type: compulsive interest with matters military, but very little military talent; what did he think he could achieve?
The Price of War - Can Russia afford a long conflict? (1:09:25)
(April 14, 2022) This video is looking at some of the tactics Russia has been using to minimize the impact of sanctions, as well as the basic economic disparities between Russia and the Western powers backing Ukraine. Suffice to say, Russia is economically outmatched, but it has a variety of tools and strengths to leverage, including energy exports and a defense sector that has spent years moving towards self-reliance.
Sounds like a change in targeting:
The Russian military hit another 811 objects of the Ukrainian Army, including 43 command posts, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
active duty personnel were allegedly withdrawn in February, this looks like Britain's War:
Troops from the Special Air Service (SAS) unit of the British Army have been training local forces in Kiev for the first time since the conflict in Ukraine, reported The Times.
Serving British special forces have carried out military training exercises with two battalions stationed in and around Kiev, Ukrainian commanders are cited as saying. One of the battalions purportedly received training last week, while the other one - the week before.
“We are getting as much to the Ukrainian MoD as we can… 120 armoured vehicles are in the process of being made ready and the Ukrainian troops that will operate those will arrive in the UK in the next few days to learn how to drive and command those vehicles,” said the Armed forces minister, adding:
“There’s more anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons systems we’re sending. There are precision guided weapons.”
He met then married a Donetsk girl. They have a family togetherQuote:
Posted by Simon Sparx
Here an old vid of him (young & thin) with his beautiful girl back in the day (6 years ago) trying to raise awareness about Kyiv's attack on his girl's home
He pretty much went native and was embraced by the DPR army, making vids about the conflict ever since. Fascinating life story
I followed him, I like what he was posting with his embedded journalism, but I always try to put it against another source if I can, that when I found the other profile that is also him but using a different name then I became skeptical.Quote:
Posted by pounamuknightHe met then married a Donetsk girl. They have a family togetherQuote:
Posted by Simon Sparx
Here an old vid of him (young & thin) with his beautiful girl back in the day (6 years ago) trying to raise awareness about Kyiv's attack on his girl's home
He pretty much went native and was embraced by the DPR army, making vids about the conflict ever since. Fascinating life story
I hope its legit intel, because the other side of this is western media which we know is BS.
- 😨 What Is Going On?! 🤔
As much as Russia says talks are strained, Ukraine apparently does not need them:
"Mariupol is, perhaps, like ten Borodyankas and I would like to say that elimination of our boys will put an end to all talks," Zelenskyy said, as quoted by Ukrainian news website Strana.ua.
Ah. Following the SMO objectives means that only units surrender, not the command. Nice update!
As always, an excellent detailed report, most of it about the military situation on the ground (and the sinking of the Moskva), from Alexander Mercouris on his own channel.
It's long (55 mins), but he speaks fairly slowly and it can be played at 1.25x speed. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I listen to him carefully every day and I almost always learn a great deal.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XvRd3s3bVy0
And here's an interesting update from Zero Hedge. The loss of this Ukrainian transport plane may be much more important than the loss of the Moskva, symbolic and upsetting (to teh Russians) that that a be.
Russia Says It Shot Down Ukrainian Transport Plane Carrying Western Arms
In what appears Moscow's "answer" to the US and NATO countries continuing to supply major weapons systems to Ukrainian forces, state agency TASS is claiming that Russian forces have brought down a Ukrainian military transport plane that was transporting Western arms.
It would mark a massive battlefield development if confirmed, potentially escalating conflict more directly with the West, now that Russia is actively targeting Western arms shipments.
