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UK MoD Admits Ukraine Bakhmut Crisis, Russia Storms Pervomaiskoyev, Encircling Avdeyevka; Macron Fails in Beijing as China Rejects EU Threats, Lukashenko Strikes More Deals with Putin
Most interesting interview with Col. Doug Macgregor by Stephen Gardner (35 minutes). Included topics: the Chinese commercial influence, the Uighers, North Korea, Finland & NATO, leaders of western countries not representing their people, etc.
Col. Macgregor: Ukraine Is Being OBLITERATED
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDi4bt_0058
"No one needs Ukraine, so it will disappear, and it will not be on the planet." — Deputy chairman of the Russian security Council and Former president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev---------------
Dmitry Medvedev in typically withering form here sourced from Slavyangrad Telegram channel.
In full, below:
1. Europe doesn't need Ukraine. The massive support for the Nazi regime at the behest of an American mentor has already given Europeans a real financial and political hell. Flows of brazen beggars—Ukrainian migrants and their accommodation at the expense of their own citizens, skyrocketing inflation, huge heating and electricity bills, rotting European businesses, unprofitable Russian sanctions—all this has already led to explosions of discontent in both Western and Eastern Europe. And for what? for the sake of Banderites' destroyed-Ukraine, which even the most arrogant Poles do not perceive as a normal country and periodically throw in the theme of the annexation of the western regions. Ahead of them looms the prospect of finally putting the young Ukrainian blood-sucking parasites on the arthritis-ridden neck of the withering European Union. This will be the final sunset of a formerly regal but impoverished Europe.
2. Ukraine is not needed by the United States. Yes, the military and sanctions campaigns are the PR motivation for the political babblers, who signed their own impotence and feeble-mindedness long ago. Real senile people like Biden, whose place is not at the head of a huge power but on the grass, surrounded by their relatives with their mouths open with dementia, Ordinary Americans have no idea at all what "Ukraine" is or where it is located. Most of them can't even show this "country" on a map. Why should they suffer such inconvenience for the sake of some obscure part of Russia?
3. Africa and Latin America don't need Ukraine. After all, the hundreds of billions that the U.S. spends on pointless fights somewhere in Ukraine would be enough for many programs aimed at the social development of Latin American and African states.
4. Asia doesn't need Ukraine. On the Russian example, they see how the color technologies for the elimination of the largest competing powers are practiced. They understand what scenario the collective West, led by America, has prepared for them in the event of disobedience. "Help us deal with Russia, and then we'll come to you soon," say the pissed-off Western leaders. Giant countries like India, China, and other APAC nations have enough problems with economic recovery after the pandemic without the drug clowns and their whining for help.
5. Russia does not need Ukraine. After all, Ukraine is not a country at all, but a cloud in its pants. a tattered, shabby, greasy, and totally rotten patchwork quilt. The new Malorossia of the 1991 model—artificially sliced territories, many of which are originally Russian and were accidentally seized in the XX century. Millions of our compatriots live here; they have been bullied for years by the Nazi Kiev regime. It is them that we defend in a special military operation, ruthlessly destroying the enemy. But the pieces of Russia called Ukraine within its 1991 borders are simply a misunderstanding, spawned by the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. And that's why we don't need a collapsed and destroyed Ukraine. We need Greater Great Russia.
6. Finally, a Ukraine led by Nazi leadership doesn't need its citizens. That is why, out of 45 million, there are a little more than 20 million left. That's why the rest want to go anywhere—to hateful Poland, to the EU, to NATO—and they want to become the 52nd state of America. If only to join Antarctica with penguins. The only thing they want is to be quiet and well fed. Because of the criminal ambitions of the group in power, Ukrainians are forced to live in constant anxiety and fear. forced to live in poverty, abandoning their homes and households. forced to wander in search of a better life across countries and continents. all for a murky European perspective. Or, more precisely, so that the harlequin in green tights and his band of thieving fascist clowns would save stolen Western money in their offshore accounts. Why do (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/40871) ordinary (https://t.me/dimsmirnov175/46406) Ukrainians need this?
No one on the planet needs such a Ukraine.
That's exactly why it won't exist.
