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South Korea will reconsider the possibility of providing lethal weapons to Ukraine after the conclusion of an agreement between Russia and North Korea, Yonhap reports.
According to the agency, Seoul is concerned about the rapprochement between Moscow and Pyongyang, and believes that the signed agreement forms a military alliance. Previously, South Korea had not supplied weapons to Ukraine.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1803734718136857023
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🔥 Two teenagers set fire to military vehicles. They were detained in the Odessa region, police said.
In Razdelnyansky district, boys aged 16 and 17 set fire to a Volkswagen minibus and a Hyundai Santa-Fe SUV belonging to mobilisation officers.
Unfortunately, the young freedom fighters were caught. They themselves come from the Nikolaev region and are now in pre-trial detention.
http://t.me/ukraine_watch
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1803756109171237316
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Putin — Where any negotiations on Ukraine could exactly take place does not matter, Russia's proposals are on the table
🔹 The West's reaction to the peace initiatives was expected, but sensible politicians will think about them if they want to end the conflict;
🔹 The negotiations could take place tomorrow, but Russia will base them on the current situation, the president stressed;
🔹 The Kiev regime is interested in continued fire because it doesn't want to hold elections;
🔹 The West will pin all unpopular decisions on Zelensky and replace him in the first half of next year;
🔹 The most important task for Russia is to repel attacks with long-range weapons on its territory;
🔹 Kiev will try to present the new counterattack as a strategic success.
🔹 There is no need to use soldiers from North Korea in the Ukrainian conflict
[url]https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1803836402905534859
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Russian soldiers explain how important it is to at least try to recover the dead. Not only their own, but of the Ukrainians. The Russians understand what this war is about, they understand that most Ukrainians they encounter in battle don't want to be there.
The Russians understand that there is a hand that pushes these men into battle, and although the Russians are forced to eliminate them, they also honor the dead if possible. This is Slav vs Slav, a conflict that should never have happened, but there is a western poison within Ukraine, and it drives Ukrainians to fight their own brothers in Russia.
This glimpse of humanity and understanding in the midst of such carnage cries to the soul of the us. It says they understand these are men, humans that should be respected.
God speed this conflict to it's end.
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https://x.com/DravenNoctis/status/1803712668894658730
NATO Expansion A Timeline
Terry Cowan
Jun 12, 2024
I have recently finished reading The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order by Glenn Diesen (Atlanta: Clarity Press, Inc., 2024). I have poured over it, underlining, making notes, and now I have passed it on to my son for his edification. This is one of the most important books I have read in many years. Once we are on the other side of this conflict, I believe it will stand as a seminal explanatory text for our era, the waning of Western hegemony.
There is an official narrative to our war with Russia through Ukrainian proxies. To be sure, Russian troops did cross the Ukrainian border, and territorial integrity is important to us, except, of course, when it isn’t. President Biden enunciated it on the day Russian troops poured over the Ukrainian border:
This was never about genuine security concerns on their part. It was always about naked aggression, about Putin’s desire for empire by any means necessary–by bullying Russia’s neighbors through coercion and corruption, by changing borders by force, and, ultimately, by choosing a war without a cause.
He has reiterated that view, certainly less articulately, in recent days at the D-Day observances in Normandy, but the basic outline is still there, to-wit:
Our heavy involvement in Ukraine since 1991 did nothing to contribute to the conflict.
Russia’s security concerns about the advancement of NATO eastward are silly.
There are bullies in the world, but the bully is never us.
Although the 4th largest economy in the world (in purchasing power), Russia still longs to recreate the Soviet Union.
Russia is corrupt, although their current leader is elected, while Ukraine is not corrupt, although their current leader rules by martial law.
Changing borders is wrong, when Russia does it. When we do it (Kosovo), it is for humanitarian reasons.
No actions by the West or Ukraine over 8 years against Russian speakers in the Donbass that resulted in 14,000 deaths provide any justification for Russia’s actions.
Russia is bad, the West is good.
So there you have it. This is our official narrative. This aligns with our sentiments and comforts our ideological prejudices. even if it is lacks much in the way of self-awareness.
