WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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Comment from Slavyangrad about Storm Shadow:

Deliveries of British Storm Shadow missiles to the Armed Forces of Ukraine have become the next stage in the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict. The Kiev regime rejoices, having received from NATO another "wonder weapon" for testing. However, the American MLRS "Haymars" lost their former status after the air defense of the Russian Federation learned to shoot them down. Now the RF Armed Forces will also shoot down British cruise missiles.

According to The Guardian, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed to Parliament the sending of missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He revealed that the cost of each Storm Shadow is around £2.2m. The UK has between 700 and 1,000 of these missiles with a range of up to 290 km and up to 560 km. What type of weapons the Armed Forces will receive and their number, Wallace preferred to hide.

These deliveries were coordinated with Washington, which supported the transfer of missiles at the talks between Wallace and British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in the United States. At the same time, the Pentagon refuses to provide Ukraine with its own long-range missiles. The United States prefers to remain in the shadows - for them, the UK Ministry of Defense turned out to be a convenient subcontractor that implements the plans of the Pentagon without the death of American soldiers and the use of reserve weapons.

British journalists hurried to reassure readers, who were alarmed that Washington was dragging the country into a conflict with the threat of nuclear war. In turn, Kiev assured the British authorities that the new weapons would be used only for defense and on the territory of Ukraine, and not for attacks on Russia.

Storm Shadow themselves, by the way, are not as perfect as they are trying to be. Russian air defense systems can recognize and destroy British missiles in the air in the same way as all other weapons of the West. The only fundamental difference between Storm Shadow and Himars missiles is in the targeting system. American missiles were guided by GPS geolocation, and in the British counterpart, target coordinates are entered immediately before launch.

By the way, the United Kingdom expects to become a global arms exporter if Storm Shadow proves its combat effectiveness in the struggle for Ukrainian sovereignty.

Russian Defense Ministry experts believe that our missile defense [missile defense] systems will cope with new missiles, as happened with the Hymars. The military department has already clarified that the S-400, and S-300 systems will work for such purposes, including the Fort ship air defense system, as well as Buk-M3, and Buk-M2.

It is assumed that Storm Shadow can be installed on MIG and SU airborne aircraft, but this is a dead-end tactic. If only because it requires a long refinement of Soviet aircraft, which Kyiv has almost gone.

It is interesting that earlier the American manufacturer Lockheed Martin, after the military campaign in Afghanistan, refused to use British missiles due to their limited combat effectiveness.

Now the Russian Aerospace Forces control the Ukrainian sky and completely dominate the left bank of the Dnieper, and the launches of large cruise missiles only unmask the enemy.

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⚡️The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that during the fighting near Bakhmut, the deputy commander of the Army Corps for military-political work, Colonel Yevgeny Brovko, was killed.

Also, in the area of Krasny (Ivanovskoye), as a result of injuries received, during the evacuation, the commander of the 4th motorized rifle brigade, Colonel Makarov died.

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In Khmelnitsky, after the strike of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the ammunition for the Leopard and Marder tanks was destroyed. There was also a cargo from Denmark, Germany, Italy and Japan for €200-220 million
Also, in addition to ammunition, €83 million worth of satellite communication systems, military tablets, data encryption systems were destroyed.

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Ukraine received 200 Storm Shadow missiles from Britain in the first batch, in the second phase they should receive another 400 missiles. Now the Armed Forces of Ukraine are testing missiles against targets on the frontline, and data on the strikes are transmitted by Western intelligence

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🇬🇧UK Government Is Offering £600,000 To Contractors For Social Media Surveillance Of “Misinformation Narratives” - Reclaim The Net

The UK government is ready to spend some $755,000 (£600,000) on a project involving contractors whose job would be to carry out surveillance on social media, on the lookout for “harmful disinformation and misinformation narratives.”

This is revealed in a notice posted on the government’s Contracts Finder site...that shows the authorities are looking for a misinformation and disinformation monitoring and analysis service...

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-governm...misinformation

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Sowing Seeds of Plunder: A Lose-Lose Situation in Ukraine – OffGuardian

It’s a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests...

https://off-guardian.org/2023/05/13/...on-in-ukraine/

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Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.

Actor Volodymyr Zelensky stormed to the Ukrainian presidency in 2019 on a wave of public anger against the country’s political class, including previous leaders who used secret companies to stash their wealth overseas.

Now, leaked documents prove that Zelensky and his inner circle have had their own network of offshore companies. Two belonging to the president’s partners were used to buy expensive property in London.

The revelations come from documents in the Pandora Papers, millions of files from 14 offshore service providers leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with partners around the world including OCCRP.

The documents show that Zelensky and his partners in a television production company, Kvartal 95, set up a network of offshore firms dating back to at least 2012, the year the company began making regular content for TV stations owned by Ihor Kolomoisky, an oligarch dogged by allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud. The offshores were also used by Zelensky associates to purchase and own three prime properties in the center of London.