The alleged shoot down occurred outside Odessa via anti-air systems, says TASS, while citing Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov. Though remaining unconfirmed, China state media has also picked up the report, citing the defense ministry statement, which reads:“Near Odesa Russian anti-aircraft defense forces have shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane, which was delivering a large shipment of arms supplied to Ukraine by Western counties,” Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said Saturday.However, there's nothing in the way of independent or outside sources confirming it, and Ukraine's military has not issued any statements, nor are they likely to admit that their military aircraft were transporting Western weapons shipments, even if accurate.
https://twitter.com/cgtnamerica/stat...16548059586566
Another British mercenary captured, Sean Pinner
https://twitter.com/AZmilitary1/stat...55945165012998
Here's an excellent, succinct, 9-minute video from Colonel Douglas Macgregor (recorded on 12 April, 4 days ago) that you may find interesting and worthwhile. :thumbsup:Quote:
Posted by ZenBaller
"You're seeing the end right now"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jIHOXSwDjuI
And here's another one from yesterday, just 4 mins long. This man is a bastion of integrity, clear thinking, full awareness, and rock-solid common sense.Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
:sun:
"We're in the final phase of this war"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=i0VQk6B2_Lg
Another SitRep (situation report) from The Saker's blog. As before, the many videos and tweets have not been embedded here.
This isn't the Saker himself (whose name is Andrei), but a military analyst calling himself Nightvision, who is evidently Russian. His style is cocky and unashamedly pro-Russian (and vehemently anti-US), but the facts and many references he always reports definitely constitute good journalism.
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Let’s start off with some significant Mariupol updates. The Primorski / port area was further captured, some say dividing it in half, and guys on the ground are now saying the entire section may fall by tomorrow or at latest by the end of this weekend.
That would leave only the Azovstal factory because the other big news was that the Illych factory has completely fallen to Russian forces as well, and this was the only other pocket of UAF left. There is a lot of footage from the Illych capture.
Footage from inside the factory:
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status...50944510267392
Drone footage of DPR/RF forces storming it and capturing the last few UAF Marines:
https://twitter.com/MapsUkraine/stat...18107832791053 (alt link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/aY4HS5Bpawm5)
A lot of UAF equipment recovered there, hidden in the factory, including many American hummers:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/G1HMTwSk6OH5
Full interview of one of the POWs with subtitles:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/m4P2ylBqhv3W
Another British merc captured as well:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Erio4G6vzPJS
He is this guy, Shaun Pinner:
https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-conflict.html
This merc also served with Cossackgundi in the YPG for years in Syria, and it’s been said he’s even served in Bosnia in the 90’s and is likely part of British Intel forces.
And for those that haven’t seen the previous British merc, Cossackgundi, here are a few outtakes from his interrogations: https://www.bitchute.com/video/z6hfHjgWGhaX
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sAGrE1IhNtPj
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3jHSMwehXGR4
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zMIJYtgBAk4Q
And a Russian news report states the following:
https://iz.ru/1321114/2022-04-15/v-s...ykh-na-ukraine“Among those captured in Ukraine there are military personnel from the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO). This was announced on Friday, April 15, by Andrei Klimov, deputy head of the commission of the United Russia party for international cooperation…So it seems according to this they do intend to put them on trial.
“We already have prisoners among the military personnel of NATO countries, we will show all this when we conduct trials, and the whole world will see what really happened,” he said during a briefing with the media. The senator also said that there are mercenaries in Ukraine from Asia, Africa, Great Britain, the USA and other states. He recalled that mercenaries are not military personnel and they are not subject to international law.”
This is how the map is looking now. That small sliver of Primorski section in the SW by the port, and then just the massive Azovstal factory complex.
http://dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net/w...-image-37.jpeg
And as many of you know, the factory was reportedly already bombed by Russian long range heavy bombers, Tu-22m’s in what is reportedly the first usage of the bombers in the conflict so far. Footage:
https://ok.ru/video/3397653039744
https://twitter.com/Suriyakmaps/stat...85368073068547 (alt link)
There’s still no word on the general strategy, as we’ve all seen rumors Russia would flood the factory, or etc. We don’t know if this bombing run is a one-off, and only to bomb certain sections/positions, or a general strategy they will employ to level the entire complex (doubtful).
Personally I don’t see the point of bombing now, unless with bunker busters, as we know Azov troops are secured deep in the basement, but there may have been some strategic positions to hit for now, to soften them up before the next phase of the Azovstal assault. For instance, Azov forces likely mined the entire area, and perhaps this is an attempt to first demine and clear all booby traps via large bombing run to prepare the area for ground assault.