There is another narrative, however; one that is not ideologically-driven and is buttressed by actual facts. That is the story Diesen tells. A friend suggested I write a review. Frankly, I do not think I could do credit to the work. But what I have done is to construct a Time Line of NATO expansion, taken from Diesen’s narrative. I find it compelling. (My apologies: my original word document is sourced, but the footnotes did not survive the copy-and-paste into Substack, and I do not want to re-enter all 60.)
NATO Expansion: A Timeline
From: The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order by Glenn Diesen (Atlanta: Clarity Press, Inc., 2024)
1975
The Helsinki Accords
Outlined a common framework for European security
1987
George Kennan:
“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to go on, substantially unchanged until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
1989
“Common European Home”
Gorbachev’s plan to demilitarize Europe by disbanding both the Warsaw Pact & NATO
1989
“Europe Whole and Free”
The U.S. rejected Gorbachev’s plan; offers universalism of liberal democracy as the foundation for a common Europe
1989
Malta Summit
Negotiated end to the Cold War; Russia would not use military to suppress democracy movements in eastern Europe; Russia agreed to unification of Germany; the U.S. (Bush & SoS James Baker) promised NATO would expand “not one inch eastward.” These promises were not only made by Bush & Baker, but by Hans-Dietrich Genscher (the West German foreign minister), Helmut Kohl, Robert Gates, Francois Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Douglas Hurd, John Major, and Manfred Wörner.
1990
The Charter of Paris for a New Europe
Based on Helsinki Accords, sovereign equality with no dividing lines, to preserve principles of CoP, NATO would have to remain a status quo power
continue: https://terrycowan.substack.com/p/nato-expansion
West has plan to replace Zelensky - Russian intelligence
The Ukrainian leader will be scapegoated for the country's inevitable military defeat, the SVR agency predicts
The US and its allies will sacrifice Vladimir Zelensky, who is entirely dependent on their support, without any qualms, the Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) has claimed in a statement, according to TASS.
Moscow considers Zelensky to be a usurper, since his five-year presidential term expired in May. President Vladimir Putin has argued that, under the Ukrainian constitution, the parliament remains legitimate, and presidential authority should have passed to its speaker when Zelensky's term ended. However, officials in Kiev have conspired to keep Zelensky in place.
"It is becoming increasingly evident that the White House will soon shut down 'Project Zelensky'," the SVR stated on Thursday.
It believes Zelensky will be used as a scapegoat "once Russia solidifies its successes on the battlefield, and exhausted and demoralized Ukrainian troops find themselves with no way out."
Once Zelensky is of no use, "the White House will throw him on the trash heap of history with no second thought, and replace him with another Ukrainian politician whom it considers suitable to negotiate a peaceful resolution of the conflict with Russia." Retired General Valery Zaluzhny, the former top commander of the armed forces, is a likely candidate, according to the SVR.
The Russian intelligence agency dismissed as "comical" Zelensky's attempts to convince foreign audiences that a Ukrainian military victory over Russia was possible.
Putin's analysis, which he outlined last week in a keynote speech on Russian foreign policy, is that Zelensky remains of use to foreign sponsors. He can issue and enforce several policies, which would be highly unpopular among Ukrainians but would otherwise help Kiev to prolong hostilities with Russia. He will then have to take the blame for those decisions, Putin predicted.
The president noted that any agreements signed by Zelensky with foreign nations after May 20, such as the recent bilateral ten-year security deal with the US, can be easily discarded by other parties, since he no longer has any legal authority to represent Ukraine.
https://www.sott.net/article/492446-...n-intelligence
West Expects Conflict to End in Ukraine Out of NATO, Russia Retaining Gains - Reports 21 minutes ago
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Many international diplomats expect the Ukrainian conflict to end in a ceasefire, with Moscow retaining its territorial gains and Kiev staying out of NATO, a UK news magazine reported on Friday, citing a former Western senior official.
"It's devastatingly obvious how this war will end. Ceasefire along the line of control, plus security guarantees for Kiev short of full NATO membership. No formal ceding of territory. Ukraine becomes like Cyprus – an EU member which does not recognize that it's been partitioned," The Spectator quoted the former statesman as saying.
The world seems to be moving into a "pre-peace" position following the recent Swiss conference on Ukraine, which reportedly demonstrated that international support for a war of attrition was waning and that the time of compromises was beginning.