The documents also show that just before he was elected, he gifted his stake in a key offshore company, the British Virgin Islands-registered Maltex Multicapital Corp., to his business partner — soon to be his top presidential aide. And in spite of giving up his shares, the documents show that an arrangement was soon made that would allow the offshore to keep paying dividends to a company that now belongs to his wife.

A comedian and actor who had been famous since the 2000s, Zelensky began his political rise a few years after taking on a starring role in the political satire “Servant of the People,” which began airing on the oligarch’s network in 2015. The show starred Zelensky as a humble history teacher whose anti-corruption rant in class is filmed by a student, goes viral online, and wins him national office.

In a case of life imitating art, Zelensky ended up winning the real-world Ukrainian presidency just three-and-a-half years after the show’s launch, with more than 73 percent of the vote.

Zelensky capitalized on widespread public anger at corruption, but his 2019 campaign was dogged by doubts over his anti-graft bona fides, given that his campaign was boosted by media belonging to Kolomoisky — who is accused of stealing US$5.5 billion from his own bank and funneling it offshore in concert with his partner, Hennadiy Boholiubov.

In the heat of the campaign, a political ally of incumbent President Petro Poroshenko published a chart on Facebook purporting to show that Zelensky and his television production partners were beneficiaries of a web of offshore firms that allegedly received $41 million in funds from Kolomoisky’s Privatbank.

That ally, Volodymyr Ariev, didn’t provide evidence, and his accusations have never been proven. But the Pandora Papers show that at least some of the details in this alleged scheme correspond to reality. The leaked documents show information on 10 companies in the network that match structures detailed in Ariev’s chart.

The new documents show that part of the network was managed with help from Fidelity Corporate Services, an offshore consultancy that was one of 14 firms whose documents make up part of the Pandora Papers leak. The documents show that Zelensky and his partners used companies based in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Belize, and Cyprus.

Two of Zelensky’s associates in the offshore network, who were also part of his TV production company, now hold powerful positions. Serhiy Shefir is Zelensky’s top presidential aide, while Ivan Bakanov heads the Security Service of Ukraine.

These powerful positions also come with risks. Shefir narrowly escaped an apparent assassination attempt when his car was fired on outside Kyiv on September 22. He was unharmed, but his driver was wounded.

Zelensky has repeatedly pledged to rein in oligarchs. The day after the attack on Shefir, the country’s parliament passed a bill that would create a register of oligarchs and bar them from financing political parties or taking part in privatizations. Zelensky said that the attempt on Shefir’s life will receive a strong response and will not influence his fight against vested interests.

A spokesman for Zelensky declined to comment. Shefir and Bakanov did not respond to questions.

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Statements by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:

– Commander Makarov, who led the battle in the area of the village of Krasnoe, died after being wounded while repelling an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

– Deputy Commander of the Army Corps, Colonel Brovko, died heroically while repelling an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut;

– All attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut, as well as other settlements of the DPR, were repelled, breakthroughs of the defense of Russian troops were successfully repelled;

– A successful. missile strike on the deployment points of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and warehouses. The goal of the strike was achieved.

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This is the location of Olenya Air Base:

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This 30-second video clip, with good English subtitles, really is worth watching.
(Fellow Aspirant, pay attention :) )

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/62718

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Not just 'large', but enormous. And now it seems that the ammunition stocks that were all blown sky-high may have included the British-donated depleted uranium tank shells.

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Absolute evil, insanity. WTF!! Stop, stop now. “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” So, just stop this, now!

Here's Scott Ritter, who's not been seen on YouTube recently because he's on a tour of Russia — a book tour, but also a speaking tour. I'm guessing he's getting a huge amount of public attention there, and the Kremlin will also surely be listening carefully. Everyone knows who he is.

This is a condensed 18-minute video, which I found worth every minute. The questions from his Russian host are edited out, so it's really a monologue on a variety of issues.

Regarding the video title, that's addressed towards the end, starting at 14:50. He argues, I think correctly, that Russia must end this (a) decisively and (b) quickly, or else the US will be doing everything they can to turn the extended war of attrition on to them.

Russia must win ASAP, here is why

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Former Ukrainian MP and Azov deputy commander Igor Mosiychuk released a video discussing recent strikes in Khmelnitsky and Ternopol, claiming that the depleted uranium theory is correct and recommending that children be evacuated from the explosion sites. He alleged that the warehouses contained a large stockpile of depleted uranium ammunition that was blown up.

