The head scratcher for me, seeing the population replacement policy acted out inside Ukraine by the puppeteers of Ukraine, has been lining that up with Putin's denazification mission. The first wave of 'depopulated' WAS the hard core nazi cannon fodder. ( or have we been deceived about that )
To an extent, but, it's pretty big.
I would think even in Russia there would still be a 5% "underground" which they would call "ineffective".
In our "civilized" countries even if we talk about an extremist minority anything like 15%, that's a *lot* of Nazis, it's a degree of influence, and certainly a lot of it comes from old money.
Because there is plenty of supply from numerous countries:
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Or, mayby when Putin says denazification he's really talking about a worldwide operation and at the level of expensive suits.
Well, he can't really personally do anything, but, ideologically, I think so. I think similar steps can be followed to reduce this thing to at most a "minor underground" with little influence. But it would be up to the rest of us to accomplish the purpose. It can get verbally difficult since "Nazi" can be described as a temporary German government, and so for example what happened in Bolivia a few years back wasn't German, that I know of, but a local flavor of the same attitude.
Is it possible to dissolve the attitude by a process of education?
Ukraine is a poster child for showing how you can certainly "teach" those values within about thirty years. I suppose it would probably take that long to eradicate it everywhere, if such an effort was made.
I believe everyone is under an existential threat to find a safe way out.
Part of what we have to do to unmask non-German Nazis is blame France.
In a particularly horrible way, and, not, of course, most of the French people, but the ones looking down their noses at them.
Last time I checked, the Tyrant of Niger was recognized as the head of a legitimate government.
In Africa this conversation has swollen past the point of results. We sit here and keep reviewing it. Things seem stagnant because a minority has locked down the fate of nations. So yes I would say it is a real issue, what is to "de-nazify" the planet?
The first reports from Ukrainian frontlines confirmed deployment of the French military in the Donbass. The first unit of the French Foreign Legion reportedly arrived in the area of the city of Slavayansk in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
According to reliable sources, a unit from the 3rd infantry regiment of the French Foreign Legion, which included about 100 servicemen, has been transferred to the Slavyansk direction before being sent to the frontlines. The unit includes the engineering group and aviation intelligence specialists of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Legion. Apparently, this is only the first group of French servicemen deployed in Ukraine, more forces are yet to come.
The first French military came to the city of Slavyansk on April 11. According to some reports, they are currently based at the location of the 54th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to other reports, they are under the command of the 7th Separate Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The French militants are moving around the city only accompanied by the Ukrainian military.
The French unit reportedly includes specialists in artillery reconnaissance, as well as an engineering group specialised in building of field fortifications. Most likely, these French will take part in building the defense lines around Slavyansk, preparing for the breakthrough of the donbass front by Russian troops. At the same time, the reconnaissance units are likely to support the Ukrainian military on the frontlines.
The first obituaries are yet to confirm the deployment of the deployment of the French military in Ukraine, while Paris is still denying the reports about its forces being sent to Ukraine.
Moreover, on March 18, two first aircraft with French military onboard were spotted landing at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, from where the french servicemen were supposedly transfered through Romania to Odessa.
14th April 2024 05:29
shaberon
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
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Yes, this is all actually very interesting indeed and I'd mentioned Berkut further back in this thread along with the 'plan'. I need to dig deeper into it and try and obtain further resources but it of course does make sense, with the obsessive focus being attributed Ukraine by the Western Zionists, is in many ways 'the key'
If that is the case, I would say the Jews have been swindled by the English.
I don't think we are going to find "Russia" in the Torah. It's English Bibles.
I don't think there was any plan that did not lead to fracturing Russia, the loss of Ukraine not being a part of it. Unintended consequences have led to the Phase of Stupid. In reality, it is just the true face of the masterminds.
Someone may have wanted something akin to Caesarea:
With a population of 5,997, it is the only Israeli locality managed by a private organization, the Caesarea Development Corporation, and also one of the most populous localities not recognized as a local council.
Jewish Virtual library:
Caesarea is an important site in Christian history. It was the place where Pontius Pilate governed during the time of Jesus...
Not everyone agrees with BlackRock. Several U. S. states just dumped their business based on principle.
Yes, we would have gotten unbridled privatization of some western proxy used to fence in Russia with as many related states as possible, but, it doesn't work.