A former senior official in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration told The Spectator that, rather than becoming "a new benchmark of international support" for Kiev, the conference only showed that Ukraine did not have the Global South on its side.
On June 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would stop its military operation and begin negotiations with Ukraine as soon as Kiev ordered troops out of the Russia-controlled territories and abandoned plans to join NATO.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240621/we...119049701.html
Domino of developments: Russian T/T "strike punch" "cuts in two" the Ukrainian Army in Svatovo - Pishani fortress fell outside Kupyansk
The Russian operation on the Oskol River began
The Russians have formed a "strike punch" of 10,000 troops with tanks and artillery to "cut" Ukrainian forces in half on the Kupyansk-Svatovo axis and reach the Oskol River, Ukrainian military sources say.
The Russians are now activating all fronts.
Russian "striking punch"
The Russian troop group "West" created a strike force in the Svyatovo region in order to break through the Ukrainian defenses in the settlement of Borovaya and reach the Oskol River in the Kharkiv region, DeepState reports citing information from Ukrainian intelligence services.
The same source notes that the Russian administration is intensively preparing for offensive actions in the mentioned direction.
1st,000 military personnel, 250 armored vehicles and 200 guns were deployed on a front 15 km wide from the settlement of Raigorodka to the settlement of Novovodyanoye. Su-25 aircraft and drones will provide close support to Russian forces.
The large concentration of Russian forces and means in this region, which exceeds Ukrainian capabilities, allows them to proceed with intensive attacks.
🆘 Russian aviation is targeting critical supply routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
After Russian pilots destroyed a bridge in the area of Kupiansk, thereby eliminating a crucial enemy supply route, the Ukrainian command decided to restore this vital supply artery. Enemy…
They will "cut in two" the Ukrainian forces
The Russian Forces plan - most likely - to repeat last year's tactics, advancing first to the Nadezhda-Novogorovka line and then to the Pervomayskoye-Cherneshchyna line.
The 3rd separate assault brigade of the Ukrainian Forces is trying to hold the defense in this part of the front.
At the same time, the Russians have developed not only regular units, but also volunteer formations, having a great advantage in personnel and firepower.
"The current business situation is worrying
The attack will take place from the Raigorodka – Novovodyanoye line to Borovaya,” the Ukrainians conclude.
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog..._x_tr_pto=wapp
Bad news for Ukraine: Russians drop FAB-3000 M54 beast bomb with UMPK for the first time - Kiev casualties in 24 hours at 2,165
'Game Changer': The most powerful wind kit bomb
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog..._x_tr_pto=wapp
The Russian Air Force used for the first time the FAB-3000 M54 bomb with UMPK against a Ukrainian base in Kharkiv, causing an electric shock to the Ukrainian military command.
Russia's "monstrous" three-ton FAB-3000 bombs will prove to be a "game changer" in the conflict in Ukraine as they can destroy entire Ukrainian fortifications, hit underground targets, concrete-reinforced command posts.
For this very reason, these bombs went back into mass production, improved with windage kits.
The Russian Ministry of Defense had recently announced the start of mass production of the FAB-3000 high-explosive aerial bombs, but they had not been used until now.
Today in the village of Liptsy, Kharkiv region, the Russian Air Force test-fired a FAB-3000 M54 with UMPK.
A four-story building used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a temporary deployment point was chosen as the first target.
According to Russian analysts:
► “first, this is the first combat use of a bomb of this caliber with a UMPK in the history of mankind.
► the bomb deflected for ten meters
This is an excellent result even for guided munitions, as the reference radius of continuous damage for the FAB-3000 is 230 m, and the fragments retain their destructive power at a range of 1240 m."
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog..._x_tr_pto=wapp
https://youtube.com/watch?v=d3o5YqaXfb8
6 hours ago
Ukrainian Drone Swarms Target Four Russian Refineries In Major Attack Friday, Jun 21, 2024
Brent crude futures were flat on Friday amid rising geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe, which seems counterintuitive as escalating war risks could result in supply disruptions.
In the overnight hours, four refineries in southern Russia were targeted, with one facility damaged, in one of the largest drone swarm attacks since the war in Ukraine began, Bloomberg reports.