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Well, okay Bill. I've watched the clip - even my wee attention span can handle 36 seconds. ;)

I come away with great admiration for Zelenskyy as a peace seeker. What he says is what he has always consistently argued, right up until the invasion: can't we all just get along? He lists all the ways in which the Ukrainian and Russian people are alike what they share in common and have always shared in common - right down to their blood. He argues that everyone within Ukraine should be allowed to live in peace, as citizens of Ukraine. He wants them to be able to speak Russian if they wish, and be left alone - a very tolerant and broad minded view that admonishes those who say they wish to abolish the use of Russian within the borders of Ukraine. These discontents, by the way, are part of the Putin propaganda apparatus who are trying to stir up trouble and give Putin the excuse he needs to invade. Zelenskyy preaches brotherhood and peace!

What he does not do is rail against the existence of Russia or urge that Ukraine invade Russia because it rightfully belongs to Ukraine. He does not claim that every Russian citizen should be exterminated like rats because they are scum, a degenerate subhuman race.

Yet these are the views expressed by Putin's people to justify their genocidal scourging of Ukraine. They not only want violence, they want to exterminate every citizen of a country that views them as family. A country that has never threatened them in any way. Putin's "excuse" for invasion was to act as a saviour to those Russian speakers inside Ukraine who were being subjected to inhumane treatment by the Ukrainians. Clearly, as far as Zelenskyy is concerned, this will not happen. Russian speakers are to be treated fairly and given all of the freedoms of Ukrainian speakers. So what was the justification for Putin's invasion? Exactly what were the Ukrainians doing to Russian speakers? Putin's agitators were full of outrage, but for what, actually?

Zelenskyy is doing his best to calm things down, to mollify the propagandists. To no avail. Putin ignored Zelenskyy's views and efforts (as they are so clearly expressed in this video) and launched his shocking super violent genocidal attacks against the innocent civilians of Ukraine, a campaign that the world has seen before with the rise of Nazi Germany. Their dozens and dozens of concentration camps with gas chambers and ovens were designed to be the final solution to the plague of degenerate scum and subhumans that infested their Reich.

So, Bill, I'm glad I complied with your pedantic demand; I found an admirable man preaching tolerance and compassion. :cool:

Are you having a change of heart?

Namaste,

Brian

Well if your attention span could stretch a little further you might be interested in a little book called "How the West Brought War to Ukraine." by Benjamin Abelow.

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Well, okay Bill. I've watched the clip - even my wee attention span can handle 36 seconds. ;)

I come away with great admiration for Zelenskyy as a peace seeker. What he says is what he has always consistently argued, right up until the invasion: can't we all just get along? He lists all the ways in which the Ukrainian and Russian people are alike what they share in common and have always shared in common - right down to their blood. He argues that everyone within Ukraine should be allowed to live in peace, as citizens of Ukraine. He wants them to be able to speak Russian if they wish, and be left alone - a very tolerant and broad minded view that admonishes those who say they wish to abolish the use of Russian within the borders of Ukraine. These discontents, by the way, are part of the Putin propaganda apparatus who are trying to stir up trouble and give Putin the excuse he needs to invade. Zelenskyy preaches brotherhood and peace!

What he does not do is rail against the existence of Russia or urge that Ukraine invade Russia because it rightfully belongs to Ukraine. He does not claim that every Russian citizen should be exterminated like rats because they are scum, a degenerate subhuman race.

Yet these are the views expressed by Putin's people to justify their genocidal scourging of Ukraine. They not only want violence, they want to exterminate every citizen of a country that views them as family. A country that has never threatened them in any way. Putin's "excuse" for invasion was to act as a saviour to those Russian speakers inside Ukraine who were being subjected to inhumane treatment by the Ukrainians. Clearly, as far as Zelenskyy is concerned, this will not happen. Russian speakers are to be treated fairly and given all of the freedoms of Ukrainian speakers. So what was the justification for Putin's invasion? Exactly what were the Ukrainians doing to Russian speakers? Putin's agitators were full of outrage, but for what, actually?

Zelenskyy is doing his best to calm things down, to mollify the propagandists. To no avail. Putin ignored Zelenskyy's views and efforts (as they are so clearly expressed in this video) and launched his shocking super violent genocidal attacks against the innocent civilians of Ukraine, a campaign that the world has seen before with the rise of Nazi Germany. Their dozens and dozens of concentration camps with gas chambers and ovens were designed to be the final solution to the plague of degenerate scum and subhumans that infested their Reich.

So, Bill, I'm glad I complied with your pedantic demand; I found an admirable man preaching tolerance and compassion. :cool:

Are you having a change of heart?

Namaste,

Brian

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What's happened here is that you've just shown, entirely accidentally, that you barely know a thing about Zelensky and how much he has changed (since that clip was filmed, back in 2019).

The reason he has changed is that since becoming president he's been used as a puppet by the US to trigger the long-planned neocon war designed to bring Russia down.