If we can find anyone from Big Finance or some tycoon family reaping rewards here, that would be something worth checking out, but I think we are witnessing the failure of a long-term artificial plan versus natural law.
If there are people who have good business sense, then, yes, of course, we might be able to find a few individuals newly adapting. One could only hope for some adaptation in the name of making it stop.
14th April 2024 11:01
Tintin
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Another staged piece of atrocity propaganda in the making? We'll see. Via DDGeopolitics posted today:
💬 "A column of cars and minibuses with Z symbols appeared near Kharkov. Locals initially thought they were our military, but it turned out to be Ukrainian soldiers dressed in our uniform. Zelensky seems to be preparing a new Bucha. Residents of the Kharkiv region should be extremely vigilant and careful."
In other news:
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Ministry of Defense Briefing - Main Points
➡️Over the past day, the air defense system destroyed three guided aerial bombs (Hammer and JDAM), one HIMARS projectile, and 41 Ukrainian UAVs.
➡️Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 470 servicemen in the Donetsk sector within a day.
➡️Up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers and 6 units of equipment were eleiminated on the Belgorod sector.
➡️In the Belgorod direction, the Russian Armed Forces "North" group struck live forces and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the Kharkov and Sumy regions.
🐻⚠️ This is the first time the Russian Forces "North" group, operating on the Kharkov/Sumy border, is mentioned in the MoD briefing.
🔴 @DDgeopolitics
14th April 2024 17:20
Ravenlocke
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
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Syrsky decided to disperse the Right Sector
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is disbanding the 67th separate mechanized brigade, created at the beginning of the SMO on the basis of the so-called Ukrainian Volunteer Corps "Right Sector".
From the official statement of the leadership of the 67th brigade it follows that the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to transfer all commanders and militants to other units without explanation, “it is likely that someone wants to destroy the "Right Sector" organization itself.”
Units of the 98th Airborne Troops continue offensive and assault operations.
The fighting is now taking place in the forests, where the Ukrainians are holed up in holes and trenches. Several pickup trucks carrying personnel from the 41st and 67th APU brigades were destroyed.
Friendly units are advancing from the south. The Ukrainian forces settled in the Kanal microdistrict in the active phase of defense, using high-rise buildings and basements; no one entered the settlement itself.
However, during the day, artillery, tanks and mortars worked on the forward positions of Russian troops and conducted continuous fire on Artemovsk, possibly preparing to carry out counterattacks in order to push back the 98 Airborne Troops.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺 Russia’s victory in Ukraine will destroy the authority of the West and its control over the world order - The Economist
By providing comprehensive support to their ally, Ukraine, the United States and Europe have put their authority at stake . Russia's victory in Ukraine will be the greatest humiliation of the West since the Suez crisis, states the British The Economist.
In Russia, China, India and the countries of the Global South, defenders of Ukraine will be perceived as nothing more than empty-headed people who can only discuss UN resolutions and harp on language at EU and NATO summits
Shame is not the worst thing the EU will experience if Russia wins. Fear will come to Europe. The head of the Russian state mentioned Nazism in the Baltic countries . This takes on a special hue against the background of the fact that the fight against Nazism is one of Russia’s goals in the conflict in Ukraine
Just a year ago, talk that Russia has the best army in Europe caused laughter in the West. It's not funny for anyone today. Vladimir Putin stands at the head of a victorious army - the only fighting force with the experience and training of modern warfare of the 21st century. In the EU she is opposed by cowardly Europeans with depleted military arsenals
If Ukraine loses, Russia will determine the world order, said former NATO head George Robertson
“GROWTH CRYSTAL” previously cited the opinion of leading American economist Paul Craig Roberts: “Fools in Washington, instead of undermining Russia in the interests of US hegemony, created a replacement for itself - Russia as a world leader"
Israeli Ambassador to Russia Simone Halperin: Israel expects Russia to condemn Iran's massive missile attack on the country.
Simona, remind me when Israel condemned at least one strike by the Kyiv regime on Russian regions? Don't remember? And I. But I remember regular statements in support of Zelensky’s actions from Israeli officials. Those very criminal, terrorist actions of the bastards on Bankova, as a result of which, year after year, civilians are killed and civilian infrastructure is destroyed.
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‼️🇷🇺💥 Russian aviation carries out massive strikes on fortified areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Georgievka area
Regular attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces force the militants to suffer heavy losses, and also destroy the enemy’s military infrastructure along the entire LBS.