Seventy drones were intercepted and destroyed over Crimea and the Black Sea and 43 over the Krasnodar region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram, without saying how many drones took part in the attack. The Afipsky, Ilsky, Krasnodar and Astrakhan refineries were attacked, Ukraine's General Staff said later in a Facebook post.
In the Seversky district of the Krasnodar region, where the Afipsky and Ilsky refineries are located, "administrative buildings were damaged on the territory of an oil refinery" as a result of the attack, local governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram. Interfax earlier reported that a fire affecting area of 50 square meters (538 square feet) was extinguished by morning, with two people injured. -BBG
In March, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna said oil refineries in Russia are "absolutely legitimate targets" from a military point of view.
Recall that the Biden administration has freaked out about Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia. This was primarily because of the risk of driving Brent crude prices north of $100/bbl. However, in recent weeks, Biden 'greenlighted' Ukraine to attack deep within Russia with US weapons.
In markets, Brent crude prices headed for the first back-to-back weekly gain since early April. Prices are ending the week around the $85/bbl handle. Escalating conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East reflect a higher war risk premium that should be added to Brent crude prices.
One major issue is if Ukraine continues targeting Russian oil infrastructure, Moscow could retaliate by lashing out at energy infrastructure relied on by the West. As we recently noted, this includes the "CPC pipeline carrying oil from Kazakhstan through Russia to the global market."
Given all the conflict, the Biden team continues to be very concerned because an energy shock could send domestic gasoline prices at the pump to the politically sensitive $4-a-gallon level. :chuckle:
https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditie...s-major-attack
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The little common sense delivered from last 2 neurons working from U.S. should tell them:
you dont mess with an energy powerhouse country... they just elevate prices and thats all.
Like always they dint learn anything...70" oil crisys anybody? :facepalm:
Ukros dont care because they are driven by nazi hate,there isnt such thing as a good nazi and they
are just death nazis walking anyway... :fire:
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Has anyone ever read the Constitution? Look for your relationship to the European Central Bank deposited somewhere in the back half of it. Serf-like.
That is what I would call dead center Bullseye for trans-national corporatocracy.
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Fair enough.
"Sea People" does have a specific use, it is found twice in Egyptian records for attackers thought to be from northern Canaan and southern Anatolia.
One of the main signs I am aware of is that Rock Art at Bhimbetka--which may have begun in remote antiquity--is found to have a slow but continuous accumulation since about 10,000 B. C. E.. And, it is only in the latest strata that you find people with spears who look like they might not be hunting, and then you find mounted men with spears and axes who are fairly positively waging a battle. It stops at this point, probably around the beginning of writing in Egypt and Sumeria, it is almost exclusively in this ca. 3,000-2,000 B. C. E. range that the art is anything but pastoral. My personal bias would be to say that aggression is a learned/developed behavior, particularly on a large organized scale.
If you attack me out of a legitimate need to feed your family, I'm going to look at it a lot differently than if it appears to be a professional sport of murder and theft.
I'm not sure we could put a universal, generic term for it. I am content with labeling Sargon and Rimush as the beginning of substantially recorded history that shows warfare of this nature. That says nothing as to what may have been around before them, and, if they may be credited with inventing a "state" for this purpose, they probably did *not* create the attitude and practice of conquest.
We will be forced to find out plenty of modern terms for it in Ukraine, but no, there is no pat answer about the first ones to turn weapons on people.
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Of if you have in mind some other clause, that is an even more direct commitment to corporatocracy, as well you might be, I'd be quite interested to learn of it.
Shelling of the center of Belgorod using 122-mm MLRS - a report and full investigation
Source: https://proekt-verum.org/wp-content/...elgorod-en.pdf
Description via DD Geopolitics on Telegram:
Sent by our friend, Ivan Kopyl, War Crimes Investigator based in Donetsk. Please share the full investigation.
N (https://proekt-verum.org/wp-content/...24.png)ovember 2023 saw the end of the unsuccessful offensive attempt by the Ukrainian armed formations (UVF), which began on June 4 . The initiative on the battlefield passed to the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
On December 29, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation launched the most massive attack in 2023 on the military and military-industrial infrastructure of Ukraine.