Everything he says in those 36 seconds has been contradicted now, and his stance on everything has reversed 180º. He's not a "peace-seeker" at all. He's become (effectively) a mass-murderer of his own people, and is in large part responsible for destroying his own country.

I rarely do this, but I have to make the point. I don't have the time or energy to present fact after fact after fact (which every other Avalon member posting on this thread already knows), so here are a couple of (anonymized) posts by other mods who commented on this after your post had been reported.

The provisional thread title (in the mods' backstage section) is "Fellow Aspirant hasn't looked at what has been happening".

The mods' comments were:

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Fellow Aspirant hasn't looked at anything that has been happening in Ukraine at all and likes Zelensky, and doesn't think he has changed or that anything is wrong. I don't think he will change and maybe it is time to block him from this thread and invite him back after he has studied the situation more closely.

I don't like war at all, and realize this is not just about Russia and Ukraine, but I don't think Fellow Aspirant will be able look at the bigger picture. Maybe rather than retiring him he could just be blocked from that thread?

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Brian's missed something crucial here: the video clip is from around the time he was canvassing for the presidency so that puts it around 2019.

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The second comment is accurate. (I don't know for sure if it was 2019 or not, but it was certainly long before the SMO started.)

Mods have no vendetta against anyone, but we do our best to advance one of the main missions of the forum, which is to educate and support. Clearly you're sincere, but it's a 100% straight fact that you just have it all wrong.

If you like, you can start from scratch (as it were) and ask simple questions here on the thread and members will do their honest best to answer them. But if you insist on stating that your views are correct and that you understand the entire situation perfectly, there'll be no way forward.

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Well if your attention span could stretch a little further you might be interested in a little book called "How the West Brought War to Ukraine." by Benjamin Abelow.

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Here's the book: :thumbsup:

How the West Brought War to Ukraine - Understanding How U.S. And NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe

https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Ben...e%20(2022).pdf

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So what was the justification for Putin's invasion?

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A good place to make that start is the video below. It will lay it all out for you. Please do watch it Fellow Aspirant. It serves as a very useful beginning to understand the - very important - historical context of this war.

Now, let me make it clear it does not serve as a 'justification' for the war, because there is no justification for war. In my personal opinion, war is the escapade of the fool and the primitive. The loss of a single life in the name of land, wealth, political posturing or whatever, is a travesty to me, be it Ukrainian or Russian. But it is the reason, and that reason - which you are seeking - is what essentially underpins Putin's motivation, and it's important to understand it.

Why Russia is Invading Ukraine
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• Chinese Envoy To Visit Ukraine, Russia On 'Peace' Mission:

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A recently published research briefing by Claire Mills published in the UK House of Commons Library provides in-depth background on the UK Government's assistance to Ukraine.

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Military assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion

Source: https://researchbriefings.files.parl...7/CBP-9477.pdf

Summary
Defence and security links between Ukraine, NATO members and other allies
and partners started soon after Ukraine’s independence in 1991. They
intensified when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, but primarily took the form
of training and the bilateral provision of non-lethal military equipment.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, bilateral military
assistance has been stepped up, with many allies for the first time supplying
lethal weapons to Ukraine. For some countries such as Germany, and
historically neutral countries such as Sweden, this has represented a
significant reversal of their previous defence policies which ruled out
providing offensive weapons.

The US is the largest provider of military assistance to Ukraine, having
committed $37.6 billion since the start of the Biden administration in January
2021. $36.9 billion of that assistance has been provided since Russia’s
invasion in February 2022.

As the second largest donor, the UK has committed £4.6 billion in military
assistance to Ukraine so far (£2.3 billion in 2022 and a commitment to match
that funding in 2023). The UK is also hosting a training programme (Operation
Interflex), which is supported by several allies, with the aim of training 30,000
new and existing Ukrainian personnel by the end of 2023. The UK has recently
committed to training Ukrainian fast jet pilots but has said that combat
fighter aircraft will not be provided, at least in the short term. The UK is
supplying long-range precision strike missiles.

NATO, as an alliance, has been clear in its political support of Ukraine and
fully supports the provision of bilateral military assistance by individual allies.
NATO is helping to coordinate requests for assistance from the Ukrainian
government and is supporting the delivery of humanitarian and non-lethal
aid. Ukraine is not a NATO member, however, and therefore isn’t party to
NATO’s mutual defence clause under Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty. As
such, NATO troops will not be deployed on the ground in Ukraine. Allies have
also ruled out imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine because it would bring
Russia into direct conflict with NATO forces. At the Heads of State and
Government summit in Madrid at the end of June 2022 NATO allies agreed a
new package of assistance for Ukraine that will provide long term, sustained,
support.