Russian experts began to study the filling of the American UAV MQ-9 Reaper
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The Russian military managed to retrieve the wreckage of the downed American reconnaissance UAV MQ-9 Reaper from the bottom of the Black Sea. At the moment, the specialists of JSC "Radioelectronic Technology”and the Central Research Institute of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Ministry of Defense are studying the electronic filling of the Reaper.
Thanks to the actions of the Su-27 pilots, specialized specialists of the Russian Defense Ministry became the owners of valuable information about the military technologies of a potential enemy. In particular, the AN / AAS-52 optoelectronic complex and the AN / APY-8 radar reconnaissance complex are already being carefully studied. Telemetry and secure satellite communication stations, as well as the Link-16 data exchange terminal, are also being carefully studied by Russian electronic engineers.
Determining the frequency parameters of telemetry equipment and assessing the level of interference immunity of the Reaper will help in the future to model effective countermeasures against such UAVs by Russian electronic warfare systems.
The capabilities of American long-focus observation devices, including the type and resolution of matrix photodetectors, will be carefully studied. This will allow us to understand the ability of enemy reconnaissance drones to identify Russian equipment at different distances.
Photos used: NASA / wikimedia.org
https://en.topcor.ru/33899-rossijski...-9-reaper.html
Tragi-karmic. :flower:
Deputy Head of Kagarlyk region in Ukraine, Ivan Semtsov, was one of the organizers of a raid on a local Orthodox church. During the conflict, Semtsov snatched the cross from the priest and threw it on the ground.
He immediately suffered a stroke and died.
(This really happened. References here and here.)
https://projectavalon.net/Ivan_Semtsov.jpg
A lengthy, detailed and important article published 15 hours ago by Simplicius The Thinker (aka Nightvision on The Saker's Blog last year :muscle: ).
MAJOR: Nato Plans for Ukraine Leaked
As many of you have likely heard, a major leak from U.S. DOD headquarters has just occurred the day before yesterday. Initially, I wasn’t going to cover it because there was a strong chance it could be fake, and it’s not worth the effort of a full deep-dive for a document of questionable origin/validity.
However, now the Pentagram has confirmed the validity of the documents, as they’re now panickedly trying to scrub the internet of them. From NYTimes:
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(The most interesting article continues, too long to post here in full)
Here's why the leaked ‘secret plan’ for a Ukrainian military offensive doesn't add up 7 Apr, 2023
The release looks like an attempt to distract Russia's attention from what's really going on
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On Friday, photos appeared of a document allegedly containing details on a planned imminent Ukrainian offensive on territories controlled by Russia. The ‘leak’ coincided with suggestions that the NATO Defender 2023 exercises – planned for the end of this month – could be a cover for an operation to supply and support Ukrainian units. However, upon closer examination, doubts arise concerning the document’s authenticity.
When did it appear?
The supposed secret plans to support an offensive by Kiev's forces hit the internet the day before Anthony Blinken made a statement on the subject. The US Secretary of State said the operation will begin “within a few weeks.”
What information does it contain?
There hasn't been a leak of this nature since Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine began, over 13 months ago. It is noteworthy that the published plans contain not only a schedule for supplying Ukrainian units with NATO weapons and ammunition, but also information about the structure of the brigades and battalions allegedly preparing for the offensive.
The document, dated March 1, says Kiev's brigades need 253 tanks, more than 380 infantry fighting vehicles and APCs, 480 vehicles, 147 artillery pieces, and 571 HMMWV armored vehicles to carry out the offensive.
Which information is most suspect?
The probable locations of Russian units, indicated on the combat map in red, appear to have been collected from open sources. Several pro-Kiev resources that track military operations contain almost identical information.
Also, the ratios of killed and wounded for the Ukrainian and Russian Armed Forces which initially appeared in these ‘secret plans’ have since been changed. When first posted, the losses for the Ukrainian side were underestimated at about 16,500 –17,000 people. Then (probably to be more realistic), they increased almost fivefold, up to 65,000 – 75,000. At the same time, the numbers given for Russia's purported losses of vehicles and equipment coincide with data published by Kiev's Ministry of Defense.
What else is wrong with the published AFU offensive plans?
