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Yesterday at 21:00 a meeting was held for the commanders of the units of the 10th Special Guards Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the building of the Rai-Aleksandrovka Lyceum. At 21:15 a missile strike was launched , as a result of which 9 officers were killed and 7 officers were injured in varying degrees of severity.
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⚡️☢️ Fragments of shells from US-supplied M777 howitzers found in Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant’s spent fuel pool.
Plant workers say pieces of shells have been found in storage pool, used to cool spent nuclear fuel to reduce dangerous radiation and heat before being disposed of.
Kiev regime repeatedly strikes plant in reckless attacks, tempting nuclear CATASTROPHE.
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We've seen this video quite a few times now — and the dogpile of abandoned Ukrainian tanks and others vehicles keeps getting larger.
A 10-second video showing the carnage:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-NuXZAT1ego
But this is how the Russians lay these very dense minefields. What this 18-second video shows looks like a missile launcher, but it's launching anti-tank land mines. (And by international law, the mines are set to self-destruct after a certain length of time so that civilians aren't injured after the war has ended.) The new system is nicknamed 'Agriculture'.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/50421
For those unable to see this thing in action, this is what it looks like:
https://www.defensehere.com/img/2022...3333363129.jpg
Interestingly, there's been some debate about how well (or not) the Ukrainian forces are managing to handle all this. Simplicius the Thinker argues that the Ukrainians, under huge political pressure to do something, had little choice.
Bernhard at The Moon of Alabama, who is a former tank commander, argues the opposite. He points out that NATO and Russia both have their own clear protocols ('doctrine') about how to deal with threatening minefields, and that the Ukrainians are following neither. Their tactics appear to be chaotic. And in Alexander Mercouris' video update today he reports a private email from a former NATO official stating that Bernhard is correct.
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US/NATO launches powerful air force demonstration near Russian borders.
250 combat aircraft are deployed on German military airfields. 100 units of strike aircraft, mainly F-35s, were transferred by the Americans from their air bases.
The advanced elements of this air group are hastily transferred from Germany to Estonian airfields.
The NATO command expects that this will divert part of the forces and means of the Aerospace Forces of Russia from carrying out tasks to suppress the Ukrainian offensive on the Eastern Front from the air.
Pictured is of attack "Apache" at the airbase in Tapa (Estonia)
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Leads me to consider that the Ukranians are being deliberately given bad advice? To what end, in the bigger picture?Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
Well, that's an interesting question. Regarding 'bad advice', I lean to incompetence and confusion over conspiracy, but one possibility is that the US/NATO neocon faction wants the 'counteroffensive' to fail so that they can justify NATO/American (or at least Polish) boots on the ground.Quote:
Posted by EwanLeads me to consider that the Ukrainians are being deliberately given bad advice? To what end, in the bigger picture?Quote:
Posted by Bill Ryan
This was all discussed very seriously in The Duran's video yesterday. Both Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris see all the signs of Ukraine's military failure leading paradoxically but inevitably to WW3.
This is a half hour video, but for those concerned about all this and interested to hear some compelling argument, I'd recommend it.
(This is exactly why I'm following these developments so closely every day myself. I'm pretty concerned about WW3 too. :flower:)
Security guarantees, then Polish troops, and finally US troops
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifP1HK-hWV4
I agree that "bad" advice is being given; yet this is (I believe) not "bad" from the point of view of those who are ultimately responsible for escalating the Ukraine conflict into WWIII.
As I argue here: I believe that we need to frame this war as being driven by those whose core motives are not about One World under totalitarian control -- but are 'merely' spitefully destructive.
In other words; the escalation is ultimately (and contrary to the belief of the Western politicians, billionaire financiers, media people etc. who are supposedly making the decisions and implementing the plans - who deludedly think this is about 'winning' a war against Russia) intended to cause uncontrollable chaos as widely as possible; leading to death, destruction and contamination on a truly massive scale.
I saw this image yesterday, but I never quite knew what I was looking at. Here, the destroyed Ukrainian vehicles are all identified. (This is happening everywhere. There are only a few Bradleys left now, and Ukraine has already begged Germany for more Leopard tanks.)
https://projectavalon.net/burned_out...n_vehicles.jpg
Where Alex Mercouris talks about lack of ammunition, which seems to be an ongoing problem, I was minded of old Pathe Newsreels where all the railings in England were taken down to melt into bullets, etc. So far we haven't seen any inkling of that, which is good, but seeing Boris giving his notice in suddenly makes me wonder whether he's gone to secure his place in the bowels of Pindar. And btw it's never been revealed why Boris gallivanted over to Ukraine in the first place and not Richie Sunak or our Defence Minister, Ben Wallace.Quote:
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Ukraine may strike with large forces in Donbas in the coming days - head of the British parliamentary committee Tobias Ellwood on Sky News.
"In the next few days, we should expect a big attack in one part or another of the Donbass," Ellwood said.
He noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting probing and formative operations "in search of a weak spot in the Russian defense, and "the main forces of Ukraine are still in reserve, ready for this attack."
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‼️💥Orekhov was hit by "smart bombs"
▪️ Bases and command posts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine brigades advancing on the Zaporizhia Front are located in this city.
▪️ Yesterday it was reported that in the area of the city of Orekhov, the command post of the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit - the very one that has already lost almost all Bradleys and lost a bunch of Leopard tanks.
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Largest-ever NATO air drill underway 12 Jun, 2023
Some 10,000 service members and 250 aircraft are involved in the exercises this June
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A US F-35 fighter jet is pictured during an event at the Danish Airbase Fighter Wing Skrydstrup in Jutland, Denmark, on March 10, 2023.
NATO embarked on the largest air force exercises in the alliance’s history on Monday amid heightened tensions with Russia over the Ukraine conflict.
According to Berlin’s military, the drills – which have been dubbed ‘Air Defender 23’ and are being hosted by Germany – will play out mostly in the nation’s airspace between June 12 and 23, with some operations taking place in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The mass exercises will involve some 10,000 service members and 250 aircraft, with 100 planes fielded by the US alone.
Apart from the US, the operation would be attended by 24 other nations, including not only NATO members, but also Sweden and Japan. The focus of the exercises is to optimize and expand cooperation between participating countries, with plans to model a NATO Article 5 assistance scenario. The latter clause, which lies at the heart of the US-led bloc, stipulates that an attack on one member of the alliance would constitute an attack on all of them.
US Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann said that she “would be pretty surprised if any world leader was not taking note of what this shows in terms of the spirit of this alliance,” adding that this included Russian President Vladimir Putin.
According to Germany’s Bundeswehr, the drills, which are meant to last up to four hours a day, will result in several air zones being restricted to military use at specific times of the day, possibly causing certain air traffic disruptions.
While German authorities insisted that they would try to minimize the impact of Air Defender 23 on the population, Matthias Maas, the head of German air traffic controllers’ union GdF, warned that the exercises could have “massive effects on the operation of civilian aviation.”
Speaking to the TV station ZDF, German air force chief Ingo Gerhartz said that the exercises were first conceived in 2018 as part of NATO’s response to Russia’s actions in the Crimea peninsula, which overwhelmingly voted to join the country in 2014 after a Western-backed coup in Kiev. At the same time, the general insisted that the exercises were “not targeted at anyone.”
https://www.rt.com/news/577903-large...-air-exercise/