The European Union is also providing non-lethal and lethal arms through its
European Peace Facility (EPF). This is the first time the bloc has, in its history,
approved the supply of lethal weapons to a third country. To date, the EU has
committed just over €4.6 billion, including €1 billion of funds to reimburse EPF
countries who have provided urgently needed munitions. A further €1 billion of
EPF funds will be set aside for the joint EU procurement of artillery ammunition.

In October 2022, the EU also approved a new training mission for the
Ukrainian armed forces.

As the conflict in Ukraine has evolved, so has the types of weaponry being
provided. Ahead of an expected spring offensive, the focus has been on
providing Ukraine, in the short window available, with the capability to both
defend their territory and to enable them to retake ground currently under
Russian control. There are, however, fears that the provision of increasingly
more sophisticated weaponry could escalate the conflict

• 🤑 The War in Ukraine is Just a Money Bag For Zelenskyy - Seymour Hersh:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WkbhZ_qMWwQ

A wise person once said – three things cannot remain hidden for long: the sun, the moon and the truth. We live in a world of misinformation, that which is misleading, and disinformation, that which is deliberately deceptive. Ironically it would seem that the very same authorities and leaders who popularised these terms are in fact those most guilty of their practice.

On 26 September 2022, a series of clandestine bombings and subsequent underwater gas leaks occurred on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines. The pipelines were built to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, and are majority owned by Gazprom. The mainstream narrative claims the perpetrators and the motives were at best unknown and open to debate.

But, not as far as today’s guest is concerned. He is something of a legendary figure in the world of news reporting and has spent much of the last 50 years elbow-deep in some of the biggest and oftentimes most controversial stories of the day.

I’m talking of course about Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist, political writer and author, who among his many accolades was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

Seymour believes that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines was carried out by the US Navy, the CIA, and the Norwegian Navy, under the direct order of President Biden. To say this has caused a stir in the corridors of power would be something of an understatement.

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This 30-second video clip, with good English subtitles, really is worth watching.
(Fellow Aspirant, pay attention :) )

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I was told he became President BECAUSE he was for both sides, not just one side ... then when he took power he changed his tune! And became totally CORRUPT ... or he was corrupt from the get go?

Does anyone know the exact year (or date) when he said those things?

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Moscow claims first intercept of UK-made long-range projectile 15 May, 2023

A Storm Shadow cruise missile was listed among several Western weapons shot down by Russian air defenses

Russian forces have downed a UK-supplied cruise missile along with several other weapons fired by Ukrainian forces, the Defense Ministry reported in its daily update on Monday. London confirmed delivering Storm Shadow weapons to Ukraine last week, which were promptly used to attack the city of Lugansk.

The Defense Ministry claimed weapons intercepted in the previous 24 hours included seven anti-radiation HARM missiles, one Storm Shadow missile and seven rockets fired by HIMARS multiple launch weapon systems. It was the first time that Moscow reported downing a Storm Shadow since the UK confirmed their delivery.

Local authorities in Lugansk have claimed the UK missile was used for several recent airstrikes on the Russian city. On Monday morning, two such missiles damaged residential buildings, an office, and cars in the city, a regional monitor reported.

Acting Governor Leonid Pasechnik said that a military aviation school had been hit but that the attack did not cause any casualties, citing preliminary reports from the scene.

Before London sent the cruise missiles, which can strike targets up to 300km (200 miles) away, Kiev did not have any Western weapons with a comparable range. The Ukrainian government had pleaded for months to acquire such arms, but the US and its allies were previously reluctant to extend Ukraine’s striking capability.

https://www.rt.com/russia/576319-sto...cepted-moscow/

Ukraine lying about taking down hypersonic missile – Izvestia

Kiev’s radar surveillance systems have failed to detect most Kinzhal launches, military sources have told the Russian newspaper
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Kiev’s claims that it intercepted a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile with a US-made Patriot air defense system are not true, several sources within the Russian military and defense industry told the newspaper Izvestia on Saturday. Ukrainian forces have failed to hit a single such missile to date, the sources added.

Most Kinzhal launches are not even detected by either Ukrainian or NATO radar surveillance systems, the Russian media outlet claimed, citing the same anonymous sources.

Izvestia also reported that the remnants of what was claimed to be a Kinzhal displayed by Kiev on May 10 might have belonged to another Russian missile – the 9M723 – launched by the ground-based short-range ballistic missile system Iskander-M. Some elements of the two missiles’ construction are similar, although the Iskander-M has been used much more frequently by Russian forces during the ongoing campaign in Ukraine, a military expert told reporters.

Kiev showed on May 10 the remnants of what it said were several missiles, one of which it claimed was a Kinzhal. However, Izvestia’s sources said that, judging by the looks of what was displayed, all of the missiles had fulfilled their aims rather than being intercepted.