The blatant falsification of data on the readiness of Ukrainian military formations catches the eye. The document states that, of the nine supposedly to be trained up to US and NATO standards by March 31 and April 30, five of Kiev's brigades have had zero training: these are the 82nd Airborne, the 32nd, 117th, and 118th Territorial Defense, as well as the 21st separate mechanized.
Even if only two or three companies in these brigades were trained, and self-preparation wasn't completed, their level of training couldn’t be zero. At the same time, the highest percentage of readiness was recorded only in the 47th mechanized(40%) and the 46th airborne assault (60%).
What’s the upshot?
The plan also gives perplexing figures for military equipment.
For example, out of 109 M2 Bradley BMPs sent to armed forces, for some reason only 99 are to participate in the offensive. Moreover, the vehicles are not distributed among the brigades and only assigned to one formation – Kiev's 47th mechanized brigade, which doesn't have heavy tanks.
Rather than Soviet T-72s or T-64BVs, this grouping has only Slovak T-55Ss with 105mm guns, which are difficult to use in a large-scale offensive.
The small, but important, errors and inaccuracies in the calculations of equipment, the adjusted accounting of losses, as well as the presence of units with ‘zero’ readiness, indicate that this document, which was issued as a ‘secret plan,’ was probably prepared and distributed not by the military but by a group of civilians, probably pro-Kiev analysts.
The purpose of this planted misinformation may be to underreport the actual number of combat-ready Ukrainian units to be deployed for the offensive or to distract attention from other events related to the real operation.
This article was first published by ‘Military Chronicle’ Telegram channel
https://www.rt.com/russia/574380-lea...nteroffensive/
Putin: Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 300 shells at their prisoners and killed them all
The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 14 of their soldiers who surrendered.
At a meeting with the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a massive blow inflicted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on his own soldiers who had surrendered. According to Putin, fourteen Ukrainian soldiers surrendered, but earlier our military had already left their location, leaving them unguarded. As a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered a massive blow to one point, as a result of which all Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered were killed, as well as several Russian servicemen.
“Fourteen servicemen of the Ukrainian army surrendered. But it was already late and our people left a few people there with them. They didn’t even guard to take them out of the combat zone this morning. The enemy put three hundred shells in one place - destroyed all his servicemen "Vladimir Putin said.
Putin noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are behaving cynically and cruelly towards their own citizens and added that Russia's task is to push them to a distance from which they cannot cause damage. At the same time, he noted that our military suffered as a result of this attack.
In addition, at the meeting, it was announced that Denis Pushilin had been invited to participate in the first large meeting of the Security Council in the Kremlin this year, where security issues were discussed. This meeting took place the day before, and on April 6, Putin held bilateral meetings with each of the heads of the new subjects of Russia.
https://avia-pro.net/news/putin-vsu-...v-i-vseh-ubili
Artyomovsk should have been surrendered a few weeks ago – General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
06.04.2023
General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Serhiy Krivonosov said that Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) should have been surrendered a few weeks ago. It is noted that since February he has been criticizing the attempts of the Ukrainian General Staff to control the city. It is reported by MK.RU.
According to the Ukrainian commander, Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) did not make sense to hold a long period of time. He has repeatedly criticized the leadership of the General Staff of Ukraine for not abandoning attempts to “defend” the city. The general of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares that the command of the Kyiv regime does not protect the personnel, sending them to be ground in a “meat grinder”. The best Ukrainian fighters, according to the general, remained in Artyomovsk forever. He also focuses on the fact that the Russian command takes care of its personnel, unlike the Ukrainian one.
“I said back in early February that it makes no sense to keep Bakhmut, because Bakhmut is a meat grinder… In the battles for the city, the RF Armed Forces saved their personnel, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost the best fighters,” said the General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Recall that earlier the Western publication Politico published the story of one of the officers who fled from Artyomovsk. He spoke about the disagreements between the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and their command, as well as problems with discipline and leadership. The officer complained that sitting in the trench for days on end, limiting himself to sleep and rest, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was greatly undermined. Prior to this, the American edition of The Wall Street Journal reported that the soldiers of the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut do not understand why they are forced to fight when the city is almost surrounded and a retreat seems inevitable.
https://en.news-front.info/2023/04/0...aine-politico/