On December 30, 2023, residential areas of the city of Belgorod were subjected to artillery shelling by Ukrainian armed formations (hereinafter referred to as UAF) throughout the day.
On February 15, 2024, at about 12:15 (Moscow time), Belgorod came under fire from the UAF. The main destruction and casualties were recorded in the shopping center in Plekhanov Street and at the stadium near school No. 42. As a result of the incident, 131 apartments in 12 multi-apartment buildings, 36 private houses and 4 commercial facilities were damaged , 7 people were killed (including a four-month-old child ) and 19 people were injured (including 4 children).
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that 14 RM-70 Vampire MLRS rockets fired by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were knocked down over the territory of the Belgorod region, without specifying whether all the projectiles were shot down.
Killed:
1) Valeria Ch. 1 year old
2) Lyudmila Shpak, 80 years old
3) Ekaterina Strelyaeva, 73 years old
4) Ivan Suprunoov, 68 years old
5) Lyubov Gubkina, 44 years old
6) Mukhomad Shenani, 20 years old
7) Dmitry Protsenko, 30 years old
Wounded:
1) Viktoria T, 8 years old
2) Daniil P., 14 years old
3) Maxim T, 8 years old
4) Gleb P., 7 years old
5) Galina Kopylkova, 56 years old
6) Yulia Golub, 39 years old
7) Tatiana Krivoshapova, 64 years old
8) Tatiana Trubitsyna, 63 years old
9) Nadezhda Shentsova, 63 years old;
10) Artur Alekseenko, 23 years old
11) Tatiana Kudryashova, 65 years old
12) Olga Chekhova, 37 years old
13) Elena Antonova, 60 years old
14) Dmitry Mazikin, 34 years old
15) Alexander Kildyushov, 60 years old;
16) Aleksey Levadnyi, 31 years old
17) Vera Kabanova, 70 years old
18) Marina Ploskina, 39 years old
19) Roman Tsypchenko, 46 years old
This investigation will consider this particular incident, in which at least 10 shells were fired, apparently from the same gun.
As a result of the investigation, it was established that on February 15, 2024, at approximately 15:00 a.m. (Moscow time), Belgorod downtown came under artillery fire by 122-mm MLRS. During the attack, extended-range rockets produced by one of the Western bloc countries were used. The shells flew in a direction from south-southwest to north-northeast along the azimuth of 195 degrees. Let us take the measurement error to be plus or minus 15 degrees.
All shell hits fell on densely populated residential areas of the city and led to damage to civilian objects, death and injury to civilians. Thus, the principles of selectivity and proportionality were violated.
The UAF units were located in the shelling sector. Extended-range 122-mm missiles had been supplied in large quantities by Western bloc countries to Ukraine and are in service with UMF units.
The commander of the RVC, Denis Kapustin, is primarily responsible for the illegal actions of his subordinates. Moreover, the highest military-political leadership of Ukraine is responsible for crimes committed during this armed conflict. Namely, they are President and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Zelensky, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky and head of the Main Intelligence Directorate Andrey Budanov.
Rare footage here of detainees inside the Ukrainian mobilisation detention centres. Conditions are pretty terrible it has to be said. There had to have been a very high personal risk to these men in sharing these images more widely :flower:
Inside Ukraine's mobilisation detention centres
Via Intel Republic on Telegram
Their summary of the image content, here:
⚡️🇺🇦RARE LOOK INSIDE UKRAINE'S MOBILIZATION CENTERS (see vids): as wave of draconian mobilization sweeps Ukraine (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/38514), viral videos from INSIDE one of the mobilization points shows bleak, prisonlike environment dictator Zelensky (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/37716) imposes on his citizens.
Fistfight between men in uniform and civilian forces other inhabitants to intervene (top right vid) as walls of what looks like concentration camp for cannon fodder (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/38564) are secured with razor-sharp glass (bottom right vid) and barbed wire to prevent people from escaping.
In left vid, one of the mobilized suffers an epilepsy attack right next to his metal bunk bed as confused people tell man to stay still while no medics can be seen.
http://www.hisutton.com/Russia-Ukraine-USVs-2024.html
Overview Of Maritime Drones (USVs) Of The Russo-Ukrainian War, 2022-24