In the time of writing this, the Russian MOD apparently reported that the full urban area of Mariupol has been captured, and the map would now look like this:
http://dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net/w...-image-38.jpeg
However, I leave the previous up because once in a while the Russian MOD has been known to jump the gun and I personally haven’t seen the on-the-ground indication yet that Primorski has fully been cleared, although there were several indications it was very close, so maybe it is true. If that’s the case, then there is literally nothing left apart from the Azovstal factory complex.
Either way, we get closer and closer to the end where Mariupol comes home. And on that note there’s some interesting updates. Firstly, apparently anchors at the Crimea24 news station in Crimea are already referring to Kherson as the ‘Kherson People’s Republic’, ‘that is, an entirely separate and seceded political entity from the Ukrainian Central Government.’
And not far away, the Energodar city sign changed from a Ukrainian to Russian flag:
https://twitter.com/myrevolutionrus/...60755687391237
As for news about Phase 2, here are some assorted updates:
There continue to be reports from both sides that a largescale Russian Phase 2 offensive is days away. One source in Donbass even said this: “The head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration believes that the Russian troops do not start the offensive because of bad weather.”
Meanwhile a regional administrator in Barvinkove and separately, the head of Donetsk regional military administrations, urged evacuations as ‘Russia is set to launch a large-scale military operation in a few days.’
My view has been that it won’t come until Mariupol is done, but with that said, they may begin it anyway because some reports indicate forces have already been disengaged from Mariupol and sent both north and towards Kherson because so few UAF remain in Mariupol, they don’t need a large force anymore. Wargonzo / Pegov reports that the famous Somali battalion of DPR will be re-deployed to Avdiivka outside of Donetsk where a large offensive is planned to break through the densest of enemy lines, and some of them have already been redeployed there.
In short, various ‘chirps’ from both sides continue to indicate Russia is almost ready with the preparations for Phase 2, we just have to wait and see if they’re waiting for the ‘symbolic’ fall of Mariupol to begin, or whether they’ll begin without it. We know the Pentagon said last week that the offensive would start “within a week”.
As some others have posted this already, unconfirmed but it matches the general gist I’m hearing everywhere else:“The Pentagon instructed the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to withdraw all the remaining artillery to the cities on the eastern front – Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, where they can fire behind civilians. Restraining the offensive of the Russian troops is prescribed by small mobile groups armed with mortars and anti-tank systems, moving across the steppe in civilian vehicles. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the Americans impose terrorist tactics on their pets, in which their people are taken hostage. But the fact that Ukrainian resources write about this quite openly, and treat such methods with understanding, and as the only correct one, cannot but amaze.”There is video evidence of this now that’s emerged where UAF is mostly operating in the style of ISIS ‘technicals’ where they mount a machine gun on a pickup truck and drive around the countryside in search of fast ambush opportunities on RF rearguards, supply lines etc., but unlike ISIS they’re armed with tons of ATGMs and Manpads.
One Russian T-72B3 came home to base last night near Izyum having been reportedly struck as many as 2 or 3 times by Javelins and Nlaws, but its Kontakt-5 reactive armor had no problem shrugging them all off. Photos show Kontakt-5 damage around the turret indicating possible “top attack” (such as NLAW and Javelin) as opposed to normal RPG style weapons hitting lower broadside on the hull. Just further proof that Western weapons are performing abysmally. In fact the ONLY consistently confirmed proof I have seen, out of thousands of videos, of tank kills on Russian armor all comes from the Ukrainian Stugna-P ATGM, which is a Ukrainian/Belarussian produced weapon.
One frontline reporter several days ago said, upon breaching a UAF position they found a bunch of spent Russian/Soviet legacy RPGs laying on the ground, while next to them was several western (NLAW/Javelin) units that were completely unused. You can figure out what this implies.