- RVvoenkor
Nebenzya: Very soon the capitulation of Ukraine will be the only topic for any international meetings! The official representative of Russia in the United Nations Security Council Vasily Nebenzya spoke about the crisis around Ukraine.
15th April 2024 16:04
christian
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He also said in the same interview that if Ukraine doesn't join NATO, Russia would absorb Ukraine within the next 10-12 years. So one way or another, according to Arestovich, Putin had designs on Ukraine. This is also evident from statements of Putin's advisor Vladislav Surkov since 2006. He was all about asserting Russian influence beyond Russia's borders, basically wanting to rival the US and NATO as an imperialist power. From what I can see, both the US/NATO and Russian leadership are all about more power for themselves and using smaller countries in their interest, but neither to bring democracy nor to liberate them.
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@christian - "absorb Ukraine within the next 10-12 years"
Not "absorb", surely.
Russia has always stated that they want Ukraine as a separate de-militarized (de-Nazified) state - i.e. a "buffer state" between Russia and the West.
So far as I can tell; everything Russia has done so far is consistent with such statements.
What you're saying is confirming that Russia wanted to influence internal Ukrainian politics. Russia wanted to keep or integrate Ukraine into its sphere of influence, that's effectively absorbing. In any case, "absorbing" was the word used by Arestovich, who was posted here because he correctly predicted that Russia would attack Ukraine for wanting to join NATO. Both the West and Russia play a power game in Ukraine. I said it before but it bears repeating, it's astonishing to me how many in the alternative media bubble see the duplicity of the West, but not that of the Russian government. Let me break it to you, virtually all governments are severely crooked, especially the biggest ones, that includes the Russian government.
Russia wanted Ukraine to be aligned with Russia. Russia didn't want Ukraine to be independent or neutral, which would mean Ukraine could have made treaties with both sides. Russia explicitly rejected that. Ukraine has been in the CIS free trade area with Russia since 2011. When Ukraine also wanted to sign a trade agreement with the EU, Putin's advisor Sergey Glazyev commented that this would violate the 1997 Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty, suggesting that if Ukraine signed the treaty with the EU, Russia would no longer be bound to recognize Ukraine's sovereignty.
Glazyev literally said, "We don't want to use any kind of blackmail. This is a question for the Ukrainian people, but legally, signing this agreement about association with EU, the Ukrainian government violates the treaty on strategic partnership and friendship with Russia." If a diplomat says "we don't want to use blackmail, but…" it's obviously blackmail, not even a thinly veiled threat, it's an open threat. And for what? For not being in an exclusive partnership with Russia? And you're telling me Russia has not been trying to dominate Ukraine all along?
The Russian government has formally confirmed that all countries, including former Soviet countries like Ukraine, can do whatever they want in terms of alliances, including military alliances. Russia signed off on this in the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act and the 1999 Istanbul Document by the OSCE. Russia literally allowed Ukraine (and every other country) to join NATO, but then Putin claimed NATO was cheating Russia by expanding, even though a renunciation of NATO enlargement was never agreed upon in any treaty, even though Putin likes to pretend that NATO countries promised that. NATO never promised it, it was offered in negotiations, but it was never agreed upon in a formal contract.
By the way, Russia threatened and deceived NATO more than once. In 2007, Russia unilaterally withdrew from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which limits armaments in Europe. Russia wrote itself a blank check for a military buildup, nixing the 1990 agreement with NATO. In the 2009 Zapad ("West") exercise, the Russian military simulated an attack on NATO member Poland. Nevertheless, NATO sought to deepen cooperation with Russia in its 2010 Strategic Concept, but this was rejected by Russia. Instead, further Zapad exercises followed in 2013 and 2017. Russia likely underreported the number of soldiers to avoid having to invite foreign observers, as required by the OSCE's Vienna Document. All Zapad exercises included rehearsals for attacks on Eastern European NATO members.