On Thursday, another source within the Russian military also called the reports about an interception of the Russian Kinzhal missile by the Patriot system “an attempt to substitute a wish for reality.” The hypersonic missile has a speed exceeding the maximum interception capabilities of any air-defense systems used by Ukraine, including the Patriot, the source told TASS. The Kinzhal also executes a special maneuver to avoid interception and makes an almost vertical approach to the target, the source added.

Kiev reportedly inflates the number of Russian missiles its forces intercept to justify such heavy use of ammunition for the air-defense systems supplied by the West. “The number of interceptions is two-three times higher than the number [of missiles] we really launch,” the source said, adding that sometimes Kiev reports intercepting missiles that Russia did not even launch.

Last week, Ukraine’s Air Force commander, Lieutenant General Nikolay Oleshuk, claimed on his Telegram channel that Kiev's forces had intercepted a hypersonic Kinzhal missile. On May 9, the Pentagon press secretary, Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, told journalists that the US Defense Department “can confirm that the Ukrainians took down this Russian missile with a Patriot missile defense system.” He said, though, that he would not “get into the specifics” or try to “characterize” the missile supposedly intercepted by Kiev.

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Wagner Chief Clarifies That Only His Forces Making Gains In Bakhmut SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2023

Update(2130ET): Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin clarified late Saturday in an audio statement that despite regular Russian forces having "retreated" from parts of Bakhmut's north (in his words), his own Wagner fighters are still advancing. So it seems his power struggle with the military chain of command and defense ministry continues, as he persists in his controversial narrative that it's only his company that's spearheading gains and engaged in heavy fighting (akin to the battle for Soledar).

Prigozhin stressed that Wagner advanced today, and that Ukraine controls only 1 square km in Bahmut and remains in control of just 29 or so tall buildings.

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Meanwhile TASS has cited the head of an elite Russian unit to say that intensified Ukrainian engagement has only happened along some parts of the frontlines:

Commander of the Akhmat commando unit and Deputy Commander of the 2nd Army Corps Apty Alaudinov said on Saturday that Ukrainian troops increased their activity only in some sectors of the line of engagement.

Earlier, Yan Gagin, an advisor to Acting DPR Head Denis Pushilin, reported that Ukrainian units had become more active along the entire line of combat engagement.

"The Ukrainian units became active not along the entire line of combat engagement, only in certain parts and still the situation has not significantly changed," Alaudinov told TASS.

"The situation is completely under control in our sector," he added.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...dvance-falters

Ukrainian Forces Fail in Attempts to Break Through Russian Defenses Near Artemovsk - Moscow Yesterday

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukrainian troops tried to break through the Russian defense lines near Artemovsk (Bakhmut) but all the attacks were repelled, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

"In the Soledar-Artemovsk direction, assault detachments, supported by units of the airborne forces, continued fighting to capture the western quarters of the city of Artemovsk. Over the past day, the enemy has made massive attempts to break through the defenses of our troops north and south of Artemovsk. All attacks of the Ukrainian armed forces are repelled. There are no breakthroughs in the Russian defenses," the ministry said in a statement.
In total, the Ukrainian forces lost over 400 military, 12 tanks, 18 infantry fighting vehicles, two armored transports and a D-20 howitzer in this area over the past day, according to the statement.
While repelling the attacks, the commander of the Russian 4th Motor Rifle Brigade, Col. Vyacheslav Makarov, and the deputy commander for political work of the army corps, Col. Yevgeny Brovko, have died, the ministry said.

Additionally, Russian troops repelled six Ukrainian attacks near Bogdanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic and eliminated over 50 soldiers, 7 tanks and 11 infantry fighting vehicles, according to the statement.


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An excellent 9-minute clip from WION News (which covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, a combined population of nearly 2 billion people).

The question asked is: Who, really, is Zelensky?

The presenter is Palki Sharma, who has a huge following. The criticisms (all documented historical truths) are understated and carefully worded, but have a quite an impact. The best of the YouTube comments that I've seen is

Finally, a background check!

The video was published on 27 March, 2022, nearly 14 months ago. I wonder what Palki is thinking and saying now. :) Recommended.

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Below is an amazing video. It's a couple minutes long, but shows a whole bunch of Patriot missiles being fired, after which (18 seconds before the end of the video) the battery is destroyed by something incoming. Whatever it was was so fast you can't even see the missile itself.

I watched it twice, and the second time (in some dlsbelief!) I counted the missile launches. There were at least 30, maybe 32.

Then I checked on the net, and found this:

A PATRIOT battery (i.e., the basic firing unit) consists of a phased array radar, an engagement control station, computers, power generating equipment, and up to eight launchers, each of which holds four ready-to-fire missiles.

Sure enough, 4x8=32. Wow.

Then I checked how much they cost: $4 million each. (And each launcher is $10 million.) So 32 missiles all fired in about a minute and a half = $128 million.

That's A HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS.

And after all that, the Russian missile destroyed the battery anyway.