But of course the U.S. continues to offload its stock of junk on Ukraine:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cW8vv4om4cJJ
Czech sends MLRS:
https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/statu...71276437401601
While British SAS go straight to Kiev to train the Nazis directly:
https://www.rt.com/russia/553973-uk-...ain-ukrainians
U.S. also expands its intel sharing with Ukraine, and has stated it will help Ukraine in preparing strikes onto Crimea. U.S. says it won’t overtly help Ukraine with strikes on RF territory, but it doesn’t recognize Crimea as RF territory so it considers it legal to give the UAF signal/satellite intel to strike Crimea.
https://www.rt.com/news/553853-us-intelligence-attack-crimea
Meanwhile the Pentagram says, “The Pentagon now says Russia is in the midst of a major jamming operation attempt of Ukraine’s access to GPS signals, which if successful would have a huge impact on Ukraine’s ability to navigate the battlefield and operate advanced aerial systems such as drones.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/r...raine-pentagon
The article mentions Switchblade drones, and how they use GPS which is disrupted by Russian jamming. On that front, we have new reports that as of yesterday, two Switchblade drones were already used against Russian tanks in the Kharkov / Izyum area, neither of which did any damage.“Two American Switchblade UAVs (“Flipknife”) attacked the positions of Russian tankers, but did not cause any damage. Apparently, the operators are just beginning to master the new technique.” (reported by the reliable frontline correspondent Sasha Kots)It is confirmation the drones are now in theater. But there’s 2 varieties, the 300 and 600 series. We don’t know yet which they have. The 300 is fairly useless against vehicles.
You can see an inside look into these unparalleled Russian jamming systems which have no equal in the world: https://www.bitchute.com/video/dFe6qSXQF3IX
https://www.bitchute.com/video/niAYpgvVlb2u
If you read my last report with this video:
https://youtu.be/_CMby_WPjk4?t=1584
You’ll know it spoke a lot about Russian ability to shutdown all communications on the front via these various EW stations like the famous Krasukha. In the bitchute videos above, the soldiers talk about how these systems shutdown all cellular communications, fry Bayraktar drones, etc., and this is exactly corroborated in the Dr. Karber presentation at West Point above, where he says all cellular and military radios go blank in a wide swath of territory.
Here’s some more info on the particular complex:
https://military-wiki.com/the-power-of-russias-murmansk-bn-electronic-warfare-complex
Also yesterday the S-400 was used for possibly the 2nd time of the conflict. The first was in the opening days, a S-400 system in Belarus destroyed a Ukrainian Mig-29 over Kiev (very long distance) which was piloted by one of Ukraine’s most legendary pilots.
The new usage was said to be against one of the helicopters that attacked the Russian Klimovo village in the Bryansk region. The helicopter apparently was shot over the village of Gorodnya in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine, about 35 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border.
One analyst writes:“1. This means that air defense has been strengthened in the border areas. S-400 divisions “do not go alone.” At least a regiment, at least two divisions and a command post. 2 combat vehicles for eachVideo of the shot down helicopter:
2. The helicopter was shot down at low altitude at a distance of about 35 km from the border, read at least 50-60 km from the division. This means that the target for the division was below the radio horizon, which, on flat terrain and an antenna post deployed not on a 40V6M tower, but on a conveyor, would be about 40 km. This is possible only in the interaction of the S-400 air defense system with the A-50 AWACS aircraft or with the Su-30 fighter and the use of the 9M96E2 missile with an active homing head, which is capable of independently capturing an over-the-horizon target according to the data of the air defense system itself or the specified aircraft.”
https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/statu...94027608104965
In that same region were huge losses for the UAF yesterday. Reported several squads to be completely destroyed while there were many prisoners. You can see photos of the prisoners on most of the popular telegram channels.
Meanwhile in the risible and deteriorating U.S. Navy, humiliation continues to mount:
https://www.rt.com/news/553992-navy-commander-fired-f35
Here’s a good current map of the overall situation:
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/statu...18706682122244
And here’s how British Intel reportedly views the coming Phase 2 operation:
http://dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net/w...-image-39.jpeg
By the way, one last note. Some have asked about the news that ‘General Aleksandr Dvornikov’ was appointed as supreme commander of the entire operation, particularly since I previously posted a snippet that had his name in it. The truth is, there is no actual proof or confirmation whatsoever from the Russian side that he has been ‘appointed’ or ‘promoted’ in any way.