I also have to repeat this, because I'm sure some will take my words the wrong way. I'm not making excuses for NATO. They're criminals, and the 2014 Maidan coup was illegal and backed by NATO. That's all wrong. But that doesn't make it right to add another wrong on top of it by Russia invading Ukraine. Ukraine is nothing but a pawn in the power game of NATO and Russia, unfortunately, and both sides don't play fair. Both sides want Ukraine in their sphere of influence, and both sides are willing to use deadly force to achieve this. And I know this is not appreciated here, but Russia has initiated more deadly force in Ukraine than the West by invading in 2022 and also by launching the Donbas War. Crimeans wanted to be part of Russia, but Donbas residents didn't. This is clear from numerous surveys, check it for yourselves. I don't think these surveys are biased, because they also show clearly that residents of Crimea did want to join Russia, but not the majority of people in Donbas. The Donbas War started because of Russian mercenaries who operated in Donbas since 2014, despite Russian denials. Igor Girkin and others really kicked off the Donbas War after the annexation of Crimea. The Donbas War was not started by regular Donbas citizens whom the Russian-backed militants claimed to represent or liberate. Most Donbas residents rejected militant separatism.
Surveys proving Donbas residents rejected separatism and wanted to Ukraine to remain united:
And please don't come at me with, "BBC and VICE are propaganda and not reliable." I know that. But some reports are factual. These are. Check the content for yourself.
15th April 2024 16:21
Vicus
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
WATCH Ukrainian soldiers surrender in Donbass 14 Apr, 2024
The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
The Defense Ministry in Moscow reported on Saturday that nine servicemen from Ukraine’s elite 25th Airborne Brigade surrendered to the Russian Army.
Footage from the ministry shows the moment several soldiers laid down their arms near the settlement of Vodyanoye in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic.
According to the ministry, the servicemen reported atrocious treatment within the Ukrainian Army. In the video, they complain about poor planning of combat operations.
“Our superiors don’t care about us, they don’t want to go to frontline positions to assess the situation… It seemed better to surrender than to die without understanding why and what for,” one of them was filmed as saying.
“The commanders send us to die, like waste material, while they themselves are somewhere on the sidelines… When we were captured, our own people fired at us. I guess it means that no one really needs us there,” another said.
According to the Defense Ministry, the Russian military has set up a separate communication channel for Ukrainian soldiers who want to surrender.
The number of those laying down their arms has been steadily growing recently, Igor Kimakovsky, an adviser to the head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, told RIA Novosti on Sunday. He noted that the Ukrainian Army punishes soldiers who try to surrender.
Ukraine has been increasingly reliant on forced conscription to bolster its frontline units, amid a shortage of volunteers and a high number of battlefield casualties. In early February, several Ukrainian commanders told the Washington Post that their units were staffed at around 35% or less.
Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu earlier estimated Ukraine’s casualties at more than 444,000 soldiers since the conflict began in February 2022. The government in Kiev insists that only 31,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the conflict so far.
The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
I have no doubt this is true. And I know for a fact that there are tons of reports, just the same, from the other side. I listened to Russian soldiers who defected who tell exactly the same stories.
What does it mean? It means that "war is a racket," and we all should know that, cause Smedley Butler said it in 1935. Poor people are treated like expendable cannon fodder, both in Russia and Ukraine, and elsewhere. It's terrible, and we should do everything to stop it. The system wants to draw us all into a war mindset, cause war is collective ritual abuse, it's their game, and they want us to play it. In the end, it's not even that important for them which side we're on as long as we choose a side, act like people on one side are humans and people on the other side are not, and collectively play the ritual abuse game. The only way out is to see the war racket for what it is and to reject it completely. Psychopaths profit from poor people killing each other, and in the bigger picture, they benefit from humanity entering the ritual abuse matrix. Let's get out of there, let's not follow psychopathic leaders, let's not put on uniforms and kill each other, let's instead develop empathy for the common people, for ourselves, and do what's in our best interests, and it's certainly not war.
15th April 2024 19:17
Jaak
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The servicemen complain of atrocious treatment in the army, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
I have no doubt this is true. And I know for a fact that there are tons of reports, just the same, from the other side. I listened to Russian soldiers who defected who tell exactly the same stories.