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• Ukrainian 'False Flag' in the making???

https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f449.pngI share my suspicion with Kamiel. The figures supplied by Ukraine about gamma radiation are incorrect. I am now really curious how Ukraine comes to these observations.
https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e...5/16/1f449.pngIt's about the blown-up DU tank shells for Leopard and Challenger tanks stored in Khmelnitsky/Ukraine. are greatly exaggerated. (DU=Depleted Uranium/Depleted Uranium)

Based on what information? I once worked at Siemens-Gammasonics as a service support engineer. I had to use DU daily for calibration of Gamma detection cameras in hospitals, among others.

https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/e....5/16/261d.pngHowever, Western and Ukrainian state media are going to blow up the story 'to enormous' proportions. Many Ukrainians are now fleeing to the EU from the 'West' of Ukraine.

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Is this conversation a realistic integrated aspect of the Ukraine story so far ?

Reconstruction seems a million miles away from what's happening, but the excessive destruction and eventual emptiness of everything Ukrainian including people does point in the direction these ladies are pointing.

Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb - The New Ukraine with Stavroula Pabst
1 hour 10 minutes - Posted May 16, 2023

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In this episode, Whitney talks to Stavroula Pabst about the reconstruction efforts in Ukraine and how much of Ukraine's government and infrastructure has been outsourced or sold off to Western corporations that are using the country as a testbed for 4IR technologies.


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"Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler."

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Almost to the week, a Guardian published article from John Pilger May 13 2014. Interestingly I think this was one of his last while employed by them:

In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia

(This article is more than 9 years old)
by John Pilger

Washington's role in Ukraine, and its backing for the regime's neo-Nazis, has huge implications for the rest of the world.

Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a "brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis", as if the truth "never happened even while it was happening".

Every year the American historian William Blum publishes his "updated summary of the record of US foreign policy" which shows that, since 1945, the US has tried to overthrow more than 50 governments, many of them democratically elected; grossly interfered in elections in 30 countries; bombed the civilian populations of 30 countries; used chemical and biological weapons; and attempted to assassinate foreign leaders.

In many cases Britain has been a collaborator. The degree of human suffering, let alone criminality, is little acknowledged in the west, despite the presence of the world's most advanced communications and nominally most free journalism. That the most numerous victims of terrorism – "our" terrorism – are Muslims, is unsayable. That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed. In April the US state department noted that, following Nato's campaign in 2011, "Libya has become a terrorist safe haven".

The name of "our" enemy has changed over the years, from communism to Islamism, but generally it is any society independent of western power and occupying strategically useful or resource-rich territory, or merely offering an alternative to US domination. The leaders of these obstructive nations are usually violently shoved aside, such as the democrats Muhammad Mossedeq in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Salvador Allende in Chile, or they are murdered like Patrice Lumumba in the Democratic Republic of Congo. All are subjected to a western media campaign of vilification – think Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, now Vladimir Putin.

Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.

Having masterminded the coup in February against the democratically elected government in Kiev, Washington's planned seizure of Russia's historic, legitimate warm-water naval base in Crimea failed. The Russians defended themselves, as they have done against every threat and invasion from the west for almost a century.

But Nato's military encirclement has accelerated, along with US-orchestrated attacks on ethnic Russians in Ukraine. If Putin can be provoked into coming to their aid, his pre-ordained "pariah" role will justify a Nato-run guerrilla war that is likely to spill into Russia itself.

Instead, Putin has confounded the war party by seeking an accommodation with Washington and the EU, by withdrawing Russian troops from the Ukrainian border and urging ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine to abandon the weekend's provocative referendum. These Russian-speaking and bilingual people – a third of Ukraine's population – have long sought a democratic federation that reflects the country's ethnic diversity and is both autonomous of Kiev and independent of Moscow. Most are neither "separatists" nor "rebels", as the western media calls them, but citizens who want to live securely in their homeland.

Like the ruins of Iraq and Afghanistan, Ukraine has been turned into a CIA theme park – run personally by CIA director John Brennan in Kiev, with dozens of "special units" from the CIA and FBI setting up a "security structure" that oversees savage attacks on those who opposed the February coup. Watch the videos, read the eye-witness reports from the massacre in Odessa this month. Bussed fascist thugs burned the trade union headquarters, killing 41 people trapped inside. Watch the police standing by.

A doctor described trying to rescue people, "but I was stopped by pro-Ukrainian Nazi radicals. One of them pushed me away rudely, promising that soon me and other Jews of Odessa are going to meet the same fate. What occurred yesterday didn't even take place during the fascist occupation in my town in world war two. I wonder, why the whole world is keeping silent." [see footnote]

Russian-speaking Ukrainians are fighting for survival. When Putin announced the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border, the Kiev junta's defence secretary, Andriy Parubiy – a founding member of the fascist Svoboda party – boasted that attacks on "insurgents" would continue. In Orwellian style, propaganda in the west has inverted this to Moscow "trying to orchestrate conflict and provocation", according to William Hague. His cynicism is matched by Obama's grotesque congratulations to the coup junta on its "remarkable restraint" after the Odessa massacre. The junta, says Obama, is "duly elected". As Henry Kissinger once said: "It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but what is perceived to be true."