Even if you search his name in cyrillic on Russian official news sites like Tass there is nothing whatsoever on it, and no such announcement from the MOD. So keep in mind all such information is only as per the “Pentagon’s” alleged secret intel, albeit on sites like wikipedia it is already listed as 100% official and confirmed that he is in fact the supreme commander.
With that said, it may very well be true. And if it is, that’s a good thing, because Dvornikov by all qualifications appears to be a very strong commander who was responsible for much of the success of Russia’s Syrian campaign. Keep in mind he is officially the commander of the entire Russian Southern Military District, with its famed 58th Army, etc., and he continues to be listed as the commander of this district.
The Southern is arguably Russia’s most experienced command post due to its involvement in some of the hottest Russian frontlines of the past years, such as the 2008 Georgian war which was primarily prosecuted by the 58th Army of the Southern, stationed in Vladikavkaz. To the 2014 Crimean crisis as well, which was primarily handled by this district. Not to mention it appears the Southern District has possibly the highest contract servicemen percentage of any of the districts, which wikipedia lists at 98% as of 2016.
Though the ‘Western’ district is the ‘prestige’ one, as it guards Russia’s most vital western European flank, and was previously headed by Gerasimov himself, and is probably outfitted with the highest percentage of technologically advanced units (such as the 4th Guards Tank army which is mostly comprised of modernized T-80U’s as opposed to the T-72’s of many other districts), the Southern is the one that has seen the most action in recent years, and has acted as the ‘shock troops’ for various Russian crises.
So the fact that Dvornikov, who was given the highest honors, “Hero of the Russian Federation” medal for his work in Syria, was then promoted to the head of the Southern District after his Syrian service, means the utter trust Russian leadership has in him. So if it is true he is internally now running the entire SMO, then that can only be viewed as a positive. But let it simply be stated that this is completely unconfirmed, and may never be confirmed officially by the Russian side.
And some final assorted things:
DPR troops humanely feed their POWs (quite a contrast to how Russian POWs are treated):
https://www.bitchute.com/video/GyMLSCgz3rhn
Russian White Swans of death spotted in the skies of Russia not far from Ukr border, but reportedly this is practice for the upcoming parade (or is it?)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kl6OSbWtGSzM
An interesting look at the logistical side, Russian mobile kitchens and laundromats – how daily troop life functions: https://www.bitchute.com/video/lbyWPdJXtXy2
Chechens put finishing touches on Mariupol districts:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zH6ZymTy6EZ7
Russia ships mass Bm-21 Grad reinforcements:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/fbCOVZvcygVl
More reinforcements head through Kharkov:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/kcnOFC8OeDvQ
Zelensky brags behind the scenes how Macron is his “bestie” who texts him privately (is this legal?) https://www.bitchute.com/video/4OCZ4XRXfAHs
Crew of the sunken Moskva cruiser re-enlists to continue service in Navy. So much for fake rumors they were all killed, etc: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/nnwlaOOuDM1W
Another UAF base in Nikolayev destroyed:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LqyoUGfEwKLC
There’ve been many huge strikes in Kiev, Kharkov, Nikolayev, etc, that have flattened a lot of bases and factories in the past 2 days since the sinking of the Moskva. In fact in the past day alone, over 300 UAF soldiers were reportedly killed in these strikes all over Ukraine.
Today Zelensky revealed for the first time that UAF losses are alleged to be only 2500-3000 total. But this is a clear lie as the Donbass alone has 3000 POWs. The Russian MOD countered with new realistic losses of the UAF today, which are in excess of 23,000+ troops.
https://www.rt.com/russia/553998-rus...ine-casualties
Graphic (18+) Russian Spetsnaz force once again ambushed a UAF squad near Izyum:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/qoqS4oNnHmtD
Also slightly (18+), Chechens in Mariupol show the clearing of one of the last districts:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yoEdnDP6jUUT
I hope he is somewhere safe..🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
https://twitter.com/zrada2022/status...62070933516289
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Posted by Ravenlocke
My own added comment: if there's no surrender, they'll bring in the Tu-22s (or even the infamous 'White Swans of Death', the newer, larger and even faster Tu-160s, photo here) and bomb them all to hell.~~~