What does it mean? It means that "war is a racket," and we all should know that, cause Smedley Butler said it in 1935. Poor people are treated like expendable cannon fodder, both in Russia and Ukraine, and elsewhere. It's terrible, and we should do everything to stop it. The system wants to draw us all into a war mindset, cause war is collective ritual abuse, it's their game, and they want us to play it. In the end, it's not even that important for them which side we're on as long as we choose a side, act like people on one side are humans and people on the other side are not, and collectively play the ritual abuse game. The only way out is to see the war racket for what it is and to reject it completely. Psychopaths profit from poor people killing each other, and in the bigger picture, they benefit from humanity entering the ritual abuse matrix. Let's get out of there, let's not follow psychopathic leaders, let's not put on uniforms and kill each other, let's instead develop empathy for the common people, for ourselves, and do what's in our best interests, and it's certainly not war.
After you go through russian style military training then no wonder they have moral problems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGi8mbzOLwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkRiDVV4IGA
I read somewhere that average russian soldier shoots around 100 bullets during their military service because they cant be trusted anymore with live ammunition. That was already years ago.Have been too many cases of people shooting up the military base because of their traumas from ¨dedovshchina¨. And because russia is now using also alot of convicts in the war who got a strong ¨blatnoy¨or ¨urki¨ mentality and they rule over others with no remorse as they would in a prison cell with 20 people in it hasnt also helped with the moral of others who are forced to be their subjects..
The noun blatnoy (блатной) has an explicitly criminal meaning in Russian. It usually refers to a member of a thief gang – blatnoy itself means "professional criminal". The term originally meant "one possessing the correct paperwork", which, in the corrupt officialdom of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, indicated that the blatnoy was well connected. It later came to indicate career criminals because they had a blatnoy, or special status, in the Russian criminal underworld. The word is used to indicate association with the criminal underworld (e.g. "blatnoy language"/Fenya, "blatnoy behavior", "blatnoy outlook").[10]
15th April 2024 22:03
shaberon
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Ukraine is nothing but a pawn in the power game of NATO and Russia, unfortunately, and both sides don't play fair. Both sides want Ukraine in their sphere of influence, and both sides are willing to use deadly force to achieve this.
Do you have anything that would say Ukraine "Borderland" has ever been anything else?
Most people seem to want to say that Ukraine is inherently Khazaria, and therefor the master architect of all the world's problems today. That is a bit silly, but an easy belief to cling to.
There are, of course, several "crossroads" that have never quite been their own states, but tossed between competing regional powers, for instance Gaza. Perhaps it is a little scary that Gaza or Russia would stand up against invasive forces and related acts of resource management. They are acting locally, rather than projecting force dominance at the U. S. -- Mexico border.
It may be interesting to review that Kiev is the "first Russia" in light of the fact of the failed Khazarian apparatus being removed. On that basis, one could perhaps argue that east Ukraine is Russia. So far, I've seen nothing that says relinquished provinces like Ukraine or Estonia "belong" to Russia on principle, but, I can understand the difficulty when they become filled with hostile forces from thousands of miles away.
16th April 2024 09:05
Tintin
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
An update here via Readovka:
Novokalinovo and Ocheretino - a detailed examination of the combat situation in the Avdeevka direction on April 15
While keeping busy the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Novokalinovo area, which is covered from the north, Russian units got a chance to attack Ocheretino located behind it - an important enemy logistics hub in this sector of the front, in the northwest of Avdeevka.
The railway passes through Ocheretino, and the network of roads connecting Novobakhmutovka, Arkhangelskoye, Keramik and Novokalinovo also closes there. Accordingly, the potential loss of Ocheretino as a “hub” for the regular supply of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in this area threatens the Ukrainian command with another operational crisis, which will be caused by both the superiority of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield and supply interruptions.
An overhead view of how Chasov Yar looks as at April 16th, 2024 :flower:
16th April 2024 15:31
christian
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
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Do you have anything that would say Ukraine "Borderland" has ever been anything else? […]
Perhaps it is a little scary that […] Russia would stand up against invasive forces[.] […]
It may be interesting to review that Kiev is the "first Russia"[.]
Ukraine has been formally sovereign since 1990, and I think it's generally better when people in a sovereign state take care of political affairs themselves without violent interference from other states, whether from NATO or Russia. I'm also no enthusiast of the coercive redrawing of borders in accordance with some historical state of affairs, because it encourages arbitrary violence and usually punishes individuals in the present for something that other people have done long ago. Besides, using the argument that Kyiv was the first Russia, you might as well say that Kyiv should be in charge of Russia.