In the US media the Odessa atrocity has been played down as "murky" and a "tragedy" in which "nationalists" (neo-Nazis) attacked "separatists" (people collecting signatures for a referendum on a federal Ukraine). Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal damned the victims – "Deadly Ukraine Fire Likely Sparked by Rebels, Government Says". Propaganda in Germany has been pure cold war, with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung warning its readers of Russia's "undeclared war". For the Germans, it is a poignant irony that Putin is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe.

A popular truism is that "the world changed" following 9/11. But what has changed? According to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a silent coup has taken place in Washington and rampant militarism now rules. The Pentagon currently runs "special operations" – secret wars – in 124 countries. At home, rising poverty and a loss of liberty are the historic corollary of a perpetual war state. Add the risk of nuclear war, and the question is: why do we tolerate this?

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"We will leave it without comment. We will not comment on Russian sources," Ignat said at a press conference.

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CIA launches Telegram video to recruit Russian spies

The US Central Intelligence Agency on Monday launched a campaign on social media platform Telegram to recruit Russian spies.

The CIA released a video on the popular social messaging service calling on Russians to come forward with important intelligence and information.

The two-minute video captures Russians going about their daily lives, seemingly contemplating major life choices.

The video uses a series of emotional questions and messages to reach out to patriotic Russian who are disillusioned by recent events, including the war in Ukraine.

“The CIA wants to know the truth about Russia, and we are looking for reliable people who can tell us that truth,” the agency said in the video.

“Your information may be more valuable than you know.”

Former CIA head of counterintelligence James Olson said that the invasion of Ukraine has created an “unprecedented opportunity” for Russians to share information with the US.

“There are a lot of disaffected Russians out there now,” he said. “Today is probably the best period of recruiting Russians that we’ve had.”

In one scene from the clip, a Russian official along with his wife and child are seen at home in difficult circumstances.

“We will live with dignity, thanks to my actions,” the narrator says in Russian as a woman in a car uses her phone to contact the CIA, before the agency’s logo and contact instructions appear.

CIA officials say the video will show ordinary Russians that they can help to make a difference by providing intelligence to the agency, while still remaining patriotic.

The video also details how information can be sent using the Tor browser, a confidential internet browser for encrypted communications.

“Our goal is to provide them with as safe a way as possible to contact us,” another US official said on condition of anonymity.

CIA officials involved in the project told CNN that the video avoids inflammatory content concerning Russia or President Vladimir Putin. Instead, it is meant to appeal to people who are unhappy with Russian policies by “demystifying” the process of contacting the CIA, they added.

The agency is seeking all types of information, including political and economic data, the officials said, adding that they hope to convince hesitant Russians to leak information on the dark web by showing them simple ways to do so.

A “spy vs. spy competition” between the US and Russian security services and intelligence agencies is underway, they said.

US intelligence has used similar recruitment tactics in the past, but are now turning to the encrypted Telegram network because of its popularity among Russians, including senior officials.

Before the war in Ukraine, the FBI launched a similar project aimed at Russians in the US, with the agency specifically targeting the phones of people coming and going from the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

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The CIA is looking for traitors among Russians and has created a Telegram channel for this purpose, where it publishes instructions on how to contact American intelligence.
In a two-minute video with the title "Why I contacted the CIA: my decision."

The video says that "true life takes place where imperceptible changes are made in the souls of people." At the very end, a screensaver appears: "The people around you may not want to hear the truth. We want to."

"I will live a true life. This is my Russia. I will stand. My family will survive. We will live with dignity thanks to my actions," says the voice-over.

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Steven Seagal about Ukrainian Nazism and the war machine

Renowned American actor, film producer and aikido master Steven Seagal has been living in Russia for the past few years. In a conversation with TV and radio host Vladimir Soloviev, he spoke about his attitude toward Russia, America, and Ukraine. According to Seagal, Nazism is the driving force behind the Ukrainian military. Zelensky himself says he is Jewish, but he works with the Nazis and uses them, knowing they are his best troops.

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Hungary responded to Kyiv's threats to blow up the Druzhba oil pipeline

Hungarian security expert György Nogradi threatened Zelensky with the Fifth Article of the North Atlantic Alliance in response to Kyiv's plan to blow up the Druzhba oil pipeline.

"According to NATO Article 5, this is an attack on Hungary and therefore on NATO," Nograndi said. He urged to consider Kyiv's plan as an act of saboutage

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