Regarding your argument that Russia stood up against invasive forces, I don't see how Ukraine tried to invade Russia. At the most, you could argue that Ukraine was preparing to reconquer Crimea, where most residents did want to join Russia, but it happened in a questionable way that has not been universally recognized, so Ukraine had somewhat of a claim there, and there is no indication that Ukraine prepared an invasion of Russia inside its universally recognized borders. In any case, Russia didn't just "stand up against invasive forces," but actively invaded another country.
16th April 2024 15:45
Vicus
Re: WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia
Sergey Poletaev: Here’s Russia’s plan for Ukraine for this summer 12 Apr, 2024 18
The cost to the West of supporting Kiev continues to rise, meaning Moscow’s best option is to wait
From time to time, people ask why Russia is not acting more decisively in Ukraine, and why it appears to be dragging its feet. Some say it’s out of weakness, others suspect some secret agreements with the West, and it seems there are theories to suit all tastes.
In reality, the answer is clear and transparent. This year and the next, Russia has budgeted about 5-6% of GDP on the Ukraine conflict, and the Kremlin’s task is to use these comparatively small resources as efficiently as possible. Their intention is to achieve the goals of the military operation without a new mobilization, and to preserve not only a calm and functioning economy but also stability inside the country.
Although the front line has remained largely static since autumn 2022, the political situation and the circumstances in which the conflict will likely end are changing radically – in Russia’s favor. With little risk and at relatively small financial expense, President Vladimir Putin is slowly but surely getting his way.
Not waiting, but preparing
There is increasing talk of an imminent Russian offensive. As with the Ukrainian ‘counteroffensive’ a year ago, commentators claim to know exactly where it will take place (towards Kharkov or Sumy), when it will happen (in May or June), and are sure in advance that it will be decisive for the whole conflict, and so on.
But it seems to us that the Kremlin does not want a big march on Ukraine’s second city this summer, and here is why.
Firstly, there is a lack of experience. We are talking about an operation on the scale of the Eastern Front in the Second World War, and such endeavors have never been carried out during the current campaign. (February 22, 2022 doesn’t count, because the enemy wasn’t fully mobilized, and the front line didn’t really exist so there was no need to break through anything.)
In any conflict, the scale required for offensive battles increases steadily, and the appropriate tools, strategic and tactical techniques, officer and staff corps need to be formed. The leap required to go from a five-month operation to take Avdeevka to a rapid and successful occupation of Kharkov or Sumy seems unfathomable.
Also, the forces and means required are not yet in place. Yes, we have reserves of about 150,000-170,000 people. Yes, more people are signing up for military service every month than Ukraine is catching in taverns and on the streets, which means that the numbers are still growing. But a mass of soldiers is not an army. They need to be armed, equipped, trained, provided with experienced officers, staff capacity, equipment, shells, aircraft, and other things.
Russia's FSB Detains Ukrainian Agent Behind Bombing of Defector's Car in Moscow 4 hours ago
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it arrested a Russian national who had planted explosives onto the car of a former Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officer in Moscow at the instruction of the Ukrainian special services.
This past Friday, a car belonging to former SBU Lt. Col. Vasily Prozorov exploded in Moscow while he was inside the vehicle. Prozorov survived, with minor injures, and blamed the assassination attempt on Ukrainian intelligence.
"FSB has detained a Russian national, born in 1983, who, under the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, detonated an explosive device planted onto the car of a Russian national and ex-SBU employee in Moscow," FSB said.
❗️A Ukrainian agent, following orders of a handler, who was instructed by the head of the SBU, Vasily Malyuk, remotely orchestrated the explosion of a former Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) employee’s car in Moscow, the FSB reported. https://t.co/G5wAHYrg5o
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) April 16, 2024
Russian investigators have established that following the launch of the Russian special military operation in February 2022, the perpetrator went to Ukraine, where he was subsequently recruited by a SBU employee in October 2023, FSB said.
"In March, instructed by his supervisor who was acting under direct guidance of SBU chief Malyuk Vasyl, he [the perpetrator] arrived in Russia, received elements of a radio-controlled explosive device and assembled it, and after examining the area of the ex-SBU employee's residence address, he mined the car," the statement read.
The Russian Investigative Committee's Moscow office has opened a criminal case into attempted murder as well as illegal acquisition, possession and transportation of explosive devices, FSB said. Separately, an inquiry is underway aimed at qualifying the perpetrator's actions as terrorism and treason, which might lead to a life sentence.
